Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
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Re-emerging: Chaka (pictured left), one of L.A.’s most famous and elusive graffiti artists, will have his first solo art show at Mid-City Arts in April.
Grateful: Stacy Keach personally thanked his fans and his doctors at Friday’s curtain call — his first since having a series of mild strokes -- for ‘Frost/Nixon’ at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Rockin’: A musical adaptation of the 2004 Green Day album ‘American Idiot’ will open the 2009-10 season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
First impressions: L.A. Times art critic Christopher Knight writes about the newly opened Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City.
Future plans: Six teams of architects revealed designs for the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.
Top 10: The Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London are the two most visited museums in the world, according to an annual ranking by the Art Newspaper.
Acrimony: A Palestinian youth orchestra has been shut down after its music director took students to perform for Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Passing: Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre (‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ ‘Doctor Zhivago’) has died at age 84 in Los Angeles. See archival material on Jarre here at the Daily Mirror.
— David Ng
