Chet Baker

It's been a tough few weeks for West Coast geniuses. Still reeling from the death of David Foster Wallace, I was startled to see that photographer Bill Claxton passed away on Oct. 11, the day before his 81st birthday. In the nearly 20 years I've been...

William Claxton, the master photographer whose images of Chet Baker helped fuel the jazz trumpeter's stardom in the 1950s and whose fashion photographs of his wife modeling a topless swim suit were groundbreaking years later, has died. He was 80. Claxton...

JAYMAY will have to get used to this recurring little scene: the TV cameras and applause signs, the cue cards and her own face staring back from the video monitors. This sometimes happens to a young troubadour on the rise, even a singer-songwriter and...

(A+) With The Band's Visit, Israeli director Eran Kolirin has made a rapturously low-key comedy about an Egyptian ceremonial police band that flies to Israel to help open an Arab cultural center but arrives at the wrong town. This movie has a tone,...

In their crisp, powder-blue uniforms, the members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Orchestra look as if they've stepped out of a dream sequence in a Fox wartime musical. Rather, this compact Egyptian police band has arrived in a godforsaken burg of Israel...

"Let's Get Lost," Bruce Weber's haunting documentary about legendary jazz musician Chet Baker, first came out in 1989 and hasn't been easy to catch since. Now reissued in 35 millimeter, the film looks like a pristine time-capsule -- both of Baker's...

Josh Hartnett is fantasizing, just for a moment. The fantasy doesn't involve women. One of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, linked in the gossip columns to Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Giselle Bundchen and others, the 29 year-old Hartnett...

ALBUM: "Catch the Brass Ring" Backstory: Raised in Nashville and now living in Los Angeles, the quixotically named Ferraby Lionheart (his real name? his label isn't telling) likes to cite Chet Baker and Shel Silverstein as influences, although fans...

OCTOBER Today -- Velvet Revolver, Alice in Chains, Sparta, 7 p.m. SoundAd. Today -- Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, The Audition, We The Kings, 7:30 p.m. Revo. Today -- Patti LuPone, 8 p.m. Carnival. Today -- Yellowjackets, 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Sandoval....

In the documentary "A Letter to True," filmmaker Bruce Weber crafts a cinematic epistle to the youngest member of his family of golden retrievers. An undeniably odd film, this ode to pooches is more than just a dog calendar come to life. It is a relaxed...

Smarting over a string of box-office flops including Hollywood Homicide and Wicker Park and tired of being chased around L.A. by paparazzi, Josh Hartnett recently put his career on hold and retreated to his hometown of Minneapolis, MN. Now, two years...

Imagine a life story in the form of a crystal dish, fragile and unwieldy. The dish slips, falls and shatters. That's when the movie starts. Now what? All there is to do is pick up the pieces and make them fit as best they can. It's what Margaret Brown...