Out in Hollywood (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
By this time, I've interviewed so many famous people that I rarely get nervous about it. But today, I got nervous. At 12:15 p.m. PST, I called Yoko Ono at her home in The Dakota for a column I'm doing...
prefix (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
The scales of the law can be unbalanced when it comes to the Beatles. Last week, Mark David Chapman was denied release for his second-degree murder sentence for killing John ...
You Ain't No Picasso (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Miles with Not Yoko Ono Ex-Beulah frontman Miles Kurosky seems to be in a very generous mood lately. First he shared with us an advance peak at his new album with the song “An Apple for Everyone.” Then he gave us the last Beulah song ever recorded: a remix of Yoko Ono. Now we’re again getting [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
in post 8 Questions With: Yoko Ono from The Music Slut .
The Music Slut (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
The one. The only. Enjoy my full Q&A session with the living legend below. Visit Yoko Ono at her official site. Download a classic Yoko track at bottom of post. 1. Over the past few years you've collaborated with many groundbreaking artists including (but not limited to) Antony, Peaches, Spiritualized, Le Tigre & Cat Power. Whom did you have the best time working with and why? Also,...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
PASADENA, CA.- Wish Tree for Pasadena, Yoko Ono's only West Coast showing of her celebrated Wish Tree installation, attracted more than 10,000 people in its first week in the One Colorado Courtyard. Attendance far exceeded expectations, with the 21 crape myrtles at the center of this elegant art installation now covered in thousands of wish tags expressing hopes for the future. More
LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Translation of Wish (if it's too blurry for ya): "I wish Yoko Ono would call me." Every day LAist will be sharing wishes from Wish Tree for Pasadena with you. Yoko Ono's Wish Tree for Pasadena is an interactive installation at Colorado One . The Wish Trees will remain there until November 9 when it will join other wishes from around the world at the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island,...
The Catbirdseat (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... seen some activity lately: he’s just posted 2 different remixes that Beulah did back in ‘04 for Yoko Ono. Now, don’t misread that: it’s NOT remixes from Beulah’s album Yoko , it’s remixes of an actual YOKO ONO song, “Let Me Count The Ways.” ( Coincidentally, I was just recently about to bid on a vinyl copy of When Your Heartstrings Break , but got scared off by the description,...
The First Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... him in the back."Chapman fired five shots at Lennon, hitting him four times as he and his wife, Yoko Ono, returned to their home in the Dakota apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He said he was now "ashamed" of killing Lennon, and that that he had begun planning the shooting three months earlier, after seeing the Beatle on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Larry Lessig points us to news of another good court decision, tossing out EMI's attempt to stop Ben Stein's movie Expelled from using John Lennon's song Imagine . If this sounds somewhat familiar, it's because Yoko Ono had filed a similar lawsuit -- which she lost . In both cases, the courts have recognized that Stein's use of the song is pretty clearly fair use. As the link above points out,...
LAist (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Every day LAist will be sharing wishes from Wish Tree for Pasadena with you. Yoko Ono's Wish Tree for Pasadena is an interactive installation at Colorado One . The Wish Trees will remain there until November 9 when it will join other wishes from around the world at the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, off the coast of Reykjavík, Iceland One of the best things about of Wish Tree is that...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Transcripts of the hearing have been made public, revealing that Chapman told board members he had developed a greater understanding of the value of human life in the years since the 1980 murder. He fired five shots at the 40-year-old former Beatle outside the Dakota apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, hitting him four times. Lennon was shot down in front of his wife, Yoko Ono....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Transcripts of the hearing have been made public, revealing that Chapman told board members he had developed a greater understanding of the value of human life in the years since the 1980 murder. He fired five shots at the 40-year-old former Beatle outside the Dakota apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, hitting him four times. Lennon was shot down in front of his wife, Yoko Ono....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Transcripts of the hearing, which have now been made public, reveal that Chapman told officers he had developed a greater understanding of the value of human life in the years since the 1980 murder. He fired five shots at the 40-year-old former Beatles star outside the Dakota apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, hitting him four times in front of his wife, Yoko Ono.
LAist (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Every day LAist will be sharing wishes from Wish Tree for Pasadena with you. Yoko Ono's Wish Tree for Pasadena is an interactive installation at Colorado One . The Wish Trees will remain there until November 9 when it will join other wishes from around the world at the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, off the coast of Reykjavík, Iceland One of the best things about of Wish Tree is that...
