Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the popular swing band that emerged during the mid-90s, is returning to Fairbanks Saturday night, launching the Fairbanks Concert Association’s 76th season at Hering Auditorium at
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Special Programs for March 15 thru March 20
Short List with Host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Short List: Popular Jazz Albums
The Short List concludes its feature of great jazz albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity and became lasting classics. This week, we hear from Shelly Manne’s
My Fair Lady, Art Pepper & Marty Paich’s
Modern Jazz Classics, Stan Kenton’s
Standards in Silhouette, more from Benny Goodman’s
Carnegie Hall Concert, and selections from Billie Holiday’s Columbia sessions.
Mick LaSalle January 18, 2021Updated: January 19, 2021, 3:38 pm
The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, like many movie houses, shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle 2020
Dear Mick: My wife and I are avid movie lovers. It was not unusual, in pre-COVID-19 days, for us to go to a movie theater two or three times a week. To our surprise, we have embraced the convenience of viewing movies on streaming platforms in our home. We no longer feel the need to go to the theater. I fear that we are witnessing the extinction of movie houses. Please tell me it ain’t so.