Fri 14 Mar 2008
“All the Saints of the City of the Angels”
Posted by MH under California Council for the Humanities
The New York Times calls Los Angeles artist J. Michael Walker a Sam Spade of saints. That’s because for the past seven years, Walker has been on an obsessive quest to locate, research and depict the 103 streets in Los Angeles named after saints. Now you can see an exhibit of more than 50 of Walker’s “saint” paintings at “All the Saints of the City of the Angels,” an exhibit at the Autry National Center through Sept. 7. In conjunction with the exhibit, Heydey Books has published a gorgeous book based on the exhibit, available at your local independent bookstore. Walker received a grant from the Council some years ago that helped him launch his project.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
All Saints- First Album by Girl Group
All Saints was the first album by All Saints. Melanie Blatt was the co-founder of very popular girl-band of 1990’s, together with Shaznay Lewis. This band named All Saints 1.9.7.5., after they considered the name of the street where they met and their years of birth. Melanie Blatt and Shaznay had started off with their career by doing playback singing at Sarm West Studios. Two of their albums were titled Platinum while the other was appreciated to the gold. This girl-band comprising of four girls from Britain and Canada, won a BRIT award and one MTV Music awards as well. Their target audience was not limited to just teenage but even beyond that. This, being their first album won them a lot of recognition and was itself a double hit in UK top charts. In the beginning, the original 3rd member was Simone Rainford with whom Melanie faced conflicts regarding orientation of the band and he left.