It’s “Aloha ‘Oe” for San Francisco’s Tonga Room, the kitschy restaurant/tiki bar in the Fairmont Hotel. Opened in 1945, it was one of the first of the fashionable tiki bars that sprouted up across the country, and likely the grandest, with a lagoon, floating bandstand, tropical downpours with lightning and thunder, and the famous Mai Tai in a hollow pineapple — topped by a miniature umbrella, of course. [Read more →]
National Public Radio reports that Chinese police have swept Tibetan markets in recent months looking for banned music, arresting several individuals for using “reactionary ringtones” on their cell phones. [Read more →]
I’ve always been fascinated with maps. Put them together with music, and I’m in nirvana. There are unusual resources available on the Internet that link music and maps in interesting ways. This article lists some of those resources with a link to each. [Read more →]
There are plenty of films about music or musicians (the UC Berkeley Media Resource Center has a fairly comprehensive list). Less common are films that use music as a key plot element, even though the subject is not music. Music has a background but structurally important role in these movies, underscoring a key point. Listed below are some examples (I’m sure there are significant films I’ve missed) which I’ll add to over time. [Read more →]
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