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14 March 2024
LA has a heart of glass

By Charles Andrews March 14, 2024

Skate: Roller skating? PHILIP GLASS? Of course! Courtesy photo

Jackson Browne showed up at McCabe’s last weekend to take the stage for one song, a duet with his
friend Terry Reid, and what have they chosen? Woody Guthrie’s Deportee. So timely. And it is
moments like these, happening often at McCabe’s, for which I moved to LA 40 years ago.

Highly Recommended

Highway 1, USA/The Dwarf, LA Opera – Not La Traviata or Turandot so I can’t speak from the
experience of having seen them, but while you are waiting for those two, in April and May, this
should satisfy your soul for big voices, great acting, big sets and fine music. I can say this: in seven
years of seeing almost everything our LA Opera has produced, I have never been disappointed. And
this production has racked a few rave reviews. Sat, Thurs 7:30pm, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, LA,
$19-259.

Southside Slim – Oh boy, oh boy, Southside is sliding back into town, coming north to us only so
often and it is always an event not to be missed. His career history is intertwined with my other