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A host of cultural programming will occur in the 478-acre cemetery this year.

Fresh off a 2024 GRAMMY nomination and a stunning NPR Tiny Desk performance, Wild Up — the contemporary music ensemble that has been called “a raucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant … fun-loving, exceptionally virtuosic family” by The New York Times — have announced a packed slate of performances for early 2024, featuring a dozen World and West Coast Premieres and workshops of three large-scale new works. ////Darkness Sounding

Southern California boat captains say they have never been busier burying people at sea.

For the first installment of its proposed seven-album anthology of the late composer’s work, the California collective breathes new life into his ecstatic minimalist masterpiece.

Many Angelenos are using Día de los Muertos to remember the past year’s tragedies, nurses are protesting wages and short staffing, and a contemporary dance festival is back.

Listen to orchestral arrangements of The Police’s classics hits. Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with Cuco. Watch recent films from Latin America and Spain. Check out a new tiki bar in Glendale and the latest Roscoe’s location.

Save this story for later. On a chilly Los Angeles morning in late January, I woke up an hour before dawn and drove to Griffith Park, a rugged expanse that stretches northeast of the Hollywood Hills. Five times the size of Central Park, and home to a solitary mountain lion, Griffith brings a tinge of wilderness to the urban sprawl. During the pandemic, it has been more crowded than usual, but in the half-light of 6 A.M. there was no one about. I hiked up to a point where downtown L.A. became v...

Sincere, Outdoorsy, Trippy, a Music Festival Breathes Los Angeles Darkness Sounding, a solstice-inspired embrace “of the body and for the body,” is coming from the group Wild Up. The vocalist Odeya Nini will travel around Los Angeles for performances at people’s homes — in their driveways, front yards, backyards, porches — as part of Darkness Sounding.Credit...Rozette Rago for The New York Times Jan. 15, 2021 Answering the phone and having the person on the other end sing softly for 1...