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Angel Town (manga)
Angeltown or Angel Town may also refer to: Places *Angel Town, nickname for Los Angeles Film * ''Angel Town'' (film), 1990 American martial arts film Comics * ''Angeltown'' (comics), 2005 comic book series *Angeltown, a location in ''Trifecta'' (Judge Dredd story) Music *''Angeltown'', 1996 album by Richard Clapton Richard Clapton (born 18 May 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are " Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an Island" (1982). He reached the top&n ... *''Angeltown'', compilation album released by Orchid Tapes *"Angel Town", song from ''The Great Lakes'' (album) * "Angeltown", official city song of Los Angeles {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Town (film)
''Angel Town'' is a 1990 martial arts film directed by Eric Karson and starring Olivier Gruner, who made his film debut as a French martial artist and foreign exchange student who helps his borders by using his skills against a local gang. Plot Jacques Montaigne is a French college student who heads to Los Angeles not only for school, but to help train an Olympic team of fighters. He shows up a few days late (for a rendezvous with a girlfriend in France) and is given a list of houses where they may have rooms for rent. He comes across to a house where single mother Maria Ordonez lives with her son Martin and her mother. Maria tells Jacques that they were supposed to have taken their house off the listings due to being in an unsafe neighborhood. However, Maria decides to let Jacques stay. That night, on his way to a college social, Jacques finds himself confronted by two neighbors, Chuy and Jesus. Brandishing a small knife, Jacques warns the duo not to mess with him. At the mixer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angeltown (comics)
''Angeltown'' is a 5-issue comic book limited series created in 2005 by writer Gary Phillips and artist Shawn Martinbrough, and published by Vertigo Comics, an imprint of DC Comics. The story is told in the blaxploitation idiom, with nods to the detective stories of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley. In 2011, the series was reprinted by Moonstone Books Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales. The company began publishing creator-owned com ... as ''Angeltown: The Nate Hollis Investigations'', which included two new illustrated short stories by Phillips. Plot Allison Dillon, the white wife of African-American basketball star Theophus Burnett, is discovered murdered in her home. After the acrimonious end of their marriage, Dillon had written a scabrous tell-all celebrity memoir, and Burnett is considered the primary suspect, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trifecta (Judge Dredd Story)
"Trifecta" is a '' Judge Dredd'' story arc published in British comic '' 2000 AD'' in late 2012, following on from the earlier strip ''Day of Chaos''. The story was an unannounced crossover between ''Judge Dredd'' and its spinoff strips '' The Simping Detective'' and ''Low Life''. ''Judge Dredd'' started the arc with a prologue in "prog" (or issue) 1803, "Bullet to King Four", while the new ''Simping Detective'' strip started in prog 1804, and ''Low Life'' in prog 1805, with seemingly unrelated stories. In prog 1806 a new ''Judge Dredd'' story, "The Cold Deck", began. The title refers to a cold deck in card games, where a deck of cards is swapped with a stacked deck during play. All three strips were revealed to be part of the same story in prog 1807, when a cliffhanger at the end of that week's episode of "The Cold Deck" became the opening of ''The Simping Detective'', which then carried on into ''Low Life''. One of the writers, Simon Spurrier, has said that the story came abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Clapton
Richard Clapton (born 18 May 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are " Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an Island" (1982). He reached the top 20 on the related albums chart with ''Goodbye Tiger'' (1977), ''Hearts on the Nightline'' (1979), '' The Great Escape'' (1982) and ''The Very Best of Richard Clapton'' (1982). Clapton's highest-charting album, ''Music Is Love (1966–1970)'' (April 2021), peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Chart. As a producer he worked on the second INXS album, ''Underneath the Colours'' (1981). In 1983, he briefly joined the Party Boys for a tour of eastern Australia and their live album, '' Greatest Hits (Of Other People)'' (1983), before resuming his solo career. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane described Clapton as "one of the most important Australian songwriters of the 1970s." On 12 October 1999, Clapton was inducted into the Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchid Tapes
Orchid Tapes is a Canadian–American independent record label based in New York City. It was founded in 2010 in Toronto, Ontario by Warren Hildebrand. Operated by Hildebrand, the label has released a number of indie compilations and original releases on cassette tape, limited edition vinyl, and digital download. Among Orchid Tapes' signed artists are Coma Cinema, Foxes in Fiction, and Alex G. The label focuses on "music and artwork that breaks free of the established norm...reflects the dedication of its creator and provokes a strong emotional resonance..." History Founding Orchid Tapes was first founded in 2010 by Warren Hildebrand, while Hildebrand was attending an art university in Toronto, Ontario. He had first started putting the idea for a label together in 2009, and had picked the name Orchid Tapes partly after a song by the band Deerhunter, called " Tape Hiss Orchid." According to Hildebrand, "I was really inspired by all the little cassette labels that were popping up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Lakes (album)
''The Great Lakes'' is an album by Emm Gryner, “written, recorded, mixed, printed, hand-stamped, stapled, embossed, cut, burned and packaged especially for you by me mm. A creative companion to Gryner's "The Great Lakes Living Room Tour", the album was only available via pre-order directly from Dead Daisy Records Emm Gryner (born 8 June 1975 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian-Filipino singer, songwriter, recording artist, and author. She has released 20 albums as a solo performer, and has collaborated with artists including David Bowie and Chris Hadfie ..., and did not appear in retail outlets. Each CD booklet is numbered in a limited sequence. Along with the disc itself, a purchaser also received a hand-written thank-you note from Gryner on her personal letterhead. The songs on the album do not represent a musical departure from Gryner's other work, in spite of the more unusual album creation and distribution process. Track listing # "Crystal Falls" # "Case of Torna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
