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An Evening with Christopher Buckley, Live Talks Los Angeles

2012-05-22T18:18:32Z

Live Talks Los Angeles, with co-presenting media sponsors KCET & KPCC, presents An Evening with Christopher Buckley discussing his latest novel, They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

Thursday, June 14 at 8 PM
Track 16 at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Christopher Buckley was born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor of Esquire magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of Forbes FYI magazine (now ForbesLife), where he is now editor-at-large.

Winners will be notified by email no later than June 11th.

An Evening with Frank DeFord in conversation with John Salley, Live Talks Los Angeles

2012-05-22T17:46:44Z

Live Talks Los Angeles, with co-presenting media sponsors KCET & KPCC, presents An Evening with Frank DeFord in conversation with John Salley.

Tuesday, June 12 at 8 PM
Track 16 at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Frank Deford is senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated, where his byline first appeared in 1962. A weekly commentator for NPR's "Morning Edition," -- where he recently read his fifteenth-hundred commentary - he is also a regular correspondent on the HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." As a journalist, Deford has won the National Magazine Award for profiles, and has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters.

John Salley is an NBA veteran of 11 seasons. He is the first basketball player in NBA history to win four championships with three different teams. Drafted out of Georgia Tech in 1986 by the Detroit Pistons, Salley was a member of the "Bad Boys" squad which included Isaiah Thomas and the infamous Dennis Rodman; a team that went on to win back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990. Following stints with the Miami Heat and Toronto Raptors, Salley played with Michael Jordan as part of the Chicago Bulls 1996 championship team. After a brief retirement to co-host NBA on NBC, Phil Jackson invited Salley to come join the Los Angeles Lakers where he was on the 2000 NBA Championship team.

Winners will be notified by email no later than June 8th.

'Doc Martin' Mug Giveaway

2012-05-22T17:31:06Z

We're giving away TWO "Doc Martin" mugs to two lucky Facebook fans. All you have to do is leave a comment on the KCET Facebook page telling us which scene was your favorite this season. Two random winners will be picked Thursday, May 31th at 5 p.m.

To visit the official contest page and to learn more info, click here.

An Evening with Oscar Hijuelos, Live Talks Los Angeles

2012-05-22T17:28:48Z

Live Talks Los Angeles, with co-presenting media sponsors KCET & KPCC, presents An Evening with Oscar Hijuelos discussing his memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes.

Thursday, June 7 at 8 PM
Track 16 at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Oscar Hijuelos is the international bestselling author of eight novels, including The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, for which he became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He has also received the Rome Prize and prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in New York City.

Winners will be notified by email no later than June 4th.

Live Talks L.A. Discount

2012-05-21T18:46:07Z

Don't miss Live Talks L.A., a series that brings together great speakers, like authors, artists, leaders, musicians, scientists, and present them in some of the city's wonderful venues.

KCET members receive a 15% discount on tickets.

Buy your tickets now and use this code at check out: NEWKCET1.

[CLOSED] An Evening with Gary Marshall, Live Talks Los Angeles

2012-05-05T00:04:51Z

Live Talks Los Angeles, with co-presenting media sponsors KCET & KPCC, presents An Evening with Gary Marshall.

Wednesday, May 23 at 8 PM
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403

Garry Marshall, a groundbreaking creative force in Hollywood for more than fifty years, has excelled as a writer, producer, director, and actor in his career, earning him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and acclaim from critics and fans alike. One could say he was born to work in Hollywood--his mother was a tap dancer and his father was a producer and director of industrial films.

This giveaway is closed. Thank you to everyone who entered to win tickets! Winners will be notified by email no later than May 18th.

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[CLOSED] An Evening with Pico Iyer in conversation with Lisa Napoli, Live Talks Los Angeles

2012-05-04T23:08:09Z

Live Talks Los Angeles, with co-presenting media sponsors KCET & KPCC, presents An Evening with Pico Iyer in conversation with Lisa Napoli.

Thursday, May 17 at 7:30 PM
The Fowler Museum at UCLA
Click here for directions.

Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England, to parents from India, and educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard, while officially growing up in Southern California. He is the author of eight works of non-fiction, including Video Night in Kathmandu (cited on many lists of the best travel books ever), The Lady and the Monk (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the category of Current Interest) and The Global Soul (subject of websites and theatrical productions around the world). He has also written the novels Cuba and the Night and Abandon.

For a quarter of a century, he has been an essayist for Time magazine, while also writing constantly on literature for The New York Review of Books, on globalism for Harper's, and on many other topics for venues from The New York Times to National Geographic. His 2oo8 book, The Open Road, describing more than 30 years of talking and traveling with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, came out in a dozen countries. His most recent book, on Graham Greene, hauntedness and fathers--The Man Within My Head--came out earlier this year.

This giveaway is closed. Thank you to everyone who entered to win tickets! Winners will be notified by email no later than May 15th.

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[CLOSED] Ticket Giveaway: Hilary Hahn & Hauschka

2012-05-04T22:45:50Z

Monday, May 28 at 7 PM
El Rey Theatre
5515 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036

It was folk musician and storyteller Tom Brousseau who first planted the seeds for Hilary Hahn and Hauschkas debut collaborative album, SILFRA, encouraging his friends Hahn, the prodigiously talented American violinist, and Volker Bertelmann, the German master of prepared piano known to music fans as Hauschka, to explore one anothers work

This giveaway is closed. Thank you to everyone who entered to win tickets! Winners will be notified by email no later than May 23rd.

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Ticket Giveaway: Bolshoi Ballet - Swan Lake

2012-05-04T21:40:03Z

Thursday, June 7 at 7:30 PM
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
135 North Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

To conclude a season of great beauty, the Bolshoi Ballet will perform a work that epitomizes the grandeur of classical ballet - Swan Lake. Originally choreographed for the Bolshoi by Marius Petipa in 1877, today's revised Swan Lake by Yuri Grigorovich remains a sumptuous masterpiece. The tragic legend will be performed with live orchestra and marks the Bolshoi's long awaited return since 2000.

Winners will be notified by email no later than May 29th.

[CLOSED] Facebook Giveaway: 'Restless City' Screening

2012-05-03T18:50:34Z

We are giving away four pair of tickets to see AFFRM's Sundance favorite "Resless City," a film directed by Andrew Dosunmus!

To win a pair of tickets, leave a comment on the official KCET Facebook page and specify whether you want to go to the 11 a.m. screening at the Laemmle Theater in Santa Monica or NoHo Arts District. A two winners for each screening will be chosen randomly by Friday at 3 PM.

Good luck!

[CLOSED] Cafe de Los Maestros Giveaway

2012-04-24T21:25:16Z

Café de Los Maestros This wonderful documentary brings together the octogenarian stars of the 1950s tango scene for an emotional concert in Buenos Aires' monumental Teatro Colon. Fill out the form below to win a copy of the DVD!

This giveaway is closed. Thank you to everyone who entered to win! The winner will be notified by email no later than May 4th.

[CLOSED] Facebook Giveaway: Allo Darlin' at the Echo

2012-04-23T19:42:10Z

Get your teacups ready, watch some rugby and enjoy the tunes of some of your favorite British performers for L.A.'s BritWeek! In honor of the citywide celebration of all things British, we're giving away five pairs of tickets to see Allo Darlin' at the Echoplex on May 5th.

In order to win tickets, Like the official KCET page on Facebook and leave a comment saying that you want to attend the show. A winner will be picked randomly on Thursday, April 26th, a week before the show.

More about Allo Darlin':

Allo Darlin' is the music of Australian-born, London-based songwriter Elizabeth Morris. Originally from a country town in Queensland, Elizabeth moved to London in 2005 and, inspired to write songs by her purchase of a ukulele from the famous Duke of Uke shop in Brick Lane, began to make music. Although she has been releasing music under various guises since 2007, it wasn't until 2009 that she hooked up with Paul Rains (guitar), Bill Botting (bass) and Michael Collins (drums) and Allo Darlin' was properly born.

Early in 2009, Allo Darlin' cut their first single, Henry Rollins Don't Dance, which received glowing reviews in places such as the Metro, The Fly and The Guardian, the latter calling it "the best indiepop song for years". The band's single that followed, The Polaroid Song, was named as one of Drowned In Sound's Top 50 singles of 2009, while their latest single Dreaming was voted Single Of The Week by Jarvis Cocker, Peter Hook and Huw Stephens on Steve Lamacq's BBC 6music round table (beating MGMT, The Radio Dept. and Kate Nash in the process!).

Find ticket giveaways for other BritWeek performances here.

[CLOSED] Facebook Giveaway: Damian Lazarus

2012-04-23T19:41:19Z

Since the moment he spun his first record, Damian Lazarus's mission has been a clear and urgent one: to blow away the mediocre, the over-inflated, the obsolete; to seek out and celebrate the energetic, the important, the new. Always rebelling, always going places.

Driven by an almost childlike curiosity, a vivid imagination and wicked sense of humour, he's used his role as a DJ, label owner and now musician to nurture and share the most exciting and experimental music on the planet. Drawn to the darkness, but buoyed by the light, ever ready to embrace new ideas and different perspectives on music and the dancefloor, Lazarus is always ahead of the curve, with a wry smile on his face and a neat trick up his sleeve, How many DJs do you know who've played Reviewing The Situation (from the Oliver! soundtrack, no less) half-speed to a jubilant crowd at DC10 in Ibiza. How many DJs do you know who've received a sitting ovation on the dancefloor?

Find ticket giveaways for other BritWeek performances here.

[CLOSED] Facebook Giveaway: Curt Smith

2012-04-23T19:40:21Z

Get your teacups ready, watch some rugby and enjoy the tunes of some of your favorite British performers for L.A.'s BritWeek! In honor of the citywide celebration of all things British, we're giving away two pairs of tickets to see Curt Smith at McCabes in Santa Monica on May 4th.

More about Curt Smith:

Acclaimed musician Curt Smith is the co-founder of seminal British music group Tears For Fears, with which he continues to tour worldwide. He also writes music for film, television and the web, and has become a regular speaker at creative, media and technology events, including TEDxHollywood, TEDxSan Francisco, and the USC Annenberg Online Communities program.

Find ticket giveaways for other BritWeek performances here.

[CLOSED] An Evening with Gregg Allman in conversation with Alan Light, Live Talks Los Angeles

2012-04-20T23:37:00Z

Live Talks Los Angeles, with co-presenting media sponsors KCET & KPCC, presents An Evening with Gregg Allman in conversation with Alan Light discussing his memoir My Cross to Bear.

Tuesday, May 15 at 8 PM
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403

Gregg Allman is a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and in his own storied solo career, he has long been a gifted natural interpreter of the blues, his soulful and distinctive voice is one of the defining sounds in the history of American music. At this year's 54th Annual Grammy Awards, the Allman Brothers Band was honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, and Low Country Blues received a nomination for Best Blues Album. Allman's upcoming memoir chronicling the highs and lows of his legendary life and music is My Cross to Bear.

Alan Light has been one of America's leading music journalists for the past twenty years. Currently, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Rolling Stone; a columnist for msn.com; and the Director of Programming for "Live from the Artists Den," a concert series now in its fourth season on PBS. Alan is the co-author of Gregg Allman's forthcoming memoir, My Cross to Bear.

This giveaway is closed. Thank you to everyone who entered to win tickets! Winners will be notified by email no later than May 11th.

To purchase tickets, please click here.