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Kumpanía: Flamenco Los Angeles is a 2011 independent documentary film by director Katina Dunn. The film explores flamenco, including its origins in the oppressed Gypsy community in 17th-century southern Spain and also the flamenco culture of contemporary Spain. The documentary focuses specifically on a group of flamenco dancers, singers, and ...
Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in New York City to Jewish parents. [2] Cohen's parents immigrated to the US from Kyiv. [3] He was first raised in New York, moving with his mother and siblings to the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles at an early age.
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family[ 7 ] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [ 8 ] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Avraham " Avi " Cohen ( Hebrew: אבי כהן; 14 November 1956 – 29 December 2010) [2] was an Israeli footballer who played as a defender, and a manager. He was best known for his spells playing for two British clubs: Liverpool in England and Rangers in Scotland. [1] After retirement from active football and management, he was the chairman ...
Meytal Cohen ( Hebrew: מיטל כהן; born August 9, 1983 [ 2]) is an Israeli-American drummer and one of the founding members of the American heavy metal band Meytal. She was born in Ramat Gan, Israel and is the youngest of seven children with four sisters and two brothers. [ 3] Her online video project, which began in 2010, saw Cohen ...
The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles. [ 1][ 2][ 3] They are: Elmore Leonard wrote that "reading The Black Dahlia aloud would shatter wine glasses". Several characters from the L.A. Quartet, most notably Dudley Smith, were introduced in Ellroy's ...
Avishai was born in Kabri, a kibbutz in northern Israel. [ 1] He has Sephardic, Greek-Jewish and Polish-Jewish ancestry. [ 2] He grew up in a musical family at Motza and Beit Zayit near Jerusalem until the age of six, when his family moved to nearby Shoeva. He began playing the piano at 9 years old but changed to the bass guitar at the age of ...
Zev Yaroslavsky – politician. Dwight Yoakam – country music singer and songwriter (Born in Pikeville, Kentucky) Sam Yorty – 37th mayor of Los Angeles (July 1, 1961 – July 1, 1973) [ 144] – Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska. Ace Young – singer (originally from Boulder, Colorado) Nick Young – basketball player.