How do you measure civilization? By its art? By its great bridges and buildings? By its ability to be more often at peace than at war? Well, maybe, but I`ll take something like Fred Anderson`s ...

A ring of suspected con artists was charged Friday with preying on hundreds of Latino families by offering free accordion lessons to get credit information they used to bilk victims of $500,000, ...

What do you say after 55 years? Hi? What’s up? Did you bring your accordion? “What I did was give him a big hug, and I said, ‘Thank God!’ ” says Larry Micucci. “I didn’t remember him, I’m sorry to say ...

Nick Saban could have been one of the world’s greatest accordion players. Instead, he became one of college football’s legendary coaches. The Crimson Tide football coach said on The Dan Patrick Show ...

Judy Santsche was 12 years old and wanted to play the piano, which was, she said, beyond the family budget. When group accordion lessons on a rented instrument became available, she remembers jumping ...

Years ago, people went door to door recruiting kids to take accordion lessons and schools cropped up all over L.A. Through the years, though, almost all of them have closed down. But Dave’s Accordion ...

Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, Los Angeles had a well-established accordion ecosystem. Door-to-door salesmen recruited students for lessons, dozens of schools sustained them and an annual ...

Five-year-old Lily and 3-year-old Aubrii Sanchez of Eureka got to find out how the accordion works on April 29 on Eureka’s Boardwalk, where Guy Smith plays Old World dance songs on his 120 bass piano ...

Forty years ago, Darel Conrad shook the floor of the dance hall on First South playing his accordion with a five-piece orchestra. Now there is a post office where that dance hall used to be, and it''s ...

Gino Bagala has been taking accordion lessons for 18 months, and so far, none of his West Santa Rosa neighbors has called the cops. With about 200 songs in his songbook, he has spent just about every ...

LOS ANGELES ― Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: “DAVE’S ACCORDION SCHOOL.” ...