• Inside The New Orange County Museum Of Art

    In early October, I drove down to Costa Mesa, a drive of around an hour from Los Angeles (traffic dependent), for a preview of the newly opened Orange Country Museum of Art (OCMA).OCMA is located on the campus of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and is right off the 405 at Bristol Avenue. The striking 53,000 square foot building with 25,000 square feet of gallery space was designed by Thom Mayne and Brandon Welling of Morphosis, the Pritzker Prize…

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  • Chris Burch Never Stops Listening

    Chris Burch, the mega-successful investor, and brand guru was a poor student in school, as he would be the first to tell you. But he has been a great student of life and of people.Burch has seeded, launched, and invested in many successful businesses including Guggenheim Partners, Upstack, Rappi, and BaubleBar; products such as Jawbone, Jambox; fashion brands such as Staud and Danielle Guizio and, most notably, Tory Burch which he launched with his now ex-wife. Burch has also been…

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  • David Hockney's Beautiful World

    "I know it's an unusual picture because there are not many made this way. I think it's what we need today. New looking fresh pictures of a very beautiful world." – David Hockney.Late November-Early December has gotten cold, damp, and grey in most places, even in our paradise of Santa Monica, and Venice, California. Fear not! Along comes David Hockney to cheer us up with his new exhibition 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures.This collection of 20 iPad drawings of…

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  • An Al Green Mystery

    Could the best Al Green album in decades, perhaps the best album this year, actually be a decade old release? That's the mystery I found myself in. Let me explain:I"ve been known to bounce from streaming music service to streaming music service having done my time with Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music to name a few in the rotation (remember Mog?). Lately I"ve been using Amazon Music with its Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos offerings.With Amazon, I check the "new" listings…

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  • Arman Naféei is in The Air

    Arman Naféei would like to be the Anthony Bourdain of Music Exploration (minus the heroin addiction, depression and suicide) and when you spend time with him, you believe it will happen. His podcast, Are We On Air? has in its two-year existence already logged interviews with Patti Smith, Dua Lipa, David Byrne, and Khruangbin. Arman's love of sharing music has opened the world to him, and led him to global artists who respect his taste, enjoy his engaging personality and…

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  • Champagne & Oyster Architecture for the Holidays

    Downtown LA's Central Market is getting hipper by the minute. You can now have vertically responsible hamburgers (Bel Canto), gourmet coffee (G&G), small batch pastrami (Wexler's), and heavenly ice cream (McConnell's), and now, at  The Oyster Gourmet,my friend Christophe Happillon's new pop-up (and I mean that literally, the kiosk pops... View Original Article

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  • Les Blank is Always a Pleasure

    One night a few months ago, I found myself surfing through the Criterion collection on Hulu and stumbled upon an early Les Blank documentary, "The Blues According to Lightnin" Hopkins." I pushed play and I was suddenly in a field in Mississippi, with great immediacy and no explanation – no... View Original Article

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  • Conversation About Billy Joel Bio With Author Fred Schruers

    Fred Schruers and I discuss his Billy Joel: The definitive Biography....... View Original Article

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  • Championing Israeli Contemporary Art

    Although Rosette Delug has only been collecting art for a decade, her Trousdale Estates mansion at the apex of Beverly Hills has become a showcase for cutting-edge international contemporary art....... View Original Article

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  • Czech photographer's work is peaceful political protest

    Dec 30, 2014 ... For more information, visit getty.edu/museum/exhibitions. Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and ...... View Original Article

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  • WB's Legal Eagles

    Tommywood - WB's Legal Eagles. For writer Shapiro, practice made perfect. by Tom Teicholz. September 8, 2005 | 8:00 pm ...... View Original Article

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  • Cult of Luxury: The Romance

    THE ROMANCE of LUXURY:   One evening a few years ago, my wife and I dined with another couple at Bartolotta Ristorante Di Mare in Las Vegas at the Wynn Hotel. Named for its chef, Paul Bartolotta, the  restaurant features Italian cooking and seafood specialties and is very, very expensive.... View Original Article

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