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Sternburg's Photographs: "There for the Seeing"
Photographers don’t have eyes in the back of their heads. Janet Sternburg does.” -Wim Wenders on Janet Sternburg’s photographs. ‘Overspilling World’ (Distanz $55) collects the photographs of Janet Sternburg, poet, playwright, documentary filmmaker and producer, and memoirist. What is striking about Sternburg’s work, is not that she does all these different disciplines so well, but rather that she brings the same intellectual curiosity and deeply-felt artistic sensibility to each. For more https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2017/03/02/sternburgs-photographs-there-for-the-seeing/#1856f31c119a -
A Depression of One's Own: Daphne Merkin's 'This Close to Happy"
In “This Close to Happy” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Daphne Merkin, novelist (‘Enchantment’) and essayist (‘Dreaming of Hitler’ and ‘The Fame Lunches’) has written a compelling chronicle of her traumatized childhood and an adult life marked by repeated bouts of severe depression. Although it would be easy to characterize Merkin’s memoir as part of an established genre of books about surviving depression that includes William Styron’s ‘Darkness Visible’, Andrew Solomon’s ‘The Noonday Demon’, Susanna Kaysen’s ‘Sleep Interrupted’ and Kay Redfield’s… -
The Genius of Bernard-Henri Levy's Affirmative Judaism
In his latest book, “”The Genius of Judaism" (Random House), Bernard-Henri Levy revisits much of his early and recent public intellectual life to reveal that much of what he has done, where he has traveled to, and why he does it, is animated by his Jewishness. As a proud French Jew, Levy makes the case for a pointedly secular “affirmative Judaism” that is about actions not faith, ethics not belief. Levy calls it ‘messianic Judaism’ (which if I understand it,… -
CES 2017: 50 Years of seeing the Future
CES, the beast with 200,000 attendees and more than 30,000 exhibitors that sprawls across Las Vegas, taking over the entire North Center and South Halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center and spills over to the Westgate, the Sands Expo halls, and the Venetian Hotel, as well as the Aria’s conference center, continues even in this digital age to make a potent case for attending to see first-hand new products and innovations abounding that touch every aspect of our increasingly… -
Writer's Bone interview with Tom Teicholz
By Lindsey Wojcik “It is hard to describe the delirium that accompanied each of those first publications. Each was some great victory and validation. Each felt like, in the words of the poet Charlie Sheen, ‘winning.’ It was as if I was climbing some imaginary mountain face and each published story was a new peak.” Tom Teicholz nails the emotions that most journalists experience during the first few years of their career in the introduction to his collection of articles,… -
Ebikes: I Sing the Ride Electric
Let me make a prediction: You will buy an E-Bike, and like me, you will love having one. 2016-12-26-1482782513-3355061-WallerangM02Xpreview.png Wallerang Ebike Over the last six months, I’ve been testing a wide variety of E-bikes and have come to believe strongly that E-bikes are in the future for many of us, specifically those over 50, but in time, for everyone. I’ve tested bikes from brands you know such as Trek, Specialized and Raleigh, and ones you haven’t such as Swedish Ebike… -
Being There (and hanging out) 1978–2000
The following is excerpted from the introduction to “Being There:Journalism 1978–2000” By Tom Teicholz (Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book). Here’s how my journalism career began: I was in my first year at Columbia Law School and was working as a Democratic Party volunteer, election night November 1977. There was a special election and, for some reason that I can no longer remember, the final votes were being tabulated in a building on 15th Street off Union Square that was… -
Leonard Cohen's Calling
“Hineni, hineni I’m ready, my Lord” With these words that Abraham, the biblical patriarch spoke when God called upon him, Cohen begins, “You want it darker,” the title tune of his final album, Released a few weeks before Cohen’s untimely death in Los Angeles on November 7, 2016 at age 82, Cohen’s nine new songs recorded in his home over the last year are a powerful farewell, elegant and poetic yet cleared-eyed in the face of imminent death. Very much… -
Kate Hudsons Fabletics: 21st Century Fashion Company Bets on Tech & Media
A casual visitor to TechStyle’s sleek modern offices, located in El Segundo right off Rosecrans Avenue on a block of gleaming commercial buildings, might think he’d arrived at a digital fashion media powerhouse or a tech start up rather than a successful apparel retailer. Everywhere you look, company employees (overwhelmingly women) are cradling laptops as they go from glassed-in conference room, to high-ceilinged white-walled showroom to glass door offices and open-plan cubicles. There’s an in-house cafeteria, two photo studios, five… -
Pop goes the Skirball with Lichtenstein's Prints
In my office, I have a Time magazine cover from 1968, that I framed for myself as a child (the marks where I pulled off my parents’ subscription info are still there). It’s a portrait of Robert F. Kennedy giving a speech, drawn as a comic book hero and secular saint in Pop Art style by Roy Lichtenstein. The cover appeared on May 24, 1968, during the Presidential primary season as Kennedy’s popularity was surging. A few weeks later, Kennedy… -
When reality was a joke: the making of Albert Brooks’ Real Life (1979)
Today, reality TV is a genre for which they award Emmys, from which careers are born, love is found, and fortunes are made. Reality TV represents a huge share of the television industry, and we accept that these shows are cast, produced, and edited to enhance their drama. Yet if we see humor in the self-seriousness of the participants and delight in the outrageousness of their antics, if we see the irony in the genre’s ability to produce stars (and… -
The Full Schimmel: 'Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016'
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel (HW&S) an international gallery (locations in Zurich, London, Somerset, and New York) has landed in LA with a splash, in a new art space located at 901 East 3rd Street in Los Angeles’ downtown Arts district. HW&S have refurbished a large set of 19th and early 20th Century buildings, The Globe Mills (it once housed a Flour Mill), into 100,000 square feet of exhibition space broken up into several large indoor and outdoor areas. Their inaugural…