The Department Store and the Culture It Created
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The first Jewish president? Lincoln, in the Abrahamic tradition
Abraham Lincoln has been dead for almost 150 years, yet suddenly he’s everywhere. At the Skirball Cultural Center, you can see an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Lincoln, amid an impressive array of founding American documents. View Original Article […]
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A Bed of Roses
In person, Larry Miller, president of Sit ‘n Sleep, is less ‘Crazy Eddie’ and more ‘Uncle Larry.’ When I went to visit him in his executive offices in Gardena, next to his 240,000-square-foot warehouse, he struck me, no kidding, as a man who sleeps well at night. View Original Article […]
Jon Baitz’s Journey to Other Desert Cities
Baitz’s play seeks an alternative way out of the seeming impasses of our times — our political deadlocks, our family dramas, even our most heartfelt and ego-driven certitudes — by making us experience a greater emotional truth. View Original Article […]
Dr. David Agus & his Obsessive Quest for a Longer Life
Ditch the Stilettos! Throw out the vitamins! Oh, and get a dog. Those are just a few of the trailblazing oncologist’s rules for disease-free living in his new book… View Original Article […]
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Literary paprika
Jan 25, 2007 … Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he’s an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times …… View Original Article […]
Paula Bronstein and The Big Story
How do we understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on people and architecture, and how does humanity learn from our mistakes and try to prepare for potential future cataclysms?…… View Original Article […]
Israeli Pop Legend Danny Sanderson Has a Date With LA
If you’ve been to Israel in the last 40 years or heard Israeli popular music, then you probably know Danny Sanderson, who will be performing with his band at the Gindi Auditorium at American Jewish University on Dec. 8……. View Original Article […]
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The Art of Lisa Edelstein
During the pandemic, Lisa Edelstein, the actor best known for her roles as Abby McCarthy in Girlfriends” Guide to Divorce, Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the popular medical drama series House, and as Alan Arkin’s wayward adult daughter Phoebe on The Kominsky Method, took to painting. Seriously. Seriously and so well that her paintings are being […]
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 […]
Wagner, Tristan & Me
Recently, I spent three nights in a row at Disney Hall in Downtown LA listening to The Tristan Project, a Gustavo Dudamel conducted LA Phil concert performance of Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, as directed by Peter Sellars with video accompaniment by artist Bill Viola, as well as participation by the LA Master Chorale. The […]
Robert Longo’s Art of The Now
There is an Ocean wave gathering strength, filled with ominous portent, set to come crashing before us. It began with Ferguson, but it’s always been there, only now it’s gained the weight and heft of a Death Star, a collection of all the AR-15 bullets fired in a year of mass shootings. It is Albrecht […]