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Will a Pair of Beloved Jewish Summer Camps Rise from the Ashes of the Woolsey Fire?
From the Pacific Coast Highway, just past Neptune’s Net, you can see Camp Hess Kramer’s giant menorah still standing. However, after last fall’s devastating fires and the winter’s subsequent mudslides, the fate of the landmark and its surroundings remains uncertain. On a recent visit to the beloved Jewish summer camp, which is still closed to […]
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Painted Words, Day-Glo Posters and Hotel Rooms: The Influence Of Allen Ruppersberg
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (through May 12, 2019), features an artist you may not know well and the extent of whose influence you never realized â until this exhibition.To set this in context: One of the most significant developments in Los Angeles in the last decade has […]
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Buried by Vesuvius Explodes the Getty Villa
Almost a year ago, I visited Pompei and Herculaneum, marveling at the extant evidence of the lives of the Romans as preserved when Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.Turns out I didn”t have to travel to Italy to see many of the magnificent treasures from the greatest of Herculaneum’s Roman Villas (although I would do it […]
The Sorrow of Soviet Poetry: On Lev Ozerov's "Portraits Without Frames"
PORTRAITS WITHOUT FRAMES is a singular work of literary biography: a history of Soviet-era literature and culture that is also a masterful poetic sequence in its own right. In Portraits, Lev Ozerov (1914âÂÂ1996), a relatively little-known Russian literary figure, recounts his personal encounters with a who’s who of 20th-century poets, authors, artists, composers, and musicians. […]
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"Almost Famous: The Musical" Rocks On
This Sunday October 27th, “Almost Famous,” the Musical based on the 2000 Cameron Crowe movie will end its run at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. Tickets for the run have been sold out for a while but I was lucky enough to attend a matinee recently, and am here to report that when […]
Mariinsky's "Jewels" Shine Not as Bright
At the Music Center in Los Angeles, The Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg performed George Balanchine’s “Jewels.”In a very informative pre-performance lecture at the Music Center, journalist and dance historian Elizabeth Kaye explained that Georges Balanchine, born Georgiy Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg to Georgian parents, studied at the Imperial Ballet before joining the Mariinsky (the […]