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Lubbock On Everything: Adventures In Art and Music with Terry Allen
There must be something in the water in Lubbock, Texas, that produced songwriters, musicians and artists such as Buddy Holly, Mac Davis, and the singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen, whose artwork was featured at LA Louver’s booth at Frieze LA and who gave two performances during Frieze Week at the Masonic Lodge at the […]
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Literary Twofer Finds Characters ‘In Sickness And In Health’ And On ‘Yom Kippur In A Gym’
Nora Gold’s novellas, In Sickness and In Health, and Yom Kippur in a Gym (Guernica Editions) COVER COURTESY OF NORA GOLD AND GUERNICA EDITIONS Nora Gold, the prize-winning Canadian author of novels and short stories and the founder and editor-in-chief of JewishFiction.net, has just published what Vegas aficionados call a twofer – that is two for […]
Los Angeles Ballet Takes Next Steps
Last June, when I interviewed Melissa Barak, the former dancer, choreographer, founder of Barak Ballet, who is now the artistic director of Los Angeles Ballet (LAB) she spoke of her belief that LAB could distinguish itself and catalyze the audience for dance in Los Angeles with new works, in much the same way the Los […]
Mozart as Guilty Pleasure
“Mozart in the Jungle” which I binged watched on Amazon’s streaming service recently is a great example of what I call a really good bad show. Which is another way of saying that although it is thin on plot, the characters are at times caricatures and there are moments of… 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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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 […]