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Santa Monica Rising (The Broad Stage)
Located at the intersection of 11th St. and Santa Monica Blvd., a striking modern building designed by Santa Monica architect Renzo Zecchetto sits on the site of a former elementary school playground and looks to have risen out of the ground sui generis, almost as if the Starship Enterprise had decided to dock in the […]
The Immortal Mr Gold
August 12, 2008 Herb Gold, elder statesman of the Beat Generation, writes on By Tom Teicholz “Still Alive! (A Temporary Condition)” by Herbert Gold (Arcade, $25). Herbert Gold, who at 84 is among the elder statesmen of the Beat Generation, has a new book out, his 28th, a memoir titled “Still Alive! (A Temporary Condition).” […]
Waxing Roth
The movie, “Elegy,” which opens Aug. 8 and stars Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh and Penelope Cruz as the object of his desire, is the latest film to be adapted from the writings of Philip Roth. This one is based on his novella, “The Dying Animal.” Despite Roth’s long, successful career in American letters, his […]
Bela & The Benz
Hatschek Bela. The very sound of my great-grandfather’s name brings a smile to my face. In Hungarian, last names go first, so although Bela was his first name, he has always been Hatschek Bela to me — all one name — a legendary figure in our family, a celebrated forebear about whom my mother and […]
Making Book on LA
BookExpo, the annual convention of booksellers and book publishers that took place in Los Angeles one recent weekend, is the book industry’s annual get-together, alternating among the publishing hub of New York and various other cities, such as Miami, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Perhaps it’s the state of the book industry, the economy […]
The pariah loophole
The following opinion article appeared yesterday on the Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times: John Demjanjuk’s last appeal to avoid deportation was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 19. The 88-year-old accused Nazi concentration camp guard was stripped of his citizenship and ordered sent to Ukraine, his birthplace; Poland, the locus of […]