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Maggie Rose Earns A Seat At The Table
•The Music Business is filled with the stories of artists who knocked around for years before finding the right sound, releasing the right album, giving the right performance that made their career. If you can believe their accounts, Bruce Springsteen was a total failure until the day he was a… -
Another Tel Aviv: "Asylum City" Streaming on ChaiFlicks
•Asylum City is a gripping 2018-2019 Israeli one-hour drama series in Hebrew with English subtitles that debuted this week on ChaiFlicks, the streaming service devoted to Jewish interest content (available online or for viewing on the ChaiFlicks app on your favorite streaming platform).At its center is a murder mystery set… -
Hooray For Hollywood! The Academy Museum Has Opened
•As anyone who has worked in Hollywood knows, it's a miracle when anything gets done. For each movie made, each series shown, there are thousands that didn"t; and no production journey is complete without having to jump through more hoops and face more setbacks (and studio notes) than imaginable. So,… -
Everything Rises For Jennifer Koh And Davone Tines
•Last night, I attended a performance, Everything Rises at Royce Hall presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA), co-created and featuring Grammy-winning classical violinist Jennifer Koh and Bass-Baritone Davóne Tines with music by Ken Ueno. It had premiered the night before at the University… -
"Hadestown" Marks A Return To Los Angeles
•Hadestown, the many-Tony-award-winning musical, which retells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (and Hades and Persephone) in a modern-day New Orleans-like setting (with some steampunk flourishes), has arrived in LA, at the Ahmanson through May 29, 2022 (and then again at the Segerstrom Center for The Arts in Costa Mesa,… -
San Diego's Photo Gem
•Although San Diego is less than three hours south of where I live, I visit there less than I would have imagined, mostly for lack of reasons to do so.However, a recent invitation to visit the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in Balboa Park in San Diego introduced me to… -
Of Arms, The Man And The Metaverse
•Arma Virumque Cano, I sing of arms and the man. Thus begins the first line of Virgil's epic Latin poem, The Aeneid, which came to mind as I sat down to write about one of the most fascinating and extraordinary experiences I"ve recently had.Late one afternoon, I found myself in… -
Comic Tom Segura Books Funny
•The other night Natasha, my adult-ish daughter, asked me to accompany her to a book author event for standup comic and podcaster Tom Segura's best-selling "I"d like to Play Alone, Please" (Grand Central Publishing), a comic she is a fan of and whom she thought I would enjoy. It would… -
Wynton Marsalis And Georgian-American Friendship Makes Hamptons Swing
•On a recent Saturday night, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed at the Southampton Arts Center as part of the Hamptons Jazz Fest to celebrate 30 years of Independence for the Republic of Georgia and to honor thirty years of Georgian-American friendship; and, like all things… -
Take Me To Church
•As a general rule, great or interesting art and exhibitions are not found in summer resorts, the art buying and appreciating public being transient, the season short, and the major galleries in urban art centers (New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong) being proprietary about their artists and their… -
The Full Picture: Black Cinema 1898-1971
•Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, the new exhibition currently on view at Los Angeles" Academy Museum is a revelation, an education, a corrective to our blindered knowledge of American Film history and a lot of fun. It is superbly researched and curated with a wealth of artifacts intelligently installed and displayed,… -
Cy Twombly At The Getty: Where The Past Is Present
•When we look at abstract art, we tend to see in it a spontaneous investigation of a self-made universe untethered from the past. We decipher the works by the emotion they produce, the feelings they conjure, the intelligence we imagine informing the patterns, lines, movement, motion, color, and negative space…