When Bernie Sanders was pushed from a Seattle stage by Black Lives Matter activists in August, I wondered about the efficacy of the action. That one speaker called the crowd ‘white supremacist liberals’ seemed only to highlight a misreading and a disjuncture. Could these activists have done damage to someone who is in a functional …
A. D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet and writer. He is the author of over sixty books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. His work has appeared internationally in over 1,500 literary magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He edited and published the acclaimed Second Coming Magazine/Press from 1972-89 during which which time he produced …
The current retrospective of Frank Gehry’s career organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in association with the Los Angeles County Museum, is on view at LACMA until March 20, 2016. It is clearly a “must see” for anyone interested in architecture, design, urban planning and advancing technology. The Centre Pompidou, with …
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Have you ever walked down a city street and happened upon random and seemingly unplanned movement that is, or looks like dance? It could be accidental, it might be intentional, but whatever it is, it has the look and feel of dance? Perhaps it’s a street corner preacher dragging one foot and pointing as he …
You wouldn’t know it, but it’s autumn in Los Angeles. Elsewhere in the U.S., the air is crisp, the leaves are turning, and chill winds are beginning to blow. But here in this irrigated desert, the temperature soars close to 100F, and the dog days of summer (sic) are upon us, with its exhausting, muggy, …
Something was going on last week. Not just the Pope’s remarkable first visit to the U.S. that coincided with Yom Kippur, inducing a double dose of introspection, but something else. Something cosmic. Even the sun and moon got into the act with that rare Sunday night eclipse. In my weekend wanderings, I walked into the …
Andrea Bocelli, the beloved Italian tenor, was in Los Angeles recently for a series of performances. It was very exciting for an opera lover like me to see him sing live at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood (September 18), during an elaborate stage production videotaped for a PBS-WNET television special celebrating movie music (scheduled to …
The Social Good Summit (hosted by Mashable, the United Nations Foundation and UNDP) was coming up and I was really excited about attending for the first time. The likes of Jimmy Wales, Charlize Theron, Enric Sala, The Honorable Madeleine Albright, Bill McKibben, Adrian Grenier, and Morgan Spurlock were just a few of the names on …
The Sustainable Development Goals – Have You Heard? Read More »
Westwood is one of Los Angeles’ great neighborhoods, still not well known and/or understood. As a former resident and a frequent visitor of it, I am bringing a personal perspective, in the belief that an awareness of its qualities may carry a message meaningful to other cities, American and around the world. The video that …
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