Her Moon Over Los Angeles[1] I love the way she leans against the balcony teasing over Sunset Boulevard, Chateau Marmont showing off her beautifully round skin, ready for me to honor her cheekiest glow; before my telescope lens angles her close up reminds me, even astronomers at Griffith Park Observatory would be focusing their eyes …
Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? When I first started writing poems I would write when inspiration came to me. Now I realize, for me, being a true poet is to always be ready and not wait. My philosophy is akin to people who workout every day. The first thing I do …
Poetry Mini Interview: Adrian Ernesto Cepeda by Thomas Whyte Read More »
As a photo-journalist who traveled all over the world to visually document foreign cultures in the 1980s, I was very intrigued to explore the photo exhibit “Women of Vision, National Geographic Photographers on Assignment,” currently at the Forest Lawn Museum (December 11, 2018-April 7, 2019). So I drove to Glendale on a rainy weekend and …
On a crisp spring morning in 1945, two teenagers set off on their rickety bicycles for Philadelphia. For George and Mel, Depression kids born to Jewish immigrants in a Brooklyn ghetto, this bike ride was their escape, a claiming of personal freedom. It was an adventure they would remember for the rest of their lives—until …
Now and Again: Finding Memory Lost to Alzheimer’s Read More »
Few actresses can wring as many variations on self-indulgent despair as Marin Ireland. This Obie winner has created incisive portraits of a party-girl spoiled royal in Marie Antoinette, a narcissistic bisexual activist in In the Wake and a self-destructive immigrant worker in Ironbound. That’s just to name a few. Now she is a disgraced high …
Marin Ireland Is a Latter-Day Blanche DuBois in Blue Ridge Read More »
Distorting classical music in West L.A., dancing Edgar Allan Poe in Long Beach, Korean dance in Mid-City, on the brink in Lincoln Heights, reviving a forgotten Russian ballet in Costa Mesa, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Going on “The Road” Originally The Road was planned with guest artist Chelsea Cheha Keum joining dancer/choreographer Juli Kim for performance …
Noir Cool Noir Cool meets pre-Noir Cool, so pre– it’s Elizabethan. Philip Marlowe meets Hamlet. Lummis’ men. And nothing stood between her and her two great loves — except for the fact that they never existed. Robert Mitchum enters, stage left — and what a story. What a life. His life alone might make for a better …
Israel Vignettes links a complex past with a vibrant, future-oriented present. It shows booming construction, a flourishing new generation, wars and the Holocaust through avant-garde architecture, an exclusive interview about survival in Transnistria, and a humorous reenacting of our first meeting as students of architecture at the Technion, in Haifa. Following the seven-part documentaries about …
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