Archive for October, 2010
By Adam Leipzig
As we look ahead to next week’s elections, let’s look back – way back – to the foundations of democracy. No, not the California initiative process. No, not the Constitution. Back to ancient Greece before there even was democracy. To the theatre.
Yes, theatre. If you look closely at the chain of events, yo
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By Adam Leipzig
The best looking solar collectors I’ve ever seen slant over the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Renzo Piano’s striking modernist design provides a versatile space filled with abundant natural light.
Inside it’s more confusing. LACMA curators haven’t yet
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By Adam Leipzig
The first shocking moment in Alex Gibney’s riveting documentary Client-9 comes two minutes in. Eliot Spitzer’s staring at the camera, talking to us, and we realize with surprise this isn’t a clip from a campaign ad: Spitzer is on the couch, sitting for a no-holds-barred interview with Gibney.
The interview with Spi
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By Adam Leipzig
Yesterday NPR terminated news analyst Juan Williams over comments he made on Bill O’Reilly’s show. But what if there had been a way – say a piece of software – that kept those comments from being uttered in the first place?
The question isn’t an idle one. A few days ago, Apple was granted a patent for a softw
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By Adam Leipzig
One-fifth of Americans have already made video calls, using their iPhones, Skype or other online or offline services. That’s one of the results from a poll released today by the Pew Research Center. Although the number of us making a video call at any given time is still low – only four percent – it has doubled in t
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This photo of GOOD's LA storefront wall by Emily Lerman ran on LAist.com,one of my go-to sources.
By Adam Leipzig
There are 9.8 million people in Los Angeles County, and 93% of us, or 9.1 million, have mobile phones. In a year, four out of five of these phones will be GPS-enabled, which means more than 7 million of us will actually know whe
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Andy Warhol, Front and Back Dollar Bills, 1962
By Adam Leipzig
The entertainment industry thrives on outside money. Often the money has been “dumb,” coming from starry-eyed investors who lost billions. Occasionally it has been “smart,” as when it has been deployed from well-managed investment funds. But smart or dumb, it has alway
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By Adam Leipzig
Art and beer is so much more refreshing than art and wine. I experienced this perfect combination today at Santa Monica’s 18th Street Art Center, which hosted an open gallery-beer tasting.
There were hundreds of people who would never come to taste wine. Many had never been to the Center before, which offers below-marke
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