Archive for August, 2011
The Book Isn’t Dead, But That May Be a Problem
by Adam Leipzig
Never chop down a tree in the forest before you know what it will sound like when it falls.
Millions of people, however, are clear-cutting forests with only this sound: Pages turning, no one reading.
It seems that everyone is writing books these days, and publishing them too. That may come as a great surprise if you, like so m More...
“Los Angeles Plays Itself”
by John Bailey
Near the end of Thom Andersen’s three-hour meditation on the cinematic identity of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Plays Itself, we are thrust into the city aswarm with the real life problems that most working class Americans confront daily. Billy Woodberry’s low-budget, documentary style, black and white drama, Bless Their Little Heart More...
Gallery Art in the Recession
by Judith H. Dobrzynski | Real Clear Arts
If you've ever wanted a window on the workings of an art gallery during this recession, we're getting a glimpse this summer because Ramis Barquet, who operates a gallery in West 24th St. in New York, has filed in the Southern District of New York for a Chapter 11 reorganization for the gallery -- AKA Barquet Group -- as well as personal bankr More...
Move Along
by Nancy Cantwell | Times Quotidian
Many a conversation takes place on the walk that circumscribes the Lake Hollywood Reservoir. There things get sorted out, affairs get settled, decisions are made and plans are put into play.
My favorite lakeside conversation is the one that I indulge in with myself. The distances I have traveled on foot pale in comparison to the distances More...
Rest in Peace, Gilbert Luján, 1940-2011 (Courtesy Latinopia.com, where you will find even more)
More...The Personal Cost of “Ban That Book!”
by Ulli K. Ryder
In Alabama, a state quickly surpassing Arizona in reactionary responses to anything (and anyone) deemed “Un-American,” state lawmaker Gerald Allen wants to ban books. His main target is books (fiction and non-fiction) which represent gay or lesbian characters who portray homosexuality as normal. Allen reasons (and I use the term More...
The Socially Networked Buddhist
by Ulli K. Ryder, PhD.
I have five email accounts, Google+, Facebook (and Fan Page), at least 4 blog sites. I text. I have Google Alerts. I anticipate Tweeting soon. I do draw the line at Foursquare because I just don’t think anyone needs (or wants) to know when I go to the grocery store. I am not a celebrity. I am not a CEO, world leader or even a super-star a More...
In a Stranger Land
by Adam Leipzig
Judith Margolis never puts herself in an easy place. Or, perhaps, the place where she is put is never easy.
She recently stayed in our spare bedroom, when her temporary residence proved uninhabitable. (She’s since found a good apartment.) She’s stayed with us before, on her visits to LA, and part of her stays with us always: one of More...
The Pirates of Ashland
by Chloe Veltman
I've been wanting to visit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) ever since I first heard about the massive, southern Oregon-based company's fame upon arriving in the U.S. in 1998. I'm ashamed that it's taken me so long to actually make the seven-hour road-trip to Ashland, the small town where the 76-year-old festival takes place. Not only is t More...
Art World Colonoscopy
by Debra Levine | artsmeme
Everyone’s jumping on the high-speed train, oh wait, we don’t have one … everyone’s powering north in their cars on the killer Golden State Freeway. Destination, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.
The much-lauded Gertrude Stein show adds to the ever-growing du More...
