Archive for September, 2012
Why I Left New York for the San Francisco Film Festival
by Ted Hope
Ted Hope, one of the heroes of America's independent cinema movement, just signed on as Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. He has produced close to seventy feature films including The Ice Storm, American Splendor, 21 Grams, Adventureland, and In The Bedroom. As his regular posts on HopeForFilm (from which this article is re-pos More...
salvation… for Ray Bradbury
by Richard Vargas
i was in the third grade
spending the weekend
at my nana’s when i found
my uncle’s old playboy magazine
laying on his bed in plain sight
i picked it up and flipped
through the pages
i knew it was supposed
to be a big deal from the way
grown-ups talked about it
but i have to tell you
i wasn’t impressed
although i now had a
pretty More...
Intentional Conversation
Each fall for nearly a decade, a group of nearly one hundred writers, artists, composers and other art professionals has gathered in a large meeting room in the Los Angeles Cathedral for a day-long “Intentional Conversation.” In small groups, the participants talk about their lives and personal experiences as artists, and focus on a theme cen More...
Take PLAY Seriously!
Gwen Gordon is an advocate for having fun. She started at age 19 designing and building Muppets on Sesame Street, and has gone on to train, coach, share and transform people through her love of playing around.
Gwen is making a documentary about the importance of play -- she's calling it Seriously! The Movie. She's started a Kickstarter campaig More...
Imaginary Boyfriend
Copyright © 2012 by Carol Green. All rights reserved.
Carol Green, the creator of Cultural Weekly's original comic series, Life After Birth, is a coach, writer, illustrator, veteran film publicist and wry observer living in Los Angeles.
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Sebastian Junger: 80% of Reporters in War Zones are Freelancers
by Adam Leipzig
When Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, War) and I last spoke, he had just come back from Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, where he and photojournalist Tim Hetherington had shot footage that would become the documentary Restrepo. Restrepo, which my former company, National Geographic Films, released in 2010, was nominated for More...
Connecting To and Through Art
Art Platform – Los Angeles, a modern and contemporary art fair running September 28-30, 2012, in the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, aims to connect people to art. “And to each other through art,” says its executive director Adam Gross.
It’s an environment particularly suited to artist-entrepreneurs, the constituency Cultural Weekly More...
Dum Dum Girls: ‘Coming Down’
If you like Beach House and Vampire Weekend, two bands this quartet has toured with, you'll like the Dum Dum Girls, a dream-pop band whose video single, 'Coming Down' is as seemingly simple as it is genuinely complex. Their name, by thge way, comes from Iggy Pop's tune 'Dum Dum Boys,' the final lyric of which is: Now, I'm looking for the More...Cecilia Bartoli Unearths Rare Baroque Treasures
Five-time Grammy winner Cecilia Bartoli's new passion project is the album Mission, comprising works by virtually unknown Baroque Italian composer Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), as she explains -- and sings -- in this video. More...For Mexican Artist, a Quest to Map Lives
by Laura Pomerantz
Renowned Mexican artist Betsabée Romero’s solo exhibit, Cartography of an Identity, opens on September 22 at ADC & Building Bridges Contemporary International Art Exchange, in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica.
An observer of human behavior, Betsabée Romero breaks onto the contemporary street scene between memory and oblivion, rootedness and ro More...
