Silver Lake Expands Its “Say Their Names” Project
https://youtu.be/D2crsXxA4QI After Silver Lake residents fashioned a memorial to unarmed Black American citizens killed by police last month,... Read more →
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Got a racist relative? Call ’em out
Racism is inherently generational. We often mimic what our immediate family models, carrying bias onward in time to infect our own family or circle,... Read more →
A Nurse in the Time of COVID-19
A note to begin This particular nurse loathes the 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 emoji (I agree, it can start to feel cheap) so I’m hoping you can add a... Read more →
Russia’s Cultural Stunner: St. Petersburg
I miss the Soviet hammer and sickle. When I first visited Russia – then called the Soviet Union – the symbol was everywhere, along with those... Read more →
It’s a “New World” In Gustavo Dudamel’s Deft Hands
The Los Angeles Philharmonic served up another of its ever-inventive creations last week. Conductor Gustavo Dudamel led an inspired pairing of all... Read more →
Book of Mormon, fun and filthy as ever
The Book of Mormon is back, now more irreverently relevant than ever. In America’s Twilight Zone age of religion and politics—where a GOP-backed... Read more →
Return to Moscow
I flew to Moscow on New Year’s Day – 35 years after I first landed there in 1985 during the Soviet era. I was curious about what had changed,... Read more →
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Case Study House Lessons: Radical Recycled Midcentury Design
Seventy-five years ago this month, Arts and Architecture magazine announced the Case Study House Program, a radical post-war housing experiment. Its... Read more →
“Deck the Hall” series at Disney Hall
Walt Disney Concert Hall has been ringing up good cheer with its “Deck the Hall” performance series, launched on December 17 with “A... Read more →
December Resonance
https://youtu.be/woDybJX6oYA For those who, each December, feel an ache pushed up against joy, who sometimes wish they had a river they could... Read more →
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