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Mozart as Guilty Pleasure
"Mozart in the Jungle" which I binged watched on Amazon's streaming service recently is a great example of what I call a really good bad show. Which is another way of saying that although it is thin on plot, the characters are at times caricatures and there are moments of... View Original Article -
Israeli Pop Legend Danny Sanderson Has a Date With LA
If you've been to Israel in the last 40 years or heard Israeli popular music, then you probably know Danny Sanderson, who will be performing with his band at the Gindi Auditorium at American Jewish University on Dec. 8....... View Original Article -
Paula Bronstein and The Big Story
How do we understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on people and architecture, and how does humanity learn from our mistakes and try to prepare for potential future cataclysms?...... View Original Article -
Literary paprika
Jan 25, 2007 ... Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times ...... View Original Article -
Dr. David Agus & his Obsessive Quest for a Longer Life
Ditch the Stilettos! Throw out the vitamins! Oh, and get a dog. Those are just a few of the trailblazing oncologist's rules for disease-free living in his new book... View Original Article -
Jon Baitz's Journey to Other Desert Cities
Baitz's play seeks an alternative way out of the seeming impasses of our times -- our political deadlocks, our family dramas, even our most heartfelt and ego-driven certitudes -- by making us experience a greater emotional truth. View Original Article -
A Bed of Roses
In person, Larry Miller, president of Sit 'n Sleep, is less 'Crazy Eddie' and more 'Uncle Larry.' When I went to visit him in his executive offices in Gardena, next to his 240,000-square-foot warehouse, he struck me, no kidding, as a man who sleeps well at night. View Original Article -
The first Jewish president? Lincoln, in the Abrahamic tradition
Abraham Lincoln has been dead for almost 150 years, yet suddenly he's everywhere. At the Skirball Cultural Center, you can see an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Lincoln, amid an impressive array of founding American documents. View Original Article -
The Department Store and the Culture It Created
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The Future in Our Hands in Our Homes and Before
CES made clear how much our whole notion of what a computer does is changing. Only a few short years ago, we used computers only at our desks. Now there are laptops, netbooks, the Mac Air, Ultrabooks and tablets of all sizes. View Original Article -
Michael Chabon Reconnects
Before the crowded room of gregarious, well-read rabbis from around the country, Kahn asked Chabon to narrate his own Jewish coming-of-age. View Original Article -
Living Masters of Latino Folk Art at LA's NHM
The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles (NHM) is celebrated for its Dinosaur skeletons, dioramas, oar fish display, gem and bug collections. Some specimens in the collection date back 4.5 billion years. Â Â Â When I arrived at the NHM to see the traveling exhibit Grandes Maestros: Great Masters... View Original Article