• An Al Green Mystery

    Could the best Al Green album in decades, perhaps the best album this year, actually be a decade old release? That's the mystery I found myself in. Let me explain:I"ve been known to bounce from streaming music service to streaming music service having done my time with Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music to name a few in the rotation (remember Mog?). Lately I"ve been using Amazon Music with its Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos offerings.With Amazon, I check the "new" listings…

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  • Arman Naféei is in The Air

    Arman Naféei would like to be the Anthony Bourdain of Music Exploration (minus the heroin addiction, depression and suicide) and when you spend time with him, you believe it will happen. His podcast, Are We On Air? has in its two-year existence already logged interviews with Patti Smith, Dua Lipa, David Byrne, and Khruangbin. Arman's love of sharing music has opened the world to him, and led him to global artists who respect his taste, enjoy his engaging personality and…

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  • Champagne & Oyster Architecture for the Holidays

    Downtown LA's Central Market is getting hipper by the minute. You can now have vertically responsible hamburgers (Bel Canto), gourmet coffee (G&G), small batch pastrami (Wexler's), and heavenly ice cream (McConnell's), and now, at  The Oyster Gourmet,my friend Christophe Happillon's new pop-up (and I mean that literally, the kiosk pops... View Original Article

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  • Les Blank is Always a Pleasure

    One night a few months ago, I found myself surfing through the Criterion collection on Hulu and stumbled upon an early Les Blank documentary, "The Blues According to Lightnin" Hopkins." I pushed play and I was suddenly in a field in Mississippi, with great immediacy and no explanation – no... View Original Article

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  • Conversation About Billy Joel Bio With Author Fred Schruers

    Fred Schruers and I discuss his Billy Joel: The definitive Biography....... View Original Article

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  • Championing Israeli Contemporary Art

    Although Rosette Delug has only been collecting art for a decade, her Trousdale Estates mansion at the apex of Beverly Hills has become a showcase for cutting-edge international contemporary art....... View Original Article

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  • Czech photographer's work is peaceful political protest

    Dec 30, 2014 ... For more information, visit getty.edu/museum/exhibitions. Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and ...... View Original Article

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  • WB's Legal Eagles

    Tommywood - WB's Legal Eagles. For writer Shapiro, practice made perfect. by Tom Teicholz. September 8, 2005 | 8:00 pm ...... View Original Article

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  • Cult of Luxury: The Romance

    THE ROMANCE of LUXURY:   One evening a few years ago, my wife and I dined with another couple at Bartolotta Ristorante Di Mare in Las Vegas at the Wynn Hotel. Named for its chef, Paul Bartolotta, the  restaurant features Italian cooking and seafood specialties and is very, very expensive.... View Original Article

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  • Fighting a Hostile Takeover: Michael Milken

    On March 2, 1993, Michael Milken was supposed to be a free man...but Milken, then 46, learned he has prostate cancer.... View Original Article

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  • Through a Lens, Starkly: Weegee's Naked Hollywood

    Through a Lens, Starkly: Weegee's Naked Hollywood - The Huffington Post View Original Article

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  • Arnold Schwartzman: The Vision Behind Voices

    Arnold Schwartzman, the artistic director of the 'Voices & Visions' program whose first set of 18 posters by world class graphic artists illuminating quotations from illustrious Jewish personages is now on view at LA's Skirball Cultural Center, is a story unto himself. View Original Article

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