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Motility: A memoir of male infertility
It takes two to make a baby, but sometimes one to not.... View Original Article -
Lessons from Arthur Schnitzler's Vienna
One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons features two men in conversation walking down a city street. Surrounding them are... View Original Article -
Bill Clinton Transforms LA
President Bill Clinton, Inventor Dean Kamen, White House Chief Technology officer Ken Park and Astronaut Leland Melvin were among the big name speakers at this year's by-invitation-only TRANS4M conference, held at the California Science Center in Los Angeles this past Thursday. View Original Article -
"I want to leave home less and less."
As the sixth week of the stay-at-home order in California begins, I realize that I"ve become deranged and must be suffering from a Coronavirus pandemic-induced Stockholm syndrome because I keep thinking: I don"t want the quarantine to end.Outside my home's bubble is tragedy: Thousands upon tens of thousands of lives lost to this insidious malady, and despite the most optimistic spin, no effective treatment or vaccine. Even where the disease has reached a plateau â it is a plateau where… -
Why Jonathan Alter Loves Our President
A conversation with the author of the best-selling "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies" 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 -
The Department Store and the Culture It Created
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Chris Burch Never Stops Listening
Chris Burch, the mega-successful investor, and brand guru was a poor student in school, as he would be the first to tell you. But he has been a great student of life and of people.Burch has seeded, launched, and invested in many successful businesses including Guggenheim Partners, Upstack, Rappi, and BaubleBar; products such as Jawbone, Jambox; fashion brands such as Staud and Danielle Guizio and, most notably, Tory Burch which he launched with his now ex-wife. Burch has also been… -
Of Arms, The Man And The Metaverse
Arma Virumque Cano, I sing of arms and the man. Thus begins the first line of Virgil's epic Latin poem, The Aeneid, which came to mind as I sat down to write about one of the most fascinating and extraordinary experiences I"ve recently had.Late one afternoon, I found myself in Downtown LA, standing in a large high-ceilinged room surrounded by a selection of rare items from the largest private collection of arms and armor that holds, according to its owners,… -
Herb Alpert Awards Double Down During Pandemic: Ten Award Winners Announced In Online Event
The Artist is often imagined as a solitary figure creating works of the imagination that stand on their own when shared with a public that they remain separate from.That is a fiction. The last year of isolation has made me keenly aware of how much Art in all its forms â Visual, theater, film, music, dance â are collaborative mediums. Even the solo artist needs the support of friends, colleagues, family as well as an audience to affirm and interact… -
More Cultural Adventures At Home
It seems like only yesterday...or maybe the day before? What day is it anyway? As one week glides into the next I"ve found that I"m not reading for pleasure as much as I normally do. I started a book some time ago, and find it strange that I can"t get past the mid-point. And I know it's not the book; it's me. It's not that I don"t have the sustained concentration - I seem to have that in plenty when… -
Herb Alpert Awards In the Arts Go Virtual
"Artists are the heart and soul of this nation," Music icon, Artist and Philanthropist Herb Alpert said at the 26th annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. "It's all about freedom of expression, imagination and truth telling.""They are our second responders," Alpert said in a telephone interview earlier in the week.The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts are a big deal. Awarded by the Herb Alpert Foundation and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) to mid-career artists in film/video,…