24 July 2010

A real city ballet for a real city

Robyn Gardenhire’s Los Angeles City Ballet presented mixed repertoire in an unusual venue: an abandoned banking lobby in downtown Los Angeles

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20 March 2010

Art, books, talk, music & life … at ALOUD

The excellent ALOUD book talk series held in the Mark Taper Auditorium is only one reason to visit the Los Angeles Central Library. [...]

17 January 2010

Panorama-kan at Velaslavasay

A lecture at Velaslavasay Panorama describes the panorama “craze” that took place in Japan from 1860-1910. [...]

18 October 2009

Before Hollywood came Edendale

On this modest strip, from 1909 to 1928, prospered a genial group of filmmakers who flocked to southern California to make moving pictures. Edendale wasn’t a random happening. At its height it was a beehive of integrated film activity. [...]

17 July 2009

Julius

Architectural photographer Julius Shulman died in Los Angeles yesterday. His photography of L.A.’s mid-century modern architecture allures with its simple power, revealing L.A.’s hidden beauty. As a human being, Julius startled and amused with his engaging, quarrelsome, and highly curious personality. They broke the mold when they made Julius. [...]

11 June 2009

Liza with a Z at Last Remaining Seats

I love the Los Angeles Conservancy’s Last Remaining Seats summer film festival on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.

Nothing in our city compares to it as a community event. (Lakers fans may disagree!)

To sit in the faded remains of downtown’s glamorous vintage theatres, chock-a-block with an excited, engaged, clapping, laughing, appreciative audience, [...]

22 August 2008

My date with Julius Shulman

My fun evening escorting the feisty 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman. [...]