Several years ago, a group of Gen Z kids started a movement proclaiming that all our birds have been replaced with government surveillance technology. My kids say it’s old news, but the media has just take it up, and it’s …
Groundhog Day: Get Up and Do It Again
For weeks last summer, I woke up around 2:00 am with the same song running through my head. It was Jackson Browne singing The Pretender. Coming to consciousness, I heard: “When the morning light comes streaming in, I’ll get up …
Get Ready for the Gilded Age
Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski.ALISON COHEN ROSA
Julian Fellows is back, just in time to rescue us from our Omicron blues. A new series The Gilded Age debuts on HBO on January 24 – here’s the trailer to whet …
2 Museums: 2 Excellent Shows (with a fun connection)
Getty Center in December 2021Many of us have curtailed plans to travel this holiday, providing an excellent opportunity to explore our own city’s cultural institutions — we used to call this a Staycation but now it’s just the New …
12.14.21
2021: A Summer for Bikes
Traffic in Los Angeles is back… and when moving around in a car, it is easy to feel that the pandemic was a distant, weird dream. I’m on a quest to find ways to hold onto my “pandemic learnings” and …
LACMA is under Construction but there’s Much to See Anyway
David Hockney’s largest canvas, “Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio,” is on display in LACMA’s Broad building, and standing before this iconic symbol of LA made me practically weepy. Although it’s been hanging in the museum for …
6.25.21
Get to Know: Alice Neel
Discovering an artist for the first time is a thrill that thousands are having this summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster “Alice Neel: People Come First.” The exhibit is the first retrospective of the artist’s work …
6.24.21
A Thrilling Hawk Walk with Adam Baz
Birds of prey have always intrigued me, and as I immersed myself in covid-birdwatching, it was the soaring hawks that made my heart race. So, when I learned about Adam Baz and his business Hawk on Hand Falconry Services, …
Remember when the College Admission Crisis was our Biggest Concern?
Remember back, before Covid-19 entered our lives, when the most scandalous thing in our lives was the parents who hired Rick Singer to get their kids in the “side-door” to top schools around the country?
One of the best articles …
