Things to Do with Kids in LA: Cakemix

If you’re familiar with Color Me Mine, the you-paint-it, they-fire-it ceramics studio, you’ll love the experience at Duff’s Cakemix. Even if you haven’t been to a place where you create your own masterpiece, Cakemix is a great place to start. …

7.16.12

Things to Do with Kids In LA: The Getty Center’s Garden Concerts for Kids

You know it is full-on summer when the Getty’s outdoor kid concerts begin, bringing high quality musical acts for kids from across the country, each weekend in August. Bring some friends, bring a picnic and be prepared to wiggle! Click …

7.12.12

Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography at the Peter Fetterman Gallery

The mystique of a rock & roll band is difficult to define, but when the music and the image of the band come together, they live in our hearts forever. Or, at least, they do for the bands portrayed in …

7.7.12

Things to do with Kids in LA: Game On! at the Skirball Cultural Center

Anything we can do outside during the summer, we try to do. Grilling, swimming, summer sports and.. playing board games? It’s no secret that cards and Monopoly get more play during the summer months, so the Skirball has come up …

7.1.12

Who Shot Rock & Roll at The Annenberg Space for Photography

When one thinks about rock photography, the first image that comes to mind is Annie Liebowitz and her early years on the road for Rolling Stone magazine. But there is so much more to the story. In The Annenberg Space

6.22.12

Hemingway and all those wives

Frankly, I get all the wives confused because I have a blinding obsession with Wife #3 that has made it tough to focus on all the others.  Martha Gellhorn, the third wife, was played by Nicole Kidman in this month’s …

6.21.12

Things to Do with Kids in LA: Outdoor Screenings this Summer

Forget your Hulu and Roku and all those crazy devices you’re using to watch classic films — all you really have to do is head out into town and it’s a sure thing that you’ll find an outdoor screening that …

6.19.12

Summer Wish List: Starting a Book Club

Three friends and I started a book club over 10 years ago, and we’ve met once a week ever since. Kids have grown, FB relationship statuses have changed, foods have gone in and out of fashion, but we still meet …

6.18.12

The Flap about The Great Gatsby

The trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby came out this week and has already generated plenty of internet buzz, even though the 3D film won’t hit theaters until Christmastime. Jay Gatsby will be portrayed by Leonard di Caprio, perhaps …

5.25.12