The nice folks at Your Daily Poem , a website out of South Carolina, dropped me a note after we had the Slake magazine reading recently at Vroman’s and asked me to submit a poem … so I did, and it was published today, and you can read it by clicking on the link above. [...]
At the Armory Center for the Arts’ biannual Off the Wall auction and party Saturday night, I am told that there was also a male model sans culottes upstairs. Couldn’t say. Didn’t make it upstairs myself. I hadn’t even noticed that the downstairs model was nude until she stood up to slip her clothes on [...]
Sandra Tsing Loh, left, and Wendy Mogel, right, at the Tiger Mother Emergency Response S’lon in Pasadena on Sunday chez Sandra. Wendy’s new book is “Blessing of a B-Minus,” and ain’t it the case — sometimes a B- is just fine. Not getting-into-Princeton fine, but … well, my theory was always that the A- was [...]
Marnie Weber, the great Los Angeles conceptual artist and former Party Boys bassist who has a studio in Altadena, has an installation as part of the show currently on view at the Armory Center for the Arts on Raymond Avenue in Old Pas. I got to peek in at her spooky fine piece, part of [...]
It was just as the rain moved in for the first time Friday morning at 9 on Grace Terrace behind Yoga House … Read the Full Story at Larry Wilson’s Public Eye
Katerina Tomas and Esteban de Los Angeles were the flamenco part of the show at the always eclectic, always fun Indelible Ink show at Pop on Union Street in Old Pasadena this week. It’s always — barring December — the last Tuesday of the month, with showtime at 7: music, dance, performance art and the [...]
This yellow fish, and the ichthyologists among you know what kind it is, is in the aquarium beneath the train tracks at Union Station, a dip designed by marine biologist Oscar Weathersby, and is apparently native to the waters of Santa Monica Bay, as opposed to the briny deeps of the MarianaTrench, which would have [...]
Behavioral scientist and champeen animal advocate Temple Grandin came to Pasadena’s Villa Esperanza to help celebrate its 50th year of aiding developmentally disabled children. Grandin, who became nationally famous when profiled a decade ago in The New Yorker as the creator of humane cattle-processing techniques, is autistic herself. Her work as a professor, her ability [...]
Here’s a link to a reproduction of the resignation letter from his former post with the city of Los Angeles by Vince Bertoni, the newly named planning director of Pasadena — courtesy Curbed LA. Pasadenans who care about such things seem a little bit taken aback by the timing of the announcement, though it has [...]
Stephen Hawking, the great English physicist who tries to spend a month every winter at Caltech, did a star turn at Beckman Tuesday night. And what a turn. What a testament to perserverance: can’t move, can’t talk, don’t whine: stay brilliant, and change the way we think about the universe. His packed lecture and PowerPoint [...]
