At 2,500 pages of legislation and even more pages of still unwritten regulation, health reform isn’t easy to comprehend.
But we can be sure of two things, as Duke Helfand, a Los Angeles Times health reporter, explained. “It has great potential to open access to care for millions of people,” he said. “But the criticism is it doesn’t do enough to tackle and address the underlying costs of that care.”
As David Pagel explained, in the 1990s, when much of art concerned identity, “Salomón Huerta made a name for himself by getting rid of the self.”
Even though it was 15 years ago, Jonathan Gold remembers an unnerving conversation with Campanile chef Mark Peel about fish: Peel predicted then that in 40 years, eating wild fish would be as odd as eating wild game.
“Now, only 15 years later, it seems almost frighteningly close to being true,” said Gold to the full house at the Skirball Cultural Center.
As the economy puts the skids on McMansions, Dubai towers, and all the projects that might give architects a bad name, Frances Anderton thought it time to correct some misconceptions.
“Architects have strong egos, but they also have strong ideals,” said Anderton, host of KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture.
When he set out to write Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India 18 months ago, William Dalrymple hoped to find a Bengali man legendary for his skull collection.
Mohamed's Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland
