Monday
Laila Lalami: The author reads and signs Secret Son.
Storytelling: A workshop at the Annenberg Community Beach House with Michael D. McCarty.
This Week in L.A.
Ring, Ingres, Vertigo
March 8, 2010This Week in L.A.: Archives
Silence, Love, Silk
On March 1, 2010Monday
Hopper’s Silence: A documentary screening and discussion with the filmmaker, Brian O’Doherty, a friend of Edward Hopper’s, at the Getty.
Love Hurts: 826LA presents three writers on love, and mingling afterward.
Elvis, Stiglitz, Gold
On February 22, 2010Monday
Elvis: The final master class on the King at the Grammy Museum.
Holly Rothschild: The Annenberg Community Beach House’s artist in residence talks dance in unlikely places.
Gabriel Thompson: On his book, Working in the Shadows.
Presidents, Panoramas, Dragons
On February 15, 2010Monday
Presidents Day: Free admission at LACMA.
Tuesday
Renoir after Impressionism: A lecture, special exhibition, and reception at LACMA.
Louis Armstrong: The Grammy Museum screens a never-before-seen concert film.
Love, Embrace, Wine
On February 8, 2010Monday
Scotty McLennan: The inspiration for Doonesbury’s Rev. Scot Sloan talks about Christianity and liberalism.
Tuesday
Wagner and anti-Semitism: A panel discussion on the composer’s politics, and whether they matter in performances today, at the Hammer.
Articles
Feuilleton
Monday, July 6, 2009
Abe Lowenthal on Globalizing California
Poetry
This week in L.A.
From the green room
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Orson Welles
Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, and directed his most acclaimed film, Citizen Kane, at age 26. Years later, after a couple disastrous movies and a sojourn in Europe, he would reunite with one of its stars, Joseph Cotton, in The Third Man. Welles' character, Harry Lime, is the missing center of the movie until he appears, finally, and explains his motives for entering a less-than-savory line of work....
