If you’re searching for a book or two for your beach bag, here are a few titles that are being widely discussed as page-turners for this summer.
The first is “Great Circle” by Maggie Shipstead – Ron Charles, who writes …
Ai Weiwei at the Skirball is Powerful
Ai Weiwei: Trace at the Skirball Cultural Center offers Angelenos the opportunity to understand one man’s legacy of artistic protest, as well as to learn about dozens of political activists throughout recent history. The exhibit, which runs through August 1, …
6.3.21
Wanna Get Away… to a Museum in LA?
Exploring museums and their grounds is a great first foray back after over a year of lockdown. We took a look at the most popular museums in the Los Angeles area, their reopening plans and new, noteworthy exhibits. Fair warning: …
6.2.21
What is Algorithmic Justice? Watch Coded Bias and find out
A new documentary on Netflix is well-timed to help us understand the ground that is shifting beneath our feet when it comes to our society’s relationship with technology. Check out Coded Bias and meet the endearing MIT student whose experience …
5.26.21
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 …
May Reading List
Ron Brownstein’s “Rock Me on the Water: 1974 – The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics” is a book that I’ve already given as a gift three times, teeing it up as a first choice …
5.19.21
The Underground Railroad: First Must See TV of 2021
The first "Must See" TV event of 2021 - a beautiful adaption of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Amy Sherald: See these six paintings before 6/6
Luminous paintings on display until June 6
