There was a bit of a kerfuffle this week after photos from Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Montecito home were featured in Architectural Digest *and all over the internet. The Goop maven is seated on a beautiful couch in a beautiful room …
King Richard on HBO Max
Want a film that you can watch over the Thanksgiving holiday? Choose one that chronicles the incredible rise of two of the greatest tennis stars of all time, Venus and Serena Williams.
“King Richard” – playing now in theaters and …
A Thrilling Hawk Walk with Adam Baz
Birds of prey have always intrigued me, and as I immersed myself in covid-birdwatching, it was the soaring hawks that made my heart race. So, when I learned about Adam Baz and his business Hawk on Hand Falconry Services, …
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
Sunday Lunch Drive for Hungry Kids
Making sandwiches for Angelenos who are hungry is a weekly feel-good project.
Happiness Check-In: Laurie Santos and Screen Time Tips (including Zoom)
We all need better relationship with our screens... and perhaps the pandemic will help us naturally mutate to a less device-centric existence.
2.10.21
Sean Penn Helping LA with Testing and Vaccine Support
We went to Dodger Stadium on a rainy Saturday night to get my husband a vaccine – he is 66 and eligible at this time. Although there are many headaches in the vaccination process (well chronicled in the LATimes, as …
1.26.21
Basquiat + Jazz at The Broad
We can’t get to museums right now, and fortunately the best institutions are pivoting with creative quarantine programming. This three-part video series from The Broad features jazz musicians interacting with the museum’s new installation of it’s thirteen Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings …
1.26.21
(We Need More) Poetry in General and Amanda Gorman’s poetry in Particular
One of my favorite things about reading the LA Times morning newsletter is that a poem is delivered with the news each day. I try to take a moment and read it because I want to support the effort to …
