Solid Rock, Human Transience (The Huntington 2)
Organic blend: Chinese garden at the Huntington The Chinese garden at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino (L.A. county) is a magical place. It blends the...
View ArticleBooks, Stuff, Data: Why I Will Not Get Facebook on Paper
My kindle, my salvation: books in our home The New York Times Magazine recently ran an article by Carina Chocano on us and the electronic age: The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg. Reading it, I learned...
View ArticleLyman, Whitford, Reality Check: A Career in the West Wing?
On a chilly Sunday night in February two young girls in jeans and light blouses were standing in front of the artists' entrance of one of two local art theaters in Pasadena, California. The pathway...
View Article“No Traces”: The Low Profile of Peter Zwetkoff
Years ago, when I was working as a reporter in Austria, I asked the composer Peter Zwetkoff whether he would let me profile him for the newspaper. The man was appalled. He shook his head and gave me a...
View Article“You Want Them Off Your Head”
New story is out: Professional nit pickers, published in Pasadena Weekly.
View ArticlePuppets and Purse Strings
New story is out: Puppets and Purse Strings, published in Pasadena Weekly today.
View ArticleElephants and Peek-a-Boo! Hollywood Features Itself
Lights, camera, action! The Hollywood sign seen from Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles does a lousy job of preserving its heritage, and the district of Hollywood, LA's prime tourist destination, is a perfect...
View ArticleAll About Speed. And Driven
New story is out: Racing the Dream, a profile of Edward Loh, editor-in-chief at Motor Trend. The article was published today in USC Trojan Family Magazine.
View ArticleVisions of Editors
Recently I stumbled upon Visions of Mary, a war story by Joseph Richardson. The book begins in a present day emergency room in Tennessee: a doctor, a good guy who takes his work seriously, fights to...
View ArticleStuck in the Middle Ages? Women in the Catholic Church
How did women, whom Jesus treated as equals, become second class Christians? Why have they retained this inferior status until today, especially in the Roman Catholic church? When will it change? A...
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