In these tough times, many media types are lamenting the death of the magazine industry, so let me be honest as a writer for some of our treasured manuals to the finer things. Yes, it's getting difficult to find places in The Budget for the products ...
Here's what I think when a life-form (other than my wife) tells me it's newly jobless: So What? That's right, I'm indifferent (and obviously comfortable with hypocritical double-standards). But I'm not indifferent because I lack concern for Humanity, ...
Oct. 1, 2008 | The former "Curb Your Enthusiasm" director and executive producer Robert B. Weide was casually flipping through his Buster Keaton and Little Rascals laserdiscs, kept in the hallway closet of his English cottage-style home. "I just bought ...
I have always hated singing. I was introduced to it as the son of two concert pianists, trained at Juilliard and winners of international competitions, one of whom eventually became a voice and choir teacher (along with international baccalaureate ...
A couple of weeks ago, an article in the LA Times about young immigrant liver-transplant survivors who hit 21 and lose state health coverage which often causes a lapse in their post-transplant care without chances for re-transplantation, should have ...
In a recent New York Times piece, Paul Krugman, one of my favorite columnists, explains how the numbers can't deny that Hillary's health plan is better than Obama's. But what "better" means here is relative even when stats and dollars are an issue. The ...
Dosage. If there's one thing a person used to be able to rely on from television networks--quality, comedy, reality, escape, fair labor: we know that's now nearly too much to ask--it was dosage. Watch one show at the same time each week for an entire ...
Engendering love of his intellect has never been a problem for Umberto Eco. In his nonfiction, the 75-year-old semiotician has resurrected the word as an open symbol. In his postmodern fiction - most notably, "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's ...
The American dream of owning a house can be so expensive that it remains, for many, just a dream. But two new forms of alternative housing offer solutions to those looking for cheap shelter—or any shelter at all. Claiming a permanent seat on the ...
IN a city that drives everywhere, Los Feliz Village in Los Angeles stands out. Just east of Hollywood, below the sylvan hills where the Griffith Park Observatory recently reopened, the neighborhood is home to a growing cluster of shops and ...
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