The Misread City

THIS week my Influences column looks at opera soprano Ana Maria Martinez , who started out as a West Side Story loving kid in Puerto Rico a...

WHEN you do what I do, you hear a lot of arts advocates and administrators talk about "reaching out," finding "new audiences,...

IN the years just before, during and after WWII, the flow of exiles and emigres from fascist Germany to Los Angeles became so strong that an...

ON wednesday night -- that's wotan's day to those of you who speak norse -- i caught "das rheingold," the los angeles oper...