The Misread City

Last night i caught Leif Ove Andsnes, the norwegian pianist, at disney hall. (here he is, right, after, presumably, chopping an entire nordi...

The other night i went to the reasonably new "gastropub" in the formerly rundown-- now thriving -- area of los angeles called high...

Just back from a LA Philharmonic press conference which is the most elaborate i've seen from any arts group, including i think the gett...

Don't know about your private hell -- remember orwell's "room 101"? --  but mine is to be locked in a room and made to lis...

Amazing amount of excitement, anticipation, and i expect resentment and suppressed fear right now around the obama inauguration ... i will t...

I want to talk for a minute about los angeles' Haden family: you could define true musical eclecticism as the ability to dig all the bra...

Over the last couple years i covered books, mostly novels, almost exclusively, and there's no way anyone can read everything. but let me...