Letter From LA: Winter 2024
This past holiday season was the first time in 15 years that I didn’t send out electronic holiday cards; I’ve been bogged down by so much depressing news about life in Los Angeles as well as the sad state of world affairs that I just lost track of time (here’s a sampling of past holiday […]
‘Joan Baez’ Documentary Arrives in Theatres October 2023
Magnolia Pictures will release JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE in NY theaters on October 6, 2023 Expanding to LA & Additional Markets on October 13, 2023 Directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle Executive Produced by Greg Sarris, Parri Smith, Josh Braun, Ben Braun and Terry […]
Letter From LA: Super Bowl Issue
In honor of Super Bowl Sunday and the Chinese surveillance balloons that flew across the country for several days two weeks ago, I decided to revisit John Frankenheimer’s 1977 “Black Sunday,” a thriller about terrorists who commandeer the Goodyear blimp with a plan to murder 80,000 spectators at the 1976 Super Bowl in Miami, Florida. […]
Letter From LA: Gods and Monsters
Swaying palm trees, cool evening breezes, night-blooming jasmine, ruby red and purple bougainvillea, golden sun at twilight: these are some of the cliches that describe Los Angeles — and they’re true. But here’s another version of LA’s reality, from the famous French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard: “There is nothing to match flying […]