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My Journey With Our Complicated, Dysfunctional Health Care System
I’ve been fighting bladder tumors on and off for seven years now and, until recently, had beaten them back. In September, 2025, my urologist found a polyp in my bladder and scheduled a TURBT, which is a same-day in-and-out Bladder Tumor Removal Surgery. In November I had his procedure and this time, however, the tumor […]
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. […]
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