Tag: Culture
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About J. Robert Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s powerful biopic “Oppenheimer,” now playing in Imax (where we saw it), delivers a powerful punch at nuclear politics and the McCarthy era. There seemed to be a Communist in every closet. And “Oppy” was accused of being one of them. He was put through hell, this after being touted “father of the atomic…
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Art Informs Writing
On a recent afternoon, I enjoyed Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, presented online by the Education Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The exhibition explored, with mindful meditation briefly at the start, Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection, the art of Light and Space and related works with highly polished…
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Excerpt from an upcoming novel
Moving day is over — or moving weeks, I should say. I was without internet, wi-fi and cable TV for a week and two days. Until Spectrum was able to drill a hole to the apartment below to allow the cable line to drop through to the first floor. But now I’m back, blogging again,…
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Three Mass Murders, Two Book Releases
I cannot help but comment on the recent mass shootings that took place in California. That they are tragic and appalling seems obvious. That the massacre in Monterey Park occurred at the beginning of the Chinese New Year appears ironic and disheartening. Contrast the Shakespearean horror of 11 dead, and others hospitalized with gunshot injuries,…
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Come Into My Bookstore! Here’s a Book Sample.
Soon I am starting a bookstore online to sell my celebrated volumes and hope you will visit it in November! I am also offering today a sample of my Romantic Novel, “Drumbeats.” The bookstore will be in addition to Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and other fine bookstores, so that you have many choices.…
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Reluctantly Gay No Longer
After all these years, I revealed a little more about myself – quite a lot, actually – when I read from my memoir Monday evening at Planet Queer in a club in Silver Lake. The audience was large, eclectic, and enthusiastic – Lesbian, Gay, Straight, Trans, and presumably Bi. With the encouragement oMartin Wiech,…
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Godard, Fellini – and Symmetry in Marketing
The cinematic world lost one of the greatest French auteurs of all time with the death of Jean-Luc Godard by (legal) assisted suicide at 91. His 1960 masterpiece, “Breathless,” tops my list of familiar Godard films. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, with writing…
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Taking A Break
This author is taking a break to determine what works and doesn’t among podcasts and blogs. Dear readers and listeners, I am not reaching you, and I believe that ultimately, I have something to say that could benefit you and your life. So, I am taking a break from writing a weekly eponymous blog and…
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What Goes Into a Good Review? Revisited.
We hope you enjoyed my recent film review of “All the Old Knives.” Let’s talk about reviews, in general. Having reviewed theater, opera, and film for The Baltimore Morning Sun for ten years (and the Annapolis Evening Capital before that), I hope I learned something about constructing what might be considered a “good review,” or…