Review

“Los
Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.: Selections
from the Cheech Marin Collection”

6/15/08 to 11/2/08

Do you remember those “Cheech & Chong” movies from the 70’s? (The 2 main characters would spend most of their time in a comic fog due to some mind altering plants they ingested.) Well, Cheech Marin, along with his movies and TV career – [...]

A performance by the Arizona Magic of Music & Dance
This is a great event which is transformational for both the young actors and their audience.
Title: The Jungle Book
Description: Young people with any physical or mental disability are invited to explore in a barrier-free environment the world of creative movement, self-expression, musical creation and spontaneous listening.
Start [...]

“Those that stop their questioning at 75, 60, even 30, cut short their explorations and end up with permanently unfinished lives.” (From “Life Beyond Measure: Letter to My Great-Granddaughter”)

Wise octogenarian Sydney Poitier has been a national treasure for quite awhile. He’s won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a [...]

So, I’m still living on the fumes of my April in New York City adventure.
Went to MOMA on 53rd St and saw the usual suspects – Cezanne, Picasso, Gauguin, Rothko, etc. But, then I went into a little room with the Van Gogh’s. I’ve always liked his work, but I had never seen them in [...]

I had a great time on my recent city visit. I set up a series of “play dates”: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, “Passing Strange”, “Macbeth” and “Thurgood”. I enjoyed them all!

Macbeth

My niece, Cybel, and I loved “Macbeth” with Patrick Stewart, (a consummate theater actor, but, perhaps best know from “Star Trek: Next Generation”). [...]

All of the many ways one can shape the public perception of a culture through film were alive and well this month. From a visionary film maker and producer, marketing professional, events producer, to actors. If you weren’t in AZ for the Black Film Showcase, you should have been.
I interviewed Director Lee Daniels (Shadowboxer, [...]

Of course we are talking about the “Wire” and many fans are unhappy. Unhappy because there is only one episode left and that its ending will not live up to our expectation. Differently then Sex in the City or the Soprano’s, this series seemed to be about real people. When Omar is killed there are [...]

     The brothers Affleck - Ben directs, and Casey stars - are responsible for this turbulent film. Based on a Dennis Lehane book, “Gone Baby Gone”,  just out on DVD, starts as a child abduction case - a little girl goes missing in Boston, can she be found in enough time? (The longer a child is [...]

Jaded inhabitants, dangerous streets, glaring corruption, greed that knows no gender, race or creed could probably be found in aging inner cities anywhere, but the series creators chose this eastern port city, up the coast from Washington, D.C., as a full fledged character in the show.
This tough HBO series is in its final TV [...]

I got tagged by James Neil Hollingsworth a delightful and thoughtful painter. I am now required to list 5 little known facts about myself, then “tag” five other artists to do the same.
Here are my five:

When I was 15 I had this mad infatuation (nothing more) with a niece of Edvard Munch. We worked together [...]