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Chicago is that wonderful town

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Damn, it's cold! NYC in late winter

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Chicago is that wonderful town

What a great place! Not long ago my husband and I were in the Windy City (more about that later). It was early October, unusually warm; in fact, temperatures were ...

Architecture & Art Eat & Drink New York Travel

Damn, it's cold! NYC in late winter

Editor's note: as in California and much of the country, stay-at-home orders are currently in place in New York City as of spring 2020. Wherever you are, stay safe, as ...

Art Review

Grounded in Charles White

The African-American artist Kerry James Marshall, whose retrospective in Los Angeles I reviewed here in 2017, says that his mission and aspiration is to create “a grand, epic narrative with ...

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Sally Mann wanted imagery that looked bruised by history

The history of photography tracks the cultural history of childhood and the innocence we like to think abides there. When the inventor of photography, Henry Fox Talbot, made images of ...

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Art Review La Mesa Out & About

RIP local comic book creator Batton Lash (Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre)

His local Exhibit A Press published Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre and others

January 13, 2019

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A certain kind of God

September 5, 2018

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July 25, 2018

Burgled secrecies

The first photograph I saw by Brassaï, many years ago, was a 1948 portrait of Jean Genet. Hands in pockets, slight of form, his face an ambiguous index of skittishness and cunning, Genet offers and ...

Art Review Los Angeles

March 28, 2018

Beauty built on blood

In 2003, an archaeologist digging near the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, one of the grand structures at the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico, felt a soft spot in the earth that turned out to ...

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February 7, 2018

San Diego Reader 2018 arts issue

No better musical experience of its kind in the world (!) Opera, symphony, Mainly Mozart, L.J Music Society, Bach Collegium, ProArte Voices. By Garrett Harris Used T-shirts, medical gauze, old hankies — The faction of ...

Arts Issue Theater Antireviews

February 7, 2018

Plays and actors to look out for in San Diego

Director in demand — Christopher Ashley The La Jolla Playhouse’s artistic director Christopher Ashley won the 2017 Tony Award for best director of a musical, the playhouse’s Broadway hit Come From Away. So, what’s he ...

Arts Issue

February 7, 2018

Dance is all around us, but hard to find

San Diego is home to accomplished dancers and choreographers, but not home to many venues appropriate to showcase their works. As choreographer-dancer Blythe Barton explains, “The San Diego modern dance scene is ever-evolving and seems ...

Arts Issue Classical Music

February 7, 2018

No better musical experience of its kind in the world (!)

The San Diego classical music scene encompasses every genre of the artform. Chamber, orchestral, opera, and choral music are well represented. We’ve selected two large organizations, two medium-sized, and two boutique groups. They are the ...

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Used T-shirts, medical gauze, old hankies

Whether it’s oil painted on canvas, a photograph printed on paper, or a dance performed on stage, an artist’s medium is chosen because it best suits the message the artist intends to communicate. And for ...

February 7, 2018

Arts Issue Big Screen

Why I joined Rotten Tomatoes

Over a recent weekend, I listened to the audiobook of Patton Oswalt’s memoir Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film. At one point, the actor and comedian recounts a 1996 trip ...

February 7, 2018

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February 7, 2018

San Diego arts nonprofits on the ground

Nonprofits nationwide are nervously waiting to gauge the impact of the recent tax overhaul, which reduces the number of taxpayers who qualify for the charitable deduction by about half and is predicted to slash giving ...

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Chicago is that wonderful town

Damn, it's cold! NYC in late winter

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Sally Mann wanted imagery that looked bruised by history

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