by | Feb 29, 2008 | Culture Music Art
Editorial from the Washington Post Leap Day No thanks to Julius Caesar. Friday, February 29, 2008 THIS EXTRA day of February is part of the legacy bequeathed us by the Romans, along with their contributions in law, engineering, language, arts and letters, and the...
by | Feb 29, 2008 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
by Ben Greenman @ the New Yorker The conservative author, publisher, and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr., has died at the age of eighty-two. This is not primarily a cultural story, and so shouldn’t really be on this blog, but it is in some small way a television...
by | Feb 29, 2008 | Literary News, Los Angeles
From the Los Angeles Times Dutton’s final page After more than 20 years, an author closes the book on his favorite bookstore. By T.C. Boyle In 1985, I was living in Woodland Hills with my wife and two young children, about to publish my fourth book of fiction...
by | Feb 28, 2008 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
By DOUG HARVEY Wednesday, January 9, 2008 – 3:45 pm Some paintings give me diamonds, some paintings, heart attacks Some paintings I give all my bread to, I don’t ever want it back Some paintings give me jewelry, others buy me clothes Some paintings give...
by | Feb 28, 2008 | Culture Music Art
David Byers and agencies (from TimesOnline UK) Boy George, the former Culture Club singer, appeared in court today accused of chaining a Norwegian male escort to the wall of his Shoreditch home. The 46-year-old pop-star and DJ denied assaulting and imprisoning Audun...
