by | Jun 10, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The Village Voice “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and Mister Rogers Insist Humanity Can Be Better Than This by LARA ZARUM If your cold, cold heart doesn’t melt at some point during Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred “Mister” Rogers, well, I don’t...
by | Jun 9, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from the LA Times via Bristol Herald Courier One of LA’s oldest community gardens thrived for decades. Then the water wars began By Joe Mozingo For more than 40 years, Italian, Mexican, Croatian, Filipino, Indonesian and Laotian gardeners have built productive...
by | Jun 8, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Preventable Tragedies By Andrew Solomon Anthony Bourdain was almost inconceivably high-functioning; the gap between public triumph and private despair is treacherous. Photograph by Mike Coppola / Getty The pattern of highly accomplished and...
by | Jun 6, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from Real Clear Life Plot Twist: The Strange Story of Douglas Parkhurst He became a hero in the last moment of his life—but did he redeem himself? By Steve Huff It was the first day of June, the unofficial beginning of summer, and a maroon car was careening across a...
by | Jun 5, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from NPR Fashion Designer Kate Spade Found Dead In Apparent Suicide by AMY HELD Kate Spade, the designer who built a billion-dollar brand of luxury handbags and accessories, was found dead in her Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan on Tuesday. She was 55. Bebeto...
by | Jun 4, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from WaPo via SFGate Fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg is ready for her third act Robin Givhan Photo: Photo For The Washington Post By Jesse Dittmar NEW YORK – After more than 45 years in fashion, Diane von Furstenberg has been looking for a graceful exit. She...
