This is why the Democrats lost. I’m not watching the Grammys, and who cares. Of course I tuned in for the lame opening. I heard it was going to be “I Love L.A.,” but I expected the man himself, Randy Newman, instead of Dawes and a coterie of the half-dead. Either do it right or […]

1 “And what it all comes down to Is that everything’s gonna be fine, fine fine” Nobody walks in L.A. Not that Missing Persons took the stage. Dale and Terry Bozzio have been divorced for eons. But we’re still here. Broken, battered and excoriated. Prior to the fires L.A. was considered a hellhole. But if […]

Are you watching this Hulu show “Paradise”? I take notice of the volume of hype. If a show is reviewed everywhere, that means the producer/distributor has a lot invested in it, and I need to pay a modicum of attention. I usually look at the last paragraph of the review. And maybe the first. Oftentimes […]

Last night I started reading the new Adam Ross book “Playworld.” It’s gotten great reviews, best of the year so far, and I loved his previous novel “Mr. Peanut.” And I was hooked by the very first sentence: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah […]