Archive for July, 2007
Big Fun Under the Big Top
By Tom Teicholz at 26 July, 2007, 2:45 pm
with additional reporting by Natasha Teicholz
When I heard that the circus was coming to town, I couldn’t wait to take my daughter. I’m talking about the Greatest Show on Earth, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, appearing in Orange County until Aug. 5.
I know that Cirque du Soleil has its fans — but I [...]
GOOD AS (Jonathan) GOLD
By Tom Teicholz at 13 July, 2007, 12:53 pm
“The plov is great.”
Jonathan Gold, the LA Weekly’s restaurant critic and the 2007 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, e-mailed me the above about Uzbekistan (the restaurant on La Brea, not the country), where we were planning to meet.
He assumed, of course, that I knew what plov is — I didn’t then, but I [...]
Conversations with David Mamet and Nathan Englander
By Tom Teicholz at 11 July, 2007, 2:31 pm
Conversations with David Mamet and Nathan Englander:
DAVID MAMET
As part of the Nextbook Festival of ideas, held at UCLA on April 22nd, I interviewed Pulitzer prize winning playwright, screenwriter, novelist and essayist David Mamet. Nextbook had chosen the title of “Make Believe Jews” for our conversation and I took that to mean a conversation about [...]
Conversation with Nathan Englander
By Tom Teicholz at 11 July, 2007, 2:29 pm
NATHAN ENGLANDER
About a month later, on May 21, 2007, I found myself on the stage of the Mark Taper auditorium at the Los Angeles Central Public Library, as part of the ALOUD series, in conversation with Nathan Englander whose new novel, “The Ministry of Special Cases” (Knopf) had recently been published. Englander is also the [...]