Archive for March, 2008
Alison Saar at LA Louver March 8-April 5
By Tom Teicholz at 9 March, 2008, 10:17 pm
Really interesting sculpture show worth checking out at LA Louver by LA artist Alison Saar.
Alison Saar grew up in LA, in Laurel Canyon, received dual degrees from Scripps in studio art and art history and holds an MFA from Otis. After living in New York from 1982-1995 she moved back to LA where she currently [...]
TITLEPAGE
By Tom Teicholz at 6 March, 2008, 11:35 am
Titlepage.TV, thes website “for people who love books” is up. This is a Daniel Menaker hoted American version of “Apostrophes.” The first installment features Richard Price, Susan Choi, Colin Harrison and Charles Bock.
Whenever anyone, including me, wonders why we don’t have an American version of the famous French TV show where writers come together and [...]
Good & Bad, Real & Fake, Cain & Abel, Jacob & Esau
By Tom Teicholz at 4 March, 2008, 2:31 pm
Lot to discuss:
First the Good: Richard Price’s new novel, “Lush Life” got a rave review From Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. How’d you like to wake uo to this line:
“No one writes better dialogue than Richard Price — not Elmore Leonard, not David Mamet, not even David Chase.
Or how about this?
In [...]
Read More >>BELA HATSCHEK BINOCULARS
By Tom Teicholz at 2 March, 2008, 10:56 pm
Newsflash: I am now the proud owner of a pair of binoculars made by the Bela Hatschek optical company in Budapest, Hungary. Bela Hatschek was my great-grandfather on my mother’s side whom I have mentioned in some of my work, particularly in a Tommywood column “Budapest in LA” which appeared in 2003. As you [...]
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