Archive for June, 2008
LIVE MUSIC NOTES
By Tom Teicholz at 30 June, 2008, 10:31 am
Summer is always a great time for seeing live concerts and this summer that seems particularly so, In the last week I caught a number of great shows:
NIKKA COSTA at the EL REY. Great show. Great live performer. An on your feet for the entire show, sweaty audience participation performance. Someone we went with who [...]
Recommended Readings from Yale University Press
By Tom Teicholz at 25 June, 2008, 5:07 pm
In the last week two friends sent me articles of reviews of new publications from Yale University Press that are of note.
Jacob’s legacy: A Genetic view of Jewish History by David A. Goldstein Dan, my Massachusetts hospodar, called my attention to Jerome Groopman’s review “Genes and Identity” in The New Republic of June 25, 2008, [...]
6.24.08: Stuff you should know about….
By Tom Teicholz at 24 June, 2008, 11:40 am
DEANNE STILLMAN @ ALOUD TONIGHTLA CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARYDeanne Stillman, author of the just publishing MUSTANG (Houghton Mifflin) is being interviewed by Samantha Dunn as part of the Aloud Series. CHECK IT OUT!!! Fans of this column have heard me sing Deanne’s praises but she is not only a unique writer but a unique mind and [...]
Read More >>Vladmir and Estragon are Jewish!
By Tom Teicholz at 23 June, 2008, 1:08 pm
My friend Steven Roth drew my attention to an item that he saw in ArtsJournal, that they in turn picked from Sign and Sight (I get sight and sound and missed it), that they in turn picked up from Die Welt that drew up a conversation printed in French — between Valentin Temkine and Pierre [...]
Read More >>Chaplin at the Hammer
By Tom Teicholz at 23 June, 2008, 12:59 pm
I also had the sublime pleasure this weekend of seeing Charlie
Chaplin’s “City Lights” at the Audrey Wilder Theater at the Hammer
Museum.
The film was being shown as part of the LA Film Festival and
was chosen at the express request of honoree, director, writer auteur
Melvin Van Peebles who selected it as one of his favorite films.
It [...]
6.23.08: Thievery at the Bowl
By Tom Teicholz at 23 June, 2008, 12:19 pm
INCREDIBLE NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL: THIEVERY CORPORATION, BEBEL GILBERTO, LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES,
Going to the Hollywood Bowl is one of those authentic incomparable LA experiences — dining under the stars in a box, with firends, listening to great music on a beautiful summer’s night, looking at that iconic Hollywood bowl — it is wonderful.Last night [...]
Germany requests Demjanjuk’s extradition
By Tom Teicholz at 19 June, 2008, 4:08 pm
According to an AP news report that is being carried right now by Alabama’s the Anniston Star, Germany is requesting the extradition of John Demjanjuk and will try him for crimes committed at Sobibor. See the story here.
Read More >>“You kill me” slays me and Caution of “Lust, Caution”
By Tom Teicholz at 19 June, 2008, 11:59 am
Summer seems to be a good time to catch up on videos and cable movies. Here a bunch I recently watched, with very short reviews
“You Kill Me” A John Dahl movie with Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni. I enjoyed this, definitely worth watching, Kingsley is a hit man whose alcoholism gets in the way of [...]
I am also a consultant
By Tom Teicholz at 19 June, 2008, 11:53 am
Having spent a great deal of last year consulting for Fanista.com. I recently signed up with the Gerson Lehman Group as a consultant on media, technology and content.
As part of the GLG groups, I am asked to comment on certain news stories and trends. Asked to comment on the recent story about the LA Times [...]
Tom Rothman on Fox’s Movie Channel
By Tom Teicholz at 18 June, 2008, 12:07 pm
Tom Rothman, the chairman of Fox Filmed Enterainment, has been introducing movies on their cable channel since last year but I’ve only discovered this recently.
Let me start by saying two things: First, is it not enough to receive millions for running a successful movie studio, do you have to take the job away of a [...]