Golden Globes Highs and Lows
Question: What’s much more fun than debating whether right-wing rhetoric and Sarah Palin campaign posters played a role in the horrific shootings in Tucson? Answer: Pondering Ricky Gervais’ polarizing performance as host of the Golden Globe Awards. Whether you think the British comedian was rude and disrespectful to Hollywood’s elite or simply brought his brand of humor to the historically loose proceedings, Gervais himself is...
Treats at the Suites
The fun and festivities for the Golden Globes as always, started days before the trophies being awarded. First out of the gate, the Roger Neal Style Hollywood Ultimate Beauty Suite at L’Ermitage. Neal and his wife Lynn, veteran organizers of luxury awards events for 15 years, including the vaunted Stuart Weitzman shoe dinners for the Oscars, produced another winning suite that focused on beauty and pampering– along with an open...
Oh, Snap: It’s Photo LA!
From a self-portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe to Julius Shulman’s iconic architectural shots to an image of a young Jackie and John-John walking barefoot on the beach, you’ll find thousands of photographic treasures at the 20th anniversary edition of Photo LA. Taking place at the Santa Monica Civic, the exhibition encompasses works from more than 60 galleries and vendors, including some international exhibitors from Europe and the Far...
A Beautiful Show at the Met
There are just a few days left to see a magnificent show at the Met, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty. The California-born Baldessari is widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art– and is one of the most influential contemporary artists of the last half-century. This show (in the Cantor exhibition hall on the second floor) surveys his career and features 120 works of art, bringing together the full range of his innovative work...
Gangster Truce Called on the Boardwalk
In HBO’s recently concluded first season of “Boardwalk Empire,” the characters and the milieu are haunting, an intermingled stew of real and fictional political and criminal personages– and innocents caught in their web– from a bygone era that still resonate today. If you didn’t know any differently, you could be excused for thinking that what was the second-to-last episode was the season finale, culminating as it did...
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