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A Photographer's Quest to Document America's Vanishing Roadside Rest Stops
For the past five years, I've driven all over the country documenting America's rest stops. With drive-thrus and gas stations at nearly every exit, rest areas are losing the fight and are vanishing in...
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Of Suicide & Sublimity
Note: The content of this post may be sensitive for some readers. To understand this session, you should first know this: In July of 2013, I drove to the Walmart Super Center in Sault Ste. Marie, MI...
View Article"The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great," an Unprecedented Exhibition...
Five thousand years of history will be on display as a result of the exhibition, "The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great," which will be inaugurated on December 12th at the Pointe-à-Callière...
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The Loft at Liz's Celebrates the Season With "HWĪT" Opening Friday, December 12!
The month of December brings to mind the holidays... annual parties, family get-togethers, and for many across the country (and abroad) - a change in the weather. Visions of white...snowflakes, sleigh...
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Street Symphony: Showing Up for Underserved Communities
I recently had the opportunity to interview Vijay Gupta, the artistic director and founder of Street Symphony, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating live, free, on-site musical experiences of...
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Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: A Night To Remember
Hello my friends. No, I'm not talking to you, silly young millennials. I am talking to Angelenos who remember the excitement of the opening of The Music Center 50 years ago. Talk about a milestone in...
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2014's Notable Developments in Landscape Architecture
This year there was a cultural shift that saw landscape architecture and its practitioners achieve an unprecedented level of visibility and influence. This year the single most notable development came...
View ArticleSeeing Green (And Yellow and Purple)
The thing I most remember about second grade is the week we spent looking at optical illusions. Staring at pictures of M.C. Escher's impossible staircases, the idea that my eyes could see one thing and...
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A Roving Locus
A CONVERSATION WITH AMY ADLER I first saw Amy Adler's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego many years ago when I was probably still in college. Her "Director" series was being exhibited and...
View ArticleTears and Laughs: 'La Bohème' in SF, History of Comedy (Abridged) in Marin
As the weeks wind down toward the holidays, I'm glad I've been able to have some cultural endeavors amid the shopping and, you know, work. Last week, I left two different performances with two very...
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Post Portraiture
Post Post When something is removed sometimes there can be trace evidence of its presence. The outline on a bare wall where a painting hung for decades, the impression left in a rug where a chair has...
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Slut Shaming is Still a Thing: How Women Are Shifting the Conversation...
Girls and women often feel sexuality is their most prized possession, thanks to the messages they get through pop culture. But when they do own their sexuality, they are shamed for it, putting them in...
View ArticleOn Eve Ensler's OPC (Obsessive Political Correctness)
I traveled to Boston to see Eve Ensler's new play performed at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard. I like her big ideas and her love of words. She did not disappoint. We were asked to think...
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Fountain Gallery Wows Crowd at "Mad About Art"
I recently caught up with my friends from Fountain Gallery at Mad About Art, the Gallery's Annual Art Auction and Benefit, held this year at the Waterfront. More than 400 guests turned out for this...
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The White House Holiday Card and Emily Buchanan's Landscapes
Receiving commissions for things like the White House Holiday card is not something that comes easy. It may appear as if it is selected by chance, or even worse by nepotism, but after talking with...
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Art Basel Miami Supercharged! (Video)
The view down Collins Avenue. The main artery of South Beach. Photo by EMS. It was full throttle at Art Basel this year in Miami. There were Lambos, Red Bull, Cuban expresso, Davidoff cigars,...
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Phillip Glass in Good Company for 'The Etudes' at BAM
When does Phillip Glass ever disappoint?! NEVER! NEVER! He is always genius and always predictably expert in his execution of his very specific style. In 1994 he began composing The Etudes to go on an...
View ArticleContextualizing Approaches to Urbanization
As an architect, the urban condition has always been of particular interest to my work. I am endlessly fascinated by the city as a site of opportunity for innovation. The city forces its residents to...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: Concerning Violence and the Struggle for Freedom
An abstract and concrete interpretation on the essence of violence sets the tone for a new documentary by Göran Hugo Olsson titled Concerning Violence. Olsson expands the notion of violence beyond the...
View ArticleThe New Plutocracy
Many of us are deeply grieved by the recent events surrounding The New Republic, where Chris Hughes, its current publisher, having rejected the magazine's time-honored intellectual purpose in favor of...
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