Barbara Kraft’s sensitive memoir Anaïs Nin: The Last Days captures the humanity, mortality and essence of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and yet mysterious literary figures, employing sometimes loving...
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Pauline Adamek
LAST DAYS – theater review of “The Convert”
Enjoying its world premier is Danai Gurira’s new play The Convert, commissioned by Center Theatre Group, and now running at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City through May 19, 2012. The Convert is a strikingly...
Review of Gwen Kenneally’s cookbook “Sweet & Savory”
The newest release from savvy indie publishing house, Huqua Press, is a fabulous little cookbook by a seasoned (!) cook, Gwen Kenneally; the Sweet & Savory Cookbook. An LA-based cook, caterer and food writer...
Avengers assemble! Review of the newest comicbook blockbuster movie.
Writer/director Joss Whedon’s take on the Marvel universe – The Avengers – is breaking US box office records this weekend, following smash hit success in international markets. Yet this critic did not love this picture...
Theater review for the LA Weekly – “The Last Day” by Loft Ensemble
Hello readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of The Last Day, an unusual play starring and written by Christina Joy Howard about her father’s involvement in the mass evacuation during the Fall...