Monthly Archives: December 2011
Welcome to Miami
Remember when flying used to be a fun adventure, not a fraught stressfest? You would dress up for a trip, hope to get bumped to first class, maybe join the 1000-mile club. Now you just try to pack as many … Continue reading
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Lovely Lita
Lita Ford has had a rough year (D-I-V-O-R-C-E), so it’s great to see her looking so good in this recent interview. I talked to her briefly on the phone today, and she sounded in much better spirits than the last … Continue reading
Filed under Queens of Noise
I Heart Lisbeth
Stieg Larsson silently witnessed a gang rape when he was a teenager, and his intense guilt over his complicity made him a lifelong feminist and anti-racism activist. The Swedish author named his greatest creation in honor of that poor woman. … Continue reading
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“Woolgathering”
Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin wrote a nice piece about the reissue of Patti Smith’s Hanuman book of poems Woolgathering. Of course, I have the original in my Smith collection. She talks about her melancholia during the years … Continue reading
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Pop on Jett
Joan Jett intimidates Iggy Pop. Back in the mid-’70s, when he first encountered the then-Runaway at the Tropicana — the Hollywood motel where they both sometimes lived — “I remember thinking, ‘That’s a real competitor,” he told me in an … Continue reading
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Brad Shoots Joan
Brad Elterman took this stunning shot of Joan Jett, and many others, back in summer of 1977. In the days before stylists and Photoshop made everyone look perfect, not to mention the same, he and other great photographers — Jenny … Continue reading
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An Easy Nutcracker to Relish
The Nutcracker can be a holiday obligation, like fruit cake, politely consumed but scarcely relished. Not in the hands of the San Pedro City Ballet. Artistic directors Cynthia Bradley and Patrick David Bradley stage a show that has the homespun … Continue reading
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