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The best dance clubs in LA, every night of the week 27 Mar 2013 | 11:03 am
(I have fallen so far behind on posting news of my recent publications! So, I am trying to play catch-up starting right now…) With the warming temperatures of spring and arrival of daylight savings ti...
A Story in Black & White 2 Oct 2012 | 02:09 am
Today I’m celebrating the life of two people I never met but have come to know and admire intimately: my cousin Shirley Greenblatt and her husband Collins “Pat” Patterson. 60 years ago, in 1952, they ...
Urban ballroom blends refinement and soul 8 Jul 2012 | 01:02 am
What do you get when you mix the dance steps of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with the beat of Motown and contemporary R&B? Urban ballroom! This dance, which came out of Detroit in the 1970s, combine...
Revisiting the Golden Age of Hollywood 1 Jun 2012 | 09:59 am
Before TMZ and Perez Hilton, there was a time when the stars shone more brightly in Hollywood. Glamour, not gossip, was the order of the day in Hollywood’s Golden Era (roughly from the late 1920s to e...
A Canine Coup 28 Apr 2012 | 07:01 pm
In Los Angeles, a town smitten with dogs, the four-legged friends are enjoying ever-expanding privileges. In addition to doggie yoga classes, doggie spas, doggie bakeries, and doggie birthday parties,...
The Purple Passport to Los Angeles eBook 1 Apr 2012 | 04:17 pm
I’m one of the writers/editors for The Purple Passport to Los Angeles, a new eBook guide to my home port of LA. It’s organized by neighborhood to help readers get oriented in the LA sprawl and include...
Los Angeles flamenco emerges from the fringes 1 Apr 2012 | 03:22 pm
“Flamenco is a fragile art. It exists on the verges of society, just as the Gypsies once existed in the same way.” So opens the recently completed documentary “Kumpania” by Katina Dunn, a story of the...
The Floor at King King in Hollywood 21 Mar 2012 | 07:27 pm
I have always loved the scene in the film Dirty Dancing where Baby bursts into the staff dance party at Kellermen’s carrying a watermelon. She gets a glimpse of how the professionals who teach dance b...
Clean Plates Los Angeles 3 Feb 2012 | 05:51 pm
I’m among the restaurant reviewers who contributed to the new Clean Plates Los Angeles: A Guide To the Healthiest, Tastiest, and Most Sustainable Restaurants for Vegetarians and Carnivores. The guide ...
The Purple Passport to Palm Beach eBook 30 Jan 2012 | 01:50 pm
It’s the high life at sea level…The Purple Passport has launched its eBook guide The Purple Passport to Palm Beach! I’m one of the writers/editors for this comprehensive guide to the South Florida pla...
