Mixed Meters

This is a picture of Vasily Radaschevsky. I snapped it by surprise at the Pasadena Farmer's Market. There were two other people in the...

A Los Angeles Sunday Times "Arts and Culture" article gave me pause. It's called Alexy Steele, Classical Underground Impresar...

To the everlasting shame of National Public Radio my interest in offbeat English humor began with their early 1970's broadcasts of the G...

I've been noticing graffiti consisting of whole, correctly spelled English words. Unusual. Click a picture if a larger font size will h...

In my daily "spare moment" I've been reading "A Windfall of Musicians, Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern Califo...

Here are some video links with one thing in common. All involve a piano and none of them involve a cat and all are kind of funny. Well, I ...

I expect this will be my last Wagner(*)-LA Opera-Ring Festival related post. That's because Supervisor Antonovich's now failed reso...

This is a test. This is only a test. This test takes the form of a little 30 Second Spot I wrote last month. Leslie picked the name, Tri...

Here is a resolution to be voted on by the five Los Angeles County Supervisors next Tuesday. It is item 6 on the agenda. Read it here . Or...

This post was inspired by amusing emails I received. But be warned: unless you are now or have ever been an orchestra musician you're p...

Several weeks ago, while Leslie shopped for bizarre flesh-eating plants at the Los Angeles County Arboretum (located in Arcadia which shares...