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violist katie liu rehearses with a string quartet on an outdoor terrace at the colburn school
A New Concert Hall for the Colburn School
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Ada Limón Explores the Language of Love
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adornamented hot sauce bottles, teresa flores
How Poems Inform Teresa Flores’s Work
joan didion illustration, anita kunz
She Explored the Undercurrents of Life
janelle brown
Personal History: Janelle Brown
joan didion, annie leibovitz
Planting a Tree Is Not a Way of Life
bret easton ellis
Personal History: Bret Easton Ellis
ane crabtree
Personal History: Ane Crabtree
anthony perkins and tuesday weld in play it as it lays
The Pervasive Loneliness of ‘Play It As It Lays’
doug aitken
Personal History: Doug Aitken
didion, her husband, john gregory dunne, and their daughter, quintana roo dunne, at their malibu beach house
Growing Up Amid Joan Didion’s Circle in Malibu
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Mapping Joan Didion’s California
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A Joan Didion Primer
a wild boar grazes on a hillside near castro valley, california
California Is Hog Wild
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wild burros roam a residential neighborhood in moreno valley, california, where they graze on front lawns and shrubbery and drink water from sprinklers
Wild Burros Seek Water in the Suburbs
justin richel interprets philip guston’s flatlands as a metaphor for the painter’s career, which was marked by a search for new modes of expression
The Gift of Freedom in Guston’s Flatlands
tupac shakur
Tupac’s Legacy Lives On
kerjon lee of the los angeles county department of public works examines cloud seeding trees, an automatic high output ground seeding system, at the kinneloa facility in pasadena
Can Cloud Seeding Offset Climate Change?
sir francis drake
Sir Francis Drake’s Date with Destiny
lauren esposito, trailblazer
Trailblazer: Lauren Esposito
mona vaughn scott ,seated, the black repertory group’s executive director and artistic director, and her son, sean vaughn scott, the theater company’s development director, are flanked by photos of their parents and grandparents, respectively, the organization’s founders
Berkeley’s Unequal Theaters
william wurster, thomas church, alvar aalto
San Francisco’s Debt to Finland
conductor jessica bejarano founded the san francisco philharmonic, which she aims to fill with accomplished, diverse musicians
Classical Music’s Leading Ladies
victor villaseñor and editor marc jaffe
A Literary Odd Couple
mark twain
When Mark Twain Canceled Bret Harte
alta picks, influencers
Alta Picks: An Influencer’s Guide to Hollywood
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mythic quest
Why I Love This Show: ‘Mythic Quest’
dark illustration
Movies No Longer Allow Us to Hide in the Dark
los angeles filming locations illusr
Tightening the Reins on Runaway Production
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Why I Love This Show: ‘Succession’
veteran development executive amy baer heads landline pictures, a new division of independent studio mrc that is devoted to the over 50 demo
A Middle-Age Rom-Com Boom
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Why I Love This Show: ‘We Are Lady Parts’
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spring 2021 runway shows owed a debt to costume designer ellen mirojnick, who created 7,500 period pieces for the hit netflix series bridgerton
Fashion Gone Streamable
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the magicians
Why I Love This Show: ‘The Magicians’
cinematographers
Three Cinematographers Take the Long View
murals that commemorate toypurina, who led a 1785 rebellion at mission san gabriel arcángel, can be found across los angeles, like this one on a wall along van nuys boulevard in pacoima
Storming the Mission
pierre auguste renoir’s landscape at beaulieu
Renoir Sparks in Me an All-Consuming Urge to Paint
hector arias’s doordash sponsored mural in boyle heights depicts papel picado, perforated paper banners, to celebrate latinx culture
Street Fight
danielle bergstrom, founder of fresnoland, a nonprofit media and policy lab, sees journalism as a direct way to fight for social justice
Fresno on Her Mind