By CHARLES ANDREWS
HAPPY DANG NEW YEAR!
No, seriously. Despite my cynicism over over-the-top New Year’s Eve celebrations expressed in my last NOTEWORTHY column, I am an eternal optimist
By CHARLES ANDREWS
IT’S NEW YEAR’S EVE!
And all the excitement that brings!! Right. OK, here comes the Grinch, but I always thought the huge celebration over a
By CHARLES ANDREWS
I LOVE MOROCCO -- SO WHAT?
CURIOUS CITY has for its last six years out of seven been focused mainly on things Santa Monica. So… I take
By CHARLES ANDREWS
“IT’S A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY”
-- the young American (Canadian?) traveller observed “knowingly” to me as we disembarked from our cab at close to 7 a.
By CHARLES ANDREWS
DISAPPOINTED BUT NOT SURPRISED
That so few showed up at City Hall last week, to protest our City government’s enthusiasm to throw tons more good money
ROCKER GONE SOFT?
I mean, LA Opera’s “Hansel & Gretel” for pete’s sake, the children’s tale, now a holiday staple? And all that other classical stuff?
Well,
By CHARLES ANDREWS
UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES
Of the horrible fires: the Paramount Ranch burned and the old Western town was severely damaged, and besides the loss of an historic, quaint movie
THIS WEEK
Country, jazz, rock, bluegrass, opera, folk, blues, classical, punk and Philip Glass. All in five days, actually. All of it memorable. And that’s why I live here.
WHO’S GONNA TAKE YOU TO CHURCH?
Speaking of Dylan… was I? Oh yes, see the LYRICS OF THE WEEK, below, a slice of his 1965 musically-culturally-politically-literarily brilliant discourse “Subterranean
