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If you have yet to discover Amanda Palmer, prepare to be mesmerized. She’s got a critically acclaimed new album, Theatre is Evil, with an über-cool …

by John Wilmderding Acquavella Gallerieswww.acquavellagalleries.com Rizolli International Publicationswww.rizzoliusa.com “In a career of almost unparalleled longevity and qualitative consistency, he has gained a much-admired seniority among …

John F. Blair, Publisherwww.blairpub.com In her account of the surreal experience of reporting on the all-but-complete destruction of her hometown of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, …

www.aefonner.com From “Preface” The thing about poetry is that it is very personal. I think a poet is suddenly inspired and locks him—or herself off …

FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks Photography by Greg Gorman Grafiche Damiani www.laeyeworks.com/framed For 30 years, photographer Greg Gorman has made an artful, hip spectacle of …

Grand Central Publishingwww.hatchettebookgroup.com A gentleman answers the phone.  “Hello?” “Hi, can I please speak with Pam Grier?” “Just a minute.” Strains of opera music can …

The Astaires: Fred & AdeleBy Kathleen Riley Oxford University Presswww.oup.com The shows written for the Astaires’ singular talents changed the very shape of the American …

On a sunny L.A. day in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland was driving up Laurel Canyon Boulevard when he saw something he, and …

Tired of California examines the efforts of the Beach Boys to reinvent themselves in the early 1970s as they recorded their critically acclaimed Holland album. …

Author, Aaron James, begs to differ with Jean-Paul Sartre, who once declared waterskiing to be “the ideal limit of aquatic sports.” Penguin Random Housepenguinrandomhouse.com Shelf …