It’s depressing how many students start four-year colleges but never finish. Overall, the nationwide graduation rate is about 60%, meaning that six of 10 students who enter college finish within six years. That’s a figure that no one would find acceptable at a public high school. And the figures are substantially worse for black and […]
Blog: Review: The longer you look at Lee Mullican’s ‘Marble Drawings,’ the more — or less — you will see
Each piece starts simply. Using acrylic or oil paint, Mullican has covered each plain sheet of paper with a single color — most often the supersaturated black of outer space, but sometimes deep ocean blue, blazing orange, smoky brown, lovely lavender or dappled gray, which he appears to have applied with the tips of his […]
Blog: Review: The longer you look at Lee Mullican’s ‘Marble Drawings,’ the more — or less — you will see
Each piece starts simply. Using acrylic or oil paint, Mullican has covered each plain sheet of paper with a single color — most often the supersaturated black of outer space, but sometimes deep ocean blue, blazing orange, smoky brown, lovely lavender or dappled gray, which he appears to have applied with the tips of his […]
Blog: Here are the 10 best books I read in 2018
Toscanini’s photographic memory, rigorous musicianship, and charismatic authority from the podium allowed him almost single-handedly to modernize performance standards in Italian opera at the turn of the last century. As Sachs observes, with the goal of placing the music, not social preening, at the forefront of the concert-going experience, he banned encores from the stage, […]
Blog: Flames Break Out At Culver City Motel, One Injured – CBS Los Angeles
CULVER CITY (CBSLA) – One person was injured in a blaze which sparked at a motel in Culver City early Wednesday morning. The fire was reported at 3 a.m. at the Astro Motel, located at 3850 Sepulveda Blvd., according to the Culver Fire Department. Firefighters arrived to find a portion of the motel well-involved in […]
Blog: Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Clippers brace for high-scoring game – UPI News
LOS ANGELES — For anybody who failed to get the bushel of points they were looking for under the tree, the Sacramento Kings and Los Angeles Clippers appear as if they are about to oblige in their post-Christmas clash in Southern California on Wednesday night. The evidence seems to suggest that points, points and more […]