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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey is a political commentator for the Los Angeles Times. His Top of the Ticket blog is the mostly highly viewed feature on LATIMES.com. David’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and MSNBC.com.
Continue ReadingWe’re very much looking forward to our event with Jane Lynch interviewing Amy Poehler on Sunday, February 12 at The Aero Theatre. Event info here. We featured Lynch in conversation with Adam Scott last October when her memoir, Happy Accidents, came out. Hilarious evening. Here’s the video. The image to the left is the poster…
Continue ReadingWe host Jason Alexander in conversation with Val Zavala of KCET on January 25th, 8pm. Here’s a video of a new series, he’s hosting on Funny or Die called “The Donny Clay Show,” in which he plays a motivational life coach who refuses to judge his clients. Click here for ticket info. The Donny Clay Show…
Continue ReadingHere’s a trailer for the new series on HBO written by David Milch and directed by Michael Mann, starring Dustin Hoffman. We host David Milch on February 1 at Track 16 at Bergamot Station talking about his writing career and the series with Richard Stayton, Editor, Written By magazine. Tickets here.
Continue ReadingWe host David Milch at Track 16 at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica on Wednesday February 1. Tickets and more info here. He’ll be in conversation with Richard Stayton, Editor, Written By magazine. Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues) is creator and writer of HBO’s new series, Luck, which debuts on January 29th and…
Continue ReadingJoin us for a lively discussion about the impact of the modern era of connectedness on our ability to think, create, and participate in the world. An event inspired by Pico Iyer’s recent piece in the New York Times extolling the virtues of peace and quiet. … Iyer has yet to own a cell phone!
Continue ReadingOn Irving’s upcoming novel….“This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny—it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. .. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best.”
—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone and My Own Country
Christopher Buckley is author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir and Thank You For Smoking, which was made into a movie in 2005.
Continue ReadingRenowned political philosopher and Harvard professor, Michael Sandel, re-thinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Quoting Sandel, “Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.”
Continue ReadingRenowned music photographer Henry Diltz has taken photos of rock ‘n’ roll’s most famous stars since the 1960s. His works have graced more than 300 album covers and appeared on the pages of magazines, books and newspapers around the globe.
“I’m the drummer, you’re the photographer, it’s as simple as that.” — Ringo Starr