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• Posted A Welcome Addition to Manhattan Beach: Mr. Cecil's California Ribs to LAist
  Who is Selig? The young European immigrant was called Seelegs (Sea Legs?), Felix, Skeezix, and Cecil by fellow studio employees who had difficulty pronouncing or remembering Selig Burrows’ name. Later showing respect for his increasing age and position he became ‘Mr. Cecil’. That name graces his producer/director son’s Rib joints. The third and latest is a very welcome addition to Manhattan Beach, especially the night scene. Open until 2am Thurs-Sat, Cecil’s gives the bar...
• Posted A Vision of Empowerment & an 'Exit from Homelessness' for L.A. Families to LAist
  A recent article in the Los Angeles Times claims that the rate of homelessness in L.A. County has dropped 38% since 2007. Despite the somewhat promising numbers, Los Angeles continues to sustain the largest homeless population in the United States, along with the unfortunate status as “homelessness capital” of the country. In the face of this dire situation stands a robust little warrior, the two-year-old non-profit organization Imagine LA, whose central idea is to match each of the 8,000 homeless families in Los Angeles with one of its 8,000 faith communities.
• Posted What Would Don Draper Tweet?: Ad Man Integrates Social Media Into Coursework to LAist
  If “Mad Men” has taught us anything, it’s that advertising is all about the client and the product. But a “Mad Man” for the technology age urges ad firms to put the Don Draper era behind them and consider the consumer in a new manner: through the lens and the interactive venue of today’s social media tools.
• Posted James Ellroy in the Spotlight at Zócalo Tonight to LAist
  If he does say so himself, LA’s own iconic chronicler of 20th century American crime James Ellroy has just published his “ultimate masterpiece." Following American Tabloid (1995) and The Cold Six Thousand (2001), Blood’s a Rover completes Ellroy’s “Underworld USA” trilogy of novels exploring the dark side of the dark side of our country’s political madness circa 1958-1972.
• Posted Review: Dexter Dalwood at Gagosian Gallery to LAist
  In his new series of paintings, Endless Night, on display at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills through November 7th, British artist Dexter Dalwood continues to draw from celebrity and pop culture in his depiction of famous suicides and deaths, both from reality and fiction. With less detail and looser bush work than found in works like Kurt Cobain’s Greenhouse or the Ophelia-referencing Sunny Von Bulow, the paintings included in Endless Night tend towards larger fields of color, flat perspectives and some cartoonish detailing in the vein of Philip Guston.