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ONCE UPON A TIME AT ONONDARKA RIDING SCHOOL...
Once upon a time in 1960, this was the place in the L.A. basin where kids went to learn English horseback riding if one didn't want to deal with that harsh fellow at Flintridge or sit Saddle Seat at...
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ATLANTA NIGHTS, TRIUMPH OF THE SWILL!
Once upon a time a publisher publicly impugned science fiction writers, so a bevy of science fiction writers deigned to embarrass selfsame publisher. Three dozen fantasy and sci fi writers under the...
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BETTY MABRY DAVIS: THEY SAY I"M DIFFERENT. AND HOW!
fair usage from the front cover of Betty Davis debut albumMy take: the world is definitely a better place for the existence of the 2017 documentary...
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PETER BEARD OBITUARY of sorts
For those who doubt bon vivant Beard's sincerity to the cause of saving African wildlife, today's Women's Wear Daily offered this: " For those who doubt bon vivant Beard's sincerity to the cause of...
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REESI ROCCA and MISS JJ in BE THE SUPER HERO YOU, newly published children's...
Be the Super Hero You by Reesi Rocca, a highly positive children's book for all ages is newly available on Amazon, Kindle and paperback. I have photographed and supported Reesi's work over the years...
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I AM QUOTED FOR A FEATURE ON THE FILM 'THE SPARKS BROTHERS' r.e. a chance...
Promotional graphics courtesy of Focus Features I haven't seen The Sparks Brothers, the documentary film directed by our household fave Edgar ("Baby Driver")...
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SANTA BARBARA HORSE SHOW for gaited and other breeds JULY 9, 2021
Cue "I Hope I Get It! God I Hope I Get It!" from "A Chorus Line." Lining up for the final judge's decision at the Santa Barbara gaited horse show at Earl Warren Showgrounds, a National Multi-Breed...
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REST IN PEACE, THE INCOMPARABLE CHARLIE WATTS
The sad news is true: Rolling Stones' drummer Charlie Watts has passed away in London at age 80 after an emergency heart operation. If you want to honor his memory, some of the charities and...
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IT WAS 55 YEARS AGO TODAY: THE BEATLES AT DODGER STADIUM 8.28.66
Yes, it looked this far away. Or more like this far away. Photographer unknownIt was 55 years ago today: The Beatles performed for 45,000 fans at Dodger Stadium, Anaheim, their L.A. area engagement on...
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Rest in peace CHRISTINE McVIE
photos © 1975, 1994 Heather Harris. Rest in peace singer/songwriter/keyboard player/fine artist Christine McVie, nee Perfect. Seen at left in both my photos, a 1975 rehearsal at the Aquarius Theatre...
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Rest in peace DAVID CROSBY
I took this at the Greek Theatre, Hollywood, in 1969, their second ever gig (after Woodstock.) Neil Young was just sitting in, they were still CSN. My six degrees of separation were that someone I knew...
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BENTLEY!
(The whole family minus my horse Janeway depicted herein: my better half Mr. Twister, Gia the Scottish Deerhound, Livia the Borzoi, Bella the Golden Retriever, and yours truly, in our back yard of our...
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BENTLEY 2.0
Mr. Twister posing rakishly and yours truly at the Queen's English British Motorcar and Motorbike show in Woodley Park, San Fernando Valley, L.A., Calif on a commendably beautiful day, 4.23.23 with his...
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DON'T WORRY DARLING ~AND~ LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
\ Don't Worry Darling and Last Night in Soho have been the most intriguing and indisputably visually arresting psychological thrillers of the last several years. Oddly, they're about the same thing,...
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COLLEAGUE LYNN GOLDSMITH WINS PHOTO THEFT CASE VIA THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
Front page of today's Wall Street Journal (5.19.23): photographer extraordinaire Lynn Goldsmith just won her 7 year battle against copyright infringement by the Andy Warhol estate by appealing all the...
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(TARDY) REST IN PEACE JEFF BECK
The world's greatest (most creative, most adept, most influential) hardest rock guitar player Jeff Beck passed away from bacterial meningitis on Jan 11, 2023. This is the first of a series of...
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REST IN PEACE GREGG SUTTON
Gregg Sutton, prolific songwriter to Tom Jones, Dolly Parton, Joe Cocker, Al Green, Joe Bonamassa, Percy Sledge, Billy Ray Cyrus, Nelson and many others as well, plus solo singer/songwriter and...
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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE review
For distraction, I deliberately went movie-going on Valentine's Day to avoid the reality of the recent loss of my soulmate of fifty years. Happily enough, it was the first day release of biofilm "Bob...
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DON'T LOOK DOWN by JAMES Y. WILLIAMSON
Book cover photo above left © Seth Tiven; photo on right of the very last moment of the very last gig ever by Iggy and The Stooges, © Heather Harris. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist and...
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CATCHING FIRE: the story of ANITA PALLENBERG, a take by a lesser mortal, moi
Friends and friends of friends knew Anita Pallenberg, although I never was in her company. In those crowds, I would have been ignored anyway as "non-model...
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2024 FAIRGROUND ATTRACTIONS. ONE COMES TO ME ; ONE WAS LOST FOR 33 YEARS AND...
For once, an hour of happy came to me. A carnival fairground sprang up 2 blocks from my house, with genuine diversity in its themes like a German/Austrian Beer Haus, little green folks from outer...
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REST IN PEACE GIA
Rest in peace Bereton Tanager Gia, Aug. 1, 2014 - May 20, 2024, my beloved Scottish Deerhound who did not survive an episode of cardiac and other systems failures. She was loved by all who ever...
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FRANK ZAPPA DAY 2024, and WHISKY A GO GO 1968
Here's original Mothers of Invention bandmember Ian Underwood in the red shirt, sitting in on keyboards with the Mothers' canon-covering band One Shot Deal, playing "Peaches On Parade" for the Frank...
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REST IN PEACE JOHN MAYALL
Rest in peace John Mayall, a man who made a difference in his art form, music, evangelizing and popularizing American blues first for his native Britain and then the entire world. Also known for the...
View ArticleRARE NOSTALGIC MOMENT
In 1970 Nashville, a local singer whose full name escapes my memory, "Casper, the vocalist boyfriend of Suzanne Donner" praised the vocal artistry of this then unknown singer to me, noting effortless...
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