scholar, translator and writer
Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.
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LA Observed
The decline of Sunset Magazine It’s been a western staple for more than a century. But the situation is reportedly pretty dire over at Sunset Magazine. The perennial publication of life in the west has fallen on hard times with dwindling ad sales and corresponding cash shortages. Will new ownership turn things around, or drive the magazine out of business?
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For holiday TV, business is booming Despite what they'd have you believe on Fox News, when it comes to television, there's no war on Christmas. Rather, it's the war for Christmas--everyone wants a piece.
Martini Shot
My Friend’s Place This is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I talk about impossible it is for some people to remember that they have enough stuff, enough of everything. And by some people I mean, me. But maybe not just me.
Art Talk
Bridget Riley and Lee Mullican and the ‘60s A catchy name gives traction to an art movement: Abstraction Expressionism (AbX), Pop Art, or Op Art, short for “optical art One of the artists most associated with the latter was the English painter Bridget Riley, born in 1931, who was catapulted to success in the early 1960s.