BOOKS
February 11, 2007 | Tara Ison, Tara Ison is the author of the novels "A Child Out of Alcatraz" and the forthcoming "The List."
HERE'S a story for you: "A group of ten young people over the course of ten days" comes together "in a luxurious retreat from the horrors" of their chaotic society. They discuss "everyday concerns, and uneasiness about, on the one hand, money, and on the other hand, God." This narrative offers "celebrity named characters in several stories....
FOOD
July 19, 2006 | Amy Scattergood, Special to The Times
WE all have them, lurking in the forgotten recesses of our kitchens: old racks of even older spices. Unused herbs, overlooked seeds, bottles of colored dust, labels faded. But read Ana Sortun's debut cookbook, "Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean," and those aromatic treasures will never again languish on your shelves.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 10, 2003 | Chris Pasles, Times Staff Writer
By land and by sea, Jorge Mester and the Pasadena Symphony took the audience on fascinating journeys of the imagination Saturday at Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Peter Schickele's Symphony No. 1, "Songlines," was the journey over land, while Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" launched its series of stories on a great depiction of the sea. Composed in 1995, "Song- lines" is an often wondrous three-movement symphony of ambitious scope.
BOOKS
October 27, 2002 | Salvador Carrasco, Salvador Carrasco is the director and writer of the film "The Other Conquest."
Sara Rosario Gonzalez is a 32-year-old restorer of rare books at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles who unexpectedly finds herself on the verge of a heartbreak, but as Yxta Maya Murray shows in her latest novel, "The Conquest," the human yearning to overcome loss can sometimes be the inspiration that leads to great art. When Sara's high school sweetheart, Marine Capt.
NEWS
August 29, 2002 | JOSEF WOODARD, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Attaching a "Hollywood Goes Orchestral" tag to Tuesday's concert by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra might be accurate, but it was also misleading. In a program in which Elmer Bernstein's engaging Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra--written for the evening's featured soloist, Christopher Parkening--had its Los Angeles premiere, and a suite from Alex North's "Cleopatra" score had its U.S. premiere, music-for-its-own sake was the thing.