If you can't stand the heat...

What you need in the desert on the hottest day of the year during a stay-home pandemic is not a power outage.

Fired up

Smoky air + plus southeast winds = a brilliant desert sunset

Talk to me

One enemy of social justice is our inability to discuss race with each other.

'The Present'...and the fuzzy future of L.A. theater

The essence of theater is that we leave home and enter that intersection between live performers and live spectators -- in a public, physical locale. How is that going to happen until most audience members and artists are vaccinated?

The sea is dying, the art lives

Creative communities thrive hard by the moribund Salton Sea.

The company of one

1 might be the loneliest number, but also the most salubrious.

Closing the social distance

A holiday celebration for everybody who loves corned beef.