Johnny Taylor’s paintings reiterate a lifetime of travel and study, meditation and movement. There is a Japanese aesthetic, a classical Chinese modality, and an overlay of pure nature, such as suffuses both Japan and his home base in Vancouver, British Columbia. His latest body of work also shows a graphic quality, born of Taylor’s recent […]
Month: July 2018
Which Students for Whom?
A new thing under the sun was reported yesterday on the AP and in the Daily News. Eight California students—all of them presumably under 18, since their guardians were also named in the action—filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming that specific state laws violate their constitutional right to a quality education by keeping […]
Blowing That Whistle
We just received a notice for a webinar touting a tutorial from a couple of largish New York law firms—Morvillo, Abramovitz, Grand Iason Anello & Bohrer PC and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP plus an assistant counsel from Merck & Co. This March 28 event offers “answers and advice on the best way […]
Who Is Dense?
Ask just about any Angelino or Manhattanite which city is the densest. No argument; both would agree. New York is the concentrated world-capital city of soaring residential towers and abounding cement. Los Angeles is a suburbanoid, far-ranging sprawl of homes and trees. Guess what, both are wrong. An interesting piece on changing urban density by […]
Lawyers Philharmonic Lights Up Law Library
The worn yet ornate spines of tomes such as “Statues, Amendments and Codes,” and “California Appellate Reports” looked out upon a formal and happy crowd of lawyer and jurist music lovers at the Los Angeles Law Library Monday night. It was the third anniversary of that singular local institution, the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic, celebrating […]
Attorney Paul F. Cohen Practices Law, Sings While Drumming
Los Angeles sole practitioner Paul F. Cohen is on a one-man mission to prove that he can do it all. He is an accomplished drummer, who has played with some of the best jazz musicians of all time, including Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans and Archie Schepp, and continued playing through the years while maintaining an […]
Yaroslavsky Appoints Retired Judge Lourdes Baird as Second Member of Special Jails Panel
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has appointed former U.S. District Judge Lourdes G. Baird to the county’s newly created five-member Commission on Jail Violence. “Judge Baird is a person of impeccable integrity, wisdom and independence,” Yaroslavsky said in a statement. “As this region’s top federal prosecutor and one of the most respected federal judges […]
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Waiting for the World
LAST WEEKEND, WHILE THE OP-ED BATTLE DRUMS beat ever louder, George W. Bush finally called the United Nations chicken for not endorsing his war plans against Iraq. Naturally, I took refuge among the World Federalists, whose local chapter was meeting at the local center of the Ba’hai faith — itself as internationalist a religion as […]
The Otani Affair
Here‘s a friendly hint for LAPD-chief candidates John Timoney and Bill Bratton. Assuming you really do want the highest-paying job in Los Angeles, it’s bad taste to be caught staying at the state‘s most notorious anti-union hotel. Let alone being followed there and interviewed by L.A. Times reporters. I mean, no elected official in the […]