Archive for January, 2023
About color: It’s a power that ‘directly influences the soul’
Kandinsky wrote the headline above, more or less. When I think of the artist (1866-1944) though, I think of his book “Concerning the Spiritual in Art.” The young Georgia O’Keeffe restlessly awaited the English translation of that book; it finally was published in 1914. Kandinsky writes about color and form and music and literature. His […]
Sharon and Fred Cohanim share family on Larchmont Blvd.
Sharon and Fred Cohanim, the owners of Larchmont Beauty Center, have grown up with the community and with each other. They met in Tehran when she was 17 and he was 19. Sharon was friends with Fred’s sister, and she attended a swimming party at his parents’ house. Sharon said it was love at first […]
Callous bombing of America by autocrats told in film
Downwind (10/10), 93 minutes, NR. I’m devoting my entire column to one film that makes its debut at the Slamdance Film Festival because it is an important film that might not get much exposure. Of all the nonsensical decisions with deadly consequences made by the autocrats in Washington who run our lives, including financing and […]
Girl Scout cookies booth sales to begin Feb. 10
Girl Scout cookies are officially being sold! Online sales started in mid-January and booth sales will begin on Fri., Feb. 10, and continue through Fri., March 10. The newest flavor — a spinoff of the Scout’s trademark Thin Mints — is called the Raspberry Rally. That cookie, with its chocolaty coating, will only be sold […]
Nyakio and David Grieco: a couple that was meant to be
Nyakio and David Grieco are both children of the ’70s from Upstate New York. She was born Nyakio Kamoche to Kenyan immigrants in Buffalo and lived throughout the tri-state area before moving to Oklahoma by the time she was nine. David was born two years earlier to parents of Italian and Irish heritage in Watertown, […]
