Archive for July, 2023
Kasimoff harpsichord in performance on August 31
A harpsichord from the Kasimoff-Blüthner Piano Company on Larchmont Boulevard will be played at a concert at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel on Thurs., Aug. 31, at 8 p.m. The L’Ermitage Foundation is hosting the event. The 1963 Neupert harpsichord was imported by Helga Kasimoff and her late husband. “We think it’s the most recorded, […]
Hospital to rise at former Olympia site
UCLA to open mental health facility Construction is underway for a new neuropsychiatric hospital at the site of the former Olympia Medical Center at 5900 Olympic Blvd., which closed in 2021. The new Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA in Mid-Wilshire will replace and expand the one in Westwood. The 175,000-square-foot new hospital […]
Lynn Baran McCarthy is a local fundraiser extraordinaire
The granddaughter of Croatian immigrants, Lynn Baran McCarthy grew up in Palos Verdes, but she has lived in the Larchmont area for the past 25 years with her husband Ted (Theodore) Leary, Jr. McCarthy attended USC and then transferred to the Rhode Island School of Design. She has a degree in interior architecture. Coming back […]
An inconvenient truth at the on-pause Mark Taper Forum
“How did you go bankrupt?” Hemingway wrote that — although the quote is sometimes attributed to Fitzgerald — the answer was: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Theaters fail the same way. As reported in the Los Angeles Times (6/20/23) and elsewhere, the Mark Taper Forum is “pausing” production due to financial difficulties. The Taper’s executives […]
