Life is strange. Allow me to elaborate.
The author Nathaniel West, a friend of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other luminaries of the word, died in a 1940 car crash when he blew through a California stop sign. He was 37. But before checking out, he wrote one of the great, if too often overlooked, classics of American literature:
The story is simple. The novel’s hero, Tod Hackett, is a gifted young Yale graduate; a painter with a love for the Great Masters. While planning his own masterpiece,
The Burning of Los Angeles, he ends up working as a set designer at a Hollywood studio. What he finds there, circling the dwarf star of Big Screen success like a planet of grasping egos, is a world of artifice, fame junkies, movie wannabes, failed dreams, and scamsters all slowly baking to a pleasant tan under alien palms and a technicolor sun. The results are boredom, frustration, and ultimately violence. Los Angeles, he discovers, was built on a desert, in more ways than one.
Verdi’s
Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s
Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, written especially for this concert. This will be performed between two Brahms viola sonatas which were originally written for clarinet. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
Radically intelligent alien beings create a supercomputer called Deep Thought in Douglas Adamsâ âThe Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy.â Deep Thoughtâs sole purpose is to determine âThe Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.â Deep Thought spends 7 1/2 million years computing and checking the answer.
The answer is 42.
What a coincidence! This month the Scribbler celebrates 42 years of writing this column. Although no one has ever considered The Scribbler column the ultimate answer to anything, let alone everything, so what? Deep Thought doesnât even know the question that â42â supposedly answers.
Welcome to the literary edition of The Scribbler. Local history is taking a vacation because today is â another coincidence! â National Columnistsâ Day. On April 18 each year, columnists look not to the forgettable scribblings of the past but to the dazzling columns to come.
What happens when two young strangers share a seat on a train?
Youâre invited to come along for the ride with âLast Train to Nibroc,â opening this weekend at Grandstreet Theatre, and find out.
âIt chronicles the beautiful story of a young man in uniform who invites himself to sit down with a young lady on a train in 1940, when theyâre both on the way back from life-altering disappointments,â said director Rosie Seitz Ayers.
âLast Train to Nibrocâ opens at Grandstreet Theatre 7:30 Friday, April 16, and runs through Sunday, May 2. It will play on stage for limited-size audiences and will also be streamed.
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“It’s the dream job I’ve always wanted. Working with a bunch of my friends, being able to do the things we’ve always wished we could do. It’s been so much fun bouncing all these ideas off of each other, and inspirations and flavor profiles,” said Mesa. Everyone’s going all hands in, when it comes to new cocktail creations, education, and the service.”
Among the usual suspects line-up of Filipinx dishes and an island smash burger, the Crab Fat fries immediately stood out to me on the menu. The fat is the flavor packed element that allows the dish to command a $17 price tag. If I had to select one thing at Bit House to serve as a representation of the bar’s “Michelin star dive bar” credo, it’d be this.