Tom Christie

Photos by Anne Fishbein

King of the Hill

Tom Christie
Thirty years ago this month, Sol Shankman suffered his first angina attack. His doctor told him he’d better get busy, and a neighbor suggested he start walking in Griffith Park, just up the hill from the Los Feliz businessman’s home. So Shankman took to the hills for a hike of......

Más Mexican Media Response

Tom Christie
Since Josh Kun’s cover profile of Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon was published in the Weekly on February 15, it has received unusual attention in the Mexican press: Stories have appeared in Reforma, the largest newspaper in Mexico, as well as the Tijuana weekly Zeta. And this week, the entire......
Photographs by Anothny Hernandez

The Gold Coast

Tom Christie
Anthony Hernandez is known for his lush images of urban landscapes such as the ?L.A. River. He began photographing in black-and-white in the early ’70s, mostly people downtown, and when he experimented with color in Beverly Hills in the ’80s, things did not go so well at first. “Finally, at......

Talking LACE

Tom Christie
Photo by Kevin ScanlonCarol Stakenas is two months into her new job at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions by way of Creative Time, “New York’s most adventurous art presenter,” and the Third Millennium Foundation’s Center for Tolerance Education. She has an MFA in sculpture from Cranbrook, but never saw herself as......
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Scoring the Art Auctions

Tom Christie
Photos by Ty Milford Photography Fund-raising auctions are big business these days, with almost every major arts organization holding one annually. They offer great opportunities for fledgling (and some real) collectors to buy contemporary works of art, and the organizations obviously benefit. But many artists say the auctions mess with......
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Newton's Laws

Tom Christie
Photo courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery Photographer Helmut Newton died January 23 after suffering a heart attack while driving his car from the Chateau Marmont, his regular winter home for many years. He was 83. The following is an edited interview that appeared in the Los Angeles Reader in 1985. . ......
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Best Names in the L.A. White Pages, L–Z

Tom Christie
White Pages, L–Z Fargo La Albita La Baby Fan Labby Rodolfo Labial Darice Laffoon Lubyline Lane Hour Lay Hang Leong B.J. Licht Pearline Logwood Palisoc Lolita Unique Long Fritzie Longalong Seethin Louie Love Love Man Luk A. Lulu Peter Lusty Goldberry Macivor Consorcia Magpile Kum Man Birdie Marsh Astara Mink......

Finding Fante

Tom Christie
John Fante was blind, and he was watching a football game. It was 1979, and I’d come up to his house on Point Dume to interview him about Ask the Dust, his 40-year-old novel that was about to be republished by Black Sparrow Press. He seemed perplexed: “What have you......
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Ashland or Bust

Tom Christie
Photo by Jennifer Reiley I will accept anything in the theater . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home. —Noel Coward The above, posted in a Coward exhibit at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is as good and simple a......
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Introduction

Tom Christie
Passion, I see, is catching. --William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) I ONCE HEARD THE novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare read and then take questions from the audience. A young woman said, "I have a two-part question; the first is, Are you really related to William Shakespeare?" Mr. Shakespeare said that yes,......