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Between Heaven & Hellnew
It’s an oppressively hot day.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
10-22-2015 |
Culture
Time Slips A Cognew
I’m beginning this piece by chipping away at a giant writer’s block.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
06-23-2015 |
Commentary
Unlocking the Secrets of that Flamenco Musicnew
When I was not yet quite a teenager, I spent a few years studying the classical guitar under Dorothy De Goede. She was a strikingly beautiful woman who had been a student of Andre Segovia.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
04-24-2015 |
Culture
Tags: flamenco
Unlocking the Secrets of that Flamenco Musicnew
Dorothy De Goede was a strikingly beautiful woman who had been a student of Andre Segovia. I was, of course, in love with her even though I was barely a decade old.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
04-22-2015 |
Culture
The Persistent Dreams of the Tunnel Buildersnew
Some of the people seated around the long table in the elegant dark wooded South Pasadena home have been fighting the idea of a five-mile long tunnel nearly 200 feet beneath their feet for decades.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-30-2015 |
Commentary
My Kindle, My Birds & Menew
Lionel Rolfe is the author of a number of books available at Amazon in paperback and ebook form. His titles include a novel, “The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn: A Mostly True Memoir of California Journalism,” and his nonfiction, including “Literary LA,” “The Fat Man on the Left,” “The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather” and “The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey.”
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-11-2015 |
Commentary
Disillusionment at the Ancestral Courtnew
Recently, when the publication of a paperback version of my first book The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey (the book originally came out in hardcover in 1978), I remembered my visit to Brooklyn to meet my Hassidic ancestors.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
12-24-2014 |
Original Work
Are We Really the Smartest Creatures on Earth?new
More than 40 years ago, my then-wife Nigey Lennon and I were on our way home to Echo Park when, suddenly, she said to stop.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
11-18-2014 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Dark Alliancenew
Lionel Rolfe recounts the 1990s when Gary Webb's stories on the CIA and their flooding the streets of Los Angeles with crack cocaine to finance death squads in Nicaragua.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
10-24-2014 |
Movies
Was That A Glacier I Froze Next To?new
A half century or so ago, I took a trip to the top of the Sierra, where I made the acquaintance of the fragile land of delicate meadows and lakes and dramatic ice fields and glaciers just below the jagged peaks that form the spine of the Sierra.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
09-22-2014 |
Travel
Gaza from the Perspective of a Proud Diaspora Jewnew
I have been doing my best not to think too much about Gaza, not only publicly but for myself.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
08-14-2014 |
Commentary
How Meeting Susan Anspach Completed The Circlenew
Goodnight moon.
Goodnight room.
Goodnight Lionel in the room.
—Susan Anspach
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
07-06-2014 |
Commentary
A Scary Apparition From the Desertnew
The other night on MSNBC, Rachael Maddow talked about Col. William P. Gale, the man who created the Posse Comitatus, Christian Identity and Aryan Nation movements.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-27-2014 |
Commentary
Getting Older, Not Always Gracefullynew
Getting older was supposed to be easier than this–more like a wonderful long vacation. But of course, it hasn’t been that way. My wife left me just before I turned 70 and I’m still not getting along with it too well a couple of years later. I don’t have enough on Social Security to survive, so I’m still working part time at my old high-stress journalism job. And becoming something of a lonely and grumpy old man in the process.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-27-2014 |
Commentary
Night Train To Shanghainew
Night Train to Shanghai And Other Memories Of China.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-27-2014 |
Commentary
