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More by Lionel Rolfe
Between Heaven & Hellnew
It’s an oppressively hot day.
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Lionel Rolfe |
10-22-2015 |
Culture
Time Slips A Cognew
I’m beginning this piece by chipping away at a giant writer’s block.
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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.
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Lionel Rolfe |
04-24-2015 |
Culture
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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.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-24-2014 |
Original Work
An Elusive Utopia By The Seanew
The traditional happening places for the arts in Los Angeles are two–and it’s been this way since the ’20s and earlier. One is Echo Park near downtown and the other is Venice by the sea. But Venice has captured more of the romance, perhaps because its history has been rich and porous enough there’s this terrible tendency to want to sum it all up, to say what exactly it means.
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Lionel Rolfe |
08-01-2013 |
Nonfiction
Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundariesnew
Global warming is but one of nine or 10 different ways in which human civilization is threatening to cross boundaries of over-consumption and overuse. These, will undermine the natural foundations on which our civilization is built.
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Paul Rosenberg |
04-22-2013 |
Books
Phyl Van Ammers on the The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohnnew
Phyl Van Ammers recently talked to Lionel Rolfe, the author whose most recent book is, “The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn: A Mostly True Memoir of California Journalism.” It is available on Amazon, both in paper and on Kindle. He will be doing a signing at Skylight Bookstore at 1818 N. Vermont Ave. in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles March 30 at 5 p.m.
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Lionel Rolfe |
01-25-2013 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Personal Odyssey To The Land Down Undernew
Southern California cultural arts thinker and writer Lionel Rolfe reflects on his time in Australia with Kron Nicolas and his wife as he recovers from the emotional strain of divorce.
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Lionel Rolfe |
08-30-2012 |
Original Work
