The Mob, Vegas, and Tea

Two things that tap into L.A.:

1) Saturday night I went to see a fabulous tap dance performance at UCLA. Basically these ten to twelve dancers make up the best tap dancers in the universe, and they were all here together in L.A. What a wonderful performance, goes to show at 80, you can still be light on your feet and full of energy. Check out dance writer Rachel Levin's keen review of Women in Tap, printed in the L.A. Times this past week. Click here.


2) Sometimes I read articles that just get to the heart of things. Scott Gold's warm writing about Los Angeles neighborhood, Los Feliz, really highlights what is local in this big city, what brings people together. Leaving secret messages inside a chess board table in a restaurant? Doesn't get much sweeter. In his article "An urban conversation in Los Feliz" he begins his writing with: "I am sitting with Stephanie. Three days in a row now we have met. We click together like Legos. Her lips taste like strawberries."

Urban love notes? I dig it. Click here to read the rest.