On the morning of the Palisades fire, Claudia Gordon quickly accepted that there was only so much she could do to save everything under her watch. She helps manage the Pacific Palisades homes once owned by Thomas Mann and Lion Feuchtwanger, bestselling German writers who moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s as part of … Read more
New imaging from NASA provides a better understanding of the slow, mysterious Palos Verdes landslide. It shows the direction of the earthy movement — west, toward the coast — as well as the velocity, as much as 4 inches per week. The analysis confirms what those of us who grew up on the superficially quiet … Read more
Good homes have good souls, just as beloved movies do. Rick Carter knows both. On Jan. 7, the renowned production designer — for “Jurassic Park,” “Avatar” and more — had just settled in for the night with half an Ambien and his wife, Adele, when a concerned friend called their Paris hotel. A raging wildfire … Read more
What is Thrace? Or, better, where is Thrace? Of all the ancient cultures clustered around the eastern half of the Mediterranean Sea, whether Egypt, Greece, Persia or Rome’s imperial outreaches, Thrace is surely the least well-known. In recent memory, mostly it pops up from “Spartacus,” the 1960 Stanley Kubrick Hollywood epic, and its later television … Read more
