Every Day is Earth Day
If we need one day a year to remind us to treat it with respect, veneration even, so be it. It doesn’t do any harm to celebrate “Earth Day.” But more appropriately every citizen of the planet would be aware of this every day. The Earth is our shared temple. I’ve been getting some flack for […]
Two Poems by Laurie Soriano
Laurie Soriano is unique, in my experience: a lawyer who writes poetry, the literary equivalent of a mythical unicorn. True, the best legal writing can be poetry; parts of the California Code meet that high bar, but practicing lawyers barely ever do. “I have written poetry since I was a child, and I also am a lawyer,” Soriano says in trademark […]
Bullish on Intellectual Property
Can proximity create copyright infringement? Artist Arturo Di Modica claims it can. The creator of the famous bronze “Charging Bull” that has since 1989 been a visual signifier of Wall Street is demanding that the city of New York remove an adjoining sculpture he says distorts the meaning of his work. In March, the statue dubbed “Fearless Girl” was […]
‘Wild’ at Art
(Photos by Paula Parisi) As evenings go, it was a tantalizing mix of paintings and poetry, with a some science thrown in (bonus points!) Definitely worth driving to Torrance for “Margaret Lazzrari – Wild Biology: A Mid-Career Retrospective” at the El Camino College Art Gallery. In fact, I hope to go again before the show […]
Humans: A Look Under the Hood
Over drinks at a cocktail party — mine wine, his water — a physicist I know compared his body to a Ferrari. A vintage Ferrari, I thought, raising an eyebrow as he explained how he puts only the purest of fuel in his tank. Well-conditioned human bodies are often compared to fine-tuned machines. It’s an apt metaphor. We’re carbon-based […]