Tag Archives: creative aging

Experience Talks 3/15: George Chakiris

Tune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Saturdays 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online and now syndicated on … Continue reading →

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Gene Hackman: Actor and Author

“It has now been 10 years since [Gene Hackman] made his last film, 2004’s ‘Welcome to Mooseport.’ So what’s he been doing since we last saw him? Living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife of 23 years, Betsy, and writing … Continue reading →

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Pictures from Recent Menorah Housing Long Beach Art Show

Residents of Menorah Housing Long Beach had a property-wide art exhibit recently, with work created by resident artists, taught by Engage instructor Toni Ivashkov: “The residents have consistently shown up early to class to set up and worked very hard … Continue reading →

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Kathleen Turner On Stage as “Mother Courage”

From NPR: Kathleen Turner has been a film star and stage star, vamp and tramp, comic and deadly. It’s been a long, dramatic arc for Turner, whose voice now is both as warm and furry as whiskey and as hard … Continue reading →

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Reminder: Road Theatre’s Summer Playwright Festival Competition

ATTENTION PLAYWRIGHTS! *** SCRIPTS WANTED! *** Tired of seeing plays where the older characters are either demented, dying, or someone’s problematic parent? Want to see more plays where people over 50 are interesting, creative characters leading busy, productive, fulfilling lives … Continue reading →

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The Last Movie Billboard Painter in Greece

“Mr. [Vasilis] Dimitriou,  78,  has never met a Hollywood star, but he has painted thousands of them. Nearly every week since the age of 15, he has immortalized legends of the screen in dreamlike friezes of love, anger, pride or temptation … Continue reading →

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Author Alexander McCall Smith Interview

Alexander McCall Smith, 65, is “the scholar who wrote the leading (and only) work on criminal law in Botswana, where he lived for a few years setting up the law faculty with the University of Botswana. Nine universities have granted him … Continue reading →

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