Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.
December 17, 2022 In this masterpiece of a novel set in the Hollywood of the mid nineteen-fifties, the travails of black-listed screenwriters are deftly juxtaposed
January 15, 2023 I used to be ambitious. As a child encouraged to draw and paint by my parents and grandparents, I assumed that I
Originally written in 2017 I almost never see a film more than once, but I have now seen LA-LA Land twice, and I have to
Originally written in 2017 Recently, having attended a concert devoted to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim at Seattle’s Columbia City Theater, on the occasion
Originally written in 2017 Several years ago, I viewed the classic, 1959 film “Black Orpheus,” for the second time. Although I was only seven years
January 7, 2023 Fifteen years after the “Summer of Love,” I lived briefly in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. The hippie era was decidedly over, but
January 5, 2023 TikTok. Spotify. YouTube. Pandora. Playlists. Sirius XM. Amazon Alexa. How is a newly-minted senior citizen supposed to know where to find today’s
January 5, 2023 We like to speak of senior citizens as a class, but in fact they come in two types: young seniors and old
