Entertainment & Arts
To design his presidential library, Barack Obama has chosen a pair of New York architects whose cool, precise style in some ways mirrors his own.
June 30, 2016
Real Estate
Actress-model Gretchen Mol and her husband, filmmaker Tod Williams, have sold their home in Venice for $1.91 million, or $215,000 over the asking price of $1.695 million.
Nov. 7, 2016
The 1914 Craftsman in Venice features dark wood floors, crown molding and walls of built-ins.
The art press these days is rife with stories about splashy museum building projects: from the controversial expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (which has devoured a relatively new building by Tod Williams Billie Tsien architects) to the behemoth cinder blob proposed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Oct. 7, 2014
Books
‘Other Resort Cities’ by Tod Goldberg
Dec. 27, 2009
Business
William Becker, the co-founder of Motel 6, the innovative low-budget motel chain launched in Santa Barbara in the early 1960s, has died.
May 12, 2007
LIGHT HOUSE By William Monahan; Riverhead: 224 pp., $21.95 : UNDER THE SKIN By Michel Faber; Harcourt: 312 pp., $23 : FAKE LIAR CHEAT By Tod Goldberg; MTV Books: 178 pp., $11.95 paper
July 23, 2000
Movies
It’s never been easy to adapt a Stephen King novel, since much of what makes them special — like the characters’ rich interior lives — doesn’t translate easily to the big screen.
July 7, 2016
California
Tod D. Brown says the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church mandates major change, such as who holds power.
Jan. 16, 2004
With quirky charm “The Adventures of Sebastian Cole” chronicles the senior year of high school of an upstate New York youth with many telling moments that don’t quite add up to a satisfying whole.
Aug. 6, 1999