by Lise Funderburg | Jul 21, 2014 | Word Up
Plenty of eye candy and great advice here from Judy Kameon, an LA-based landscape designer who knows from hardscaping and employs a mid-century modern aesthetic in ways that are fresh (rather than fussy). She recently published her first book, Gardens Are for Living,...
by Lise Funderburg | Jan 15, 2014 | What BWO Interviewees Say Now
Age: 43 Residence: Los Angeles Occupation: Set Decorator and Yoga Teacher What is it like to look back on the comments you made 20 years ago? They seem accurate. I don’t regret any of them. I think I was in pain then about my racial identity and I am still in...
by Lise Funderburg | Jan 12, 2014 | Word Up
From today’s interview with photographer Yael Ben-Zion in the Sunday Review section of The New York Times: Q. In what ways is your own marriage an intermarriage? A. The obvious thing would be that I’m Jewish and he’s not. He does not define himself as Christian,...
by Lise Funderburg | Jan 8, 2014 | What BWO Interviewees Say Now
This is a slight twist on the “What They Say Now” update format (my ongoing project to collect 20-year updates from the original Black, White, Other book interviewees, a project prompted by curiosity as well as the recent release of the ebook version, and...
by Lise Funderburg | Dec 19, 2013 | Word Up
Here’s an excerpt from Nya Patrinos’s original 1992 interview in Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity (now available in a 20th anniversary expanded ebook edition): “I really never found a community of people in college. I lived in...
