Prepare for the upcoming release of “On the Life of Linda J. Albertano” from Trauma to High Art: a collection of romantic stories, poems, and provocative prose with Frank Lutz. After years of development, the book will release on Linda’s birthday, April 17, 2024.
Critical Acclaim for Linda J. Albertano
Foreword by Suzanne Lummis
After we’ve noted that Linda J. Albertano thrived in Los Angeles as a force of nature and fount of mischievous intelligence and performative creations; after we’ve remarked upon the ways she seemed always larger than life, as well as––at 6’4” –– taller than most; after we’ve marveled at her triumphant career in the edgiest art despite being silenced, abused and exploited in Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christian foster homes during much of her youth…
We must not omit this. She was funny….
Also…
Laurel Ann Bogen, (Founding Member of Nearly Fatal Women, poet, and author)
S.A. Griffin, poet, actor and Dadaist Supreme
Quentin Ring, Director, Beyond Baroque
Prince Diabate, Kora Master Guinea, West Africa. (Translated from the French by Frank Lutz.)
Anna Homler, poet and performance artist
Taj Mahal, great Blues Artist
Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, leaders in the DaDa art movement
Adam Leipzig, producer, director, stage, and performance art productions
Pre-release book and Poetry Fellowship Celebration
Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Photographer Aldo Mauro
The Love Ache
by Frank Lutz
I can’t take her anywhere anymore.
Not out to eat
at her favorite places, nor to the movies,
nor to the opera,
nor on short trips
like to Santa Barbara,
nor to New York City;
nor to Europe,
nor to Africa,
nor back to Rome ‘
so I can finish
my Vatican project.
I can’t even hold her hand anymore. Before Covid hit
three years ago
we were planning Rome.
Then that plague
infected the world.
But as the world-wide infection
was subsiding,
in April of this year 2022
Linda discovered a lump
in her tummy.
Off to the doctors
and the limits they gave her,
no surgery, no radiation,
only chemotherapy.
And so – she elected not
to suffer incapacitated
Excerpt from “On the Life of Linda J. Albertano”
Life in L.A.
Wine aficionado Frank Lutz interviews Venice Beach Vintner Seth Cripe about the Lola Wine Collection. We learn how Seth built his estate in Napa Valley – part 3
Frank A. Lutz I met Seth Cripe several years ago, when I tasted his extraordinary 2010 Russian River Pinot Noir. Wines made from the pinot noir grape, the grape of Burgundy, France are known to be of a medium-body with a soft and pleasing taste, often with subtle...
Lola Vineyards Seth Cripe with Chapoutier, Mondavi, and Sur Lucero in the Rhone Valley – part 2
“Our property in Calistoga is so great! I’m really proud of it. The thought is to have an old-world wine house as is in the Mosel and parts of France where people can come stay, enjoy the wine country lifestyle, food, as well as be a part of what we do and our philosophy of life and wine at LOLA. And My mom is the perfect hostess.”
Seth Cripe: The Venice Vintner Part 1
ine making is not an easy craft to learn, it’s part science and part art with passion and instinct all combined with hard work. Many great wines come from family businesses that have been making them for generations, but once in a while a bright...