Abcarian

Is it ever OK to use an ethnic, religious or racial slur in the course of making contemporary art?That depends.Recently, I settled in for Season 2 of “The Bear,” Christopher Storer’s absolutely riveting show about a fictional chef named Carmy Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, who is struggling to turn his late brother’s Chicago sandwich shop into the kind of establishment that befits his talents as a James Beard Award-winning chef. Opinion Columnist Robin Abcarian I adore this show,…

I can’t really understand why former President Trump wanted to keep his deposition sealed in that lawsuit filed against him by author and former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.I mean, it’s not as if all the vile things he said about her under oath were any different from all the vile things he’s been saying about her ever since she accused him in her 2019 memoir, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,” of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room back in the mid-1990s after he asked her to…

As if being considered a “spare” child isn’t insulting enough, here are some other ways Prince Harry describes his family’s view of him in his new memoir: “The shadow.” “The support.” “A nullity.”He saves his venom, though, for the insatiable paparazzi who have made his entire life a hellish game of cat and mouse: They are, he writes, “like ants,” “wild dogs,” “a pack of monsters,” “grotesque people,” “clinically diagnosable sadists.”Given the tension between his subordinate status in the Windsor hierarchy, the family’s…

Since the entire city seems to be dissecting the secret Los Angeles City Hall recordings for expressions of hatred against nearly every demographic group, allow me to chime in.About Armenians.Among the many casual slurs made by several of our city’s high-profile Latino Democratic officials in a secretly recorded conversation about redistricting were a few mild ones directed at a former City Hall staffer and my fellow Armenian American, Areen Ibranossian. A veteran of Los Angeles politics and local campaigns, Ibranossian…