where IDEAS has gone before
February 25, 2026
Haruki Murakami, the “black sheep” of Japanese literature, and his surreal tale of Kafka on the Shore.
November 15, 2025
What happens when classical music, personality, and artistic expression intersect?
August 15, 2025
Two authors became the twin poles of literary genius in the 1970s; Didion with her crystalline precision and Babitz with her intoxicating immediacy.
May 19, 2025
Silliness and subversion of a troupe that exposed the absurdity of the institutions and systems around them.
February 23, 2025
Born in London in 1933. Ostracized by his family due to his sexuality. San Francisco, weight-lifting, drugs. IQ near 200, UCLA, neurology, New York. 18 books authored, professor, a genius of case histories. Played by Robin Williams in the movie “Awakenings.” Died of cancer in 2015.
October 14, 2024
A five-course meal matching our desire for imagination and risk.
July 27, 2024
Nobel prize winner, Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner, Professor of English and Poetry at both Yale and Stanford, and Poet Laureate of the United States. Her poetry is autobiographical, touching, sad, romantic, mythological, natural and modern.
May 9, 2024
David Robert Jones. The Man Who Sold The World. Ziggy Stardust. Major Tom. The Man Who Fell To Earth. The Thin White Duke. Pierrot the Sad Clown. Aladdin Sane. Halloween Jack. Button Eyes. The Blind Prophet.
February 8, 2024
Son of a Movie Theater owner and a Dance Teacher. Astrophysicist that held joint faculty positions at MIT in both the Sciences and the Humanities. Atheist who sponsors theater productions of Plays involving the Culture of Science. Endlessly hungry to discover the intersection of where Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality all meet.
November 13, 2023
Surreal. Intimate. Labyrinthian.
41 half-hour episodes spanning 4 seasons over 6 years.
September 8, 2023
An exploration into Moshfegh’s book of short stories entitled Homesick For Another World.
June 29, 2023
The greatest Italian film director of all time.
April 17, 2023
Curious Immersions’ first experimental gathering centered around Lenny Bruce’s How To Talk Dirty and Influence People.