Jonathan Warren
Bio
Honorary Consul of Monaco, Chairman of the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts, 50 years in Vegas, Citizen of the world.
www.jonathanwarren.me
Stories (33/0)
The Path of the Shield
Irwin Molasky hung up the phone, perplexed. Why should a simple land purchase be so mysterious? It was 1963, and land deals were pretty simple in Las Vegas. Seldom were principals out of town, much less out of the Country. But this one was different. And it would be the biggest deal Irwin had done yet.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Wander
Secret owner of the lost ranch at Pine Creek
Three quarters of a mile off the Scenic Loop in Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Area, hikers come across the remains of a structure, which today is not on the map. A concrete basement foundation of a home suddenly appears in a clearing, as the trail meets Pine Creek, in the afternoon shadow of the massive cliffs of Mount Wilson and Bridge Mountain.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Wander
The Final Portrait (part 3)
A true Las Vegas story, told in episodes. Part 3: Artist in the wind Read Part 2 Read Part 1 I realized a footnote had taken prevalence. The nude portrait on the wall of a brothel had held the keys to a mystery spanning five decades. An accepted narrative, one that directed the distribution of the estate of America's richest man, was in question.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Humans
The Bounce
Claude was thirteen. He walked down an empty two lane road, avoiding puddles so that the rain water wouldn't get to his feet, through virtually disintegrated shoes, his only means of transportation. He accompanied his older sister and his mother, on the way back to their very humble home from the local store, on Washington state's rural Kitsap Peninsula. It was summer, 1945.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Families
Liberace and the Famous People Players
Growing up in the Toronto area, Diane Dupuy was a young woman who did not do well academically or socially, during her school years. Ostracized by other kids, she had in fact repeated several grades, only to later find herself herself having trouble keeping a job as a young adult.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Humans
Liberace, Hugh Borde and the steel drum
The steel drum, also simply called "Pan," was developed in the Caribbean island country of Trinidad & Tobago, during World War II. The instrument is fashioned by hand from various forms of sheet metal, with the best having been the empty oil drums that littered the country just after the war.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Beat
From Tivoli Garden to Liberace Steakhouse
Known the ultimate showman of the stage, Liberace had other passions as well. He opened his restaurant in Las Vegas in 1983. It was named in part for the gardens at the Villa d' Este, in Tivoli, Italy, and in part for Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, an amusement park built in 1843. The name combines his love of the grandeur of the land of his Italian heritage, and also the fact that he enjoyed being described as a "one-man Disneyland."
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Feast
Anna Nateece and the Influence of the Liberace Furs
At the height of her career as a fashion and fur designer, a former Royal Couturier of Queen Frederika of Greece and many other notables, Anna Nateece married renowned furrier Ray Le Noble, and arrived in Las Vegas in the early 1970's. Her husband had recognized Anna's incredible talent and style in fashion and fur design, and immediately created the Anna Nateece brand.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Styled
Line Renaud and Liberace
Liberace made his first trip to Europe in 1955. He was in Paris at the behest of Jack Warner, to promote his upcoming film, called "Sincerely Yours." But he was an unknown in France. So Warner asked Line Renaud to introduce Liberace to the press.
By Jonathan Warren3 years ago in Beat
