savant

He was a media savant who leveraged his views into the algorithms of young people, particularly men, who have been historically reluctant to engage in politics.

To the general public, who did not necessarily understand what he had done, only that it was important, he became, at the age of 37, a full-fledged savant.

He teed up sets from the punky rapper K.Flay and Cypress Hill’s stoner savant B-Real, who embodied the two strains of L.A.’s response now — righteous fury and indefatigable confidence.

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys, has died.

“Oh, Mary!” is the kind of instant sensation that’s all too rare these days, one so undeniable it immediately breaks through the crowd of theater savants to a wider audience of curious patrons.