posted by at 9:32 PM on September 30, 2006 For me, one of the more interesting aspects of urban cycling is the alternate universe "boxxa chocolates" random shit you come across on two wheels that remains otherwise unknown to those traversing town on four wheels. Truly you never know..
. posted by at 8:36 PM on September 30, 2006 "MAJOR CONSTRUCTION BEGINS AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHLAND FRANKLIN" so says my local Neighborhood Council. After months of intermiitent underground work with the occasional lane closure, "major construction" commenced this morning.
Councilman Tom LaBonge advises, "taking alternative streets during...
posted by at 4:12 PM on September 30, 2006 Snapped during a bike-by on Melrose just west of Cahuenga. Just go to the website..
.. posted by at 4:10 PM on September 29, 2006 Jon from Center for Creative Voices in Media just send me an email about a public hearing in Los Angeles held by the FCC.
Since it's Friday and I'm exhausted, here's the email: Next Tuesday, October 3, the FCC will...
posted by at 2:51 PM on September 29, 2006 It's a bit late in the week to be dropping this on folks but late is better than never, right? TONIGHT, in Atwater Village is the first Atwater Movie Night in the Red Car River Park. You can roll into.
.. posted by at 2:08 PM on September 29, 2006 I'm not one to start a post with WTF .
.. but Rep.
Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) wants to turn Santa Rosa Island (part of the Channel Islands) into a hunting preserve ...
for veterans according to the LATimes. Hunter's proposal..
. posted by at 1:40 PM on September 29, 2006 First off a moment of healing silence is in order for IAAL*MAF founder and food-poisoning strickened (and recovering) Sean who apparently ran out of breakfast cereal Wednesday evening and instead opted to enjoy his wife's cooking on the very..
. posted by at 1:34 PM on September 29, 2006 Your hosts Fog Juice Electrical Souvenir Jamboree invite you "to return you to embracing warmth of the earth and the comforting hearth of the Country" as they present an evening of Dancing Lights, Lithely Writhing Beauties (reow), and Illuminated..
. posted by at 1:18 PM on September 29, 2006 Oh baby, in addition to Saturday's Free Museum Day more favorite Los Angeles art museums will provide free admission on Sunday (October 1) as part of the second annual Museum Free For All..
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. posted by at 10:08 AM on September 29, 2006 Oops. I misread the date.
Tomorrow, Saturday September 30th, is Museum Day. From the I-wish-I'd-known-about-this-in-advance department, comes the news that today Saturday September 30th is Museum Day. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, museums all over the country are opening their.
.. posted by at 8:58 AM on September 29, 2006 Just when it seems all's going well -- or at least better -- along comes the news that the Los Angeles basin has climbed back to the top as the nation's smog capital, beating out rivals Houston and the.
.. posted by at 6:54 PM on September 28, 2006 This weekend is the 48th Annual Pasadena Greek Festival.
Even if you are not Greek, you can go. Especially if you are not Greek. There will be Greek food, and Greek products and general Greek fun to be had by.
.. posted by at 4:25 PM on September 28, 2006 Over at LA Voice, Mack contributes a lengthy entry about taking up Officer Deon Joseph on his offer to witness first-hand what it's like to patrol Skid Row:Joseph tells of good street people he's lost over the years: A crackhead.
.. posted by at 3:23 PM on September 28, 2006 Just a heads-up that ArtNight Pasadena is coming up on Friday, October 13.
There are fourteen insitutions participating in this free event...
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posted by at 1:57 PM on September 28, 2006 Should you be so inclined, this Saturday is the long-anticipated Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Election. Saturday - September 30th at Micheltorena Street School (corner of Sunset Micheltorena) 9 am to 5 pm Local politics - where you can actually..
. posted by at 1:50 PM on September 28, 2006 So much email today! I just got another one, informing me that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed SB 1578, a law limiting the number of hours a dog can be chained.
Granted, contextually this is a small issue, but...
posted by at 11:53 AM on September 28, 2006 Los Angeles has another Chicago transplant with Ed Schad who just so happens to have his own blog - I call it ORANGES. I met with Ed last Saturday and he told me that the blog will contain theator and..
. posted by at 11:17 AM on September 28, 2006 Sure, October's days away still, but I just got an email with this nifty schedule of all the horror movies playing around in October, so here goes: Rialto Theatre: The Lost Boys Sat, Oct 7 Nuart Theatre: Stanley Kubrick's The..
. posted by at 9:02 AM on September 28, 2006 Can I just say how excited I am for Life Can Be So Car-Free? This is, "a night of film, live music, interpretive walks, rides and fun celebrating and demonstrating Car-Free transportation choices," happening this SATURDAY, as in the.
.. posted by at 8:00 AM on September 28, 2006 Way too proud to beg, but not to remind you that the inauguvitational ride of the vaunted and revered IAAL•MAF rolls this evening.
The why for, the where from and the what of it and be found previously announced...
posted by at 11:20 PM on September 27, 2006 Tuned into the Channel 7 news at 11 to find this high speed chase already in progress. Apparently it's been going on since about 10PM and they seem to have scrapped all the other news because this chase is..
. posted by at 6:28 PM on September 27, 2006 [hoo BOY does it ever get big when you click it] It's no Burbank, but Monrovia sure can swing it too. Witness this Saturday's Big Event: the 16th Annual Monrovia Hot Rod Custom Car Show.
This event is...
posted by at 1:49 PM on September 27, 2006 This Saturday,WAHA Presents its 16th annual tour of Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in which costumed actors portray five persons, graveside, in one of the City's oldest, most historically significant cemeteries. Living History Tour 2006 Angelus Rosedale Cemetery Saturday, September 30..
. posted by at 10:51 AM on September 27, 2006 It's moments like this yesterday afternoon just south of Los Feliz Village where I'm more amazed by the complexities of the production effort than by whatever the finished product might be (click image to biggify and verify that's the..
. posted by at 8:58 AM on September 27, 2006 I had my first taste of Scoops ice cream parlor on Heliotrope north of Melrose (a couple doors up from the Bicycle Kitchen and across the street from the new Orange 20 bike shop) last night near the conclusion..
. posted by at 7:17 AM on September 27, 2006 I went to the Santa Monica Film Festival last night to see An Inconvenient Truth. It was the very last night of the summer Movies on the Pier, which I think is one of the coolest things about Santa Monica.
...
posted by at 7:26 PM on September 26, 2006 Friday nights are kind of sacred for me and Dan aka, the love of my life. It's the end of the week and we usually start the evening kicking back, enjoying the peace that descends when the stress of the..
. posted by at 4:43 PM on September 26, 2006 After the earlier post about bullies at the Hollywood Bowl, I took some special pleasure in reading this post on Fightin' Mad Mary's blog, The Customer is Always Right: As they were loading your car up onto the tow truck..
. posted by at 2:42 PM on September 26, 2006 A click over to L.A.
Observed has revealed that L.A. Alternative is folding, with this week's issue being its last to hit the newsstands.
I've been a regular reader since first moving to Silver Lake in 2003 and even had...
posted by at 1:10 PM on September 26, 2006 Looks like noted primate expert Jane Gooddall will be at Griffith Park this Saturday. Near the merry-go-round. I am not sure if she will bring any chimpanzees with her, but apparently the event includes "chimp yoga".
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posted by at 11:33 AM on September 26, 2006 I want to like Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, really I do. I came away from last week's debut with some of my skepticism dispelled and actually feeling pretty good about the show's prospects. I was especially drawn to.
.. posted by at 11:27 AM on September 26, 2006 After reading eecue's earlier post, "Yellow Bellied Cabbie" below, I was about to once again call for Los Angeles to have a Taxi Riders Bill of Rights similar to the one in New York.
.. alas, I discovered, we already have.
.. posted by at 10:42 AM on September 26, 2006 I know we've discussed this before, but I've reached my limit.
Went to the Arclight for an advance screening of The Last King of Scotland last night. The movie is really good, and Forest Whitaker should clear mantle space..
. posted by at 10:36 AM on September 26, 2006 I move back to LA over a year and a half ago after living in OC for a year. I never got around to changing my registration, and I've been driving down to Fullerton to vote.
That will all end...
posted by at 10:13 AM on September 26, 2006 The wife and I frequently take Yellow Cabs when we go out for dinner in our neighborhood as we don't drink and drive and she doesn't like to ride her bike while wearing a dress and heels. On Sunday we..
. posted by at 10:11 AM on September 26, 2006 After spending much of my life in small towns and around middle America, I've made a very concerted effort over the last decade to hole myself up in Los Angeles and only leave to go to other cities..
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.. posted by at 9:29 AM on September 26, 2006 Good news, everyone!
You can now bring small containers of liquid toiletries onto airplanes! LA Times article this morning says that up to 3oz containers of liquids such as shampoo, moisturizer, etc. are OK, so long as they are all.
.. posted by at 8:23 AM on September 26, 2006 If anyone misplaced a burning body in Inglewood near Beach and Ivy Avenues this morning, you can relax now, it's been found.
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posted by at 7:25 AM on September 26, 2006 Snapped through the fog during the regular Tuesday morning cyclings of the IAAL•MAF around the water. Like a moth to a flame I was drawn to the never-before-seen light inside the chamber..
.. posted by at 5:35 AM on September 26, 2006 This mock up by Damien Goodmon is (sadly) just that, a mock up and not an actual plan.
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. posted by at 11:59 PM on September 25, 2006 Last Thursday's edition of The LA Times printed its annual local music report, listing five artists "..
. with big-time potential": The sprawling music scene in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop for some pretty impressive music, whether it is..
. posted by at 9:07 PM on September 25, 2006 Unfortunately, my camera is broken, so I'm unable to bring visuals to b.la of this year's Abbot-Kinney Festival, aka "The Ultimate Block Party", in all its glory.
But glory there was. Although, even with a camera, I would still be..
. posted by at 6:10 PM on September 25, 2006 Ever the curious blogger, I asked the staff at the Whitley Heights Starbucks why one of their doors had been boarded up. Their eyes lit up, eager to share the tale.
Here's what I put together: At 5am this morning,...
posted by at 3:11 PM on September 25, 2006 She asked me to go to Inland Invasion with her to see Guns N' Roses. I demurred. "Do you really want to stand in a field all day listening to bands you don't really like, just to see GnR,.
.. posted by at 1:42 PM on September 25, 2006 I went to the Hollywood Bowl last night to see the most awesomeness that is TV on the Radio and Massive Attack.
Concerts aren't really my scene because I don't do well in crowds but I've been trying to do...
posted by at 11:33 AM on September 25, 2006 I hadn't been upright on skates since the '80s, when me and my Walkman would head to the cement schoolyard in Wrigleyville and give the LL Cool J tape a workout. And, no, I never got good at it, okay?.
.. posted by at 10:43 AM on September 25, 2006 I think I've mentioned it before, but it is a good thing that criminals don't spend time practicing their marksmanship skills at the range.
After trying to rob a woman at the highly reputable Mustang Motel in South Los Angeles,...
posted by at 10:21 AM on September 25, 2006 In the Downtown News, Kathleen Nye Flynn fleshes out some more of the story on Richard McDowell's Skid Row street signs...
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. posted by at 7:33 AM on September 25, 2006 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, suggested that Mayor Villaraigosa, a Democrat, should bypass a run for California Governorship in 2008 and instead aim for the White House (source: LA Daily News). Sounds to me like the Republicans.
.. posted by at 4:20 AM on September 25, 2006 Controversial reggae musician Buju Banton (MySpace) was scheduled to perform on October 2nd at Highlands Hollywood, but it has been cancelled (link via Brooklyn Vegan) due to protests: A nightclub has canceled a performance by Buju Banton, a reggae.
.. posted by at 3:13 AM on September 25, 2006 Adultcon 11 (NSFW, previously mentioned here) took place this past weekend at the LA Convention Center, and reaction was mixed.
Erik, 19, was thrilled, summing it up with "Best day ever. =]" Meanwhile, Randy, 36, was disappointed, to say..
. posted by at 2:22 AM on September 25, 2006 This past weekend's UFC 63 (previously mentioned here), at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, was particularly noteworthy, not only because the main event of Matt Hughes vs. B.
J. Penn for the World Welterweight Championship has generated raves as the..
. posted by at 8:00 PM on September 24, 2006 My friend MCME got this great footage of the Furby truck exploding in Downtown LA on the Transformers set today. You can see Furbys flying everywhere!
Eric Richardson took some photos from his place as well. Due to a run-in..
. posted by at 2:15 PM on September 24, 2006 Driving home from errands this afternoon I decided to take side streets. As I approached a corner I saw two extremely cute kids waving a sign that said "Vitamin Water $1.
00" and jumping up and down. I guess this is..
. posted by at 9:54 AM on September 24, 2006 Actually, there are lots of Home Depots on San Fernando. Two that I go to .
.. one is way down by the 5 and 110 by the at Figueroa.
The other is on San Fernando in Glendale (also near the...
posted by at 2:40 PM on September 23, 2006 I can't even remember how far back I've been a Costco member, but it's been a while. Not so long ago that dinosaurs roamed the aisles back when I first signed on, but it was called Price Club way back..
. posted by at 10:24 AM on September 23, 2006 As you've heard by now a 23 year old cyclist named Ilia Parkin was killed by a hit and run driver on Monday which has made those of us who regualrly ride bikes around LA stop and consider a..
. posted by at 12:05 AM on September 23, 2006 After hearing the second of what I thought were gunshots outside of my apartment tonite I ran up to my roof to survey the neighborhood. Just south of Franklin Avenue on El Cerrito Place I spotted a gathering of around.
.. posted by at 5:26 PM on September 22, 2006 We don't get many overcast days here (unless you live by the beach and you have all of June to gloom about).
As much as I love the perpetual sunny weather Los Angeles is known for, I long for foggy...
posted by at 5:15 PM on September 22, 2006 Stressed-out squirrel rescues not withstanding, the last time I found an animal in need of assistance, things didn't go as smoothly as I would have hoped (nor could I have dreamed they'd've gone so wrong). Thankfully all went well this..
. posted by at 4:26 PM on September 22, 2006 MAN dishes on the happenings this month at the Getty, AFdotcom actually writes a non-gossipy piece in their piece on the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center at UCLA, and Positive Ape Index shows how LA's public art..
. posted by at 2:30 PM on September 22, 2006 Hand in hand with Caryn's suggestion for tonight goes the closing reception for Edward Colver's In the Pit, happening Saturday at Caracoloa Gallery..
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.. posted by at 1:58 PM on September 22, 2006 Also opening tonight is Drink Fight Fuck at Angela Hanley.
This show, which wins an abLA "best title" award, features work by Michael Dee, Amy Sarkisian and Mark Alan Taylor...
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posted by at 11:54 AM on September 22, 2006 Anyone who's been to Boyle Heights' landmark El Tepeyac probably has a good idea what's pictured above. For those of you who haven't, it's their $6.65 Hollenbeck burrito.
Though as much a mass-terpiece of savory tastiness as structural engineering,...
posted by at 11:02 AM on September 22, 2006 Without coming off like a total shill I want to point out something we first mentioned back in March when it was launched but I think a lot of people still don't know about. We were making a fuss about..
. posted by at 10:52 AM on September 22, 2006 Los Angeles artist Benjamin Lord has curated a one-night-only video show tonight, September 22 (Friday)..
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. posted by at 10:49 AM on September 22, 2006 From their most recent member e-mail:Website (and Ticket Kiosk) Improvements Coming VERY Soon! In an effort to increase the reliability of our ticketing and ArcLight membership systems and to add some features that our members and guests have requested, we rsquo;re.
.. posted by at 8:59 AM on September 22, 2006 There was no way to take a photo of it, but last night, one of the best displays of integrated media I've ever seen was at Video Games Live, at the Hollywood Bowl.
My understanding is that the Bowl...
posted by at 5:34 PM on September 21, 2006 Color me impressed with the direction the LAPD Blog is going these days. There is a post there today by Officer Deon Joseph who is the lead officer in charge of Skid Row detailing his opinion of the situation..
. posted by at 5:17 PM on September 21, 2006 In my short adventure in Burbank today, every road I encountered was closed or about to be closed, so I've given Burbank a new nickname: city of closed roads. I wasn't necessarily frustrated by the closed roads, it just seemed.
.. posted by at 4:52 PM on September 21, 2006 I met the invisible engine guys at the geek dinner this week.
(More on that in a bit.) When I checked out their videos this morning I found a gem telling the history of the Hollywood sign - well almost..
.. posted by at 2:05 PM on September 21, 2006 There's a lot of stuff I don't eat (or drink) but for some reason when it comes to the County Fair, all bets are off.
It's like Fear Factor for your heart. The thing that might actually get me out..
. posted by at 1:12 PM on September 21, 2006 While the useful class "Get Your Shit Together" takes a semester off to work on some super groovy things to make it better (just you wait), those nice folks at Side Street Projects present the appropriately named new ten-week..
. posted by at 11:29 AM on September 21, 2006 I grabbed these admittedly bad photos of the historically troubled Belmont Learning Center this morning on my camera phone. The never-completed Center has been squatting unfinished at the corner of 1st and Beaudry for some time, casting a pall over.
.. posted by at 11:09 AM on September 21, 2006 Following up on Caryn's earlier post, I spotted this huge Invader piece, featuring an invader displayed on the screen of the classic Macintosh icon, on the front of Beverly Auto Body at the Intersection of Doom (i.
e., Beverly/Virgil/Silverlake)..
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.. posted by at 9:17 AM on September 21, 2006 Outpost of Contemporary Art always has interesting programming and this fall is no exception.
Their recent project series "Fair Trade" began on September 8th with Irene Tsatsos' Fair Exchange...
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posted by at 5:40 AM on September 21, 2006 Last night, I was with a friend who wanted to check out the aforementioned MySpace-sponsored Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan advance screening at the AMC Century City. We arrived at 7:00 PM,..
. posted by at 11:46 PM on September 20, 2006 [More photos here] Earlier today I posted about the vigil being arranged for 23-year-old Ilia Pankin who died Monday after being struck while cycling through the intersection of Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards in Beverly Hills. MAF regulars Sean, Steve,.
.. posted by at 8:58 PM on September 20, 2006 Tomorrow night from 7pm-1am in the Oviatt Penthouse, you can help support the Gallery Row Organization, who are responsible for the vibrant gallery scene in Downtown LA's Historic Core.
Tickets are only $60 and include appetizers and entertainment. It will..
. posted by at 5:11 PM on September 20, 2006 Andrew at Here In Van Nuys comes to the aid of a vigilant robbery victim and tries to chase down the perp in the most exciting blog entry I've read all week. One of my favorite venues, The Shrine.
.. posted by at 3:42 PM on September 20, 2006 Brian Humphrey with the LAFD provided an update on the previously-reported ThinkPad T43 laptop fire (which apparently caused some commotion) in the United Airlines terminal at LAX.
The best part? The last paragraph: As one might imagine, Los Angeles..
. posted by at 12:39 PM on September 20, 2006 Over on his blog, Coop has a breakdown of his favorite hand painted sign in the city, at J J Tire Service, Corner Of Fletcher And La Clede. I've seen this sign countless times myself and always smile.
.. posted by at 11:48 AM on September 20, 2006 Monday evening 23-year-old Ilia Pankin was cycling through the intersection of Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards when he was struck by an SUV whose driver then fled the scene.
Pankin was transported to UCLA Medical Center where he succumbed to...
posted by at 11:40 AM on September 20, 2006 I figured I'd just come clean with that headline and this is blatant self promo. A few weeks ago I did a phone interview with John Linder at the Baltimore Sun for his 'Blography' podcast which is online and..
. posted by at 9:57 AM on September 20, 2006 If you haven't been to MOCA to see the Eva Hesse show tomorrow night during Free Thursdays might be a good time to go as Elisabeth Sussaman, the co-curator of the Eva Hesse Drawing exhibition at MOCA, is giving a..
. posted by at 3:04 AM on September 20, 2006 Adultcon 11 (NSFW, previous Adultcon coverage here, here, and here) is occurring this weekend at the LA Convention Center, and based on the preliminary guest lineup (NSFW) posted thus far, it's unfortunately underwhelming, as the pornstar wattage seems to..
. posted by at 6:34 PM on September 19, 2006 Earlier today, the Hotel Cafe announced the details of their 2006 Hotel Cafe Tour. The nationwide two month tour starts on October 2nd at the House of Blues in West Hollywood and wraps up on November 15th at the.
.. posted by at 5:28 PM on September 19, 2006 A few links from the LAT about that elephant, Ernesto Caivano, gallery reviews of Ruben Ochoa, Tiffany Bozic, Sterling Ruby, and Peter Alexander, and Christopher Knight on Philip Guston.
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.. posted by at 4:17 PM on September 19, 2006 I received two very enlightening responses to Friday's post about the faux street signs in Skid Row.
Bert Green was kind enough to drop me a line both to put me in touch with the artist, Richard McDowell, and to...
posted by at 2:11 PM on September 19, 2006 I just got a phone call from the Marketing Director at the Farmers Market (is there an apostrophe? I don't know!) about my letter of complaint.
He agreed with me that we are customers and can use the tables and...
posted by at 11:22 AM on September 19, 2006 Just yesterday the folks at Metroblogging Bangkok were talking about conspiracy theories racing through the country. Well as you might have heard, some of those weren't just theories and today there was a military coup in Bangkok. Apparently CNN,.
.. posted by at 10:41 AM on September 19, 2006 I'm usually pretty tolerant of the different critters that share my space.
Instead of smashing spiders with a shoe, I diligently catch the them and throw them out the window. I watch as the coyote trots down my steps, I..
. posted by at 10:24 AM on September 19, 2006 On Saturday afternoon I skipped out of the gallery, picked up Lorraine from Bank, and headed over to the open house for the Fellows of Contemporary Art's new office. Located in Chinatown.
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.. posted by at 10:03 AM on September 19, 2006 It must have been a slow news day yesterday, because our local 11pm broadcasts spent an awful lot of time covering bagged spinach's deadly assault on bagged-spinach-eating Americans all across the country.
One station sent a reporter up to Ventura...
posted by at 9:10 AM on September 19, 2006 Am I really the first person to post that TODAY is Talk Like A Pirate Day? I know everyone is caught up in Dodger madness after last night's game, but how could one of the best celebratory days, ever, go..
. posted by at 9:09 AM on September 19, 2006 There has been plenty of discussion here about filming in residential areas and the impact that has on the people who actually live there - some of who are not actually in the entertainment business! In most cases the.
.. posted by at 6:40 AM on September 19, 2006 Once or twice we've tried car services here in LA to pick a friend or family member up from the airport or something like that.
It's always been a problem. They don't show up, they cancel at the last moment,..
. posted by at 5:55 PM on September 18, 2006 On Wednesday night, MySpace is hosting free advance screenings of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan in 25 cities Stateside and worldwide (including Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and Germany, but sadly, not..
. posted by at 5:11 PM on September 18, 2006 abLA writer Valerie reviews Banksy's show: Oddly enough, the elephant in the room that was supposed to represent all the horrible, awful things that no one talks about, turned out to be the only thing people were talking about..
. posted by at 4:33 PM on September 18, 2006 As you know the IAAL/MAF is a ruthless and legendary bike gang that has been terrorizing the streets of LA for months! We have locked down dead scret rides several times a week but out of the goodness of our.
.. posted by at 3:48 PM on September 18, 2006 Tonight, Ray LaMontagne (MySpace) is performing a sold-out show at The Troubadour.
[He was originally scheduled to perform on the same bill with Tristan Prettyman (MySpace) and Guster (MySpace) at The Wiltern LG next Friday, but pulled out and...
posted by at 3:32 PM on September 18, 2006 I took a walk to a hardware store in Koreatown last week and saw this: Has anyone visited the Loud Karaoke Music Zone? Can you get in without a tie on your head? How is this place clearly so awesome.
.. posted by at 12:59 PM on September 18, 2006 Because you don't see enough abandoned couches in your neighborhood and elsewhere in LA (and the country), you can now browse all the abandoned-furniture-loveliness from home or work!
Peggy Archer has created a group blog at wordpress for abandoned couches...
. posted by at 12:42 PM on September 18, 2006 Some shows of note that happened last week but that I didn't blog about until now (apparently I'm in denial that we're already entering the end of September). Exhibitions include the opening of The Broad Art Center, Snake River.
.. posted by at 12:06 PM on September 18, 2006 3000 mile roadtrip compressed into a 4 1/2 minute video.
Kris Reynolds of SkeletonMedia.com taped his entire trip from Portland, Maine to Los Angeles - minus the mandatory stops at Cracker Barrell. ZumaDogg (now writing at Mayor Sam) explains.
.. posted by at 10:59 AM on September 18, 2006 Doc Searls has some amazing photos of the Day Fire that he took mid flight this morning.
The LAFD blog has more info on this fire as you might expect...
. posted by at 1:54 AM on September 18, 2006 This will probably not be the last post about Banksy's much-hyped "Barely Legal" installation this past weekend near Downtown L.A.
, but Tai, the controversial centerpiece, appeared sans paint on Sunday: On Sunday morning, [Animal Services General Manager Ed] Boks...
posted by at 12:51 AM on September 18, 2006 This is so genius I kind of can't believe more people didn't do something like this this weekend. Los Angeles artist and social commentor (yes, other artists do also make artwork with a social edge) Jeff Gillette "banksied" Banksy..
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. posted by at 7:11 PM on September 17, 2006 SoCal Paradox No. 2323: Destructive brushfire smoke mixing with other airborne particulates produce the most beautiful sunsets, like tonight's (click to biggify):.
.. posted by at 12:11 PM on September 17, 2006 Sunset.
These were taken at about 6:50 on Thursday evening while driving west on 3rd. I am amazed at how nice they turned out, considering that I didn't look, just stuck my arm (er, and camera) out the sunroof and..
. posted by at 9:45 AM on September 17, 2006 I went up to Oakland yesterday for a meeting, so I took one of those commuter flights from Burbank (the same plane just goes back and forth to Oakland all day long). It was really great to see Southern California.
.. posted by at 9:19 AM on September 17, 2006 Orange County coffee house chain, Diedrich Coffee is selling out to Starbucks.
They're only selling their retail locations and will remain a coffee wholesaler but the current stores will become Starbucks or close. Almost all locations are in Orange County..
. posted by at 4:30 AM on September 17, 2006 Yesterday, Engadget reported that a ThinkPad (someone named Al, claiming to be its owner, commented in the Engadget thread that it was the T43 model) recently caught fire at LAX in the United Airlines terminal. The scenario sounds like.
.. posted by at 3:25 AM on September 17, 2006 With at least six strip clubs currently operating in Downtown L.
A., the majority of which have been in operation for less than ten years -- Sam's Hof Brau (topless, opened 1/1995), PlayPen (nude, opened 2/1998), Spearmint Rhino (nude, opened..
. posted by at 9:11 PM on September 16, 2006 I had an unpleasant experience at the Farmer's Market one week ago. On Monday I faxed (the only contact method I could find) a letter of complaint.
The postscript to the letter stated that it would be published here. I..
. posted by at 7:31 PM on September 16, 2006 Last night, while I was touring around the city with the TEKDBZ crew in their limo bus that was supposed to take us to SF for a show that ended up being cancelled, I got a private screening of the..
. posted by at 3:47 PM on September 16, 2006 So I'm racing around like an L.A.
chicken with my head cut off, trying to cram a million things in between last weekend's conference in Palm Springs (highly recommend the uberstylish Parker, if you've never been there) and this weekend's...
posted by at 3:05 PM on September 16, 2006 [Did you know that clicking on these photos makes them bigger?] This pillow was a steal (on sale for 8 bucks at Pottery Barn) - but what the dilly-o on all these damn TAGS already??
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. posted by at 2:07 PM on September 16, 2006 Lots of great openings today (Saturday the 16th of September) including a show by one of my favorite artists, Ruby Osorio , at Cherry and Martin (see image). There's also a Gallery Art Crawl in the Los Feliz/Silver Lake.
.. posted by at 11:37 AM on September 16, 2006 I just read over at engadget that LA (and all of California) is going hands-free on January 1, 2008.
Starting that day you you'll need to use some soft of hands-free device when talking on the phone in the car...
. posted by at 10:38 AM on September 16, 2006 On Thursday morning I posted Lucinda Michele's photos from Banksy's Barely Legal and it's been a shitstorm ever since. The comment thread on that post, as well as on the follow up post with the location have been filled.
.. posted by at 10:00 AM on September 16, 2006 [click to embiggen] Or are they doing this wrong?
Doesn't the architect's rendering show the panels in a horizontal array? Because clearly the stuff was applied in a vertical manner. (Camino Nuevo High School, Corner of Beverly and Virgil,.
.. posted by at 12:39 AM on September 16, 2006 It's just past midnight and I just got home from the final performance in our Hollywood Bowl season subscription.
For me, it marks an end of a really hard summer; we had just gone to the Opening Night Gala at...
posted by at 4:46 PM on September 15, 2006 I'm late blogging this but...
Tomorrow morning I am fortunate enough to be participating in another panel discussion at Gallery 825. This time, as part of their ongoing Art Speak series, the panel is about the "Online Artist Community." I'm.
.. posted by at 2:54 PM on September 15, 2006 The colored pylons are back, but I'm really only mentioning it so you can check out the great photo.
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posted by at 2:21 PM on September 15, 2006 Jay Buim of Yeah You Know finagled his way in to the apparently star-studded Banksy preview last night and has some interesting tidbits, including an appearance by Brangelina and video of the live, painted elephant. My observation by far has..
. posted by at 1:29 PM on September 15, 2006 Los Angeles' Fellows of Contemporary Art has a new office in Chinatown where visitors can come to browse through catalogues and view videos that highlight the past 30 years of contemporary art in California..
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. posted by at 12:24 PM on September 15, 2006 First let me say - thank heavens that infernal heat is gone. I mean the weather in the last month was very dumb.
Too hot. OK, that said - we have gone from superhot, to superchill in the course of..
. posted by at 10:42 AM on September 15, 2006 Two art-related discoveries on last night's IAAL/MAF ride: Maybe we should start a pool: What's the next Kent Twitchell piece that gets painted out? As the kids say, YMMV, but I for one found these faux street signs in Skid.
.. posted by at 9:05 AM on September 15, 2006 According to banksy.
co.uk, his exhibition Barely Legal is taking place all this weekend at Hunter Street, which is off Santa Fe, two blocks from the freeway. He doesn't give an exact address but according to this google map Hunter.
.. posted by at 6:28 PM on September 14, 2006 [click/big] HA ha!
Fooled you - JOHNNY RYAN CRASHES and BURNS @ Secret Headquarters Friday September 15th, 8pm-10pm Secret Headquarters is pleased to announce an art opening with the lovely and talented JOHNNY RYAN. Johnny first developed his hilarious..
. posted by at 4:53 PM on September 14, 2006 My friend Ian's sister in law wrote a book called ee Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit and she's giving a talk tomorrow about getting published. Ian sez: "So my sister in law is an aquisitions editor.
.. posted by at 4:10 PM on September 14, 2006 "Dog" The Bounty Hunter was arrested by US Marshalls in Hawaii for essentially jumping bail in Mexico three years ago.
Also booked were Dog's brother and son, also bounty hunters and co-stars on his A E reality show. All are awaiting..
. posted by at 4:07 PM on September 14, 2006 I was meeting a friend for lunch at Town and Country in Silverlake when I noticed a long line of guys waiting to go into a store. I asked around and it turns out they were waiting to buy limited.
.. posted by at 12:34 PM on September 14, 2006 Kim Schoen opens a new exhibition at Bank tonight and more.
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.. posted by at 10:35 AM on September 14, 2006 Following up on Jillian's post below about Bike Commuting, I'm thinking about getting back on the pedals.
I used to bike commute when I lived in NY and DC, but had to give it up because of back and...
posted by at 8:52 AM on September 14, 2006 Thanks to all the people yesterday who emailed me with their new Invader sightings! It has been suggested to me that this might be a re-invasion, meaning that Invader is putting up pieces in the same places where they..
. posted by at 8:03 AM on September 14, 2006 Are you tired of sitting in traffic? Tired of high gas prices?
Tired of breathing the fumes from all that high-priced petroleum? Tired of supporting the car culture? Well, here's your chance to try to learn a different approach to.
.. posted by at 7:45 AM on September 14, 2006 I spoke with someone at the BBC yesterday who mentioned a secret press preview of the Banksy show he was about to attended and I spent the next 4 minutes trying to think of how I could get on.
.. posted by at 10:56 PM on September 13, 2006 Banksy interview is live on LA Weekly's website.
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.. posted by at 6:35 PM on September 13, 2006 As you may have heard, unfortunately there was another school shooting today.
This time it was in Montreal at Dawson College. One of our fellow Metrobloggers, Jay, works at Dawson College and just posted his first hand account of..
. posted by at 6:10 PM on September 13, 2006 LA WEekly on their second biennial and Jeremy Blake, Blogging.la on Banksy, and the LAT on fall arts in LA.
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.. posted by at 4:47 PM on September 13, 2006 Guest writer Kerry Kugelman reviews Stevie Love and Gina Han's sequence exhibition at ANDLAB.
.. This elegant pairing of two like-minded abstract patternists yields a pleasant, though restrained, exhibition.
Stevie Love and Gina Han recent works in acrylic capitalize on...
posted by at 4:08 PM on September 13, 2006 Tonight, MySpace is hosting advance screenings of Jackass Number Two in Chicago, L.A., and Philadelphia.
Locally, it'll be at the Arclight at 6:30 PM (and I would not be surprised if there's already a line, as has been the...
posted by at 3:43 PM on September 13, 2006 Un atardecer Creado por el esmog Que ciudad bella English version is not a translation of the Spanish haiku. Dark buildings stand tall Against pink, orange-hued sky Created by smog Location: Intersection of Soto St. and Marengo St.
just...
posted by at 3:17 PM on September 13, 2006 Patt Morrison just interviewed "The Black Dahlia" novelist James Ellroy and Dahlia expert Larry Harnisch on 89.3 KPCC, and will be available for streaming rebroadcast online shortly. According to Larry's blog, it looks like a rift between him and Ellroy.
.. posted by at 2:38 PM on September 13, 2006 There was a news item today that scientists have declared this an (unexpected) El Nino year which will continue into the early part of 2007.
Of course this happens to be the rainy season in Southern California ...
and could...
posted by at 1:56 PM on September 13, 2006 News on Bansky interview and Invader in Los Angeles...
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posted by at 1:37 PM on September 13, 2006 This Friday is going to be the jam. And by "the jam" I mean "a night of kind of dark, moody, folky tunes played by people who are awesome at Tangier." Are you with me?
Sweet. So the story goes..
. posted by at 1:27 PM on September 13, 2006 Silver Lake Reservoir Community Workshop Reservoir Master Plan Implementation Sat, Sept 16, 2006 3-6pm Marshall High School 3939 Tracy St, Los Angeles, 90027 Sponsored by all the area politicians, City Depts and Silver Lake organizations More info: www.csslr.
org This...
posted by at 11:49 AM on September 13, 2006 LACMA, LACMA, LACMA - despite having a great collection and good exhibitions (when they have exhibitions not Tut's) LACMA seems to have a hard time making an identity for itself...
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posted by at 11:47 AM on September 13, 2006 The fine folks over at losanjealous just made a post that almost made me choke on my shredded wheat. They spent some time on the L.A.
County Coroner Web Site and just wrote about the top 10 things they...
posted by at 11:39 AM on September 13, 2006 Please do not use the back side of my jeep as your toliet. It is most frusterating to step outside, ready to bound off to an adventure only to find your skanky panties wadded up around a pile of your..
. posted by at 2:31 AM on September 13, 2006 Last weekend when I was doing a photo shoot, thousands of swallows filled the sky in Downtown LA. I vaguely remember the same thing happening last year at the end of summer.
As my good camera was in transit to...
posted by at 12:10 AM on September 13, 2006 It isn't a vacation or even premiere passes, but if you're interested in winning a prize pack of Black Dahlia movie goodies check out this post here. Entry deadline is today at noon..
. but with less than ten entries..
. posted by at 2:14 PM on September 12, 2006 The LAPD Blog received a lot of skeptical looks early on from people pointing out that a lot of the content was just their news releases posted in a blog format and with comments. Several people defended it noting that.
.. posted by at 12:48 PM on September 12, 2006 There's a very funny article in the LATimes this morning that's making the blog-rounds about the celbrity boutique Kitson suing US Weekly for NOT mentioning them In an effort to assuage Kitson's ravenous lawyers, I thought it was high time.
.. posted by at 10:04 AM on September 12, 2006 LAFD Blog is offering a caption contest for this choice photo from the Los Feliz Condo Hi-Rise fire earlier this month.
The story behind the photo: A Los Angeles Firefighter is seen safely bringing a motorized scooter to a grateful...
posted by at 7:33 AM on September 12, 2006 In a move that could result in the LAUSD and all California schools needing to replace and pay for new schoolbooks, the State Senate passed a bill today requiring inclusion of the contributions of gays to be included in the...
posted by at 7:23 AM on September 12, 2006 For years I thought this sign too good to be true. Visible mainly off the beaten path from the west bank of the L.A.
River just south of the Glendale Freeway overpass and hanging from a nondescript warehouse at the...
posted by at 5:21 AM on September 12, 2006 Coming back from a guilty-pleasure ice cream stop at the Foster's Freeze in Atwater Village during the previous weekend's heatspell I spotted this remarkable stack amidst the rocky median that splits Fletcher at the onramp to the Glendale Freeway...
. posted by at 9:07 PM on September 11, 2006 The first one I spotted a couple weeks ago hangs spinning in the wind from the intersection of Silver Lake and Glendale boulevards. Today I found this one on Sunset and Maltman in the junction.
They certainly bring a smile...
posted by at 5:51 PM on September 11, 2006 Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Highland Park has been getting some major press. Not only did the September 4th episode ("Snack Food Tech") of Modern Marvels on The History Channel feature the 109 year old store, but today's edition..
. posted by at 4:25 PM on September 11, 2006 Earlier today Dave posted about a Banksy piece at Disney. Apparently he installed a Guantanamo bay inmate inside the Thunder Mountain Railroad ride.
The folks at Wooster Collective have gotten ahold of photos of the installation including the one...
posted by at 3:17 PM on September 11, 2006 I read today on a friend's LiveJournal that Jeannie, who many of us met at the last reader party, died in her sleep on Saturday. I didn't know that anyone from that circle of friends knew her, which made the..
. posted by at 3:00 PM on September 11, 2006 The heat is not news this summer, it's just a worthy adversary. I'm not sitting cool this year in a big corporate office (that's one of the "perks" of being freelance) so I've had to come up with creative ways.
.. posted by at 2:47 PM on September 11, 2006 I'm still buzzing from the craziness of last week and the fantastic opening of the Los Angeles art season.
Our opening on Saturday (see the image) was packed! As I predicted many, many people were out and about seeing..
. posted by at 2:13 PM on September 11, 2006 I caught this running on my street this afternoon in West Hollywood! He was just running down the street carrying a full size American Flag!
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posted by at 12:43 PM on September 11, 2006 Related to my earlier LAX 9/11 ceremony post, abc news also has a listing of memorial events throughout Southern California. Go here for the list..
.. posted by at 11:35 AM on September 11, 2006 If you're near the LAX airport today there will be a ceremony where the "public, airport employees and passengers are invited to form a silent human Circle of Unity around the Theme Building " at noon.
From abc news: A...
posted by at 10:35 AM on September 11, 2006 Banksy is my street art hero. According to this article he erected a life size statue of a Guantanamo inmate on the Rocky Mountain Railroad line. The doll, which I am guessing was a blow up sex doll, was wearing.
.. posted by at 10:27 AM on September 11, 2006 You're probably familiar with the name Machine Project.
They've garnered plenty of reviews and profiles as of late, and for good reason. I've given them their fair share of coverage here too, and their Secret Gallery remains one of my..
. posted by at 10:09 AM on September 11, 2006 Looking at the image below that I made five years ago today, I gotta admit I'm a bit embarrassed by it now -- and I'm a bit ashamed about being embarrassed. But still, the graphic clearly hasn't aged well.
Hell,...
posted by at 9:47 AM on September 11, 2006 Five years ago today I got up early to drive my friend, Loren, to the Long Beach airport for a flight to New York City before heading to work. He came in for a long weekend to see a reading..
. posted by at 2:05 AM on September 11, 2006 In the past, when friends and aspiring musicians have asked me about the local open-mike scene, I've referred them to some online listings (example here) and recommendations to check out McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica (on the last Sunday..
. posted by at 10:50 PM on September 10, 2006 Video Games Live (previously mentioned here) returns (link via Joystiq) on September 21st to the Hollywood Bowl: Video Games Live is heading to the Hollywood Bowl and bringing with them a few pages of sheet music from the Halo..
. posted by at 10:03 PM on September 10, 2006 Can I just say how much I adore the Central Library? I've always loved libraries.
I've always been a bookworm, and I have always loved the idea of being able to acquire knowledge, just by picking up a book. There..
. posted by at 5:30 PM on September 10, 2006 This week Metroblogging Los Angeles will look at other infamous Los Angeles murders that deserve the silver screen treatment. With last Friday's opening of Hollywoodland, about the mystery surrounding the death of George Reeves, and this Friday's release of The.
.. posted by at 12:51 PM on September 10, 2006 [for the love of god only click if you want to see this REALLY BIG] Yeah I did say I wouldn't post any more about Felt Club but they've changed their venue and I feel you have the right.
.. posted by at 12:41 PM on September 10, 2006 [click/make big] Is it just me or does this seem like a long way to go for an obscure dirty joke - this was taken yesterday at Glendale Galleria at the custom embroidery kiosk.
I don't know what type...
posted by at 12:05 AM on September 10, 2006 Manhattan Beach outlaws most skateboarding - "luge" and "destructive" skateboarding are now misdemeanors. Violators could be sentenced to "up to a year in jail and as much as a $2,000 fine". "Destructive skateboarding" is defined as jumping "on or.
.. posted by at 10:07 PM on September 09, 2006 Just a heads up if you're out and about on Sunday that the LA Triathalon is going on.
The Bike portion of the race cuts the widest swath across the city so look sharp for street closings. Copious notes on..
. posted by at 5:18 PM on September 09, 2006 Having participated in nine of the previous ten Midnight Ridazz, I can't say for certain that in its two-plus years of existence there's been a more ambitious one planned than last night's "Swarm The Pier" ride, but I can highly..
. posted by at 1:29 PM on September 09, 2006 This is the scene right this second outside of sixspace in Culver City. We heard sirens a moment ago then some shouting and looked outside to see these two men being detained, presumably arrested, by three Culver City Police.
.. posted by at 8:07 AM on September 09, 2006 Saturday's art openings are plenty.
The receptions below go from Culver City to the 6150 area to Santa Monica and the back eastside to Chinatown and downtown...
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posted by at 11:33 AM on September 08, 2006 Tonight is the monthly Midnight Ridazz and as Will mentioned earlier last month tonights ride is different than previous Ridazz in that rather than one huge group of people making a loop around the city, this tonight will find two...
posted by at 11:02 AM on September 08, 2006 Burning up the tubes this week is seeming bust* of lonelygirl15 - apparently, she's based out CAA. Consternation! Scorn!
This recalls the kerfluffle a few years back about Isabella at She's A Flight Risk, an onliine blog about a...
posted by at 9:47 AM on September 08, 2006 During last night's weekly IAAL•MAF downtowner bike ride we successfully gained access to the Gold Line (first time around, not so much), rode the train to her last stop on the far eastern edge of Pasadena, then cruised south under...
posted by at 9:18 AM on September 08, 2006 There are so many art openings this Friday and Saturday I almost cannot believe it. Let's just say the new art season in Los Angels has officially begun. Get ready to have a good time and prepare for some.
.. posted by at 11:41 PM on September 07, 2006 [clicking makes her titties bigger!
] I still can't stop watching the salsa-music'd idiot-focused* News 13 News - whatever it's called now - and tonight I was thrilled to see that my old pal Lauren Sanchez has finally returned from...
posted by at 5:57 PM on September 07, 2006 I can hear you complainers complaining about this picture already, "What is this? A laptop? C'mon!
We're all bloggers around here! We've seen a million of these things!" Well you haven't seen this one because that, mon amis, is the.
.. posted by at 5:56 PM on September 07, 2006 Finally a break in the heat and a lovely day - but clearing out my camera from just a couple of days ago I am reminded of this, taken in my car in Hollywood at about 2pm on Tuesday.
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posted by at 4:07 PM on September 07, 2006 Did you guys know that Paul Frank is no longer a part of Paul Frank Industries? I sure as hell didn't. According to this Vanity Fair article, Frank the man split from Frank the company last year under hotly debated.
.. posted by at 3:08 PM on September 07, 2006 Last night was the Suicide Girls 5th Anniversary Party at Dragonfly on Santa Monica.
Caryn and I went and met up with Xeni and danah who had already secured a spot at the bar by the time we arrived...
. posted by at 1:51 PM on September 07, 2006 I've been meaning to post about The Gray Kid for a while now and now I'm completely without an excuse. He's playing tomorrow at The HEAR Gallery (2206 Beverly Blvd 2nd Floor) for the release of Daniel Stessen's book, More.
.. posted by at 12:09 PM on September 07, 2006 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has a fleet of Sikorsky SH-3 Sea Kings known as Air Rescue 5.
The Search and Rescue team that I am a part of is the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Cave Rescue Team, and...
posted by at 11:51 AM on September 07, 2006 Looking for a good time this weekend?Perhaps you'd be interested in Carnival Hoedown 3 this Saturday under the 1st St. bridge?
I've written about Party Scammers parties before and with no exception have had a great time at events...
posted by at 9:30 AM on September 07, 2006 Yes, it's a shameless plug, but I never claimed to have any shame so here goes. BRAND RECOGNITION, COOP's new show of paintings and works on paper is opening this Saturday night at sixspace in Culver City. CC is.
.. posted by at 12:10 AM on September 07, 2006 I was pretty excited when I saw that Eric Garcetti posted a new How To/ Neighborhood Improvement feature at his site for dealing with assorted city issues.
.. but then I started to read the contents of what promised to be.
.. posted by at 11:22 PM on September 06, 2006 One of the most surprising things to me about Los Angeles is that there are so many cultural events that are inexpensive, or even free.
Discussions, debates and readings from some of the greatest minds, art galleries and museum exhibitions,...
posted by at 5:41 PM on September 06, 2006 Okay, I'm asking for some help in planning my weekend. My father is coming to town and I've got a few ideas of what to do, but I've only sketched it in. He's visited at least a dozen times, and.
.. posted by at 4:52 PM on September 06, 2006 "Homeless men bathing in the bathroom.
Librarians threatened. Flashers at story time." See what you're missing by not going to a local library?
The Daily News writes about transients abusing their library privileges. Joel at LA's Homeless Blog asks,..
. posted by at 4:14 PM on September 06, 2006 According to Ain't It Cool, The Black Pearl herself, dread scourge of the seas and star of Disney's blockbuster soon-to-be-trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean, has been mooring in Redondo Beach. Or possibly San Pedro.
I'm not very familiar with either...
posted by at 12:54 PM on September 06, 2006 Last November I posted in disgust then-and-now pix of Union Station showing the as-yet-completed residential complex being built on the southeast corner of Alameda and Cesar Chavez basically blotting out the view of one of my favorite architectural and historical...
posted by at 10:27 AM on September 06, 2006 [larger image here] Little fella, there are things you don't need to know and can't understand but I've got to tell. I don't know where you came but you're here in my backyard now. I don't know where your mother.
.. posted by at 6:12 AM on September 06, 2006 When I die, I hope its at a ripe old age.
But short of that, I hope its as quick and gloriously as that of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. Its saddening that a TV personality so loved has been..
. posted by at 10:27 PM on September 05, 2006 There is finally a zombie walk coming to Los Angeles! Soon, the undead shall drag themselves down the streets of Hollywood!
And by "soon", I mean "Saturday, October 7th at 6pm". I've heard of these walks before, of course. There.
.. posted by at 7:41 PM on September 05, 2006 A friend of mine who recently returned from Burning Man had an interesting experience today.
If you're not familiar with Burning Man, participants practice gifting, which is basically giving away various things. Today, back in the big city, the gifting..
. posted by at 5:30 PM on September 05, 2006 Dahlia expert Larry Harnisch has discovered what appears to be a copies of "Black Dahlia Avenger" signed by writer Steve Hodel to James Ellroy available on eBay. Larry's posted his findings at both the 1947Project site and his own personal.
.. posted by at 3:29 PM on September 05, 2006 The best show on television started airing yesterday.
Sort of. Kinda. As in not at all.
The show in question is HBO's The Wire. It makes the Sopranos look like Dynasty, Six Feet Under look like the Cosby Show,..
. posted by at 2:49 PM on September 05, 2006 Fast Food -- by brianwallace..
. posted by at 8:40 AM on September 05, 2006 This week will undoubtedly be all about the new art season here in Los Angeles. I think just about every gallery (plus the Hammer and other museums) in town is having an opening either this Friday or Saturday.
The start...
posted by at 8:36 AM on September 05, 2006 A few updates on the undeclared marketing battle between Hollywoodland and The Black Dahlia...
The LA Times online, as you can see from my page grab, is happy to provide ad space for both "based on a true crime" murder...
posted by at 3:50 PM on September 04, 2006 This Labor Day weekend marks thirteen years that I've been in Los Angeles. I drove out here in 1993 from Old Lyme, CT, barely knowing only one guy, a screenwriter no less, and less than $2000 in savings. I had.
.. posted by at 3:10 PM on September 04, 2006 [click to biggify] Here in Lincoln Park at mile six of the nine-mile walk this morning commemorating the 225th anniversary of the historic journey of Los Pobladores from the San Gabriel Mission to the stretch of land near the L.
A...
. posted by at 2:57 PM on September 04, 2006 Forbes has dropped their Most Wired Cities list and guess who rolls in at #11. That's right, it's Los Angeles.
Now clearly this list was made without coming and looking at my room, cause it is WIRED, but I'll let...
posted by at 2:23 PM on September 04, 2006 I know that it's a big day for Los Angeles, marking a remarkable birthday. But Labor Day is always observed in our house as the anniversary of when we adopted our dog, Beckett. We'd lived in Silverlake for about a.
.. posted by at 1:51 PM on September 04, 2006 Happy Birthday to my city of Angels!
Sometimes, you smell like a monkey, but I love you anyway. And without Los Angeles, how could there be a blogging.la?
Sorry about choosing sleep instead of that nine mile walk I'd promised...
posted by at 4:15 AM on September 04, 2006 On September 23rd, UFC 63, featuring Matt Hughes vs. B.J.
Penn for the World Welterweight Championship, takes place at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim. UFC (previously mentioned here and here)'s last pay-per-view, UFC 62, held on August 26th at..
. posted by at 3:10 AM on September 04, 2006 I'm still undecided on the high-definition DVD formats Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, and the flamewars that have erupted (which Bill Hunt at the L.A.
-based The Digital Bits echoes), with the vitriol of the Mac vs. Windows and the..
. posted by at 8:05 PM on September 03, 2006 [click to biggify] Near the outset of a hike this morning in Topanga State Park from Trippet Ranch to the Parker Mesa Overlook we chanced upon these mule deer snacking in a shaded area that were literally all ears as..
. posted by at 5:47 PM on September 03, 2006 [might help to click/biggify] This weekend we're all doing our part to hydrate our way through the legally mandated barbecues and picnics, and as usual Gelson's is on the cutting edge of new and better products. This time it.
.. posted by at 5:32 PM on September 03, 2006 [click pic to embiggen] Sure it's hot as shit and there's a storm a-brewin' but you can't beat this kind of drama just out your windows, free of charge.
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posted by at 4:33 PM on September 03, 2006 Power was out today in the Outpost and Franklin area of Hollywood from about noon til 4pm. Word was that a neighbor was walking his dog along Outpost and watched as a manhole cover exploded upward followed by a fireball..
.. posted by at 4:27 PM on September 03, 2006 Some of my favorite bands are those that fall under the subgenre of EBM called futurepop.
EBM itself is a hybrid of industrial and electronic; futurepop is EBM with more synthpop and trance. Both genres are in frequent rotation at..
. posted by at 2:27 PM on September 03, 2006 About a month ago, the L.A.
-based The Ditty Bops (MySpace) were 2/3 of the way across America on their summer bicycle tour. Flashforward to last week, when Abby and Amanda finally reached New York with their pedal power and..
. posted by at 1:25 PM on September 03, 2006 On the June 12th episode of The Howard Stern Show, while Christa Miller was on the phone on Mandy Moore's behalf to address Moore's relationship with Wilmer Valderrama, Artie Lange (previously mentioned here and here) talked about his intervention..
. posted by at 8:23 PM on September 02, 2006 Two weeks ago, I had the chance to speak with newly-transplanted L.A.
resident Trent Vanegas (MySpace), who runs the celebrity gossip-oriented Pink is the New Blog (previously mentioned here, here, here, and here), at The Echo. For some reason,..
. posted by at 5:45 PM on September 02, 2006 I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in a lot of things, and I believe that there are more strange things in this world than meets the eye - but I do not believe in spooks.
However, if I...
posted by at 4:06 PM on September 02, 2006 On August 3rd, "Fuck The Back Row! A Night of Short Films and Dadaist Vaudeville" (mentioned previously here) took place at Cinespace. Hosted by the L.
A.-based Prince Poppycock, the event featured a screening of short films as well as..
. posted by at 1:30 PM on September 02, 2006 Last year I wrote about an incredibly stupid gun law that was about to pass in CA. This bill, called AB 352 was introduced by West Hollywood's Assemblymember Paul Koretz and was easily one of the stupidest proposals I'd ever.
.. posted by at 1:26 PM on September 02, 2006 This is literally the calm before the storm - two openings I'm recommending this weekend in preparation for the onslaught of shows opening next Friday and Saturday.
Make no mistake, today marks the first day of the new art...
posted by at 8:16 AM on September 02, 2006 The house across the street is being gutted and rehabbed. It started in the spring, I think the end of March. It needed a lot of work, from the foundation to the roof and everything in between.
This has been...
posted by at 12:06 AM on September 02, 2006 On August 12th, the L.A.-based Hello Stranger (fka Vagenius, MySpace), mentioned previously here, here, and here, threw a record release party at Safari Sam's.
The other artists on the bill included The Overnight Lows (MySpace), Los Super Elegantes (MySpace),...
posted by at 6:32 PM on September 01, 2006 I saw this on the television while I waited at the bank this afternoon but the sound was off (isn't that useful) so I had no idea what was going on except this little boy with red hair was...
posted by at 6:17 PM on September 01, 2006 On August 19th, Kaki King (MySpace) performed at MOCA's (MySpace) summer-long Night Vision: MOCA After Dark event. Wikipedia describes the guitarist as such: Her style combines fret-tapping with slap bass techniques, creating a very percussive and complex sound. She.
.. posted by at 6:16 PM on September 01, 2006 There are few things I find more fascintating and cooler than sharks.
Make that a Great White Shark, and forget about! Issues of captivity vs. research aside - I feel that this actually promotes more understanding about these creatures.
.. posted by at 5:59 PM on September 01, 2006 You may be seeing black smoke in the sky around Los Feliz and Hillhurst.
This is why: I stumbled over the whole thing as I drove home from work and snapped a few photos with my, admittedly low-quality, phone. The..
. posted by at 5:56 PM on September 01, 2006 If you're still in town and need something to do, how about stopping by the LA Bloggers Garage Sale. At the moment you'll find weird crap from Carly Milne, Calpernia, lyregal, coreyspears, jason'sroom, michael, popbytes, william, danrenzi and peggy (I.
.. posted by at 5:27 PM on September 01, 2006 A severe drop in gas prices all around, I'm happy to say, and this at my Secret Cheap Gas Station at Beverly and St Andrews.
Regular is even nearly almost not three dollars! (And needless to say I fully..
. posted by at 3:54 PM on September 01, 2006 If you haven't gotten hip to Karie Bible's Film Radar, you probably don't want to know what great movies and film events you've been missing. Film Radar can be best summed as whats fallen off the radar of Moviefone and.
.. posted by at 3:21 PM on September 01, 2006 Pink MC's are just one of the many reasons I'm proud to live in LA, these dudes are gonna be HUGE in West Hollywood.
LA rules, I mean what other city in the world would inspire a song like "Sperm...
posted by at 2:48 PM on September 01, 2006 It's mid afternoon Friday, and chances are at this point you are sick of the crap you've been dealing with all week and are wishing you had different crap to deal with. You might even be ready to quit and..
. posted by at 1:32 PM on September 01, 2006 I'm having trouble getting the online streaming player for 97.1 FM KLSX to work at the moment, but Caryn just called me and said the afternoon triplets Frosy, Heidi Frank are on air right now so drunk they can.
.. posted by at 12:28 PM on September 01, 2006 A 18 year-old L.
A.-based pornstar named Sasha Grey needs your help: When Im not fucking my young brains out on camera and in my personal life I like to hunt down hard to find, out of print or foreign..
. posted by at 12:16 PM on September 01, 2006 My dad likes to make the old joke, "That movie was so bad, it wasn't released, it escaped." Value judge-ments aside (pun intended - I am my father's son after all), Mike Judge's long-delayed "Idiocracy" is in limited release.
.. posted by at 11:56 AM on September 01, 2006 Cory Doctorow is running a public speaker series on copyright, culture and technology in conjunction with his Fulbright Chair at USC's Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy, and next Tuesday EFF's Jason Schultz will be first speaker.
Cory points out that...
posted by at 11:46 AM on September 01, 2006 A little Friday plug for an artist I've worked with since way back in my Chicago sixspace days (so he's literally been there since the beginning)...
Coop has artwork from Brand Recognition, his third exhibition with us, on the...
posted by at 11:35 AM on September 01, 2006 As mentioned in late July, the locally-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (MySpace, LA Times profile) holds its annual tournament, "Battle of Los Angeles," this weekend at the American Legion Post #308 in Reseda. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there..
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