The Swingers' Story: How Two Married People Found True Love While Swapping Partners

By Ali Trachta

See more from L.A. Weekly's Sex Issue: "Condoms Suck," "10 Condom Reviews for the Well-Endowed Man," "9 Best High-Tech Vibrators to Buy for Your... More >>

Cacophony Society Prankster Group Gets New Exhibit and Documentary

By L.J. Williamson

Is a friendly game of strip dreidel a matter of concern for the Department of Homeland Security? To celebrate an exhibit and a documentary... More >>

Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure

By Gus Garcia-Roberts

Click here for "SNL Stars Whose Careers Have Done a 180," by Anthony D'Alessandro. Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side... More >>

SNL Stars Whose Careers Have Done a 180

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Click here for "Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure," by Gus Garcia-Roberts. Joe Piscopo: arm-curling beefcake Piscopo went from... More >>

Bob Simmons, Pioneer of the Modern Surfboard, Gets a New Exhibit

By Dennis Romero

The man once dubbed the Phantom Surfer is phantom no more. The tale of Bob Simmons, a pre-beatnik surfer from Pasadena, who dropped out of Caltech... More >>

Pools in Palm Springs

By Whitney Friedlander

Thinking of swimming pools in Southern California conjures up memories of idyllic postwar suburbia, either through events we've lived or those... More >>

Pacific Standard Time Performance Art Festival Preview

By Sam Bloch

Is that performance art? Not an uncommon question in Los Angeles, where you might see a guy in a mud-caked bodysuit marching down Wilshire, a... More >>

Hastings Plastics: Legendary Maker of Sculptures for L.A. Artists Closes After 55 Years

By Ed Schad

Artworks are cultural achievements but often also achievements of science and engineering. It's easy to forget, for instance, that Impressionism's... More >>

Comic Artists Riff on New Year's Eve

By Sarah Fenske

For 51 weeks, we’ve given you words. We gave you words about Occupy L.A. and trouble in the county jails and bad school lunches. Words about... More >>

Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night Made It Big. But That Wasn't the End of the Story

By Gendy Alimurung

How the vampires finally got to Alaska is the stuff of comic book legend. For a while, it looked like they weren't going to make it. It was the... More >>

Hotel Art in L.A.: A User's Guide

By Shana Nys Dambrot

The days of gilt-framed faux-impressionism punctuating hotel walls are over. Or it certainly seems that way, as just about every trendy boutique... More >>

Pacific Standard Time to Night Gallery: The Year in L.A. Art

By Andrew Berardini

This past year, Los Angeles has been haunted by dreams of itself. For years, I've passed the Olive Motel on Sunset in Silver Lake — such a... More >>

Top 10 Moments of the Year in L.A. Art

By Catherine Wagley

This year had more than its share of so-so exhibitions, but it brought an exciting burst of populism. I'm still convinced that art doesn't have to... More >>

Watts Towers at Pacific Standard Time: How their legacy is more confusing than you'd think

By Catherine Wagley

On HBO's Six Feet Under, a visit to the Watts Towers topples Claire Fisher, the undertaker's daughter played by Lauren Ambrose, off her cloud of... More >>

Five L.A. Internet Artists You Need to Know

By Kyle Chayka

Whether because of Los Angeles' spread-out geography or its young creative class that includes both fine artists and Hollywood techies, the L.A.... More >>

Kris Keith of Spacecraft: 'I Will Crush You'

Making L.A. interior design a lot more colorful

By Amanda Lewis

"You've got the celebrities, you've got the nightclub scene, you've got the bars, you've got it all." Kristofer Keith doesn't want to be a... More >>

Occupy L.A. and the Art World

A wave of art projects go hand in hand with the protest

By Catherine Wagley

On Nov. 11, artists Elana Mann and Juliana Snapper brought two big, flesh-colored papier-mâché ears and a handful of poster-board... More >>

Tyler Shields: Warhol or Wannabe?

Ominous glitz of a controversial celebrity photographer

By Lina Lecaro

Ah, Hollywood ... it can bleed its most beloved stars and icons dry. Yeah, we know, boo-hoo, but let's face it, the more famous you become, the... More >>

Douglas Wright, Christine Wilson and Janice Perlin: Three of Hollywood's Copycat Artists

By Amanda Lewis

If somehow Leighton Meester, who plays Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, tempted you this past February into seeing the horrible horror flop The... More >>