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12:50 pm
Feb. 3, 2012
Slake's New Issue: Read Any Good 'Dirt' Lately?
By Libby Molyneaux
Joe Donnelly and Laurie Ochoa (above), editors of Slake: Los Angeles -- the beautiful quarterly slab of essays, poetry, photography, fiction and reportage -- were once, respectively, deputy edi... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:33 am
Feb. 3, 2012
The Wall That Everyone in Silver Lake Is Talking About (and Why It's Too High)
By Alissa Walker
The wall seemed to materialize overnight. Where once there was the pleasantly twee boutique, its offerings of Navajo blankets and denim shorts carefully staged like an anthropological survey... More >>

Public Spectacle

6:00 am
Feb. 3, 2012
Can Paul Conrad's Mushroom Cloud Sculpture in Santa Monica Be Saved?
By Marissa Gluck
A controversy has been bubbling over Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica, Chain Reaction, and the latest fallout may spell the end of the 26-foot tall mushroom cloud near ... More >>

Public Spectacle

1:23 pm
Feb. 2, 2012
Clybourne Park's Broadway Plans Derailed, Plus This Weekend's Stage Listings
By Steven Leigh Morris
Jaws have been dropping since the New York Post broke the story yesterday ? that producer Scott Rudin was walking away from plans to produce Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybour... More >>

Public Spectacle

12:45 pm
Feb. 2, 2012
Mike Kelley's Unofficial, Spontaneous Memorial on Tipton Way in Highland Park
By Catherine Wagley
Mike Kelley was "arguably" the most important L.A. artist of his generation, "arguably" the one who changed the world's perception of Los Angeles, even "arguably" the most important contempor... More >>

Public Spectacle

12:15 pm
Feb. 2, 2012
Taxidermy Her Bones: Elegant, Macabre Jewelry Featuring Animal Skulls, Teeth and Bones
By Liz Ohanesian
When Ashley Marie Manzo was a child, her father took her to Necromance, the Melrose Avenue store filled with specimen jars, bones and macabre trinkets. She loved it, but many years had passed be... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:42 am
Feb. 2, 2012
DooD Food: A New Company That Helps Your Dog Go on a Diet
By Paul T. Bradley
Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. Andrea Carrano was raised in Italy, which means he grew up with table-fed canines. That... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:00 am
Feb. 2, 2012
Joey and Anthony Hernandez, the T-Shirt Millionaires
By Gendy Alimurung
Sift through the sale rack at your local Forever 21 mall store and you may come across a T-shirt with a picture of a girl staring into shards of a mirror. Retailing for $14.90, it is a seemingl... More >>

Public Spectacle

6:00 am
Feb. 2, 2012
Fighteytown: Patrick Davis' New Book About Beating the Crap Out of People on L.A. Streets
By Adam Gropman
With a fit build and a face that's equal parts Ryan O'Neal and Ralph Lauren model, Patrick Davis looks like a dude who'd play beach volleyball, or audition for "handsome" roles in TV commercial... More >>

Theater

12:00 am
Feb. 2, 2012
Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG
By Steven Leigh Morris
Karl Linder is the representative of the neighbors association "welcoming committee" over in Clybourne Park — an all-white suburb in... More >>

Public Spectacle

3:30 pm
Feb. 1, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including John Elway as a Cowboy and an Apology From Claire Danes
By Catherine Wagley
The best art this week is all in Hollywood, where major-leaguers look like superheroes and an eccentric 1960s gallerist makes a thrilling comeback. 5. Sunglass art Artist Alex Israel, who ma... More >>

Public Spectacle

3:00 pm
Feb. 1, 2012
Andy Kindler on Dippin' Dots, Wizards of Waverly Place and His Upcoming Appearance at the UnCabaret
By Libby Molyneaux
After a too-long hiatus, Beth Lapides, along with musical director Mitch Kaplan, brings back her whip-smart, hilarious comedy series UnCabaret. Hooray! This week's lineup includes Andy Kindler a... More >>

Public Spectacle

2:26 pm
Feb. 1, 2012
Mike Kelley, Renowned L.A. Artist, Passes Away
By Megan Sallabedra
Los Angeles is now one brilliant mind short, as legendary artist Mike Kelley has been found dead, his gallery confirmed. Born in 1954 in a suburb of Detroit, Kelley received his MFA from CalA... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:53 am
Feb. 1, 2012
Tricia Tunstall's Changing Lives: A Book on Dudamel, El Sistema and the Revolution in Music Education
By Jason Issokson
There's not much talk about music education these days. With all the budget crises, education cuts and Republican candidates --? none of whom seem terribly supportive of the arts -- you couldn'... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:40 am
Feb. 1, 2012
Hollywood Fringe Fest Applications Open Today; Dreams of the Washer King, and More New Reviews
By Steven Leigh Morris
Registration is now open for the Third Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival, a noncurated open-invitation performance festival situated in Hollywood, and slated for mid-June. For more info, go to ... More >>

Public Spectacle

8:00 am
Feb. 1, 2012
Daniel Arsham at OHWOW Gallery: Are There People Behind These Artworks?
By Sophie Duvernoy
At OHWOW gallery, things are no longer as they seem: The otherwise smooth, white walls have grown a few avant-garde appendages. One is shaped like a human; another oozes; all are unquestionab... More >>

Public Spectacle

5:27 pm
Jan. 31, 2012
Tina's Mouth: A Graphic Novel That Gives Indian-American Stereotypes the Finger
By Angilee Shah
Tina Malhotra's journey through a high school existential crisis was difficult. Bringing her world to life was just as wrenching. Author Keshni Kashyap and illustrator Mari Araki spent four y... More >>

Public Spectacle

2:49 pm
Jan. 31, 2012
Literary Death Match: Sex, Booze and Competitive Storytelling in a Sports Bar
By Joseph Lapin
"In L.A., people high-five, which is weird," says Todd Zuniga. "In Paris, people just look dourly at everyone. Then they don't have sex with you." Dressed in a gray suit and a red tie, Zuniga... More >>

Public Spectacle

12:05 pm
Jan. 31, 2012
Pia Myrvold's Trippy, Virtual Reality-Inspired Video Art
By Shana Nys Dambrot
In a world where creative individuals increasingly work in a cluster of disciplines -- actors sing in bands, rock stars paint, poets take up performance art, architects explore couture, rappe... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:31 am
Jan. 31, 2012
10 Lessons We Learned From The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season Two
By Ali Trachta
It's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion time! Those delicious three weeks in which Andy Cohen forces the ladies to relive every tension-filled moment from the past 18 episodes they've supp... More >>

Public Spectacle

3:43 pm
Jan. 30, 2012
Lou Reed on How His Attempt at Career Suicide, Metal Machine Music, Became an Art Show
By Sean J. O'Connell
Lou Reed is a rock & roll legend. That is an indisputable fact. And he doesn't bless Southern California with his downtown swagger very often. So when he takes part in a staged conversation, it... More >>

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Cacophony Society Prankster Group Gets New Exhibit and Documentary 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 detailing the high jinks of prankster crew… More >>

<i>Clybourne Park</i> and <i>A Raisin in the Sun</i> at CTG Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG
By Steven Leigh Morris

Karl Linder is the representative of the neighbors association "welcoming committee" over in Clybourne Park — an all-white suburb in late-1950s Chicago — who appears in two plays presented concurrently… More >>

Helen Hunt in <i>Our Town</i> at the Broad Stage Helen Hunt in Our Town at the Broad Stage
By Steven Leigh Morris

Over at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, the schoolkids of Grover's Corners in Thornton Wilder's Our Town pour off the stage, like water from a bucket strewn onto some… More >>

Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure 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 streets while using her left hand to hold a… More >>

SNL Stars Whose Careers Have Done a 180 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 master impersonator to master meathead during the late 1980s and early '90s after… More >>

Bob Simmons, Pioneer of the Modern Surfboard, Gets a New Exhibit 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 and then avoided World War… More >>

Pools in Palm Springs 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 taught to us via the crisp, sunny-blue landscaped world… More >>

Kathleen Turner Plays Journalist Molly Ivins in <i>Red Hot Patriot</i> at the Geffen Kathleen Turner Plays Journalist Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot at the Geffen
By Steven Leigh Morris

It's probably dangerous to subtitle a biographical play "The Kick-Ass Wit," as twin-sister journalist-playwrights Margaret and Allison Engel do in their star vehicle about colleague Molly Ivins, Red Hot Patriot:… More >>

Cirque du Soleil's <i>Ovo</i>: How to make costumes that look like bugs Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs
By Steven Leigh Morris

Are we insects or are we dancers? "I was always fascinated by insects since I was a child. I would go into my backyard and look under rocks, to see what… More >>

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