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Tim Hawkinson's Inverted Clocktower Plays with Time at Grand Central Market

Erica Zora WrightsonAugust 20, 2014

If Grand Central Market is a barometer of time for downtown Los Angeles, Tim Hawkinson's Inverted Clocktower, an unassuming artwork wedged into the northwest edge of the building, is committed to the moment at hand. Unlike the contents of the public market, which have metamorphosed dramatically over the past few......

Colman Andrews' My Usual Table Chronicles His Life in Restaurants

Erica Zora WrightsonMay 23, 2014

American writer, editor and food cognoscente Colman Andrews "grew up in restaurants" and his new memoir My Usual Table eulogizes the dining establishments, and their casts of characters, that evolved his palate and his insatiable hunger for the world's cuisines. Raised in West Los Angeles, Andrews wasn't the child of chefs......

Moses Sumney: The One-Man Band

Erica Zora WrightsonMay 14, 2014

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2014 issue. Check out our entire People 2014 issue. Twenty-three-year-old singer-songwriter Moses Sumney likes to make music. In bed. Raised in the Inland Empire and Ghana by African Christian-minister parents, a shy young Sumney started writing songs in a notebook,......

Sascha Robinett and Edgar Arceneaux: An Artist and a 'Suit' Find Unity at Home

Erica Zora WrightsonFebruary 13, 2014

See our entire Couples Issue 2014 here. When Edgar Arceneaux first asked out Sascha Robinett, he hoped she would accept his offer to have coffee but not his invitation to a movie. Although he had been eyeing his shy co-worker for some time, he was, frankly, broke. When she took......

Duck, Duck, Goose: Hank Shaw's New Cookbook + A Duck Jerky Recipe

Erica Zora WrightsonOctober 23, 2013

Duck, Duck, Goose, a new guide to cooking waterfowl from hunter, writer and cook Hank Shaw, could be read as a variation on Wallace Stevens' famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," save that Shaw's ode flows through more than 200 pages of prose, and the object of......

Moosewood Restaurant Favorites: The New Book + A Recipe for Classic Tofu Burgers

Erica Zora WrightsonSeptember 17, 2013

It's been 40 years since Moosewood restaurant, a natural foods restaurant in downtown Ithaca's Dewitt Mall, was founded by a collective of cooks unconcerned with culinary school and determined to promote an herbivorous lifestyle. Moosewood was not the first vegetarian restaurant in New York in the early '70s, nor was......

Laura Owens: Painting in Space

Erica Zora WrightsonMay 15, 2013

href="https://www.laweekly.com/microsites/people-2013/" target="_blank">One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. On a balmy Saturday morning in March, a smattering of popcorn decorates the cement floor of a large warehouse in Boyle Heights, currently the studio, exhibition and event space......

John Rabe and Julian Bermudez: Radio Host and Art Curator Are a Private Couple in the Public Eye

Erica Zora WrightsonFebruary 6, 2013

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here John Rabe, 46, and Julian Bermudez, 38, met at the close of a sunny day in Malibu in 2001, when separate afternoons spent sunbathing on the shores of El Matador beach led both to the Friendship on West Channel Road. The nautical-themed......

Bert Chan: These Shoes Were Made for Tapping

Erica Zora WrightsonMay 23, 2012

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Eight is considered a particularly lucky number in Chinese culture, so Bertha "Bert" Chan's 88th birthday on Feb. 8 should have signaled the beginning of her most fortuitous year. Instead,......

RJ Mitte: The Good in Breaking Bad

Erica Zora WrightsonMay 23, 2012

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When RJ Mitte first moved to Los Angeles at 13, he never imagined he'd be an actor. "Sometimes I think about where I'd be right now if I weren't doing......

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Erica Zora Wrightson

Tim Hawkinson's Inverted Clocktower Plays with Time at Grand Central Market

Colman Andrews' My Usual Table Chronicles His Life in Restaurants

Moses Sumney: The One-Man Band

Sascha Robinett and Edgar Arceneaux: An Artist and a 'Suit' Find Unity at Home

Duck, Duck, Goose: Hank Shaw's New Cookbook + A Duck Jerky Recipe

Moosewood Restaurant Favorites: The New Book + A Recipe for Classic Tofu Burgers

Laura Owens: Painting in Space

John Rabe and Julian Bermudez: Radio Host and Art Curator Are a Private Couple in the Public Eye

Bert Chan: These Shoes Were Made for Tapping

RJ Mitte: The Good in Breaking Bad

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