Email Author Shelley Leopold

Awards

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Shooting the Shit with Tenacious D"

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2009 Stories by Shelley Leopold

• WHO REMEMBERS THE MUDD CLUB? OH YEAH, YOU'RE ALL DEAD

  published September 3, 2009

  In case you haven't been paying attention, everything '80s is in again. Pegged jeans, neon sunglasses, rubber bracelets and Hammer pants. Rue the... More >>

• WHO'S SUPER NOW?

  published July 23, 2009

  Even super heroes have a bad day. Lucky for us, these split seconds are painstakingly and beautifully recorded by Meggs, an Australian artist who... More >>

• Alphabetical Art

  published July 2, 2009

  The artist Eine started doing graffiti in the '80s because he couldn’t break dance. He still wanted to be part of the trend, so while his... More >>

• THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

  published June 4, 2009

  If Retna and El Mac were a team that worked in a more corporate environment, Retna would be the type guy, El Mac would be the photographer. But... More >>

• HORSE & MOUTH DISEASE

  published May 28, 2009

  The shroud of mystery surrounding Dark Night of the Soul, a new musical collaboration between master mixer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and... More >>

• Ready for His Retouch: David Yow Adjusts the Picture as He Prepares for the Jesus Lizard Reunion

  published May 7, 2009

   When I meet David Yow on Friday the 13th, he is gentle and kind and less naked than I remember him as the frontman for... More >>

• THE JOKER

  published April 23, 2009

  I met Mr. Steve Lambert in San Francisco a few years back, around the time he orchestrated changing all the "BUSH" street signs in the city to... More >>

• LA People 2009: Graphic Display — David Weidman

  published April 23, 2009

  High atop a historic Highland Park neighborhood, there once grew a eucalyptus grove, but for the past 55 or so years, the land... More >>

• Fairey Godmother

  published January 29, 2009

  New Image Art gallerist Marsea Goldberg is a bad-ass. So naturally for her, this magically translates into great foresight-slash-taste in... More >>