Email Author Skylaire Alfvegren

2012 Stories by Skylaire Alfvegren

• Shorty Rossi: The Pit Man

  published May 22, 2012

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Luigi Francis Rossi -- better known as Shorty, titular star of the Animal Pl... More >>

• Peter Diamandis: The Doctor Will Wow You Now

  published May 16, 2012

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. We have a "moral obligation to be thinking of where humanity is going," says... More >>

• Gas Leak

  published May 3, 2012

  Jimmy Carter was a presidential anomaly. On his watch, departments were set up to fund electric-car development, solar energy, even research on a... More >>

• Bite Me!

  published May 3, 2012

  Once a month, the Natural History Museum stays open late, inviting the city to "become scientists for a night," offering a thematic trifecta:... More >>

• Happy Birthday, Olvera Street

  published April 26, 2012

  Through the 1930s, Los Angeles celebrated its Name Day with a flurry of folklorico and a candlelit procession through Olvera Street. Although the... More >>

• Art as a Weapon: 99 Poets

  published April 26, 2012

  The Last Bookstore is a jubilant anachronism, a jewel of downtown, a place to get lost in for hours, until you're snapped out of bibliophilic... More >>

• How Green Was My Downtown

  published April 19, 2012

  One might not immediately equate L.A. Live — the sprawling entertainment complex that houses Staples Center (home to the L.A. Lakers, Kings... More >>

• Close Encounters of the Wookie Kind

  published January 5, 2012

  While it could be said that the "science" of Star Trek has been dissected more than any other sci-fi franchise, some would argue it is... More >>

• Everything's Coming Up Woody

  published April 12, 2012

  Three months shy of what would be his 100th birthday, Woody Guthrie, the prolific, influential and politically charged folk musician, is being... More >>

• Green Eggs & Alhambra

  published March 15, 2012

  Many grumbled when Jim Henson's beloved Muppets were recently made over, Disney having chucked a Frank Oz script for ... Jason Segel's. A... More >>

• Who's Your Goddess

  published March 22, 2012

  One could consider this a night of music. After all, it features a rare performance by Glen Meadmore, everyone's favorite, seven-foot-tall gay... More >>

• Who Says All New Yorkers Are Arrogant Pricks?

  published March 15, 2012

  Spiffy East Coast web magazine Slate.com has a podcast called Culture Gabfest, wherein its cadre of highly educated critics wittily discuss... More >>

• Cutest Yet Most Preachy Pick of the Week

  published March 15, 2012

  How people can coddle their labradoodles, pookimos and schneagles and still gorge on bacon, burgers and chicken is beyond me. It's believed that a... More >>

• Drunkards and Dragons

  published March 15, 2012

  In Los Angeles, we have many flavors of improv comedy to choose from: shows based on the audience's Facebook posts, worst dates, worst jobs or... More >>

• Jonathan Lethem

  published March 8, 2012

  Jonathan Lethem is an interesting cat: The New York Times best-selling author of eight novels (including Chronic City, The Fortress of... More >>

• Just Another Monday Night at IO West

  published March 1, 2012

  In Los Angeles, we have many flavors of improv comedy to choose from: shows based on the audience's Facebook posts, worst dates, worst jobs and... More >>

• To Our Health

  published March 1, 2012

  If you believe the AMA, the FDA and the USDA care about your health and welfare, you are D-U-M-B. We live in age where more deaths are caused by... More >>

• Welcome to Baghdad by the Sea

  published March 1, 2012

  The palm tree is about as ubiquitous a symbol of Southern California as you're likely to find, although only one species — the California fan... More >>

• Hooray for Larry Edmunds

  published February 23, 2012

  You love movies. You love books. Ergo, you must love Larry Edmunds Bookshop. The Hollywood Boulevard stalwart, in business for more than seven... More >>

• And the Snarky Goes to ...

  published February 23, 2012

  As with any trademarked, money-making, globally televised event, those celebrating with an event of their own have to get creative. Bars enticing... More >>

• The Sounds of '42

  published February 16, 2012

  Around 3 a.m. on February 25, 1942, Los Angeles was jolted awake to the sound of air raid sirens and anti-aircraft explosions. In the course of... More >>

• Witchy Woman

  published February 9, 2012

  You may have eyeballed this happening lady at any number of hep arts and music events around town, an ethereal, statuesque blonde clad all in... More >>

• It Take Guts to Talk About This Stuff

  published February 2, 2012

  We all should be familiar with Philadelphia's famed Mutter Museum, the country's best-known cabinet of medical curiosities, which has been... More >>

• California, Where Did We Go Wrong?

  published February 2, 2012

  If President Jimmy Carter had been re-elected, we would all be driving electric cars and powered by green energy. Instead, one of Ronald Reagan's... More >>

• The Fastest Curtain in Town

  published February 2, 2012

  When I was young, I was a rock hound, attending gem and mineral shows around the Southland. Once, among displays of pyrite and geodes, I found a... More >>