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Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting
Zen Kern's cougar class: life-coaching an evolving dating paradigm
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena… Keep Reading »
Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting
Zen Kern's cougar class: life-coaching an evolving dating paradigm
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena… Keep Reading »
Lust in L.A.: Hot, Sticky & Bothered
Wondering why guys don't make the first move anymore, and notes on the pains and pleasures of threesomes
By Dani Katz
It was the longest I’d gone without sex in more than a decade — six months. Having spent the past year trying not to die while recovering from an herbal abortion gone awry, I’d hardly noticed — I had barely enough energy to bathe, clothe and feed myself, let… Keep Reading »
Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved
L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life
By DAVID EHRENSTEIN
"Oh, it would never have been for us,” Don Bachardy says. “He wasn’t interested — neither of us were — in being ‘legalized.’ But we’d certainly back up anybody who did want to be.” Kevin Scanlon … Keep Reading »
Art Around Town: Flux Soup
The magic of Marlene Dumas; the theater of Philip-Lorca diCorcia
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
Marlene Dumas is as much a stirrer of primordial soup and human emotions as she is a painter, and one of the ways the South African–born, Amsterdam-based artist gets down into the mess of all that soup is via the act of painting itself. As is evident in her… Keep Reading »
Dissonance: Obama's Middle Ground
White talk, God talk and how-to-get-elected talk
By MARC COOPER
THERE’S COLD FEAR in the blogosphere. Liberals from Malibu to Madison have broken out into hives. Hands are wringing and knickers are twisted. Turns out that Barack Obama might be a centrist! Or even worse, it seems. “Obama Veers Right!” screams a headline on the leftist… Keep Reading »
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