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Jorge Cham: The Overeducated Cartoonist

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Jorge Cham got his introduction to cartoons as a child in Panama. His parents were engineers who worked on the Panama Canal. When an American family they knew moved away, they l ... More >>

Urs Fischer Traffics in Clichés — But That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing

Dancing Days Are Here Again

How Laura Owens' New Boyle Heights Exhibit Moves Painting Forward

The Man Who Smelled Too Much

William Nowell got a windfall and got off the streets. The only problem were his neighbors -- and his foul odor

Katy Grannan and Charlie White Bring Their Unique Portrait Photography to LACMA

Tween Art: OHWOW Gallery's New Show Explores the Disney Channel Demo

To understand the new exhibition of tween-influenced art Alex Gartenfeld curated at West Hollywood's OHWOW gallery, it's best to rewind half a century. Billie Jo Spears, a tame Texas country singer, was 13 in 1950. That year, she cut her first single, "Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys," a "chil ... More >>

'Applefied Ads': Santa Monica Ad Intern Delights Internet by Giving Household Products the Apple Treatment

White background. Stark chrome letters. Floating Apple product, suspended from heaven. Bleh. Bryan Evans, a recent Pepperdine graduate and summer intern at the Rubin Postaer and Associates ad agency in Santa Monica, is so over the Apple advertising formula. "At one point, Apple had the most ground ... More >>

Never-Before-Seen Photos of Tupac and Eazy-E From New Book West Coast Hip Hop: A History In Photos

See also: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Michael Miller and Paul Stewart had capped a successful Kickstarter project and planned a digital imprint of their book, a collection of photographs from the golden era of West Coast hip hop, called West Coast Hip Hop: A Histo ... More >>

Weegee Strips Hollywood Naked

Courtesy of MOCALiz Taylor, ca. 1950​ "Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees." So said crime photographer and full-time self promoter Arther Fellig, who was also known as Weegee. He was New Yorker to the the core, having grown up in the bitter poverty of the Depression-era Lower Eas ... More >>

Shepard Fairey Designs 'Occupy Hope' Poster, Replaces Obama's Face With 'V for Vendetta' Mask

Updated after the jump: Fairey changes the "Occupy Hope" poster to please occupiers. "Anonymous" hackers, who also rep the Guy Fawkes mask, are likely still unsatisfied. Originally posted November 18 at 3:50 p.m. Here we go again. L.A. street artist Shepard Fairey has released a second original de ... More >>

The L.A. County Redistricting Battle Explained -- Without Maps!

Redistricting-- without the maps!​The redistricting battle at the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is the ultimate arcane, inside-baseball political fight. From a distance, all you can see is a bunch of people squabbling over some maps.So let's try to simplify it a little bit. And the first thing ... More >>

Miranda July's New Film The Future and MOCA Exhibit "Eleven Heavy Things"

With her talking cat, T-shirt dance, interactive pink thought balloons and unicorn fans, the filmmaker-artist just wants us all to connect

The Imps of Marge and Fletch: Hollywood Films By Day, Demented Photographs by Night

The Imps of Marge and Fletch​ In an age when Photoshop reigns, the Imps of Marge and Fletch bring a stylized, cinematic sensibility to digital photography, shooting as much as possible in camera. The L.A.-based art collective is named after the intersection of Marguerite and Fletcher in Glasse ... More >>

David Yoon's Fantasy to Turn L.A. Into Paris by Making Streets Narrower

Courtesy of David YoonAbbott Kinney in Venice, narrowed​ Los Angeles is a wide, sprawling city in which five-lane roads are considered small. But what if it were suddenly made narrower? People dream of the charming streets of Paris, which barely allow two cars to pass each other yet seem a lo ... More >>

Harry Potter Art at Nucleus Gallery

Gendy AlimurungJ. Shea: Thestral​If you couldn't handle waiting in line for two hours to get into Nucleus Gallery's recent extremely packed Harry Potter-themed art show, this is the sort of thing you missed. That's a hanging sculpture of a thestral in the photo above. Awesome, right? The rest ... More >>

Two Sides of Brian Eno

Listen: New Songs From Brian Eno (And Look: Eye-Dissolving Album Art, Too!)

Brian Eno's Drums Between the Bells​ Are people who need people really the luckiest people in the world? Brian Eno's latest winning lottery ticket, "Drums Between the Bells," out July 4 on Warp, continues his lifelong theme of communion on fifteen tracks with Rick Holland, an artist Eno met a ... More >>

Storm Thorgerson at John Varvatos

Legendary designer has created conceptual album cover photographs for bands from Pink Floyd to Mars Volta

Turning a Negative Into a Positive

Three new photography exhibits explore the accidental artistry of pre-digital techniques

Alexandra Wallace-Inspired 'Ching Chong' T-Shirts to Fund Japan Relief Efforts

Internet meme for a cause​Updated after the jump with PHOTO EVIDENCE of Wallace herself modeling the "ching chong" shirt for Red Cross! (Sort of.) When UCLA student Alexandra Wallace uploaded her "Asians in the Library" rant to YouTube that fateful Sunday afternoon -- blissfully unaware she ... More >>

Oh, Mother: Danzig Stars in Fresh Step Kitty Litter Commercial -- Thanks YouTube!

Danzig, shilling for Fresh Step.​So ... last month somebody snapped a shot of metal icon Danzig leaving the grocery store with a box of kitty litter. It seems Fresh Step's taken notice, because they've got a new spokesperson. Well, sorta. A West Coast Sound reader going by Danziggy left us a ... More >>

Macross World Convention Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary (and Lynn Minmay's Birthday) at UCLA

By early Sunday afternoon a small meeting hall hidden deep in a cluster of brick buildings on UCLA's campus, was full. Singer Mari Iijima, who voiced Lynn Minmay in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (both the original Japanese series and, much later, ADV's English-language dub), performs work fr ... More >>

Rock'n Comic Con: The Stunning Cutout Animation of "Paper Animals"

"Paper Animals" is a charming student film project by Michelle D. Reese, who graduated from California State University Northridge a few weeks ago. We first saw the cut-out animation short on her laptop in the exhibit hall at Rock n' Comic Con last Saturday. She has since posted it on YouTube. Miche ... More >>

G4 'Attack of the Show!' Host Olivia Munn Gets Naked for New PETA Billboard... With Elephants?

TV personality Olivia Munn, host of G4's Attack of the Show!, is the latest celebrity/activist (much cooler than actress/waitress) to team up with animal rights group PETA for its series of anti-cruelty advertisements, this time targeted at the circus. Munn stripped into action after seeing an onli ... More >>

The Gaga Code: Top Ten Signs Lady Gaga Is a Pawn of Occult Forces

Last Summer, the Vigilant Citizen blog--a website devoted to trolling gullible morons into getting riled up about supposed "occult" messages everywhere investigating the hidden symbols all around us--started analyzing the symbology of Lady Gaga and concluded that there is plentiful evidence that the ... More >>

PEEK AT PUSSY FOR THE RIGHT PRICE

A Web site you can dig your claws into

Fuck This Cake, or Helveticake, or What Happens When Design Geeks Spend Too Much Time in the Kitchen

If you're someone who routinely Googles "dessert" and "fonts" and "Helvetica," you may have seen photos of a "Fuck This Cake" cake floating around on the internet. It turns out there were many cooks in the kitchen during the creation of this typographic nerd-masterpiece. The cake was made by 26-ye ... More >>

Web TV's Streamy Awards: Next Year It Could Be You Up There

Alexia TsotsisNeil Patrick Harris on stage at the Streamy AwardsOn approach the Wadsworth Theatre looked like it'd been swarmed Saturday night. Upon closer inspection the over 1300 people in attendance were as glamorous as glam could get at a first annual award show, and the critical mass was indica ... More >>

Esotouric Crime Bus Tour: Landmark Hopping for 62nd Anniversary of Black Dahlia Murder

Today it is an otherwise unassuming residential street on the 3800 block of Norton Avenue in Leimert Park, but on January 15, 1947 it was the dump site for the body of the Black Dahlia (real name Elizabeth Short) whose gruesome and still unsolved murder remains a horrific mystery. At 10:30 a.m. that ... More >>

Power and Performance: Richard Avedon, Master of Cruel

“I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer”

Movie Reviews: The Rocker, The House Bunny, Death Race

Also, America the Beautiful, The Longshots and more

Mark Mothersbaugh: On the Cutting Edge of Designer-Wallpaper Chic

Climbing the walls

Rockie Horoscope

Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato

How Mark Mothersbaugh, an Agent of De-Evolution, wormed his way into America’s subconscious

Harper by Oldham

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

Condensed Cream of Conceptualism

Ginny Bishton’s persistent vegetative state

Part Time Punks, full-time fun!

MUTUAL AFFIRMATION

UCLA Extension Welcomes Back Writer/Director of Oscar-Nominated Film

Free James Frey!

In defense of the post-truth memoir

Jump

Weird Scenes From the Darkroom

Edward Weston’s legacy, and the strange days of Gary Winogrand, William Eggleston and Diane Arbus

The Writing on the Wall

Scribbles, scriptures and the Mid-Wilshire explosion

Take One . . . It’s a Wrap!

Tilman Büttner on photographing Russian Ark

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Scrutinizing One Hour Photo's lonely guy

OBEY?

In step with Shepard Fairey, the emperor of ubiquity