Subject:

Aimee Semple McPherson

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Five Artsy Things to See This Week, Including Big Holes and Female High Jumpers

    This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter David Hockney, famous for slick, smart renderings of SoCal swimming pools and uncomfortably posed sociali ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 7, 2011

    Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Crosher, and the Art of Disappearing People

    This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter David Hockney, famous for slick, smart renderings of SoCal swimming pools and uncomfortably posed sociali ... More >>

  • Music

    May 20, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Jazz-People Issues

    This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter David Hockney, famous for slick, smart renderings of SoCal swimming pools and uncomfortably posed sociali ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Places

    This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter David Hockney, famous for slick, smart renderings of SoCal swimming pools and uncomfortably posed sociali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Angelus Temple Clash Looming in Echo Park

    The Eastsider L.A. reports that the Foursquare Foundation, the money arm that operates the Angelus Temple built by Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923, is looking to develop some of the temple's properties that ring Echo Park Lake. The blog ruminates about the foundation's playing the "God card" by exerc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2009

    Today in Photographs: June 4, 1936

    Aimee Semple McPherson posing with a note threatening to release nude movies of the Angelus Temple founder with a friend unless she pays $10,000.LA Times/UCLA

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    They ♥ Huckabee

    The problem with hearing Mike Huckabee speak at the Angelus Temple is that you first have to sit through 20 minutes of the temple's house band, Press Play, a kind of Up With Christian People rock ensemble that makes one nostalgic for the 1980s metallurgical hosannas of Stryper. A second problem is ... More >>

  • LA Life

    March 12, 2009

    GO LA: Rum, Sodomy and John Waters’ Filthy World

    Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2009

    HOUSES OF THE HOLY ROLLERS

    Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

  • Columns

    February 26, 2009
  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    California Is for H8ters: The Oscars' Anti-Gay Picketers

    During his Oscar speech for winning the Best Actor award for Milk, Sean Penn pointedly attacked supporters of last November's victorious Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California:"For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight," Penn said, "I think that it is a good ti ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2008

    Mythical Mystery Tour

    During his Oscar speech for winning the Best Actor award for Milk, Sean Penn pointedly attacked supporters of last November's victorious Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California:"For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight," Penn said, "I think that it is a good ti ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Hoop of L.A.

    What to do in L.A., October 3-9

  • Film+TV

    January 17, 2008

    Paul Thomas Anderson: Blood, Sweat and Tears

    There Will be Blood director on making his masterpiece, and how baseball may have saved him

  • Columns

    March 16, 2006

    (I Belong to The) Blank Generation

    There Will be Blood director on making his masterpiece, and how baseball may have saved him

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    De Tocqueville, Part Deux

    Bernard-Henri Lévy on American sex, American religion and American Vertigo

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2005

    Know Your Streets!

    Walking tours reveal L.A.’s many secrets

  • Film+TV

    September 9, 2004

    Something Wilde

    Stephen Fry tarts up Waugh’s Vile Bodies

  • Eat+Drink

    August 12, 2004

    Love, From Los Angeles

    Stephen Fry tarts up Waugh’s Vile Bodies

  • Columns

    August 1, 2002

    The Cemetery Show: What Lies Beneath

    Stephen Fry tarts up Waugh’s Vile Bodies

  • Art+Books

    December 14, 2000

    Scavenger Hunt

    Moseying through some of “California” at the County Museum

  • Eat+Drink

    July 27, 2000

    Out and About Food

    Tasteful summer adventures that redefine Saturday afternoons at the ballpark

  • Art+Books

    July 20, 2000

    When Jesus Walked

    A tour of Trinity Christian Center International

  • Calendar

    December 16, 1999

    Sex, Despair, Rock & Roll

    Four novels by Leslie Schwartz, Gary Phillips, Donald Rawley and Mick Farren

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Wholly L.A.

    Desegregating our diverse houses of worship

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