Arts and Crafts

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Google Street View Disasters

This week, creatures in crocheted suits wander Barnsdall Park, a role-player tries to make a virtual battle real, and an artist digs up the dark side of Google Street View. 5. Handmade monsters When I first met artist Zac Monday, he was crocheting a cashmere scarf in a coffee shop. The scarf was so ... More >>

How Many Vinyl Record Stores Does the Eastside Need?

On a recent Saturday night in Los Feliz, a crowd spilled out onto the sidewalk outside the grand opening party for High-Fidelity, the latest entrant in the increasingly crowded field of Eastside vinyl record shops. Inside, a string quartet played Radiohead and Postal Service covers while the owner, ... More >>

DIY Shrimp Scampi Scarf: A Kosher Way to Stay Warm

When you really love food, you love eating it, talking about it, making plans to consume it and at times, wearing it. Usually that means a bit of mustard on the blouse, but in this case we mean as an accessory. Someone has to draw the line at chile-pepper print pants though. As obsessives ourselve ... More >>

Tony Dominguez's Rock Opera La Muerte Vive With Ginormous Dia de los Muertos Puppets

Simone PazTony Dominguez, maker of giant Dia de los Muertos puppets​ Tony Dominguez is a 3-D kind of guy. Most people look at a photo and see it only in two dimensions. Dominguez looks at a flat image and sees its geometry in three. He can spin it around in his head. He senses its depth.As ... More >>

Origami Yoda and More at Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden's Origami Festival at Cal State Long Beach

Lisa HorowitzOrigami Yoda, folded by Michael Sanders as part of Alison Redfoot-DiLidda's composition​ The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at Cal State Long Beach turned out to be a lovely location to learn the art of origami, or Japanese paper folding, on Sunday. From humble beginnings mor ... More >>

Crochet Me a Reefer

Fan Workshop and Lecture

Countdown to Record Store Day: Neil from Origami Vinyl in Echo Park

​You have seen the storefront of Origami Vinyl if you have ever gone to the Echo or had a slice of pizza at Two Boots. The store is packed with an impressive mix of local (and not-so-local) releases in a variety of genres, and host some amazing all-ages in-stores on a pretty regular basis. T ... More >>

Crocheted Crustaceans: Jessica Polka's Cuteness From The Sea

​Jessica Polka is a biochemist who crochets shrimp and cuttlefish. She is fascinated by "wunderkammer" or cabinets of curiosities. Her crocheted crustaceans are cute enough to eat...or, you know, not eat. What haven't you crocheted yet that you want to crochet in the future? A microscope. I ... More >>

Origami Vinyl's Local Top Ten (Plus One!)

via origami vinyl's flickrneil schield of origami vinyl​ Independent Echo Park record store Origami Vinyl carries a strong collection of local music as well as new releases and luxurious reissues. Proprietor Neil Schield told us about their most recent top ten local sellers--as well as a loca ... More >>

Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Branded

Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Hitched

Vinyl of the Week: Two Slabs of Stone-Cold '80s Funk from Tony Cook, ft. Dâm-Funk [MP3]

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>

Echo Park's Origami Vinyl to Host Free Album-Making Seminar with Summer Darling and More

Origami Vinyl and Summer Darling will show you how to set records.​"Wondering if anyone makes picture discs anymore?" That's the opening query of the flyer advertising an Echo Park record shop's upcoming "how-to's of vinyl" seminar. But readers familiar with West Coast Sound's INCHES column a ... More >>

Peru Day

Giant Fiberglass Banana: Very Large. Very Yellow.

For your bananafication: It's 4 and a half feet tall. It's a giant fiberglass banana. It costs $500. What do you do with it? I don't know. I may never know. But it is spectacular. (You DIY-types could probably make a similar version out of paper mache.) The banana was seen over at Etsy's "Keep It We ... More >>

Kid's Festival

Japanese-American Holiday Celebration

INCHES reviews Baron Zen, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Soft Circle High Places, I Heart Lung [MP3]

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

INCHES reviews vinyl from Koushik, Avi Buffalo, Nerve City, Psychic Powers (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Holiday Concert

INCHES reviews 'Woodstock', Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf, We Break Cameras, Lilofee (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

So It's Knit, Knit, Knit for the Home Team

Analog Folding @ Home: A Daily Distraction in My Otherwise-Digital Life

Kevin ScanlonToward the end of December, my wife and I went to the calendar kiosk in the mall. (You know the one; it's between the Crocs kiosk and the cell phone kiosk. No, not that cell phone kiosk, the other one. Yeah, that one.) It was time to do the annual calendar replacement, which is somethi ... More >>

Oshogatsu Family Festival

Tonight in LA: Berlin techno from Apparat, performed with live band

Berlin-based techno artist Sascha Ring, who records under the pseudonym Apparat, has recorded some of the most beguiling and adventuresome electronic music of the 00s. His music, both solo and with fellow Berliner Ellen Allien, contains the hearty four-on-the-floor thump of most techno, but Apparat, ... More >>

Shows and Tickets Coming Up

Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, UCLA, Jan. 30 and Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, Jan. 22. Both shows on sale Saturday Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Suicidal Tendencies - San Diego Sports Arena, Dec. 7 - All ages Andrew Bird, Handsome Family - Orpheum, Dec. 7 Black Ghosts, Mezzanine Owls, Tweak Bird, more ... More >>

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

Best Way to Kill Time

Origami books from Kinokuniya Bookstore

Monster Mashes

System debuts; Bootie LA turns 2

Rock Picks

For the week of March 29 – April 5

Rock Picks

For the week of March 15 - 22

Rock Picks

For the week of December 28 - January 4

Rock PIcks

For the week of December 7 - 14

A Sexy Little Yarn

Ashley Paige's book, Sexy Little Knits

Knitting Factories

Where to stitch ’n’ bitch in L.A.

Live in LA

How to Build a Sweater

Lit Up and Emotional

What the Knitter Said

I’m Tomine! I’m Beyer! I’m Kaz!

Three new comics collections

Beyond the Fold

Computers and the origami renaissance

London Calling

Cedering Fox: Word Up

A Looming Talent

Your Time Is Now

The Back Story

A reading list

Schmooze Dot Com

My season on the Internet party circuit

Selling Really Weird Music

Vintage Volts, Future Sound

Morton Subotnick: Return of the wizard

Birth of the Cruel

Progressive jazz for your silent night