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  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

    Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Dan Goods: Thinking Outside the Lab

    One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Standing in his studio at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Dan Goods places a small cube of gel in a visitor's hand. He looks the visitor in the eye. Then he gets o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Pre-Fabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post-Ubuntu

    The last place you'd probably expect to find a chef with a Michelin star under his belt would be West L.A.'s Paper or Plastik, a neighborhood café that has been a favorite of locals for years but was never known as a place to host nationally-acclaimed chefs. But that's exactly where former Ubuntu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    The Pub at Golden Road Brewery: Liquid Gold

    When the Union Pacific blows past the Pub at Golden Road Brewing, screaming its horn and rattling the building, the new customers look up, startled, midsip: Maybe Megatron has assembled himself out of all the propane and machinery in the neighboring industrial yards. The regulars, meanwhile, simply ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Eddie Izzard: Death Star Canteen [Video]

    This video is a few years old, but since Eddie Izzard has been in town lately, playing a handful of late-night shows at Largo, his riff on the Death Star canteen (that's British for "cafeteria") is timely. And hilarious, especially when animated with Lego. Watch as Darth Vader complains about wet tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Fun Food Things You Can Make On MakerBot's New 3-D Printer (Sporks! 8-Handled Cups!)

    If you own a 3-D printer (lucky you), you are probably already halfway to a drawer full of printable forks and spoons. If like us, you had no idea you could buy a 3-D printer for less than the price of dinner for four at The French Laundry, well, let the hamburger patty press printing fun begin. M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Metropolis II at LACMA: Will a Sculpture Made of 1,100 Hot Wheels Predict L.A.'s Future?

    Alissa WalkerCould this be L.A.'s transportation future?​ Where once art originated from the front seat of a freewheeling Los Angeles vehicle -- Ed Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip photography series, Dennis Hopper's Double Standard photograph of a gas station -- our kill-me-now tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    50 Craziest Occupy Movements of 2011

    Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Mofones: Dress Your iPhone in Art, Made in Los Angeles

    Courtesy of MofonesHow cool would it be to talk into this Fossilfishfone?​ Like it or not, the Christmas shopping season is upon us. For those who prefer not to get pepper-sprayed by kamikaze shoppers at big box stores, however, there are thankfully other options. Even better -- there are opti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2011

    Lady Gaga - KIIS Jingle Ball At Nokia Theatre - 12/3/11

    Lina Lecaro ​KIIS Lady Gaga, David Guetta, Gym Class Heroes, Flo Rida, Nick Canon, Karmin and others KIIS Jingle Ball At Nokia Theatre 12-3-11 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but the annual blizzard of branded radio station holiday concerts somehow brings in the season like noth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    DJ Turntables Become Art in Pop-Up Gallery Outside MOCA's 'Art in the Streets'

    Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Dark Side of the Moon: Five Essential Parodies of the Iconic Album Cover

    ​If I say "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Chances are you're picturing a luminous triangle on a black background, with a single ray of light coming from one end and a neat rainbow emerging from the dispersive prism. We couldn't agree more with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Now Open: Paradis's Danish-Style Ice Cream in Los Feliz

    T. Nguyen​ A great number of great things have come from Denmark. Hamlet. The Killing. Legos. To this we add: ice cream. Now open in Los Feliz, Paradis Ice Cream replaces the space vacated by Pinkberry on Vermont and brings Danish-style ice cream to the neighborhood. Paradis actually is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Michel Gondry's Top Ten Music Videos Ever (In Honor Of His Book Signing Tonight)

    ​ Tonight Michel Gondry's coming to Family Books on Fairfax to sign copies of his new book/DVD My New New York Diary, a collaborative project with cartoonist Julie Doucet that merges autobiographical illustrations and cinematic storytelling. My New New York Diary is a hardcover volume from Pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    "I Can't Go On Jay Leno with a Fragrant Vagina": Courtney Love Turned into Adorable Lego-Style Animation

    Live through this animated parody​We've received a link from someone who knows someone who purports to know what working for Courtney Love is like. Somewhere along that chain of anonymity someone created a cheap, Lego-style computer animation of a purported backstage conversation between La Lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Munny Vinyl Toys Get the Rock Star Treatment for Miyavi Fan Event

    Munny is a blank slate, what you do with it relies primarily on your imagination. For the vinyl toy, made by Kidrobot, you'll need paint, fabric, and maybe some polymer clay and a background in art, to create your own character. Liz OhanesianMina Nikhoo's Munny​

  • LA Life

    September 17, 2009

    Disney Expo Channels Peter Pan

    Munny is a blank slate, what you do with it relies primarily on your imagination. For the vinyl toy, made by Kidrobot, you'll need paint, fabric, and maybe some polymer clay and a background in art, to create your own character. Liz OhanesianMina Nikhoo's Munny​

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Ten Best LA Recordings 2009 (So Far)

    ​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

  • Music

    May 14, 2009

    Rattling the Underground With Nosaj Thing and Low End Theory

    ​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2009

    Threadless Founders Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff Crowdsource Their Way Into Our Hearts

    With recent the election of a former "community organizer" to presidency, community organizing or "crowdsourcing" has become the buzzword for the great shift in our culture from "top down" (Bush) to "bottom up" (Obama) everything. In this vein, the Threadless.com co-founders Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Ja ... More >>

  • Music

    December 25, 2008

    Rock Picks: The Wailers, Thelonious Dub, Halfmonk, Mike Watt & the Secondmen

    Plus, Good for the Jews, Legowelt, Resistant Culture, and others

  • Music

    November 27, 2008

    La Boum With a View

    Plus, Part Time Punks Fest and more

  • Art+Books

    August 28, 2008

    Wading in the Waste Stream With the Center for Land Use Interpretation

    On the bus to the dump

  • Film+TV

    November 15, 2007

    Brian De Palma: Eyes Wide Open

    De Palma’s Iraq movie never flinches from the casualties of war. Will you?

  • Art+Books

    July 26, 2007

    Playtime

    Chris Burden at Gagosian, Marion Lane at BLK/MRKT

  • Stage

    April 19, 2007

    Home Is Where the Fear Is

    Middle-class dreads take center stage

  • Art+Books

    January 11, 2007

    Eurosuburbia

    Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park sounds vaguely familiar

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    Green Without Envy

    Less space, more fulfilling

  • Art+Books

    August 3, 2006

    To Live and Die (But Not Show) in L.A.

    Jason Rhoades, 1965–2006

  • Stage

    July 13, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    Reviews of Complexity, The Comedy of Errors, Zero Hour and more

  • Film+TV

    December 22, 2005

    Smash Box

    The Incredible Hulk’s cathartic punch

  • Art+Books

    May 26, 2005

    Terminal Viscosity

    It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I smell poo

  • Music

    February 3, 2005

    Forever Then

    It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I smell poo

  • News

    August 19, 2004

    Predator or Prey?

    For James Rodriguez, the only way to freedom was to confess to sex crimes he — and one of his alleged victims — says he did not commit.

  • Columns

    April 15, 2004

    Evolution on the Desktop

    Creating creatures at sodaplay.com

  • Art+Books

    June 12, 2003

    Extended Warranty

    Does length matter?

  • Columns

    August 1, 2002

    Farting Robots and Shitting Ducks

    The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Who She Took With Her

    . . . The husband, the son, the boyfriend . . . a drunk's tale

  • Art+Books

    April 13, 2000

    Who’s Your Daddy?

    Leonard Kleinrock and the birth of the Internet

  • Art+Books

    September 9, 1999

    BattleBots!

    Mechanical gladiators who maim one another may be the spectator sport of the future

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