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The Song of Solomon

West Hollywood City Council and Term Limits Races Turn Political Scene Upside Down But Voters Get Last Word on Election Day

After months of political contention, West Hollywood voters will decide today if term limits for City Council members should be approved and if incumbents Jeff Prang and John Duran should be re-elected. Former Councilman Steve Martin, a front-running challenger, wants to replace either Duran or Pran ... More >>

No Satisfaction Yet in the Search for Captain Henry Morgan's Satisfaction

See also: *10 Great Artworks at Art Platform Los Angeles Art Fair The Unsinkable Henry Morgan isn't your typical documentary. Following the search for the eponymous Captain Morgan's lost flagship, The Satisfaction, the film reads more like an episode of MTV's Laguna Beach or The Hills than anythin ... More >>

How Ozwald Boateng Helped Invent the Suits Men Wear Today

Ozwald Boateng barely made it to L.A. from Hurricane Sandy-ravaged New York. He got stranded at a strange time -- just days before the premiere of his documentary film, A Man's Story, which chronicles both his professional and personal life, and is nearly 15 years in the making. But he's here, sitti ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Tattoo Art Trailblazers

This week, Karl Haendel asks embarrassing questions meant for his dad, Rona Yefman champions female tattoo artists and MOCA delves back into the Occupy movement. 5. The situation When Paul Pescador staged What Have I Done to Deserve This in Lincoln Heights a year and a half ago, visitors had to put ... More >>

Eddo Stern's Experimental Video Games Merge Art With Online Role-Playing and Virtual Reality

Leegattenby King of Bards and Squire Rex, both better-than-average players of the online role-playing game Everquest, faced off in 2004. Leegattenby wanted to know how something called "armor class" worked, and asked about it on a forum. Rex said Leegattenby sounded like a noob. Leegattenby mentione ... More >>

Mary Anna Pomonis' 'In Brio' at Annie Wharton L.A. Shows How Diamonds Really Are a Girl's Best Friend

A few years ago, artist Mary Anna Pomonis went through a painful divorce. She found that when she took off her diamond wedding ring for good, it was also as though she were shedding a large part of her social status as a woman. She felt empty and powerless without the rock on her hand, and she even ... More >>

Miranda July's The Future and 'Eleven Heavy Things': This Week's LA Weekly Cover Story

Kevin Scanlon​ In case you haven't seen it on newsstands, this week's LA Weekly cover story is on Miranda July, written by our film critic Karina Longworth. Karina tags along with July during the installation and then the opening of her new exhibit "Eleven Heavy Things," an interactive sculpt ... More >>

George Herms, Beat Artist, on His New MOCA Show 'Xenophilia'

Sophie DuvernoyGeorge Herms: Xenophilia, 2011​ George Herms: beat legend, assemblage artist, free jazz enthusiast, Mexican marijuana fan. At a sprightly 75, he's still producing vast amounts of work in his Topanga Canyon studio. He's also the focus of a new show that opened last Friday at the ... More >>

West Hollywood City Council Candidates Square Off in First Debate, Challengers Say Time for Change

Ted SoquiWest Hollywood Mayor John Heilman​A long-anticipated debate will take place in West Hollywood tonight between all of the candidates running for City Council, including several hard-charging challengers and incumbents John Heilman, Abbe Land, and Lindsey Horvath. The challengers will ... More >>

First, Listen to the Neighbors

An architect's plan for making L.A. more livable

Lieutenant Governor of Paper Clips

Janice Hahn, a product of the L.A. City Council, hopes to be a heartbeat away from governor of California

Albert Reyes Brings His Halloween Maze to Art Gallery Mastodon Mesa

For the past few years, artist Albert Reyes has been building Halloween mazes in his backyard. Last week, Reyes brought his pet project to Mastodon Mesa at the Pacific Design Center for his one-night-only solo show "Never Dies the Dream." Shannon CottrellAlbert Reyes​

Movies Gone Bad

Pat O'Neill's shattered, kaleidoscopic storytelling — and beyond

Queer Town: Gavin Newsom Loses Another Gay Endorsement

On Monday night, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, a candidate in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor and a darling of the gay rights movement for allowing same sex couples to marry in his city in 2004, has lost yet another endorsement contest involving a gay political group.Patrick Range ... More >>

West Hollywood 'Art Attack' Ringleaders Revealed

Who were those masked men and women?Sky Yim"Art attack" protesters assemble near the Pacific Design Center on Monday night.​That's been the question of the week in West Hollywood, where some 20 people, wearing masks of longtime City Council members John Heilman and Abbe Land, and holding placards ... More >>

West Follywood

How a progressive town founded on renters' rights and diversity ended up gridlocked, angry and elitist

Farewell to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore

Old friend set to close this year

Tits the Season: Naughty Santa's Grotto & A Giant Christmas Vagina at Coco de Mer

ChadMichael Morrisette and Mito Aviles, Los Angeles's infamous rooftop installation artists, have struck again. They are doing an x-rated winter wonderland piece at the lovely little Victorian sex shop Coco de Mer. Here are some photos from the opening last week. The boys will be doing a repeat perf ... More >>

Setting the (Gay) Wedding Table

Wiser, more diffuse, battle-savvy gay-rights groups craft a 2010 ballot measure for California

GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

Baroque Then and Now

Bernini at the Getty, Sterling Ruby at MOCA Pacific Design Center

Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues

Lighting Ants On Fire

Queer Town: Good Craziness in West Hollywood

At West Hollywood Park, across the street from the Pacific Design Center, Mayor Jeff Prang stood underneath the shade of a palm tree in a navy blue suit with a gold-and-blue striped tie. He had been talking to journalists from all over the world and needed to take a breather before the press confere ... More >>

Pat Kingsley

Flack like me

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

Ask Mr. Gold: Manhattan Clam Chowder

Another Lost Weekend?

What to do from March 3 - 9

Curatorial Ecstasy

MOCA’s Paul Schimmel on his new big show, his old big show (“Helter Skelter”) and everything in between

Raw Power

Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.’s Fashion Week

All Shook Up?

Are William Morris’ changes off the Richter scale or just tiny temblors?

Making Believe for Real

The Revelations of Diane Arbus

Welcome to the Jungle

Edited by Kateri Butler

The 'Burbs: When Hate Groups Follow You Home

Warhol Around Town

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

The Playwright’s Playwright

The persistence of Murray Mednick

Small City, Big Plans

West Hollywood struggles through the chaos of reconstruction

The Graying of West Hollywood

Election could chart course as city matures