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The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, February 4 Gliss LOS GLOBOS Gliss is one of L.A.'s more unusual bands. All three members -- Martin Klingman, Victoria Cecilia and David Reiss -- switch off on instruments and vocals. Yet no matter who's on the mic, their sound is always dreamy, packed in cottony layers of shoegazer guitars ... More >>

Flux Pavillion's Santa Monica Dubstep Show Greeted By Police In Riot Gear

Police responded to large crowds gathered for a Flux Pavillion dubstep show in Santa Monica tonight. According to Fox 11 News and Twitter's LAScanner, Santa Monica police were aided by cops from Beverly Hills and Culver City to assist with overcrowding at the event at Santa Monica Airport's Hangar ... More >>

I Was Sick of L.A. Traffic. So I Took a Plane to Work

I am flying westward over the Angeles Crest Mountains, the morning sun shining down over the San Fernando Valley as it spreads out below me and we bank south. The Cessna 152, aptly named "the Commuter," cruises at just over 3,500 feet as we travel from the Agua Dulce Airpark toward Santa Monica ... More >>

10 Great Artworks at Art Platform Los Angeles Art Fair

This past weekend's Art Platform Los Angeles art fair turned out pretty well, despite some trepidation that its move from last year's popular inauguration at Downtown's LA Mart to the usual art-fair suspect of Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar would render it indistinguishable from the others. T ... More >>

How Allen Tombello Hopes to Displace Your Personal Space With Psycho-Tripping Doppelgangers

On Saturday, Sept. 8, one of the biggest nights for art galleries and opening receptions in Los Angeles, a subtly strange and awkwardly stunning show opened in an old airplane hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. In the entrance of the hanger, people were standing around sculptures and installations, ... More >>

Art For Thumb's Sake

Sean McMillan: Plane Crashes in West L.A., Pilot Dead (PHOTOS)

Updated at the bottom with the pilot's ID. Headline has been modified. First posted at 6:28 p.m. Friday. A small plane crashed in West Los Angeles today. NBC Los Angeles reported the plane might have been en route to Santa Monica Airport when the crash happened shortly after 6 p.m. The L.A. Fire ... More >>

Santa Monica Trying to Push Annoying Flight-School Activity Onto Surrounding Airports

A rather pompous proposal to alleviate weekend and holiday traffic at the Santa Monica Airport (SMO) is going up before the city's seven councilmembers at tomorrow's meeting: They'll be taking the fates of eight surrounding airports into their own hands, deciding whether to offer flight schools $150 ... More >>

Flying Fugly: Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport

Between Frank Gehry's house, the Bergamot Station complex and countless other condo developments, parking structures and strip malls around Santa Monica, the city could stand to implement a 10-year ban on corrugated metal-clad buildings.

A Dry Ice Sculpture That Pokes Fun at Our Obsession with Shopping

Courtesy Judy Chicago. Photo: Donald Woodman.Judy Chicago and Materials & Applications, "Disappearing Environments," 2012.​ Sure, if you arrived at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012 after seven last Thursday night, when the opening party ended, you had to lay down cash for your drinks. But out ... More >>

New Jazz Bakery In Jeopardy; West Side Jazz Scene Hurting

Tom MeekThe Ron Jones Orchestra at the Jazz Bakery, 2008​The Jazz Bakery, L.A.'s major jazz non-profit organization, is in turmoil because of the pending shutdown of the Culver City Redevelopment Agency. Jazz Bakery president Ruth Price had been working with the agency to reopen Jazz Bakery's ... More >>

Venice Residents Still Fuming Over Santa Monica Airport's Self-Serving Flight Pattern

New York Times, circa 2007Still annoying.​Update: L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl says he has some tricks up his sleeve to possibly take down the airport before 2015. Also, he calls it "a health emergency for the lungs of my people." More drama below. Originally posted October 18 at 12:50 ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Art Unveiled

Photo by Shannon Cottrell​While you're mulling over whether or not it's a travesty that Katy Perry tied his singles record, check out Michael Jackson's art collection, which our sister blog Style Council got the very first peek at. This isn't art that MJ collected, mind you, it's mainly pain ... More >>

Brick's Picks: We Go to Playboy Jazz Festival for the Music

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Santa Monica Police Search For Two Suspects Who Kidnapped, Raped Woman In Broad Daylight

Google MapsPolice said a woman was abducted in Santa Monica before being attacked.​One of the scariest crimes to rock the Westside in several months happened late last month but wasn't publicized by Santa Monica police until last week. It appeared to involve the kidnapping, rape and robbery o ... More >>

Neighbors Opposed To Santa Monica Airport Noise To Hold Vigil Monday

Santa Monica Airport.​Venice and Mar Vista activists fed up with noise from jets taking off and landing at nearby Santa Monica Airport will hold a "Peace and Quiet Vigil" Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. as the airport goes dark for runway maintenance. The vigil will be held at the northwest corner of ... More >>

All My Sons

A Recipe From the Chef: Norman Fierros' Sea of Cortez Ceviche

A. ScattergoodNorman Fierros' Sea of Cortez ceviche​ Norman Fierros, the new chef at the Pan Am Room at the Santa Monica Airport, has been having a good time with his menu, which he's been playing with since the restaurant reopened (new name, same airplanes) about two months ago. (Read our int ... More >>

Plane Crashes On Venice Golf Course [Updated]

Google Maps​[Updated at 7:15 p.m.] A man died, presumably the pilot, when a small airplane crashed near the eighth hole of the Penmar golf course in Venice Thursday evening, Los Angeles fire officials said. The crash at 1233 East Rose Ave. Was reported at 6:06 p.m., according to Erik Scott o ... More >>

Santa Monica Whale Sushi Restaurant Closes

The Hump and Typhoon restaurants.​The Hump, the Santa Monica restaurant that faces a federal charge for serving endangered whale meat, announced it's closing its doors effective Saturday. "The Hump hopes that by closing its doors, it will help bring awareness to the detrimental effect that il ... More >>

Whale Sushi Restaurant Issues Apology, Admits Wrongdoing

thehump.biz.The Hump.​The Hump, the Santa Monica sushi restaurant charged with serving endangered whale meat, admitted to the crime and issued an apology on its website. "The charge against the restaurant is true: The Hump served whale meat to customers looking to eat what in Japan is widely ... More >>

Spielberg, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise Asked To Give Up Private Jets

Winograd.​Congressional candidate Marcy Winograd has formally asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a handful of mega-stars to stop flying via private jet in and out of Santa Monica Airport because of the pollution the planes cause for neighbors in the neighboring, L.A. city community of Mar Vi ... More >>

Industry Titans To Discuss Fossil Fuel Alternatives For Auto Industry

Ahead of this week's Los Angeles International Auto Show, a select group of industry titans is gathering at the Hammer Museum in Westwood Tuesday to discuss alternative fuels and new technologies for the auto industry. Scheduled attendees include Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive, John Krafci ... More >>

Arturo Sandoval at Luckman, Bruce Lofgren Jazz Orchestra (featuring Keith Emerson of ELP) at Typhoon

Also, Industrial Jazz Group at El Cid, celebrating Page Cavanaugh

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Hey Baby. Want to See My Photos?

Where Art Thy Art Fairs Now?

BY TOM CHRISTIEThe fairs are moving on up: With the Los Angeles Art Show heading downtown to the L.A. Convention Center (Jan. 21-25), both PHOTO LA (Jan. 9-11) and ART LA (Jan. 23-25) are moving into the vacated Barker Hanger at Santa Monica Airport.  All three fairs show improvement, and will ... More >>

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Tarmac Rage

Getting an earful from millionaires’ jets at Santa Monica Airport

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