Dani Katz

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Flesh for Fantasy

Dani Katz
After the beautiful, yet co-dependent energy suck that was my five-year relationship with a Swedish painter, I am happily unattached. And while single’s done wonders for my career, my self-esteem and my complexion, it’s left my libido in a lurch. Consequently, I’ve taken a slew of imaginary lovers to spice......

The Write Stuff

Dani Katz
I trudge into the Tonic Bar at Erewhon on a recent Friday in a terrible mood. I’ve just gotten off the phone with a vibrational doctor who informed me that aside from liver weakness and heavy-metal toxicity, I had no less than six curses swirling around my light body, which......
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Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

Dani Katz
Some New York Times art critic called multi-media artist Matthew Barney the most important artist of our generation, and Los Angeles believed him. Upper-crust art lovers - beautiful people in beautiful clothes - came out of the proverbial woodwork to Regen Projects Saturday night, where Barney’s new movie premiered in......
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Getting to the Gala…

Dani Katz
When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate one, considering my sparse excuse for a wardrobe, overrun with tattered t-shirts, baggy jeans, moth-eaten sweaters and a few other shapeless things, all......
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Resistance Is Futile

Dani Katz
Paul Schimmel removes the odd stray hair from a canvas and straightens out misaligned panels as he leads me, room by room, piece by piece through the half-installed “© Murakami” exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo. Schimmel is in his 40s and has kind eyes and droopy jowls......
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Resistance Is Futile

Dani Katz
Paul Schimmel removes the odd stray hair from a canvas and straightens out misaligned panels as he leads me, room by room, piece by piece through the half-installed “© Murakami” exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo. Schimmel is in his 40s and has kind eyes and droopy jowls......

Raw Power

Dani Katz
Raw-food enthusiasts are no longer a tiny fringe group of smelly hippies who chart the Mayan calendar and swear by the rhythm method. The raw-food movement is a growing trend, spreading like wildfire to the conscious, the healthy and the vain alike. Raw food pulses with life force that makes......

Best Rapture

Dani Katz
It’s a hot, dry, loveless summer for those of us on relationship hiatus, and the neighborhood Tom tends toward the timid. Ladies, you know what I’m talking about. His gentle, disinterested kitten licks don’t actually get you where you need to go; they taunt, they tease and, ultimately, they torment......

Best Wake-Up Call

Dani Katz
Time is but an illusion, and the universe rarely considers our personal biorhythms when slamming us with cataclysmic natural disasters and massive consciousness shifts. This is one of the reasons I head to Urth Caffé. Because even without an apocalypse to worry about, there are mornings I wake up ahead......

Best Chocolate Bliss

Dani Katz
The sun is imploding, the moon is weeping and the squirrels are racing for the hills. Nabbing yourself a chocolate high might be your next logical move. The antioxidants are irrelevant in the face of The Big One, but the bliss factor — well, that’s gonna come in handy when......