Dani Katz

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......

Biggest Fuck You, L.A.

Dani Katz
Heading west on Venice’s Rose Avenue, I screech to a halt at the red ?light at Main. Idling there, I try to avert my eyes from the offensive visage on the other side of the intersection. Fat chance — the thing is just too big; too bold. It’s too bad......

Best Revival of an Extinct Fashion Species

Dani Katz
In his seminal work The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1, Drunvalo Melchizedek offers a detailed breakdown of the impending dimensional shift, a.k.a. the Apocalypse. Melchizedek urges the reader to outfit himself in natural fibers because nylon and poly blends can singe the skin while passing through......

Lost Path to Shangri-la

Dani Katz
The apocalypse showed up early for the Rodeo Grounds. The idyllic artists’ community was decimated at the grubby hands of corporate greed and civic apathy in 2006 when the last of the residents were officially evicted. What remains is a heartbreaking mess of vandalized rubble and dried-out, unmanaged overgrowth. Three......

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......

Golden

Dani Katz
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. —Friedrich Schiller It all started late one night when I clicked on a link a distant cousin had sent me in June. Crouched in front of my computer, my......
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Unicorns Need Not Apply

Dani Katz
I stopped into The Mandrake after Gary Baseman's opening at Billy Shire Saturday night (I'm guessing Caroline will be blogging about the show, so all I'll say is this: Natalia Fabia looked fantastic in floor-length Gary and electric pink lowlights). Steve Shein was hawking his laser-cut wares in the back......
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Road Trip: Day 4 (still in Santa Fe)

Dani Katz
It dawns on me this groggy, windy morning that Santa Fe Time (SFT) is one hour ahead of Los Angeles Time (LAT). I rationalize a lazy day to acclimate to the time difference and adjust to the altitude, which manifests mostly in my nostrils. I soak up some rays by......

Plan C

Dani Katz
For a slideshow version of this story, with many more illustrations, click here. After a weekend of making art, I awake Monday morning on three hours of sleep and as many Sunday-night bong hits. I’m glowing. I’ve never looked better. Clearly, something is terribly, terribly wrong. I head to the......
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Fuck Saint Patrick

Dani Katz
It's St. Patrick's day and I'm working my regular shift at new Melrose hotspot, The Village Idiot, which is a welcoming haven on this Saturday night for emerald-clad alcoholics, despite being an English pub. Oh, I'm in the throes of food poisoning, which has turned my skin a festive shade......