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Best Art Zines

David Cotner
Just when you think that zine culture might be poised for a major comeback, you go into a place like Family and find that it never really went away. Opened in autumn 2006, Family carries scores of individually designed, printed and packaged art zines reflecting the best and oddest of......
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Best Underrated Bandshell

David Cotner
Although amphitheaters such as the Hollywood Bowl, the Greek Theater and the Ford get the lion's share of adulation when it comes to glorifying bandshells in the Southland, there's one amphitheater you might not be aware of that deserves your attention. Built in the Verdugo Mountains on parkland deeded by......
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Best Chocolate Shake

David Cotner
You could choose Dutch chocolate, rum raisin or toasted almond when you go to Fosselman's ice cream parlor. You could even go for the more exotic flavors of taro, lychee or the seasonal Cookie Monster ice cream, resplendent in luminescent blue. But it is the chocolate shake at which the......
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Best School of Rock

David Cotner
They say that the best art takes you to another world; here's a gallery that brings other worlds to you. The UCLA Meteorite Gallery, which holds more than 2,500 samples from nearly 1,500 meteorites, is the public face of the collection that's the second-largest held at a university (Arizona State......
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Best Saber Rattling

David Cotner
Fencing will make you work harder than any other sport just to score one point. Using an entirely different set of muscles, the point of your defense is for you to make yourself as difficult to hit as possible, even as you find the opening that drives your blade into......
Witches of Malibu's Skott Rusch; Credit: Courtesy of the artist

Does Witches of Malibu's Music Make You Feel Queasy? That's the Idea

David Cotner
Witches of Malibu — self-described as “violently psychedelic electronics, American Industrial power of suggestion and relaxation through noise-mongering” — might be less a mark made on the cool L.A. music landscape and more a screw punched through its center. Formed in summer 2013 during a live action at the witching......