David Cotner

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I MOP LA

This part of Month of Photography Los Angeles — saddled with the decidedly dowdy acronym MOP LA — involves shutterbugs Markus Klinko and Indrani exh...
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WHAT WOULD JESUS SPIN?

Even if you don't consider yourself especially religious, or, conversely, are on such close terms with God that you know his last name is "Dammit," you'...
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ASS-ICAL BRASS

Tinto Brass, the Italian director known for his warped and sensual take on human nature — culminating most notoriously with his abortive directorial work ...
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Best Measure of a Man: Porn Prints at Studs Theatre

How to measure penis size discreetly: big nose, big hose? Large feet ... ? Measuring the tip of the middle finger to the base of the palm? Outside Studs Theatre in West Hollywood, you can gaze upon the scrawl of the late and lamented Linda Lovelace, marvel at the impressive......
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Best Party Line: CUT-FOOT Hot line

There was life before text messaging. In L.A., there has been the enduring (310) CUT-FOOT hot line, a daily, two-minute-long recorded bulletin of some of the coolest events happening in the city. My experience with the hot line, now into my speed dial, was one of forgetting and then remembering......
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Best Fishy Puns: The Reel Inn

The Pacific Coast Highway is rife with reasons to crane one’s neck: occasional deer on the ridge line of the eastern mountains; the brown fiberglass horse at the European & Equestrian Pet Supply; the towering ­serape’d Hispanic at La Salsa, forever ­offering a platter of food; and until ­recently, the......
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Best Underground Sounds: Los Angeles Theatre

Two stories below Broadway, beneath the ceaseless hustle and/or bustle, there’s a ballroom in the belly of the Los Angeles Theatre. When it’s an empty belly, everything echoes, as though calling forth the sounds of past dancers up from the bedrock and delivering them once more. It’s the kind of......
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Best Theater-in-the-Round: Velaslavasay Panorama

It’s a little neighborhood movie theater in Union Square, which you’d almost miss if you weren’t facing it as you drive up Union Street on the way to USC. Mint green and unassuming, the former Union Theatre — once known as Fairyland — had served as headquarters for the Tile......
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Best Foot Forward (or Back): Sign at Sunset Foot Clinic

Eels said it best with their song “Sad Foot Sign”: “Sad foot sign, why you gotta/taunt me this way/the happy side is broken now/it’s gonna be an awful day.” Anyone traveling down Sunset Boulevard to or from Echo Park has seen it: the big rotating sign for the Sunset Foot......