The films on tonight's Association of Moving Image Archivists benefit double bill, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and Innerspace (1987), are outwardly ...
Cinefamily (Click to enlarge) Casablanca Cinefamily rings in Valentine's Day with a screening of video artist Wendy Clarke's The Love Tapes, in which the daughter of avant-garde/indie filmmaker Shirley Clarke takes the concept of the photo-booth-as-confessional to its logical end. Since 1977, Clarke has made kiosks equipped with video cameras......
“A writer,” Orhan Pamuk revealed during his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in literature this past December, “talks of things that everyone knows but does not know they know. To explore this knowledge, and to watch it grow, is a pleasurable thing; the reader is visiting a world at......
Slightly over a year ago, a video premiered on YouTube, that fount of talking cats and “Ow! My balls!” bloopers. Within a matter of days, pianist Regina Spektor...
So, what if I survive the apocalypse but have a pronounced limp from a phantom limb that won’t stop itching? I’ll just go over to Human Designs Prosthetic & Orthotic Laboratory for a quick read on how far the science of replacing human limbs has traveled. In a world where......
While one’s first urge may be to defuse the nuke or outrun the withering waves at the edge of apocalypse, most people would simply hug their loved ones or play with their pets when global death comes tapping. More than likely, we will be caught unprepared when the bolt shoots......
When the mutants of 2051 A.D. find my broken remains beneath the ruins of the stone sun calendar at the Mayan, they’ll consider me quite the VIP, albeit a victim of unlucky deconstruction. This 1927 cinema, designed by the architectural firm Morgan, Walls and Clements, boasts a bas-relief façade with......
If news of nukes speeding across our hemisphere were to break, I’d grab a boat to Santa Catalina Island and tune in to KISL 88.7 FM Island Radio in Avalon. The concept of an island radio station hovers somewhere between romantic and foolhardy, but during the recent brushfires on the......
It’s an awesome spectacle: pastrami on rye, extra pickles, coleslaw and melted Swiss cheese served by older ladies who handle the midday crush at Schreiner’s Fine Sausages with grace. The last supper — or lunch, depending on when the end comes — might well consist of a line of faithful......
Considering that long-term scent memory is nearly unassailable, when you’re blasted to atoms, conceivably some of those minuscule particles will carry olfactory experiences, soul memory traveling the world on superheated winds. The scent radiating from the La Cienega flagship shop of the 86-year-old See’s Candies comes from the factory behind......
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