Erin Broadley

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Best Moving Pictures: The Engine Theater

Erin Broadley
At first glance, it’s a rusted tower crane. Perhaps something dredged up from the ocean, an artifact of some lost city in some displaced future, like Mad Max’s Atlantis. Unlike any projection system Los Angeles has ever seen, the Engine Theater is 1,000 pounds of illuminated oxidized-steel sculpture that rotates......
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Calexico Explores the Ambient World With Carried to Dust

Erin Broadley
With a voice like Marlboros and whiskey, the salesman tells me, "The barber's not in today," as he peers out from behind a glass case of nicknacks. He then turns away to help another customer, leaving me alone with this old barber's chair that sits outside, its metal hot to......
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Ectoplasm: In the Art Studio with Incubus' Brandon Boyd

Erin Broadley
Seventeen years in the spotlight as the lead singer of Incubus have made Brandon Boyd understandably private, so when he invited the L.A. Weekly to his West Side, home studio for a glimpse of his creative space, I jumped at the opportunity. Boyd has been a visual artist longer than......
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Seth MacFarlane + YouTube: Master of Parody Launches Cavalcade Web Series

Erin Broadley
Los Angeles premiere parties are full of perks like free cocktails, irreverent celebrity commentary and, if you're lucky, a few laughs and plenty of photo opportunities. Wednesday September 10 marked the debut of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's new Web series, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, a 10-part independent......