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Pork Cracker Jack by Susan Feniger: Fried Pig With Popcorn

Gendy Alimurung
At Allee Willis's party at Ghetto Gloss several weeks ago, Susan Feniger made a caramelly version of Cracker Jack with sunflower seeds, Boston baked bean candy, and salty pork. Pork. Pork. Pork. You'd bite into the stuff, taste the sweetness of peanut brittle, the carbohydrate crunch of the corn, and......

Signs of the Times at UCLA

Gendy Alimurung
Students, faculty and staff at all 10 UC campuses walked out of class and work last week on the first day of school to protest severe cuts to higher education. At UCLA, 1,000 demonstrators participated, the largest protest in years. Student fees are going up. But funding to student services......
Allee Willis knows kitsch.; Credit: Jennie Warren

The Junk Man’s Daughter

Gendy Alimurung
A small selection of Allee Willis’ kitsch collection showed recently at Ghettogloss gallery on Melrose Avenue. She hosted a party there while guests looked at her Touch O’Soul pantyhose and French Fry bubblegum and such. Willis has amassed her kitsch collection over 40 years. So really, the sampling at the......
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Memento Mori for Your Butt: The Skeleton Chair

Gendy Alimurung
Look at these skeleton back Chippendale chairs. So great. Spotted over at DesignSponge. They have a little interview with the creators, Wary Meyers. They got me thinking about skeletons as furniture. There's this "exceedingly rare" 19th century Russian skeleton chair made of lacquered wood and rabbit hair (yes, really) from......
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Vampire Hunting Kits: Travel-Sized Boxes of Pain & Vengeance

Gendy Alimurung
There's something so quaint and tidy about a kit for eradicating evil. Some of these vampire hunting kits are "authentic." Some were assembled by artists aiming to capture the antique beauty of the things. Others are straight up hoaxes. 1. The Old Fashioned Vampire Killing Kit with Garlic Syringe --......
A portrait of Natalia done by a friend. It hangs over her night stand.

Natalia Fabia House Tour: Hookers, Pink, & Chandeliers

Gendy Alimurung
Artist Natalia Fabia loves hookers and the color pink. (Click here to read about her last Hooker Pageant.) She lives in a bungalow in Glendale and recently opened up her house to the LA Weekly for a studio tour. That's her in the photo above with the painting she's working......
Cafe 50's version of the Monte Cristo

Monte Cristo Deathmatch! The Sickest Sandwich of All Time

Gendy Alimurung
What do you do when you can't decide whether to eat a ham and cheese sandwich, a fried turkey leg, or a powdered jelly doughnut? You eat a Monte Cristo. This artery-clogging devil of sandwiches is the unholy union of all those things. It's like something you'd eat at a......
Simply Coco; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

Audrey Tautou, After Amelie

Gendy Alimurung
Audrey Tautou takes a seat on the garden patio of a room at the Four Seasons Hotel, slips off her ballet flats. Her new movie, Coco Before Chanel, is an elegant little black dress of a movie, simple but complex. At the center is Tautou as young Gabrielle Chanel, before......