Gendy Alimurung

Bozo the Clown’s shoes, big as canoe paddles, sit on a shelf in Pasquale Fabrizio’s shop on San Vicente Boulevard. He’s making copies of the floppy soles for a movie. Afterward, the originals will go to a museum for safekeeping. Jessica Miller (Click to enlarge) Coffee and cigarette heels: Pasquale......

Perez Hilton, rumormonger, blogger and creative force behind PerezHilton.com, a.k.a. “Hollywood’s most-hated Web site,” debuted his own fashion line for Hot Topic this weekend. As a line of acolytes forms outside the entrance of the Hollywood & Highland Hot Topic, we catch Hilton midway through an answer to a reporter’s......

The Book Expo America convention has come and gone. Here are 12 things I saw on the last day, in absolutely no order whatsoever. 1. The Independent Publishers Group Alley Standing strong! 2. Self Help Books on Murder and Drugs "Buy your kids educational toys. Like a metric scale and......

"The whales are great, have always been great,” sales clerk Matthew Stovall is saying, rather poetically. “The yeti is hidden throughout. The designer loves abominable snowmen.” Stovall works at Walnut Wallpaper, a tiny, cutting-edge wallpaper store on Beverly Boulevard. The designer in question is skater/illustrator Geoff McFetridge. “Did you see......

Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massive spectacle ones, should be inclusionary rather than exclusionary. How else are we going to regain the sense of reading as a fun,......

It was so deserted at the Book Expo America at the Convention Center today, I was beginning to despair about the state of the book industry. But it turns out I showed up a day early. I was not the only one. "But the website said it was open today......

If you eliminate all the narrative meaning from Disneyland, or even Knott’s Berry Farm, you end up with something like Riverside’s Castle Park miniature golf. Here, instead of market-tested themes, your own imagination imposes stories on the fantasy landscape. At a putting green guarded by a pagoda, you almost expect......