L.J. Williamson

Is Missoni in line to become the next Ed Hardy? The well-established Italian fashion house's special Target line of clothing and housewares debuted this morning, on the same day I needed to hit the store for an early-morning toilet paper run, and zigzags were flying off the shelves at a......

The Buddhist Geeks conference is filled with, well, geeks. Who happen to be Buddhists. Who happen to be meeting on a recent Saturday for a conference in Rosemead to share their common afflictions. There's nothing crunchy here -- no handwritten signs, no dreads, no Birkenstocks. These techno-literati share a common......

L.J. WilliamsonOnly imperial stormtroopers are so precise.​ Is there any venture that can't profit from a Star Wars tie-in, no matter how tenuous the connection? Despite the goofiness factor of zoo-hosted "educational" talks about topics like the similarities between koalas and ewoks (Um... they're both fictional? No. They both carry......

The Museum of Natural History has a bright, shiny, happy new dinosaur hall with sunshine streaming in through floor-to-ceiling windows and colorful signs explaining educational facts about those crowd-pleasing dino bones that all of the schoolkiddies came here to see. Yet after the children bounce out of the dinosaur exhibit......

All day long, Sally Lohan looks for signposts that would be easy to miss in the constant onslaught of visual information that comes your way on a typical Los Angeles street. On a recent Wednesday, her first stop is the street art in the alley behind the Melrose strip. She......