Lila Seidman

Big Eyes screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski; Credit: Fred Yamasaki

Want to Make a Biopic About an Iconic Weirdo? Call These Guys

Lila Seidman
Sometime during the mid-'90s, screenwriting team Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander decided to fashion themselves as the vanguard of eccentric biography pictures, giving fringe artists and iconic weirdos like Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman and Bob Crane what they were denied in their respective careers — mainstream acceptance. Alexander......
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FootNight, L.A.'s Top Foot Fetish Party

Lila Seidman
Quentin Tarantino does it, Family Guy's Quagmire does it, the guy next door does it, and the birds and bees might even do it if it wasn't such a logistical bummer. They lust after the foot. Veteran kinksters will often shrug off the foot fetish as entry-level, benign and just......
Credit: Rick Brenes

TreeHouse Pot Lounge Shut Down, Plans to Relocate

Lila Seidman
Apparently there is such a thing as chilling too hard. At odds with sedate pothead iconography - "This aggression will not stand, man."   - the TreeHouse Social Lounge, L.A.'s first members-only BYO-pot bar-of-sorts, closed its doors on Sunday after noise complaints filed by surrounding neighbors, according to employees and patrons. One......
Cam girls tempt clients remotely

HBO's Sex//Now, a 2014 Update of Its Classic Real Sex Series

Lila Seidman
Once upon a time HBO's Real Sex showed us what sex was like then -- in the mythological era before teledildonics was just George Lucas' ultimate wet dream. It showed us that bridles and bits aren't just for ponies (pony play, anyone?) and cakes aren't just for eating (sploshing, anyone?......
April Flores and Carlos Batts at the Coagula Curatorial for their gallery opening; Credit: Gia Jordan

April Flores, the Plus-Size Porn Star

Lila Seidman
Fat Girl is a new photography book with a single subject -- the flame-haired April Flores, who, through her work as a plus-size model and porn star, has managed to inject a thread of consciousness and a-normative body acceptance into an industry with 48-24-32 measurements. Turn the pages and you......