Lina Lecaro

What Would Jesus Paint?

Lina Lecaro
We appreciate art as much as the next guy, but sometimes entering a snooty Westside gallery can be a daunting experience. No, we can’t afford to buy anything, and we have no clue about what the obscure postmodern quasi-Cubist stuff on the wall is paying homage to. We just like......

Natural Air Conditioning

Lina Lecaro
For those who have grown up in L.A., it’s nearly impossible not to have warm, fuzzy flashbacks about Griffith Park: our first pony and mini-train rides; the Sunday-afternoon jam sessions under the trees, where Dad would pound on conga drums with dozens of happy hippie types emanating pungent (then unfamiliar)......

After Sunset

Lina Lecaro
Every August the Sunset Junction Street Fair marks the end of another long, hot summer with sweaty hugs and dissonant sounds amid the ever-changing shopscape of Silver Lake’s independently owned businesses. It always makes me think of a weekend in ’87 — the first at my first job ever, at......
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Nightranger – Sep 29, 2005

Lina Lecaro
SHIVER MEIf it seemed like everywhere ya went on a recent Monday, peeps were aye-ing and arrrr-ing like Johnny Depp channeling Keith Richards in a Disney flick, it was no coinkydink. Turned out September 19 was “International Talk Like a Pirate Day.” From our pal Derek Schaefer’s celebration of his......
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Nightranger – Sep 15, 2005

Lina Lecaro
“Kick out the preserves, fatherfuckers!” proclaimed witty wino Julian Davies, as two glass goblets of crimson devil juice were poured generously before us. Nightranger was looking for a chill hang to accompany the weather change last Friday, and The Echo’s Irregular Wine Tasting, which this month featured “death haiku” (so......
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Crystal Blue Persuasion

Lina Lecaro
Photos by Kevin ScanlonSummer is over, but don’t tell that to those who swim about L.A.’s social swirls. In the past few months, poolside prancing and posturing have added a whole new dimension to nightlife, not to mention more excuses for daytime debauchery than ever before. But what is it......
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Nightranger – Sep 8, 2005

Lina Lecaro
Magical Mystery Tour What happens in Vegas comes from L.A., at least when it’s Magic Trade Show time. An army of West Coast trendsetters descended on Sin City last week for the annual wholesale fashion convention, which not unlike a nightclub offered DJs spinning in different themed areas, half-naked hoochie......
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Nightranger – Sep 1, 2005

Lina Lecaro
SUNSET PEOPLENeither sweltering temps nor a $10 cover kept the masses away from the Sunset Junction Street Fair. Saturday’s crowds were whiter and straighter than ever before (the leather-boy and tranny quotient was higher on New York Dolls Sunday); still, the essence of the hood wasn’t in the streets, but......
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Cocks of the Rock

Lina Lecaro
“We’re the last of the Mohicans, trying to keep this kind of rock & roll alive,” says Todd Youth, sucking on a cig in the musky tour bus he and his band, the Chelsea Smiles, are sharing with a couple-dozen other guys while touring with Sweden’s Backyard Babies. “It’s all......
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It’s the Most Junctiony Time of the Year!

Lina Lecaro
From multiculti, polysexual neighborhood street party to bona fide music and arts fest, the Sunset Junction Street Fair continues to excite as it expands. Not everybody in the hood loves it that the crowds (and the donation fees) keep getting bigger, but with a lineup like this, who can bitch?......