Lina Lecaro

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Never Mind the Bottles . . .

Lina Lecaro
Photos by Jack Gould No one used to make black clothes for kids. Nancy Kaufman recalls the controversy sparked after a TV show did a segment on the punk rock–inspired baby outfits she made for her store Na Na in the mid-’80s. “Gary Collins defended the look as ‘cute’ while......
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Bloody Graft

Lina Lecaro
Photo by Estevan Oriol "Tim saw something in me, I don't know what, but he gave me a shot," says Rob Aston, front man for the Transplants, in a recent powwow at his band's label, Epitaph Records — his home away from home in Silver Lake. "Seriously, I never thought......
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Björn Again

Lina Lecaro
Photos by Gregory Bojorquez SAHARA HOTNIGHTS at the Roxy, March 19 Yeah, they're from Sweden, and yes, they're young chicks with guitars, but the Hotnights have about as much in common with the Hives as they do with the Donnas (next to zilch). That hasn't stopped just about everyone from......
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Momma Does Mackie

Lina Lecaro
Photos by Julie Pavlowski Tucked away behind a 7-Eleven in an unassuming part of the Valley is a nondescript building that houses the archives and studio of the Sultan of Sequins, the Boss of Beads, Mr. Bob Mackie, who still designs a couture line and custom pieces for a celebrity......
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In the Bag

Lina Lecaro
With her colorfully inked arms and customized threads, handbag designer Allison Burns is the quintessentially cool flash-trash L.A. rock chick. She‘s one of those women who throws it all together so perfectly -- an effortlessly unique way with makeup, clothes and accessories -- that you want to hate her, but......
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Too Crazy?

Lina Lecaro
”I‘ve been kicked out of other bands for getting too crazy onstage,“ says Dave James, the spastic-charismatic front man of L.A.’s garage dynamos the Superbees, as we swig Coronas in a sticky Hollywood Mexican-food joint around the corner from Goldfingers, where his band will explode in a few hours. Hard......
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Sex, Mugs and Rock & Roll

Lina Lecaro
ALL SEX AND THE CITY DEVOTEES HAVE A CHARACTER WHOM they identify with most, both sexually and fashionwise. At least that was our theory, which we put to the test at the Key Club's SATC premiere viewing party in the downstairs Plush Lounge, turned into a Sex-travaganza featuring makeovers by......
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Knock 'Em Dead, Kid

Lina Lecaro
Photo by Gregory Bojorquez TOMMY LEE at House of Blues, June 28 With his transformation from heavy metal hellion to rap-rockin' b-boy, his much-talked-about video (s)exploits and that just plain embarrassing episode of MTV Cribs ("Yo yo, check this out!"), Tommy Lee is an easy target. Losing his girl to......
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Cocked and Loaded

Lina Lecaro
IT'S BRIGHT AND SWELTERING OUTSIDE, but you wouldn't know it nestled in one of the comfy red booths at the Rainbow. The sun has yet to set, and the cavelike rock den hasn't quite ignited into the loud and lascivious scene it will become later in the night. No scantily......
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Bianca Halstead

Lina Lecaro
“Every bad girl has a soft side,” Bianca Halstead, a.k.a. Bianca Butthole, recently told me as she described the fond ‘n’ funny power ballad about the ‘80s metal scene called “Big Hair, Broken Heart” on her band Betty Blowtorch’s album Are You Man Enough? Of course, anyone who’d ever come......