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Sticks + Skin + Bones

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Except for the two women dressed in what looks like cow intestine, the crowd huddling around the outdoor cocktail bar at MOCA’s opening of the “Skin + Bones” fashion and architecture exhibit seems pretty tame. Instead of radical Watanabe, Yamamoto or McQueen gowns that swirl like Gehry buildings, there is......
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The New Romantics

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Colin Meloy is lying onstage at the Wiltern like a puffy Adonis ready to receive grapes; someone feeds him a Twizzler. Girls are screaming, taking pictures of him with their cell phones as if he were Justin Timberlake. Meloy bends down, touching their hands, then snatches a phone from one......
Is knitting your bag? Check out Mel Clark and Tracey Ullmans book Knit 2 Together. (Photo by Eric Axene)

Knitting Factories

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We’ve all seen the pictures of Julia Roberts in those sweaters she knits herself. We know that Kate Moss darns during photo-shoot downtimes. No one needs to tell us that knitting is a hot hobby. What they don’t tell us is that knitting can get really monotonous. Every year, I......
If you dare knit short-shorts (Photo by Yuu Tsai)

A Sexy Little Yarn

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Once you’ve learned the basics of knitting, you find out fast how hard it is to get your hands on really hip patterns. Sure, you can find cute beanies and scarves — but how many do you need here in sunny L.A.? If you’re a sweater girl, most of the......
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At home on the range (Photos by Timothy Norris)

Zen and the Art of the Muzzle Blast

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don’t like yoga. I tried it once, so I know. I just can’t relax in a roomful of strangers while staring at someone’s sweaty crotch in front of me, knowing someone else is staring at mine. During meditation they tell you to clear your mind of all things — I......
Amber Valletta tells us what she really thinks.

Tanks for the Message

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From the outside, the Echo Park shop looks closed. Red security gates cover most of the windows, and, inside, the space doesn’t look any more open. Sparsely stocked shelves hold tank tops that read “Stop Wars” (in the Star Wars font), along with the best-selling tee that brags “My Bush......
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Beautiful Dreamers

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Rock stars diddling laptops. That’s what I found backstage recently at the Fonda, where Mew, the hottest thing to come out of Denmark since cheese-filled pastries, were about to perform behind their current And the Glass Handed Kites. Sensing my disappointment at the lack of debauchery, guitarist Bo Madsen explained,......
Lord Whimsy

Gentlemen's Disagreement

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You could really be a Beau Brummell, baby, if you just give it half a chance. —Billy Joel, “It’s Still Rock & Roll to Me” There’s a sartorial civil war brewing. Lines are being drawn and sides taken in the battle over who has earned the right to call themselves......