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Swing out

Short Subjects

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Two huge trends in women’s fashion caught on this summer and are spreading to pandemic proportions: the trapeze dress and frocks with pockets. And while you can find vintage versions of both, who has time to pick through the racks? We’ve done some research for you, but odds are you......
Mobile dome: Jeanne Landau's treasure trove on wheels

Wanderlust

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Maybe Hitch Couture owner Jeanne Landau has had a chronic case of the vagabond blues. For the first 15 minutes of our conversation she’s telling me how she came to our neck of the proverbial woods, by way of New York, San Diego, Prague and London, then back to San......

Beatle . . . Mania

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Beatles or Stones? Paul or John? Dogs or cats? These are the questions that divide us. When I was asked if I wanted to see Paul McCartney play an in-store (a.k.a. free gig) at Amoeba for work, my initial reaction was less than ecstatic. Now don’t get me wrong, I......
If it aint Broken

Meet Your Favorite New Band(s)

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The National, The Broken West The El Rey Theatre, June 26 At about 20 minutes to stage time, the main floor of the El Rey resembled a college quad: Older-looking professor types, a few in suits and ties, stood around while 20-something freshmen and mid-30s grad students sat here and......
(Photo by Rena Kosnett)

Night Out: We Can Be Heroes

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I’m looking for glory holes — well, former glory holes — in the dark women’s bathroom, formerly known as the “Slave Toilet,” of the Hyperion Tavern, which was formerly known as the gay bar Cuffs in Silver Lake. I find a few suspect holes, unsure if they’re officially blowing portals......
John Wayne

Paul McCartney Played Lots Of Beatle Songs

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Ok, I got in to see Paul at the free Amoeba in-store show. The crowd was a buzz wondering if he would play any Beatles songs or mostly stuff off the new album. Which we hear is good, but good eough to sleep on a sidewalk for three-days (which is......
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Sea Level Records (2001–2007)

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Sea Level Records, the popular Echo Park indie music shop, was pronounced dead last Friday. It was 5½ years old. Following an investigation, the cause of death was infanticide. Co-owner Todd Clifford pulled the trigger after growing dissatisfied with running a business. He had written on the shop’s MySpace blog,......

Primp'n Hos

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{mosimage} In the span of three small blocks there are nearly a dozen similar storefronts, filled with slutty mannequins in fishnets and clear-heeled platform shoes, and adorned with names like Liquid Dreams, Bed Behavior and Forplay. They are the famed lingerie boutiques of Hollywood Boulevard, colloquially referred to as “hooker......
Found objects reincarnated

EpOxyGreen: G.I.Y.

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Commerce and consciousness are hardly a capitalist contradiction these days. Consider Deborah Guyer Greene’s Venice gallery epOxybOx and adjacent sustainable-home-supply business epOxyGreen. The two stores — along with a closet-sized electric-car office and parking-lot showroom — make up a sustainable-lifestyle empire on the site of a former gas station built......

Almost Entourage

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A group of well-kempt 30-somethings, the kind who use expensive bath products and wear clothes that require dry cleaning, trickle into an old Tudor-style home on a tree-lined street barely in the hills of Los Feliz. This is the house where Vince lives, or rather, it’s the home of the......