By bringing the lyrics to "Free Fallin'" to life, Petty fans captured what made the late singer-songwriter such a quintessential chronicler of L.A. in all its weirdness....
Gerardo Velasquez was punk as fuck. In the late 1970s, the young artist had co-founded Nervous Gender a seminal force not only within Los Angeles' punk scene, but in the development of synthesizer-based music. A decade later, he was making visual art on computers. Velasquez embraced then-nascent technology to make......
As the official DJ of the Lakers, Jeremy Roueche has to keep the crowd excited — but also find an appropriate track to play when a player gets injured....
Racism and migration aren't topics one would expect to encounter while playing a game. At this year's IndieCade, you might do just that. In the alternate-reality game Tracking Ida, players learn about the life of Ida B. Wells, an African-American activist and journalist who reported on lynchings in the 1890s......
Long before Los Angeles' dance music scene reached peak levels of cool, we had Doc Martin. Back in the '90s, the venerable house DJ held down a residency at Glam Slam as he built his reputation as a global house-music ambassador. Even when L.A. DJs weren't making a huge impact......
As lowbrow morphed into pop surrealism and then again into new contemporary, Copro Gallery was there. The venerable art hub founded by Greg Escalante (who also co-founded Juxtapoz magazine) traces its roots back to the 1990s and, for more than 20 years, has saluted both established and up-and-coming names. In......
It doesn't have the kind of star power that Forest Lawn, Hollywood Forever or even the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park can claim. Its connection to L.A. history hasn't been as fully explored as that of nearby Evergreen. But if you like strolling through graveyards, Odd Fellows Cemetery is the......
Virtual reality has come a long way in the past few years, and now there's a growing bounty of experiences to try. The catch is that, if you want a highly immersive experience, you'll need high-priced gear, a powerful computer and a lot of space to move your physical body......
This isn't the dusty old "Cornfields" you remember from FYF and HARD Festivals of a few years ago. After an extensive overhaul, Los Angeles State Historic Park has emerged as the park this city needs: a sprawling mass of green(ish) open space located right by the Gold Line's Chinatown exit......
If you took midcentury style and stripped it of any design elements now considered kitsch, and took the tried-and-true steakhouse menu and added a dose of contemporary, international flair, you would get SOCA. The design theme is actually Mediterranean, but the blue glass and white embellishments that curve like wrought......
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