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George Carlin on Melrose

Mark Mauer
A heavenly George Carlin, which he might have found amusing. One of my favorite lines of Carlin's: "You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up." (Most likely said before September, 2001.) Photo by Mark Mauer......
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Flyer of the week: David Lynch!

Mark Mauer
Well, his foundation at least... If you are lucky enough to have the David Lynch seal of approval, you can't do much better than to slap his face on your poster and put your own band names below it - not too big either. Wed. July 16th sees Nico Vega,......
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Videos from The Masses

Mark Mauer
Below are a few videos mentioned in this week's feature on the Masses. (All text by Randall Roberts) The Masses in Marfa: Edited by Matt Amato QT_WritePoster_XHTML('Click to Play', 'https://www.laweekly.com/images/stories/Podcasts/MARFA/MARFA-poster.jpg', 'https://www.laweekly.com/images/stories/Podcasts/MARFA/MARFA.mov', '490', '292', '', 'controller', 'true', 'autoplay', 'true', 'bgcolor', 'black', 'scale', 'aspect'); //--> src="https://www.laweekly.com/images/stories/Podcasts/MARFA/MARFA-poster.jpg" href="https://www.laweekly.com/images/stories/Podcasts/MARFA/MARFA.mov" target="myself" controller="false" autoplay="false" scale="aspect"> In......
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Variations on a Theme Building: Revealing LAX's Exoskeleton

Mark Mauer
Mark Mauer (Click to enlarge) Mark Mauer (Click to enlarge) Mark Mauer (Click to enlarge) Mark Mauer (Click to enlarge) As the airline industry collapses in on itself faster than the top speed of a Concorde, there are still a couple of nonfrustrating things about a visit to LAX. Not......
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Birds of Hollywood, ELKPEN, Fountain Ave Market

Mark Mauer
Here's an excellent piece on Fountain: Beautiful, unusual, educational and local. From Elk Pen's website: "A lot of my work is about birds. Living in the city, birds are the wildlife I see most often. When I watch a bird hopping around on the sidewalk, or cocking it’s head from......
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Popping up with cucumber/watermelon/feta skewers from We Olive and Wine Bar; Credit: Michele Stueven

Hootenanny '08, Oak Canyon Ranch, Orange County, 7/5/2008

Mark Mauer
Hootenanny featuring Grant Lee Phillips, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, Royal Crown Revue, Chris Shiflett, James Intveld and Russell Scott and his Red Hots. Also Tiger Army, Mike Ness and Glen Glenn Is there anything more quintessentially SoCal than the 50s love of the pyschobilly scene on a hot......
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Hootenanny '08, Mike Ness, Tiger Army and More

Mark Mauer
Photos by Patrick Range McDonald Grant Lee Phillips is not the first person you'd think of to play Hootenanny, but he played a great set in the prescribed style. Mike Ness takes the stage as one of the closers at the roots rock fest. California's own Tiger Army More photos......
Credit: Ted Soqui

Lotus Festival Minus the Lotuses

Mark Mauer
Photos by Ted Soqui For the second year in a row, Echo Park's Lotus Festival will be without lotuses. In fact, it appears the plants are in worse shape this year than they were last year (See end of this post for some photos from last year). Two years ago......
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Space Invader L.A.

Mark Mauer
Space Invader is easily one of the most unusual street artists working today. His tile mosaics based on 8-bit video games can be found in cities across the globe, but Los Angeles is one of his favorites. At one point L.A. had more Invader pieces than any other city except......