On a nondescript street corner a hair north of Koreatown, an infectious five-note ditty emanates into the night repetitiously. The melody is sickeningly sweet and like a maddening loop of ice-cream truck music, recontextualizing what would otherwise be an unexciting patch of urban real estate nestled amid closed businesses, strip......
“Pussy is porn or unseen,” Corinne Loperfido laments over the phone from Austin, Texas. “You don’t see it and you don’t talk about it … but in reality everyone wants to talk about it.” The L.A.-based artist/creative director is known for starting as many parties as she does taboo conversations,......
“I’m at peak powers,” says comedian Steve Hernandez to chuckles from the crowd. He warms the stage with the same magnetism and reverence of a pastor, which is fitting because he used to be one. “I mean, look at this face,” he says stroking each round, bearded cheek with the......
Psychedelic organ riffs and cumbia beats float through Skid Row’s Superchief Gallery after hours, as Ryan C. Doyle hunches in concentration over a laptop, tinkering with a VR simulation. Decked out in a well-worn orange jumpsuit, the artist’s six-foot-six-inch frame towers over me as he covers my eyes with a......
In the opening scene of the new documentary Ovarian Psycos, shadows sprawl across Sixth Street’s sun-bleached pavement. The sounds of spokes — creeks and ticks — flitter past as masked women on bikes ride in formation, fanning out like a tactical military unit, their fists raised. A call to arms......
Sarah Sitkin’s South Los Angeles warehouse studio looks like a mad scientist’s laboratory. Or maybe a serial killer's basement dungeon. With scraps of silicone flesh strewn in discard piles along the floor, disembodied heads on sticks, baskets overflowing with art along the wall, it's apparent there's some Frankensteining going on......
Angelenos have been on a first-name basis with Angelyne since the 1980s, when the diva of indeterminate age made her debut as the 50-foot woman plastered on billboards and buildings on Sunset Boulevard. These days, she’s more likely to be spotted zooming down the 101 in her notorious magenta-mobile. An......
