Michael Hoinski

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Photos of Ghosts

Michael Hoinski
Photo by Danny Clinch On Wilco’s new A Ghost Is Born, there’s so much Neil Young circa Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, you can hear the cowgirl in the sand, down by the river; shards of electric-guitar grindage litter about omnipresent piano. “Hummingbird,” with its viola and cheery harmonizing, is......
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Sit!

Michael Hoinski
Photos by Larry Hirshowitz “Do you think this is a stool?” asks Maira Kalman, a designer and illustrator of New Yorker covers, and one of five judges traversing the bridge at Art Center, evaluating entries from various SoCal design schools in the Santa Monica Design District’s spring competition. The theme......
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Blog Forum

Michael Hoinski
What began on gallerist Caryn Coleman’s new art blog as a brief post regarding Regen Projects’ Web site has, over the past month, developed into a debate about whether or not galleries are obligated to divulge their price lists to the general public — browsers, not buyers. This freedom to......
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Just To Play

Michael Hoinski
Either the stragglers lined up in front of Spaceland were oblivious or they had trouble finding parking spots in the unforgiving surroundings. My bad for not showing up earlier than a quarter to midnight to catch one of the free shows Midnight Movies put on last November as part of......

Manic Monday

Michael Hoinski
Photo by Ted Soqui When the rumor was confirmed that Rage Against the Machine would perform a free concert outside Staples Center to protest the 2000 Democratic National Convention — in particular, the concept of a two-party system — thousands of Angelenos cleared their calendars to become activists for the......
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After the Party’s Over

Michael Hoinski
I grabbed the toilet with both hands and blew chunks, while my friend Chad made wisecracks about me not being able to hold my liquor. He was in the shower. I was on the bathroom floor, teary-eyed and out of breath. We had spent the previous evening celebrating a childhood......