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Last Night: Principal Belding MCs "Idiot Box" at Gallery 1988

Nicole Campos
Haskins beams with pride beside Jude Buffum's "Saved By the Bell"... Gallery 1988, the tiny room on Melrose with the big vision, has emerged as a legit mecca of popular culture as fine art. Their artists are of a generation less restricted about ideas of what art can and should......
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ONE SINGS, THE OTHER HAMS IT UP

Nicole Campos
ONE SINGS, THE OTHER HAMS IT UP Apparently, singer-songwriter (and novelist -- blimey!) John Wesley Harding and comedian Eugene Mirman are good friends. Sure, e...
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Rorschach Red Marilyn? Watchmen-Inspired Pop Art at Meltdown

Nicole Campos
"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes, Chapters 11 & 12" by Mack HillAccording to curator Marz Richards, part of the inspiration for the Watchmen-inspired exhibit Physical Nostalgia - "a punk rock celebration of one of the most important creative works to appear at the end of the 20th century," currently on display......
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Nerd Sale! The L.A. Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention

Nicole Campos
View more photos in the Comic Book and Sci-Fi Convention slideshow.First edition cover, already up to $100 bucks. GoBama!In a convention circuit where the Northern and Southern California powerhouses of Wonder Con and Comic-Con International keep getting bigger - and starrier - each year, it's easy to forget about the......
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Last Friday: Peter Bogdanovich @ The New Beverly Cinema

Nicole Campos
Things are looking good early in '09 for the inestimable New Beverly Cinema, over a year into a well-deserved renaissance thanks to consistently excellent revival programming and the frequent, unmissable filmmaker-hosted events which have drawn faithful regulars and all-new crowds to the theater in recent months. (The place looks better......
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Top Five: George W. Bush's YouTube Comedy Threat Levels

Nicole Campos
With under a week to go until the inauguration of Barack Obama, virtually no-one seems to be mourning the exit of George W. Bush - particularly not the residents of New Orleans, following Monday's bone-headed comments by 43 regarding his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. (Which we feel compelled to......