The video for the Raveonettes' infectious, fuzzy-sweet new single "Candy" features a montage of the Danish duo in the studio, containing footage with a few...
Eli Goodman has been the sole owner of the Cosmopolitan Book Shop (7017 Melrose Ave., L.A., 323-938-7119) for nearly 50 years. I stumbled upon his cluttered gem of a store in the ’90s while attending Fairfax High School up the street. Cosmopolitan Books is responsible for about 80 percent of......
Art Connection L.A. (8687 Melrose Ave., Suite B483; 310-659-9260) houses contemporary art, original paintings, posters, antique prints, engravings, etchings, sculpture and custom mirrors. Blitzstein Museum of Art (428 N. Fairfax Ave.; 323-852-4830) offers some 300 exciting, original expressionist oil paintings by Blitzstein, circa 1964–2000. Chac Mool (8920 Melrose Ave.; 310-550-6792)......
John D. Williams is vacationing in Florida, it is 1988, and he’s flipping through a farmer’s seed catalog when he sees a picture of a ladybug. Wham! It hits him, a revelation, the solution for his Silver Lake tenants who can’t make the rent. Give them ladybugs, he thinks, so......
