I met Mr. Steve Lambert in San Francisco a few years back, around the time he orchestrated changing all the "BUSH" street signs in the city to "PUPPET" (2001). ...
High atop a historic Highland Park neighborhood, there once grew a eucalyptus grove, but for the past 55 or so years, the land has been home to one of Los Angeles’ most talented native sons. You may not recognize his name, but if you were a cartoon-loving kid in the......
New Image Art gallerist Marsea Goldberg is a bad-ass. So naturally for her, this magically translates into great foresight-slash-taste in creative subculture a...
Get out your black books, kids. On December 13, Track 16 opens RISK’s first solo show in 26 years. Known around town as “the graffiti artist’s graffiti artist,” RISK’s not a current Seventh Letter superstar but is one of the city’s first true kings of the medium. As founder of......
The faded mocha edifice that until last year housed CBS’s Columbia Square studios looks at first glance completely abandoned. On giant placards that once displayed pristine, smiling headshots of the KCBS news team, the local newscasters now sport spray-painted Marilyn Monroe wigs, Warhol style. On another billboard, hand-scrawled letters spelling......
Byron Allen is slightly suspicious of me as I enter his swank, art-appointed Century City office. Though he’s been on television consistently since his debut as a 19-year-old comedian on The Tonight Show in 1979, most people take him for granted. Many of us watch him, dreamlike, at 3 a.m.,......
Helen Stickler might be the girl next door. She lives in a perfectly appointed vintage-modern cottage in Echo Park, complete with a beautiful view, charismatic neighbors and a visiting cat. The only thing missing is the white picket fence. But as they say, looks are deceiving. Observe more closely, and......
In the late ’60s, in a salon marked only by a red ankh symbol on its door, blow-dry pioneer and Manson-family victim Jay Sebring reinvented the technology of the men’s haircut and the very image of a hairstylist. With a fine-tuned sense of fashion and social trends, not to mention......
“It’s so cuuute!” shrieks Lela Lee, as she pulls the prototype of her Angry Little Asian Girl lunchbox out of its packing. A treasure chest of goodies has just arrived from Nakajima, manufacturer of all things Sanrio. After 10 years as a comic strip, the Angry Little Asian Girl has......
Rock Opera. Internet Sports. Architectural Digest . . . Meat Loaf lives the fantasy. It’s been a long time since I first noticed the sweaty, stringy-haired young Texan with the flowing red scarf on MTV back in 1981. Even longer since his 1975 dramatic live debut in Greenwich Village and......
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