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Patti Stanger

Shelley Leopold
In an era when television tells you what not to wear, what not to weigh and how to decorate your house, Patti Stanger will tell you who not to date — for a healthy fee. Most people know her as the host of the Bravo show Millionaire Matchmaker, and her......

ObamaNation

Shelley Leopold
A mural appeared in Mid-Wilshire on a recent morning — not on a rooftop or an overpass, but at the ninth-floor entrance to a nondescript office building. Like most pieces of graffiti art, it rose to greet its environment seemingly uninvited as it staked its claim. “It just kind of......

In Control

Shelley Leopold
For music fans, Anton Corbijn needs little introduction. He has garnered numerous awards as a rock-world photographer, art director, stage designer and video director. Like many first-time filmmakers, Corbijn personally financed most of his debut feature, Control, a labor-of-love biopic of the late Joy Division front man, Ian Curtis. It......
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Mass Attack

Shelley Leopold
Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot fame drives his curating talent into the mainstream with Scion’s “To the Masses” show in Culver City. Taking advantage of the gallery’s expanse, Nakamura brings us a strong, balanced collection of nine fun, inventive artists — many of whom have shown in his galleries or......
(Photo by Shelley Leopold)

The Rise of the Seventh Letter

Shelley Leopold
Click here for "Street Artists: The Primer," by Shelley Leopold. Click here for "Tapping the Source," by Shelley Leopold. Click here for "Anatomy of an Aesthetic Criminal," by C.R. Stecyk. Once you know what you’re looking for, your sixth (make that your seventh) sense will kick in and you’ll start......

Tapping the Source

Shelley Leopold
Click here for "The Rise of the Seventh Letter," by Shelley Leopold. If this is the only book on graffiti you’ll ever own, pick up two. The spine on my copy is already broken from overuse. Graffiti L.A. is a collection of photos by Steve Grody, soft-spoken man of mystery,......
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Street Artists: The Primer

Shelley Leopold
Click here for "The Rise of the Seventh Letter," by Shelley Leopold. Saber: HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE MEETS H.R. GIGER Well spoken and outgoing, Saber is less elusive and quicker with stories than most of his counterparts. He’s currently working on projects with Scion and Boost Mobile, and his first book,......

Gajin Fujita

Shelley Leopold
You could say that Gajin Fujita found his calling at Kyoto’s “Golden Temple,” Kinkaku-ji. But it wasn’t a religious calling. The street kid in Fujita, a Boyle Heights native, wondered what it would look like if someone threw up a mural on the beloved Japanese landmark. Instead of defacing the......
(Photo by Kevin Scanlon)

Henry Rollins

Shelley Leopold
Henry Rollins supports the troops. Yeah, that’s right, the virulently anti-Iraq-war, anti-Bush-administration flame thrower has been quietly putting serious time in with the USO. Not the Bob Hope organization of yesteryear, but a modern-day nonprofit that takes its military morale-boosting duties seriously. “The USO approached me a few years ago......