Sophie Duvernoy

The Great Wall of Topanga: The Canyon's Drive-Through Art Gallery

Sophie DuvernoySeptember 14, 2011

Is there anything in L.A. that someone hasn't thought of converting into a drive-through? Art galleries are a rare exception, but on Topanga Canyon, that's about to change, too. Commuters through the canyon might have noticed a change in the past months: a wall that forms the border of a......

Rocket Video, Hollywood's Storehouse for Cult Movies, To Close

Sophie DuvernoySeptember 9, 2011

Film lovers, brace yourselves. A prolonged period of mourning is in order, as legendary Rocket Video closes its doors at the end of the month. The independent video rental store has been a fixture in Hollywood for over thirty years, due to its trove of hard-to-find classics, indie movies, and......

Asco at LACMA: Glitter, Face Paint, Velvet and Chiffon in the Name of Politics

Sophie DuvernoySeptember 8, 2011

If you imagine David Bowie moonlighting as a Chicano performance artist, you might begin to get a sense of Asco, the radical collective whose first major retrospective opened at LACMA last weekend. The exhibit immediately confronts you with the group's wacky camp costumes, complete with glitter, face paint, velvet and......

Alia Penner, L.A. Fashion's Most Colorful Illustrator, on Designing for Everyone from The Strokes to Shepard Fairey

Sophie DuvernoySeptember 2, 2011

Alia Penner is an artist with unquestionable style. Her work is scattered all around L.A., from her loopy '70s-inspired Cinefamily posters to her work designing t-shirt prints for Shepard Fairey's company, Obey. But she's also become an online style darling for her hippie aesthetics and kooky collection of vintage dresses......

Charles Bukowski's More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: 10 of the Buke's Dirty L.A. Haunts

Sophie DuvernoyAugust 31, 2011

"You must be Charles Bukowski," he said. "Yes. Poet, and lover," I answered." L.A. Skid Row's unofficial poet laureate is back again, with outrageous boozy adventures of staring up women's skirts and, more often than not, ripping them off. On September 15, City Lights will be publishing a new collection......

Shannon Ebner's 'Electric Comma' and Her Obsession with Giant Ampersands

Sophie DuvernoyAugust 31, 2011

In case you haven't noticed, Culver City boasts a new strange addition to its cityscape: a giant ampersand on an abandoned lot on the corner of Washington and Centinela. It gets bonus points in strangeness for glowing in the dark. But this isn't just a bizarre art stunt -- the......

Cathy Davidson's Now You See It: This is Your Brain on the Internet, and It's Not So Bad After All

Sophie DuvernoyAugust 29, 2011

Forget Jonathan Franzen's commencement speech to Kenyon College graduates this summer, in which he lambasted "liking," (as defined by Facebook) and told students to switch off their electronics, engage with the world, and love instead. It's a compelling message, but represents one more iteration of an argument we've been hearing......

Burning Man Fashion Survival Guide: Six Styles to Wear Next Week in Black Rock, Nevada

Sophie DuvernoyAugust 23, 2011

If there's any sign that festival fashion trends are going mass-market, it's that Burning Man, the ultimate outlier festival, has now provided inspiration for this summer's TopShop makeup line. Burning Man is merely the next event in a series of festivals to undergo large-store treatment -- think of LF stores'......

Stephen Keene at Santa Monica Museum of Art: A One-Man Art Marathon

Sophie DuvernoyAugust 18, 2011

Stephen Keene is a strange character: he identifies much more with the archetype of the worker than the artist. Known for his amazing ability to produce masses of work, and for the very cheap price of his art, Keene embraces a protestant work ethic that borders on the extreme --......

Michael Jackson's Art and Studio, Revealed for the First Time

Sophie DuvernoyAugust 17, 2011

See more photos in "Michael Jackson Art: An Exclusive Look at the Musician's Drawings and Paintings." Until now, Michael Jackson's art collection was shrouded in mystery. It was said to be stuck in a legal dispute over possession. Then, people speculated that buyers such as Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberté......

News

Nearly $1 Billion In Federal Funding Going Toward Prep For 2028 Olympics

Beverly Hills Students Expelled For Creating Explicit AI Content Of Classmates

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Rally At The Academy Awards

Food

Historic Dinah’s Family Restaurant Moves To A New Culver City Location

Michael’s Santa Monica Celebrates 45 Years Of California Cuisine

Chef Aarón Sánchez Is Talking Sabor In L.A.

Music

Kanach of Kanak feels the Raw, Unfiltered Emotions of ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’

Fresh Nugs of Bel Air

Molly Miller revels in Prince

Entertainment

In ‘The Films of Lee Chang-dong’ the Korean director takes-no-prisoners

Review: ‘Stress Positions’ Squeezes Wit From a Social Bubble as Tight as a Habitrail

Review: There’s a Bad ‘Moon’ Rising in ‘The Scargiver’

Arts

The Jewish Culture of Hollywoodland Gets A Permanent home at The Academy Museum

‘Candyland’: Callum Walker Hutchinson Delivers High Camp Brilliance

The Art Of Tarot: BUST Tarotscopes For Spring

Culture

Los Angeles’ Stylist Witch Shares Her Secrets

The Synanon Fix: The Rise And Fall Of LA’s First Drug Rehab

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

Cannabis

JOINT EFFORT: YOUR 420 GUIDE TO THE BEST LA DISPENSARIES AND DELIVERY SERVICES

420 GOOD VIBES ONLY: 2024’s 12 BEST CBD GUMMIES & BEVERAGE BRANDS

ELEVATE YOUR 420 EXPERIENCE: TOP 11 CBD & HEMP -DERIVED ESSENTIALS

Sophie Duvernoy

The Great Wall of Topanga: The Canyon's Drive-Through Art Gallery

Rocket Video, Hollywood's Storehouse for Cult Movies, To Close

Asco at LACMA: Glitter, Face Paint, Velvet and Chiffon in the Name of Politics

Alia Penner, L.A. Fashion's Most Colorful Illustrator, on Designing for Everyone from The Strokes to Shepard Fairey

Charles Bukowski's More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: 10 of the Buke's Dirty L.A. Haunts

Shannon Ebner's 'Electric Comma' and Her Obsession with Giant Ampersands

Cathy Davidson's Now You See It: This is Your Brain on the Internet, and It's Not So Bad After All

Burning Man Fashion Survival Guide: Six Styles to Wear Next Week in Black Rock, Nevada

Stephen Keene at Santa Monica Museum of Art: A One-Man Art Marathon

Michael Jackson's Art and Studio, Revealed for the First Time

laweekly