Wendy Gilmartin

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SCREEN GEMS

Wendy Gilmartin
"Music + Image" celebrates the fuzzy line between culture and commerce in the golden age of the 1980s, when innovators in video art crossed over to produce musi...

Lay of the Land

Wendy Gilmartin
It’s hard to explain what I saw on the 14th floor of that office tower on the west end of Houston. We all met at the elevators and shook hands. We entered the big meeting room with the oak table, gaudy upholstered chairs and framed photographs of the company’s business......
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Crossed Wires

Wendy Gilmartin
Photo by Debra DiPaolo Northridge-born and still a Valley dude, electronic manipulator Todd Drootin drinks a lot of coffee, smiles easily, and swivels his attention between L.A.'s charms and its cons, disparaging our pitiful radio selection, praising Claremont's KSPC, then musing about the dearth of decent live venues. "I had......
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Lady of the Lamps

Wendy Gilmartin
Photos by Elliott Shaffner It's an off-night at Electronic Orphanage on Chinatown's Chung King Road. Nonetheless, Beverly Tang can't find an electrical outlet for her lamps — not with the screening tests and DJs setting up decks, and then there are the dogs wandering through the gallery. As the event......
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You Light Up My Wife

Wendy Gilmartin
TARA JANE O’NEIL, MICK TURNER at Spaceland, December 7 If you‘re like me, your mind wanders into horrible places when you hear about a female solo-artist folksinger -- amateurish guitar playing, faux bohemian chic, whiny banality, self-righteousness, maybe. Southern Records belle Tara Jane O’Neil brought a few of those qualities......

Freedom Fighters

Wendy Gilmartin
The long-form chaotic improvisation that occurs when these 12 musicians get together may be the most uniform noise of its kind. Or maybe it isn‘t ad-libbed at all -- the careful symmetry makes it suspect. Either way, each turn, stop and hesitation on Liberation is laid out bare, and Jackie-O......

WeHo Dining

Wendy Gilmartin
$ = Spare change. $$ = Stop by the ATM. $$$ = Whip out the plastic. $$$$ = Expense it.   The Abbey (692 Robertson Blvd.; 310-289-8410), a perfect place to gather for coffee, sandwiches, salads and fresh pastries. Full bar. $ Ambrosia Café and Juice Bar (9107 Sunset Blvd.;......

Canada Steals the Show

Wendy Gilmartin
Amy Vangsgard Hollywood is one of our largest homegrown industries, employing on average 185,900. In 1998 it generated $74.3 billion (including tourism, local merchants and the hotel/motel industry). Not too shabby, eh? Some might say Hollywood is booming. Problem is, it’s losing its center. Last year it lost 23,500 jobs......

So Close, so Far Away

Wendy Gilmartin
All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. —Evelyn Waugh, describing Hollywood in the heat, The Loved One Oh summer in......