Los Angeles and New York have much similarity "” especially when you think about the whole West Coast-versus-the-East Coast thing "” but for a month starting Thursday, they will. Artist Chris Stain will be turning L.A.'s Carmichael Gallery into a…
Continue Reading →Nowadays, it seems like the flavor of the month, is a combination of all of them. Eleni Mandell, a Los Angeles based musician, and a fixture of the Silver Lake music scene, is back with a new album after her…
Continue Reading →The first-ever David Choe-designed toy, Choegal, is finally available for sale at $45 a pop, but there are only 1,000 of these precious hand-painted dolls available. Besides movable appendages and mechanical parts, the all-wood Choegal features a rotating head with…
Continue Reading →Need something to do tomorrow? If you live in or around Los Angeles, cruise over (there's no walking in L.A.) to Echo Park for the opening of the new bookstore/Middle Eastern cafe Stories. Not only can you pick up some…
Continue Reading →If you were to ask Amy Casey what she would have been had she not been an artist, she should answer a city planning manager. Just taking a quick browse through her work gives you a peak at her visionary…
Continue Reading →Has the current state of the economy got you down? If so, there is one thing that universally brings nothing but pure joy to everyone -- clowns. Luckily, Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles is debuting an new exhibit on…
Continue Reading →Two of my favorite groups have gotten together for a seriously awesome collaboration that takes words off the page and puts them into pockets. For the When Wallets Eat Words workshop, McSweeney's 826LA arm got its young, aspiring writers to…
Continue Reading →I went to sleep last night with Lisa Solberg's paintings as the last thing I saw on my laptop, and I think some of her works snuck into my dreams. It isn't hard to imagine. Her subject matter ranges from…
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