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Gloria Molina Gran Park's Sunday Sessions- "Bring Down The House" w/Free Dance Parties (7/19 & 8/16)

Food: Reviews

The Humble Bird Serves Up One of the Valley's Best Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwiches

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Souls. Partners with Olive & James Café for One-Weekend-Only Matcha Gift With Purchase

Theatre: Musical

Hamilton returns to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre (Through October 13, 2024)

Books: Special Features

Best Books of 2022 (So Far)

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Paramount Home Entertainment's Must-Have DVD Collections and Anniversary Releases

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A Crash Course in Birth Control

This country has a pretty good start on female equality and women’s rights. We bagged the right to vote back in 1920, and although...

Ashley Archibald

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Creative Growth

Just a skip and a hop up the I-5 lies Oakland, Calif. Located just outside San Francisco, Oakland is known for its sketchy neighborhoods...

Ashley Archibald

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Fall 2007 Museum Preview

Josh Herman previews four of Fall's most interesting exhibits. From Catholic altar pieces to vinyl toys designed by some of the...

Josh Herman

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Cover Artist Profile: Patrick McGilligan

Patrick McGilligan has been drawing ever since he was a kid. Inspired by comic books, sci-fi and pulp fiction, the zany pictures...

Jessica Koslow

Culture Special Features

Healing The World One Kiss At A Time

Just like that one special kiss you never forget, the kisses and signatures from today’s biggest names in film, television and...

Fay Rose

Culture Travel

Yosemite National Park

Sick of traffic? Need to get away? You’re not alone. There’s no better time to take a road trip than right now. It will be...

Christina Morgan

Culture Special Features

AFRO FUNKÉ

The Afro, a hairstyle first popularized in the late ’60s by African-Americans as a symbol of Black Pride. Wearing an Afro...

Emmanuelle Troy

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Resurrection Mary

On a trip down Archer Avenue,you never know who you might run into. On a dark and windy road, 17-year-old Jeff Pryce (Kevin...

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The Museum of Jurassic Technology

My obsession with The Museum of Jurassic Technology began about a year ago after reading Lawrence Weschler’s book about the bizarre,...

Ramona Gonzalez

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Comic-Con 2007

What do a ballerina, cocktail waitress and Wookies have in common? Absolutely nothing. That is, until the annual comic convention...

Hayley Fox

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Savion Glover

Savion Glover talks with his feet. Replacing words, he taps out his emotions, his history, and if you listen closely, his future....

Jessica Koslow

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Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Much controversy surrounded the unveiling of Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère in 1882, and intrigue continues to swirl...

Yuri Shimoda

Culture Special Features

Local Camping Hot Spots

Bikinis, margaritas and beach days that last until dinnertime all signify the start of SoCal’s favorite season. It’s the best...

Bryn Fox

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L.A. WineFest

If you had asked me before the weekend of June 29 to tell you what kind of wine I liked, I would have answered red. What kind?...

Hayley Fox

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Crazy 4 Cult

Currently on the Gallery 1988 Web site there is contest to win a signed copy of the Crazy 4 Cult poster by artist Christopher...

Josh Herman

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Greeks on the Black Sea

On Trivia Night on an Alaskan cruise, I lost Princess mugs and hats to a team from Cleveland because I mis-guessed the largest...

Josh Herman

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Gary Palmer

“It’s a colorful place, even if a society of artists still needs to have traffic wardens,” Irish born artist Gary Palmer says...

Emily Gipson

Culture Special Features

A Beautiful/Decay

The “art world” is something widely believed to be unfathomable, a mysterious planet or universe in which the untrained and untested...

Ashley Archibald

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The International Ink & Iron Festival

Getting a tattoo doesn’t exactly present itself with the same shock and awe value that it once did. It’s become so mainstream...

Kym Parsons

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An Artist's Fortune

A friend and I attended the Venice Art Walk in May and saw many amazing artists, not to mention some pretty impressive studio...

Alissa Simmons

Culture Essential Features

Where to Have Your Fourth of July Fun!

FOURTH OF JULY AMERICAFEST AT THE ROSE BOWL 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena (626) 577-3100; www.rosebowlstadium.com Pasadena’s...

Arin Mikailian

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Billy Shire's Eye for Art

Whether it’s a sense of humor or a piece of canvas, rarely would anyone take pride in being labeled “lowbrow.” Billy Shire Fine...

Lori Bartlett

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Artscape & Late Night

This is my Woodstock ’99. For four days, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host live music, children’s storytelling,...

Josh Herman

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A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble

Of all the artists that have turned their voices to Los Angeles – Billy Joel’s “Say Goodbye to Hollywood,” Courtney Love’s “Sunset...

Josh Herman

Culture Special Features

Happy Father's Day, Dad

Growing up, Father’s Day weekend meant packing up the car for an adventure. Every year, my family would travel to our cottage...

Christina Morgan

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The Old Order and the New

Using the metaphor “The Old Order and the New” essentially gives you carte blanche: there is little one can conceive in photography...

Josh Herman

Culture Special Features

Screwed By Your Own Wingman

Back in high school, my brother came up with an interesting way to meet girls: he was the manager of the girls’ field hockey...

The Weez

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Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace

About five years ago, after years of DJing in nightclubs and a two-year stint managing online marketing for VH1, I co-founded...

Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman

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An American Love Story

A museum dedicated to folk art always seemed a bit hypocritical to me. Or perhaps, anachronistic. Born from the people, it...

Josh Herman

Culture Travel

Summer on the Side Roads

It's that time again! No, not allergy season. The itch that comes on this time of year can only be soothed in one way – road...

Kevin Wierzbicki

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