Monthly Archives: January 2011

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Art/Design Gallery The World of Tarot at Hive Gallery

by Zoetica Ebb
January 27, 2011 - 10:53 am

I just paid a visit to Tarot 2, currently on display at Downtown’s Hive gallery and collective, and might have acquired another favorite artist. Yoko D’Holbachie – one of the five featured artists – is a Japanese painter specializing in… Eh, who needs labels. Her universe is a cross between the realm of Trapper Keepers and Disney’s Fantasia, as well as a home to myriads of mystery plants and adorable inhabitants. Painted in eye-scorching neon rainbow palettes, D’Holbachie’s psychedelic candyland is definitely my new guilty pleasure.

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Featured Gallery Music Way With Words Takes Red Bull Studios

by Dustin Downing
January 27, 2011 - 10:51 am

By the time I was 18 all I had ever recorded was the outgoing message on my answering machine. Not so much for 16 yr old front man Joey Cirillo of Australia’s newest pop/alt group Way With Words. He and his stoked band of still teen demons, Dylan Giannakopoulos (guitar), Luke  Mann (guitar), Sam Berry (bass), Jack Nicholls (drums), have spent the last 7 days in Los Angeles recording their first EP at Red Bull Studios, an $80,000 reward for winning Australia’s first Red Bull Bedroom Jam.

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Fashion Featured Gallery The Red Bag Boutique Delivers a Priceless Experience to Mothers and Daughters

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
January 26, 2011 - 11:22 am

China Robinson, mother of Chanel Iman, a supermodel that requires no introduction, has teamed up with business partner Candance Simmons to open The Red Bag Boutique. The Culver City-based shop carriers a variety of accessories and designer brand clothing including current trends as well as one-of-a-kind vintage threads.

When I stopped in to check out The Red Bag Boutique for myself, Chanel Iman was behind the counter ringing up customers and signing autographs for her fans. Whenever the globetrotting model is in town, she makes it a priority to pop into the boutique to oversee the merchandise and help her mother out. “I just come in every once in a while to help her out. I mean…it’s my mom. I support her in anything that she does and I’m just really happy for her and excited,” exclaims Chanel.

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Film Blue Valentine: A Love Story With Shades of Grey

by Nicole Pajer
January 26, 2011 - 10:21 am

Blue Valentine Movie Poster

I had the chance this week to see the controversial new Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams movie, Blue Valentine. The film centers upon the fragile marriage of Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Williams) and the back and forth emotional struggle involved in trying to save what is left of their once passionate romance. The film teeters between the couple’s initial courtship and birth of their relationship and their modern day attempt to reconcile what is left of it. The plot eventually drives Dean and Cindy to check into a hotel for one night where they attempt a to revive the pulse of their love.

For those of you who don’t know the full story surrounding this film, it’s quite a tale. Michelle Williams was first presented with the Blue Valentine script back in 2003, and in 2008 received a phone call from director Derek Cianfrance saying the money for the film production had finally been secured. “I think I was 21 when I read it and I’m 30 now, so almost a third of my life has been devoted to making this movie,” Williams told Nightlife in her first network interview since the tragic death of Heath Ledger.

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Music Tuesday Newsday : New releases from Iron and Wine, Fujiya and Miyagi, Deerhoof, and Cold War Kids

by Shop Keeper
January 25, 2011 - 5:01 pm

Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

This week: the highly-anticipated release from Iron and Wine, the crazy kids that are Monotonix (who really have to be seen to be believed because they are truly insane);  an ominous-sounding band name everyone can relate to, The Ex; Deerhoof fight the forces of evil; those crazy Cold War Kids; and perhaps the most-hyped new act I’ve been hearing about, Fujiya and Miyagi — who prove they’re hardly dummies with Ventriloquizzing. Things are finally making up for the latter lackluster months of 2010. See ya in a week…

Chikita Violenta – Tre3s

Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings

Cold War Kids – Mine Is Yours

Amos Lee - Mission Bell

Death - Spiritual, Mental, Physical

Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs. Evil

Destroyer – Kaputt

The Ex - Catch My Shoe

Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing

Gang of Four – Content

The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules

Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

Monotonix - Not Yet

Praxis [Buckethead] – Profanation: Preparation For A Coming Darkness

Winsin & Yandel - Los Vaqueros: El Reseo

Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain’t Over

Featured Gallery Music Best Coast Takes San Diego

by Drew Anthony Smith
January 25, 2011 - 9:06 am

It’s three weeks into the New Year; the plastic reindeers have been put away, all of mom’s Christmas cookies have been eaten, and it’s time to get out.  You’re in luck because L.A.’s Best Coast (with support from fellow Southern Californians Wavves) have decided to make their way across the country with a sizable tour. Kicking off last night at San Diego’s Soma, the trio was met with open arms from an all ages crowd.

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Event Gallery Cavalia: Horse Powered Perfection

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
January 25, 2011 - 9:04 am

For months a billboard has stood next to my apartment advertising for Cavalia with a quote from Larry King, “The best show I have ever seen! Like being in a dream.” After such a proclamation from a man who is no stranger to the entertainment scene, I decided to heed Larry’s recommendation and check this out for myself.

Cavalia 2011

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Gallery Music Nikka Costa Gets Funky at The Roxy

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
January 25, 2011 - 9:03 am

Thursday night, The Roxy was packed with fans sliding as close to the curtain as possible, fighting tooth and nail for front row status. As I waited for Nikka Costa to take the stage, I flashed back to when I saw her perform in 2005 when she toured with Lenny Kravitz in support of her album “Can’tneverdidnothin.” She put on quite a show then and I expected nothing less, six years later, from the feisty singer. Nikka knows how to work over an audience. She has to; music is in her blood. She is, after all, the daughter of renowned arranger/producer Don Costa, and more importantly the goddaughter of ‘”Ol’ Blue Eyes” himself, aka Frank Sinatra.

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Art in the Thick of Hollywood: Open Daybook at LACE

by Zoetica Ebb
January 24, 2011 - 10:55 am

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions aka LACE – a nonprofit organization encouraging innovation, has been around since the ’70s and found its current Hollywood Walk of Fame home in the mid-1990s. It’s an unlikely site for an art institution: surrounded by “dancer” shoe stores, tourist traps and nightclubs, LACE seems a little out of place, but that’s the genius of it. Because of this prominent yet peculiar location, the space draws colorful crowds and exposes art to a wider arena than the gallery circuit can.

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