Category Archives: Los Angeles

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Gallery Los Angeles In Line For A “Do Over”

by Dustin Downing
August 16, 2011 - 8:46 am

The line snaking outside the Cabana Club stretches nearly a full block from its starting point of a tatted Asian rocker chic with blue hair at the gate, down past a Harry Potter looking dude in jhorts, and finishes with what looks from here, a Pakistani Jesus complete with robe. This multi-cultural serpent has become a spectacle of its own in a town all too familiar with lines of lost souls outside a club, for this one is bathed in daylight on a Sunday afternoon! It even has a Twitter hashtag (#do-over-line). But don’t fret, for in exchange for your patience, your body will soon be baptized in the spirit-s: Sangria, Soul music, and most likely Somebody else. (RT @waldorules: @do_over EVEN THE SOCIALLY AWKWARD SOUND GUY IN STAR TREK T-SHIRT IS GETTING LAID AFTER THIS ONE!)

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Gallery Los Angeles Music Henry Rollins Spins At Amoeba for Record Store Day

by Jeff Nau
April 27, 2011 - 11:08 am

In the country, hell, the world, few other music stores know how to have as much fun as Amoeba. You go there, you remember why there’s no more Waxie Maxie’s, no more Tower. You have an Amoeba, you’re gold.

And what began as a novelty in 2007 — hardcore vinyl fans uniting to officially salute the lo-fi music of their youth — has grown into a global phenomenon, with Amoeba in Hollywood possibly among the best places to go and celebrate. This year, Henry Rollins was on hand to DJ, sign some stuff, talk with fans, and even inspect tattoos.

Not Impressed

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Gallery Los Angeles Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit in Chinatown

by Zoetica Ebb
February 11, 2011 - 9:46 am

This past weekend, LA’s historic Chinatown held a two-day celebration in honor of the Chinese New Year. To pay tribute to the most momentous of traditional Chinese holidays, the neighborhood hung fresh red paper lanterns, and pulled out all the stops with a slew of performances, vendors, the Golden Dragon parade that spanned both Broadway and Hill streets, and tons of confetti.

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Gallery Los Angeles Babes of Burlesque at Bordello Bar

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
January 19, 2011 - 9:51 am

I’m not sure of the exact capacity of Downtown Los Angeles’s Bordello, but I’m pretty positive that they reached it Saturday night. The bar was packed with fans dying to see Courtney Cruz and The Devil’s Playground Presents Anime Babes of Burlesque. Around 9:00pm, when doors were set to open, a single-file lined smothered the building and a steady stream appeared to walk in as the night progressed. After a gruelingly long wait to ensure that the guests had all arrived and were given the chance to properly liquor up, Ms. Cruz herself came out to greet the crowd. “I’m thinking this crowd likes naked ladies,” she boasted. Courtney introduced the first act, a two-piece rock band called Sassafras, to which the crowd replied, “Are they naked?” The band was not, in fact, naked but they did succeed in entertaining the troops while the girls got ready backstage.

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Gallery Los Angeles Drinking with Dinosaurs

by Nicole Pajer and Zoetica Ebb
January 14, 2011 - 7:46 am

Gulping down beers with the skeletons of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops breathing down your back, dancing to DJs as they nonchalantly spin in front of elephants on the Serengeti Plains, listening to buzz worthy bands as they perform for audience members that include Grizzly bears and buffalo…sound like a typical Friday night? Probably not for most of you, but that’s the whole point.

Drinking DInosaurs

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Los Angeles NIGHT + MARKET Brings A Taste Of Southeast Asia To The Sunset Strip

by Shop Keeper
December 29, 2010 - 11:01 am

Night + Market

Just down the street from The Roxy Theatre, Talésai on The Sunset Strip has been dishing out tasty Thai cuisine to notoriously picky L.A. palates for nearly 30 years. Family owned and operated since the beginning, the restaurant is now expanding on their recipe for success and opening a neighboring “sister space”, serving up simple yet delectable street food.

The vision of chef/owner Kris Yenbamroong, Night + Market delivers a menu of Thai tapas in a unique gallery like setting. Having practically grown up in the restaurant’s kitchen, the chef has been cooking almost as long as he’s been able to hold a fork. “I’ve always been a fan of food that tastes amazing and isn’t fussy. I want everything on the plate to be essential to the dish, so that means no garnish, or fluff. That’s what street food is; it’s one thing that tastes really good and maybe one other element, like a condiment.”

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Los Angeles Jagged: When the Curtain Falls

by Dustin Downing
October 25, 2010 - 12:16 pm

Jagged

I type before you a changed man, ladies. For no longer may I sit idly in tufted velvet captains chairs covered in “Cinnamon”. I shall make no more nominal deposits into the gilded belt of “Chasity.” Yea, I will never feast again upon $2.99 steak (with beverage purchase and before 11a.m.) at the feet of my “Beloved”.  I know we have had too many a good time to mention legally, but I have seen the lights of another stage and can no longer look up at you in the same way. I am sorry and know you will ask, “However am I supposed to pay for my PhD in the use of mathematical functions to describe everyday phenomena?”  Ask,“Jessica.”

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Gallery Los Angeles Glow Santa Monica

by Zoetica Ebb
October 4, 2010 - 10:31 am

Last Saturday night something happened. Something rare and momentous, that happens only on very special occasions: the West side stayed up ’til 4am. The cause for such extravagance, Glow, the second in what’s meant to be a series of biennial, Euope-inspired “white night” events centered around light-up art installation. The Glow event in 2008 lasted until 7am, but the Djs, “rave” atmosphere, costs, and 200,000 attendees were too much for the city of Santa Monica to take, so the whole shabang’s been reduced to more manageable proportions.

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Gallery Los Angeles The Barbie Sponsored “Warholian” at Royal T

by Nicole Pajer
September 29, 2010 - 10:37 am

Royal/T has shifted themes and turned its focus to all things Andy Warhol.  The popular Culver City cosplay café kicked off “The Warholian” on Thursday with a glitzy party sponsored by Barbie.  Festivities commenced with a Barbie pink carpet at 6:00pm graced by celebs such as Nic Novicki (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) and CSI’s Catherine Willows.

Herds of SoCal-ers lined up at the door to view popular Andy Warhol pieces like Skull (Green), Electric Chair, Barbie, and Black Marilyn in addition to pieces from Jim Hodges, Yan Pei-ming, Takashi Murakami, Sean Landers, Damien Hirst, Adam McEwen, and many other Warhol-inspired artists also in the exhibit curated by Eric C. Shiner, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.  Food was catered by Ludo Lefebvre and the Grilled Cheese Truck, who had a special Warholian menu with selections like Ate Elvises, made with a banana puree, peanut butter, Nutella and apple wood bacon.  DJ Diabetic, Emcee Insulin, and DJ David J entertained the crowd as guess sipped on glasses of Dom Perignon’s limited edition, ‘A Tribute to Warhol’ Vintage 2002 champagne.

Royal/T’s gift shop transformed into a Barbie paradise offering t-shirts, headbands, dangly Barbie earrings, and other pink accessories.  There was a selection of Andy Warhol inspired magnets, prints, and household necessities such as the Andy glasses shaped USB port for sale.  The Lisa Perry pop-up shop sold Warhol dresses, giant hamburger stools, giant ketchup and coke bottles, giant ice cream cones, and a plethora of kooky goodies.

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