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Art Featured Stay Hungry: Rankin Gallery

by Nicole Pajer
February 3, 2012 - 10:30 am

If Britain’s esteemed photographer, Rankin, had a mantra, it would be that art is more fun when it teeters on the scandalous side. The renowned portrait and fashion photographer is known for his sassy shots of celebs like Heidi Klum, Liv Tyler, Britney Spears, Kate Moss, David Bowie, and more. After years of turning heads in the UK, Rankin decided to grace the United States with a rotating collection of his last 20+ years of working behind a lens. Due to it’s progressive and continuously creative landscape, Rankin chose to launch his first stateside venture in Los Angeles.

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Fashion Gallery Shop Talk: Mother of London

by Zoetica Ebb
February 1, 2012 - 10:13 am

Mother of London is the coveted, gorgeous, hard-to-obtain-but-so-very-worth-it label, whose flawless cuts and dramatic silhouettes we’ve been drooling over for years. Born in the London underground club scene and most recently seen on the likes of Black Eyed Peas, Juliette Lewis, Kylie Minogue, Marilyn Manson and Panic At The Disco, the creations of designer Mildred Von Hildegard will soon be available to you, yes you. In a few weeks the Mother of London website will launch with a limited pre-sale which will include knitwear, t-shirts, a few newer items and some classic items. Read on for a tour of MoL’s downtown atelier and a chat with Hildegard about her upcoming, much-anticipated ready-to-wear line and working in Los Angeles. For a multi-dimensional experience queue up this brvtal Gojira track – they were playing on the MoL stereo during my visit.

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Art Gallery Parking Lot Pieces / Sub-Standard Art

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
January 30, 2012 - 10:43 am

People flock to West Hollywood’s The Standard Hotel for it’s chic atmosphere, exclusive lounges, and A-list pool parties. Last Tuesday, however, the famed hotel’s parking lot was the place to be.

As part of the ongoing celebration of the birth of the L.A. art scene, LAXART transformed The Standard’s parking garage into a dynamic performance art gallery. The project was a collaborative effort by Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo and included a group of locally recognized artists who came together to create this “choreography on wheels.” To the artists, the parking garage represented a site of unlimited temporal potential “where multiple times and spaces collide.”

After entering The Standard, we were escorted to the back of the hotel and sent down an industrial flight of stairs. We walked through the door and into the parking garage to find over 20 artists in action. Every parking space had it’s own artistic twist. Here were some of our favorites:

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Music The Sound of Sisters: The Pierces

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
January 26, 2012 - 10:52 am

We recently had the opportunity to sit down and get to know the sisterly duo of Catherine and Allison Pierce. If there is an award to be given for musical perseverance, these two deserve it. After three records and 10 years of making music together, the Pierce sisters were ready to throw in the towel and attempt their own solo projects. In the final hour, Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman stepped up and expressed interest in hearing their new demos. Berryman took The Pierces under his wing and produced their groundbreaking forth album, “You & I.” The ladies recently signed with Polydor Records and finally feel at home with a label that believes in them.

In the lobby of West Hollywood’s Andaz Hotel, Allison joked about continuously breaking her Kindle as Catherine told her somber tale of someone beating her to the house she had planned on moving into. The girls explained that listening back to their earlier tunes makes them proud of how far they’ve come and that being role models to artists who haven’t made it yet has it’s pros and cons.

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Fashion Get inspired at The Warehouse LA

by Zoetica Ebb
January 25, 2012 - 12:33 pm

The aptly-named Warehouse LA is a vast, 4500-square-foot expanse of vintage-hunting heaven, set apart by its distinct lack of clutter and its stylish furnishing. This isn’t a place you come to dig and hope, but a place you come with the option to get styled by in-store experts selecting from vintage, reconstructed and locally-designed pieces.

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Featured Gallery Music Keeping Rock Alive: Dead Sara

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
January 24, 2012 - 11:29 am

Dead Sara has been busy since we spoke with them last year. The female-fronted four piece has been packing in venues, exponentially growing their fanbase, and just finished recording their highly anticipated new album. Dead Sara was recently selected to be featured artist on this year’s Warped Tour and has been enjoying success on popular rock radio stations throughout the country.

We recently caught up with vocalist Emily Armstrong who explained that 2012 is shaping up to be the band’s best year yet.

Check out our conversation with Emily as she discusses being a female vocalist in a male dominated rock world, items in her tour survival kit, and the band almost being named Masturbation Salvation:

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Gallery Oddity You Can Leave Your Hat On: No Pants Metro Ride 2012

by Zoetica Ebb
January 10, 2012 - 10:47 am

It’s not easy to organize a flash mob in a city as notoriously spread out as Los Angeles, which makes the annual international No Pants Metro Ride Day the perfect occasion to rally in the name of fun and public confusion. The requirements: no pants, no explanations.

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Music West-side! Uh Huh Her on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday Jan 9

by Shop Keeper
January 6, 2012 - 4:03 pm

Uh Huh Her will perform this coming Monday night, January 9, on ABC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” marking the electro-pop group’s first-ever national late-night TV performance. Tune in on Monday at 12:05 am ET/CT/PT to watch Uh Huh Her–Leisha Hailey (keyboards, bass) and Camila Grey (keyboards, guitar)–perform the electrifying new single “Marstorm” from their sophomore release Nocturnes (Plaid). The show will also be available for viewing online the following day at: http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live.

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Art Featured Gallery Art in the Flesh: Dr Sketchy’s L.A.

by Dustin Downing
January 5, 2012 - 12:09 pm

A few years back, a Brooklyn artist who goes by the moniker Molly Crabapple, decided art school was not cool and dropped out. And lucky for us she did. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this article and dammit I wouldn’t have had the chance to shoot Samion, le nude muse for this installment of the Los Angeles chapter’s Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Fittingly, this kickoff for a new year of the bi-monthly pop-up figure-drawing cabaret for artists and art lovers was held at the Titmouse Inc. animation compound in Hollywood, home to all things awesome and strange.

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