Tag Archives: Los Angeles

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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Featured Nightlife Rock In The New Year On The Sunset Strip (Deals! Deals! Deals!)

by Shop Keeper
December 28, 2011 - 11:49 am

West Hollywood, California’s The Sunset Strip: the incomparable mix of its history, glamour, cutting-edge style, pure entertainment and exciting nightlife makes it the favored destination for travelers, locals, rockers and everyone in between. As 2012 approaches, The Strip invites you to ring in the New Year with special fare planned by its top restaurants–which include Asia De Cuba, Eveleigh, Nonna of Italy and Gordon Ramsay at The London West Hollywood–or with music and comedy events at the Viper Room, The Roxy, Whisky A Go-Go, The Comedy Store, House of Blues and The Standard. The range of events and options fit a range of budgets and reveling plans. Also, the City of West Hollywood has announced it will launch a “holiday shuttle” during the NYE weekend (Dec. 29 –31). It will run in a continuous loop throughout West Hollywood from 8 p.m. – 3 a.m. on these nights. Log in here for more information.

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Art Featured Gallery All Eyes on Mr. Brainwash

by Ariel Maccarone and Jennifer Popperl
December 28, 2011 - 7:53 am

This past Thursday, December 22 was a sneak peak of “Art Show 2011,” the follow up by infamous street artist Thierry Guetta (AKA “Mr. Brainwash”) to his 2008 art show, “Life Is Beautiful.” Guetta is most known for his controversial role in the 2011 Oscar-nominated docudrama, “Exit Through The Gift Shop,” directed by renowned street artist, Banksy.

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Art SHOP SMALL: Independent Clothing Boutiques in Silver Lake

by Ariel Maccarone
December 19, 2011 - 4:37 am

The infamous Black Friday waffle iron incident is the surest sign that we’re on our way to hell in a hand basket. Now, why not have that hand basket be made by edgy local designers? Black Friday and Occupy Wall Street have spawned the Shop Small movement, which aims to support local, independent businesses. We’ve perused the Eastside and created a list of some of the best clothing boutiques in Silver Lake. Enjoy!

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Art And Now For Something New: Artist David Paul Flores

by Ariel Maccarone
December 16, 2011 - 1:12 pm

I have always been captivated by the appearance of land seen through an airplane window—the way it’s coated in simplicity, homogeny and precise division. Looking down on the earth below, my experience is while flying is not unlike a child ogling a children’s pop-up atlas. Urban artist, David Paul Flores, creates a similarly wondrous and surreal experience with his signature “stained glass” style.

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Art Featured Through The Lens And Back: Photographer Jennifer Popperl

by Ariel Maccarone
December 15, 2011 - 12:56 pm

Photography has as many aims as it has photographers. Some use the medium in order to recreate a subject in an especially raw, candid light, capturing a moment, which would have otherwise remained silent. Others use the lens as a tool to disorient an audience’s view of normalcy by dressing the mundane in garb of the absurd. Up and coming photographer Jennifer Popperl uses her lens to allow for multiple, seemingly incompatible moments, to exist simultaneously.

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Music Terraplane Sun’s Beachy Blues

by Shop Keeper
December 15, 2011 - 10:16 am

Terraplane Sun is a band you don’t want to miss. The blues-rock quintet has an upcoming feature on the NBC’s show 1st Look LA. They will hold there second residency at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas coming this winter November and December. With Las Vegas and several live dates in Amsterdam, Terraplane Sun has been embarking on their west coast tour with shows at the Echo, Bootleg Theater, Hotel Cafe, Malibu Inn and more to come.

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Art Portrait Of A Painter: Matt Doust

by Ariel Maccarone
December 14, 2011 - 10:50 am

We have come to spare ourselves too much of life’s natural awkwardness. When is the last time you sat a few seconds longer inside an awkward moment, especially one shared with a stranger? You should try it. It’s fascinating! There is such vulnerability in a way of being which is totally unrehearsed. To witness something like that—in oneself or another—is precious.

Painter Matt Doust is brilliant when it comes to being able to capture a moment in time of someone’s soul like this. For that period during which his model is being painted, he/she belongs to Doust. Even his portrayal of a subject’s collarbone is exquisite; there is a reverence in it. The reverence (on the part of Doust toward his subjects) is borne of an attempt to mirror rather than to perfect. He seeks not to mold his subject, but rather to recreate him/her.

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Oddity Lucha VaVoom Returns with “Lucha is for Lovers”

by Shop Keeper
December 14, 2011 - 7:55 am

Give the gift of Christmas/ Hannukah/ Kwanzaa/ Festivus and Valentine’s Day all in one! Lucha VaVoom–the gloriously unhinged mix of Mexican-style lucha libre wrestling, traditional burlesque and blow-by-blow comedic commentary–have announced the return of their annual Valentine’s shows. The three-night engagement is set for Tuesday, February 14, Wednesday, February 15 and Thursday, February 15 at the Mayan Theater (8:00 PM) in downtown Los Angeles. The Valentine’s shows are one of the most popular Lucha VaVOOM events of the year and are the perfect date night, a great night to meet a date, or for those who love the acclaimed troupe’s incomparable mix of SEXO Y VIOLENCIA!

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Art Artist Profile: Painter Robert Vargas

by Ariel Maccarone
December 13, 2011 - 10:30 am

A deluge of color and sound flooded the streets of downtown L.A. Thursday night. The last Downtown Art Walk of 2011 turned an otherwise mundane Thursday into a district-wide spectacle in the name of art. Cold crowds spilled over curbs and into any open door; faceless people folded inside of scarves and beanies, their fingers pointing here and there like cactus thorns. It was a night to be seen, something to be witnessed.

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