AltWeeklies Wire
Crossing Over: When a Calligrapher Meets a Graffiti Artistnew
One afternoon, Lisa Engelbrecht invited Jose Martinez and his crew to her house, on the east side of Long Beach. They spray-painted a fence in her backyard. When two street artists collaborate, she saw, they don’t speak. They just paint, in a kind of dance.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
12-18-2009 |
Art
A Website You Can Dig Your Claws Into Is Up for Salenew
Attention all you who like cats, stuff and stuff on cats: the Web site StuffOnMyCat is up for sale.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-10-2009 |
Culture
Tags: Mario Garza, StuffOnMyCat.com
Steeping at the World Tea Exponew
Thousands of tea manufacturers and mom-and-pop shop owners have converged on Las Vegas to have their best teas judged and to attend seminars like "Romancing the Leaf: Myths & Legends" and "Tastefully Small Finger Sandwiches" and "The Many Tastes of Chai."
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: World Tea Championships, tea
Think Blink: Paris Hilton and Rihanna's Eyelash Master, Ja'Maal Busternew
The eye spy can spot the good fakes from the bad in an instant.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
02-20-2009 |
Fashion
Tap Dancing Around the Antimodernity Movementnew
Why live your life like it’s the past? Because the present kind of sucks. Yes, it might seem odd for this faction of the antimodernity movement to obsess over the 1920s — after all, that era is arguably when modernity was born. It’s an era that seems both more decadent and more innocent than ours.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
02-13-2009 |
Performance
Tricks of the Horror-Shop Businessnew
When you absolutely, positively need that dead baby overnight, BJ Winslow is the man to see.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
01-30-2009 |
Culture
Tags: BJ Winslow, horror shops
The Yarn- and Felt-Covered Chairs of Tanya Aguiniganew
Sometimes a chair is not a chair. Sometimes it is a way to muck up the prevailing cultural orthodoxy, as well as a place to set your buttocks on and take a load off.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
01-23-2009 |
Culture
Dame Edna Has a New Makeup Collection. Is That Scary? Maybe a Little.new
On an unusually soggy day in Los Angeles, the unusual new MAC cosmetics muse is giving interviews at a creaky old bungalow at the Chateau Marmont. You know Dame Edna — wacky cat-eye glasses, lavender hair, Tony-winning Broadway show, alter ego to Australian comedian Barry Humphries?
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
12-19-2008 |
Fashion
Pull Up Your Obamas: Beyond Shepard Fairey's 'Hope' Teesnew
The Obama political-merchandise machine has grown to epic proportions. And why not? Obama is the smartest, best-dressed, best-spoken, most energetic and beloved entity to come along in politics in a long time. People would not only die for him, they would wear flip-flops with tiny plastic Obama bobble heads for him.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
10-31-2008 |
Fashion
Serena Brooke's Surf Stronger Fitness Video Gets to the Corenew
In the universe defined by Roxy board shorts and Dakine flip-flops, surfers are the ultimate paradigm of fitness.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
08-29-2008 |
Shopping
The Chumby Diaries: A Partial-Attention Love-Hate Storynew
Is the ambient widget device a friend who will share corn-bread recipes and glimpses at its panda cam, or a foe who will steal your passwords?
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
08-11-2008 |
Tech
E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Gamesnew
Faster, Dracula! Kill! Kill! Bloodthirsty peeks at the latest versions of Flock, BioShock, Borderlands, WolfQuest and Castlevania, plus Konami designer Koji Igarashi.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-25-2008 |
Video Games
The Plush Life of Food: A Collector's Storynew
Collecting is a disease. After you own something, you have to take care of it. In a way, Sarah Jo Marks believes, it owns you. Like her plush food collection.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-25-2008 |
Culture
Zen and the Art of Cougar Huntingnew
They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena, life coach Zen Kern, simply Zen to his clients, instructs the ladies in his Cougar Class to pretend they've just spotted a cute guy contemplating the cereal at Ralphs.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-07-2008 |
Culture
Tags: Los Angeles, dating, Sex, cougars, relationships, older women, cougar class, life coaches, Zen Kern
Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizionew
Bozo the Clown's shoes, big as canoe paddles, sit on a shelf in Fabrizio's shop on San Vicente Boulevard. He's making copies of the floppy soles for a movie. Afterward, the originals will go to a museum for safekeeping.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-27-2008 |
Fashion
