With so many new libraries going up across Los Angeles, it’s not easy figuring out which one ranks above the others. There’s the one recently built in Chinatown,
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Best Armchair Travel for the Vacation Impaired
Now that the age of miracles is upon us, it is possible to go everywhere without actually going anywhere at all. The c
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Dear Mr. Gold:
Pambazo. I’ve gotta have one. Any ideas?
—George, Lomita
Dear George:
By a pambazo, I assume that you are referring to the central Mexican snack,
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Tiffany Bozic is a new traditionalist informed by Audubon and Rousseau. What Nick Cave is to lyrics, she is to paint. Hailing from a small town in Arkansas, Bozic ha
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I went to grad school with Jason Rhoades at UCLA in the early ’90s. He was a ferociously ambitious and competitive artist — in both his art making and his career
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Bring Out Your Dead. Strange Women Lying in Ponds. Flesh Wound. Large Wooden Badger. Wicked Bad Naughty Zoot. Electric Donkey Bottom Biters. Rarely does a film penet
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The Tibetan lineage of Buddhism, rooted as it is in the variegated sensual traditions of tantric Hinduism and the Himalayan shamanic rituals of the Bon religion, is
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Do you remember the famous Robert Mapplethorpe photographs of his muse Lisa Lyons, a sweetly feminine bodybuilder with the musculature of a Michelangelo god? Tiara i
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The ripples of unease that emanate from the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke have been spreading ever wider for well over a decade now. Last year, Haneke rea
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A homeless man slowly stretches in the morning sun, eyeing the three volunteers, dressed in orange vests, hardhats, T-shirts and steel-toed boots, below him.
He is h
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Two thousand five was an odd year for the auto industry. Here are some of the pivotal highlights and low lights, good signs and bad, which in this world are sometime
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When Linda Perry first played her song Beautiful” on the piano for Christina Aguilera, Aguilera knew she wanted to record it right away — and Perry’s heart san
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