The passing of Bettie Page brings to mind how, last fall, Antinous Press released Bruce of Los Angeles: Inside/Outside, a collection of images by gay-beefcake photog
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Forget blood diamonds — for a limited time you can go straight to the
color-wheel source and behold the treacherous countenance of a bloody
rock — or mor
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We’re still not connecting. A few sleepy sheep claim to be having infrequent perfunctory sex, and,the women are softening, softening, softening, learning to become
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What happens in La Vida never stays in La Vida. Partly, I like to think of the section as a tour through the city’s various cultures and subcultures. The people pr
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Aptly titled Venice, Venice, Paris-based artist Paul P.’s current offering at Marc Selwyn is something of a tribute — feeling as if part travel diary and part re
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Except for one performance in a dozen-year acting career, she was as forgotten in Hollywood as a lost pawn-shop ticket. But in that single role of a hitchhiker in Ed
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Every big city has its mural scandals — or vandals. New York still remembers the time in 1934 when the Rockefeller family had Diego Rivera's Marxist Man a
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Mezzanine Owls-“Snow Globe”
Because it never snows in Los Angeles, we're forced to romanticize it. The first draft of “White Christmas,&#
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(All photos by Shannon Cottrell. Click images for entire Muppet (of Burlesque) slideshow.)
It's official; last night I saw my last burlesque show. Why the last?
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