When skateboarding pioneers Daewon Song and Tim Gavin decided to start a clothing brand out of the DVS Shoe Company back in 1998, they were really just looking to m
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In 1973, Yoko Ono sang that all day long [she] felt like smashing [her] face in a clear glass window. She goes on, bemoaning her mom's eating disorder and her da
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It's been only four months since the new LGBTQ club the Birdcage?opened its doors in Santa Monica. As the only gay club west of the 405, it's perhaps no surp
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In 1967, as the civil rights movement continued to take shape in communities across the United States, bilingual newspaper La Raza emerged from Los Angeles as a voic
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Latin American artists, particularly those in Argentina and Brazil, began experimenting with video art in the 1960s and '70s, and artists in other countries fol
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For 20 years, Jareth the Goblin King has presided over his subjects during his annual eponymous masquerade ball. Combining historic and fantasy elements from across
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Dublab and L.A. Weekly curated another multimedia, interdisciplinary, artistically awesome Artopia on Saturday, Aug. 26, at downtown's historic Union Station. Fe
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The sun's still out as cars file into a dirt field off Woodley Avenue in Lake Balboa, creating uniform rows in front of an inflatable screen. Even though the ev
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There's a lot of bad art out there. It's everywhere, really. But there's perhaps nowhere you'll find a higher concentration of truly vile and utterly fai
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The L.A. Trans Chorus performs a Bowie album in its entirety, Elvis impersonators descend on Garden Grove, the Hammer screens movies about dance, and mor
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The game is Captain Morgan's Revenge. Players take turns spinning a dreidel-like top with marked sides. After pitching money into the growing pot, I spin and land o
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Lindsay Benner used to juggle for a living. After moving to San Francisco in the early 2000s and seeing her friends making a living as buskers, Benner decided she wo
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