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Photos: Inside the Skeleton of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum
September 17, 2013 5:10 PM
Los Angeles:
Artbound ventured into the bones of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum for a behind-the-scenes look at the museum in progress.
L.A. County Wants the Summer Olympics Back in 2024
September 17, 2013 3:35 PM
"Los Angeles is home to more Olympians than anywhere in the world, and has twice hosted the summer Olympic Games," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
When Pepper Trees Shaded the 'Sunny Southland'
September 13, 2013 10:33 AM
LA as Subject:
Long associated with Southern California's romantic mission past, the pepper tree was once the region's most iconic tree.
Prometheus Bound: Upstart Gods, Politics, and Morality at the Beginning of Time
September 12, 2013 1:00 AM
by Shelby Brown
Los Angeles:
The story of Prometheus' stubborn, irrational resistance to tyranny and his allegiance with the weak and unfortunate reach across time.
A Los Angeles Primer: Sawtelle, 'Little Osaka'
September 10, 2013 10:00 AM
A Los Angeles Primer:
When the New Yorker's "far-flung correspondent" Christopher Rand came to Los Angeles in 1964, he based himself in Sawtelle, the quiet "satellite Japanese quarter" which let him observe the city's cultural hybridization with Asia and Latin America. What can we observe there almost 50 years later, now that we have more cultures than we can even identify?
Blurry by Design: Public Matters on Social Enterprise
September 10, 2013 1:00 AM
Los Angeles:
Public Matters encourages productive outcomes from the meeting of two sets of otherwise contrary institutional logics: that of the market and of the social movement.
Welcome to Alexandra Grant's Interior Forest
September 6, 2013 4:00 PM
Los Angeles:
"Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest" is a project by L.A.-based artist Alexandra Grant encompassing a series of public drawing sessions, reading groups, artist collaborations and an installation at 18th Street Arts Center.
Los Angeles:
The cast of the avant-garde production "Prometheus Bound" at the Getty Villa perform on a five ton, 23-foot tall revolving circular steel structure.
Get Paid to Get Rid of Your Lawn in Los Angeles County
September 4, 2013 10:46 AM
by Linda Ly
8 of the Best Places to See the Night Sky in L.A. County
September 3, 2013 1:40 PM
by Chris Clarke
Stargazing:
There are a few places closer at hand in L.A. County where the night skies are dark enough to make tilting your head upward worthwhile.
A Los Angeles Primer:
Since its riots nearly 50 years ago, troubled Watts has drawn the pens Clive James, Jan Morris, Reyner Banham, and Thomas Pynchon. But even these astute observers had to contend with the surprising placelessness they found there, given the neighborhood's fearful reputation and vivid history of racial strife. Has it become a more recognizable place on its own terms today?
Los Angeles:
Los Angeles was once a community of exiled artists and intellectuals. Best-selling author Lion Feuchtwanger served as a cultural link between continents and altered L.A.'s cultural landscape.
A Los Angeles Primer:
In only 56 years, downtown's Bunker Hill went from the formerly grand but still dignified shambles that housed Arturo Bandini, down-and-out protagonist of John Fante's "Ask the Dust", to the stand of gleaming high-rises that itself simulated a virtual city in the techno-thriller "Virtuosity". Should, or can, we keep one Bunker Hill in mind while thinking about the other?
Enlightening The Darkness: An Urban Stargazer Looks for the Galaxy
August 23, 2013 11:25 AM
Concrete and Chaparral :
Los Angeles, a city known for its Hollywood stars, and a region home to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an aerospace industry, is, ironically, a place where actual stars can hardly be seen.
Car Chargers Arrive at 2 State Parks in Southern California
August 22, 2013 3:06 PM
by Chris Clarke
Transportation:
Heading to Leo Carrillo State Beach to catch a few waves? Now your electric car can do the same. Electric vehicles parked at Leo Carrillo, and at Malibu Creek State Park farther uphill, can catch some alternating current electrical wave action from newly installed electric car chargers unveiled Thursday by California State Parks.
Protesters Visit SoCal Edison Headquarters Over Solar Battle
August 22, 2013 2:35 PM
by Chris Clarke
Commentary:
If a recent cease and desist letter that Southern California Edison (SCE) sent to rooftop solar activists was intended to make them go away, it seems to be having the opposite effect. Which could be a metaphor for utilities and rooftop solar itself, when you get right down to it.
LAPD Wants to Stop Car Break-ins at Griffith Park [Updated]
August 19, 2013 11:25 PM
by Zach Behrens
Los Angeles:
Independent Shakespeare Co.'s multi-faceted Master Carpenter Todd Pate conjures up a different path for Macbeth and for himself.
Los Angeles:
David Evans Frantz, curator of exhibitions and projects at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, discusses the value of a queer archive for contemporary artists and community.
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