September 2011 Archives
Arts & Culture:
LA-based filmmaker Sharon Lockhart's film 'Podworka' bristles with a riveting intensity.
Where We Are:
A traffic artifact of the 1932 Olympic Games still turns heads in Long Beach.
Commentary:
Some are less than happy with the work of California's independent redistricting commission.
Where We Are:
Yaroslavsky will run, but will he know what the city he hopes to lead has become?
LA as Subject:
A series of recent news headlines have reminded us that our city--often associated with brown skies, high-speed pavement, and its concrete river--still maintains an intimate relationship with nature.
Commentary:
Remembering is one of our favorite national pastimes. But when it comes to unresolved business like 9/11, it's tricky at best, deceptive at worst.
Arts & Culture:
LEDs, infrared light, utopian fantasy, inappropriate material and Hollywood's impact on politics all contribute to this week's media art scene in LA.
Commentary:
Gabriel Wartofsky is a graduate of Art Center College of Design, with a degree in Transportation Design. Gabriel is not designing the next Ford, or the newest fastest BMW like his other alumni; he is designing for the "Conscious Commuter."
Arts & Culture:
The bodies in many of the shorts and music videos screening in the upcoming Flux Screening Series this Thursday, September 15, are totally out of control.
Commentary:
Could the Sea of Cortez ever come back to reclaim the land of the Imperial and Coachella Valleys?
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