Editorial

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Mar 11, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9842" align="alignnone" width="790"] Trinh Mai, Michael Massenburg, Ching Ching Cheng, and Michael C. Hsiung at L.A. Heat: Taste Changing Condiments at CAM (March 11, 2014)[/caption] This morning, I crashed the press preview of the L.A. Heat: Taste Changing Condiments exhibit at the Chinese American Museum. My friend Steve Wong, the museum's Interim Executive Editor and...

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Mar 04, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9785" align="alignnone" width="790"] Lindsey Ingram Photography[/caption] If you watched last weekend's Academy Awards, hopefully you noticed that Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture was nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture. The Cambodian/French co-production is an artful and ingenious retelling of the filmmaker's surviving the Khmer Rouge and its consideration was a milestone for Cambodians around the...

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Feb 25, 2014

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With most record labels struggling to scrape by, a generation of eardrums expecting songs to come free, and a shrinking middle class in music in general, it just keeps getting harder for an independent band to pay the bills through its songs. And so one of my favorite groups, the Cambodian psychedelic rock-inspired Dengue Fever,...

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Feb 18, 2014

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On Saturday I went to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA, for the first time in more than a decade. It's a classy, understated tribute to the giant of comic strips and popular culture in general, with landscaping that includes a labyrinth shaped like the World Famous Super Beagle in front and...

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Feb 11, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9594" align="alignnone" width="790"] Top row photos courtesy of Ben Clark[/caption] Since yesterday's gig was the second Save Music in Chinatown show, which I've been single-handedly been promoting for weeks on end, I have to admit that I'm getting worried about writing the same things over and over again. Thrilled to parlay my background in indie...

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Feb 04, 2014

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Once a year, the LA Art Book Fair takes over MOCA's Geffen Contemporary space in Little Tokyo. Vendors pay for their spaces but admission is free to anyone who is interested in artists’ books, catalogs, periodicals, zines, and prints from an international array of publishers of all sizes, booksellers, and artists themselves. Of course I had...

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Jan 28, 2014

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I've been lucky enough to have not one but two dream jobs. Helping to start Giant Robot and edit the magazine for 16 years was a great run. How many writers get to work with their best friend and cover pretty much whatever he or she wants every single issue? And being a part of...

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Jan 22, 2014

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I go through dry spells of "cool" stuff sometimes, just nothing cool heads my way. I just received some amazing things and I'd thought I'd share. Artifact by Gerber I found this amazing piece to add to my "EDC" (Everyday Carry). It's a great tool that comes with a prybar, bottle opener, screw driver heads and a...

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Jan 21, 2014

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I couldn't make it to the Nick Zinner and Malia James photo exhibit in Pomona the other week, but when I saw that the latter was selling a Photographs From The Road zine I immediately hit her up. I love art zines because they're imperfect, fragile, and cheap but made with love. I don't fool...

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Jan 14, 2014

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I recall one of my English professors at UCLA saying in a lecture that you can't read every book in the world but you can skim the book reviews in the Sunday paper to at least know what's going on. In that spirit--and in contrast to actual criticism--here are some thoughts on key books that...