Pro skateboarder Mark Gonzalez is having a solo exhibition at HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles. The opening reception will be today, Friday May 19 from 6-10 PM and will be running until June 20, 2017. If you decide to go to the opening today, make sure you RSVP and get there early!...
If you're on a budget, here is a cheap and easy DIY Sous Vide hack to cook the perfect beer cooler steak. All you need is steak, salt/pepper, butter, thermometer, a ziplock bag and a cooler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HD8xX_Rx1M...
Sunday's Save Music in Chinatown fund raiser might have been the most packed, fun, and exciting all-ages matinee we've had so far. Turning friends, family, and guests onto the garage rock upstarts The Schizophonics and all-star super power trio Tabitha was just as much of a blast as having first-generation L.A. punks The Alley Cats,...
Today is the anniversary of Mexico's victory over the French army at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Today is also the release of Mac Demarco's third album This Old Dog. Grab some tacos and beer today and listen to some chill tunes from Mac. https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/7nUB5er2UpBMraUXK2wWRj...
I'm as shocked as anyone that we've reached the twelfth Save Music in Chinatown show at the end of four school years without flaming out, burning out, or being defeated in any number of ways. Putting on all-ages punk rock matinees to raise money for Castelar Elementary's music program is actually more fun than ever....
Photographer Chris McCaw takes long exposures of the sun to burn markings into his photographs. Check out his awesome photos for his series Sunburn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSTpuoQD8t4...
Staying with friends who live in a small town in France, we asked about the sights to see. They mentioned the local cathedral, a boat cruise, and Maison de Jules Verne. No one had ever taken them up on seeing the writer's house yet, they added, but that was number one on our list. Verne...
There are plenty of important pieces of art right across the way from Musée de l'Orangerie at the Louvre. Venus de Milo, Liberty Leading the People, Raft of the Medusa, Mona Lisa, Oath of the Horatii--they're worth fighting crowds to see in person. But Tokyo-Paris: Masterpieces from Bridgestone Museum of Art, Collection Ishibashi Foundation really...
This season we've been making pit stops on the drive back to Los Angeles from Mammoth: Manzanar, Alabama Hills, Red Rocks. Two weeks ago, we pulled over at the Vasquez Rocks. I've been wanting to check them out ever since visiting the Alabama Hills and being tipped that they weren't actually the site of Kirk...
I didn't know much about Jimmie Durham. My wife and I only went to the Hammer because we had tickets to a UCLA basetball game and had some time to kill in Westwood. But I'm really glad we made the pit stop. Durham is an artist, performer, poet, essayist, and activist who rose up in the...