Review of Maira Kalman for KCRW
Maira Kalman doesn’t need much to create art, because she finds art in everything she sees.
Citizen Cope @ the Wiltern – LA Record
[This is from that hip music 'zine I write for sometimes]: Having lived in D.C. for five of my formative years, it’s hard to believe something so soulful could come out of that place. I’m not sure how a city so Blackberry-powered and pinstriped could produce someone like Citizen Cope, but I’m glad it did....
The pillow is mightier than the face
Behold, photos from LA’s take on International Pillow Fight Day, which was yesterday. I only got hit in the face once, which I consider pretty lucky.
Prez-periment
So I tried this Prezi thing today for the first time to go with this story about the Artcycle and green spaces in L.A. Not so bad for fake Flash, no? Artcycle up close on Prezi
Andrew Bird review
His signature whistling is one of the few quantifiable characteristics of Bird’s flighty, unique brand of music-making. The rest is an unpredictable smattering of sounds that meander along gracefully, occasionally straying a bit from reality to go down some sidestreet of Bird’s convoluted psyche. To get it, you really have to see it.
LA School of Gymnastics Offers Parkour Indoors
Cliff Kravit, a trainer in the art of Parkour, teaches aspiring traceurs how to climb walls and jump tables – without risking life and limb. (from NeonTommy.com) Shot on a Canon DV camcorder, edited on Avid Newscutter. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCYPORnWnhY]
Peter, Bjorn and John birthday concert review
Bands like the Sounds, the Hives and I’m From Barcelona are harbingers of a Scandinavian invasion: Swedes have swarmed the “indie-pop-rock” genre in recent years, and for good reason. Finland might be great for strange death metal and Iceland for ambient trip-hop, but look no further than the other white Northern country for pitch-perfect pop...
Tegan and Sara review
The night was a Tegan and Sara concert squeezed into Tegan and Sara’s Def Comedy Jam. They poked fun at each other, the audience, our song suggestions and even America – sometimes all in one go.
“We’ll play “Here I Am” when you all have healthcare in your country,” they said after someone called out a...
Gogol: un-mellow
‘Gogol Project’ mixes three Gogol short stories – review at NeonTommy.com There aren’t a whole lot of ways to make abstruse Russian literature palatable to a room full of young Echo Park hipsters, but a giant walking nose is one way to go about it. If Nikolai Gogol had written three of his most famous...
‘The Informant!’ Reviewed
Hot actors love to get frumpy for movies, and critics love them for doing it. Charlize Theron was a mulletted serial killer in Monster, Nicole Kidman had a giant plastic proboscis in The Hours, and Matt Damon creeped his way to a Golden Globe in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Now he’s doing it again in...
Pico Art Show – Santa Monica