Monthly Archives: May 2009

Purple haze

Right around Memorial Day, LA emits this otherworldly purple glow. The jacarandas bloom and give way to June Gloom, I thought as I was walking home yesterday, spotting sprays of lavender splotched randomly like graffiti tagging the hillsides. It’s LA’s … Continue reading

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Melt with you

Thanks to everyone who checked out our little project yesterday, either online or in-person. I think it was a huge success for the Academy of Art to really get the word out about the Spring Show, plus it was great … Continue reading

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Spring Show with gelato, baby

Here is what you need to know: • It will happen on Thursday, May 21 from 11:00am to 8:30pm. • It involves young, raw, intelligent, unfathomable talent. • It involves gelato. Prominently. • If you are in San Francisco, you … Continue reading

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On Today’s DnA: Billboard blight

Besides having Sir James Dyson on today’s show, whose super-sucky products I have always patronized—from my pink vacuum cleaner to the only hand dryer I have ever taken a photo of (I seriously dried my hands three times)—a highlight has … Continue reading

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Eat My Words: Mother truckers

From the way some—okay, all—publications are covering LA’s mobile dining scene lately, you probably think we’re spending three hours per night waiting in line for tacos served with kimchi and an oDD prediLection for speLLing woRds with randoM capitaLiZed LetteRs. … Continue reading

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