It's called the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for a reason: large-scale artworks set the festival apart and add immeasurably to the experience, and to the event's distinctive appeal. Art isn't the reason Coachella sells out even before the lineup of bands is announced, but it's far from an afterthought - this year, according to some … Continue »
10 Fun L.A. Things To Do With Kids That Don't Suck For Grownups
Who's cool? Who still knows what's up? Not you. You used to rock and roll all night and party ev-er-ee day. Now you're home by eight o'clock on school nights, and weekends too. Because you've got kids. At least, that's how it feels during the dark moments. The moments in which you're alone and cringing in a hard plastic booth at a Chuck E. … Continue »
Instagram, Vine video apps make short work of artistic expression
In a town where exposure is everything, bite-size videos from Instagram and the even shorter Vine prove popular and even profitable. Enjoy whirlwind tours of Los Angeles neighborhoods, eavesdrop on celebrities, drive interest in your in-progress screenplay. Just when you thought this town's attention span couldn't get any shorter ? or its … Continue »
1450 Ocean: Santa Monica Senior Center Becomes A Hip Maker Space
First thing to know about soldering irons: they're hot. If that doesn't frighten you away, you might have what it takes to wire up the circuit board that will take you on an electronic treasure hunt through Santa Monica's GLOW event. During a class at the newly rejiggered 1450 Ocean community center in Santa Monica's Camera Obscura building, … Continue »
The Day The Man Came To Burning Man
Burning Man's reputation for bacchanalian revelry is well deserved. The festival is one of the planet's biggest parties, famously crescendoing in the immolation of a towering wooden stick figure on Saturday night, accompanied by a chaotic, high-firepower pyrotechnics display that, unlike most fireworks shows, feels all grand finale, all of the … Continue »
Burning Man's big hangup: cellphones
There's no running water, no plumbing, no electrical outlets. The environment is so forbidding in this vast and dusty desert that there aren't even insects. So it's not the kind of place to expect full bars on your smartphone. Of course, that's a big part of the charm. The only thing not lacking in Black Rock City, Nev. ? the temporary city … Continue »
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