December 2009
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November 2009
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"Hipster or Homeless" Quandary: An Encounter
There’s no doubt in which camp this way cool DJ and neighborhood Barrista stands, but other cats in an LA pop-up shop Legman hit up confronted us with this town’s now hackneyed dilemma: discerning homeless from hipster.
Marching passed the clean streets and boutiques of Los Feliz en route to cheap drinks at the Drawing Room a frat boy type stops us dead with the issuance of a long...
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How do You Fetch $1.92 Million For a Painting,...
The undervalued painter ERIC FISCHL will give a lecture “How Painting Died” at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on December 3. The Legman would be there in a heartbeat but… we’ve got an “End of Prohibition” party to hit in the Hollywood Hills and being in LA, party wins over culture. But we do need eyes and ears at the event so do go in our stead; ask the man...
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Henry Sanchez at Visual Arts Gallery, NYC
Henry Sanchez is our favorite conceptual artist. Our favorite conceptual artist to bend elbows with at any rate. Back in the day we dug his massive painterly Luchadores, images of iconic masked Mexican ass kicking wrestlers, but he’s since stopped getting dirty in the studio and moved on to embrace theory. Sanchez’s latest work “Extending it’s Helping Hand” a three...
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He's on the List (of Party Crashers)
Certainly we’re astounded at the chutzpah of the White House crashers but not that surprised. Over two decades of world-around party going, Legman has actually looked into the crazed eyes of these determined scammer types. For example, we recently ran into one Rex Reginald smashing down hors d’oeuvres and beers alongside Hall of Famer Whitey Ford at an LA sports museum. Reginald,...
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Cops Welcome Legman, I'll be Back With My Board
Legman was warmly welcomed to the LAPD’s spanking new 437 million dollar headquarters the other day. Three floors up the brilliantly reflective façade of the L-shaped building a law enforcement management type is waiving at us!
Everyone else was busy working- the halls are barren- but after keenly spotting us pointing and shooting in the expansive public plaza one guy assigned to the...
Valley Tween Rampage
When the order came down on Facebook, seventh graders of A.E. Wright Middle School fell into lock step, jolly stomping their red haired classmate and starting unfortunate Kevin Goldfinger’s day with a fractured arm and a kick in the balls.
Now the 12 year old’s Facebook page is full of consolation notes. This detestable crime occured not in the mean streets of Hollywood but rather...
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Great Recession Noodle Line
Lara in noodles and furs, Silver Lake
Our first foray as Legman LA takes us to Silver Lake where we find a telling sign of the Great Recession. A noodle line. The opening of Gobi Mongolian BBQ draws an elegant crowd, rocking designer gear and salon cuts. The Legman found the bar accessible, but a line shaped up stretching around the block for a pass at Mongolian fried noodles, gratis. And we...
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LA Metro Special Needs Instructions
An extension into East LA of the Gold Line will be taking a toll on pedestrians and vehicles alike, a certainty already foretold.
So Metro has put out this ad campaign that you’d think was targeted at special-needs kids since LA’s general population has a hard time with the physics of mass transit. Now those polychrome squiggles in the ads? I interpret them as nothing but the...
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My Landlord: An Inspiration
Legman: You ripped me off for $140
Landlord: So what are you going to do?
Legman: So Gidi, when I visit Tel Aviv, what's a good restaurant?
Landlord: There's a kosher Japanese place on Dizengoff Street.
Legman: What's it called?
Landlord; SOSUMI
Legman: Excellent thought. I WILL!
Theosophist Symbolism
The Krotona, a sprawling architectural pastiche of bungalows and apartments and home to a marvelous array of stone-cold alcoholics clinging to their Hollywood dreams is one of my favorite places to visit in LA. The Legman found himself coaxed into an “energy circle” holding hands with guests at a boho soiree recently, awaiting the opening of an inter-dimensional portal. The Dr....
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The Pork Barrista
The featured front stall at the Grand Central Market offers Angelinos every nasty bit of the pig roasted up. As I pored over the third world display the Pork Barrista handed me a generous portion of pork ass, oozing fat. I passed. But what do I know? Scribbling about greasy, salty, death-inviting peasant food got this LA cat Jonathan Gold the Pulitzer. Ain’t too many Anglo foodies crawling...
Art Walk Boots Guides(Get it?)
The Downtown Art Walk has undergone a sudden leadership change. What exactly went down remains unclear, but for fans of the closest thing LA has to Mardi Gras, the immediate impact will be the ouster of some popular tour guides, including indie horror film maker and Downtown habitue Jeremy Kasten. The colorful but uninspired Crimebo the Clown -he offers insights like “that building there?...
Scene from a Third World Capital
What I’ve been missing all these years? Eating hooves, ears, snouts.
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WatchEight months after cops charge the Legman with walking on a flashing red light down on Hollywood Boulevard my jaywalking citation is dismissed
Legman vs. The City of Los Angeles
Before heading to the Downtown Art Walk -the only street spectacle that I’ve found entertaining these past four years stuck in LA- I am preparing my case for Legman vs. City of Los Angeles which goes to trial tomorrow morning. Charged with jaywalking-the lying cops basically mugged me-I’ve already made two court appearances for this stone cold shakedown. Certainly this smiling,...
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The Art Walk, a monthly event regularly drawing a throng of thousands to the bum piss-slicked streets of Downtown LA. I’m liking it.
“If you don’t go out and see
The world remains a mystery”
– The Legman