January 2010
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You Needn't Worry About Wacko Jacko
In a continuation of what the LA Times noted as last year’s trend of art world resizing in LA, Billy Shire Fine Arts is shuttering. The Culver City gallery’s show of British artist Dave McKean’s works inspired by silent cinema opening February 13th will be the last before the gallery moves exhibitions to La Luz de Jesus. That space, entering its 24th year has been newly...
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The Last Newspaper Reader
“They’re just a bunch of squares up there. No one goes out, the scene is dead. My friends stay home and watch tv” the old newspaper man says, spilling his disappointment after returning from a road trip north to Marin County. “Used to be a bunch of wonderful towns. Now I wouldn’t live in any one of them.” Dick can fix your script for you, make it nice for when...
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Picasso Blew
We still don’t know what to make of LA’s Downtown Art Walk, part art school spectacle, part drunken Mardi Gras but it gets us out of Hollywood for an evening. And last night as we were going to throw in the towel and head to King Eddy joining the company of men who’ve given up on life, we stopped into ARTY Gallery to find Len(Leonardo)Aaron, 94, sitting among his...
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Canada Trims Its Beaver
“Market research showed us that younger Canadians and women were very very unlikely to ever buy a magazine called The Beaver” says Mark Reid, editor of the Great White North’s second oldest magazine, who doesn’t share our affinity for the double entendre. Maintaining Canada’s street cred of producing the funniest folk on earth, he explains his mag dropping its...
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Worst Barber in Hollywood: A Regular Cut Up
Over the weekend the LA Times brought us an obvious and completely ordinary profile of the city’s oldest barber. We offer a more utilitarian tale as ever-on-the make for a cheap haircut contributor Chris Namon tells of his recessionary misstep getting his ear’s lowered by the worst barber in Hollywood. You got Thai Town salons advertising “First Haircut $3” and retro-barber shops...
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How We Roll-and Stroll-In LA
Stepping out for a stroll our neighbor- a medicine man of sorts- has no qualms flaunting a transparent pack, telling us “I got a license. It’s all good.” Unlike half the elected officials in town, he’s not confused about thelaw.
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For LA Food Critic, D is for Disinformation
We’re savoring our second cup of organic Sumatra Vienna roast, reveling in our view of the Observatory and mulling over a hike when a segment on KCRW’s Good Food show got our glad-to-be-in-LA stomach churning. This past weekend Jonathan Gold, whose LA Weekly column we embraced as a guide when first landing in town, was babbling on about LA’s restaurant grading. The Dirty Noodle Eater denounced...
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Celebrity Hat Rehab
The new season of VH1’s Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew about to drop has Dennis Rodman in the line up. We only hope the doc doesn’t wash away the abusive baller’s penchant for regodamndiculous head gear, like this Lord of the Rings lid Madonna’s ex was rockin’ when he rolled up on the Legman outside of LA club Area one night. Makes LA all colorful and what not.
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Our New Wheels
When it comes to business, Legman has dropped the ball again and again. But this time we see opportunity and we’re taking it, as it landed on our doorstep this morning in the shape of a fresh out of the showroom shopping cart. A thing of beauty that we imagine will make heads turn as we roll down the back alleys of Hollywood Boulevard, surface mining all that precious scrap . Now word on...
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RESOLVED FOR-What We'll Call-20 Ten
First , we’re inspired by the art vandal surprisingly missing from the ubiquitous lists of the decade’s influencers, Banksy, who advised”….leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.” Second, the Legman will never, ever under any circumstance- stone cold broke as we may be and baited by a damn coupon- touch another McDonald’s, Burger...