June 2010
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Watch Grazed by Bullets, Survivor Tells of Shooting at The Echo A night of ambient psychedelic rock at uber hip music mecca The Echo ended in bloody carnage last Sunday after a motorcycle riding gunman opened fire into the crowd outside the club in LA’s Echo Park. Two were shot and seriously injured while a third vic, music agent Adam D’Zurilla amazingly was just grazed by bullets....
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ACHIM FREYER At ACE Gallery
ACE Gallery was a spectacular white box whose monolithic walls and rays-from-heaven- like lighting lent import to any damn thing on the wall when it was in SoHo back in the day. And while the adjacent deli that sells tallboys remains on 6th Avenue, ACE has long moved to LA where it became grander; occupying theme-park-scaled gallery space at two locations. We hit their Wilshire Avenue space the...
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Academy, Smell The Coffee
Now this is how to run an awards show. Robert Scheer whose web magazine Truthdig.com won best political blog at the 14th Annual Webby Awards Monday night, wins the crowd too. The event was held, fittingly, on NYC’s Wall Street.
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The Gayest Building in Hollywood
The Hollywood-Western building, c. 1928, has been many things through the years; movie mogul Louise B. Mayer’s offices, rehearsal space for Guns and Roses, porn studios. But what it remains is a wacky awesome structure with muscular nudes peering down on passersby. A high school English teacher back in the Bronx offered extra credit if we could accurately count the steps to the...
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Finally, The Legman is Welcomed
Walking along Western Avenue we looked up to find an ingratiating bit of signage, holding promise of arroz con pollo. But turns out this eatery that courted New Yorkers has long joined the trash heap of history. In its place, one of those Central American pupusarias, a shack lit by a single bulb churning out corn meal mush and cabbage in a scene that might as well be in Guatemala City.
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One of A kind Entertainment Campus for the Down...
Our exclusive analysis of Hollywood’s Larry King Square being a haven for the down and out was met with skepticism, lacking photojournalism cred. Well some images that arrived at LegmanLA
show the square is a one of a kind entertainment campus for the indigent. You know, exactly what LA Live is to margarita guzzling douche bags.
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Inching Towards Urbanism
Our first visit to Sunset Plaza we took in the blond cougars draped in $10,000 worth of clothes dining outdoors while inhaling the traffic of Sunset Boulevard, and did an about face. Returning to the expansive (but free) parking lot, the Legman found the valets and security men had all abandoned their posts. They were gathered at the far end of the lot, huddled together and fixed on the adjacent...
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Hollywood Noir: Death at the Frolic Room
The Frolic Room, a bar aside the landmark Pantages Theater on Hollywood Boulevard is a location in murder-mysteries like LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia. This past April 5th reality emulated art when the bar became the scene of a grisly death. However, insiders say it is no mystery while police maintain it is not a murder.
Gerald Thomas Andersen, one of five ...