Legman LA

Beer-flation, A Hit We Can't Afford

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:18:00 -0400

We just took a major financial hit when Trader Joe’s, which built its brand selling cheap...

What LA Was Missing? A Basque Mural

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:46:00 -0400

Nicotine fiend nurses on smoke break aside, unless you’re stumbling to the Kaiser Medical...

Bulletproof Eateries, Not in LA

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:18:00 -0400

We sorely miss chowing down on the occasional half chicken/fried rice combo at a ubiquitous Bronx...

The energy and elegance of this clip with badass James Coburn...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:58:29 -0400

The energy and elegance of this clip with badass James Coburn traversing NYC pre-Giuliani time made us wistful; when we could walk around the Village and happened to have a knot in our pocket, $100 was large, we felt like the king of the world.

Hollywood's Loss

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:38:00 -0400

Not a year since we investigated goings on at Hollywood’s Green Jello house for a radio...

Occupy Co-Opted, Undermined by Design

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:18:00 -0400

The fears of the Occupy movement have come to pass, namely that the language, symbols and the...

Fred Who? Meet the First Gay Presidential Candidate

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:38:35 -0400

Fred Who? Meet the First Gay Presidential Candidate

At Occupy LA, Whose Streets? Bees Streets

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:28:00 -0500

“We need to…WE NEED TO… get -on-the-sidewalk… GET ON THE SIDEWALK%2

Wrapping up this Veterans Day with Mr. Fish of truthdig.com who...

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:39:00 -0500

Wrapping up this Veterans Day with Mr. Fish of truthdig.com who had a brilliant solo show of his clever, nuanced and obsessively crafted drawings at Santa Monica art compound Bergamot Station’s Berman Gallery

Word is the cartoonist will be a guest on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly,

Another Veteran Day contribution. A fellow soldier is the...

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:57:00 -0500

Another Veteran Day contribution. A fellow soldier is the subject of chow time on the Mortar Range. Note the crates of 81mm mortar rounds on the horizon. Hard work placing those on target.

“Born to Eat” was an outward expression of the...

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:44:00 -0500

“Born to Eat” was an outward expression of the inwardly held values of this fellow soldier we photographed when it was all fun and games, before the empire-building-shit hit the fan big time. The price for that can be seen here, fitting and reverent photos by Magnum shooter Paul Fusco. But on this Veterans Day we recall fondly our contribution to our nation’s defense. Everything we needed to know we learned in infantry school, Ft. Benning, but never put our skills to test in the great combat actions of our time, having served in the Army National Guard’s Rainbow Division, whose distinctive patch is composed of blue for the seas we never crossed, red for the blood we never shed, and yellow for the reason why. Missed the liberation of Grenada and the friendly fire casualties of that war are sadly remembered today. Missed the freeing of Panama from dictatorship and as Gulf War I broke, we were on the Lido in Venice, polishing a degree in Renaissance Venetian painting; between Titian and titties, we missed the deployment. But our cohorts who served and marched passed Iraqi armor shot through with depleted uranium rounds and returned with a still unrecognized chronic illness, we don’t envy. And today we also recall shaping up at the funeral of Pfc. Luis Moreno, 19, of the Bronx, attached to the 69th Infantry, he caught a bullet standing on a street corner in Baghdad, guarding a gas station and became the unit’s first combat death in 2004. His uniformed corpse looking out of place in that Bronx funeral home and his grieving relatives, to a person, could not utter one word explaining what his death was for. Seven years down the road, that still remains unanswered.

Art inspired by the Great Recession has yet to make a cultural...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:17:00 -0500

Art inspired by the Great Recession has yet to make a cultural impact, so this impresses: One of Alex Scheafer’s burning Chase Bank paintings fronts this months Artillery, the West Coast art mag that-unlike NYC-based Artforum and Art in America- is actually readable. We regularly run into Scheafer as he pounds tall boys and paints during Downtown LA Artwalk in his corner of the Hive Gallery. Swell guy if not all that ambitious a painter; we’re glad to see he’s swirling the cadmium flames and three months since making the LA Times front page, still running with his fifteen earned after cops rolled up on his en- plein-air-painting ass outside a Chase bank in Van Nuys. Searched his home too, which hasn’t happened to a single banker.

Iron Chef Battles Wall Street

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:26:00 -0500

Never did enjoy a meal at Mario Batali’s joints-both Otto in NYC and Mozza in LA disappoint...

“From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:31:25 -0500

“From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast ” Poe wrote. Now we hear on this dull and dark- for LA anyway- Autumn day that the Hollywood house of horrors formerly known as Green Jello house is soon to fall. Here, Paul Zero, major domo.

Fresh for Fall

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:30:00 -0500

Damn ear worm of “Mic check” from our days reporting from occupyLA got us thinking of...

Walking Down The Boulevard, At Your Own Risk

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:43:00 -0400

We can’t walk down the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard a bit east of the tourist joints...

Surprising Music Selection at Hollywood Rite Aid

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:59:00 -0400

Popped into our default late night booze purveyor Rite Aid, scoring that nite cap to fuel the...

Mark Todd At La Luz de Jesus

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:46:00 -0400

Artists Talent Test Mixed painted media on panel 13.5” x 20.5” The Marvel universe...

The Donald Evokes Prince of Darkness

Thu, 12 May 2011 17:23:35 -0400

When we fled the Big Bagel we thought we’d heard the last of that pushy-shovey Queens accent,...

Buddy Hickerson, Cartoonist. Profiled in our column on the...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:59:00 -0400

Buddy Hickerson, Cartoonist. Profiled in our column on the economy here