| | | Slideshow: The Boardwalk Food Festival Takes Over Santa Monica Pier | A reimagined boardwalk with food from some of L.A.’s best restaurants, roaming stilt walkers, professional skateboarders on a half-pipe skate ramp, and live music took over the Santa Monica Pier over the weekend for a summer event ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | | | Raw Sian is Sexy and Emotive | Raw Sian is Sexy and Emotive: Irish, L.A.-based DJ, producer and label owner Sian got his start in the industry when he would sneak into a club through the backdoor because he was too young to get in. "I was about 17 when I got my ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | Both Sides of the Blade Slices Deep into Love | Claire Denis’ emotionally searing Both Sides of the Blade opens with a middle-aged couple swimming in a vast, glimmering ocean as they lovingly caress each other. The image is serene and crystalized, which makes the sudden cut to their be... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | Dreaming Walls: A Strange Look Inside the Chelsea Hotel | The mystique of the Chelsea Hotel has achieved cult-like status over the decades, due to the parade of counterculture icons that have alighted there for famous nights, epic summer sojourns, and in some cases, incomprehensible decades. The ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | Visibility: Arts Calendar July 14-20 | Ecstatic abstraction in ink and string, art for inclusive visibility, the poetry of scent, hands-on materiality in sculpture, esoterica of the afterlife, immersion in 50s club life, a juried salon of eclectic new contemporary visions ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | Meet Rewilding Collagist Jennifer Gunlock | Jennifer Gunlock builds trees out of trees — well, pictures of trees. Her practice as a mixed media collagist enacts a mediated rewilding of compromised landscapes, chronicling and deconstructing the cyclical encroachment of human ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | Historic 6th Street Bridge Is Now Open After Years Of Reconstruction | After six years of reconstruction, the historic 6th Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles has reopened to the public. The bridge connects the downtown Arts District and Boyle Heights in what the city called its largest project in history... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | The Strains of Summer 2022 | We don’t drop too many all-hype lists here at LA Weekly, but The Strains of Summer is the exception. Why? Because the hype is like the UV index. Sometimes you need sunglasses to protect your eyes from the shimmer and the heat. This ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | Ten Years in The Secret Sesh is Still Rolling | The Secret Sesh has served as the barometer for Los Angeles cannabis events hype for a decade, and it’s back in full swing. After a pandemic pivot that saw the famous event series get more involved in the media production side to ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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