Nik Frank-Lehrer, a writer and mid-level socialite, spends his weekends haunting Los Angeles art venues and theme bars. He works in both the entertainment industry and in the Santa Monica family community.
We art bloggers are always up for do-it-yourselfing, and in this spirit, I'd like to offer a simple, one-step method for keeping your car clean this summer: the urban scarecrow. Country birds might run...
Unaware that he'd been nominated for a prize that previously went to former President Bill Clinton, anonymous graffiti artist JR was caught "kind of stunned" by the New York Times. He admitted he hadn'...
Nineteen breweries serving cold beer on L.A.’s sweatiest weekend can’t be wrong. Escape the downtown heat on Saturday at BAM Fest, a beer, art, and music festival on the breezy west side. Fortunately, a fixed...
When I was a kid, Memorial Day weekend usually marked the first tent-pole movie opening of the summer. Now here we are a week into May, and IRON MAN 2 is already upon us. But that'...
Remember the freshman back in high school who threw ragers at his parents' house, even after they put thousands of dollars into making it look like an art museum? Well, this party is a lot like that party... except...
People who love art are often as interesting as the art itself, which may explain my endless fascination with the Getty Museum. Beyond its acres of architecture and paintings, the Getty’s grad-school-like academic culture serves...
National-scale opportunities to help those affected by the disaster in Haiti are all over the news, from donation-texts to celebrity telethons. But to aid in the local effort to help quake victims, USC grad and Education Pioneers...
It's tough to weave together a more interesting biography than Randall Yarbrough's, whose press kit pegs him as a childhood armadillo racer, a bull rider in adolescence, and a gypsy in young adulthood. Those curious about his...
If you've spent any time at all downtown L.A., you've probably wandered past the California Plaza on South Grand and wondered, "How much do I have to pay to hang out there?" This winter...
Two generic L.A. destinations I'll never tire of are the sleepy, American-mall suburb of Pasadena and the Getty, home of late-night summer concert series Saturdays off the 405. Both are consistent presences in this column...