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| ARTICLES: 9/11/08: Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters Yosi Sargent is the guy who had the smarts to ask Shepard Fairy to make a poster for Obama. And the rest is in fact history. 7/31/08: Lessons From a Santa Monica Food Line Volunteering regularly at a Santa Monica food line is a win-win. It’s not only helping provide meals to people who need them, it’s giving this 30-something Brentwood mom a reason to get out of bed in the morning. 6/12/08: After the Suicide: A Sorrow So Deep Nick tries to make sense of life in the aftermath of his wife’s suicide. 4/17/08: Bingo Was His Name The community of Silver Lake mourns together when Bingo the dog, the other mayor of Sunset Blvd., passes away. 3/06/08: Style and the City 27 year-old Beth Jones had never worked in fashion before she quit her corporate job and started a fashion blog, but since then it’s “taken off like crazy.” 2/07/08: The Wire's Lance Reddick: He Might Have Been Bubbles Before Rocket Video closed down, they used to have Q & A’s there, like this one with The Wire’s Lance Reddick, better known as Lt. Cedric Daniels. 1/10/08: Eloise Gets a Manicure 12 year-old Eloise Valentine gets a manicure. 12/13/07: Family Affairs A little sister manages both her brother's and her mother’s dating websites. 11/08/07: The Unconsumed Life Ann Bradley is standing outside the Silver Lake Farmer’s Market with a sign that reads ‘Please Bring Your Own Bag’ nine times—this baby boomer is serious about zero waste, extremely well-informed and polite. 11/08/07: He Stands and Delivers Before he was President, a campaigning Barack Obama spoke to a small crowd at Garfield High about education and immigration. I was there. 10/25/07: The Body Electric Sexy, smart 23 year-old Emily Keaty has “literally” felt the doors open in her third eye from eating a carrot. 10/11/07: The Art of Textual Relations 28 year-old Kendra Dennis is a master of Textual Relations. Check this out if you wanna “Get Wit” her. 9/27/07: Goodbye, Loafer Queen Olivia Beall (pronounced “Bell”) is an abstract thinker and an abstract painter. Her mind gravitates toward ghosts, art, psychic energy, astrology and the history and culture of the city in which she lives and paints. She was stealing electricity from Beck’s mom and drinking Café Con Leche at The Tropical long before the eastside became gentrified. 8/30/07: The Owl and the Pussycat Alan claims an owl flew into his second-story apartment window in an attempt to steal his pet cat, Robert. The owl, Alan says, did not succeed. But the incident left Robert, his durable 18-year old tabby traumatized and Alan, well… intrigued. 8/16/07: A Man and A Woman Walk Into a Bar With red plastic cups in hand, Francois and Marina are in their own world. 8/02/07: The Big Picture 32 year-old Patrick Ecclesine spent 3 years taking photographs of Angelinos who live and work along Sunset Blvd, and he has eyes as blue as well-chlorinated pool water. 7/05/07: Catcher in the Grass Did I ever tell you about the time I bought JD Salinger’s 22 unpublished short stories at a garage sale in my neighborhood? 5/24/07: Dancing in Tropical Snow With her red/blonde mullet and Crayola green-and-yellow outfit, pretty 23-year-old Ashley Huizenga looks like an art star, rock star or American Apparel model. Which is it? She might be all three. 5/10/07: The Haden Clan Jazz legend Charlie Haden moved his kids here in the mid- ‘70’s, now the entire family is an LA treasure. 4/12/07: Inflatable Ego California native Addi Somekh, who graduated from UC Santa Cruz and Manhattan’s New School for Social Research, looks a lot more like a laid-back, granola-eating grad student than a clown. But he’s not a clown. He’s a balloon twister. 4/05/07: Is Oakwood On Fire? Young actors grab their scripts and run as the Oakwood Apartments almost burn down. 3/29/07: Dewey and the Pelican Actor/surfer Dewey Weber faces off with a suicidal pelican on the Imperia Highway and contemplates what it means to be American. Does this sound like a waking dream? 2/28/07: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter It’s Valentine’s Day in Silver Lake. 2/14/07: Smoked Out Joanna Le Force, spokesperson for the West Hollywood Medical Farmacy, talks about their recent DEA raid, which included a task-force complete with bullet proof vests and AR-15s. 2/14/07: Surrounded Andrew Rakos is not opposed to legalizing marijuana it’s just… do they really need three dispensaries on the same block as his kid’s private school? 2/01/07: Meet Me at (the Doughnut Side Of) Third and Fairfax It’s a nice wintery L.A. day and Matthew Kogan is drinking his regular Americana under a heat lamp on the “Dounut side of the Farmer’s Market.” 1/18/07: Lucas at 20 Luca Elliot is 20. He’s started 22 scripts and acted in lots of TV shows and films, but what he really wants to do is direct. 12/21/06: Onward American Soldier 19 year-old Private First Class Rogelio Mendoza came from Lamont, California, “Just a little town with nothing but gangsters and a lot of trouble.” Now he’s waiting for his Grayhound bus to Camp Pendleton. 12/07/06: After the Rapture Look at all those heavily accessorized 18-to-24-year-olds pouring out of the Rapture show on Hollywood Blvd. They’re all so tipsy, nearly naked and texting their friends. 11/23/06: Good Morning L.A. Erik must have said ‘Good Morning’ at least a hundred times during his hike today through Griffith. This whole talking-to-strangers thing makes him feel connected to mankind. 11/09/06: The Side Man Is everything changing in the music industry? Former Virgin Records bigwig turned indie record label owner Andy Factor talks about it. 10/26/06: Rescue Me Commercial actress Alexis Smart just went pro. Her flower power potions are stimulating consciousness all over L.A. Maybe she can heal you? 10/11/06: Beer Fest A couple of Daniels decide to brew their own. 9/27/06: Used Country Man, Ameoba Music. 9/13/06: Listening to E.E. Johnson Long live the poets! Eric Ernest Johnson loves life, and old vinyl, and 60's paperbacks, and the Beats, and writing on his old typewriter, and... 8/30/06: The Other Art Tatum Gus Seyffert is almost six foot five. His bullmastiff Art Tatum is 175 lbs. They are big and tall, maybe you will like them. 7/5/06: Let Me Ride Michael and Scott took an epic bike ride last Saturday night, down where poo-poo alley meets the 5 freeway. 6/21/06: Given To Flier Michael Bauer hopes somebody, anybody, is thinking about his band The Front. That's why he is putting up those "broke-ass" fliers. 6/07 /06: Native Sun 5/10/06: TomTom Club 3/8/06: Tiffany Is Going to France 10/28/04 Silver Lake's Top Dog 8/19/04: Republican Dawn? |
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