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Street Dogs Of South Central, A Documentary Asking For Your Help

Street Dogs Of South Central, A Documentary Asking For Your Help

There are a lot of dog friends in Los Angeles who have terrific lives and get to go to hiking everyday and get to go to parks and have play dates and do things that dogs dream of being able to do. It’s great to be able to do that, especially in Los Angeles, which is a perfect city for dogs (even though the sidewalks can be a little too hot for my paws). But, there are a lot of dogs who need help, a lot of dogs that are homeless and have no idea how to change things. They’re scared, they’re helpless, they’re confused, and they don’t know what to do. A new dogdocumentary is sharing these stories, the stories of dogs in South Los Angeles who need our help: Street Dogs of South Central.

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A Few Thoughts On Fashion Week In Los Angeles

Skingraft's Fall 2012 Presentation

Last week was Fashion Week in Los Angeles, we think. It could very well still be happening but we have no idea. We didn’t realize the week was upon us until we were e-mailed about potentially doing some coverage on it, from a party completely removed from the event who were hoping we had an “in” there as they couldn’t get ahold of anyone. We thought Fashion Week wasn’t until Autumn at some point but, after a quick Google search, it surely was last week-ish. We sent a frazzled e-mail to their press people the week before it all started, knowing it was very late in the game but figured why not give it a shot? We didn’t hear anything from them and didn’t see anything during Fashion Week aside from events that designers and fashion people we knew invited us to. Is Fashion Week in Los Angeles supposed to be completely missed and muddled, shrouded in confusion and mystery and overwhelming vagueness? If it is supposed to be that, mission accomplished.

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Making A Simple Succulent Shelf

Making A Simple Succulent Shelf

Hold on to your butts, everyone: I’m about to get all crafty all up in this site. A few Sundays ago, Bobby and I were running some errands and happened into the West Hollywood CB2, which is always great but is quickly becoming the new expensive Ikea because, if you own anything from there, people know that you got it from there. We had been talking about getting a bench to place plants on in front of a window in our apartment for some time and, when eyeing a $300 bench at CB2, I called bullshit on selling a piece of wood that was intended to look old but was new and three hundred dollars. I announced, “You know, I can build a bench for us that is a quarter of the price. Let’s go to Home Depot.” And, away we went to the Home Depot on Sunset and Wilton!

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New SMMOA Exhibitions

June 1 will be the opening of three new shows at SMMOA: there will be Joyce Pensato’s I Killed Kenny, Park Studio’s Skaters And Makers, and Marco Rios’ Anatomy Of An Absent Artist. They all sound rad! They’ll be up through August 17, too.

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Punch Out LA

Punch-Out!! is coming to Los Angeles June 10 through June 13. What’s that? The world premiere of street and pop artist Mikey’s latest collection. Sounds like pretty interesting, boxing, and video game driven work. If anything, looks fun.

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Dawn Patrol Truck

Dawn Patrol is hoping to raise money to bring their surf concept on the road via a mobile surf shop and food truck. Seems like a rad idea! You have until May 30 to help them out.

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Steam Carnival

This is interesting: currently fundraising on Kickstarter is an event called the Steam Carnival, a “carnival reimagined with robots, fire, and lasers to inspire young inventors in science, technology, engineering, art, and math.” Sweet! They’re over halfway to their goal and you have until June 3 to help out.

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Let Me Die A Woman At Cinefamily

June 16 at Cinefamily will be a showing of queer cult documentary Let Me Die A Woman which details a few transgender stories. It sounds like a wild film and it is being presented by Zackary Drucker. We’d love to make this!

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