If you are on the hunt for a way to spruce up your dinner conversations; what about quizzing yourself with a remedial session on mid-century furniture and design?  The laminated flash cards are tastefully designed and sophisticated ranging from Alvar Aalto to Ray & Charles Eames. Measuring 3.5 inches by 5.25 inches, these cards are bound by a metal ring to make testing a snap →

The Manifest Hope:DC Gallery was an event hosted by Shepard Fairey that the pivotal role that artists played when using their voices to galvanize the grassroots movement.  Here are a few words from DJ Troublemaker as he describes the phenomenal time he had at the exhibition and party in DC while witnessing history in the making →

EM:  Occupation and Position.
HASTIE: Assistant to the artist Tillamook Cheddar, “the world’s most successful living animal painter” (according to London’s The Art Newspaper)

EM:  What neighborhood do you closely identify with?  What makes your community so unique?
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.  We are blessed to live on a beautiful block in a small old neighborhood that lies between Ft. Greene, Prospect Heights, and Bedford-Stuyvesant–three very vibrant Brooklyn neighborhoods →

Harley-Davidson presents:  The Art of Rebellion
Bergamot Station Art Center – Santa Monica, CA
2/7/09
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Harley-Davidson has gathered 11 of today’s most relevant and exciting artists to present their take on the theme of rebellion. The Art of Rebellion is a one-night only event taking place on February 7, 2009 from 7 to 10pm at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station Arts Center. Artwork is for sale and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Art Matters →

An Evening of Short Films & Cinematic Socializing
Landmark Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
2/3/09
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Founded by Scion in 2007 to support young, emerging filmmakers, Scion Easy 10 gives up-and-coming visual artists a chance to shoot a short film on a topic of their choice. This year, Scion will be switching up the format by selecting ten media outlets to express their creativity through film. Scion allotted each filmmaker three months and a modest budget to transform their idea into a cinematic reality →

For those awaiting a renaissance in Downtown and a bit turned off by the influx of chain restaurants at LA Live, fret not, for there is the new pan-Latin cuisine of John Sedlar’s new restaurant, Rivera →

Richard Godfrey’s “RECENT WORK”
Julie Rico Gallery – Downtown LA, CA
2/12/09
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Julie Rico Gallery is pleased to present “RECENT WORKS,” a stunning exhibition of paintings by Richard Godfrey. As an established ‘Arts District’ veteran of downtown Los Angeles, Godfrey has been an intrinsic part of the contemporary art scene in Southern California over the past twenty-five years. Godfrey’s work is rooted in the tradition of the California light and space movement. Richard Godfrey’s work has been internationally represented in galleries, collections, and museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Laguna Art Museum, Musse d’Adzak, and most recently at the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, Republic of China →

Rosia uses her bare hands to flip the blue corn tortillas toasting on the grill in front of her. She looks up when a passing man shouts out a friendly tease and says to him in Spanish, “I know where you live!” then smiles at us sweetly. She plates three quesadillas: papas y chorizo, hongos (mushroom) and flor de calabaza (squash blossom). →

After a week under your office’s flourescents, you’re feeling like you may have lost your healthy glow.  Not to mention your golden finish.  Luckily, Cat Goddess Cosmetics knows how to make you luminesce under all sorts of lighting.  →

A highly modern take on the mid-century post and beam, this sprawling Archipelago house employs a crazy zig-zag structure to naturally fit its rugged mountainous terrain of Archipelago, Stockholm.  The house is literally fit snug into the flat surface between two mountain rocks with windows facing both south with ample sunlight and the west with the glassy Baltic seabreeze.  Aside from being aesthetically pleasing, the zig-zagged layout is also practical in creating a series of outside pockets around the home that is sheltered from the strong Archipelago winds →