Intelligentsia Roasted Coffee
1331 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA
05/22/09

Come celebrate the grand opening of Intelligentsia’s new store location. Complimentary coffee will be served and for the late night party goers, beer and wine will be provided by Silverlake Wine. There could not be a party with out all the proper fixings- appetizers and beats will also be in sway. DJ’s Peanut Butter Wolf and Dam Funk (Stones Throw) will keep the party jumping until 1 am with their oh, so funky beats.

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Nike Debuts the Nike Trainer 1 – Its Most Versatile Training Shoe for Today’s Athletes
Nike, with Olympic gold medal decathlete Bryan Clay and All-Pro football players Adrian Peterson, Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu, and NBA All-Stars Brandon Roy and Amar’e Stoudemire, introduced the Nike Trainer 1, an innovative new lightweight training shoe that fuses Nike’s rich training heritage with the latest innovation and design technology. →

30,000 paper raindrops. 40,000 feet of fishing twine. 2,500 fishing weights. Hundreds of sheets of cardboard fashioned into miniature works of art and life-size cut-out characters (only expect 5 – 10). Incorporating all of the above ingredients and more for his debut Los Angeles solo show at Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art on May 7th, 2009, Israeli artist Know Hope invites you to literally step inside one of his artworks for a visual experience unlike any you have ever encountered and one you will never forget. →

INT. A cabaret bar. The audience sits at burgandy-clothed tables drinking kir royales and gin on the rocks.  The stage curtain is always open and currently the house lights are up with only wooden chairs scattered about the stage.  The house lights dim to black and in the darkness, one hears the shuffle of actors arranging themselves on stage.  Suddenly, the spotlight comes on a lone male figure clad in all black.

Wilkommen, beinvenue, welcome!

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Opening and Conversation with the Artist:
Friday, May 29, 2009 at Outpost
Reception begins at 6pm;
Conversation between Paul Druecke and Sara Daleiden begins at 7:30pm

The Cool White Cube focuses on the American refrigerator with its spectacular menageries and pedestrian aesthetic. The Cool White Cube enshrines refrigerators as found in the homes of people from a variety of backgrounds: suburban families, gallerists, film directors, chiropractors and waiters, to name a few. The Cool White Cube is succinct in its condensation of art-world intentionality and quotidian existence. →

On June 4th, 2009, hop on the international rollercoaster Mood Swings at Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art along with seven of the urban world’s best emerging and recognized artists – Asbestos (Dublin, Ireland), Bumblebee (Downey, USA), Cena7 (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Fefe Talavera (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Imminent Disaster (New York City, USA), Labrona (Montreal, Canada), and Oddzoo (Los Angeles, USA). Seven very different voices scream the language
of city streets near and far with a range of artwork as varied as the emotions behind them. →

Photo Source: Gary Varvel

Michael Vick has been released from a penitentiary in Leavonworth, Kansas today. He will be returning back to his native Newport News, Virginia residence to serve the last two months of his sentence under house arrest. Federal probation officials will be monitoring his movements →

Photo courtesy of the Malcolm X official website, licensed under Creative Commons

Happy birthday, brother Malcolm. His legacy lives on forever, giving us the strength to fight for change and make our world a better place. →

Yes we know what you might be thinking. Another headphone company? Ah but think again, Eskuché is a new headphone company that is audio engineered with LR Sound Systems that support fundamental audio output orientation, recognizing the importance of properly balancing the left and right sides creating the optimal audio experience for all devices. →

Apsci
Quannum Projects
(2009)

We have witnessed hip hop go though many transitions. From the inner-city streets of New York, to the suburban neighborhoods of Ohio, hip hop has evolved, regressed, diverged and at times, strayed away. Marketed as a saleable art form, it has also become susceptible to both exploitation and scrutiny. When you think about it, it can become quite disheartening. What happened to the days when you turned on KDAY L.A. and Public Enemy was spitting empowering lyrics, or you could escape to the atmospheric beats of Sach and become inspired by the adept quips of Black Moon? →