Free Jazz Pioneer, Ornette Coleman
UCLA Live Royce Hall-Los Angles, CA
11/03/10

UCLA Live presents free jazz at its finest with Ornette Coleman, peerless saxophonist and Pulitzer Prize winner on stage. →

“Repeating Angel,” by Abe Vigoda

Incase recently announced the launch of Room 205, a rehearsal space in Downtown Los Angeles that has been converted into an audio recording studio. →

Silverlake quintet Local Natives premiered their brand new video for Gorilla Manor opener “Wide Eyes” on Pitchfork.  The clip is a trying tale of a young man and a shark, and the madness that ensues when said shark stalks said young man. →

When you think of design events, what comes to mind is a leisurely stroll through a gallery, stopping occasionally to ponder over an exhibit. Or listening to well-known designers expound tirelessly upon their work. As interesting as those events may be, they’re certainly not the stuff of a Saturday nightlife. However, Cut & Paste’s recent design tournament (held at the Music Box in Hollywood) breaks that mold, presenting their design event as somewhat of a spectator sport. →

A feature on Bryant Yeh

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Architect Bryant Yeh’s “Suprematist” is and isn’t your ordinary bench. It functions as any bench should (i.e., it supports even an ample bottom) and it’s gorgeous to boot. Yet from matter to pattern, this specimen is anything but run-of-the-mill. The piece’s christening also points to something deeper. While the bench’s repurposed material is consistent with its 19th C namesake, a Russian aesthetic championing the “rediscovery of pure art which… ha[s] become obscured by the accumulation of ‘things’, the Suprematist manifests an aspect of Yeh’s approach at every stage of his architectural and design work. →