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. →

Final performance: The Mill
Mutineer Theatre Company – Atwater Village, CA
Halloween Day

If you’re just waking up from your Saturday night revelries and feeling you should do something good for all the baaaaad you may not even remember doing last night, checking out THE MILL this afternoon at 3p should do just the trick.

Presented by the local nonprofit Mutineer Theatre Company, THE MILL is the live stage adaptation of James Richter’s audio play. The whole production is a tight, taut hour of suspenseful fun: with its suggestive audio elements, played against the Atwater Playhouse’s minimalistic set and crowned with performances uncommonly, persuasively good (Levi Petree’s the consummate raconteur), THE MILL is a treat, guaranteed. At a mere $5 and change, it’ll be the best time, and money, spent this Halloween season… and you won’t have a nasty hangover to nurse. →

Two Hump-Days from today, join KPCC’s Larry Mantle in a live AirTalk discussion of legalizing cannabis for recreational use (cue irrepressible image of long, striped sweatsocks and endless munchies).

All joking aside? Wednesday, June 16′s your chance to participate in a debate you know you’ve had so many times you don’t remember — and the best part is that it will not only be smart talk, it’ll also be recorded- and broadcast talk… just in case memory don’t serve you. 

RSVP for free tickets at the link below. Queue opens Tuesday, June 1 at 11 a.m. Go get ‘em.

“California Voters: Will You Legalize Marijuana?”
Wednesday, June 16, 2010; 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

The Crawford Family Forum
474 S Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105 

http://www.scpr.org/events/2010/06/16/california-voters-will-you-legalize-marijuana/

This Thursday, May 20, join Patt Morrison and panelists in a discussion of California’s emerging “majority minorities” and their potential (inevitable) impact on politics in the Golden State.

ROCK THE EVENT ABOUT VOTING

Admission is free, but an RSVP (submit by clicking below) is required.

http://www.scpr.org/events/2010/05/20/californias-emerging-majority-minorities-go-polls/

Exercise those grade-school civics principles from 7:00 to 9:oo p.m. at KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum. It’s where all the cool, politically- and socially conscious kids will be — which, of course, means we’ll see you there, Mr./Ms. Non-Square.

The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Book Review

Many people I know love The Princess Bride with an almost “Maybe I will marry it!” kind of ardor. To be perfectly honest, I still don’t understand the adulation surrounding that film. It’s not that I didn’t want to like it. When everyone else in grade school is giving chase with cries of “You killed my father: prepare to die!”, and British bulldog isn’t happening with the four kids whose parents didn’t take them to see the movie, you sort of wish you shared the love (if only to busy a long lunch recess). →

The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Food review

Some women, when they crave, fantasize about sweets. Hot fudge sundaes, red velvet cupcakes, chocolate-covered anything and everything… but me? I want none of it. My hankerings typically run to the spice. If I can get that heat fried? Nice. Now if you can make it a chicken wing, oh, baby. You just might persuade me to do something I’d not in my right mind. →

The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Book Review
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For many of those in/from the States, this week will likely be marked by feasting, football, fiasco (not necessarily in that order, of course). Allow me to add a little something to your fete…? As I’m loath to be that guest who brings plastic cutlery and a half-thawed peach cobbler to this holiday Table, I offer here my Thanksgiving contribution: The Arrival (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007) by Shaun Tan.

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The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Book Review

Being fourteen – in my memory, anyhow – is no piece of cake. It’s kind of a no-man’s-land: you’re no longer a grade-school kid, your parents don’t (really) pick your clothes anymore, your secondary sexual characteristics are either out of control or out-of-order, and you’re suddenly held responsible for your music choices and weekend activities →

The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Food Opinion

One spring afternoon about three years ago, I spent a good while driving up and down Hyperion Ave., scowling as much about my inability to locate my destination as I was at my empty, audibly indignant stomach. Both hungry and fed up with the crooked, U-turn unfriendliness of the street, I’d just about abandoned my search when, finally, I spotted Viet Soy Café. →

Interview with Dengue Fever
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This ring a bell?

“Now get your patchouli stink outta my store!”

Nothing? Well. Recall “rings on his fingers”… “awful cooking smells”… unbuttoned shirt and a greasy, salt/peppery ponytail. Light a little incense, maybe fondle some original-press wax. Is it coming back to you now? Are you thinking, “High Fidelity, circa early 2000?” If you are, you’re absolutely right: it’s that “f***ing Ian guy” →