Before heading to Silver Lake, I had a clear-cut image of what I expected to find: small, high-end speciality shops, overpriced and exotic cafes and willowy, well-dressed 20-somethings in trendy outfits worthy of the best vintage stores in town. Read more...
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The Secret Headquarters, a comic book store in Silver Lake, is known for its selection of small, locally printed comics.
Combining art and science may sound classically oxymoronic, but Felice Frankel's scientific photography defies this supposed paradox. Read more...
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Photographer and research scientist Felice Frankel will be giving a lecture today at 6 p.m. in the CSNI Auditorium about illustrating science with photography. (Photo courtesy: Felice Frankel)
For Yotam Solomon fashion extends beyond mere design. Read more...
Last week, as I was riding the bus along Sunset Boulevard, it occurred to me that there's another famous street just one block up: Hollywood Boulevard. Read more...
Last May, when costume design Professor Deborah Landis was invited to conduct a workshop at a film school in Cuba, she had no idea what to expect. Read more...
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Deborah Landis, founding director of UCLA’s Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, has worked on numerous films including “Animal House,” “Blues Brothers” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. (courtesy of Natasha Rubin)
If I had to sum up this week's trip in a word, it would be "crazy." Read more...
Perhaps in conventional circumstances, when a princess goes to war against a general, we expect the one with the bow in her hair to lose. And so it was easy to dismiss 2009 UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong, the self-proclaimed "Cupcake Princess," when she competed on season two of Food Network's "Cupcake Wars." After all, the final competitor standing between her and victory was Bruce Zipes, a gruff New Yorker who wore camouflage and called himself "The General." Tong opened Cupcake and Cookie, an online bakery specializing in her trademark cookie-filled cupcakes and cupcake-filled cookies, only a month before appearing on the show. Read more...
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UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong is the founder of the Los Angeles-based bakery Cupcake and Cookie and the winner of the season two finale of “Cupcake Wars,” a reality show baking contest on the Food Network.
