With just three days to go before Sunset Junction’s 31st annual street fair, the city of Los Angeles rejected their permit application. This is the first time in the street fair’s three-decade running span that it will not go on as scheduled. The city’s reason for not allowing the street fair to take place this year: money, or more specifically, the lack thereof. Continued...

With years of new research and discoveries and technological advancements in both exhibition and fossil preservation on its side, the Los Angeles Natural History Museum (NHM) opened the doors to their newly revamped, re-stocked Dinosaur Hall on July 16, 2011. The opening is part of what the Natural History Museum is referring to as NHM Next, a 7-year evolution to reinvent itself as a 21st Century Museum to deliver on its mission. Continued...

The story of the Spice Table doesn’t start at its opening this past spring, but decades ago when Chef Bryant Ng was in high school growing yeast for fresh breads or just a few years ago when he would visit tree farms to buy specific cuts of wood for his backyard BBQ’s. His journey has taken him from Paris to get a crash course in cooking, to month-long travels across Asia to learn the old ways of cooking and flavors of different herbs and spices, then finally landing in the kitchens of some highly regarded restaurants in the United States. Ever since the day he decided to leave his job to open up his own place, I couldn’t wait to see what he would come up with. Continued...

Wild In The Streets is an unconventional skateboarding event born on the streets of New York City in 2004, and continued in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Vancouver, Tampa, Montreal, London, and Madrid over the last six years. Pedestrian jaws drop at the sight of thousands of skateboarders invading downtown districts in masse. The premise was simple: meet up with the Emerica... Continued...

Dodger Blue has an RGB value of 30-144-255, a CMYK value of 71-41-0-0, and is represented hexidecimally by #1E90FF. Whatever mixture you prefer, the output yields the same color but the sentiment is variable. While it takes a graphic designer to quantify the color value of Dodger Blue, it takes a fan to understand it. I happen to be both. To me, Dodger Blue represents the Dodgers of the 80s—more specifically, the team that took the 1988 World Series. It means the t-shirt one of my mother's boyfriend had bought me after noticing that I had been putting in some serious couch time during the playoffs. Continued...

Los Angeles Union Station is a major passenger rail terminal and transit station for Southern California. Located in the midst of Downtown Los Angeles, Union Station has become known for two things: the “Last of the Great Rail Road Station” and it’s original, ornate structure from 1939. Union Station’s architecture attracts film makers... Continued...

Money is tight right now for most people, including myself.  While on a budget agendas run slim for people living in Los Angeles, but that doesn’t have to be the case. I’m here to tell you what you can do for 20 bucks. Not bad, right? Lets make $20 stretch for an amazing day, instead of having the money fly out of your pocket in 20 minutes. So today’s agenda: Metro to Art In The Streets at Geffen Contemporary at the MOCA. Continued...

There are those who do and those who just talk about doing. This is a story about Roy Kuroyanagi, a guy who inspires me to do a little less talking and a little more walking. Last September on a bank errand, I met a rep named Roy who, in his spare time, started a design concept called Japangeles which he planned to sell these designs on t-shirts. You know, I hear a lot of talk from people who just talk and talk about this great idea that’s gonna be the next big thing. Roy isn’t one of those people, and he’s doing a lot less talking and a lot more doing. Continued...

I was about thirteen or so, and they were my first album purchase. However, the album I got was not. 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was my first, with my own money. The compilation of all their early EP's, songs they played over and over at Gilman St. It must have happened at the Best Buy in Rockford, Illinois. I remember my friend Natasha being there. I remember immediately playing the CD on my disc-man as her dad drove us back to her house. Continued...