Lauren Bon's, Not a Cornfield Project, created quite a stir in the art community. Saturday night her new exhibit "Bees and Meat" is bound to generate more talk. Bon will fill the vast Ace Gallery with sculptural pieces created from honey, bees, and lamb carcasses. The "Bees and Meat sculptures involve the following items: 90 miles of irrigation stripping 33,000 pounds of dried “Not a Cornfield” corn kernels Two working wild hives and over......

- Green LA Girl takes her show to the LA Times via The Emerald City - congrats Siel! - LAT - Laker center Kwame Brown gets popped for Disorderly Conduct in Georgia on Saturday after his cousin was charged with drunk driving after going the wrong way down a one-way street. Laker fans would like to see that sort of effort in the paint - AP - Even though it's only 56-years old, and......

1. Go running on Los Feliz Blvd in the evenings, to get the anger out. (It's well-lit, fairly level, and a little exhilarating with all the cars rushing by. Just mind the sprinklers at 8.) 2. Hang out in Studio City or Burbank, etc. There's something oddly cheerful and reliable about that area. 3. Make frequent, unapologetic Pinkberry and gelato trips. 4. Go to the Griffith Observatory and see the Planetarium. That is some uplifting......

Take a break from that drab Starbucks & get some culture this weekend at the Chango Coffee House in Echo Park! Beginning this Saturday Sept. 1st, the neighborhood eatery/java cafe will present the work of BUGHOUSE in a new exhibit entitled Paraphernalia. Prints, photographs, apparel, and even home accessories are the canvas for this eclectic husband & wife team. The work has fun retro comic art flair, mixing in politics, social issues & vintage......

Some people get long weekends, so this one's for you, lucky ducks. If you haven't seen Dennis Hopper's show yet at the Ace Gallery on the Miracle Mile, you're missing out. One would imagine that with all the tales of drinking, drugging, and not-so-easy riding, Hopper's art would end up more psychedelic and expressionistic. Instead what you will be met with is a smooth, calculated, controlled, mild technique that at once puts you at......

Melanie Pullen's first solo show of photographs, called "High Fashion Crime Scenes," opens tonight at 7 PM at the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills located at 9430 Wilshire Boulevard, a little east of Beverly Dr. Oddly, when discussing her work on her website, Pullen seems unaware that she's riffing on the same material already explored by Guy Bourdin, a real high fashion photographer in the '70s. Pullen's highly charged images of actual crime scenes......