Carolyn Kellogg

Who is this man? What does he want? Why, why is he stuck to the wall of an apartment building at 9th and St. Andrews? Admittedly, it is Koreatown, but most buildings don't have men pasted on them. Will he really fight for us? Is he ready to hit us with an uppercut? LAist does not read Korean so we are baffled. We can read the English on the pasteup and, since it's not...

LAist is giving away a pair of tickets to see the BellRays at Safari Sam's in Hollywood this Friday. It's a record release party-slash-tour kickoff and is liable to rock your socks off. Their new CD, Have a Little Faith, was one of our Top 5 new releases last week. Ladykillers, Spores and L7's Donita Sparks are also on the bill. To slake your Bellrays thirst before Friday, here's an MP3 of "Maniac Blues."...

The Museum of Jurassic Technology holds cabinets of curiosities, worlds of mysteries, and baffling phenomena explained in scientific, if gently obfuscatory, terms. From a humble storefront in Culver City, the MJT has created some of the most interesting artistic-technological-confusing exhibits and ideas circulating today. Maybe that's why the MacArthur Foundation gave its proprietor, David Wilson, one of those genius grants in 2001. Next Tuesday the reticent Wilson speaks on microminiature art and technology in...

It's a cosmetics company. It wants to sell you gifts for your mom. And it's Christian, signing off on its press releases with God Bless. Since LAist as an institution is more godless than "god bless," we were oddly fascinated with the press release we got from Trinity Cosmetics. Bible quotes pepper their website, but we don't imagine they'll be using "this is vanity, and it is an evil disease" anytime soon. They're all...

road rage The LA Times is all over the roads this morning. Their slow burn starts with an ocean of cars clogging PCH in South Bay; then it bubbles over into pure civic rage with a gas tax measure on the November ballot. At least, we can be reassured, there will be no MTA fare hikes next year, if the agency's proposed budget is approved. septuagenarian anger A 78-year-old property caretaker shot and killed...

Disney turns back on McDonald's The pop culture giant will not be renewing its Happy Meal toy contract with the fast food giant because, well, kids are getting giant, according to a report in today's LA Times. The paper reports that Disney "wants to distance itself from fast food and its links to the epidemic of childhood obesity." Is it only a matter of time before we'll be able to get plastic figurines when...

During WWII, women flew in the Air Force — they were the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP. It was an elite group: only 1,830 of the 25,000 women who applied were accepted into the WASP training program — 1,074 graduated. 38 WASP died serving our country. They flew every craft being used by the Air Force (albiet never in combat) including the powerful B-24 Witchcraft, which had 130 combat missions at the hands...

One week ago LAist went to the American Cinematheque to celebrate the 90th birthday of actor Glenn Ford. He starred with Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds and Rita Hayworth; he played good guys in Westerns, bad guys in noirs, and Christopher Reeves' farmer dad in the 1978 Superman. The Cinematheque screened Gilda, one of Ford's best-remembered films (due in no small part to Rita Hayworth's stunning beauty). Those of us who had hopes of seeing...

You might think that a cold, rainy evening in downtown LA sounds kind of miserable, but it all depends on where you stand. LAist was next to the Mark Taper auditorium, looking toward the plaza with the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the background, and we thought it was more than all right....

inside immigration In two stories, the LA Times looks at families and immigration. First they look at what it's like to be an undocumented parent with children, born in the US, who have legal status; then there are the stories of four couples that immigrated from Mexico to California: the Padillas, Cardenases, the Huizars and Reyeses. If those names sound familiar, it's because each couple now has a son serving on the Los Angeles...