Too much rich food and drink for the holidays? We help you recover with more work from outsider photog Vivian Maier, good news about Rubel Castle, and some Coals for your empty stocking.
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In a secluded part of Glendora, Rubel Castle is a DIY triumph, a paean to go-it-alone outsider architecture: clock towers, cannons, and caves dot the two-acre property.
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Vivian Maier was a nanny for most of her life in Chicago, but now after John Maloof stumbled across her negatives at auction, she's one of the world's biggest art stories.
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• 8:02
Eddie Pepitone, no relation to the Yankee, is "The Bitter Buddha," but you can tell he's secretly a sweetheart because he often starts laughing in the middle of his rants.
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The Chicano icon now spends seven months of the year at his atelier near the Rhone, and admits that at New Year's he prefers champagne and oysters to menudo and beer.
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Yes, the new record from the LA-based country band The Coals is only 22 minutes long, but the music on it is inventive, catchy, genuine, and moving.
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"The minute I came to LA I liked it very much," she recalls. "The palm trees, the ocean. What was happening here in '67 was incredible."