Echo Park shop latest victim of LAPD raid


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Since 2006, the Echo Curio Curiosity Shop and Art Gallery has hosted experimental all-ages shows in its living room-sized storefront on a popular Echo Park strip of Sunset Boulevard. But earlier this month, the privately owned community space known for its support of the freaky, demented and avant-garde side of Eastside culture was unceremoniously shut […]

Animator’s years of effort paid off with his own TV show


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Sandro Corsaro, a USC alumnus, spent more than four years developing the short film that would land him the showrunner position on his original animated series, the Emmy-nominated Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil. Talk to him today, and he’ll tell you that he never regretted a single moment of those years. Prior to graduating from USC, […]

Saving cash and eating healthy


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College students sometimes get a bad reputation for being freebie whores. USC might be half-jokingly referred to as the University of Spoiled Children, but that does not mean that students don’t have their scrimping moments, especially after storming through a big blowout sale at The Grove. The free samples at Yogurtland are nice, but visiting […]

Suspense makes for better Halloween film


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Halloween is right around the corner — the corner in this case being Sunday — and if you are anything like me, the holiday is a great excuse to combine two of my favorite things in the world: hanging out with good friends and watching horror movies. We’ve all seen the old horror classics: The […]

Lawsuits won’t stop new path to music


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LimeWire is dead. Well, at least from here on out. The classic file-sharing software, known for enabling users in illegal music downloading, was disabled Tuesday after U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood issued a permanent injunction against it. Earlier this year, the judge had granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry’s complaints about […]

Los Angeles’ bicycle scene hits adolescence


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Braving potholes, uninformed drivers and all-around inhospitable city streets, Los Angeles cyclists are forced to fend for themselves. And that is exactly what they’ve done. In the last few years, Los Angeles’ urban cycling community has put its DIY ethics in action, propelling the scene forward by creating specialized group rides, opening bike shops and […]

Magazine founder shines light on others


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Kevin Jones, a senior and budding venture capitalist, is the kind of boss everyone dreams of having. He is confident, cool and not in it for the money. He believes in the power of the media, but not in the misuse thereof, and is the facilitator of community-driven work. Jones is the founder of the […]

An L.A. way to feast on pumpkin


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Fall can be a morose season for college students, especially as Halloween draws near. It’s the time of the year when students are reminded once again that they are now grown-ups. Instead of romping through mounds of leaves and asking for candied apples, they are the ones raking in the leaves and paying for their […]