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Humanoid robot deathmatch at Rek Arena
“California was worried that our robots were too dangerous — so we decided to PUT FUCKING SWORDS ON ‘EM!” the announcer screamed from the cage as a stagehand removed the sheaths from the blades on the pair of 6-foot tall humanoid robots. As the fight started and the robots exchanged quick jabs, Terminator-style robot T-REK…
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The Metreon: Upper floors
As the elevator doors slid open, I came to a place I’d never explored: the semi-secret upper floor of The Metreon — the floor above the movie theaters, a private event space known as The Aviary (formerly City View). Last month I wrote about the “backrooms” of the Metreon’s movie theater on the third floor.…
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Full Queer Wrestling at Folsom Street Fair
Aye lads and lassies, let me tell ye a tale o’ the wild land of leather, rope, and displays of depravity I encountered while sailing… oh, sorry. I went to the 2026 Folsom Street Fair dressed as a pirate this year. As one does. It’s been years since I’d been to Folsom, and the tone…
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Immersive art…?
Why or why not? I know I sound like a broken record on immersive art sometimes, questioning what the term means when it’s been stretched so thin as to become meaningless. So imagine my surprise when I came across the above. What started as a Mission Street ad has succumbed to a type of (accidental?)…
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Los Angeles 2026 wrap-up and stray observations
I never planned to become a regular in Los Angeles, but here we are. This visit started out as a work trip to Long Beach, followed by a few carefully planned days off. My goal with this vacation was to have new experiences, and I think that worked out: if you told me six months…
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Graffiti street art lesson
One of my quirky hobbies I’ve covered on this blog many times is photographing street art, so it should come as no surprise that I was interested in creating my own. Hidden away in a nondescript building in LA’s Fashion District, I arrived at a class from Graff Tours taught by Andi, an extremely talented…
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So… I flew an airplane
I spent an hour flying a Cessna 150 — and I have an official logbook to prove it. On Sunday I arrived at the Van Nuys airport for a “discovery flight” lesson with Sean from California Flight School. When I arrived it was pretty cloudy, but fortunately by the time we went inside and had…
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Hospital of Emotions
The Hospital of Emotions is a series of site-specific art installations inside a decommissioned hospital in LA’s Westlake neighborhood. Each section focuses on an emotion you might feel in a hospital environment like sadness, hope, or fear, with a team of artists turning those feelings into their own unique installations. Their website sums it all…
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How I learned DJ basics on real vinyl
Departing Long Beach for the more lively pace of central LA, I found myself on the Sony Pictures Studios campus in Culver City. There I met movie industry music supervisor, DJ, and self-described music nerd Burt Blackarach. His studio space is packed with floor-to-ceiling shelves of records, along with several desks topped with turntables and…
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A night aboard the Queen Mary: the world’s most haunted ship
I spent the night aboard one of the most haunted landmarks in California: a decommissioned classic ocean liner permanently docked in Long Beach. Before the age of jet travel, there was only one way to travel across the Atlantic: ocean liners. And as anyone who’s seen the movie Titanic knows, these ships were more like…
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