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Meet Mercurial Materials Artist Victor Wilde

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

Artist and fashion designer Victor Wilde is inspired by the potential of mercurial materials as he applies a process of scavenge, salvage, destruction, reconfiguration, redemption, appropriation, and transformation to the vast inventory of textiles, faux pelts, parachutes, used and vintage garments, accessories, street posters, fashion district tchotchkes, paints, purloined street posters, flags, model weapons, flamethrowers, polymers, and more that fills his DTLA studio. He applies this post-punk creative mode equally to clothing and fine art, believing the two to have in fact always been inextricable. Painting on clothes, printmaking on found images, sewing works on paper, affixing garments to canvas and photographs to garments, making narrative plushies and crafty homespun weaponry out of left-overs, lambasting authority and late-stage capitalism with a caustic arte povera wink and a flair for the dramatic—it’s all one big idea.Wilde last grabbed headlines for Bohemian Society’s ...

Mamma Mia! The 10 Best Pizza Places in LA 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

Angelenos love pizza. Truly, we do. Because a Los Angeles pizzeria holds the Guinness World Record for the largest deliverable pizza (Big Mama’s and Papa’s “The Giant Sicilian” is 54” x 54” in size). But with so many options, how do you find the best pizza places in LA?We’ll help you out! Here are the 10 best pizza places in LA (in no particular order):10 Best Pizza Places in LA That Will Make You Hungry1. Pizzeria SeiThe rave is real! Pizzeria Sei is considered to be one of the best pizza places in LA because of how the crust balances out all the ingredients their pizza is topped with. The pizza crust rarely gets reviews, but if diners praise Pizzeria Rei’s that much, you know it’s delicious! After all, why wouldn’t they?The perfectly pinched crust is charred to perfection. It’s chewy, it’s fluffy, and it’s bouncy. Pizzeria Sei is known for its Napoletana-style pizza where the pie is topped with anchovy, capers, and olive. But their Bismarck also sells out early — it’s topped with ...

AAPI Heritage Month: Interstellar Is The Space Between Two Korean Stars

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

Against all odds, what originally started out as a tiny artisanal coffee shop, Angie and Daniel Kim’s Interstellar in Santa Monica has evolved into an all-day cafe with three diverse menus reflecting the couple’s multicultural backgrounds. Oh yeah, and then there’s the pup menu of handmade dog food for fur babies.The husband and wife team of Korean descent met at a class at Santa Monica College in 2011, while both were trying to navigate who they were in a city they found that finally embraced diversity.“I came to the U.S. when I was about two years old and spent my childhood in Seattle,” Angie tells L.A. Weekly in the cafe that features moody textural green tones, gradient wallpaper and sleek green marble table tops and black oak finishes. ‘It was a little bit of a struggle back then,” says the soft spoken and diminutive culinary school graduate. “It was a time when a lot of Asian immigrants were trying to adapt and create something for themselves. I have memories of watching my pa...

Google moves into San Jose tech campus where it could employ thousands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

Google tech campus at 175, 225, 255, and 285 West Tasman Drive in north San Jose. Google office buildings at the campus are shown with the search giant’s logo. (Google Maps)SAN JOSE — Google has moved into another big San Jose campus, greatly widening its foothold in the Bay Area’s largest city in a shift that shows how the search giant seeks ways to expand even as it reassesses its priorities.The tech titan now operates in at least three of four buildings on West Tasman Drive near Champion Court in a new office hub that Google calls its Tasman Campus.This expansion represents at least the second major campus in San Jose where Google has quietly moved employees and begun work operations.In April, Google confirmed it had moved into two big office buildings on Brokaw Road between North First Street and Bering Drive in San Jose. The buildings are two of four buildings that total a combined 729,000 square feet that Google leased from Peery Arrillaga in 2019.The le...

More than 60 migrant families found living in dilapidated greenhouse in rural Monterey County

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

ROYAL OAKS — A dilapidated greenhouse at a Northern California nursery was home to dozens of farmworkers and their families who were living in tiny and unsafe dwellings without ventilation, authorities said Friday.Officials found 62 makeshift dwellings inside the greenhouse on a property in rural Monterey County that were put together with plywood, sheetrock and other materials, said Nick Pasculli, a county spokesperson.“There are exposed gas lines and wiring, no proper sewer. The conditions are very rough,” Pasculli said.It was not yet clear if the farmworkers were employed at the nursery in the community of Royal Oaks or just lived there, Pasculli said. He added that some residents were paying up to $2,000 per month in rent and one told investigators he had lived there for more than eight months.Nor have investigators determined yet where the migrant families are from, according to Pasculli, though some of them speak indigenous languages native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.Autho...

3 arrested for gun possession, suspected identity theft in Santa Rosa

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

(KRON) -- What started as a traffic stop for running a red light ended with three suspects being arrested for gun possession and identity theft, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. Around 11:08 p.m. Saturday, officers with SRPD stopped a white Dodge pickup truck for allegedly running a red light at Guerneville Road and Coffey Road, officials said.The driver and two passengers stopped for police. Officers said they saw an open alcohol bottle near the driver and from there conducted an investigation. Police interviewed the driver and passengers and searched the Dodge. San Francisco bike shop closes after multiple break-ins Police said they found two unregistered 9mm guns hidden in the truck with ammunition and extra magazines. They also said they found several credit cards, bank checks and personal identifying information for at least 10 people.The driver and two passengers were arrested and booked into the Santa Rosa County jail.Brandon Rosemont, 26, of Idaho, was on pa...

Police investigating migrant landing in Sunny Isles Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

Authorities gathered just south of 167th Street and Collins Avenue after several migrants landed on Sunny Isles Beach.On Monday morning, sources said a white, unmarked cigarette boat dropped off about 20 migrants. Some ran toward the Newport Beach Resort.Live video footage captured a few of those migrants with police soaked in seawater, while police searched for the remaining migrants that fled on foot.Fire rescue crews were also on the scene to provide aid if needed.It remains unclear how far off the shore the migrants were dropped off.As police investigate the scene, residents are being asked to avoid the area until further notice.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Police investigating after man struck by Brightline train

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

A Brightline train has come to a stop after an adult male was struck in Miami. The incident occurred near the 79th Street and Northeast Fourth Avenue tracks, Monday morning. https://twitter.com/MiamiPD/status/1658120575653494784According to Miami Fire Rescue, a 34-year-old male was struck by the Brightline train and was taken to the hospital in serious condition. The identity of the victim has not been released. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Liz Truss calls for deeds, not words, from West on China ahead of Taiwan visit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

LONDON — “More action” from the West is needed to combat China, Liz Truss warned Monday ahead of a controversial trip to Taiwan this week.In an interview with POLITICO’s editor-in-chief, Jamil Anderlini, at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, Truss defended her decision to visit Taiwan Tuesday, arguing the self-governing island’s government invited her. Truss, who was U.K. foreign secretary before entering No. 10 Downing Street, is one of the ruling Conservative Party’s most strident China hawks. She will arrive in Taiwan Tuesday as the first former prime minister to visit the territory since Margaret Thatcher in the 1990s.China views self-governing Taiwan as its territory and has said it is committed to reclaiming it — though the U.S. President Joe Biden has promised to arm and defend the island in the event of an invasion. Defending her visit, Truss argued that it is “very important” the West engages with the island.“The reason I’...

How Turkey’s Erdoğan uses social media to cling onto power

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:39 GMT

In his campaign to hold onto Turkey’s presidency, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has a secret weapon: a social media crackdown partly inspired by Europe.As the country heads toward a run-off between Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, his reform-minded rival, the Turkish leader’s increasing control of social media has become another tool to help him extend his 20-year reign. Over the weekend, Erdoğan’s government ordered Twitter to block the accounts of roughly a dozen local opposition public figures over the weekend — a move that triggered a backlash against Elon Musk for complying with the directive. In truth, Erdoğan’s efforts to control social media go back more than a decade.That push culminated in October when Turkey’s ruling party passed wide-ranging social media rules that, in part, mirrored similar legislation recently passed in the European Union. Both the Turkish and European regimes aim to clamp down on harmful online posts, stop the spread of disinf...