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• Metro is now offering true express routes
• Toll Roads in Los Angeles?
• Price of Gas Going Down
• You Don’t Need to go Hands Free Until Next Summer
• Out of Town Journo Rides LA Subway, is Amazed

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5527 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028 RSVP: bushmillsvip@cornerstoneproduction.com

Melrose ~ Hollywood

The Citybeat has an article about how Mexican restaurants have changed in Los Angeles over the past two decades, noting that carnitas was a rarity in town 20 years ago:

Mexican food in Los Angeles has changed a lot over the past two decades. Not that long ago, few restaurants here offered any meats other than chicken or beef, and the only sauces were green or red chili or the mild stuff they pour over enchiladas. Places that served carnitas advertised it on their sign, and homesick Mexicans and savvy diners alike hit the brakes when they saw eateries named Carnitas El Tarasco or Carnitas Patzcuaro.

Meanwhile, over at the LA Weekly, they have their 99 essential restaurants mapped out, which include El Parian, Guelaguetza, La Casita Mexicana, etc.

Before visiting Guillemette’s Downtown L.A. studio or his exhibition for Culver City’s Artwalk 2007, I had seen his work primarily on his website, www.pguillemetteart.com, an i-visit inspired when I saw something fab that he’d created mounted on a friend’s wall. The sculpture was a human head shape with a highly-detailed scaled, two-headed snake throughout. On the forehead there was a ceramic sunflower, and I found out later through a dialogue with Paul Guillemette that it actually spins!

The piece was terribly stunning. When I saw more of his work after my extended cyber-viewing, I was shocked. As is usually the case, the photographs could never do justice to the complexity and richness of his creative output. The texture, detail, color, and even lighting, as many of his pieces have light bulbs placed in them, made for both accessible and awe-inspiring artwork.

A versatile sculptor, Guillemette works with paint, resin, and ceramic, and my favorite pieces often include found objects. If there is any manner in which art can convey the current, both blatant and latent themes of our culture, it is through found objects. In fact, a hot hit with a lot of the ladies at the Culver City gallery exhibit was a headlining piece called “Kiss Me You Talk Too Much,” a silhouette of a couple for which one of the bodies was a collection of found objects. Many of the objects were loaded with allusions to courtship, sexuality, and constructions of femininity, the body as a space in which there is health and sickness, and also societal forces in the external and increasingly industrial and technological world. In other words, eye candy, fo’ sho’.

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Ceaser Chavez Blvd.