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Macy Gray : Sympathetic Opportunism

Music, X Scenes

To act on an opportunity or not: a deceptively simple choice governing our everyday existence. Weighing the consequences of a decision is admirable, but as we all know, it is action, rather than intention, that ultimately defines us within and without. As there is often a thin line that separates an act of “appropriate self-interest” [...]

Debauchery In Exile

Games, X Scenes

In a survival game set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian, Conan Exiles allows players to build a kingdom, and dominate enemies, in brutal combat and epic warfare. Starting with nothing but bare hands, players explore a vast world full of challenge and opportunity. Whether hunting animals for resources, slaying monsters for treasure, or [...]

Burning Man Attacks Oakland

Illuminating the event’s origins, and its culture of experimentation, collaboration, and creativity, "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" consists of cutting-edge artwork, sculpture, and interactive installations from Burning Man; the infamous event that draws over 70,000 people to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert each year.

Swan Lake Re-imagined

Dance, X Scenes

A new vision for this beloved tale, Loch na hEala (Swan Lake) creates a world of magical realism, compelling imagery and potent storytelling. From one of Ireland’s foremost dance and theatre makers, Michael Keegan-Dolan, comes of one of the most famous of all ballets. The Dublin based band Slow Moving Clouds has created a new [...]

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Never Phaded | Interview: Phade

Features, X Features

Imagine a Mickey (Mouse) wearing Air Jordans, leaning on a Moët bottle crowned with a dukey rope chain around his neck, dripping in gold...

Rage Against the Shepard | Interview: Joey Krebs

Art, Features, X Features

"Jack'd in da Hood" has a jumbo beef with Shepard Fairey and Obey Giant Art, Inc. "They're exploitive media whores jacking references from real society...

The Unreal City | Interview: Jay Brockman

Art, Features, X Features

Beneath the humdrum hiccup of her worn city streets, and above hills of fantastical billboards that nearly block any vestige of the sky, Los Angeles speaks...

Off The Wall | Interview: Douglas La Marche

Art, Features, X Features

La Marche's art is flying off the walls even now Gallery ensconced beyond the pitiful misperception of inner-city homelessness, even in a flat economy...

The Year Of Creation | Interview: Daniel Peacock

Art, Features, X Features

It is altogether possible that Daniel Peacock watched the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States on a 1955 RCA TX 500 model television. A vintage tube that looks as though it broadcast’s live from a fish tank. Or maybe he decided to ditch the murky black and white transmissions of the RCA [...]

Taking It to the Streets | Interview: Elbow-Toe

Art, Features, X Features

I think that the idea of needing all these belongings is what got us to where we are at in the first place. In terms of holding onto the past, I see it more as a symptom...

In Search of Paradise Lost | Interview: Lisa Adams

Art, Features, X Features

The Santa Fe Art Colony lies buried beneath a layer of concrete. Just like Pompeii lived in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius, the colony is eclipsed by a cement factory...

The War Project | Interview: Melanie Pullen

Art, Features, X Features

Renowned for her High Fashion Crime Scenes series shown at Ace Gallery in May 2005, fine arts photographer Melanie Pullen hopes to replicate that show’s success with The War Project, a new exhibition at Ace Beverly Hills. A self taught photographer who cut her teeth working for assorted music magazines and record labels shooting bands, [...]

Necessary Object | Interview: Paul Diddy

Art, Features, X Features

I met with Paul at his home in Echo Park; a pastoral hideaway atop a hill overlooking Downtown Los Angeles. After letting myself in through the gate, I found Paul on the porch, his back turned to me, painting tiny neon lines into an impossibly tangled ball of neon lines. The sound of classical jazz [...]

Getting Closer | Interview: Gris Grimly

Art, Features, X Features

At about five years old, Grimly switched over from drawing animals to monsters and horror and he’s been there ever since...