Shepard Fairey (of obey giant fame) stepped up his obama love fest last weekend by installing a HUGE 16′x30′ Obama Billboard on his building in echo park over the weekend.

Shep seems to be obsessed with Mr. Barack HUSSEIN Obama these days, perhaps Supertouch is on to something with the suggestion that he is vying for [...]

Heavy Metal Vomit Party: A multimedia kind of night framed by Skullphone, Shepard Fairey, the folks at Hooray for Humans and too many more to list here. Also music dredged out by Ghostship, I.E. and Laco$te. 7pm. $5.
KOO’S 530 E Broadway, Long Beach 90802. 562.491.7584; koos.org.
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Hangin’ on the telephone with the true face of California

PHOTO by DAVID GUETTLER
It’s not the new face of California but it’s a true face: the skull with big black eye sockets and a blocky old cell phone and twiggy little fingers-an LA hero, some happy person called it on the Internet, which is probably the [...]