…is a super-smart-and-articulate-detail-oriented-science-wizzy-foodie-blog (ie, see today’s post: Sous-Vide and Low Temp Primer Part II: Cooking Without a Vacuum) written in part by my old New Haven friend Dave (famous for having three fry-daddies in college – and now mad scientist food technician at the French Culinary Institute in New York) – and even though most ..

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…the sophisticated-but-street cooking & blogging (vegetarian) foodies Evan George and Alex Brown – whom I met when they presented a provocative pickling workshop in one of the geodesic tents pitched at the MAK Center’s Schindler House for the L.A. launch of The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive – just sent out this message: Friends and food-fiends, ..

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…amazing artist and old college friend is coming over for lunch – a few years back she installed her vegetable growing sculpture in the garden for “Sundown Salon #13: Radical Gardening” – check out her exploding cheerleaders! (ACME webpage on..

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…will be the site for my upcoming show called “Something for Everyone” (which will include a staff-managed veggie garden and compost pile at the entry, a dancing platform and architecture for flying squirrels out back, a Sundown Schoolhouse dome for workshops on the front lawn, plus the living room of a local residence in the ..

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…(the alternative Los Angeles educational endeavor with visiting faculty from a range of disciplines – from law to science – established by Piero Golia and Eric Wesley in 2005) came over for potluck dinner and conversation this evening – they included Janine Armin, Carl Burmeister, Olivian Cha, Daniel Ingroff, Michael Kontopoulos, Anne Mathern, Lesley Moon, ..

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…is so awesome, a group of my favorite L.A. ladies, dancing and moving together, less about being “professional” and more about loving and exploring dance and movement in all of it’s possible forms, mostly interested in what happens when they take it to the streets with friends – I’ve worked with them a lot, on ..

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…which I went to see today in Pasadena, is an amazing, depressing, and outrageous (though one-sided) Philadelphia tale revealing a toxic stew of MONEY! (25 billion dollars worth of paintings), POWER! (‘charitable’ foundations, governors and mayors), TOURISM! (the ultimate Impressionist block-buster show), and ART! (that became too valuable for it’s own good, and well beyond ..

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…will soon be published by The New Press, and I just received an advance copy in the mail because I first met the author, Stan Cox, in 2005 as the owner of Edible Estate Regional Prototype #1: Salina, Kansas, and since then I have been keeping up with his prolific environmental and political writings – ..

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…the phenomenal peripatetic psychedelic video artist (perhaps you recall his brilliant break-out work A Family Finds Entertainment (2004) from the 2006 Whitney Biennial where it was unfortunately presented on a little monitor perched atop a pedestal adjacent to the bustling bank of elevators?) has an riveting/revealing/funny interview in the new issue of Butt Magazine. (more ..

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