Gabriel Lazo

June 1, 2016

Milo Yiannopoulos Is Cancer

By Gabriel Lazo

Gabriel Lazo discusses the limitations of provocative tactics in campus politics.

May 26, 2016

Grads Present Theses at AD&A

By Gabriel Lazo

The array of MFA grad students' paintings, sculptures and multi-media fixtures at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum fall decidedly in the category of abstract.

May 5, 2016

David Sedaris Brings Literary Laughs to Arlington

By Gabriel Lazo

No good NPR listener was absent from the audience as author and comedian David Sedaris came to the Arlington to read selected essays and generally muse about the state of the culture.

April 7, 2016

Quantic Brings Latin Funk to Velvet Jones

By Gabriel Lazo

Quantic’s unique blend of traditionally acoustic music styles with edgy, electronic experimentation creates the perfect ambience for cruising through L.A. at 2 a.m. Fortunately, it also makes for a rockin’ party.

February 18, 2016

Zion I Brings the Beat to Velvet Jones

By Gabriel Lazo

An MC spits lightning-fast rhymes from onstage. A few hippie-looking girls stand in the middle of the club, twirling around. One scraggily bearded and tie-dye adorned individual dances, spinning bolos with rainbow neon l...

January 28, 2016

Mariachi Metal Group Metalachi Rocks Velvet Jones

By Gabriel Lazo

A young man gets up on stage. He wears a loose-fitting, colorful button-down. I speak with his mother, Sherry Mandell, about the organic produce company she works for. Her son belts out: “This place seems sober as fuck...

January 28, 2016

Tradition and Culture Converge with Itzhak Perlman and Emanuel Ax

By Gabriel Lazo

Hundreds of octogenarians shuffle into their seats. The house is packed. They have come to hear two of the most celebrated classical musicians in the world. On Thursday night, Jan. 21st, the famous Grammy-winning perform...

January 22, 2016

Metalachi to Mash It Up @ Velvet Jones

By Gabriel Lazo

If you smashed together a circle marked “black metal,” and another named “mariachi music,” the resulting Venn-diagram intersection would be labeled “Metalachi.” The band of the same name takes that premise of...

November 23, 2015

Firebrand Brings the Revolution to SOhO

By Gabriel Lazo

A smattering of hippies, punks and social anarchists drifted into SOhO and mulled about, chatting about protests past and perusing collectivist literature. A great swath of that literature lay on a table, spread o...

November 15, 2015

Firebrand Record Label To Bring Politics and Music Coming to SOhO

By Gabriel Lazo

Ryan Harvey of the Riot Folk Collective and Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, are coming to SOhO on Nov. 16. The duo aims to capitalize on the Che Guevara T-shirt-wearing, Occupy Wall Street spirit...