Lisa Derrick
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Los Angeles native, attended UC Berkeley and Loyola Marymount University before punk rock and logophilia overtook her life. Worked as nightclub columnist, pop culture journalist and was a Hollywood housewife before writing for and editing Sacred History Magazine. She also appears frequently on the Dave Fanning Show, one of Ireland's most popular radio broadcasts as well as Capital Radio in Australia, and writes her own blog on Firedoglake.comLa Figa, blending politics, entertainment and pop culture at Firedoglake.com

Blog Entries by Lisa Derrick

Morgan Spurlock Gives Los Angeles a Taste of 'New Blood' in Gallery Show

1 Comments | Posted April 25, 2012 | 10:15 AM

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Morgan Spurlock invigorated documentary filmmaking with bold, brash and modern offerings such as Supersize Me, The Greatest Story Ever Sold and the soon-to-be-released Mansome. Now the director -- who admits in an interview with Firedoglake.com, "I paint badly and take mediocre pictures....

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Xmas Eve Special: Jesus, Whatsername And Green Day

1 Comments | Posted December 23, 2011 | 11:16 AM

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Avant-garde filmmaker John Roecker offers an underground alternative to It's a Wonderful Life this Christmas Eve, when he debuts his latest short film Jesus of Suburbia Loves Whatsername. The 30-minute short featuring the music of Green Day launches the director's Vimeo channel on...

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New York Art Critic Offers Money, Sex for Fake Painting

11 Comments | Posted November 29, 2011 | 10:00 AM

New York Magazine's art critic Jerry Saltz loves Gerhard Richter's paintings. A lot. So much so that on his Facebook page, the three-time Pulitzer nominee offered either $1,000 or a sex act (plus the cost of materials) to any artist who

can make me...

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Chambers of Pure Light: Wayne Martin Belger's Transcendent Camera Art

2 Comments | Posted November 23, 2011 | 12:07 PM

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To judge by price at auction and in galleries, and its popularity through museum exhibits, books and photo fairs, fine art photography is now in the lofty realms of well, fine art. Granted these aren't grandma's snapshots of birthdays and vacation landscapes,...

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Courtney Love Is Fine with Guitarist Slurring Gays from Stage

1 Comments | Posted November 16, 2011 | 7:32 PM

While it may be big news that Courtney Love had a meltdown, swore and whipped her breasts out onstage, that's not so appalling. Or even really news. Rather, it's to be expected of Courtney.

But what is truly nasty about the incident is that after Courtney left the stage...

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Horror Fans Help Scream Queen Jewel Shepard Battle Breast Cancer

0 Comments | Posted October 21, 2011 | 4:20 PM

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Scream queen Jewel Shepard, best known for her roles in the 1985 classic Return of the Living Dead and the goofy Party Camp and as the author of Invasion of the B-Girls and If I'm So Famous, How Come Nobody's Ever Heard...

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Armenian Requiem Celebrates Dia De Los Muertos

4 Comments | Posted October 12, 2011 | 10:34 AM

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Requiem for the Forgotten: Armenian Genocide places Dia de los Muertos -- the Day of the Dead, which honors and recognizes family and friends who have passed -- in a multicultural context befitting of Los Angeles' place as global hub and home to millions...

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YouTube Copyright Takedown Targets Punk Bands

1 Comments | Posted September 29, 2011 | 2:51 AM

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In recent months there have been a slew of takedowns under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on YouTube affecting numerous punk bands. Once a video has a copyright infringement claim against it, it is removed from the site.

Apparently SST Records --...

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Burros & Black Velvet Art Benefit WiLDCOAST

0 Comments | Posted August 17, 2011 | 3:44 PM

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Celebrate nearby-exotic and return to the joys of yesteryear this weekend with Burros, Black Velvet & Other Delights, a retro Tijuana-themed art show featuring the works of The Pizz, Maya Rogers, Sophisti-tiki, Derek Yanigar and over...

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Oklahoma Governor's Daughter Goes GaGa

9 Comments | Posted July 15, 2011 | 1:12 PM

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The Family Leader's marriage values pledge isn't the only undignified and inappropriate item to come out of conservative politics. Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin's daughter Christina Fallin-Bacon's fashion photo spread from Twenty-Something magazine -- which named the First Daughter...

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'Foreskin Man' Comic Book Attacks Circumcision

129 Comments | Posted June 6, 2011 | 3:23 PM

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In...

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Lady Gaga "Born This Way" LGBT Lyrics Omitted on GMA, Glee

120 Comments | Posted May 29, 2011 | 4:58 PM

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In both Lady Gaga's live appearance on ABC's Good Morning America and in the version sung on Glee the following lyrics to "Born This Way" are omitted:

No matter gay, straight, or bi,
Lesbian, transgendered life
I'm on the right...

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Demons, Illuminati, Bigoted Views Cause Rumpus in Florida City Council Election

0 Comments | Posted April 25, 2011 | 10:43 AM

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Jacksonville, Florida City Council candidate Kimberly Daniels is convinced that Halloween candy is blessed by witches and thus has demon-cream filling instead of marshmallow or caramel. Daniels, a Democrat, and Dominionist minister with her own radio...

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Saturday in Los Angeles: Eagle Rock Fashion Show Emphasizes the Benefits of Women Working Together

2 Comments | Posted March 25, 2011 | 12:35 PM

Women's clubs have a storied history in America, marking the entry of women into public life as they banded together to improve their cities through philanthropic and cultural endeavors. The Women's Twentieth Century Club of Eagle Rock, founded in 1903, is one such group. Located just a few...

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Jennifer Lopez: "It's Okay to Be Out"

5 Comments | Posted March 16, 2011 | 12:45 PM

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In a new interview, musical superstar and American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez says:


It's okay to be out. I do think it is. I do think it's acceptable for people to be who they are. I am...

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Charon's Pantheon: Controversial, Uplifting, Disturbing

0 Comments | Posted February 26, 2011 | 6:34 AM

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Saturday, February 26 marks the last performance/discussion with Dyal and Logan highlighting the controversial exhibit Charon's Pantheon at la Luz de Jesus before the exhibition moves to Grand Central Art Center as part of a rotating museum tour. The show closes at La...

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Anna Homler's Pharmacia Poetica at D.E.N. Contemporary

0 Comments | Posted February 21, 2011 | 6:00 PM

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Born into a family of pharmacists, artist Anna Homler took a different route in her life to provide succor using ethereal, transcendent art forms to heal the psyche, recording and performing songs in tongues and tones brought from other worlds and creating installations...

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Sarah Palin Goes Steampunk

17 Comments | Posted January 23, 2011 | 4:00 PM

Steampunk -- a style of dress, and for some a way of life as best it can be in the mundane -- is based in the worlds of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Anton Wilson and Alan Moore. Think an alternative Victorian England where steam power runs elaborately...

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Anonymous Shuts Down Tunisian Govt Websites After Violence and Web Censorship

2 Comments | Posted January 4, 2011 | 2:40 PM

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Websites run by the Tunisian government have been successfully targeted by Operation: Tunisia, a cell within Anonymous' Operation Payback, in a distributed denial of service action, which dropped this image and message on several government sites before the Anon-fueled DDoS knocked them...

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Hollywood Farmers Market in Danger, Meeting Monday

0 Comments | Posted December 6, 2010 | 4:07 AM

Tourists and locals love the Hollywood Farmers Market, but their neighbors, the Los Angeles Film School, is blocking the renewal of much loved Sunday-morning organic market's permit. The film school wants access to their secondary driveway on Sunday mornings which would require half of the 150 vendors to...

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