I love, love, love crafts projects, especially when they go awry, and this coffee cup with saucer collar is one of my favorites. That it say...
Last night I found myself in the middle of another food fest, this time at Ciudad, another one of Top Chef Master competitor Susan Feniger&#...
One sure shot sign of Kitsch is when someone’s idea stops at the first thought and doesn’t spin off into a more creative zone th...
I’m supposed to be traveling today but won’t know if I’m going until a couple hours before the flight due to complications...
My trip was postponed for a month so the suitcases on are back in the closet and the percussion is resting nicely in its regular bed. Pompla...
The Snack Master, a 1-1/2″ long aluminum tube with a wooden plunger, is the vintage and quintessential kitsch kitchen accessory that c...
As Kitschmeister General I love, love, love the San Fernando Valley, just inches from the center of Hollywood and pumped full of Kitsch like...
From 1989 through 1991 I art directed and hand built the set and props for “Just Say Julie”, MTV’s first ever clip show st...
Last night I ate at Street with (L-R) Nancye Ferguson, Buck Henry, Prudence Fenton, me, Susan Feniger, Irene Ramp and Jim Burns. For those o...
Last night I went to the launch party for the new season of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters at Street, the restaurant I co-own in Los Angeles...
Anyone who knows me knows I love Reality TV. Of all the contestants on all the nutty dating shows I went especially nuts over Chance and Rea...
Once again I don the Easter bonnet I made to go to my friend April Winchell’s mother’s house Easter, 1998 where she had a smorga...
Margaret Keane is the High Priestess of Pop Art, painting those huge waif eyed paintings that stared out at everyone throughout the 60’...
Last night was the closing of The First National Tour of my musical, The Color Purple. I had never written a musical before, hardly ev...
I’ll be waving one of these all day and night today as these are the final two performances of the First National Tour of my mus...
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It can take a few seconds to load and there’s black space at the head. And if it stops playing just drag the scrollbar back a bit and ...
Can’t even move I’m so stiff and a little pissed as well as me who usually travels around with four cameras, different resolutio...
I’ve been collecting Shriners artifacts since I found a group portrait of hundreds of Zurah Temple members in their Fezes in the mid-1...
I don’t know much about Buckskin Bill other than his last name was Black and he had a TV show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that began eve...
I’ve been meaning to write this post about new features here at The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch for weeks but I remain swamped under...
It just got freezing in LA. The skies are getting dark and gloomy, you need a heavy coat, it’s very un-LA like. The only thing that ma...
These nutcracker heads were very popular in the 1950s. You hold a nut in the mouth and twist the notched wooden peg that comes through the b...
Although just about every transistor radio that was made since they were commercially available in 1954 through the transistorized 1960s was...
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