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Vol. VII No. 10 • JUNE 2008 • www.hollywoodgazette.com
IN THIS ISSUE
‘Lego-mania’ hits Hollywood
HollywoodResidentMikeyv. ChosenforHGTVDesignStar Season Three of “HGTV Design Star” returns for a special premiere at 9 p.m. on June 8. Local Hollywood designer Michael Verdugo has been selected from thousands of entries to join this elite group.
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eddie brill featured in downtown comedyfest June 13-14 Low Brow Entertainment Co., launches the Downtown Comedy Fest this month with awardwinning stand-up comedian Eddie Brill, a Hollywood native.
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With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms.
by Caron Conway Correspondent
A tribute to Bambi, the late beloved boxer who lives forever in the hearts of Carlos and Angie Puerto.
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The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is hoping to build a foundation for creative construction in children and adults, brick by brick. In conjunction with the local opening this month of “The Art of the Brick” museum tour by famed LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya, the Art and Culture Center is inviting the community to participate in its LEGO® Creation Challenge. South Florida residents ages 6 and older are encouraged to use their own LEGO pieces – and their
Sawaya, 33, was a lawyer of dollars, and nearly 1 million imagination – to create a modular masterpiece. All who’d been hooked on individual LEGO pieces individual and team entries will LEGOS since childhood, when currently are touring the his “LEGO city” took over his country as part of the popular be displayed in the Center’s museum exhibit. galleries Aug. 8-10, with prizes family’s living room. In 2002, he started building large-scale Sawaya’s talent for awarded to the winners. sculptures in his spare time. elevating the common toy into The competition would seem a natural community After winning a nationwide a fascinating modern art form search for a professional has met with an enthusiastic counterpart of “The Art of the response from both children LEGO Master Model Builder Brick” show, the first major and adults. His exhibit drew museum exhibition in the U.S. in 2004, Sawaya gave up law to focus exclusively on the use for LEGO art. Today, his LEGO-MANIAcont.onpg.18 of the popular building blocks works go for tens of thousands as an art medium. Postmaster: Time sensitive material. Please deliver by JUNE 5. The Hollywood exhibit 1200 S. Federal Highway will feature 23 awe-inspiring Hollywood, FL 33020 sculptures by New York artist Sawaya, known as “The Picasso of LEGOS,” who takes the colorful plastic blocks to new heights with life-size – and larger – whimsical creations.