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Nova Express Café
The Nova Express Café was a science-fiction-themed cafe and restaurant in Los Angeles, named as an homage to the William S. Burroughs satirical sci-fi novel, ''Nova Express''. It was located across the street from Canter's, Canter's Deli, and adjacent to the original location of Largo_(nightclub), Largo. The business was in operation for 15 years, from June 1993 until March 2008. History The establishment was the creation of sculptor and conceptual artist Cary Lewis Long and Argentinian actress Victoria Judith Adji Keter. Long studied art and philosophy at Berkeley, and saw the project as an integration of art and society. Besides serving food and drink, Nova Express Cafe was a venue for experimental music and performance, poetry readings, rock bands, storytelling and art events. Working with a limited budget, the Cafe was made almost entirely from found and second-hand materials. A fan of fantasy architecture, Long painted many surfaces to fluoresce under black light, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Express Cafe, Interior View
A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramatic appearance of a nova vary, depending on the circumstances of the two progenitor stars. All observed novae involve white dwarfs in close binary star, binary systems. The main sub-classes of novae are classical novae, recurrent novae (RNe), and dwarf novae. They are all considered to be cataclysmic variable stars. Classical nova eruptions are the most common type. They are likely created in a close binary star system consisting of a white dwarf and either a main sequence, subgiant, or red giant star. When the orbital period falls in the range of several days to one day, the white dwarf is close enough to its companion star to start drawing accretion (astrophysics), accreted matter onto the surface of the white dwarf, which creates a dense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
