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Cherpumple: Meet the dessert that eats other desserts
By Tara Cuslidge
Everyone loves the traditional holiday assortment of desserts – pies, cakes, cookies and candies – but that standard fare can be awfully boring.
What could possibly wow everyone at the table and satisfy any sweet craving?
Enter cherpumple.
The concoction, created by Los Angeles-based humorist Charles Phoenix, is best described as the “turducken of desserts.”
For Those Who Can’t Decide on Dessert, Here’s the Dish
‘Cherpumple’ Bakes Three Pies Inside Cakes; ‘Total Spectacle’ or Deadly Sin?
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
Turduckens are now American holiday fixtures, those Frankenstein fowl featuring a turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken. Last Thanksgiving, Charles Phoenix created the turducken of desserts.
Need a new Thanksgiving recipe? Charles Phoenix, inventor of the cherpumple, a cherry-apple-pumpkin-pie-cake, demonstrates how to make one in a video he made last year.
Eyeing the remains of his family’s meal, Mr. Phoenix noticed everyone took a sliver of each pie—cherry, pumpkin and apple—and some cake. “I was inspired,” he says, “to combine all my family’s traditional holiday desserts into one.”
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Take a stroll down LA’s avenue of architecture with Charles Phoenix, the self-proclaimed Ambassador of Americana. From a former garment factory that’s been converted into loft spaces to an abandoned bank lobby dripping with bronze and marble and big enough to house a roller rink, Steve Proffitt has the sneak preview of the LA Conservancy’s walking tour.
The LA Conservancy Strolling on 7th Street Tour is scheduled to take place Sunday, Nov. 7.
Read and listen here.
Charles Phoenix slide show revisits early Disneyland
The humorist celebrates the 55th anniversary of the park with a retrospective compiled from found images.
By Karen Wada, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Charles Phoenix has learned a lot from Disneyland.
“I’m not Disney-obsessed, but I never discount the effect it had on me as a child,” says the pop-culture humorist and author, best known for blending comedy and commentary in shows based on other people’s family and vacation slides. “It helped make me a visual person in terms of recognizing motifs and themes. I like to say I studied at the Disneyland School of Style.”
It’s no surprise, then, that the Magic Kingdom is one of Phoenix‘s favorite subjects. The park often pops up in his pieces and has starred in a program of its own. “Wherever I go, it’s an easy sell because it’s an interesting place, has an interesting story and has touched so many of our lives.”
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For years, Southern California pop culture historian Charles Phoenix has made a name for himself performing slideshows with vintage images from the 1950s and 60s. This Sunday, July 11, Phoenix is taking his show to a whole new dimension. The show “Charles Phoenix and the Third Dimension” explores the history of 3-D photography. Hear him talk about it with KPCC’s Alex Cohen
Poolside, Encino, CA - 1963. Part of the Charles Phoenix Archive printsavailable from Michael Dawson Gallery
Today The Wall Street Journal published “The Art World Goes Local”, an article by Kelly Crow mentioning the Michael Dawson Gallery in Los Angeles… dealer of prints from the Charles Phoenix Archive!
Click here to read the full article at WSJ.com.
View the Charles Phoenix Archive prints and more at the Michael Dawson Gallery & Bookshop.
