April 1, 2005 Gallery or Garage If you like your cars fast and your women faster, grab your Hot Rod Betty and gun it to Pasadena this Sunday for two events in one. Take your pick: Gallery or Garage. Gallery: The "Hot Chicks and Cool Rides" exhibit revs up with an opening party at the Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery and features work by some big names in contemporary art. Big short names like Coop, Shag and Spain. And longer ones like The Pizz, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, and Robert Williams. If hot rods leave you feeling cold, it's still worth seeing the gallery itself, which was once the Art Center College of Design Archetype Press. The old presses are gone, but the gently-aged hundred-year-old brick facade remains. It's a gorgeous renovation and you don't need a license to appreciate it. Garage: Roll your ride down the alley just outside the gallery for the Rod and Robber Alley Show. This too is an art show, but of a different kind, the kind where every car is a masterpiece just waiting to be sculpted. You'll find music, refreshments and an alley full of custom hot rods, choppers, scooters and Vespas. A handful of "pinstriping masters" from Japan will be on hand to make their marks (for a fee). Makoto, Mr. G, Mr. Jet Wrench, Psycho and Wish. And that's just their names -- wait until you see what they do with paint. Pimp your ride, or pimp your art collection. The best part is, you don't really have to choose. Both shows happen 1:00-8:00pm Sunday, 4/3 at Mills Place, a small alley off Colorado in Old Town. If you want to enter your car in the show email a picture to jomoinc@yahoo.com by midnight tonight.