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he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from po...

Nomadaz: Street Art from Spain and Italy at Scion

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The man who founded Factory Records in Manchester, home of Durutti Column and A Certain Ratio (as well as Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays) has...

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Los Angeles always seems strange in the rain. Jim Morrison once may have said something to that effect. Then again, Jim Morrison once declared himself t...

Record cover design finally catches up with "the new ugly"?

Race to the bottom: Lil Wayne vs. Weezer. Worstest record cover wins.


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A movie about a 12-year old prostitute in jazz-age New Orleans may seem like an unlikely inspiration for a new spring line of clothing, but when the pre...

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Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother...

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Linda Immediato recently lost her blogging virginity and is making up for lost time. She's a born and bred New Yorker who was an on-air news reporter fo...


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By Liz Ohanesian For Richie Hawtin, 2008 began with silence, ten weeks without so much as a 12-inch single or live engagement from the producer/DJ and h...

Psych... The slide show of Project Runway's final five designer collections at Bryant Park on Bravo.com may have led us to believe there were 5 finalist...

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My friend Anne was moving back to San Francisco from San Diego, and she wanted to spend one night in a swanky L.A. hotel by the beach. Only problem was,...

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Manifesto in Echo Park: Scorn Joy, Scorn Tragedy

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Some New York Times art critic called multi-media artist Matthew Barney the most important artist of our generation, and Los Angeles believed him. Upper...

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The headline, if you can't read it, is: "Topanga's Hippest Hippie Devendra Banhart Plus More Cali Madness." I mean, come on...

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The "ugly beautiful" model trend goes in a groovy new direction with these new Louis Vuitton ads starring Keith Richards. Of course, our man Keef is alr...

Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

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35. Wilco-Sky Blue Sky When music critics scoff that Wilco are "dad-rock," they're absolutely right. Sort of. My dad only listens to sports radio and Is...


Romantic Pic O' The Day - Alien Rape Fantasy

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"Hiya. How ya doing?" Well, hey! Someone's in a talkative mood tonight. In the first five seconds of coming out on stage the Jesus & Mary Chain have alr...

Was the Universal Studios Fire an accident?

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Considering I may be tone deaf, can't sing to save a life, it's pretty safe to say performing at the Grammy's is a dream out of reach. That is until I w...


And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro, for being the only member of the Style Council sober enough to actually write anything on Oscar night. We had such...

Coachella Day One: The Raconteurs Stomp the Bejeesus Out of Vampire Weekend

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Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

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How often have I had blissful dreams like the picture above? In the dream, I am hungry. Then some kind stranger appears from nowhere and smilingly hands...

In need of a good weekend read? Check out this excerpt from Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi's new book The Great Derangement, in which he ...


LA Brew Co Is For Sale After Most Expensive Failed Bar Rescue In History

Four months after the SpikeTV show filming, the restaurant and bar has not kept any of the changes and is now for sale.

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Once the epicenter of all that was hip and cutting edge in fashion, Melrose -at least the part between La Brea and Fairfax- is now just a mish-mash of k...


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Psych... The slide show of Project Runway's final five designer collections at Bryant Park on Bravo.com may have led us to believe there were 5 finalist...


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Alec (who is the same age as Jesus) responds to his critic. Also, a special guest appearance by Judas aka Bob Dylan (you know, the guy from the panty commercial).

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Once upon a time, the music editor and maybe 1 or 2 others at LA Weekly would have gotten an advance of a hotly anticipated new album, often months befo...


My Name is Caroline and I'm a Slothaholic

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Hope everyone's having a great holiday weekend. I wasn't able to make my fellow style council-or's T-day gathering, but family obligations for an LA gal...

Coachella Day Two: The Triumvirate of Kraftwerk, Portishead and Prince

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White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

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All photos by Mark Mauer The side of the Korean supermarket "HK Super" hasn't changed much in a the past couple of years, which is pretty wild consideri...

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I managed to miss the Aggrolites, which sucks, cuz they're mean and fun. I caught them at the Getty Museum courtyard earlier in the summer and they were...

Between December 2005 and March 2006, Sam Slovick did a stunning series of cover stories for the LA Weekly that took readers deep inside the everyday tr...

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Vice Magazine's Tales of Colt 45 at King King

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So I've been thinkin' a lot about babies. Yes, I've been grappling with the pressure and possibility of taming my wild life to make room for a family so...

After the beautiful, yet co-dependent energy suck that was my five-year relationship with a Swedish painter, I am happily unattached. And while single&r...

David Beckham Joins LA Galaxy (it's a soccer team)

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Can someone please tell me where the good music is to be found in this city? Last night I went to Dance Right at La Cita downtown which was bursting at ...

Yes, one half of Whitley Kros is Mrs. Beck, Marissa Ribisi. The other half is Sophia Banks, Marissa's long-time friend. Beck was of course, the musical ...


Live in L.A.: The Decemberists and Andrew Bird at The Hollwyood Bowl

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The Birmingham band played a short, sweet set on the outside stage for the Kimmel show. Click here to see all of Timothy Norris' photos. The Editors ret...

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So by now you've seen the Madonna-Gorillaz performance at the Grammy's on Wed. Holograms of the animated band rock-stared it out above what looked like ...


On the spot where the old French Cottage used to stand - which you can see here - there was a nice clean brick wall just crying out for some tagging. Pe...

Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "12...


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Lessons Learned Day One: Don't be a hero and fuck fashion. I'm in flip-flops. Fuck it, that half inch of high density foam is better than having to trod...

I got lucky Saturday when just a few blocks from my apartment I came across Retna and Dame working on a new wall on Virgil. Above, Dame working on his p...


Associated Press has a story on Yahoo News this morning about the permitted artwork along the Arroyo Seco that went up last year during the Meeting of S...

45. Joe Buhdha Presents Klashnekoff: Lionheart: Tussle With the Beast Exactly three British rappers have managed to "break" the American market in this ...

Magicians, Neil Patrick Harris & a Hula-Hooping Corpse

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SXSW Round-Up: The Kills Put On The Best Show Of SXSW By A Band Not Named My Morning Jacket…And Why Jenny Lewis Isn't the Hottest Woman In Indie Rock

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Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

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All photos by Timothy Norris. Vampire Weekend appear in broad daylight, above and below. Kim (or Kelly) Deal of The Breeders Jack White with The Raconte...

Coachella line-up: Lots of Everything (and Danny Tenaglia and Roger Waters, too)

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Sure, this is Brooklyn, but couldn't it easily be Silverlake? Echo Park? Ah, hipsters making the world a smaller place, one MySpace profile picture at a...

By Guelda Voien Of all the things upon which to base a docu-drama, a recounting of ballots, accented with heart-warming characters such as Katherine Har...


The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex

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"What does it taste like to you?" ask the promo advertisements for the new soft drink Pepsi Retro on bus stations and billboards in Mexico City. Clearly...

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Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

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I ran into a guy I knew from high school standing in line for the restrooms in the VIP area. I hadn't seen him in a decade but was about four glasses of...

Marfa Film Fest Dispatch: World Premiere of Heath Ledger-directed music video

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Cheetahs never prosper In a Dickensian twist, Anthony Pellicano was confronted this past week by women whose lives he had touched over the years –...


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Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, Jan. 30 & 31 Dave Alvin - McCabe's Jan. 18 & 19 Autechre - Echo, April 4 Bad Religion - House of Blues, April 4 & 5 Big Sandy, ...

I drove by the Ambassador last night inadvertently, trying to find some way to shave a couple of minutes off of my commute. The last bit of the hotel's ...

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I have a confession to make. I'm a junkie, but my speed is eyeshadow, my smack is lipstick. I got hooked young, 13. I would skip religion classes to buy...


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Billboard Case Slated for Federal Court of Appeal

Oral arguments will be heard in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal on June 4 in the case, Metro Lights, LLC vs. City of Los Angeles. The federal b...

Devendra Banhart Orpheum Theatre, 10/13 By John Curry In every generation of pop music, someone comes along with a fabulous persona to wrap generously a...

Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and...


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The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 5 (#5-1)

Even if you are a jewel thief, it is never wise to mess with a man whose name is Sgt. Larvell Jones. 5. Jay-Z ft. Nas-"Success" These two. Thing is, thi...

What’s with the meat? Our web editor brought in his bacon wallet a few days ago. Then one of our computer guys said that he had a bacon wallet, to...


M.I.A. delivered once again at the MX Beat fest on Saturday night, scoring more direct hits on the ears and hips of thousands of Mexican fans who braved...

Tuesday was Ray Turner’s day in court, although he elected not to take the witness stand on his own behalf. Turner, the “phone guy” co...

Black Crystal Wolf Kids Are Like Seeing All of Coachella in One Band

Want to hear "Seven Nation Army" and "Dog Days Are Over" without standing in a field full of sweaty hipsters? You can, thanks to Black Crystal Wolf Kids...


“No Guns” leader peddled guns while City Hall paid him to fight gangs Hector Marroquin founder of the gang intervention group No Guns, was s...

Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

Easy-to-read parking signs will be installed in downtown Los Angeles.

Canadian indie rockers Wolf Parade and Holy Fuck played a sold-out show at the El Rey Thursday night. Timothy Norris was there and shot it. Click here f...

Romantic Pic O' The Day - Alien Rape Fantasy

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I skipped out on the St. John show Thursday night, leaving Caroline to man the post, and followed Lina and Steffie (fellow council members) down the str...

Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine's Blues

The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who's that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in...

"Yea Sweden!" Someone from the crowd yelled at John Englebert from Johnossi, "You've got good health care!" "Yeah - California loves Sweden," he replied...

Roving photographer Timothy Norris was in Chicago for Lollapalooza - the non-traveling festival now firmly anchored in the Midwest.


"EL CHAVO!" has an excellent post up at Metroblogging Los Angeles about Estrada Courts in Boyle Heights. This picture is my favorite, covering all the b...

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(a beaming Jeffery Sebelia after his epic 52-look show at Vibiana) COSA NOSTRA BOXeight festivities were off to a slow start last night. When we arrived...

On a low wall near an empty lot on Franklin near Cahuenga in Hollywood there's a fast and mean REVOK / AUGER tag...


And you may find yourself in a Motel 6 in Van Nuys, And you may find yourself eating a Tommy burger at 2 am And you may find yourself in another part of...


South, The Echo, May 15, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Once upon a time, near the dawn of this decade, James Lavelle's Mo'Wax label ruled the record sto...

Slick Mural on Santa Monica Blvd. near Sunset

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There will be an official 2007 wrap-up from Mr. Gold himself, but with the year drawing to a close, we wanted to do a quick re-cap of some of your favor...


Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies d...

Chris CornellThe Wiltern, July 11 Chris Cornell brought it. He brought Soundgarden. We love that. He brought Temple of the Dog. We love that too. He bro...

The dates are the festival official, April 25-27, but little else is. And are there any bands from the 80s and 90s left to reunite/headline for Cocahell...

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Editors Jimmy Kimmel Live! July 25, 2007 By Timothy Norris OK, so we’ve all heard about it and Jimmy’s Green Room really is the best. I was ...

Brooklyn-based street artist Bast opened a rare LA show at New Image Gallery in West Hollywood this past weekend. Click here to see more photos from the...

Autechre - 4/14, Echoplex Bad Religion - 3/4,5,11,13, House of Blues Bamboozle (All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Paramore) - 4/5, Verizon Amphithe...

Cave Singers Echo, Dec. 4 To call a spade a spade: I’ve been listening to the Cave Singers album Invitation Songs an appreciable amount over the l...


Portishead at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Scotland 4.12.08

Photos by Rena Kosnett Claiming that I just happened to catch a Portishead concert during my recent visit to the UK would fashion me a liar. The trip wa...

“I was the coder, the implementer. The client was the designer.” So says coder-implementer Kevin Kachikian, private eye Anthony Pellicano&rs...

Yeasayer at the Ukranian Culture Center 4.25.08

I can’t freakin' wait until Yeasayer come back to Los Angeles. I feel itchy knowing that last Friday's show at the Ukranian Culture Center on Melr...


Laurence Tribe Tangles with CBS and L.A. City Hall

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s Courtroom 3 - a miniature auditorium with comfortable, smoked salmon-colored seats - wa...

I skipped out on the St. John show Thursday night, leaving Caroline to man the post, and followed Lina and Steffie (fellow council members) down the str...


Live in L.A.: Feist and Grizzly Bear at The Wiltern

Panic at the Disco loses their exclamation point, help sell a Honda

Panic at the Disco at Studio 540 of the Honda Corporation's headquarters, Torrence, January 10. By Julie Seabaugh Around 250 VIPs, suits and press membe...

You're Not Invited to L.A.'s Observatory for the Eclipse, but Some VIPs Are

The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles will be closed for Saturday morning's lunar eclipse, but journalists are invited.


Live in LA: Iron Maiden invokes Coleridge, Crowley, Eddie in Irvine

Iron Maiden at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, May 31 By Skylaire Alfvegren (photos by Anne Varak). “I’ve got to pinch myself and say...

Led Zeppelin/A Tribute to Ahmet Ertegun O2 Arena, London, December 10 By Steve Baltin As was the case for so many people, Led Zeppelin began my ascent i...

Wale ft. Bun B & Pusha-T: "Back in the Go-Go"

With a spot on Entertainment Weekly's "8 to Watch in 08" and Ann Powers' SXSW rave in the LA Times, the Wale hype is getting pretty loud, yet it exists ...


Millions of passengers use the Mexico City metro daily. It is one of the largest and most used systems in the world, a crowning achievement of the capit...

Stone Temple Pilots, Jimmy Kimmel Show, 5/1

Stone Temple Pilots Jimmy Kimmel Live, May 1 By Ryan Colditz "One time a thing occurred to me What's real, and what's for sale? Blew a kiss and tried to...

Silver Daggers @ Part Time Punks, The Echo 5.11.08

The Silver Daggers were on the bill to play at the Part Time Punks' Third Anniversary show Sunday night. This is what they did for 20 minutes instead (a...

I accompanied Miss Steffie to the annual Billion Dollar Babes sale yesterday, and just so ya know, it was only pure guilt that kept me from doing the sa...

Snoop Goes Country! Snoop Dogg Live at Fox Studios, March 6

photos by Timothy Norris Snoop Dogg gigged with an 18-piece backing band in a Fox Studio sound room last night for the Nissan Live series shown on Yahoo...


I just got back from interviewing Amanda Demme, the so-called Queen of LA Nightlife, and marketing brain behind 'hot' nightlife venues like Teddy's and ...

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Time magazine has just published their list of finalists for "The 2008 Time 100." What's that you ask? It's the magazine's list of the world's most infl...


Liars El Rey, Feb 22, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Liars are a constantly shifting band, taking a new tack on dark post-punk, experiments in early industrial m...

The mysterious case of the Microphones who climbed away to Mt. Eerie

Our newest musical voices who, a decade a ago, might have been tempted to call themselves Moon Flower or Dog Park proudly go by their given names: Sufja...

It sure seems like there has been an awful lot of murders in Los Angeles County since January. Every time I look at the newspaper or check out the night...

The Weekend's Music in LA: Jonathan Richman, Simone White, Billy Bragg, free vegan pancakes (and No Age) at The Smell

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 There are many immortal words in rock and roll, but one of the great expressions of untethered joy was originally uttered by Jonathan Ric...


Lil Wayne to Play House of Blues on June 16

I'll post Lil Wayne's incendiary anti-Bush song, "Georgia Bush," any chance I get, as most people don't know one of the best protest songs of the 21st c...


These were seen recently in the area of Melrose and LaBrea near Gallery1988, PInk's and Babeland. "Death to the Normals" and then a headless chicken. We...


The trend alarmed me, especially if you search the LA Times online--this city's paper of record--and see them mangle the spelling time after time after ...


It's friggin Sunday, I want to finish the book for my book club (Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Garcia-Marquez), I want to finish painting my livin...


Costume contest at the Key Club Monday Night Havent been back to Metal Skool's Monday mash since I used to deejay the VIP room, and thankfully nothing's...


My friend Anne was moving back to San Francisco from San Diego, and she wanted to spend one night in a swanky L.A. hotel by the beach. Only problem was,...


Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Fut...

Public Enemy, EPMD, Mos Def, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan and a reunited Rage Against the Machine played in San Bernadino over the weekend. Timothy Norris wa...

Between December 2005 and March 2006, Sam Slovick did a stunning series of cover stories for the LA Weekly that took readers deep inside the everyday tr...


Caroline and I swung by Get The Fuck Up Radio last night, check her blog, coming soon, I'm eating leftovers, working, drinking cheap red wine, and blogg...


Autechre - 4/14, Echoplex Bad Religion - 3/4,5,11,13, House of Blues Bamboozle (All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Paramore) - 4/5, Verizon Amphithe...

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Leaving a convenience store just now a cashier tried swindling me out of 10 pesos in change. I left the place a little confused then marched right back ...

When news of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers lawsuit against our favorite cheapie chic mall chain Forever 21 got some buzz last week, I couldn&rsqu...


Was the Universal Studios Fire an accident?

Early reports are calling the fire that gutted three acres of Universal Hollywood's back lot an accident. However, it is unclear what caused the June 1 ...

Millions of passengers use the Mexico City metro daily. It is one of the largest and most used systems in the world, a crowning achievement of the capit...

How often have I had blissful dreams like the picture above? In the dream, I am hungry. Then some kind stranger appears from nowhere and smilingly hands...

If you are the kind of person that actually pays attention to this kind of thing, then here's a full list of this year's Grammy nominees . Yes, Amy Wine...

Lily Allen Rumored to Be Next Face of Chanel

Just yesterday I was talking to Lily Allen's manager Neale and he mentioned something "big and fashiony" was about to happen with Lily, but decli...


Will i Am Offers Obama Handjob Via Campaign Song

As the voters of Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio filed to the polls yesterday to help decide the Democratic Party's nomination for President, will...


Some shots here of various Melrose paste-ups, many by MBW. The Ray Charles and Britney ones are gone by now...

One thing keeps puzzling me...Why was Porn Star Queen Jenna Jameson at so many LA Fashion Week shows? She got a lot of front row action this fashion wee...

So I finally got round to seeing Brokeback Mountain, on Sunday at the movie theatre on Vermont in Los Feliz. I went with two girlfriends, one of whom ha...


Talk about hot wheels: look who channels ONJ in the new video for her song "Sorry." I guess that makes it official - roller disco is back, baby! Not tha...

SXSW Day 1-My Morning Jacket Prove That They May Be Invincible and Britt Daniel is Everywhere

If you do a Google Image search for "Austin" this is one of the first things that pops up. Two girls at the 1998 Austin Corvette Day. Granted, this prob...

Down a little driveway alley next to Brooklyn Projects in Echo Park is an excellent collaborative piece between OBEY and SABER. Enjoy: All photos by Mar...


I've been missing in action for a week and you don't wanna know why. It aint glamorous or seedy or anything, but let's just say I've been in a post-NYE ...

Philanthropist Daphna Ziman's War for Foster Kids

Sacramento's politicians created a fat budget deficit. Then, local bureaucrats misspent state funds meant for foster kids. Now, foster kids might pay de...

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SXSW Day 2: Songs That No One In Their Right Mind Should Cover

There are a lot of sacred songs in the rock and roll canon, songs that are so connected with their composer that any attempt to replicate them, to put y...


If anyone has been down to the Arroyo since they supposedly blasted off a good deal of the art that was created (with permission, I might add) at Meetin...

Final Check Yo Ponytail tonight starring Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan

I Heart Comix's long-running Check Yo Ponytail series comes to a close tonight at the Echoplex. The legendary party ends its run with a doozy: Dan Deaco...

Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers at the Roxy, Tuesday, December 3 By Randall Roberts You know what? Dewey Cox can kiss my ass. He’s all back and eve...


Its The Oscars and I'll Cry If I Want To

It always creeps up on me...the Oscars. Already, Hollywood Blvd is shut off at Highland. I know this because I had to go to the Roosevelt Hotel this eve...

If you read my post about the Billion Dollar Babes sample sale then you know that I really didn't need to buy any more goodies. But there ...

Dear Men of Los Angeles, I am declaring a moratorium on the knit skull cap. I'm talking about the little beanie things seen on the likes of Wilmer Valde...


Location of Most Awesome New Bar in LA Revealed

Is Isis, the ancient Egyptian mother-god, related in some mystical way with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Mesoamerican mythology? That's the ce...


LACMA Raided! Updated With Search Warrants

County Museum board members busted in illegal art sting The L.A. County Museum of Art got some unexpected visitors this morning, when federal agents arr...

So I'm thinking about suing the city of Hollywood. I'm not kidding. The Hollywood Walk of Fame might be pretty to look at under the reflection of the bo...

Leaving a convenience store just now a cashier tried swindling me out of 10 pesos in change. I left the place a little confused then marched right back ...

For those of you wondering if I ever made it to the Cavalli collection's opening day at H&M in the Beverly Center, the answer is no. Just to be safe, I ...


By Guelda Voien Global climate change put the brakes on that celebrated preamble to summer in Los Angeles - the inaugural screening at Hollywood Forever...

"We do like to keep it quite elusive. I really like the aesthetics of terrorist videos - how grainy and far-off yet immediate they seem - there’s ...


California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage!

Citing the 60-year-old landmark case Perez v. Sharp, which struck down California's ban on interracial marriage, the California Supreme Court ruled toda...


These pictures are from late '07, and never got posted. The plan was to go back at another time, and get over the fences to get more pictures. Unfortuna...

The best view of the Grammy Awards from where I sat. The coolest thing I learned last night in the media room at the 50th anniversary Grammy celebration...

Gary Baseman, Vincent Gallo, and the Curse of Numerology

I have a confession to make - I sat next to the rather famous LA artist Gary Baseman on Saturday night and I had no clue who he was. He mentioned his Em...

"Dante's Inferno": Hollywood Boulevard & Truck Turner The New Beverly Cinema, April 11 The New Beverly Cinema's runaway-hit series of director-programme...


Janine Kahn at OC Weekly took her camera to the Marilyn Manson / Slayer show at Verizon Amphitheater on Friday, Aug. 25. More of Janine Kahn's photos at...

Maria Shriver, the first lady of the state of California and cousin of Caroline Kennedy, has endorsed Senator Barack Obama. Shriver made an impromptu ap...


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My friend Anne was moving back to San Francisco from San Diego, and she wanted to spend one night in a swanky L.A. hotel by the beach. Only problem was,...

Lucinda Williams El Rey, September 9 By Tom Cheyney Lucinda Williams kept a firm grip on her joy during the Sweet Old World night of her ambitious &ldqu...


So by now you've seen the Madonna-Gorillaz performance at the Grammy's on Wed. Holograms of the animated band rock-stared it out above what looked like ...

These are members of the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT), during a reggae and ska festival in San Salvador Atenco on Friday. They took ...

Metaform-Standing On the Shoulders of Giants

It's reductive to say that if you like Deadringer and Entroducing, you'll probably like Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. Then again, that's just the...


In need of a good weekend read? Check out this excerpt from Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi's new book The Great Derangement, in which he ...

Are we supposed to comment on this? I'm speechless. Kudos to The Post for avoiding the now cliched, "Britney Shears." And calling her "a buzz kill" was ...

Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light, Hollywood Bowl, 9/20

Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light Hollywood Bowl, September 20. By Randall Roberts There was a moment about three-quarters of the way through ...

Stone Temple Pilots, Jimmy Kimmel Show, 5/1

Stone Temple Pilots Jimmy Kimmel Live, May 1 By Ryan Colditz "One time a thing occurred to me What's real, and what's for sale? Blew a kiss and tried to...


Time to play catch up kiddies. The holidays are behind us, and so far, the ‘08 social calendar is proving to be more jammed-packed -and jammin&rsq...


SXSW Day 1: Van Morrison, Division Day, The Ting Tings, The Duke Spirit at  SXSW, March 12

Van Morrison at La Zona Rosa, Austin, Texas; Division Day, The Ting Tings and The Duke Spirit at Buffalo Billiards. Van Morrison's pretty cool, wearing ...

Fashion Week, Take 2: Marvin & Quetzal line dazzles

Sleek and elegant, but still tinged with that trademark vibe of rascally weirdness, the fall/winter line by Marvin & Quetzal helped finish Fashion Week ...

The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massiv...


Once the epicenter of all that was hip and cutting edge in fashion, Melrose -at least the part between La Brea and Fairfax- is now just a mish-mash of k...

We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season ...


Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008

Want proof that L.A.'s in the middle of an astoundingly fertile period of musical expansion? See the list below. We're going to have our hands full this...

Brand new MBW stuff up in remembrance of the 40th anniversary of MLK's assassination.* Strong thanks to the artist for marking the day. And of course to...

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Elbow, Air Traffic Avalon, May 9, 2008 Photos and words by Timothy Norris Shortly before Elbow took the stage Friday night for the final show of their l...

Grupo Fantasma Echoplex, Feb. 14 A musical question -- when was the last time you saw dueling trombones? Personally, I've seen dueling pianos in Memphis...


Damien Hirst, Tom Waits, the Beatles, and the birth of the ubiquitous contemporary persona. PLUS, some cool shit I saw while I was in London and some thoughts on the Amerindie aesthetic vs. the Anglophile aesthetic.

This post RIYL: Damien Hirst, Amerindie record labels, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Islington's Union Chapel, pretentious statements about life.

Who needs voters? The fix was in on the Eastside last night By Max Taves Waiting for a full vote count didn’t get in the way of a good time at the...

Feist and Spoon, Gibson Amphitheatre, 11/12

Feist, with Spoon At the Gibson Amphitheatre, November 12 By Sophia Kercher A few years back among hundreds of urbanite Canucks, I stumbled upon Leslie ...

L.A. Weekly blogger and former staff writer Daniel Hernandez uncovered a wild story about attacks on "emo" youths in Mexico City on LA Daily and his own...


French graffiti forefather Blek le Rat is in town for his upcoming gallery show at Subliminal Projects. Photos by Clare O'Callaghan Click here for more....

White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

White Williams, Magic Bullets The Blakes, Tribal Tats The Echo, Jan. 27 How do people in Seattle do it? It's downright cold tonight, and raining so much...


Roger WatersVerizon Wireless, Irvine – June 15, 2007 After making it late to the Roger Waters show (thanks to the 405/133 interchange), I had my l...

Liars El Rey, Feb 22, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Liars are a constantly shifting band, taking a new tack on dark post-punk, experiments in early industrial m...

Van Halen Staples Center, November 20 By Randall Roberts Jack and Coke? Check. Bic lighter? You know it. Rocker passed out on sidewalk, girlfriend exasp...


One thing keeps puzzling me...Why was Porn Star Queen Jenna Jameson at so many LA Fashion Week shows? She got a lot of front row action this fashion wee...


The trend alarmed me, especially if you search the LA Times online--this city's paper of record--and see them mangle the spelling time after time after ...

Love or hate the music, I'll argue with you for hours (if we've got beer), that the physical album cover of Radiohead's In Rainbows sucks. And love or h...

So I finally tried Pinkberry, and folks, I've just got one question- what's the big wup? Okay, it's pretty tasty and the place is cute (despite the name...

Los Lobos on Paul Simon: "Do you mean zydeco when you say zy decko?"

Los Lobos claim that Paul Simon is a hero to most but he never meant shit to me you see. By extension, does this mean they hate Vampire Weekend, too?


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"Hiya. How ya doing?" Well, hey! Someone's in a talkative mood tonight. In the first five seconds of coming out on stage the Jesus & Mary Chain have alr...

"From the margins of the culture, through graffiti, stencils and stickers, every day the streets are screaming about things," opens the gallery statemen...

Fashion week got off to randy start at the Dressed to Kilt charity event and fashion show this past Saturday, filling Smashbox's main tent with hordes o...


Paul McCartney Played Lots Of Beatle Songs

Ok, I got in to see Paul at the free Amoeba in-store show. The crowd was a buzz wondering if he would play any Beatles songs or mostly stuff off the new...


It's a match made in hipster heaven. Disheveled shutterbug du jour Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter (with whom I still proudly share space with in the paper...

Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

"Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even...

Devendra & Natalie sitting in a tree. But are they K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

Is Devendra Banhart a starfucker or just a star?

“Nikki Finke Is a Badass” ... and Other Judgmental Comments

It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four diffe...

"What kinda horn you got on that thing?" Ben Watkins yells into his megaphone as a bus crawls to a stop before Fox Studios' main gate. The bus driver gr...


The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give ...

Black Keys, Jay Reatard The Wiltern, April 1 By Jonah Flicker We’ll get to the white-boy blues-rock in just a sec, but first we have a very seriou...


By Shelley Leopold Not much street art found on a recent trip to Japan, but what was there was conveniently located in a compact area. EVIL deconstructs...


I ran into Tammie Brown at the John Water's Meet & Greet before the mustachioed director's Christmas show tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall. Tammie is a long...

Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

Today was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Picket Day at the WGA strike, and the three-foot-and-under marchers were in abundance proudly waving their signs. A favorite...


Daedalus and TI$A team up for Obama video

Well, in case you were wavering on whether to vote for McCain or Obama, this should help you decide. Sa-Ra's front man Taz Arnold (TI$A) wanders through...

By Jeff Shaw, City Pages Compared with other holidays, Thanksgiving hasn't inspired bards overmuch. There are no traditional hymns, no instantly identif...

Location of Most Awesome New Bar in LA Revealed

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California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage!

Citing the 60-year-old landmark case Perez v. Sharp, which struck down California's ban on interracial marriage, the California Supreme Court ruled toda...


Mountain Goats, The Annuals, Natural History Museum, 6/6

The Mountain Goats, The Annuals, Natural History Museum, June 6 It's packed again for First Fridays at the Museum. There's a line of people waiting to g...

It's a fact of life for street artists that their work is going to get covered up, torn down, painted over, or if you're Man One, billed for tens of tho...

Jon Spencer, Jail Weddings at the Echo, 11/10

Heavy Trash, Jail Weddings The Echo, Nov. 10 Photos and review by Rena Kosnett I’m just trying to understand why Jon Spencer is doing this. This e...


The Village Voice's Siren Music Festival took place over the weekend with performances from M.I.A., New York Dolls, Elvis Perkins, The Black Lips and a ...


Playin' With the Queen of Hearts: Susan Cianciolo Show

Speaking of Project Runway (below post), this will come as no surprise to those you’ve read our past posts: we actually kinda liked drag designer ...

LA Times Seemingly Unfamiliar with "Spoiler Alert" Concept

I'm pretty much caught up on The Wire. After weeks of avoiding Slate's discussion and bickering with David Simon about plot points and cutting out the 1...

“Cold Desolate Places”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 1 of 4

Phil Elverum: "It's so weird here right now. It's snowing but the sky is blue and it's not really that cold. I don't know where the flakes are coming fr...


Linda Immediato recently lost her blogging virginity and is making up for lost time. She's a born and bred New Yorker who was an on-air news reporter fo...


Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer...


Check out next week's LA Weekly for continued Smashbox coverage: including, Evidence of Evolution, JEREMY SCOTT and PETRO ZILLIA! www.laweekly.com...


"Hippie chicks with boob jobs." That's how a (male) pal inaccurately described the annual Topanga Days fest in the Santa Monica hills this past memorial...


Dear Men of Los Angeles, I am declaring a moratorium on the knit skull cap. I'm talking about the little beanie things seen on the likes of Wilmer Valde...

I ran into Martini (yes that's his name) at the Venice hangout "the otherroom" after the LA Weekly art show and party. Martini has written a book called...


Inyo County sheriff investigators officially called off the dig for human remains Wednesday at remote Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Ma...

Hawaiian born, LA based artist and illustrator Ekundayo had a small, but very cool showing at Suru on Saturday the 24th of May. The store had previously...

We've been calling plus-size punny (lad)y Jackie Beat our "favorite drag queen" for years (and that's saying something... we know a lot of crossdressers...


Gorgeous getups or no, I just can't sit through another 3 hours of E! pre-Emmy red carpet coverage this year-- even if Ryan Seacrest has moved from kiss...


The prognosticators have been speculating for weeks on who LA-based producer Daedalus was going to endorse for president. We had our money on Ron Paul, ...

Medical Drama House Gets Its Own T-Shirt

How great is the show House? Fuck Grey's Anatomy, that show is so lame, I feel bi-polar watching it— is it a farse comedy? a serious medical drama...


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I didn't mean to blow off all my responsibilities yesterday, but when a schmoozy Hollywood luncheon turns into a full-on party by 3pm, and...

Check it Out: A New Los Angeles Billboard Database

Last month, the LA Weekly published a cover story about billboard blight in Los Angeles. Among other things, the Weekly delved into City Hall’s fa...

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The Special Technique of 5 O' Clock Shadowboxin'

You'd be hard-pressed to find two rappers more diametrically opposed than Zilla Rocca and the man known as Weezy F. (Scott Fitzgerald) Baby. The two pra...

The press release, whether deliberate or not, was sent out late in the news cycle on a Friday evening--6:43 p.m. to be exact. 17 months after officially...

David Bazan Spaceland, December 11, 2007 By Jonah Flicker The most revealing moment of the man formerly known as Pedro the Lion’s intimate set at ...

Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fe...


Pearl Jam - Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium


Trader Joe’s Says Don't Freak Out Over Arsenic in Wine

Numerous studies have shown that even small amounts of arsenic have been associated with raising the risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ...

BOXeight: You Wear It Well Film Festival, The Mayor and Eduardo Lucero

(Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flanked by two women. He sat front and center at Eduardo Lucero to show his support for BOXeight and LA fashion, and pretty ...

Some excellent Timothy Norris photos that didn't get put up a few days ago when they should have been: Editors Live at the Wiltern September 24 with Bif...

Remembering the Time: Minor Epiphanies Gleaned Upon Re-Watching Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" Video 17 Years Later

In honor of poor Teddy Riley. Nothing says "epic video" more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing. I'm fairly certain that "Remember the ...

Fight Over Arroyo Seco Mural and Whitewash Keeps Going

Matthew Flesicher wrote a piece in the news section about the County calling an "emergency" over the properly permitted art project held in the Arroyo S...


That's right the American Idol winner was just chosen to be the "it" girl for the racing sport. But you're not really surprised are you? (Not that there...

We've been calling plus-size punny (lad)y Jackie Beat our "favorite drag queen" for years (and that's saying something... we know a lot of crossdressers...

Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton

That windowless brick of a Sears store may be closed, and a lot of the old auto repair spots are being torn down for who knows what, but there's some co...


Kids of Widney High, Amoeba Records, Feb. 28, 2008 By now, I hope that most people reading this know who the Kids of Widney High are, so I'll only brief...


I woke up this morning with my cowboy boots on, laying face down fully clothed on my couch. I didn't even make it into my bedroom.You know you were at a...

With The National, I traveled to the never fashionable north London district of Wood Green to visit the home and studio of Southern’s founder John...


How PM Dawn Could’ve Avoided Getting Set Adrift On “Memory Bliss”

Maybe instead of wallowing in unchecked misery over "the girl with the fat diamond ring" (really, the fat diamond ring is the main thing that you rememb...


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I just returned from a trip to New Mexico with my mother. It was the first extended vacation we ever took together (by that I mean just the two of us; t...

The trend alarmed me, especially if you search the LA Times online--this city's paper of record--and see them mangle the spelling time after time after ...


I know, I know - ever since God invented cell phones that can tell the time, no-one wears watches anymore. Watches are annoying. You have to put them on...

Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest

You may not know who Jay Electronica is yet, but I'm willing to bet that you would had he chosen a better name. Jay Electronica does not sound like the ...

he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from po...

Weiss' Muxtapes #3 and #4: The Best Hip-Hop Songs of the Year Thus Far

In case you missed it, Sach O of Oh Word touched down briefly last week, taking a break from trying to find Manuel Noriega in the Philippines (He has a ...

It's hard not to love Liz McGrath. There's the art, the music she make with her band Miss Derringer, heck, the very building that she lives in is so coo...


Members of the Los Angeles friends of Tibet held a "die-in" outside the Chinese Consulate on Monday afternoon to protest the recent Chinese crackdown on...

Describing himself as a guy who was "you could say, like a head of state," departing California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez gave a bizar...


If you read my post about the Billion Dollar Babes sample sale then you know that I really didn't need to buy any more goodies. But there ...

The Worst Kept Secret in LA: Foxburo Hot Tubs are Green Day, and They Play the Roxy Tonight

The best kept secret, though, is that the Hot Tubs are way better than Green Day, and sound to us more like the product of Estrus Records than Warners. ...

Richard Edson's Beyond the Valley of the Micro-Bops Show

The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art opens a new show tonight by photographer Richard Edson. Here's the info: It's tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. at 107 Wes...

Banksy Elephant Set to Star in Christina Aguilera Video

White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

White Williams, Magic Bullets The Blakes, Tribal Tats The Echo, Jan. 27 How do people in Seattle do it? It's downright cold tonight, and raining so much...


Being a woman - sometimes it sucks. We bleed, for starters. Then our bodies create the cottage cheese-like substance called cellulite that seeps like ma...

(Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flanked by two women. He sat front and center at Eduardo Lucero to show his support for BOXeight and LA fashion, and pretty ...


Storm drains in the ritzy Hancock Park area couldn't handle an inundation of water from a storm the National Weather Service says dumped 4.2 inches on B...

Calling All Label Whores: Intermix opening in LA

Kitson is about to get some fierce competition... Intermix, the über popular NYC fashion boutique has announced it will open its first West Coast s...

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Auto Repair art on Santa Monica Blvd. and Ardmore

Two very different styles across the street from one another on Ardmore just south of Santa Monica Blvd...


Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies d...

Party Picks of the Week: Black Cat Sex Cult, Audrey Napoleon's Birthday Bash

Some fetish-y new fun from the Boulet Brothers and a birthday bash for goth-glam EDM queen Audrey Napoleon top in Lina's party list this weekend.

Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

There are quite a few twists to the story of the new Radiohead album that broke on the band's website last night . One that is getting very little atten...


Last night I attended a party at my friend Zoe's teeny-tiny adorable Silver Lake cottage on a hill, which comfortably holds a maximum of maybe fifteen p...


This year marked the first time since 2006 that LA Weekly didn't win a Pulitzer, effectively ending our current streak (at one). UCLA professor of histo...

Elzhi's Europass: The Best Rap Album of the Year Thus Far

One of the more frustrating things about hip-hop heads*, specifically those old enough to remember the first two Golden Ages, is the general groupthink ...


And you may find yourself in a Motel 6 in Van Nuys, And you may find yourself eating a Tommy burger at 2 am And you may find yourself in another part of...

Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

White Stripes Icky Thump/Tower Records, June 20, 2007 By Ryan Ward All photos by Timothy Norris - Click here for a slideshow of the concert If you had b...

Linda Immediato recently lost her blogging virginity and is making up for lost time. She's a born and bred New Yorker who was an on-air news reporter fo...


The first First Friday of 2008 at the Natural History Museum featured local faves Sea Wolf. DJ's keep it rolling the lounge, with a captive audience in ...


Live in L.A.: The Decemberists and Andrew Bird at The Hollwyood Bowl


Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 1 of 3

Jeffrey Lewis: "For myself it's not so much that there's been a resurgence because...don't call it a comeback I've been here for years."

Today defense attorneys in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants began their closing arguments, with lead-off hitter Chad H...


Chuck Philips, Tupac Shakur, Sean Combs and The Con

The amazing Page One Los Angeles Times article today, correcting a probably libelous Times Calendar story published on St. Patrick's Day and written by ...

The court has not only ignored the will of the people and imposed a redefinition of marriage on Californians, it has inflicted years of legal chaos, qui...


As usual, there were a bevy of bare boobies on the runways during LA Fashion Week a couple weeks ago, and it got me thinking- why does anybody get boob ...


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I just got back from New York, New York, and since I spent much of my winter holiday hanging with my nieces Flora and Ava, twins aged 18 months, the big...

Beirut Avalon, Oct 10, 2007 Words and photos by Rena Kosnett Zach Condon has the voice of a champion. Hearing Condon, the 21 year-old high school drop-o...


No Human Remains Found yet at Manson Dig

So far…nada. Inyo County sheriff investigators reported today that they have not found any bodies yet at Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of ...

Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...


Coachella Day 3-Never Underestimate How Long It Takes to Blow Up An Inflatable Pig

By the third day, we were knocked out, loaded. Hungover, weary, wandering the festival grounds like lethargic lemmings, queuing in lines off instinct, j...

Beards, Blazers & Glasses or How Hot Chip Prove that My Sense of Rhythm Isn't Racist

It happened again. The dancing thing. I'm not quite sure how and I'm not sure why. I know we talked about this the other day but I'm not ready to move o...

Coachella Fashion: Sundress Mess, (No On) Neon and The Headband's Last Hurrah (We Hope!)

Props to those who actually managed to write coherant blog posts from Coachella on a daily/nightly basis. After spending about 1 1/2 hours in traffic le...


Guess What - Another Music Festival This Weekend!!!

Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

Easy-to-read parking signs will be installed in downtown Los Angeles.


Who's the "Boss?": The True Definition of Boss According to Rick Ross

If there are any aspiring young rappers out there reading this, now is the time to rejoice. With his second album, Trilla, Rick Ross has proven that all...

Comedy Meltdown 2: Electric Boogaloo Meltdown Comics, January 25th Who needs too-tightly packed tables and a two drink minimum, especially if there&rsqu...


Vince McMahon Gets Star on Hollywood Blvd.

Well, he is an entertainer... Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment's head honcho, and the man who turned regional pro wrestling into a multi-bil...


There are several Christmas charity shows (and just plain Christmas themed shows) around time this month, like Snoop Dogg's Smokin' Christmas Party at t...


“My Megalomania”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 2 of 4

Elverum on Elverum: "I think I'm trying to one-up my megalomania [pauses] -- or however you pronounce that" - "I am trying to get old people interested ...

Editors Jimmy Kimmel Live! July 25, 2007 By Timothy Norris OK, so we’ve all heard about it and Jimmy’s Green Room really is the best. I was ...

Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "12...

Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother...


The Crewest Gallery downtown held their fourth annual Day of the Dead exhibit with more than 100 ceramic skulls painted, decorated, reassembled and scul...

If you weren't there, it sucks to be you. The LA Weekly hosted a kick-ass show at Spaceland last night to celebrate their new music issue featuring The ...

Greetings from the first annual Marfa Film Festival

I got on a bus in Los Feliz yesterday at about 1 p.m. headed for Marfa, Texas, to attend the first annual Marfa Film Festival. If you've been to the mov...

I went to Metal Skool at the Key Club again last night. I've had three hours sleep and feel like an Anne Rice vampire with a hair band fetish. I knew Li...


50. Redman-Red Gone Wild Other than M.O.P., Redman is the only East Coast rapper able to conceptually re-make the same album since 1992 and get away wit...

Live in L.A.: Entrance at Safari Sam's, 8/3

Entrance are not who you think they are.  They are not a quiet, mellow trio nipping at the heels of the psych-folk pack mule, despite their long hair, s...


On the spot where the old French Cottage used to stand - which you can see here - there was a nice clean brick wall just crying out for some tagging. Pe...


Election cross-over dreams become a nightmare Last Friday members of the nonpartisan election group, CourageCampaign.org, were surfing the Web when they...

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Everyday there are songs and musicians that attempt to do what they believe is meaningful. Pseudo-laureates and full-on liars buzz around our heads on a...


Five hundred Los Angeles Laker fans swarmed the Hollywood Billiards Sports Bar & Grill on Thursday night to watch Kobe Bryant and the boys take on Kevin...


Siouxsie Sioux, The Music Box at the Fonda, February 15

Siouxsie Sioux The Music Box at the Fonda February 15, 2008 By Steve Baltin The calendar may have read as the day after Valentine’s Day, but insid...

And so begins LA Weekly's last day in Hollywood. Sunny, 72 degrees... 12 minute commute. As of Monday LA Weekly will be run out of offices nestled into ...


Ten artists made up the new Snow Angels show at ThinkSpace including new works by Stella Im Hultberg. Above, Hultberg's “Heartbeats,” Availa...

For a few weeks anyway... Roth, the director of Hostel, Cabin Fever and others, is programming two weeks worth of movies at the New Beverly. Roth will b...

Hours before the Democratic debate takes takes place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, hundreds of supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fille...

Fanatics! A Brand-New Song From VUM's Forthcoming Album, Cryptocrystalline

Rollins fires up another two hours of adventurous music from VUM, Wand, Rites of Spring, Suzuki Junzo, Ty Segall, Pere Ubu and many more.


This Christmas, I had hoped to fly back to London, gorge myself on Mum's turkey and sip sherry with my long lost Brit posse. But Fate, it turned out, ha...

Up until now, it's been a lot of pleasant surprises: bands that maybe a lot of people hadn't been too familiar with, but ended up digging. Not so with K...

Fans started lining up early to get to their seats! Some arrived at 5. Skaters stopped in to check out the chicks. And lots of limos. Group of girls mad...


Not one but three people I went to high school with were nominated for Oscars last night (Matt Dillon, Dan Futterman, and Bennett Miller) ...

Public Enemy, EPMD, Mos Def, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan and a reunited Rage Against the Machine played in San Bernadino over the weekend. Timothy Norris wa...


M.I.A. delivered once again at the MX Beat fest on Saturday night, scoring more direct hits on the ears and hips of thousands of Mexican fans who braved...

Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter hit NYC's Fashion Week and returned with pictures of runways, parties, ingenues and behind the scenes looks at what happene...

L.A. River Along the Golden State - Four

A rough patch of the river here, but there will be some better looking stuff coming up tomorrow, though we get a couple glimpses of the massive pieces, ...

50. Redman-Red Gone Wild Other than M.O.P., Redman is the only East Coast rapper able to conceptually re-make the same album since 1992 and get away wit...


The students of Sunnydale High's class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school reunion. A demon is here. So is a vam...


Lily Allen Attracts Gwen, Orlando, Lohan, Lennon - and Taylor Dane

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Grupo Fantasma Echoplex, Feb. 14 A musical question -- when was the last time you saw dueling trombones? Personally, I've seen dueling pianos in Memphis...


I'm a karaoke slut, but just like most real ladies of the night, I have to be properly liquored up before I give it up (on the mic). Brass Monkey, Smog ...

Witness shocker throws trial in turmoil For days Chad Hummel had been uncharacteristically quiet as the trial of famed private eye Anthony Pellicano and...

SXSW Day 4-Pitchfork Party Gets a 6.4, Due to Highly Derivative Partying

A Pitchfork party without Sparks? That's like Eliot Spitzer without whores: fatigued, thirsty and miserable. And rest assured, Sparks flowed like the Ri...


Disneyfied Big Oil Hyenas in E. Hollywood

This has to be the most directly political wall mural I've seen. Near the intersection of Heliotrope and Melrose on the wall of a laundry, is this excel...

Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Claremont Folk Festival, 5/3

Ben Harper, Jackson Browne Claremont Folk Festival, Sycamore School May 3, 2008 Photos and Text by Ryan Colditz Nestled neatly inside the Inland Empire ...

Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

The Human Rights Campaign, the ultimate Washington D.C. lobbying group for gays and lesbians, has officially endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president...

Yeah, I originally had this posted this morning as Push & Ayer - Sorry. It looked like a Retna piece, but I saw the Ayer in there and thought that must ...

Are we supposed to comment on this? I'm speechless. Kudos to The Post for avoiding the now cliched, "Britney Shears." And calling her "a buzz kill" was ...


Coonskin of My Yellow Country Teeth: The Hipster Davy Crockett?

“You may all go to Hell...I will go to Texas”-Davy Crockett Davy Crockett's tombstone reads: "Davy Crockett, Pioneer, Patriot, Soldier, Trap...

By Guelda Voien Of all the things upon which to base a docu-drama, a recounting of ballots, accented with heart-warming characters such as Katherine Har...

Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother...

Photos from the Calvin Harris show, Wednesday night, at the Henry Fonda Theater by Timothy Norris More after the jump. All photos by Timothy Norris...


Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal) By Ben Westhoff The long awaited fifth Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diagrams, just leaked, and it’s fucking ...

If you read my post about the Billion Dollar Babes sample sale then you know that I really didn't need to buy any more goodies. But there ...


I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes...

The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give ...


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Apparently the newest accessory this season, is a tail. No, not that strand of hair you kept growing despite haircuts. I was speaking to a member of an ...


yeah, yeah, yeah, The Police reunited and it felt so good (and Sting still looks so good). But the best thing about this year's Grammy Awards was the ho...


Yeah, it's actually an ad for Helio... Kind of. There's a small Helio logo off to the left side. But for the most part it's just a cool huge original pa...

By Marc Cooper It was far too beautiful a day in Southern California to have spent much time following the West Virginia primary. Taking a late afternoo...

Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger By Rossiter Drake With the release of Easy Tiger, critics are eager to celebrate the return of Ryan Adams, alt-country sav...


The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex

When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't listen to i...

There will be an official 2007 wrap-up from Mr. Gold himself, but with the year drawing to a close, we wanted to do a quick re-cap of some of your favor...

Por El Suelo on Virgil: Retna, AWR, Dame, Werc

The wall that went up a couple of weeks ago on Virgil a few blocks south of Santa Monica is looking beautiful. Here are some sections that weren't finis...

Remembering the Time: Minor Epiphanies Gleaned Upon Re-Watching Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" Video 17 Years Later

In honor of poor Teddy Riley. Nothing says "epic video" more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing. I'm fairly certain that "Remember the ...


It was interesting that while one side of Cordon's Market had some stunning work on it (click here to see it), the opposite side, which wasn't even fenc...


This has to be the most directly political wall mural I've seen. Near the intersection of Heliotrope and Melrose on the wall of a laundry, is this excel...


Wearing cashmere makes me feel validated. Empowered. Like a big girl. So when I noticed my roommate floating around the house in beautiful knitted wraps...

French graffiti forefather Blek le Rat is in town for his upcoming gallery show at Subliminal Projects. Photos by Clare O'Callaghan Click here for more....

Catching up with Crass today: 33% visionary, 33% crochty, 33% right on and at least 1% annoying

Penny Rimbaud: "What is classified as ‘punk' music these days is absolutely empty and gutless."


One of the great things about New York is that it doesn't really change. Sure restaurant names change but I found all of my old haunts still there, happ...


Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 4: Searching For the Elusive Identity of the "Ghetto Cowboy"

I actually own this on CD-single, which is either keeping it real, or keeping it really retarded. From the first moments of the reel, one can immediatel...


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Several hours after I heard Robert Nudelman had died at the age of 52 at his father’s home in Tucson, Arizona, I was driving on El Centro Avenue, ...

The flyer from SMC Students Against Budget Cuts was impressive: A cartoon of the Guv all buffed up, standing behind a podium bearing the California stat...


More fashion critique from New York Fashion Week and The Grammy’s (which we attended) to come today, but for now, check out the designs of the fin...


Wired Magazine brings a bunch of futuristic goodies to the Henry Fonda Theater to entertain the folks between sets by Kool Keith and Spoon. Click here t...

Marka27's Echo Park Mural: Libertad Poder Revolucion

This is simply one of my favorite street art wall murals in Los Angeles. Done by MarkA27 The face of César Chávez has gotten some ugly tag...

Magnetic Fields at the Fonda, Monday, March 3

photos by Timothy Norris (note: these photos are from Sunday's show, but the band set up identically on Monday) The Magnetic Fields closed a two-night s...


Searching for real resistance on May Day

May Day, Dia Internacional del los Trabajadores, is a national holiday here. On Thursday most stores and shops were closed and people didn't work, givin...


SXSW: One perspective from an official representative of the Music Industry

Van Morrison + Lou Reed: 2 points. SXSW festival: ZERO.

SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere...High Times at High Times...Why in God's Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?

Bloggers are every journalist's favorite whipping boy. If a shitty band gets too popular, blame the bloggers. If the standards of professional journalis...

The Vegan Beer Festival Returns This May With a Swanky New Location

Now in its 6th year, the Vegan Beer Festival will take place this May with more animal-free food and drinks at a much improved location.

It's BCS Championship Game time and, two years after Katrina, New Orleanians are no doubt ecstatic to have the Sugar Bowl back in their fair city. They ...


Live in LA:  Femi Kuti at the House of Blues, July 20

Half-way through Femi Kuti’s first song of the night, the powerful “Truth Don Die,” a strange realization hit me -- Femi’s weari...


Best Bar In LA - And I'm Not Telling You Where It Is

I had a real-life Cheers moment last Friday night when some friends and I happened upon a  cool, unpretentious and non-douchey new bar in LA. Crazy...


Ghostland Observatory, Henry Fonda, 11/30

Ghostland Observatory Henry Fonda, Nov. 30 The moment the curtains opened, lasers blasted over the crowd's heads to the back walls while smoke machines ...

Romantic Pic O' The Day - Alien Rape Fantasy

Best caption wins a date with Linda Immediato Photo: Charlie White...


Panic at the Disco loses their exclamation point, help sell a Honda

Panic at the Disco at Studio 540 of the Honda Corporation's headquarters, Torrence, January 10. By Julie Seabaugh Around 250 VIPs, suits and press membe...


Sure we've seen gas for four-and-change in Cambria and other places up the coast. But this Chevron, with the spankin' new slightly-altered logo signage,...

The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give ...

Barack Obama at Gibson Amphitheater Tool at Nokia Theatre. By Ryan Colditz I saw a show no one else will ever see. Senator Barack Obama opening for Tool...

The Police at the Hollywood Bowl 5/27: Once More Gentlemen Please, But This Time With Bad Feeling

The Police at Hollywood Bowl, May 27, 2008 By Paul Rogers Sting’s ego alone could fill the Hollywood Bowl, but on Tuesday night his band’s p...

I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes...


I just got back from interviewing Amanda Demme, the so-called Queen of LA Nightlife, and marketing brain behind 'hot' nightlife venues like Teddy's and ...

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Time magazine has just published their list of finalists for "The 2008 Time 100." What's that you ask? It's the magazine's list of the world's most infl...


Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest

You may not know who Jay Electronica is yet, but I'm willing to bet that you would had he chosen a better name. Jay Electronica does not sound like the ...


Wolf Parade’s At Mt. Zoomer: Great Record, Terrible Title

Regardless of what you think of their music, you've got to respect Wolf Parade. When Apologies to the Queen Mary dropped in late 2005 and every music jo...


Nomadaz: Street Art from Spain and Italy at Scion

Pablo Aravena curated the new show at Scion Space in Culver City. Nomadaz brings together eight street artists from Italy and Spain, including Microbo, ...


This week's dance shows include a festival with an impressive gathering of local troupes, a 5th and 35th anniversary celebration, a dual debut and Brazi...


Tall, striking, and as piercingly eloquent as ever when addressing throngs of dedicated supporters, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is back at the top of a ...

Here's a little relic that won't be around long. It's been 42 years since a Studebaker rolled off the line. Yet, almost right across the street from the...

Missed the Red Carpet pre-Oscars coverage this year (think we may have still been in bed when E! started airing its tedious fawning sessions with Ryan S...

The Mae Shi jump start the night with some fresh blood. They'll be at the Smell in downtown Jan. 3rd, 2008. The Adolescents get the pit rockin! The hard...


Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...

The Bravery At the Maxim Style Awards The Avalon, Sept 18th By Tatiana Simoneon I always feel bad for bands playing at big sponsored parties, which is i...

25. Wu-Tang Clan-8 Diagrams 8 Diagrams is east coast hardcore rap that doesn't sound like it was made on the east coast. It was recorded in LA but it do...


Queer Town: Tom Whitman Presents... Wonderland

Twelve hours before the Big Gay Parade in Boys Town, I decide to hop into the Chevy, pick up my pals Tyle and Ted, and visit gay nightlife uber-promoter...

L.A.'s Lush Lawns Are in the Crosshairs as Officials Tackle Drought

The city of Los Angeles is considering an ordinance that would limit lawn watering to two days a week.

I remember watching The Show for the first and only time when I was a freshman in high school. I wasn't very impressed. This was 1995, Biggie was alive,...


Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 4: Searching For the Elusive Identity of the "Ghetto Cowboy"

I actually own this on CD-single, which is either keeping it real, or keeping it really retarded. From the first moments of the reel, one can immediatel...

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Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play


A little rain fell, but no damage done. Air, whose new one, Pocket Symphony, is their best in a while, played the usually dry Greek Theatre along with N...

Spiritualized the Vista Theater November 12 By John Payne Praise the Lord and pass the collection plate. No, no, no, that’s bitter, I know. But th...

If you think the hottest spot at LA Fashion Week is backstage with the models or front row with the celebs, you're sadly mistaken. Those in the know hav...

Slick Mural on Santa Monica Blvd. near Sunset


Hawaiian born, LA based artist and illustrator Ekundayo had a small, but very cool showing at Suru on Saturday the 24th of May. The store had previously...

Tuesday was Ray Turner’s day in court, although he elected not to take the witness stand on his own behalf. Turner, the “phone guy” co...


Who needs booze when there's Maca in the house?

Silverlake's own ever-revolving ashtanga yoga studio celebrated its one-year anniversary as Ashtanga Yoga Los Angeles (AYLA) Friday night. The usually m...

Apparently thieves broke into a truck and stole $50,000-worth of Taryn Rose shoes destined for the designer's Beverly Hills boutique. $50,000? I went to...

40. The Twilight Sad-Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters Take note Bloc Party. This is how you do histrionic, nostalgic and bombastic arena rock for in...


Look for full, juicy coverage of GenArt's fashion week kick-off bash in Thursday's paper. In the meantime, a couple snap shots to whet your whistle... T...

Flight of the Conchords Amoeba Records in-store, April 24 Clement (left) and McKenzie There’s a lot of l’amour in this room tonight. The rac...


Speaking of Project Runway (below post), this will come as no surprise to those you’ve read our past posts: we actually kinda liked drag designer ...

Magicians, Neil Patrick Harris & a Hula-Hooping Corpse

I went to the Academy of Magical Arts Awards banquet last week. It was like a dream. Neil Patrick Harris was there. (Neil, who does your voodoo? It's li...


Seventh Letter time elapse film for May: RIME, SEVER, and RUETS REYES Art Show...

Walking into the shopping mall with the big pink cherry blossom on the corner of Alameda and 3rd at 8pm on Saturday night, it didn't seem possible that ...

Few directors in any genre draw as loyal, faithful and loving a crowd as the maestro of the undead, George Romero. And they turned out in droves - the b...


Photos by Pandora Young Sweet blowjobby metal! Dethklok are legend. They are so metal they once played a show in an active volcano. It was so brutal the...


BOXeight: You Wear It Well Film Festival, The Mayor and Eduardo Lucero

(Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flanked by two women. He sat front and center at Eduardo Lucero to show his support for BOXeight and LA fashion, and pretty ...

I love movies. I love fashion. And of course, I love free shit, but after attending the annual pre-Oscar "GM Ten" fashion show and soiree on Tuesday (re...

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SXSW: One perspective from an official representative of the Music Industry

Van Morrison + Lou Reed: 2 points. SXSW festival: ZERO.

Elisha Cuthbert in Captivity or Free 2 B?


Who Shot Tupac At The Quad: The LA Times teaser press release

On the afternoon of Friday, March 14, the LA Times' Stephan Pechdimaldji, senior manager of media relations, tossed out an email to his media list annou...

How Phil Elverum keeps mystery alive Pt 2: the uncoolest song

Our topic: Smokin. Our debaters: Motley Crue vs. Mt. Eerie.

Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fe...


Pellicano Defense Finishes Its First Week It’s a crime to lie to the FBI, so I won’t: The courtroom was bored to tears with Friday's appeara...


She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los F...

Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA st...

I woke up this morning with my cowboy boots on, laying face down fully clothed on my couch. I didn't even make it into my bedroom.You know you were at a...

Lou Reed is a complete maniac and he will probably kick your ass in hand-to-hand combat...

Tai Chi Lou Reed & other Lou Reed combat madness. 'Nuf said.

New Free Gobbledigook (and Naked People) from Sigur Ros

We're getting spoiled with all of these free albums, right? Just one song for free? Oh well - for a Wednesday morning it will have to do. Click on over ...


By Max Taves Anybody hoping to see some change within UTLA—L.A.’s powerful teachers union—will probably have to wait another three yea...

I just got back from the Folk Yeah festival up in Big Sur this weekend, having journeyed up the PCH with my man to attend the two-day gathering in the r...

SXSW or no SXSW, my first sign of Texas pride was the Texas-shaped gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery I noticed outside the airport shuttle. Landed ...


Prediction: N*E*R*D’s Seeing Sounds will be the soundtrack to a very sexy summer. Okay, maybe just ours. In Search Of still shakes up our decks (u...

Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies d...


Hmmm...Hmmm...I am trying to think of something nice to say, so I don't get death threats this season. But I could sum up this collection by saying I fe...

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Near a couple of auto body shops (and a sharp new Space Invader mosaic that we'll post soon) near Temple and Westmoreland is a CBS wall with a nice Rat ...

It seems that just about everybody, at one time or another, hated Ike Turner (hell, even the Black Panthers once beat his ass onstage at the Oakland Civ...


The Cure The Shrine Auditorium, June 1, 2008 By Rita Neyter Last Sunday was an absolutely bright and beautiful day, but as the sun slowly descended over...