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og:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

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og:title: Part of Arroyo Art Project Destroyed

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

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og:title: Biggie Smalls Shuts Down Sunset Boulevard

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og:title: Ray Cortines: Friend or Foe?

og:description: Once again, the name of Ray Cortines is buzzing around the halls of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, according to today's LA Times. The...

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og:title: June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed

og:description: If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping for a quick injection of gay dollars into California's ailing economy this summer, it may not happen. Oppon...

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og:title: Fight Over Arroyo Seco Mural and Whitewash Keeps Going

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Gloria Molina

og:title: Glen and Marketa at the Oscars

og:description: Once upon a time, Elliott Smith and Aimee Mann were nominated for Oscars, and despite the KCRW-ness of it all, it still felt good to watch them up there...

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og:title: Zero Hour in Pennsylvania

og:description: By Marc Cooper Zero hour in Pennsylvania. Or is it? We've had to somehow fill the gap of the six weeks since the last primary, so we've sort of convince...

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og:title: Another Free Download from NIN

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og:title: Sub Pop One Hummer

og:description: By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, whe...

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og:title: Lucinda Williams, El Rey, 9/9

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og:title: White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

og:description: 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...

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og:title: Coachella Day Three: The Dangers of Chromeo

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og:title: Dan Monick - Very Good Photographer, Looks Pretty in Wigs

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og:title: The whole shootin' match

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og:title: Laurence Tribe v. City of Los Angeles

og:description: It looks like the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office may have its hands full on June 4 when it goes up against leading First Amendment attorney La...

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og:title: Batteries Not Included

og:description: I'd be lying if I said I didn't check out the Babeland goody bag (see Where Do You Get Off? post below) while waiting in line at Pinks. I'd be lying aga...

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og:title: The Fab Five

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og:title: Into the Groove

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og:title: Giant Joystick Lands in Echo Park

og:description: If you Google the phrase "Giant Joystick," one of the first names that comes up isn't a well-endowed porn star, but artist Jason Torchinsky, who actuall...

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og:title: Universal Fire Triggered by Worker's Blowtorch

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og:title: SXSW Flashback: Even Jandek is a SXSW whore

og:description: It's quite possible that Jandek -- more than any artist in history -- has milked the obscurity thing for all that it's worth.

og:title: Stop, in the Name of Vanity

og:description: Missed encounters: You—driving a white BMW with "CA Bunny" vanity plates, didn't use your turn signal. Me—aggro driver on my morning commute...

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

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og:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

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og:title: Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

og:description: 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...

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og:title: Beyond Thunderdome

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og:title: Schlockgirl

og:description: Gag me with a glove. The only reason I saw the "romantic" "comedy" Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella of the same name, was because my friend and...

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og:title: Shows and Tickets Coming Up

og:description: Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, UCLA, Jan. 30 and Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, Jan. 22. Both shows on sale Saturday Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Suicidal Tende...

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og:title: Mermaids at Deborah Lindquist

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og:title: From BIM to "BOOM!"

og:description: The Apple and Stunt Rock @ The New Beverly Cinema, March 25th Little gives an LA cinephile greater joy than to see the New Beverly Cinema booming at the...

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og:title: Myspace Taste of the Week

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og:title: The Vest of the Grammys

twitter:title: The Vest of the Grammys

og:title: Coachella: Sunday

og:description: Coachella: Day Three 10:00 a.m. I can barely wake-up, I'm in complete denial that there's another full day to go. The press band and the ID bracelet tha...

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og:title: Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

og:description: Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the f...


og:title: Rutling Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

og:description: The Rutles: 30th Anniversary Reunion American Cinematheque March 17th It was here - well, not here, really, but in fact several thousands of miles away ...

og:title: Foo Fighters, Secret Show, 9/18

og:description: Foo Fighters Secret Location, Los Angeles By Ryan Colditz The Foo Fighters were filming live material on Tuesday night for an upcoming appearance on Nis...

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og:title: Fabian, maybe it's the friends you keep

og:description: If you followed the election fine print - those ballot measures having nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain or Mitt Romney, you...

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og:title: Dance Into the Fire

og:description: By Randall Roberts If it's true, as many haggard hipsters have dismissively opined, that 'Nobody goes to Burning Man anymore,' then who the hell are all...

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og:title: Folking Around

og:description: 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...

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og:title: Live in L.A. Morrissey at the Hollywood Bowl, June 8

og:description: All the elements of a going-down-in-history Morrissey concert were there: sold-out behemoth venue, two full hours, tight band, a whopping ten stage-dive...

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

twitter:description: 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 ...

og:title: Rise of the writers

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og:title: Best Books of 2007

og:description: But don't take our word for it. The National Book Critics Circle launched its inaugural Best Recommended List, compiled by polling its members, former b...

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og:title: Raiders of the Lost Art

og:description: Sometime after 50 arrived, the art of the narrative wandered into a blizzard of coke raps, artificial hood mythologizing and pandering simplicity. Compl...

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og:title: Live in L.A.: Roger Waters

og:description: 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...

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og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#15-11)

og:description: 15. The White Stripes-Icky Thump Icky Thump is the sound of Jack White remembering how to have fun again. Get Behind Me Satan was cool and all but let's...

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og:title: The Police: Arrested Development

og:description: Dodger Stadium, June 23 By Siran Babayan Dodgers Stadium. Never Again. I had an easier time getting through the birth canal than I did zigzagging in and...

twitter:title: The Police: Arrested Development

og:title: OBEY Your Thirst?

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

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og:title: No No No...

og:description: Maybe it was payback from the hater gods for being too happy and too much in love on Valentines Day, but the romantic dinner I  bragged about havin...

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og:title: What's Cookin' With The Black Panthers

og:description: Today, I spent two and a half hours on the phone to Bobby Seale, the 70-year-old co-founder of the beret-wearing, gun-toting, Little Red Book-waving Bla...

twitter:title: What's Cookin' With The Black Panthers

og:title: Is Don Henley Dead?

twitter:title: Is Don Henley Dead?

og:title: Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

og:description: Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? ...

twitter:title: Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

og:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)

og:description: (photo from Oreskaband.com) So it happened: That magical, transportive moment of which I have heard rumors.... the moment when you discover a band at So...

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twitter:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)

og:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

og:description: 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...

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og:title: End of the Arroyo

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og:title: The staggering idiocy of Bob Lefsetz boiled to its essence

og:description: As long as we're on the subject of Bob Lefsetz, let's talk Bob Lefsetz. I've stayed away from mentioning Santa Monica-based music biz prognosticator Bob...

og:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

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og:title: Courtney's Love In

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Courtney Love
The Roxy, July 17
By Lina Lecaro
"Everybody knows I give the best blowjobs in Hollywood, but there's gotta be something in it for me too,"...

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og:title: Revok Saber and others on Virgil

og:description: Pictures of these two pieces have been sitting on my computer for a while now. I took them when I started noticing more and more gang tags appearing on ...

twitter:title: Revok Saber and others on Virgil

og:title: Queer Town: Big Gay Night at Armani

og:description: Christoph Babka, a handsome blonde with a keen sense of duty, was burned out working in Hollywood, so he decided to shake things up. "We try to get the ...

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og:title: Holy Shit It's Robert Plant

og:description: When three quarters of the Style Council (Steffie, Linda and myself) decided to go to Joshua Tree for a weekend of high desert jinx, we knew to expect t...

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og:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

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

article:tag: Cultural Institutions and Parks

twitter:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

og:title: Coachella: Saturday

og:description: 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...

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

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og:title: Live in LA: Elvis Costello Goes Way Late at the El Rey, May 28

og:description: Elvis Costello and the Imposters, El Rey, 5/28 By Randall Roberts Photos by Timothy Norris Elvis Costello performed a jumbo show at the Hollywood Bowl w...

og:title: Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

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og:title: Coachella Headquarters

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og:title: Insane in the Brain

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og:title: New Free Gobbledigook (and Naked People) from Sigur Ros

og:description: 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 ...

og:title: Gutter Twins, Great Northern, Avalon, 4/2

og:description: The Gutter Twins, Great Northern Avalon, April 2 It's raining in Los Angeles. Twice I slip on the slick Hollywood Walk of Fame in my terribly-unsuited-f...

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

og:description: 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...

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og:title: Coming Up

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og:title: Upcoming Shows

og:description: 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, ...

twitter:title: Upcoming Shows

og:title: RIP Anna Nicole Smith

og:description: I met Anna Nicole Smith last year when she showed up at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood with her now-deceased son Daniel. It was Bingo night, and Dan...

twitter:title: RIP Anna Nicole Smith

og:title: Vegoose, Day 1

og:description: Vegoose Music Festival, Las Vegas, Saturday, October 27. By Randall Roberts Back and forth we walk, through fairway-cut grass, soft and padded on practi...

twitter:title: Vegoose, Day 1

og:title: Medical Drama House Gets Its Own T-Shirt

og:description: 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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og:title: Wale: Actually Worth the Hype

og:description: The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rol...

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og:title: The Survey Says: Teens in Trouble

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og:title: AMLO and the battle over Mexico's oil

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twitter:title: AMLO and the battle over Mexico's oil

og:title: OZER and SEVER on Hollywood Blvd. and St. Andrews

og:description: I don't know why I thought this was on Santa Monica. It's on Hollwood. Sorry. And it's OZER, not Revok as we originally had it titled. Sorry again. More...

og:title: Ray La Montagne and Morpheus

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Ray La Montagne and Morpheus


og:title: Rivers Run Dry

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og:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

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

twitter:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

og:title: Murals of Estrada Courts

og:description: "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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og:title: Tell 'Em Why You Mad: The Guide to Hipster Haberdashery

og:description: If home is where you hang your hat then Silver Lake is rapidly turning into the world's largest hat rack. Over the past 12 months, it has become de rigu...

article:tag: The Addams Family

og:title: Greetings from the first annual Marfa Film Festival

og:description: 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...

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

og:description: 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...

og:title: Cupcakes, Cocktails, and a Crystal-Studded Cockroach

og:description: The Style Council threw their first LA WEEKLY sponsored Fashion Party last Thursday, to celebrate our latest Fashion  Issue— "Hollywood Forev...


og:title: Van Halen, Staples Center, November 20

og:description: 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...

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og:title: Colin Farrell- A Style Council fan?

og:description: I got some flack a while back after dissing (does anyone say dissing anymore? we probably shouldn't) the knit skull cap, a co-worker even wore one in de...

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twitter:title: Colin Farrell- A Style Council fan?

og:title: The Other Side of Cordon's Market

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twitter:title: The Other Side of Cordon's Market

og:title: Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

og:description: The punks had their day here on Saturday, railing against Mexico City's peace-loving emos in what amounts to at least a psychological escalation of the ...

og:title: Another Pro-Obama Song - A Good One!

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twitter:title: Another Pro-Obama Song - A Good One!

og:title: Vice Magazine's Tales of Colt 45 at King King

og:description: Photos and text by Guelda Voien While Vice magazine represents many things, most prominent is the value on stupid, constant debauchery. Crystal Antlers ...

article:tag: Pabst Blue Ribbon


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og:description: !!! Avalon, Sept. 26 Reviews and pictures by Jonah Flicker !!! lived up to its punctuation at its Hollywood appearance last night, delivering an exclama...

og:title: Youth Gone Wild

og:description: The MisShapes: style revolutionaries or hipster hair/skinny jeans/80’s revisionists simply in the right place at the right time? I’m not sur...

twitter:title: Youth Gone Wild

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og:title: Kushcush: Electric Youth

twitter:title: Kushcush: Electric Youth

og:title: KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas, Gibson Amphitheater, 12/8

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og:title: Entropy at the French Cottage, Hollywood

og:description: The French Cottage hotel stood a few feet away from Sunset and Highland, near a stretch of old hotels and motels which are vanishing as steadily and unn...

og:title: Spirit Army at Spaceland 2/29/2008

og:description: Spirit Army like bubbles. Photos by Rena Kosnett If you were concerned about local dynamic duo Dante Adrian and Jeff Ehrenberg vanishing from the music ...

article:tag: Rena Kosnett

twitter:title: Spirit Army at Spaceland 2/29/2008

og:title: Burial's Untrue is a Moody Masterpiece

og:description: About three weeks ago when I was in New York, Tal Rosenberg pretty much gushed non-stop about the Burial record's brilliance. At the time, I didn't even...

twitter:title: Burial's Untrue is a Moody Masterpiece

og:title: Asylm, Ruets, PDB on Santa Monica

og:description: Not a new piece, but a well-hidden gem a little south of Santa Monica Blvd. in an alley off of Heliotrope or Edgemont. I've been sitting on this for a w...

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

twitter:title: Asylm, Ruets, PDB on Santa Monica

og:title: 15 More Minutes

og:description: Fashion week is officially over, but that doesn't mean the strutting has stopped completely. Thanks to a power outage in my area, I missed the David Yur...

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og:title: Just Cause She Dance the Go-Go

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Just Cause She Dance the Go-Go

og:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos

og:description: Wheatpasted posters across from the Tiki-Ti and KCET on a Sunset Blvd. billboard pole near Virgil. More pasting - and stickers - on Santa Monica Blvd. n...

twitter:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos

og:title: Chocolate-covered Snails and Other New Year's Delights

og:description: Even if they weren't my friends, I would still think Jenna and Oliver from Materials and Applications were totally rad. Their Maximillian's Schell insta...


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og:title: OBEY Your Thirst?

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og:title: Two Cats and a Screamer

og:description: Two cats in Hollywood: The yellow one near the Roosevelt Hotel on a parking sign, and other near the shuttered Fox Theater in Hollywood And a damsel in ...

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og:title: Southern (Cali) Comfort

twitter:title: Southern (Cali) Comfort

og:title: Keep Your VD (Valentine's Day) to Yourself

og:description: I won't be joining my fellow Councilors at Taix Lounge tonight. Sorry, I love them, but I am a little sore around the aorta right now. I had met this du...

og:title: Murakami Revoked

og:description: By Shelley Leopold n the early morning hours in mid-December, an amazing masterpiece of epic pink proportions appeared above the Melrose strip. Not MOCA...

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og:title: R. Kelly Trial: Set It To Music, and It's Trapped in the Closet, Pt. 23

og:description: In its ongoing coverage of the R. Kelly trial currently under way in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times has been diligently reporting the details of the pro...

og:title: DJing on EastVillage Radio.com right now!

og:description: Go clickity-click at EastVillageRadio.com if you want to listen in, okay?

article:tag: Beverages

og:title: Live in L.A. Very Be Careful

og:description: At Club Bahia, May 25 By DANIEL HERNANDEZ There's always an element of danger at a Very Be Careful show. They tend to play venues and in neighborhoods w...

twitter:title: Live in L.A. Very Be Careful

og:title: Part of Arroyo Art Project Destroyed

og:description: Talked to Man One at the very cool Festival de la Gente on the 6th Street Bridge downtown Saturday. He told me that much of the artwork from the histori...

article:tag: Visual Arts

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og:title: Where's the Guacamole?

og:description: The first annual Guacamole Festival, though light on the green stuff, was a good-spirited and relatively well-attended community fundraising event to be...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours

twitter:title: Where's the Guacamole?

og:title: Coachella, ah the memories

twitter:title: Coachella, ah the memories

og:title: Ima Robot and the Myth of the MC Hammer Pants

og:title: Crass chose iconography and dissed photography

og:description: Crass preferred resting their image on stencils, flyers, collages, newspaper articles, forged documents, banners, patches. Whenever they had an opportun...

og:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC

og:description: After posting a couple of different Obama art pieces (Iron Man, Obey and Kofie'One), I said that I would happily post photos of pro-Clinton art if only ...

twitter:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC


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og:title: Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Studio City

og:title: My Little China Hurl

twitter:title: My Little China Hurl

og:title: In Defense of Da Vinci Hair

og:description: Let me first say, I have always loved Tom Hanks. We both stuffed our bras, though for him, that was during a spell as Buffy on Bosom Buddies, and not be...

twitter:title: In Defense of Da Vinci Hair

og:title: Billboard Crackdown? Not Likely!

og:description: Will the long-overdue billboard fee inspection program start at long last? Don’t count on it. On May 27, Los Angeles’ Department of Building...

article:tag: Local Politics

twitter:title: Billboard Crackdown? Not Likely!

og:title: Del tha Funkee Homosapien Returns From Outer Space

og:description: God knows what Del's been doing since the millennium. The guy practically retired around then, after dropping the rightfully canonized Deltron 3030 reco...


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og:title: Death Cab for Cutie to play secret show at Spaceland at 5 p.m. today

og:description: It's a KROQ show, so there's no chance of getting in at this point. But you never know. I'm on my way over there now, though with LA Weekly's recent mov...

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media


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og:title: Guess What - Another Music Festival This Weekend!!!

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

og:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE

og:description: From www.weaknights.com...

twitter:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE

twitter:description: From www.weaknights.com...


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

og:description: 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?

og:title: Always check your change

og:description: 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 ...

twitter:title: Always check your change

og:title: Land of the Lost

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og:title: Pellicano Trial Bombshell

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

twitter:title: Pellicano Trial Bombshell

og:title: A Style Councilette is Born!

twitter:title: A Style Councilette is Born!

og:title: Burning Man Burns Early

og:description: News Flash from the Playa: The Man Upstaged the Moon By Judith Lewis Here's the news. While the full eclipsed moon still floated above the Playa like a ...

article:tag: Judith Lewis

twitter:title: Burning Man Burns Early

og:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones

twitter:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones

og:title: 10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

og:description: From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids...

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og:title: Down The Rabbit Hole at Petro Zillia

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Down The Rabbit Hole at Petro Zillia

og:title: Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

og:description: I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and...

og:title: Black Keys at LA Weekly Party at SXSW

og:description: Mark your calendars if you're making the trip to Austin for South by Southwest this year. The LA Weekly party is Friday, March 14 from noon to 5:00, at ...

twitter:title: Black Keys at LA Weekly Party at SXSW

og:title: SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

og:description: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."-Hunter S. Thompson "What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the reefer'...


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og:title: Tonight in LA: Ghanian Hip Hop, Blowfly and Les Nubians, Among Others

og:description: Okay, so on the surface perhaps a slow Thursday night in LA. No grand slams, it would seem, few hipster throw-downs. But I would like to present a few p...

article:tag: Angus Khan

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

og:description: 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...

og:title: Paris Cuffed

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og:title: No Human Remains Found yet at Manson Dig

og:description: 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 ...

og:title: Love It To Death!

og:description: After four hours at this afternoon's Billion Dollar Babes media/celebrity preview sample sale, I felt a bit like the Babes' patron saint A...

twitter:title: Love It To Death!

og:title: The Ugg-ly Truth About Shopping

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: The Ugg-ly Truth About Shopping


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og:title: Its The Oscars and I'll Cry If I Want To

og:description: 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...

og:title: Barry Bold

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Barry Bold


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

og:description: 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...

og:title: Devendra Banhart, Orpheum, 10/13

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Devendra Banhart, Orpheum, 10/13


og:title: KCRW Launches New Guest DJ Sessions featuring Conan O'Brien, Jason Reitman and others

og:description: Everybody has an opinion about music, especially celebrities, and KCRW is harnessing this intrinsic reality with a new online series which launches toda...

og:title: Mex-Emo News Coverage Explodes

og:description: 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...

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dest: LK

og:title: Live: Pearl Jam, Copenhagen

og:description: Pearl Jam, Copenhagen, Denmark June 26, 2007 By Ryan Colditz This show was 7 years in the making... While playing at the nearby Roskilde Festival in Den...

twitter:title: Live: Pearl Jam, Copenhagen

og:title: Road Trip: Day 20(ish)

twitter:title: Road Trip: Day 20(ish)


og:title: Crank that Crunk

twitter:title: Crank that Crunk

og:title: Portishead at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Scotland 4.12.08

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Edinburgh

og:title: Going to the Grammys...

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Going to the Grammys...

og:title: L.A. River Along the Golden State - Five

og:description: The farther north you go, the more you see these massive letters 20 feet high or more... While others stay out of the river and instead work topside. Al...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

og:title: Greg Sandow on Art vs. The Arts

og:description: Sandow: "So why am I telling this story? To introduce my thought that art and the arts aren't the same thing." ALSO, some kid in a diaper covering The B...

twitter:title: Greg Sandow on Art vs. The Arts


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

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Manu Chao

og:title: Frontiers at Eleven

og:description: (Photos by Patrick Range McDonald. Above: Aaron Savvy) On a chilly Wednesday night, the swanky West Hollywood nightclub Eleven hosted a promotion party ...

article:tag: Ultimate Fighting Championship

twitter:title: Frontiers at Eleven


og:title: Clueless California Voters Fail IQ Test

og:description: You gotta love the brilliant decision by the respected polling group, Public Policy Institute of California, to once again sneak in subtle test question...

article:tag: Elementary and High School Education

twitter:title: Clueless California Voters Fail IQ Test

og:title: Myspace Taste of the Week

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Myspace Taste of the Week

og:title: Joe Joe's World

twitter:title: Joe Joe's World

og:title: Jonathan Gold meets N.W.A.

og:description: On May 5, 1989 the L.A. Weekly printed a cover story, written by Jonathan Gold, about N.W.A., the most notorious band in the U.S., let alone in Los Ange...

twitter:title: Jonathan Gold meets N.W.A.


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og:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

og:description: I'm not purposefully trying to focus on these guys, but their pieces really do jump out at you when you see them. All photos by Mark Mauer More after th...

twitter:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

og:title: Death Cab for Cutie to play secret show at Spaceland at 5 p.m. today

og:description: It's a KROQ show, so there's no chance of getting in at this point. But you never know. I'm on my way over there now, though with LA Weekly's recent mov...

og:title: Touched By A Tranny

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Touched By A Tranny

og:title: Chris Cornell, Wiltern Theater

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Chris Cornell, Wiltern Theater

og:title: Andy Pratt, Mika, Pitchfork, and the anti-poppers

og:description: It's easy to critique. It's much easier to critique than to do. Having said that, I would like to lodge a complaint about this year's panels. I understa...


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og:title: Crazy Antiks

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Crazy Antiks

og:title: Lil Wayne to Play House of Blues on June 16

og:description: 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...

og:title: Joe Strummer Tribute, Key Club, 12/22

og:description: Joe Strummer Tribute, Key Club, December 22 Words and photos by Aimee Candaleria Three Bad Jacks pay tribute to Strummer. This evening a packed house ca...

twitter:title: Joe Strummer Tribute, Key Club, 12/22


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og:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:description: I stopped into The Mandrake after Gary Baseman's opening at Billy Shire Saturday night (I'm guessing Caroline will be blogging about the show, so all I'...

twitter:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:title: Xiu Xiu, Echo, 4/11

og:description: Xiu Xiu The Echo, April 11 It was good to see lots and lots of kids out at the Echo this past Friday night for Xiu Xiu’s LA appearance, the same k...

article:tag: Caralee McElroy

twitter:title: Xiu Xiu, Echo, 4/11

og:title: Coachella: Sunday

og:description: Coachella: Day Three 10:00 a.m. I can barely wake-up, I'm in complete denial that there's another full day to go. The press band and the ID bracelet tha...

twitter:title: Coachella: Sunday

og:title: Pearl Jam - Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium


og:title: Sorry Mack Reed

og:description: Ahhh, the problem with me, a neophyte, blogging... I just found out an image I pulled off the Survival Research Lab site for my post "Saturday Eve of De...

twitter:title: Sorry Mack Reed

og:title: Kelly Clarkson New Face of NASCAR

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Kelly Clarkson New Face of NASCAR

og:title: Meghan Fabulous— The Name Says It All...

article:tag: Meghan Fabulous


og:title: Whoreson Bitches and Coincidence

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Whoreson Bitches and Coincidence

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

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

article:tag: Mel Schwartz

og:title: Too Trendy Tykes

twitter:title: Too Trendy Tykes

og:title: On Weezer, the Numa Numa dance, and Internet Fame

og:description: Weezer reminds us of all the internet fads we tried so hard to forget. ALSO, my exit, screen left.

article:tag: Numa Numa


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og:title: Hellbilly Poetry

og:description: I went to Sunset Junction on Sunday and while I found headliners The Cramps to be quite boring, I was truly moved by the hellbilly thrash of Hank...

twitter:title: Hellbilly Poetry


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og:title: How Phil Elverum keeps the mystery alive Pt 3: hard work

og:description: A celebration of work and packing tape.

twitter:description: A celebration of work and packing tape.

og:title: Let the Grieving Process Begin: Pink Floyd's Inflatable Pig Found Dead

og:description: It's a hard time for everyone, I know. But we have to get through this together. The LA Weekly would like to open the comments section so you, the reade...

og:title: Cat Scratch Fever

og:description: The leopard loving lass is a special kinda gal. She can be a sweet kitty cat, but get on her bad side and she'll scratch you. I've been a leopard print ...

twitter:title: Cat Scratch Fever


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dest: AU

og:title: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 2: "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" And the Importance of "Branding"

og:description: Whether consciously or not, rappers have understood the concept of branding since the on-and-on-to-the-break-of-dawn days. You can listen to everything ...

og:title: Grammy Nominations

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Grammy Nominations


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dest: MG

og:title: Magicians, Neil Patrick Harris & a Hula-Hooping Corpse

og:description: 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...


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src: IN


og:title: Gary Baseman, Vincent Gallo, and the Curse of Numerology

og:description: 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...

og:title: A Rant in Remembrance

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: A Rant in Remembrance

og:title: FOLAR's L.A. River Cleanup

og:description: For years now, I only remember the L.A. River clean-up the day after it happens. Wake up on a Sunday morning, and think, "It was yesterday? I missed it ...

article:tag: Jay Babcock

twitter:title: FOLAR's L.A. River Cleanup


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og:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello

og:description: Photos of Gogol Bordello at the Henry Fonda Theater. Photos of Wilco at the Greek Theater Photos by Timothy Norris...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

twitter:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello

og:title: Live from Seattle: A bunch of geeks talking about music

og:description: This fellow is thinking about newsreels, protests, charidee and shock absorption in popular music. "How does music resist, negate, struggle? Can pop int...

article:tag: Experience Music Project

og:title: Bast Art Opening

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Bast Art Opening


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og:title: That's The Indie Spirit

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: That's The Indie Spirit


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og:title: Down below in the Metro

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Mexico City

twitter:title: Down below in the Metro

og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

og:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

twitter:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

og:title: Shay Todd and Hot Bods

twitter:title: Shay Todd and Hot Bods

og:title: Ink N Iron Festival

og:description: Saturday, June 7th Queen Mary, Long Beach The greasers, rockers, 'billies and Betties couldn't ask for a better summer shindig than Saturday at the Ink ...

article:tag: Mike Stinson

twitter:title: Ink N Iron Festival


dest: US

og:title: Feist and Spoon, Gibson Amphitheatre, 11/12

og:description: 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 ...

og:title: Corey Lynn Calter: Pretty Persuasion

twitter:title: Corey Lynn Calter: Pretty Persuasion

og:title: The Return of The Watch

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Caroline Ryder

twitter:title: The Return of The Watch


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

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

og:title: 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

og:description: Unlike Sasha Frere-Jones, my main gripe with indie rock don't stem from it's lack of blackness. More than anything, I have trouble dealing with the idea...


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og:title: Calvin Harris, Henry Fonda, 4/23

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Calvin Harris, Henry Fonda, 4/23


og:title: Bayou Buh-bye

twitter:title: Bayou Buh-bye

og:title: Stone Temple Pilots, Jimmy Kimmel Show, 5/1

og:description: 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...

og:title: Was the Universal Studios Fire an accident?

og:description: 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 ...


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og:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

og:description: I'm not purposefully trying to focus on these guys, but their pieces really do jump out at you when you see them. All photos by Mark Mauer More after th...

twitter:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

og:title: McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance

article:tag: Life Sciences


src: BD

og:title: Hairs Looking at You: Backstage at Shay Todd

og:title: Another Pro-Obama Song - A Good One!

og:description: If nothing else Obama's candidacy is at least inspiring people to make music. Alas, for the most part the songs haven't been very good. Will.i.am's mess...

twitter:title: Another Pro-Obama Song - A Good One!

og:title: And I'm Telling You...

twitter:title: And I'm Telling You...


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dest: NL

og:title: Ghostface Killah has 115,000 MySpace Friends But No Sales

og:description: Watch as Ghostface comes face to face with the new math reality of the downward death spiral that we call the recorded music industry. You got to love h...

article:tag: Ghostface Killah

og:title: Shower Power

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Shower Power


src: BR

og:title: Melrose Tour

og:description: Want to get a guided tour of these Melrose back alleys by the excellent graffiti author Steve Grody? The Alleys of Melrose Join Steve Grody, photographe...

article:tag: Tourism

twitter:title: Melrose Tour

og:title: Youth Gone Wild

og:description: The MisShapes: style revolutionaries or hipster hair/skinny jeans/80’s revisionists simply in the right place at the right time? I’m not sur...

twitter:title: Youth Gone Wild

og:title: Along the 101 - Naut and Auger

og:description: Too many gallery posts, not enough grimy street art. Sorry. I've been trying to figure out how to get photos of pieces I see along our freeways, particu...

twitter:title: Along the 101 - Naut and Auger


dest: ES

og:title: Ain't We Lucky We Got 'Em

og:description: I was not stoned for the High Times sponsored comedy night at the Hollywood Improv tonight. I repeat, not stoned. At first I was mostly just pissed off....

twitter:title: Ain't We Lucky We Got 'Em

og:title: Marka27's Echo Park Mural: Libertad Poder Revolucion

og:description: 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...

og:title: The Lipstick and The Damage Done

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: The Lipstick and The Damage Done


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og:title: Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

og:description: You can download the entire search warrant issued to Los Angeles County Museum of Art here, but these two pages provide the most details of LACMA's invo...

article:tag: Crime


og:title: Tell 'Em Why You Mad: The Guide to Hipster Haberdashery

og:description: If home is where you hang your hat then Silver Lake is rapidly turning into the world's largest hat rack. Over the past 12 months, it has become de rigu...

article:tag: The Addams Family


src: JP

dest: PK

og:title: Conde Anarchists

twitter:title: Conde Anarchists

og:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:description: I stopped into The Mandrake after Gary Baseman's opening at Billy Shire Saturday night (I'm guessing Caroline will be blogging about the show, so all I'...

twitter:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:title: RIME / Jersey Joe Pix

og:description: Here are a couple sets of photos of work by Jersey Joe/RIME. The first batch is from around town, including Gompers M.S. The second set is of his work o...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: RIME / Jersey Joe Pix


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og:title: When a Succubus Makes You Talk About Your Sex Life

og:description: Writer-director Michael Phillip Edwards drew inspiration for his spooky comedy Blood from a Jamaican storyteller he knew in childhood, a man named Parso...

og:title: Chino Prison Guard Accused of Nazism on Hunger Strike

og:description: It was a surprise to get another letter from Shayne Allyn Ziska, a former correctional officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino, who has c...

article:tag: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment

og:title: Van Halen to Play LA in November

og:description: Which Van Halen? The Diamond-Dave fronted VH, of course. The band is slated to play the Staples Center on November 20. As previously speculated, the ban...

twitter:title: Van Halen to Play LA in November


dest: ID

og:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:description: 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 ...

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:title: In Da Club Belamar

og:description: 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,...

twitter:title: In Da Club Belamar


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src: DE

og:title: Stripping Power

og:description: I love power ballads, power naps and power tools! When I was 15 I asked for a power drill for Christmas, everyone laughed and I got some suede blue pump...

twitter:title: Stripping Power

og:title: Gwen takes a bath

twitter:title: Gwen takes a bath

og:title: Live in L.A. Morrissey at the Hollywood Bowl, June 8

og:description: All the elements of a going-down-in-history Morrissey concert were there: sold-out behemoth venue, two full hours, tight band, a whopping ten stage-dive...


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og:title: New Daedelus Video for "Make It So" is One of the Best Things You'll Watch Today

og:description: Sometimes something arrives that, while small on the surface -- "What, another YouTube clip to watch?" -- manages to overjoy your heart and eyes with it...

article:tag: World History

og:title: Portishead at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Scotland 4.12.08

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Edinburgh

og:title: A Little Pee(ve)

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: A Little Pee(ve)

og:title: UNMASKED

og:description: "What are you going to be for Halloween this year?" I asked a friend of friend last week.    "I'm gonna be a 'ho," she replied m...

twitter:title: UNMASKED


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og:title: Bald and Er, Bald

og:description: 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 ...

twitter:title: Bald and Er, Bald

og:title: Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Hulk Hogan

twitter:title: Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan


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og:title: Michael Hurley tonight, December 20, at The Bordello

og:description: Michael Hurley has been kicking around since 1965, when he released for Folkways Recordings his First Songs LP. Those songs introduced his aesthetic, on...

article:tag: Cat Power

og:title: Peaches and Cream

og:description: Peaches is one hot bitch. I had the pleasure of interviewing her for the cover of Bust magazine (on stands in January) a couple of weeks ago and yeah, I...

twitter:title: Peaches and Cream

og:title: International Anthem

twitter:title: International Anthem

og:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

twitter:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

og:title: Tonight in LA: Le Switch at the Echo, Harvey Sid Fisher at Pehrspace and Mezzanine Owls at Spaceland

og:description: Big ass night for Los Angeles music. If you're in from out of town, you picked a good frickin' Monday to be here. Fortify with a big dinner cuz there's ...

article:tag: Harvey Sid Fisher


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og:title: Get this Muthaf***ing Toupee Off My Mutha****ing Head

og:description: Baby's first words: "You're fired." I've seen dogs in Chanel. I've seen cats with diamond collars, but I never thought I'd see this— Baby Toupee. ...

article:tag: Christmas


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og:title: Bukowski's Bungalow Named A Cultural Landmark

og:description: Brushing aside allegations that Charles Bukowski was a Nazi sympathizer, the Los Angeles City Council approved the designation of Buk's former bungalow ...


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dest: SA

og:title: Fight Over Arroyo Seco Mural and Whitewash Keeps Going

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Gloria Molina

og:title: Watch this now: new Radar Brothers video

og:description: The new video for "When Cold Air Goes to Sleep," from the Radar Brothers' upcoming Auditorium, does exactly what a clip should: sent me racing to the CD...


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dest: KH

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

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

article:tag: Billy Bob Thornton

og:title: Tiger Army, Wiltern, 11/17

og:description: Tiger Army Wiltern, 11/17 I love the stand-up bass. It's a ridiculously big, bulky instrument that looks cool as hell, especially when painted dark blue...

twitter:title: Tiger Army, Wiltern, 11/17

og:title: SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

og:description: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."-Hunter S. Thompson "What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the reefer'...


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og:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

twitter:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

og:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin

twitter:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin

og:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello

og:description: Photos of Gogol Bordello at the Henry Fonda Theater. Photos of Wilco at the Greek Theater Photos by Timothy Norris...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

twitter:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello


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og:title: Arthur Mag Dead

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Dead


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og:title: Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow & Aesop Rock-"Dirt"

og:description: On last year's None Shall Pass tour, Aesop tabbed Pittsburgh psych weirdos Black Moth Super Rainbow to open for him. It was an inspired move and one tha...

og:title: HK Super on Western and 1st

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: HK Super on Western and 1st

og:title: My first and last Coachella: Photos and notes from Saturday

og:description: Arguably the most interesting part of the Coachella experience is the drama of getting there and back, and what happens at night when the gates are clos...


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og:title: Metallica and Scars on Broadway Unload at Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music

og:description: Metallica / Scars on Broadway: Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music The Wiltern, May 14. By Paul Rogers Metallica, with Flea, at last night's be...


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dest: TR

og:title: Whoreson Bitches and Coincidence

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Whoreson Bitches and Coincidence

og:title: Fashion Weeklings? LA Observed Notices Our Abscence

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

og:title: A Rant in Remembrance

twitter:title: A Rant in Remembrance


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og:title: Rivers Run Dry

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Rivers Run Dry

og:title: Black Mountain, Troubadour, 2/5

og:description: By Timothy Norris It's a big night in Los Angeles for Psych Rock. Dead Meadow's also doing their thing over at the EchoPlex. I've never heard tonight's ...

twitter:title: Black Mountain, Troubadour, 2/5

og:title: L.A. River Along the Golden State - Five

og:description: The farther north you go, the more you see these massive letters 20 feet high or more... While others stay out of the river and instead work topside. Al...

og:title: Takin' it Higher

og:description: So the DVF party on Sat was a fun lil fete (see Steffie's post below) but heck, I haven't even told ya about my Grammy week craziness…. Well you ...

twitter:title: Takin' it Higher


og:title: Chick Power

og:description: I heart the Dixie Chicks. I know, I can't believe it either. If you'd told me a week ago that I would be saying this, I wouldn't have thought it was pos...

twitter:title: Chick Power


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og:title: White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

og:description: 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...

og:title: Last Night: The Office Night, UCB Theatre, 12/18

og:description: The Office Night Upright Citizens Brigade, Theater, 12/18 Review and photos by Nicole Campos (Right, Brent Forrester) What nuggets of Dunder Mifflin-esq...


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og:title: Techno and Technology: An Interview with Richie Hawtin

og:description: 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...


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og:title: Alias Hair

twitter:title: Alias Hair


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og:title: Clinton & Obama's Good Ship Lollipop

og:description: The vibe was heavy at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Thursday night, and an always blood-thirsty press didn’t imagine it into existence. With U...

twitter:title: Clinton & Obama's Good Ship Lollipop

og:title: Black Rock City Hit Parade

og:description: By Randall Roberts Top Songs (that aren’t trance or prog house) heard last night kicking out of any of the hundreds of rolling sound systems (or s...

twitter:title: Black Rock City Hit Parade

og:title: Smokin' Safari Sam's

twitter:title: Smokin' Safari Sam's

og:title: Mermaids at Deborah Lindquist

twitter:title: Mermaids at Deborah Lindquist


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dest: CM

og:title: Kaye Rebuffs Rumor

og:description: Nine days ago, PolitickerCA.com wondered aloud if former Daily News editor Ron Kaye, who had just left the Valley newspaper, would be running for city c...

article:tag: Government and Politics

twitter:title: Kaye Rebuffs Rumor


og:title: Girl In A Coma, Knitting Factory, 2/21

og:description: Girl In A Coma Knitting Factory, Feb. 21 By Scott Schultz Girl in a Coma’s Thursday night set at the Knitting Factory demonstrated the growth the ...

twitter:title: Girl In A Coma, Knitting Factory, 2/21

og:title: Sweet Emotions

twitter:title: Sweet Emotions

og:title: The Many Faces of JT Leroy

twitter:title: The Many Faces of JT Leroy

og:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

og:description: I'm not purposefully trying to focus on these guys, but their pieces really do jump out at you when you see them. All photos by Mark Mauer More after th...

twitter:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

og:title: Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

og:description: Welcome to a dusty fantasy land of deep-throating elf ears, masturbating trolls, and chain-mail-wearing porn stars. by Bonnie Ruberg, Village Voice Porn...

article:tag: Games


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dest: NP

og:title: Meeting of Styles, 5th Batch

twitter:title: Meeting of Styles, 5th Batch

og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

og:title: Frontiers at Eleven

og:description: (Photos by Patrick Range McDonald. Above: Aaron Savvy) On a chilly Wednesday night, the swanky West Hollywood nightclub Eleven hosted a promotion party ...

article:tag: Ultimate Fighting Championship

twitter:title: Frontiers at Eleven


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src: TN

og:title: I'm With the (Hus)Band

twitter:title: I'm With the (Hus)Band

og:title: Back in the Style Saddle

og:description: From grungey Southern comfort to saucy high glamour, my world has been one of extremes the past weeks. Just got back from Texas' South By Southwest Musi...

twitter:title: Back in the Style Saddle

og:title: Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

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

twitter:title: Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble


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og:title: LA Fashion Week Buzz

og:description: I heard from a Smashbox freelancer yesterday that traipsing back and forth through leaky tents in Culver City may be a thing of the past. Smashbox merge...

twitter:title: LA Fashion Week Buzz

og:title: It Ain't Like That Anymore

og:description: By Peter Fletcher I was reminiscing with my buddy, Bruce Duff, after watching Celebrity Skin at the Detour festival in downtown LA. We were talking abou...

twitter:title: It Ain't Like That Anymore

og:title: Pretty Baby

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Pretty Baby

og:title: Wait, That's Not Pam Anderson!

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Wait, That's Not Pam Anderson!

og:title: Philanthropist Daphna Ziman's War for Foster Kids

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


og:title: Killer Fashion Instincts

twitter:title: Killer Fashion Instincts

og:title: Can't Go to Your Friend's Birthday Party? Hire Someone

og:description: Last week, the site TaskRabbit — where you can hire people for various personal assistance tasks — launched a social media contest to determine the best...

og:title: Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Pop and Rock Music


dest: NG

og:title: Simpsonize Yourself!

og:description: Still haven't seen the Simpsons movie, but it's not like I need to what with the massive marketing that permeated the media. At least some of it is clev...

twitter:title: Simpsonize Yourself!

og:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!

twitter:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!

og:title: Bast Art Opening

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Bast Art Opening


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og:title: FASHION NIRVANA?

og:description: LA Fashion week is in full swing, and though it's too early to make judgments about the season as a whole, some definite trends are already emerging. He...

twitter:title: FASHION NIRVANA?


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dest: CN

og:title: New Retna & Dame Wall - in Action.

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: New Retna & Dame Wall - in Action.

og:title: Coachella Sunday Photos

og:description: Click here for Timothy Norris' photos of Roger Waters, Sia, Love & Rockets, My Morning Jacket and more...

article:tag: Coachella

twitter:title: Coachella Sunday Photos


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dest: MX

og:title: Rick Fox's Burning Question

twitter:title: Rick Fox's Burning Question

og:title: Part 1: Thoughts on Music Now. (The festival that is. You'll have to wait for my multi-volume treatise on the state of music today.)

og:description: The rise of classically informed indie music, one awesome photograph of MC 62 Foot Jesus, and my thoughts on "conflict of interest" in music criticism t...

og:title: Devendra Banhart, Orpheum, 10/13

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Devendra Banhart, Orpheum, 10/13

og:title: Burning Man, Day One

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Festivals and Parades

twitter:title: Burning Man, Day One


dest: SA

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

og:description: 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...

og:title: No Yana K "Butt" Plenty Karl Giant

twitter:title: No Yana K "Butt" Plenty Karl Giant

og:title: Chris Cornell, Wiltern Theater

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Chris Cornell, Wiltern Theater


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og:title: SMASHBOX final days

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

article:tag: Jeremy Scott

twitter:title: SMASHBOX final days

og:title: My first and last Coachella: Photos and notes from Saturday

og:description: Arguably the most interesting part of the Coachella experience is the drama of getting there and back, and what happens at night when the gates are clos...

og:title: Another Clintonite Bites the Dust

og:description: The LA Times probably had its farewell lined up for weeks. Last year, the newspaper went after the California State Assembly Speaker for his sleazy hand...

twitter:title: Another Clintonite Bites the Dust


dest: PE

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

og:description: 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 ...

article:tag: Joliet

og:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE

og:description: From www.weaknights.com...

twitter:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE

og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

og:title: We Get A Round. Ers.

twitter:title: We Get A Round. Ers.

og:title: Unleash Your Inner Femme - Slide a Pole Between Your Legs

og:description: I read somewhere that all Scorpio females secretly wish they had been born a man. Well, for those who know me, it's no secret. Don't get me wrong - I we...

article:tag: P.J. Harvey


dest: ZA

og:title: Wait, That's Not Pam Anderson!

twitter:title: Wait, That's Not Pam Anderson!

og:title: Keep Your VD (Valentine's Day) to Yourself

og:description: I won't be joining my fellow Councilors at Taix Lounge tonight. Sorry, I love them, but I am a little sore around the aorta right now. I had met this du...

og:title: RIP: Bingo

og:description: I didn't know Charlton Heston, but I knew Bingo. And I'm sorry to say that Jenny Burman has posted that Bingo was hit by a car and killed last Sunday. B...

twitter:title: RIP: Bingo

og:title: The Parson Redheads-”Got It All”

og:description: The Parson Redheads make sunny day music. I noted this in my Stylus review for last year's King Giraffe. It is now springtime in Los Angeles and everyth...

article:tag: Apple iPod

twitter:title: The Parson Redheads-”Got It All”

og:title: Another Pro-Obama Song - A Good One!

og:description: If nothing else Obama's candidacy is at least inspiring people to make music. Alas, for the most part the songs haven't been very good. Will.i.am's mess...

twitter:title: Another Pro-Obama Song - A Good One!


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dest: FM

og:title: Bonnaroo 2007 Slideshow

og:description: Photos from the four day festival in Tennessee.  Above, Black Angels helped kickoff this year's festival with a Thursday night set at This Tent. Ph...

article:tag: Bonnaroo

twitter:title: Bonnaroo 2007 Slideshow

og:title: I Am...Doll Parts

og:description: So, I was bored one evening (tonight, as it happens) and as we do in the digital age I decided to google my name and find out what other Steffies exist ...

twitter:title: I Am...Doll Parts


dest: VE

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

og:description: 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...


dest: PY

og:title: Led Zeppelin, O2 Arena, London, 12/10

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Led Zeppelin, O2 Arena, London, 12/10

og:title: Kelly to Play LA!

twitter:title: Kelly to Play LA!

og:title: The Hives, Wiltern, 2/19

og:description: The Hives, Donnas Wiltern, Feb. 19 Photos by Timothy Norris It's been eight years since the Hives started telling us they were going to take over the wo...

twitter:title: The Hives, Wiltern, 2/19

og:title: Jonathan Gold meets N.W.A.

og:description: On May 5, 1989 the L.A. Weekly printed a cover story, written by Jonathan Gold, about N.W.A., the most notorious band in the U.S., let alone in Los Ange...

twitter:title: Jonathan Gold meets N.W.A.

og:title: Meeting of Styles, 2nd Batch

og:description: Here's the second day's worth of photos from the incredible Meeting of Styles graffiti event that took place at Arroyo Seco in Highland Park next to the...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: Meeting of Styles, 2nd Batch


og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#10-6)

og:description: 10. Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Sasha Frere-Jones is a joke and Spoon can prove it. I mean, if all I had to judge indie rock on was the Arcade Fire and the Dec...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#10-6)

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

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

article:section: Restaurants

og:title: From BIM to "BOOM!"

og:description: The Apple and Stunt Rock @ The New Beverly Cinema, March 25th Little gives an LA cinephile greater joy than to see the New Beverly Cinema booming at the...

twitter:title: From BIM to "BOOM!"


dest: BR

og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#25-21)

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#25-21)


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dest: US

twitter:description: The Parson Redheads make sunny day music. I noted this in my Stylus review for last year's King Giraffe. It is now springtime in Los Angeles and everyth...

og:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

og:title: Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

og:description: "I've never performed at a festival," says Madonna, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Well la-dee-da. ...

twitter:title: Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

og:title: Bits: Los Feliz Trash

og:description: Craig Gaines has a Flickr page of trash found around Los Feliz. CCM hockey helmet: Check Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Pop Tarts: Check...

article:tag: Pop-Tarts

twitter:title: Bits: Los Feliz Trash


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og:title: Obama and Tool. Two stages. One night.

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Obama and Tool. Two stages. One night.

og:title: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl: August 24 and August 25

og:description: Yep, just announced: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl on August 24 and 25, which is a little weird because it's a Sunday and a Monday. Presales begin Apr...

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

og:description: 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...

og:title: White Stripes Cancel Dates, Including the Forum

og:description: The White Stripes have canceled their North American tour, including the band's show on the 19th at the Forum. "Health issues" and Meg White's "acute an...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours


og:title: And I'm Telling You...

twitter:title: And I'm Telling You...

og:title: Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger CD Review

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger CD Review

og:title: Workin It

og:description: Happy Labor Day lovelies! Party hearty but don't drink and drive or you may be forced to rock one of these with your fiercest footwear. The shoes are fr...

twitter:title: Workin It

og:title: Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

og:description: Pellicano Briefs Team Pellicano is now taking its turn at bat, but the past few days of the defense’s case have seemed like prosecution by other m...

twitter:title: Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

og:title: 10 Questions Raised By Mista Grimm's "Indo Smoke" Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

og:description: 1. Is it ever a bad idea for rappers to open their video with shots of them buying 40's at the liquor store? 2. Nate Dogg> a lump of aluminum foil> Akon...


src: FR


og:title: Pre-Primary Political Posters

og:description: Above and below in Silver Lake on Sunset Blvd. Below, found in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Blvd...

article:tag: West Hollywood

twitter:title: Pre-Primary Political Posters

og:title: Holy Shit It's Robert Plant

og:description: When three quarters of the Style Council (Steffie, Linda and myself) decided to go to Joshua Tree for a weekend of high desert jinx, we knew to expect t...

twitter:title: Holy Shit It's Robert Plant

og:title: Skullphone may have bought time?

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Skullphone may have bought time?

og:title: Deep Blue

og:description: 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...

article:tag: Eating Out

twitter:title: Deep Blue


dest: CI

og:title: OZER and SEVER on Hollywood Blvd. and St. Andrews

og:description: I don't know why I thought this was on Santa Monica. It's on Hollwood. Sorry. And it's OZER, not Revok as we originally had it titled. Sorry again. More...


src: DE

og:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

og:description: Last night at the Brit Awards, Paul Weller was honored for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Now 47, the Original Style Councilor (OSC, lik...

twitter:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

og:title: Oh Nose They Didn't

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Oh Nose They Didn't

og:title: Last Chickens in Echo Park

og:description: One last group of Cache's chickens, along with Eyeone and Mear, on Sunset Blvd in Echo Park. All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump...

twitter:title: Last Chickens in Echo Park

og:title: Jerry Hopkins on Fred Neil

og:description: Thanks to the suggestion of my friend Nacho Genzon, I have been listening quite a bit lately to Fred Neil, the American singer-songwriter of the 60's & ...

twitter:title: Jerry Hopkins on Fred Neil

og:title: Pretty Baby

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Pretty Baby


src: KE

og:title: More Seventh Letter Time Elapse Videos

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

twitter:title: More Seventh Letter Time Elapse Videos

og:title: Coachella Day Three: Neil Diamond's Amazing Performance Opening for Justice

og:description: Sunday at the Empire Polo Field is softer than Saturday, more like Seurot than the previous day's Van Gogh, a little hazy and lazy and everybody's sleep...

og:title: Gorilla in East Hollywood

og:description: This is visible on the south side of Melrose (I lost my notes. I don't know what E/W street this on. Beverly?) if you're heading west through East Holly...

twitter:title: Gorilla in East Hollywood

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

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


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og:title: Banksy Elephant Set to Star in Christina Aguilera Video

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: Peter Bjorn & John at the Henry Fonda, 7/31

og:description: If you missed Peter Bjorn & John's sold out show last night, worry not. They'll be returning to the Wiltern Monday, Sept. 17th with the Clientele. Click...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

og:title: The Parson Redheads-”Got It All”

og:description: The Parson Redheads make sunny day music. I noted this in my Stylus review for last year's King Giraffe. It is now springtime in Los Angeles and everyth...

twitter:title: The Parson Redheads-”Got It All”

og:title: Oh What a Feelin'

twitter:title: Oh What a Feelin'

og:title: Top of the Dome 4: Dia de Los Muertos

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

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

twitter:title: Top of the Dome 4: Dia de Los Muertos


og:title: ReLAX... Don't Do It

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: ReLAX... Don't Do It


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og:title: Beachwood Sparks to reunite for Sub Pop anniversary party

og:description: Amidst all the hoo-ha about Jane's Addiction getting back together next week because apparently they're geniuses or something, another reunion's getting...

og:title: Lollapalooza Photos

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

twitter:title: Lollapalooza Photos

og:title: In The Hood

og:description: If I hear Outfield’s "Your Love,” one more time I’m gonna hurl. It’s definitely this year’s answer to Hall & Oates’ ...

twitter:title: In The Hood


og:title: First Name Basis

og:description: Last night I went to see Wendy & Lisa. Remember them? After Prince ended his Revolution, guitarist Wendy Melvoin and keyboardist Lisa Coleman, co-wrote ...

twitter:title: First Name Basis

og:title: Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

og:description: I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and...

og:title: Rutling Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

og:description: The Rutles: 30th Anniversary Reunion American Cinematheque March 17th It was here - well, not here, really, but in fact several thousands of miles away ...

og:title: Folking Around

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Folking Around


og:title: BOXeight: Cosa Nostra

og:description: (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...

twitter:title: BOXeight: Cosa Nostra

og:title: SXSW Day 3: Pissed Jeans, Valet, White Rabbits, Thurston Moore, and an impregnated brain

og:description: Last night. Last night? Umm, last night ... What the heck did I do last night? Wait. Where the hell am I? In a hotel room, okay ... yeah ... good. At le...

article:tag: Pissed Jeans


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og:title: Clinton & Obama's Good Ship Lollipop

og:description: The vibe was heavy at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Thursday night, and an always blood-thirsty press didn’t imagine it into existence. With U...

twitter:title: Clinton & Obama's Good Ship Lollipop


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og:title: Road Trip: Day 20(ish)

twitter:title: Road Trip: Day 20(ish)

og:title: Crystal Antlers at High Voltage Party, Safari Sam's, 1/21/08

og:description: Crystal Antlers Safari Sam's, Jan. 21, 2008 The sparkling reputation of Long Beach’s Crystal Antlers drew me out to the High Voltage Magazine part...

article:tag: Jonny Bell

og:title: Into the Groove

og:description: Last weekend was all about Coachella (see this week's paper), but there is much that I didnt have room for and you, the lucky SC reader get extra scoop....

twitter:title: Into the Groove

og:title: MAD FOR PLAID

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: MAD FOR PLAID


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og:title: Live in L.A.: Qui, the Bronx, Circle Jerks, Melvins and the Locust at the Echoplex

og:description: Fergie Cuilda deserves a benefit show just to honor his drumming, but last night's benefit at the Echoplex was bittersweet. While on a summer U.S. tour,...

og:title: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl: August 24 and August 25

og:description: Yep, just announced: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl on August 24 and 25, which is a little weird because it's a Sunday and a Monday. Presales begin Apr...


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og:title: Retna, Chaz, Axis at Zero One Gallery

og:description: Huge columns painted by Retna stood throughout Zero One's downtown gallery. The multi-artist show Dysmorphic Visualization Syndrome, opened Saturday nig...

twitter:title: Retna, Chaz, Axis at Zero One Gallery

og:title: End of the Arroyo

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: End of the Arroyo

og:title: Bast Art Opening

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Bast Art Opening


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og:title: Fabian, maybe it's the friends you keep

og:description: If you followed the election fine print - those ballot measures having nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain or Mitt Romney, you...

twitter:title: Fabian, maybe it's the friends you keep


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og:title: Tids and Bits

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Tids and Bits

og:title: Hootenanny Photos

twitter:title: Hootenanny Photos


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og:title: Laker Mania Sweeps Hollywood

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Laker Mania Sweeps Hollywood

og:title: Outer Spaceland

og:description: 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 ...

twitter:title: Outer Spaceland


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og:title: On the List?

og:description: You know how MySpace has that section called "cool new people," and how, at least from the photos, these people always seem anything but cool? Club Prom...

article:tag: Tom Anderson

twitter:title: On the List?

og:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 1

og:description: All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump...

twitter:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 1

og:title: Madame X

twitter:title: Madame X

og:title: Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound of the Underground Lagos Dance Floor 1974-1979

og:description: Let's be real for a moment--I don't know much about the sound of the underground Lagos Dance Floor during the years 1974-1979. The truth is those years ...

og:title: Oh, Ya-Ya

twitter:title: Oh, Ya-Ya


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og:title: Coachella Day Three: Neil Diamond's Amazing Performance Opening for Justice

og:description: Sunday at the Empire Polo Field is softer than Saturday, more like Seurot than the previous day's Van Gogh, a little hazy and lazy and everybody's sleep...


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og:title: Wake for Authur Mag, Come Pay Your Respects

og:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

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

twitter:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

og:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse

og:description: 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 ...

twitter:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse

og:title: Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

twitter:title: Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

og:title: Shields at Club Violaine, 9/15

og:description: Shields Club Violanie at Roberto's, Chinatown By Ryan Ward Every third Saturday of the month, Roberto's in Chinatown becomes Club Violaine and opens the...

twitter:title: Shields at Club Violaine, 9/15


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og:title: Van Halen, Staples Center, November 20

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Van Halen, Staples Center, November 20

og:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

og:title: Paper Trail Blazers

og:description: The East Coast vs. West Coast beef is so jerky now, baby. Paper magazine has invaded LA, and its founders Kim Hastreiter and David Herskovitz have plann...

twitter:title: Paper Trail Blazers


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og:title: Vice Magazine's Tales of Colt 45 at King King

og:description: Photos and text by Guelda Voien While Vice magazine represents many things, most prominent is the value on stupid, constant debauchery. Crystal Antlers ...

article:tag: Pabst Blue Ribbon

og:title: Fashion Week Warrior

twitter:title: Fashion Week Warrior

og:title: Willie Nelson, Nokia, 2/13

og:description: Willie Nelson, Nokia Theatre, Feb. 13 Photos by Timothy Norris If Willie Nelson had delivered a show with half as much heart, enthusiasm and class, it s...

twitter:title: Willie Nelson, Nokia, 2/13

og:title: Radiohead: Rainbows in Curved Air

og:description: The analog pleasures of Radiohead's digital revolution by Randall Roberts (Photo by John Spinks) There are a few different ways to get to Big Sur from L...

twitter:title: Radiohead: Rainbows in Curved Air

og:title: Peter Bjorn & John at the Henry Fonda, 7/31

og:description: If you missed Peter Bjorn & John's sold out show last night, worry not. They'll be returning to the Wiltern Monday, Sept. 17th with the Clientele. Click...


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og:title: Jessie Evans with Toby Dammit at Bordello, 1/31/08

og:description: “Are we ready?” was the question Jessie Evans put to her drummer Toby Dammit right before she dropped her heavy, black winter coat to the Bo...


dest: KM

og:title: Pixies and Mission of Burma Movies - Free Screening This Weekend

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

og:title: The Frames, 9/6

og:description: The Frames Henry Fonda Theater, Sept. 6 By Mark Mauer Two crowds showed up to see Dublin's The Frames Thursday night. First there were the die-hards, li...

twitter:title: The Frames, 9/6

og:title: Picture this

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Picture this

og:title: Folking Around

og:description: 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...

twitter:title: Folking Around


dest: ZM


og:title: June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed

og:description: If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping for a quick injection of gay dollars into California's ailing economy this summer, it may not happen. Oppon...

article:tag: Same-Sex Marriage

twitter:title: June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed

og:title: Confronting food shortages in Mexico

og:description: Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced an ambitious plan last week to confront rising food costs in Mexico and to prevent the type of shortages and...

twitter:title: Confronting food shortages in Mexico

og:title: Material Girl Returns

og:description: First, she suspiciously played at a indie festival, now I get an email about Madonna Gallerie, a store set up in the lobby of W hotel, selling Madonna a...

twitter:title: Material Girl Returns

og:title: Make that 129 bands: Swervedriver to reunite at Coachella, and again at the Fonda

og:description: Swervedriver was the roughest, heaviest, least wistful of the early 1990s British guitar-band invasion. Yeah, like their compadres, the Oxford-born band...


dest: GH

og:title: Live in L.A. Very Be Careful

og:description: At Club Bahia, May 25 By DANIEL HERNANDEZ There's always an element of danger at a Very Be Careful show. They tend to play venues and in neighborhoods w...

twitter:title: Live in L.A. Very Be Careful