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og:title: Murakami Revoked

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og:title: Eagles of Death Metal Play Loudly

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og:title: Auto Repair art on Santa Monica Blvd. and Ardmore

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og:title: Why I Wore Flip-flops to the Grammys

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og:title: The Kids In the 'Secret Show' Hall

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og:title: RIP Ike Turner

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og:title: The Problem With Oscar

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og:title: Nekromantix, Fangoria Convention, 4/25

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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: The Queering of Cosmo

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og:title: Graffiti and Monsters and Bears - Oh My

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og:title: Caetano Veloso, Pasadena Civic, 11/14

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og:title: Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

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og:title: Melrose Misplaced

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og:title: Stop Making Sense

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twitter:title: Stop Making Sense

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

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

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og:title: Stripping Power

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og:title: James at Spaceland Friday night

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

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og:title: That's The Indie Spirit

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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.)

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og:title: Chris Rock Guest-Stars at the Pellicano Circus

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og:title: Coachella 08: A glimpse at Prince's soundcheck

og:description: At last night's cool Filter party at the Corona Yacht Club, I ran into sculptor Christopher Janney, whose Sonic Forest installation will once again appe...

og:title: MBW All Over LA

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og:title: Youth Gone Wild

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

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og:title: Coachella Wrap-Up: Is Santogold This Year's MVP?

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og:title: Spoon at the Henry Fonda, 9/10

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og:title: The Glamorous Life

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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...

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

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og:title: Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 2 of 3

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og:title: Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

og:description: On the southeast corner of Melrose and LaBrea:...

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

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

og:title: Valentine's Day is for the Birds

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og:title: Off to a Smashing Start

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

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og:title: Coachella Sunday Photos

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

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og:title: Madame X

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og:title: Bitch Please

og:description: What's gayer than Jeffree Star turning up at the Abbey on Friday with a Tarina Tarantino haircut and Perez Hilton on his arm? Or gayer than the parents ...

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og:title: Robert Nudelman: A Tireless Defender

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og:title: Queens of the Stone Age, Nokia Theater, 10/29

og:description: What I experienced at the Nokia Theater was simply phenomenal. Scary in good ways as well as bad. A sign of things to come and remembering the way it us...

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og:title: MANDOE On Gower Near Fountain

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og:title: The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines

og:description: Something's slightly skewed inside King Khan's skull. Pause to look at his press photos, where he's either dressed for beach season in Nice or simply in...


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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

og:title: Un-Fashion Week

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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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og:title: Happy Endings With The Suicide Girls

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

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og:title: Gwen takes a bath

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og:title: His Cortship

twitter:title: His Cortship

og:title: Weiss' Muxtape #1-Science and Metaphors Will Slow Up the Dough

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og:title: Veggin' with Alicia

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og:title: Bravo Bebe!

twitter:title: Bravo Bebe!

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...

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og:title: Rabbit Season

twitter:title: Rabbit Season

og:title: Piece of the Pink Floyd Pig Perhaps Found in La Quinta

og:description: There are very few breaking news stories in the music biz, and Pink Floyd's escaped flying pig ranks pretty high up there. Sources tell us that there ar...

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

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og:title: Location of Most Awesome New Bar in LA Revealed

og:title: Ask And You Shall Receive

twitter:title: Ask And You Shall Receive


og:title: Yagman to Surrender

og:description: At the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown today, civil rights attorney Steve Yagman has finally been ordered to surrender to prison authorities on Mond...

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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 ...

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og:title: To The Max

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og:title: Dave Navarro Wants The Style Council Naked

og:description: A few minutes ago I had a conversation with tattooed rock superstar Dave Navarro. I was listening to his Camp Freddy Radio show on Indie 103.1FM and he ...

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 ...


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og:title: The Block Is Hot: Hot Chip Take Over the Jimmy Kimmel Show

og:description: The Green Room backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show is one of the more supremely wonderful places on earth. It's Xanadu--a place specifically designed to ...

article:tag: Barack Obama

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...


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og:title: Push and Retna in Koreatown

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twitter:title: Push and Retna in Koreatown

og:title: Every Week is Fashion Week...

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: Flesh for Fantasy

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og:title: Crank that Crunk

twitter:title: Crank that Crunk


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og:title: The Three Shamans Vek, Om and Cobra

twitter:title: The Three Shamans Vek, Om and Cobra

og:title: Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

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og:title: Brain Candy and the Karma of Art

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og:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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og:title: MBW on MLK

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og:title: Pause and Rewind: The Show

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og:title: Portishead mow us down

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og:title: Shopping Daze

twitter:title: Shopping Daze

og:title: Kelly to Play LA!

twitter:title: Kelly to Play LA!


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og:title: Nightclubs of Hollywood, Ballrooms of Mars


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og:title: The Great Rap Swindle

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twitter:title: The Great Rap Swindle

og:title: Gen Art Gets Glam

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og:title: Grammy Nominations

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og:title: Coachella: Saturday

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og:title: Shit List

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twitter:title: Shit List

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 ...

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

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og:title: Mermaids at Deborah Lindquist

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og:title: I’m Only Five Foot Two

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og:title: Morrissey, Hollywood Palladium, 10/1

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og:title: Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

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

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...

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og:title: The Hidden Pleasures of Coachella, Part I: Linton Kwesi Johnson

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og:title: Snow Angels at ThinkSpace

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og:title: Land of the Lost

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twitter:title: Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

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


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og:title: Old and new Sever and Dame on Santa Monica and Hobart

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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...

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

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og:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

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

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og:title: Hurts So Good

twitter:title: Hurts So Good


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og:title: Mika, Superhero in Red Levis

twitter:title: Mika, Superhero in Red Levis

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: Arcade Fire buddies at the Bowl

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twitter:title: Arcade Fire buddies at the Bowl


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og:title: Seventh Letter Wall, Long Gone

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twitter:title: Seventh Letter Wall, Long Gone


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og:title: Tokyo Hardcore Starring Davey Havok and Jeffree Star

og:description: No, it's not the name of some Japanese bukkake film, Tokyo Hardcore, is a series of clips presented by Tarina Tarantino to launch her latest collection....


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og:title: Sweet Emotions

twitter:title: Sweet Emotions

og:title: Hootenanny Photos

twitter:title: Hootenanny Photos

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

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article:tag: Games

og:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

twitter:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

og:title: Santa, That's Not a Chimney!

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twitter:title: Santa, That's Not a Chimney!


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og:title: The Atkins Advantage

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

article:tag: Celebrity News

twitter:title: The Atkins Advantage

og:title: Biggie Smalls Shuts Down Sunset Boulevard

og:description: Ah, if only. But shooting has commenced in LA for Notorious, the Biggie Smalls biopic slated to be released in 2009. Earlier today, the crew was working...


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og:title: Snake Shoe-ter

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

twitter:title: Snake Shoe-ter

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: 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: Wolf Parade and Holy Fuck, El Rey, 9/13

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

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og:title: Live in L.A.: Raveonettes Electric Duo, Midnight Movies


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og:title: Kings of Leon, Greek Theatre, 9/7

og:description: Kings of Leon The Greek Theatre, September 7, 2007 By Jonah Flicker When did the Kings of Leon hire a rock stylist? As they took the stage at the Greek ...

twitter:title: Kings of Leon, Greek Theatre, 9/7

og:title: Lily Allen Rumored to Be Next Face of Chanel

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

og:title: Angelina on Angelina, Jennifer and Celebrities These Days

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

og:title: Once more in the River

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

twitter:title: Once more in the River


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og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#20-16)

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twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#20-16)

og:title: More Books Than You Can Shake A Dead Indie Bookstore At

og:description: The Book Expo America convention has come and gone. Here are 12 things I saw on the last day, in absolutely no order whatsoever. 1. The Independent Publ...


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og:title: PJ Harvey, Orpheum, 10/15

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og:title: Gulity Pleasures at Ghettogloss

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twitter:title: Gulity Pleasures at Ghettogloss

og:title: Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

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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...

article:tag: Pop and Rock Music

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: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

og:description: Sparky remembers to forget On Thursday the prosecution’s guns in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants fell silent as...

twitter:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

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


og:title: 5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week

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

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og:title: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell

og:description: Bad Religion New Maps of Hell (Epitaph Records) By Tony Ware New Maps of Hell, Bad Religion's 14th original studio album, does an admirable job proving ...

twitter:title: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell

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

og:description: Is Devendra Banhart a starfucker or just a star?

og:title: Got Balls?

og:description: "So, did you get hit in the face with a ball yet?" one business casual fellow asked another on the interminable line for drinks at last ni...

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og:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

twitter:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered


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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...


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og:title: SXSW Day 2-Formed a Band, Everyone Formed A Band

og:description: Hey, Aren't You Juliette Lewis? Walking down 6th street yesterday, you had to wonder if everyone in the world somehow heard that Art Brut song, "Formed ...

og:title: Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

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

twitter:title: Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show


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og:title: Meghan Finds The Love

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

twitter:title: Meghan Finds The Love

og:title: Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 2 of 3

og:description: Jeffrey Lewis: "Whereas the Sex Pistols you might hear that played in any given venue. They probably get played in the Gap or something... The Fugs and ...

og:title: Neurologist Conclusively Proves Snoop Dogg Has Smoked Himself "Retarded"

og:description: After an intense scrutiny of the video for "Sensual Seduction" confirmed what a battery of MRI exams had already hinted at, neurologist Gerald Schwartz ...


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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: The LA Times Retracts Its Tupac Shakur Story

og:description: In this morning's Times, and an apology to Puffy Diddy Daddy...

article:tag: Tupac Shakur

og:title: Clementine Takes Grilled Cheese Month Very Seriously

og:description: No restaurant in L.A. takes this month-long holiday more seriously than Century City’s Clementine, where it’s not just about cheesy sandwiches, it’s abo...


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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 ...

twitter:title: Two Cats and a Screamer

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

og:description: Chromeo at Coachella By Chris Martins Roger Waters was neck-deep in pyrotechnics and paisley. The Gobi Tent was done, abandoned 'til next year, and the ...


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og:title: Rock the Bells '07

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

twitter:title: Rock the Bells '07

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: K Fed Gets Axe'd

twitter:title: K Fed Gets Axe'd

og:title: LACMA Raided! Updated With Search Warrants

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

og:title: 'Billy Babes in da Hood

twitter:title: 'Billy Babes in da Hood


og:title: Jenna Jameson New Face to Fashion Week

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

twitter:title: Jenna Jameson New Face to Fashion Week


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dest: AZ

og:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

twitter:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 4 (#9-6)

og:description: The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-"Time" "People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the t...

og:title: Where Bling Never Dies

twitter:title: Where Bling Never Dies

og:title: Skullphone hacks Clear Channel electronic billboards

og:description: UPDATE: Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear channels billboards, but actually bought time on them. And while that's kind of sad, it'...

article:tag: Business


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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: Happy Endings With The Suicide Girls

og:description: "More boobies, RIGHT NOW!" roared the crowd at the El Rey theatre as alternaporn starlets the Suicide Girls jiggled their pastied jubblies during the fi...

twitter:title: Happy Endings With The Suicide Girls

og:title: Strap-a-licious

og:description: Anyone watch The L Word on Sunday night? I have just three words for you - Rosanna Arquette, Shane the Hairdresser, and a strap-on. OK that's more than ...

article:tag: Caroline Ryder

twitter:title: Strap-a-licious

og:title: Coachella Offers Reward for Return of Inflatable Pig

og:description: I wish I could say that this was a joke, but I saw the damned pig float away myself Sunday night during Roger Waters' set at Coachella. As it drifted up...

article:tag: Coachella


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

og:description: Los Angeles County Fire investigators found that three employees repairing a roof on one of the studio’s back lots caused the Universal Studios fi...

og:title: A Tale of Two Top Hats

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

twitter:title: A Tale of Two Top Hats

og:title: Coachella by the Numbers

og:description: Who are these 128 bands, collectively? As one big amalgam, what are they? Click here to read Randall Roberts' essay on this year's festival, then check ...

twitter:title: Coachella by the Numbers

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: Antik Denim: Flesh for Fantasy

og:description: Tuesday Night's main event was such a producer's nightmare I almost* wanted to volunteer to help. Due to a major communication breakdown, the headsetted...

twitter:title: Antik Denim: Flesh for Fantasy


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og:title: Rilo Kiley at the Santa Monica Civic

og:description: With Under the Blacklight , their first major label album out in August, the L.A. band played a sold out show Monday night at the Santa Monica Civic Aud...

twitter:title: Rilo Kiley at the Santa Monica Civic

og:title: Grammy Stylin'

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

twitter:title: Grammy Stylin'

og:title: Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

og:description: Anthony Pellicano, onetime “P.I. to the Stars,” was convicted today of 76 of the 77 counts he faced for racketeering, wire fraud and identit...

og:title: Wilco at the Greek, 8/29

og:description: Wilco Greek Theatre, August 29, 2007 by Jonah Flicker I’m sure there were plenty of celebrities peppered throughout the crowd at the Greek Theatre...

twitter:title: Wilco at the Greek, 8/29

og:title: Happy Rocktober!

twitter:title: Happy Rocktober!


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og:title: Craigslist Post of the Week - Studs Seek Sugarmama

og:title: Madonna Finds Xanadu

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

article:tag: Crime and Law

twitter:title: Madonna Finds Xanadu

og:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

og:description: LOUIS VERDAD Louis Verdad's show didn't really have a theme. There was no through line for the collection, other than all of the pieces being really pre...

twitter:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad


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og:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!

twitter:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!

og:title: Tennie Pierce’s Legacy

og:description: Two more firefighters rake in fortunes – this time for reverse discrimination Two fire captains who were suspended after black firefighter Tennie ...

twitter:title: Tennie Pierce’s Legacy


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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...

twitter:title: Sub Pop One Hummer

og:title: Pity Party People

twitter:title: Pity Party People


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og:title: Phone Talk at Pellicano Trial

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

twitter:title: Phone Talk at Pellicano Trial

og:title: Uncle George's Diary

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

article:tag: EI School of Professional Makeup

twitter:title: Uncle George's Diary

og:title: Britney and Ray Charles on Melrose

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

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Britney and Ray Charles on Melrose

og:title: LA Weekly Detour Festival: A Race for the Prize

og:description: LA Weekly Detour Festival Downtown Los Angeles, October 6. By Randall Roberts You can tell a good music festival by the number of sprinters, joggers, an...


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dest: PH

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

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: Day One in Photos

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

twitter:title: Day One in Photos

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

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

article:tag: Phil Elverum

og:title: Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)

og:description: Anyone who made it out to the American Apparel Flea Market event last Sunday knows what I'm talkin' about when I say it was post-apocalyptic insanity- a...

article:tag: Dov Charney

twitter:title: Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)


og:title: Dueling Dungarees

twitter:title: Dueling Dungarees


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og:title: Well-Spent Youth

twitter:title: Well-Spent Youth

og:title: Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

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

og:title: Flea's Bitten

og:description: On Saturday night the Diane von Furstenberg store in West Hollywood hosted a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the non-profit music scho...

twitter:title: Flea's Bitten


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dest: SA

og:title: Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

og:description: Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only so...

article:tag: Magazines

og:title: The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines

og:description: Something's slightly skewed inside King Khan's skull. Pause to look at his press photos, where he's either dressed for beach season in Nice or simply in...


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og:title: Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

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

twitter:title: Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

og:title: Pellicano Briefs: The Snitch Wore Black

og:description: Anthony Pellicano discovers Tarita Virtue is her own reward For four days ex-Pellicano employee Tarita Virtue wore black to court as she testified under...

article:tag: B.J. Rosenberg

twitter:title: Pellicano Briefs: The Snitch Wore Black

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


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og:title: The Eyes of Don Bachardy...On Me

og:description: Sitting still has never been one of my strong points, unless, of course, it involves nodding off with a work of literature delicately balanced on my nos...

twitter:title: The Eyes of Don Bachardy...On Me

og:title: The Year of the Dog

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

twitter:title: The Year of the Dog

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

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

article:tag: Turbonegro

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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dest: ES

og:title: It's Hip To Care

twitter:title: It's Hip To Care

og:title: My Name is Caroline and I'm a Slothaholic

og:description: When I was younger I went to a relatively posh private school in London, full of high-achieving daughters who had DJ boyfriends and started nightclubbin...


dest: KE

og:title: Devendra Banhart jumps the shark

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

article:tag: Topanga

twitter:title: Devendra Banhart jumps the shark

og:title: Live In L.A.: Prince — Straight, With Chaser


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og:title: Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Claremont Folk Festival, 5/3

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

og:title: How Phil Elverum keeps mystery alive Pt 1: creative booking

og:description: Phil Elverum does which other artists don't. Consider this particular stretch of tour dates.

og:title: Seventh Letter "Letters First" Show

og:description: Above painting by RETNA. All images copyright of the respective artists. From a show earlier this month in Barcelona, "Letters First," check out the sli...

twitter:title: Seventh Letter "Letters First" Show

og:title: Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

og:description: For the first time since the band originally split seventeen years ago, the four original members of Jane's Addiction will play in L.A. as part of the N...

og:title: Concessions on a Dance Floor

og:description: Perhaps, the Material Girl (see post below for back story) had another reason for creating the temporary Madonna Gallerie— to sell her wares outsi...

article:tag: Celebrity News

twitter:title: Concessions on a Dance Floor


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og:title: Daft Punk at Vegoose

og:description: You can almost see their personality in this shot photographs by Timothy Norris The only notation I have from the Daft Punk show last night is in this i...

twitter:title: Daft Punk at Vegoose

og:title: Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango - excellent summer morning music

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: Here's Mud in My Eye

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

twitter:title: Here's Mud in My Eye

og:title: Vote Finke in '08!

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

twitter:title: Vote Finke in '08!


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: Fashion Week, Take 1: Paola Hernandez dolls it up

og:description: It's Fashion Week Mexico right now, a week-long fair of new moda showcasing the fall and winter collections from many of Mexico's established designers ...

article:tag: Fashion and Style

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: Weiss' Muxtape #1-Science and Metaphors Will Slow Up the Dough

og:description: I've resisted the Muxtape meme that's been spreading across the blogosphere over the past month, but when Goathair of the very excellent Blowtorc...

og:title: Meeting of Styles, L.A. River

og:description: A week after getting rained out, the Meeting of Styles took place in Highland Park where the Arroyo Seco meets the L.A. River. Sponsored by Friends of L...

twitter:title: Meeting of Styles, L.A. River


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...

twitter:title: Mex-Emo News Coverage Explodes

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...

article:tag: Commuting

twitter:title: Stop, in the Name of Vanity


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

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

og:title: Hillary Wins Massachusetts but Loses Her Alma-Mater Wellesley

og:description: Hillary Clinton may have dominated the Massachusetts Democratic primary last Tuesday, weathering the endorsements of both Ted Kennedy and John Kerry for...


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 ...

twitter:title: Two Cats and a Screamer

og:title: PJ Harvey, Orpheum, 10/15

og:description: With only two shows in the US currently slated around the release of her new album, White Chalk, PJ Harvey's concert at the Oprheum downtown had even mo...

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

twitter:title: PJ Harvey, Orpheum, 10/15


dest: MX

og:title: El-P, Dizzee Rascal, El Rey, 5/22

og:description: El-P, Dizzee Rascal The El Rey, May 22, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Last night’s double billing at the El Rey, the final stop of the “No Chiefs Al...

twitter:title: El-P, Dizzee Rascal, El Rey, 5/22

og:title: The Devil Inside

og:description: YOU are cordially invited to the LA Weekly Style Council's VIP advance screening of The Devil Wears Prada at the Grove, on Thursday June 29th @  7 ...

article:tag: Patricia Field

twitter:title: The Devil Inside

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: Another Tastes Like Gold

og:description: Here's a stunning new wall up on Santa Monica near the recently closed Sears store. There were at least four spots along there that had some new writing...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: Another Tastes Like Gold


src: AU

og:title: Fun in the Sun

og:description: This is what I woke up to this morning. In my inbox, in between press releases about Josh Homme's new side project called 5:15 (how many side projects c...

twitter:title: Fun in the Sun

og:title: Live in LA: Aimee Mann Christens the New Largo at the Coronet

og:description: Aimee Mann at Largo at the Coronet, June 2, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Aimee Mann christened the new Largo at the Coronet last night with a memorable...


dest: US

og:title: da ramones. da clorox girls. and da jazz.

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

og:title: Coachella Envy: Why did the artist formerly known as the unpronounceable symbol guy have to ruin it for all of us curmudgeons?

og:description: Video of Prince performing a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella 2008.

article:tag: Beth Gibbon

og:title: My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

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...

twitter:title: Batteries Not Included

og:title: Grizzly Bear live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, Feb. 27

og:description: On Wednesday morning, the subterranean temple that is the KCRW studio complex on the campus of Santa Monica College played host to a great six-song set ...


src: FI

og:title: Bearded Insanity

og:description: A Whiskerino competitor in his natural habitiat. Sweet Jesus I've waited so long and now it's finally here. Whiskerino, the amateur beard growing compet...

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

twitter:title: Bearded Insanity

og:title: These New Puritans

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

twitter:title: These New Puritans

og:title: Coming Up

og:description: Every week or so, we'll update a list on concerts announced, shows going on sale, and other things happening soon that you may want to know about. James...

twitter:title: Coming Up

og:title: Hipster Olympics

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

article:tag: Sports

twitter:title: Hipster Olympics

og:title: Harry Nilsson Tribute, Bordello, 1/15

og:description: Harry Nilsson Tribute Bordello, Jan. 15 "Happy Birthday, Harry," one of the band's singers said into his mic before a bandmate whispers in his ear. "Wha...

twitter:title: Harry Nilsson Tribute, Bordello, 1/15


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dest: IT

og:title: Sweet Emotions

twitter:title: Sweet Emotions

og:title: Tonight at Family: Gary Panter, Who True Punkers Know as Illustrator for Slash Magazine

og:description: If you're looking for something cool to do after the BBQs or naps or hangovers or bender-continuations or whatever it is you're doing this afternoon, th...

og:title: See and be Zine

og:description: Still recovering from Paper mag's slew of events last week at Acme gallery, though I missed the Saturday night fevah of Los Super Elegantes (which I hea...

twitter:title: See and be Zine

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...


src: PK

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)


src: MX

og:title: Live in L.A.: Raveonettes Electric Duo, Midnight Movies

og:title: Life's a Rollercoaster

og:description: Riding rollercoasters at midnight with a crew of teenage skate kids was the last thing I expected to be doing tonight, but hey - sometimes you just gott...

twitter:title: Life's a Rollercoaster

og:title: Brewer hires Cortines

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

twitter:title: Brewer hires Cortines

og:title: Detour DJ Pix: Ed Banger, Justice, DJ Medhi

og:description: Detour's over, but I just got sent a link to a ton of great shots from the DJ stage, including the Ed Banger set, including DJ Medhi and Justice. Great ...

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: Cock-a-Doodle Doo Doo

og:description: After "the otherroom," half the Style Council headed across the street to the gay bar called Roosterfish. Once again I had to wait for the white-haired ...

twitter:title: Cock-a-Doodle Doo Doo

og:title: Nightranger Show and Tell

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

twitter:title: Nightranger Show and Tell

og:title: The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines

og:description: Something's slightly skewed inside King Khan's skull. Pause to look at his press photos, where he's either dressed for beach season in Nice or simply in...

og:title: Xmas Xcess

og:description: Happy (whatever holiday you celebrate) Style Council readers! The other gals are all back in their respective homelands (NYC and the UK) so I'm holding ...

twitter:title: Xmas Xcess

og:title: HIllary Clinton, Working Class Heroine

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

twitter:title: HIllary Clinton, Working Class Heroine


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og:title: Fun in the Sun

og:description: This is what I woke up to this morning. In my inbox, in between press releases about Josh Homme's new side project called 5:15 (how many side projects c...

twitter:title: Fun in the Sun

og:title: Gas Snaps Four Bucks

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

twitter:title: Gas Snaps Four Bucks

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

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


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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: Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim

twitter:title: Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim

og:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin

twitter:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin

og:title: Cordon's Market - Sunset near Normanide

og:description: Across from the closed down Cordon's Market they are playing backgammon in front of a coffee shop. With very tiny dice. More after the jump...

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dest: ET

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...

og:title: Super. Fun. Music. Love.

twitter:title: Super. Fun. Music. Love.

og:title: Smashbox: Day One: Nicky Hilton's Chick

og:description: A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

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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


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og:title: Babe in Black

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

twitter:title: Babe in Black

og:title: My New Radio Crushes

og:description: Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with t...

twitter:title: My New Radio Crushes

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!"

og:title: Mistakes Were Made

og:description: Dysfunctional business as usual at Pellicano trial When we last left the trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants, the proceedings had been thr...

twitter:title: Mistakes Were Made

og:title: 6 Great Free Things to Do in L.A. This Week

og:description: Jon Ronson, Tommy Lasorda and more things to see and do in L.A.


og:title: And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro!

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

twitter:title: And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro!

og:title: Folk Yeah! to Big Sur

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

twitter:title: Folk Yeah! to Big Sur

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: Insane in the Brain

og:description: Happy 4-20 friends! Yes, it's the unofficial toker holiday known as Four Twenty (which hardcore stoners actually celebrate every day, at 4:20 p.m.). We ...

article:tag: The Wizard of Oz

twitter:title: Insane in the Brain


og:title: Heads or Tails

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

article:tag: Documentaries

twitter:title: Heads or Tails

og:title: Memorial Day Weekend in LA: Music galore (and MP3s)

og:description: Ah, Memorial Day Weekend, the perfect three-day break, tailor-made for chilling in the comfort of an abandoned LA. As long as you stay away from Hollywo...


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og:title: Community Farm on Sunset in Silver Lake

og:description: For the past several years the empty lot near el Pollo Loco on Sunset and Sanborn has been a little community farm growing flowers, tomatoes and vegetab...

article:tag: Staten Island

twitter:title: Community Farm on Sunset in Silver Lake


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og:title: Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

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

twitter:title: Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

og:title: McDonald's All Day Breakfast, Ordering Pizza by TV: This Week in Food

og:description: McDonald's will begin testing all day breakfast this month in San Diego. If it goes well, we may see all day breakfast roll out around the country. It's...

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

og:description: Jeffrey Lewis: "Musicians have always been the conduits that have introduced people to music. So whether it's making a mix tape for your friends or just...

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


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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...

og:title: Pause & Rewind-Rhyme & Reason

og:description: Filmed before and during that tense six-month window between 2Pac and Big's deaths, Rhyme and Reason has a eerie, unsettling vibe to it. Everyone in the...

twitter:title: Pause & Rewind-Rhyme & Reason


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og:title: Strap-a-licious

og:description: Anyone watch The L Word on Sunday night? I have just three words for you - Rosanna Arquette, Shane the Hairdresser, and a strap-on. OK that's more than ...

article:tag: Caroline Ryder

twitter:title: Strap-a-licious

og:title: REVOK and AUGER in Hollywood

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

twitter:title: REVOK and AUGER in Hollywood

og:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

og:description: Sparky remembers to forget On Thursday the prosecution’s guns in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants fell silent as...

twitter:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense


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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: Spice Girls, Staples Center, 12/10

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

twitter:title: Spice Girls, Staples Center, 12/10

og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 3 (#14-10)

og:description: Mental Note: Avoid guys with the nickname "Mad Dog." 14. Redman-"Blow Treez" Why did we have to wait until 2007 for Redman, the man who taught a generat...


og:title: Maude!

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

twitter:title: Maude!

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: 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: 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: 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...

og:title: Fashion Week, Take 1: Paola Hernandez dolls it up

og:description: It's Fashion Week Mexico right now, a week-long fair of new moda showcasing the fall and winter collections from many of Mexico's established designers ...

og:title: Queer Town: Tom Whitman Presents... Wonderland

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

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...

twitter:title: 10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

og:title: Kushcush: Electric Youth

twitter:title: Kushcush: Electric Youth


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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: 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: 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: Coachella Offers Reward for Return of Inflatable Pig

og:description: I wish I could say that this was a joke, but I saw the damned pig float away myself Sunday night during Roger Waters' set at Coachella. As it drifted up...

article:tag: Coachella

og:title: Paris Cuffed

twitter:title: Paris Cuffed


og:title: Buzzcockin'

og:description: The Buzzcocks, at 86 years old, blast 20-year-old bands off the stage, and shame them... and they do so as if it came most naturally to them. They simpl...

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Buzzcockin'

og:title: The Goddess Provides

twitter:title: The Goddess Provides


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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...

twitter: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...

og:title: Coroner Chronicles: Homicides Down

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

article:tag: Crime and Law

twitter:title: Coroner Chronicles: Homicides Down

og:title: Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories

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

article:tag: Food and Cooking

twitter:title: Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories

og:title: Breeders for Coachella '08 + New Album?

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

twitter:title: Breeders for Coachella '08 + New Album?


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

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

og:title: The Best Free L.A. Art Parties This Week

og:description: This week’s edition of our art-party picks is all about music and photography. We’ve got two free nights of sonic artistry combined with art-centric sou...


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

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

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

og:title: Oscars Overall

twitter:title: Oscars Overall

og:title: Flier of the Week: Becky Stark and Ron Rege as The Mystical Unionists

og:description: This should be a cool opening. It features singer Becky Stark and drummer/comic artist Ron Rege (both of Lavender Diamond) as The Mystical Unionists. He...

og:title: ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

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

twitter:title: ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

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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og:title: Björk's brass band, Amy's do-do, Rufus' caftan: Coachella, Day One

og:title: Marc Cooper in Iowa: Zero Hour

og:description: Des Moines, Iowa -- Barack Obama capped off his quest to win the statewide Democratic presidential caucuses by emotionally exhorting the youthful core o...

twitter:title: Marc Cooper in Iowa: Zero Hour

og:title: Retna, el Mac on Hollywood Western Bldg.

og:description: At the corner of Hollywood and Western (right across the street from the Metro stop), a strange confluence of art, architecture and bureaucracy exists, ...


og:title: Slash Appeals For Lost Kittie on Get The Fuck Up Radio

og:description: Rock overlord Slash called for listeners of Get The Fuck Up Radio to keep an eye out for his poor lost kittie-cat Habib, who has been missing since Apri...


og:title: Ashley Paige Rocks The House

twitter:title: Ashley Paige Rocks The House


og:title: XOXOXO

og:description: So I forgot to mention in my last post that Steffie and I also popped into the ol' Short Stop last Sat for an end-of-the-eve nightcap (tip: Going to bar...

twitter:title: XOXOXO

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?


dest: AF

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: BIG PIMPIN

og:description: "It's Hard Out There for A Pimp" from Hustle and Flow won for Best Song tonight. Hip hop hooray!!! Though it's not the first rap tune to win (Eminem's "...

twitter:title: BIG PIMPIN

og:title: Paddle On

og:description: Where are the ginormous Lotus flowers of years past? I wondered as I strolled about the Echo Park Lake this past Saturday for the annual Lotus Festival....

article:tag: Climatology

twitter:title: Paddle On

og:title: Radiohead's "In Rainbows," a Prehistory

og:description: Artists giving away their music for free, a chronology. 1906, Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Sailors off the coast of the Atlantic hear an eerie, otherworld...

twitter:title: Radiohead's "In Rainbows," a Prehistory


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og:title: New Release Tuesday: Jandek's 52nd album is almost definitely less interesting then #s 1-51

og:description: A few sad truths about the Jandek phenomenon in the internet era. Note to Jandek: "We're just not that into you."

og:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER

og:description: He might be a crazy character, but it aint from GHB! All charges against Germs drummer Don Bolles will be dismissed after additional testing of the pepp...

twitter:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER

og:title: Single Show, No Single Theme

twitter:title: Single Show, No Single Theme

og:title: Push and Retna in Koreatown

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

article:tag: Shelley Leopold

twitter:title: Push and Retna in Koreatown


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og:title: Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

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

og:title: Stroke My Orb

twitter:title: Stroke My Orb

og:title: Weiss' Top Albums of 2007 (#40-36)

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

twitter:title: Weiss' Top Albums of 2007 (#40-36)


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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: Coming Up

og:description: Every week or so, we'll update a list on concerts announced, shows going on sale, and other things happening soon that you may want to know about. James...

twitter:title: Coming Up

og:title: Mick Jones' Carbon/Silicon, Troubadour, 12/3

og:description: How long has it been since Mick Jones played L.A.? He said on stage he hadn't been here in 12 years, which would put us back into Big Audio Dynamite ter...

og:title: UCLA hits back at animal rights terrorists

og:description: By Max Taves Two weeks after animal-rights extremists fire-bombed the home of a respected primate researcher, UCLA is fighting back—legally, of co...

og:title: Chuck Phillips should not resign from being a reporter, but it would be fantastic if the LA Times resigned from being a newspaper

og:description: The funniest thing about this scandal is that Philips is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise blighted, stupid, and irrelevant publication.


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og:title: Rabbit Season

twitter:title: Rabbit Season

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: 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: 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

og:title: Ashley Paige Rocks The House


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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: L.A. River Along the Golden State - Three

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

og:title: An Open Letter to the Men of LA

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

article:tag: Celebrity News

twitter:title: An Open Letter to the Men of LA

og:title: Guantanamo Detainee Mysteriously Contracts AIDS

og:description: Fresh air for prisoners at Guantanamo Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan meteorologist currently designated an "enemy combatant" and imprisoned by the U....

og:title: Magnetic Fields at the Fonda, Monday, March 3

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


og:title: Doll Parts

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

twitter:title: Doll Parts


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og:title: Braving 'New Worlds' at the Jumex Collection

og:description: The Jumex Collection art museum is located at a industrial plant in the rough-edged northern outskirts of metropolitan Mexico City, in the municipality ...

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

article:tag: Life Sciences

og:title: For Joe Donnelly

twitter:title: For Joe Donnelly

og:title: It's a Mr. Funky Christmas at my place

twitter:title: It's a Mr. Funky Christmas at my place

og:title: Liars, El Rey, 2/22

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

article:tag: Electronic Music

twitter:title: Liars, El Rey, 2/22


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og:title: Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

og:description: For the first time since the band originally split seventeen years ago, the four original members of Jane's Addiction will play in L.A. as part of the N...

og:title: Maywood Hires a Convicted Ethics Professor as Interim Police Chief

og:description: For a town looking to repair its police department's reputation as corrupt and brutal, Maywood took the unusual step Friday of holding an emergency sess...

og:title: Fashion Week

twitter:title: Fashion Week


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og:title: Live in L.A.: Hecuba at the Bordello

og:description: Hecuba opens your eyes, literary and emotionally.... Isabelle Albuquerque's vocals have a dynamic range as grand as the Alps and her body moves as if sh...

twitter:title: Live in L.A.: Hecuba at the Bordello

og:title: Want A Front Row Seat At The Oscars?

twitter:title: Want A Front Row Seat At The Oscars?


src: CN

dest: NG

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

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

og:title: Feist's video is just the cutest thing

twitter:title: Feist's video is just the cutest thing


og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 4 (#9-6)

og:description: The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-"Time" "People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the t...

og:title: Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

twitter:title: Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

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: 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: Nekromantix, Fangoria Convention, 4/25

og:description: Nekromantix / FreakShow Deluxe LA Convention Center April 25, 2008 Could there be a less spooky place for the Nekromantix to play? Even late at night, w...

twitter:title: Nekromantix, Fangoria Convention, 4/25

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...

twitter:title: Ray Cortines: Friend or Foe?


src: BY

og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#35-31)

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

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#35-31)

og:title: Woman Fatally Shot in Front of Cop as She Asks for Help

og:description: A brazen attacker who allegedly followed a woman even as she asked a cop for help opened fire, killing the woman, before he was taken out by the officer...


src: ES

og:title: It's a Mr. Funky Christmas at my place

og:title: Bukowski's Bungalow Saved

og:description: Charles Bukowski’s bungalow is safe – at least for now. On Thursday morning the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted three-to-one ...

twitter:title: Bukowski's Bungalow Saved


og:title: Kristoff talks: 'I didn't incite the attacks'

og:description: MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News Televisa on-air personality Kristoff has finally broke his silence and addressed publicly the wave of anti-em...

article:tag: National Public Radio


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og:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

twitter:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

og:title: The Brothers Factor

twitter:title: The Brothers Factor

og:title: Braving 'New Worlds' at the Jumex Collection

twitter:description: The Jumex Collection art museum is located at a industrial plant in the rough-edged northern outskirts of metropolitan Mexico City, in the municipality ...

og:title: un:armed at the Echo, 8/27

og:description: un:armed The Echo, August 27 By Nazanin Arandi They are armed with black, gray and white ensembles, bringing endless energy to the stage and into the au...

twitter:title: un:armed at the Echo, 8/27

og:title: The King of France Can't See The Helio Sequence

og:description: The fact that it was Friday the 13th and there was a full moon only compounded the creepiness of certain co-incidences I found myself entangled in last ...


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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

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

og:title: Magnetic Fields at the Fonda, Monday, March 3

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


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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: 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: Chuck Philips, Tupac Shakur, Sean Combs and The Con

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


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og:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

og:description: Tonight (Wed, 10/4) kicks off the month-long Fashion Targets Breast Cancer (FTBC) charity event at Beauty Bars across the nation. The Council of Fashion...

twitter:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

og:title: More Books Than You Can Shake A Dead Indie Bookstore At

og:description: The Book Expo America convention has come and gone. Here are 12 things I saw on the last day, in absolutely no order whatsoever. 1. The Independent Publ...

og:title: Saturday Eve of Destruction

og:description: (photo credit: 2005 SRL show by Mack Reed, see new post,  )Nothing could have prepared me for what I was going to experience on Saturday night. Whe...

twitter:title: Saturday Eve of Destruction

og:title: Today and tomorrow

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

twitter:title: Today and tomorrow

og:title: Billion Dollar Belle

twitter:title: Billion Dollar Belle


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og:title: Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)

og:description: Anyone who made it out to the American Apparel Flea Market event last Sunday knows what I'm talkin' about when I say it was post-apocalyptic insanity- a...

article:tag: Dov Charney

twitter:title: Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)


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og:title: Shit List

og:description: Grammy week... Fashion week (in NYC)...the writers strike... Britney... There so much to do and watch and bitch, uh write, about.... Our new year's reso...

twitter:title: Shit List

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...

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

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


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og:title: Absolutely FAB-ulous!

twitter:title: Absolutely FAB-ulous!

og:title: PJ Harvey Live at the Orpheum Theatre

og:description: PJ Harvey at the Orpheum Theatre, October 15 By Randall Roberts Polly Harvey waltzed onto stage last night looking like Emily Dickinson after a rough wr...

article:tag: Polly Harvey

twitter:title: PJ Harvey Live at the Orpheum Theatre

og:title: What would Crass do about this?

og:description: "U.S. imprisons one in 100 adults, report finds," sez NY Times. What would Crass do? Don't matter. Punk. Is. Dead.

twitter:title: What would Crass do about this?


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og:title: Fashion Week(S) ! BoxEight Kicks It Off

og:description: Every year LA Fashion Week seems to get a little longer. It has been pushed to nearly a month long string of shows and satellite parties. Today BoxEight...

twitter:title: Fashion Week(S) ! BoxEight Kicks It Off

og:title: Whitney Finally says "Hell to the No" to Bobby

og:title: Cave Singers at the Echo 12/4

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

twitter:title: Cave Singers at the Echo 12/4

og:title: Boys Town - Not Safe for Girls?

og:description: I've always thought of West Hollywood as a shiny, happy sort of place - but apparently Boys Town isn't always as fabulous as you'd think. I got an email...

article:tag: Che Guevara

twitter:title: Boys Town - Not Safe for Girls?


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og:title: Low Brow Art and a "Fucking Smorgasbord of Lynchness"

og:description: Fellow Style Councilor Lina LeCaro has been busy suckling her newborn these last few weeks, so our friend Jar, a talented writer who lives in Echo Park ...


og:title: Coachella Wrap-Up: Is Santogold This Year's MVP?

og:description: If there was one transformative performance at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, I'd say it was Santogold's Friday night statement-o...

og:title: Madonna to Lead Large Pilates Session at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 6

og:description: Well, at least that's what her performances of the last few years have seemed like: big muscle-flexing sessions, with music. Where's the bouncing? The j...

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...


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: 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: Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

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

og:title: Bravo Bebe!

twitter:title: Bravo Bebe!


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og:title: Rockin' in the Tree World

og:description: Happy holidays everyone! More to come soon, but in the meantime, a little slice of roadside art in upstate New York.....

article:tag: Holidays

twitter:title: Rockin' in the Tree World

og:title: Last Night: Hot Chip at the Fillmore

twitter:title: Last Night: Hot Chip at the Fillmore

og:title: Detour DJ Pix: Ed Banger, Justice, DJ Medhi

og:description: Detour's over, but I just got sent a link to a ton of great shots from the DJ stage, including the Ed Banger set, including DJ Medhi and Justice. Great ...

og:title: Caetano Veloso, Pasadena Civic, 11/14

og:description: Caetano Veloso Pasadena Civic Auditorium, November 14 By John Payne At age 65, sweet-voiced singer-composer Caetano Veloso represents perhaps the ultima...

twitter:title: Caetano Veloso, Pasadena Civic, 11/14

og:title: Viva la Taxi!

og:description: Last night I went to a party thrown by Ian Gerard, co-founder of Gen Art with my friends Ildiko, a prolific and amazing writer; Jenn, a singer, the voic...

article:tag: Empire State Building

twitter:title: Viva la Taxi!


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og:title: The Duke Spirit, Troubadour, 5/10

og:description: The Duke Spirit, Ohhlas Troubadour, May 10, 2008 By Timothy Norris Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit at the Troubadour. The band's new album, Neptune is out...

twitter:title: The Duke Spirit, Troubadour, 5/10

og:title: Ryan Seacrap flaps & flashes

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

twitter:title: Ryan Seacrap flaps & flashes

og:title: The streets are screaming at you

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

article:tag: Painting

twitter:title: The streets are screaming at you

og:title: Banksy in Bethlehem

og:description: BBC has a video report posted on Youtube about Banksy pieces showing up in Bethlehem. There's even a brief phone interview with the artist and a couple ...

twitter:title: Banksy in Bethlehem


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dest: MX

og:title: Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

og:description: Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only so...

article:tag: Magazines

og:title: Morrissey, Hollywood Palladium, 10/1

og:description: Morrissey Hollywood Palladium, October 1, 2007 By Jonah Flicker On the first night of his self-described ten-night “residency” at the Pallad...

twitter:title: Morrissey, Hollywood Palladium, 10/1

og:title: Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim

twitter:title: Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim


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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: 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: Manifesto in Echo Park: Scorn Joy, Scorn Tragedy

og:description: Pasted on a box coming off the 101 offramp into Echo Park is this bi-lingual manifesto. There's something very honest in the frustration voiced here: An...


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dest: US

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 ...

og:title: Peter Pan to Finally Fuck Wendy in New Larry Clark Movie?

og:description: Imagine if Peter Pan had been a fucked-up teenage vagrant with a permanent hard-on, Wendy had been a cum-drenched junkie living in Broo...

og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#5-1)

og:description: 5. Dungen-Tio Bitar Dungen did not tour this record in America. This is because the band's mastermind, Gustav Estjes was rumored to be alone in the snow...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#5-1)

og:title: The Old Testament: Fela Kuti

og:description: I haven't wanted to listen to anything but Fela Kuti for weeks. It's getting a little weird. In the car, Expensive Shit/He Miss Road has monopolized my ...

twitter:title: The Old Testament: Fela Kuti


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og:title: Ghostland Observatory, Henry Fonda, 11/30

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

og:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

twitter:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux


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dest: PH

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

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

og:title: Where Do You Get Off?

og:description: "I'm gonna tell you what my friend told me-- never expect a man to be able to do this for you," my friend says as she hold up a model that gyrates, as p...

twitter:title: Where Do You Get Off?

twitter:title: Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

twitter:description: Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only so...

og:title: Crystal Castles: Not Total Hipster Bullshit

og:description: You'll have to forgive me this one. I know I'm late. Ian Cohen tossed a 7.8 to Crystal Castles' in his Pitchfork review of their eponymous debut back in...