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

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og:title: Happy Endings With The Suicide Girls

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og:title: Daedalus and TI$A team up for Obama video

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

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og:title: G-Funk Week: 10 Questions Raised By “Game Don’t Wait” Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

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og:title: SXSW Postmortem...but first a word from our sponsors

og:description: Now you name your band Fuck Buttons and you figure: that'll keep the wolves of commerce at bay, right? Well, welcome to the brave new world of indie rock.


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og:title: The Kills, El Rey, 5/21

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og:title: Billy Childish at London's Dirty Water Club, 4.11.2008

og:description: Photos by Rena Kosnett Taking 4 late night buses from Camden down to Brockley, yelling at one stranger who sneezed into my hair, standing for 45 minutes...

og:title: Peter Saville explains why he won hearts & minds with his record cover designs

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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: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

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twitter:title: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

og:title: We Heart Denim...Honest

og:description: I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even tho...

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og:title: June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed

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og:title: Letting the Days Go By

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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...

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og:title: The Special Technique of 5 O' Clock Shadowboxin'

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


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og:title: Final Check Yo Ponytail tonight starring Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan

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

article:tag: Christianity

og:title: Calling All Label Whores: Intermix opening in LA

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

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...

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og:title: The Glamorous Life

og:description: After my dinner debacle last week (see my last post) I was ready for a little plushness and pampering, and I got a lot of it with three Alexis Carringto...

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og:title: Spiritualized, Vista, 11/12

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

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og:title: Black Celebration

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og:title: Wham Bam Thank You, Ma'am!

twitter:title: Wham Bam Thank You, Ma'am!

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 ...

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og:title: $50,000-worth of Nasty Shoes Stolen

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

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

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

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

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

og:description: When buildings come down in Hollywood it does a couple of things. It exposes older pieces that may have been well hidden before hand, and it usually fre...

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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

og:title: Erasure and Smashing Pumpkins News

og:description: FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Viper Room There was a lively and fashionable crowd at the Viper Room Friday night for MSO PR's soiree celebrating the launch of their...

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og:title: Pigs on Beverly, West of Echo Park

og:description: And here's some body shop art on 1st St. Another big set from the CBS yard coming soon. All photos by Mark Mauer...

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og:title: Signing On: Massive WGA Strike at Fox Plaza

og:description: Yesterday, one of NBC’s head writers marching on the picket gripped his high-tech cell phone and waved it in frustration. “Someone at NBC sc...

og:title: Arroyo Art Project Whitewash Hits AP

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

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og:title: Fashion Week Warrior

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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...

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og:title: Comics Amongst the Comics

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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...

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


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og:title: 10 Haikus About 2007's Most Overhyped Albums

og:description: Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip At arcade in New Jersey Let Panda roam solo. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible Right now in heaven Toole...


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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...

og:title: The Little Radio NYE Fallout

og:description: A fierce debate is still brewing among my pals who went to Little Radio's New Years Eve shindig. Reports had trickled in about rude staff, a missing pag...

article:tag: Buck Owens

twitter:title: The Little Radio NYE Fallout

og:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

twitter:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

og:title: LA Weekly Interviews Mark Eitzel of American Music Club

og:description: American Music Club, circa 2008 American Music Club’s new album, The Golden Age (Merge), begins with what seems to me two perfect Southern Califor...

og:title: KooKoo for Coco

twitter:title: KooKoo for Coco


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og:title: More Seventh Letter Time Elapse Videos

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

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og:title: No Age Plays in the River

og:description: ...and then the cops came. Jay Babcock of Arthur Magazine, the recently re-launched counter-cultural journal, sent out a hush-hush e-mail Saturday, Nov....

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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: Christmas Charity Shows

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

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og:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

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: Shay Todd Stays Afloat

twitter:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat


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og:title: Paul McCartney Played Lots Of Beatle Songs

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

og:title: Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

og:description: Missed the sold out Beirut shows? Ahh, lucky you. They're playing at 6:30 tonight at Amoeba Records. Go on over and check it out or read Rena Kosnett's ...

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

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


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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...

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og:title: Well-Spent Youth

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og:title: DESERT DOs AND DONTs

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og:title: Fashion Week

og:description: Welcome to  LA Weekly's coverage of Fashion Week. Our Style Council is ready to fuck you up -- kicking it off at the Gen Art show tonight at Barker...

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twitter:title: Fashion Week


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og:title: She & Him, Vista, 4/28

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

twitter:title: She & Him, Vista, 4/28

og:title: Last Night: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist

og:description: DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist Hollywood Bowl, June 25 By Carlie Armstrong What began as an interestingly ethnic, slightly gimmicky evening at the Hollywood Bow...

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

og:description: Questions to ponder: Will they give Tenaglia his own stage to do a ten hour set, and if that's the case why didn't they book Villalobos? How the hell di...

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: 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: 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: My Bloody Valentine announces two LA shows in the fall

og:description: That would be Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2 at the Santa Monica Civic Center. My Bloody Valentine's high-water mark: "Soon."...

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: RICO Suave: Closing Arguments at Pellicano Trial

og:description: “Sitting up there in the second row is a dirty cop. A dishonest cop. A corrupt cop. A man who sold his badge for $2,500 a month.” Say what y...


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og:description: Hey it happens. I guess. Agent Provocateur's got your areolas covered with their nipple balm, called Titillation. The "nipple refresher" also comes with...

article:tag: Cosmetics

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...

twitter:title: June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed

og:title: Pimp C Dies in L.A.

og:description: According to this TMZ report, Pimp C was found dead in his bed in a Sunset Strip hotel room this morning. The rapper, born Chad Butler, had just perform...

twitter:title: Pimp C Dies in L.A.

og:title: Disneyfied Big Oil Hyenas in E. Hollywood

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


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og:title: The Survey Says: Teens in Trouble

og:description: Forty percent of Hollywood’s homeless youths ended up on the streets at some point after having been removed from their homes by a city, county or...

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twitter:title: The Survey Says: Teens in Trouble

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: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#45-41))

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

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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: In the Jury’s Lap: Pellicano Trial Finishes

og:description: The fate of the Pellicano Gang of Five rests with the jury, now that closing arguments have concluded. Attorney Mona Soo Hoo began the morning by announ...

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...

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og:title: Rapper Pimp C's Death Ruled An Accident

og:description: Rapper Pimp C, one of hip-hop's most influential figures, died accidentally due to a combination of cough medicine and his prior history of sleep apnea,...

twitter:title: Rapper Pimp C's Death Ruled An Accident

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: 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: Lovin' Cups

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twitter:title: Lovin' Cups


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og:title: Road Trip: Day 2 (still in Sedona)

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

twitter:title: Road Trip: Day 2 (still in Sedona)

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...

twitter:title: Best Books of 2007

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: 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 ...

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og:title: Kofie'One's Obama Mural

og:description: Obamanation Photos and text by Shelley Leopold A mural appeared in Mid-Wilshire on a recent morning — not on a rooftop or an overpass, but at the ...

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og:title: LA Times Seemingly Unfamiliar with "Spoiler Alert" Concept

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

article:tag: David Simon

og:title: And The Winner Is...

og:description: Well, they weren't exactly the Oscars, but the red carpet was rolled out for the first ever LA Fashion Awards Friday night just the same. (And I've just...

twitter:title: And The Winner Is...

og:title: Billboard Case Slated for Federal Court of Appeal

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

article:tag: Crime and Law

og:title: California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage!

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

og:title: Germs, Adolescents, Key Club, 12/28

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

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og:title: Rolling on the Coachella Express to Indio

og:description: On the Coachella Express, there are a few distinct types of people: the media, which was invited to document the maiden voyage of the Amtrak line that d...

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: The Best True Crime Stories of 2007

og:description: They are the modern versions of monster stories. True Crime writers seek out such tales every day, finding them in two sentence-long police blotter blur...

twitter:title: The Best True Crime Stories of 2007

og:title: Today and tomorrow

twitter:title: Today and tomorrow

og:title: Any Given Sunday

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twitter:title: Any Given Sunday


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og:title: Daft Punk Photos

og:description: The Cobrasnake was at the Daft Punk show at the Sports Arena on Saturday, July 21. Click here for a slideshow of more from the concert, as well as a tri...

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

twitter:title: Daft Punk Photos

og:title: The Weekend Report: Robyn at the Wiltern

og:description: Robyn: built to last (Photos by Timothy Norris) Swede pop darling Robyn capped off her spring 2008 tour at the Wiltern on Saturday night with a propulsi...

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...

og:title: More bands added to Coachella. But their names don't start with Radio and end in head

og:description: Ordinarily announcing a SoCal date for Aphex Twin would be pretty damn cool. In fact, I was just wondering recently if the guy was ever going to come ou...


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.

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Every Week is Fashion Week...

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...

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

og:description: Heading a couple of blocks south of HK Super on Western near 3rd Street, you can make a left and see a beautiful piece in reds and blues along the side ...

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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...


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og:title: It's All Geek To Me

twitter:title: It's All Geek To Me

og:title: Sink or Swim

twitter:title: Sink or Swim

og:title: Juan McLean at Avalon

og:description: Juan MacLean Avalon, August 24 By Jonah Flicker The parking gods were smiling on this chilly Friday night. It’s 11:45, I’m in the area aroun...

twitter:title: Juan McLean at Avalon

og:title: Melrose Misplaced

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

twitter:title: Melrose Misplaced

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 ...


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og:title: Phenomenal (Grammy) Women

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twitter:title: Phenomenal (Grammy) Women


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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: Rock With Me

og:description: "How many boulders can we possibly have to climb over?" I chuckled to my friend Julie, when she warned me that her boyfriend David's friend Ben had aske...

article:tag: Malibu Creek State

twitter:title: Rock With Me

og:title: Someone needs to take a poo on Diddy's Clorox white suit

og:description: A modest proposal to sully Diddy's Hollywood Star.

og:title: Bo Knows Death

og:description: Like many people my age, I learned about Bo Diddley not from any unremembered nostalgia for British Invasion swipes of the ancient bluesman's slippery g...

twitter:title: Bo Knows Death

og:title: Sweet Emotions

twitter:title: Sweet Emotions


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: My Fashion Week Haute List

og:description: Between all the schmoozing and the boozing, the cruising and the perusing (someone stop me, please), it was near impossible to find the time to do any a...

twitter:title: My Fashion Week Haute List

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

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

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: Where Bling Never Dies

twitter:title: Where Bling Never Dies

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: 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: 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 ...

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

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og:title: Last Night: Unsane, 400 Blows, Mouth of the Architect

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og:title: I’m Only Five Foot Two

og:description: Tonight, a trifecta of punk with the Saints, Buzzcocks and Stooges. But first, another panel (I think I am the only one interested in these things). Chu...

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og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

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og:title: Comments from around the Web: Chuck Philips' debunked Tupac story

og:description: Among the hundreds of responses to this week's debunked LA Times story on the murder of Tupac Shakur, and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' alleged involvement in ...

og:title: Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton

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

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og:title: Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism

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

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og:title: Cobrasnake

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

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

og:description: For once Chris Rock played the straight man. From the moment he stepped into court Friday to testify at Anthony Pellicano’s racketeering trial, Ro...

og:title: Sink or Swim


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og:title: Maximo Park at the El Rey 7/27

og:description: Above: Monsters Are Waiting's lead creature, Annalee. The Oohlas also played the sold out concert. Click the link to see Timothy Norris' full slideshow ...

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twitter:title: Maximo Park at the El Rey 7/27

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

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: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

og:description: Seventh Letter crew member RIME, aka Jersey Joe, will be showing new work at Ghettogloss this Friday, March 7. The show will run for a couple of weeks, ...

article:tag: Business

twitter:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

og:title: The Special Technique of 5 O' Clock Shadowboxin'

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


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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: 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: "Air Guitar Nation" Rocks L.A.

twitter:title: "Air Guitar Nation" Rocks L.A.

og:title: The Kooks, Morning Benders, Troubadour, 2/7

og:description: The Kooks, Morning Benders, The Troubadour, February 7 It's been two years to the day that The Kooks' first (and so far only) album Inside In Inside Out...

og:title: Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, Orpheum Theatre, 11/09

og:description: Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals November 9, 2007 Orpheum Theatre By Ryan Colditz On a night when everything was still all too complicated and lack...

og:title: Is Don Henley Dead?

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og:title: Autolux at Little Radio and other NYE ideas (well, one other idea)

og:title: Spankrocked

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og:title: Coachella, Day One: The National, the Sunset, and the Masses

og:description: The National at Coachella, Day One. By Chris Martins Photos by Timothy Norris The National were off to a strong start, but something wasn't right. The w...

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...

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og:title: Gorilla in East Hollywood

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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...

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


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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: Bo Knows Death

og:description: Like many people my age, I learned about Bo Diddley not from any unremembered nostalgia for British Invasion swipes of the ancient bluesman's slippery g...

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og:title: Meeting of Styles, 5th Batch

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og:title: The LA Times Retracts Its Tupac Shakur Story

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

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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...

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og:title: Stew's Passing Strange Receives Seven Tony Award Nominations

og:description: From Spaceland to Broadway: Stew Passing Strange, the Broadway musical created by longtime fixture on the LA music scene Stew, received seven Tony Award...

article:tag: Entertainment


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og:title: Paint It Black

twitter:title: Paint It Black

og:title: A Real Monster Mash

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twitter:title: A Real Monster Mash

og:title: Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

og:description: The Daily Swarm collects an argument currently consuming the web regarding the relative merits of L.A.'s reigning superstar DJ, Steve Aoki. A few days b...


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og:title: Silver Daggers @ Part Time Punks, The Echo 5.11.08

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

article:tag: Kevin Smith


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

og:description: Heading a couple of blocks south of HK Super on Western near 3rd Street, you can make a left and see a beautiful piece in reds and blues along the side ...

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og:title: Alvarado in Echo Park - REVOK, AUGOR

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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...

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og:title: Alan Del Rosario: What About Prom?

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twitter:title: Alan Del Rosario: What About Prom?

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: 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: Welcome to the Dollhouse

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twitter:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse

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

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


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: Un-Fashion Week

twitter:title: Un-Fashion Week

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...

og:title: Rock With Me

og:description: "How many boulders can we possibly have to climb over?" I chuckled to my friend Julie, when she warned me that her boyfriend David's friend Ben had aske...

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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: Grammy Parties: Me and Cinderella

og:description: Coming down from the Grammy lemonade high, I was faced with the fact that the requests I had made to be added to lists for post Grammy parties had never...

twitter:title: Grammy Parties: Me and Cinderella


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og:title: Animal radicals banned from UCLA profs' homes

og:description: By Max Taves A judge handed UCLA a big victory over its animal-rights tormentors in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday. The judge’s order won&rs...


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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: San Fernando Valley Bloodbath

og:description: Mass Murder in Winnetka takes life of popular SWAT officer, a former Villaraigosa bodyguard An LAPD SWAT officer was shot to death and another was wound...

twitter:title: San Fernando Valley Bloodbath

og:title: Mr. T

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

twitter:title: Mr. T


og:title: Will i Am Offers Obama Handjob Via Campaign Song

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

og:title: Sex crimes investigator assassinated in Juarez

og:description: Berenice Garcia Corral was commander of the sex crimes unit of Chihuahua state's State Investigation Agency before masked men shot her in her driveway i...


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og:title: Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

og:description: I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. ...


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og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls


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og:title: Shay Todd and Hot Bods

twitter:title: Shay Todd and Hot Bods

og:title: The Vest of the Grammys

twitter:title: The Vest of the Grammys

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

og:title: Nightwatchman, Wayne Kramer, Perry Farrell, Hotel Cafe, 12/6

og:description: Lollapalooza in a Living Room Nightwatchman and Friends Hotel Cafe, Dec. 6 Photos and Text by Scott Amateur Tom Morello, A.K.A. The Nightwatchman hosted...


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og:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

twitter:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

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

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


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og:title: Courtney's Love In

og:description:
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,"...

article:tag: Sexuality

twitter:title: Courtney's Love In


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og:title: Paul, Prince and Paris

twitter:title: Paul, Prince and Paris


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og:title: LA Weekly Interviews Mark Eitzel of American Music Club

og:description: American Music Club, circa 2008 American Music Club’s new album, The Golden Age (Merge), begins with what seems to me two perfect Southern Califor...

og:title: Detour Videos

og:description: Some performances from last year's Detour Festival... Beck - Mixed Bizzness Basement Jaxx Beck - Clap Hands Oh No! Oh My! The 2nd annual Detour Festival...

article:tag: Turbonegro

twitter:title: Detour Videos

og:title: Dethklok at the Wiltern, June 6

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

twitter:title: Dethklok at the Wiltern, June 6

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


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og:title: Live in L.A.: The Swell Season

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

twitter:title: Live in L.A.: The Swell Season


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og:title: El Dud

og:description: Quelle bummer! On Friday night I'd just enjoyed a lovely meal with a group of friends at the Sunset Junction French bistro Cafe Stella (I ...

twitter:title: El Dud

og:title: What I'll Miss About Hollywood

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

twitter:title: What I'll Miss About Hollywood

og:title: Eddie Vedder, Solo at the Wiltern, 4/13

og:description: Photos by Timothy Norris. Text by Ryan Colditz Eddie Vedder is taking it solo. Pearl Jam has broken up and all that is left is Eddie Vedder. Just kiddin...

twitter:title: Eddie Vedder, Solo at the Wiltern, 4/13

og:title: Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

og:description: Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. - an...


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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...

twitter:title: Yagman to Surrender

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

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

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


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og:title: Black Keys, Jay Reatard, Wiltern, 4/1

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

twitter:title: Black Keys, Jay Reatard, Wiltern, 4/1


og:title: Last Night: Architecture in Helsinki

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

twitter:title: Last Night: Architecture in Helsinki

og:title: The Empire (Waist) Strikes Back

og:description: The flier likened it to WWD meets WWF, but the Style Wars event at Cinespace on Tuesday night was more like Iron Chef meets Martha Stewart's Craft Corne...

article:tag: The Viper Room

twitter:title: The Empire (Waist) Strikes Back

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: 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

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

og:description: CFIWest / Steve Allen Theater, Hollywood May 7 (l-r) Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch A line of comedy fans dozens deep snaked around the cor...

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


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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: Show Me The Oscars Correction

twitter:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction


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og:title: Newspaper industry death watch vs. music industry death watch: Why did the NY Times fire music biz reporter Jeff Leeds?

og:description: Seriously, I don't understand. It's not like he was publishing fake stories about how P. Diddy offed Tupac.

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: Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

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


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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: Smashbox DAy TWO: The Verdict:  Heatherette is Fierce

og:description: Ok, I've finally gotten out of my Heatherette-induced K-hole. I've had a lot of time to think about what I saw. If you asked me yesterday what I thought...


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og:title: Billion Dollar Belle

twitter:title: Billion Dollar Belle

og:title: Coachella '08 Set Times Announced

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og:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema

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

twitter:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema

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: Old Crow Medicine Show - A Disssenting Opinion

og:description: Old Crow Medicine Show Avalon, August 8 By Ryan Colditz Having grown up in the boonies of Northern California, far from the smog and street lights, "Cou...

og:title: Daedalus endorses Obama! Hot MP3!

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

twitter:title: Daedalus endorses Obama! Hot MP3!

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?


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og:title: Love It To Death!

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twitter:title: Love It To Death!


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

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

og:title: Seattle's Bumbershoot

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twitter:title: Seattle's Bumbershoot

og:title: No Data Found

og:description: I'm digging these multi-layered pasted posters around Hollywood and Silver Lake of video cameras, radios, and other techno-objects. They tend to be plac...

twitter:title: No Data Found

og:title: Pedro Guzman Suing Government for Wrongful Deportation

og:description: By Daniel Hernandez Pedro Guzman, the Lancaster man who was wrongfully deported from the L.A. County jail system, filed suit against the federal governm...


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og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#50-46)

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

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#50-46)

og:title: Stars of the Lid interview outtake. ALSO, Donald Trump makes a pass at Rudy Giuliani.

og:description: Brian McBride: "I discovered the less that was involved kinetically speaking, the more I was interested. I used to describe it as islands of song, and e...

og:title: Mr. Cartoon Mural Downtown

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

article:tag: Painting

twitter:title: Mr. Cartoon Mural Downtown


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

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

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: 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...

og:title: American Apparel Branches Out

og:description: Cause not all pedophiles like girls...Wait a cotton brief minute!!!  Do you think that's Dov Charney's crotch?...

article:tag: Dov Charney

twitter:title: American Apparel Branches Out


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og:title: Smashbox DAy TWO: The Verdict:  Heatherette is Fierce

og:description: Ok, I've finally gotten out of my Heatherette-induced K-hole. I've had a lot of time to think about what I saw. If you asked me yesterday what I thought...

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: Get The Fuck Up Goes Bonkers

og:description: Normally I don't like listening to the radio when I am working. It is, frankly, a distraction. But oh what sweet distractions were to be had on last nig...

twitter:title: Get The Fuck Up Goes Bonkers

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?

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...


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og:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction

twitter:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction

og:title: Coachella, ah the memories

twitter:title: Coachella, ah the memories

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


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og:title: Japanese Art Behind Zen Sushi

og:description: The parking lot behind Zen Sushi has some gorgeous work by Asylm, Ruets, Ryoe, Clown and more. All photos by Mark Mauer. Close-ups, more shots and artis...

twitter:title: Japanese Art Behind Zen Sushi

twitter:description: Normally I don't like listening to the radio when I am working. It is, frankly, a distraction. But oh what sweet distractions were to be had on last nig...

og:title: Don't Stop Believin'

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

twitter:title: Don't Stop Believin'

og:title: Last Night: The Klaxons at the El Rey

og:description: The Klaxons El Rey Theatre, July 10, 2007 By Sandy Kanphantha It's almost like any other night at the El Rey. Lines are stretched along the side of the ...

twitter:title: Last Night: The Klaxons at the El Rey

og:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones

twitter:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones


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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...


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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: Silver Daggers @ Part Time Punks, The Echo 5.11.08

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

og:title: To Live And Try In LA

twitter:title: To Live And Try In LA


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og:title: Comics Amongst the Comics

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

twitter:title: Comics Amongst the Comics

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: 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


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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: Villaraigosa's Mini-Me, John Perez

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

twitter:title: Villaraigosa's Mini-Me, John Perez

og:title: Sunset & Sanborn in Silver Lake

og:description: The last of the shots of the graffiti playground going on behind the El Pollo Loco on the south side of Sunset Blvd near Sanborn, as well as some commis...

article:tag: Staten Island

twitter:title: Sunset & Sanborn in Silver Lake

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: An Interview With Pete Rock

og:description: Pete Rock needs no introduction. His new album NY's Finest drops on Tuesday. While it might not be a classic on the level of a Soul Survivors or Mecca &...

article:tag: Fela Kuti

twitter:title: An Interview With Pete Rock

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

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


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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: Augor: There Will Be Blood

og:description: Somehow, I doubt that Paul Thomas Anderson is going to love this so much that he'll grab it to hang in his house the way Murakmai did with Augor and Rev...

twitter:title: Augor: There Will Be Blood

og:title: Editors, Wiltern, 9/24

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

twitter:title: Editors, Wiltern, 9/24

og:title: His Cortship

twitter:title: His Cortship


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og:title: What I'll Miss About Hollywood

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

twitter:title: What I'll Miss About Hollywood

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 Hills Were Alive

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

twitter:title: The Hills Were Alive

og:title: The Survey Says: Teens in Trouble

og:description: Forty percent of Hollywood’s homeless youths ended up on the streets at some point after having been removed from their homes by a city, county or...

article:tag: Homelessness

twitter:title: The Survey Says: Teens in Trouble

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

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

article:tag: Motley Crue


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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: Ima Robot and the Myth of the MC Hammer Pants

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

og:title: DESERT DOs AND DONTs

twitter:title: DESERT DOs AND DONTs


dest: YE

og:title: Pink Kink

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

twitter:title: Pink Kink


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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: Fashion Weeklings? LA Observed Notices Our Abscence

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


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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...

twitter:title: The streets are screaming at you


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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...

article:tag: Queens of the Stone Age

og:title: MBW on MLK

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

twitter:title: MBW on MLK


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dest: ZA


og:title: Fishbone and Slightly Stoopid, Wiltern - 12/01

og:description: Fishbone, Slightly Stoopid Wiltern, Dec 1 Strange and depressing things were afoot in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Up until arriving at the Wiltern wi...

og:title: G-Funk Week Concluded: 10 Qualities Highly Sought After in a Regulator As Gleaned From Warren G & Nate Dogg's "Regulate"

og:description: 1. Not being just any geek off the streets How To Avoid Being A "Geek Off the Streets: Learn how to how be to handy with the steel and earn your keep. B...

og:title: Arthur Mag Dead

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Dead


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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 ...

twitter:title: Bitch Please

og:title: Style Spawn

twitter:title: Style Spawn

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


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og:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose

og:description: I was still posting some shots taken in the alleys south of Melrose where CBS crew puts up a lot of new work when I made a return trip and found a few n...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose


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dest: VN

og:title: Kyoto Decadence

og:description: When it opens this weekend, Rob Marshall's adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha will already be trailing a long stream of scandal: the Japanese community i...

twitter:title: Kyoto Decadence

og:title: Frankie B. Jeans & Genes

twitter:title: Frankie B. Jeans & Genes

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

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

og:title: I Play Joan Rivers

og:description: Yeah, it's that time again. Hollywood is all closed up, and hundred of movie fans have begun to line up outside the Kodak Theater, hoping to catch a gli...

twitter:title: I Play Joan Rivers

og:title: Tonight in LA: Berlin techno from Apparat, performed with live band

og:description: Berlin-based techno artist Sascha Ring, who records under the pseudonym Apparat, has recorded some of the most beguiling and adventuresome electronic mu...


dest: BY

og:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

twitter:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

og:title: Godlike Geniuses! Jane's Addiction to reunite, solve the mystery of "dark matter"

og:description: Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Hildegard von Bingen, Albert Einstein, Susan Sontag, Manic Street Preachers: the smartest of our breed, humans whose brains te...

og:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose

og:description: Just half a block away from the oil hyenas on Melrose is Bicycle Kitchen. Across from that gathering place for cyclists is this mural: We think the arti...

twitter:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose


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og:title: Killer Fashion Instincts

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

twitter:title: Killer Fashion Instincts


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dest: US

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: 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...


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dest: TR

og:title: Marc Cooper: Clinton Campaign Stung By Third-Place Finish

og:description: Des Moines - After a stunning defeat and finishing third in Thursday night's Democratic caucuses, Senator Hillary Clinton congratulated Barack Obama and...

og:title: These Clowns Are With Me

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

twitter:title: These Clowns Are With Me

og:title: LA Times Seemingly Unfamiliar with "Spoiler Alert" Concept

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

article:tag: David Simon


og:title: Baby Love

og:description: My secret is out and it's one that big tees, loose sweaters and even my favorite empire waist dresses just aint gonna hide anymore. I'm knocked up&helli...

twitter:title: Baby Love


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og:title: El Dud

og:description: Quelle bummer! On Friday night I'd just enjoyed a lovely meal with a group of friends at the Sunset Junction French bistro Cafe Stella (I ...

twitter:title: El Dud

og:title: Jim White, Amoeba, 3/24

og:description: Jim White Amoeba, March 24 Jim White's songs depend on a good deal of atmosphere, and no doubt when he plays tonight (Tuesday) at the Silent Movie Theat...

twitter:title: Jim White, Amoeba, 3/24

og:title: She's Got the Wicked Style

twitter:title: She's Got the Wicked Style

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...

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

og:title: Happy Skull Hair Clips

twitter:title: Happy Skull Hair Clips


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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...


src: RU

og:title: A Style Councilette is Born!

twitter:title: A Style Councilette is Born!

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

og:title: Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

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

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...

twitter:title: Schlockgirl


src: IR

og:title: Discovering Jandek: his oeuvre & some typical Jandek jams

og:description: The sounds Jandek documents on his records are clearly intentional, yet it'd be nearly impossible to argue those sounds provide anything more than a voy...

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: I’m Only Five Foot Two

og:description: Tonight, a trifecta of punk with the Saints, Buzzcocks and Stooges. But first, another panel (I think I am the only one interested in these things). Chu...

twitter:title: I’m Only Five Foot Two


src: BD

og:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

og:description: Seventh Letter crew member RIME, aka Jersey Joe, will be showing new work at Ghettogloss this Friday, March 7. The show will run for a couple of weeks, ...

article:tag: Business

twitter:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss


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

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

og:title: Fashion Week Warrior

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

twitter:title: Fashion Week Warrior

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: Paxilback - It's An L.A. Story

og:description: Here's how the story goes. A boy moves to L.A. from Brooklyn. Let's call him Daniel. Daniel Stessen. Why not. And let's imagine he looks something like ...

twitter:title: Paxilback - It's An L.A. Story


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dest: BR

og:title: Cuckoo for Haiku

twitter:title: Cuckoo for Haiku


dest: BD

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: 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


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dest: IQ

og:title: The Goddess Provides

twitter:title: The Goddess Provides

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

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

article:tag: Roxy Tonight

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


src: ML

dest: SO

og:title: Who wants their P TV?

og:description: My pals at World of Wonder (who did the amazing 24 hour James St. James podcast this past Sat.- see previous posts) have been hinting about it for a whi...

twitter:title: Who wants their P TV?


dest: JP

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: Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

og:description: I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. ...


src: BR

dest: FR

og:title: Former Developer of Sunset Skyscraper Files for Bankruptcy

og:description: A few weeks ago, the LA Weekly first reported about Molasky Pacific, a Las Vegas-based real estate firm, selling its share of the old CBS TV-and-radio c...

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: Movie money vs. music money. Also, more evidence of why Dylan rules.

og:description: Glenn Hansard on the prospect of moving to LA post-Oscar: "Everybody just assumed we were going to move to Hollywood, and next year try to get another o...

og:title: Romantic Pic O' The Day - Alien Rape Fantasy

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

article:tag: Linda Immediato

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


dest: CS

og:title: Sonic Youth: They Are Not Rock. They Curate Rock.

og:description: Marc Jacobs asked Sonic Youth to leap. Their response was "How high?"

og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

twitter:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War


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

og:title: Joe Joe's World

twitter:title: Joe Joe's World


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dest: IN

og:title: Rabbit Season

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

twitter:title: Rabbit Season

og:title: Searching for real resistance on May Day

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

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: 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


dest: CN

og:title: Smokin' Safari Sam's

twitter:title: Smokin' Safari Sam's


og:title: Jesus & Mary Chain, Wiltern, 10/23

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

article:tag: The Jesus and Mary Chain

twitter:title: Jesus & Mary Chain, Wiltern, 10/23


og:title: Get The Fuck Up Goes Bonkers

og:description: Normally I don't like listening to the radio when I am working. It is, frankly, a distraction. But oh what sweet distractions were to be had on last nig...

twitter:title: Get The Fuck Up Goes Bonkers


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dest: SD

og:title: Fashion Week

twitter:title: Fashion Week


dest: YE


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dest: KE

og:title: Killer Fashion Instincts

twitter:title: Killer Fashion Instincts

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!


src: TR

dest: ZM

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

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...

og:title: Bitter Sweet

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

twitter:title: Bitter Sweet

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

og:title: Mama Mia

twitter:title: Mama Mia


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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.

og:title: Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

og:description: What you can do to help poor Diddy regain his reputation.

og:title: American Apparel Branches Out

og:description: Cause not all pedophiles like girls...Wait a cotton brief minute!!!  Do you think that's Dov Charney's crotch?...

article:tag: Dov Charney

twitter:title: American Apparel Branches Out


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og:title: Smashbox DAy TWO: The Verdict:  Heatherette is Fierce

og:description: Ok, I've finally gotten out of my Heatherette-induced K-hole. I've had a lot of time to think about what I saw. If you asked me yesterday what I thought...

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


src: CN

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: Studebaker near Staples

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

twitter:title: Studebaker near Staples

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

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

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?

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...


dest: ES

og:title: Back in Black

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

twitter:title: Back in Black

og:title: Playin' With the Queen of Hearts: Susan Cianciolo Show

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...

article:tag: Eating Out

twitter:title: No No No...

og:title: Hilarity ensues at the opening of new John Varvatos store at former CBGB's site

og:description: Reminder from NYC: It kind of sucks here now. Our favorite placard from the protesters: "One small loss of a music space, one giant leap for pants."


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og:title: Star Me Kitten: Can LA Handle Another Fashion Week?

og:description: This just in: The Standard Downtown will be hosting Kitten Fashion Week, created by designer and publisher Mike Vensel to allow designers who don't have...

og:title: SXSW Postmortem...but first a word from our sponsors

og:description: Now you name your band Fuck Buttons and you figure: that'll keep the wolves of commerce at bay, right? Well, welcome to the brave new world of indie rock.

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


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og:title: Alan Del Rosario: What About Prom?

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

twitter:title: Alan Del Rosario: What About Prom?


src: MN

og:title: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers announce two area shows

og:description: Hot on the heels of LA Weekly's map of Tom Petty's Los Angeles, and a few days prior to their appearance at the Super Bowl, Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker...

article:tag: Hollywood Bowl


dest: MY

og:title: Villaraigosa's Mini-Me, John Perez

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

twitter:title: Villaraigosa's Mini-Me, John Perez

og:title: Erasure and Smashing Pumpkins News

og:description: FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Viper Room There was a lively and fashionable crowd at the Viper Room Friday night for MSO PR's soiree celebrating the launch of their...

twitter:title: Erasure and Smashing Pumpkins News


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dest: JP

og:title: Gwen takes a bath

twitter:title: Gwen takes a bath


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dest: KR

og:title: Beards, Blazers & Glasses or Jens Lekman, This Charming Man

og:description: Every time I write about Jens Lekman, I'm tempted to compare him to Morrissey, even though I know I shouldn't. After all, both songwriters specialize in...

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: Flesh for Fantasy

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

twitter:title: Flesh for Fantasy


og:title: Oh, Ya-Ya

twitter:title: Oh, Ya-Ya

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

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

article:tag: P.M. Dawn

og:title: Fox's Tail - Assistants March

og:description: “Every place has a completely different personality, like, Sony is kinda angry, Fox is where all the really cool people hang out and Radford gets ...

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og:title: International Anthem

twitter:title: International Anthem

og:title: Billion Dollar Belle

twitter:title: Billion Dollar Belle


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og:title: You Should Listen to Mr. Fish

og:description: And by "listen," I mean "look" or "read." LA Weekly's political cartoonist and equal opportunity offense machine Mr. Fish was listed by Best Life magazi...

article:tag: Magazines

twitter:title: You Should Listen to Mr. Fish

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...

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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: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau

og:description: We arrived back at Vibiana Saturday well into the all-day BoxEight Eco-Nouveau event which included spoken word, a couple of films and a music performan...

twitter:title: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau


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og:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction

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

og:description: When buildings come down in Hollywood it does a couple of things. It exposes older pieces that may have been well hidden before hand, and it usually fre...

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: 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: Kids of Widney High, Amoeba, 2/28

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

twitter:title: Kids of Widney High, Amoeba, 2/28

og:title: Deadly Syndrome at Detour

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

twitter:title: Deadly Syndrome at Detour

og:title: Germs, Adolescents, Key Club, 12/28

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

article:tag: The Adolescents

twitter:title: Germs, Adolescents, Key Club, 12/28

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

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...


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og:title: My City May Be Gone, But...

twitter:title: My City May Be Gone, But...

og:title: To Live And Try In LA

twitter:title: To Live And Try In LA


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og:title: Portraits of a Lady...and a Tramp

twitter:title: Portraits of a Lady...and a Tramp

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...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park


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og:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

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

twitter:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

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: Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, Orpheum Theatre, 11/09

og:description: Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals November 9, 2007 Orpheum Theatre By Ryan Colditz On a night when everything was still all too complicated and lack...

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: Bravo Bebe!

twitter:title: Bravo Bebe!

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

og: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: Photos: Christmas Day in Santa Monica

og:description: "Ho ho ho, Bush must go! Santa wants peace for Christmas!" shouts the jolly guy on roller blades as he zips by the Hotdog on a Stick stand. A nice lady ...

article:tag: Extreme Sports

twitter:title: Photos: Christmas Day in Santa Monica

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: “Preachy Songs”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 3 of 4

og:description: Elverum on Crass: "I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation."

og:title: Hipster Flu Sweeps The Eastside

og:description: As I type, my friend Brooke is at the Emergency Room of Hollywood Presbyterian hospital getting shot up with antibiotics. You wanna know why? It's becau...

article:tag: Bioterrorism

twitter:title: Hipster Flu Sweeps The Eastside

og:title: Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

og:description: The Daily Swarm collects an argument currently consuming the web regarding the relative merits of L.A.'s reigning superstar DJ, Steve Aoki. A few days b...

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

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og:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

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

twitter:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

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: Flooding in Hancock Park and Larchmont

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

article:tag: Ted Soqui

twitter:title: Flooding in Hancock Park and Larchmont


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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: No Age Plays in the River

og:description: ...and then the cops came. Jay Babcock of Arthur Magazine, the recently re-launched counter-cultural journal, sent out a hush-hush e-mail Saturday, Nov....

article:tag: No Age (Band)

twitter:title: No Age Plays in the River

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: Check it Out: A New Los Angeles Billboard Database

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

article:tag: Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety


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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...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

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

og:title: Blogolicious

twitter:title: Blogolicious

og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

og:title: Mountain Goats, The Annuals, Natural History Museum, 6/6

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


og:title: The David Lynch Tribute Show Was Stolen by... Duran Duran?

og:description: Moby, Donovan, Lykke Li, Jim James, that lady who sang a cappella in "Mulholland Drive" and David Lynch himself were all there. But the night belonged t...

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...

article:tag: Coups

twitter:title: Murakami Revoked

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: ROCK ROYALTY, ANYONE?

twitter:title: ROCK ROYALTY, ANYONE?

og:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

twitter:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs


og:title: Grupo Fantasma, Echoplex, 2/14

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

twitter:title: Grupo Fantasma, Echoplex, 2/14

og:title: Queer Town: No Time For Gay Losers

og:description: On Monday, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen officially certified the anti-gay marriage ballot measure. If passed, the initiative would overturn...

article:tag: World Politics

twitter:title: Queer Town: No Time For Gay Losers

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: 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....

og:title: LA Weekly Pulitzer Streak Ends

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

twitter:title: LA Weekly Pulitzer Streak Ends


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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: Fashion Week

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

twitter:title: Fashion Week


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

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

article:tag: Roxy Tonight

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


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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!

og:title: Jane's Addiction reunion at the El Rey, April 23

og:description: These days there’s every reason to be skeptical of a reunion concert. After the breakup we watch our heroes get older, buy their post-Great-Band s...


og:title: Ask And You Shall Receive

twitter:title: Ask And You Shall Receive

og:title: Red Carpet Patrol

twitter:title: Red Carpet Patrol