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

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og:title: The 10 Best Local Albums Of 2007

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

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og:title: Love It To Death!

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

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

og:title: Part of Arroyo Art Project Destroyed

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og:title: Calendar Girls

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

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

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

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og:title: The Verdict on Writers: All Bloody Nuts (Phew)

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

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

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

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

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

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og:title: Lollapalooza Photos

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

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og:title: Why Biz Markie Should Have Known From the Get-Go That He Was More Than "Just a Friend"

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og:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse

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og:title: Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories

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og:title: Pause & Rewind-Rhyme & Reason

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

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og:title: Dance Into the Fire

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og:title: Coachella Sunday Photos

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

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

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og:title: Remembering LA Firefighter Brent Lovrien

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og:title: SMASHBOX final days

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

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

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

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

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og:title: Rockin' in the Tree World

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og:title: Golden Globes Bitchfest

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og:title: Biggie Smalls Shuts Down Sunset Boulevard

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og:title: Kids Get Retarded at City Hall, Make Out in Confessionals

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og:title: Pedro Guzman Suing Government for Wrongful Deportation

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og:title: Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

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og:title: Evenings Become Eclectic

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og:title: Alive at the D!ve

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og:title: Ozomatli, Weapon of Choice at HOB, 12/20/07

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

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og:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

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og:title: Amazon's MP3 Bargains

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og:title: Children of a Richer God

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

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og:title: Naked Raygun, Knitting Factory, 12/7

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og:title: Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams

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og:title: Slick Mural on Santa Monica Blvd. near Sunset

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og:title: Tom Waits' Anti-Scalping Plan

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article:tag: Tom Waits

twitter:title: Tom Waits' Anti-Scalping Plan


dest: ET

og:title: Stop Making Sense

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

twitter:title: Stop Making Sense

og:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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

article:tag: Clothing

twitter:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

og:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

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

twitter:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

og:title: 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...

twitter:title: We Heart Denim...Honest


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

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

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

article:tag: Celebrity News

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

og:title: Newsflash: Iceland is not as unbearably cool as one imagines

og:description: Icelandic innovation includes the "bumper dumper," a flip-down toilet seat on trucks' rear end for use in the wild.


dest: CN

og:title: It's All Geek To Me

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

twitter:title: It's All Geek To Me

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

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

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

og:title: "smashing" "pumpkins" "reunite"

twitter:title: "smashing" "pumpkins" "reunite"


src: IR

dest: MX

og:title: The Rapture at the Mayan, 7/25

og:description: If you haven’t yet experienced the phenomenon of people walk-dancing, apparently the best place to witness this is at a Rapture show. Here’s...

twitter:title: The Rapture at the Mayan, 7/25

og:title: KROQ Acoustic Christmas - Day One

og:description: Above: Avenged Sevenfold Above and below: Paramore cracks it open! Above and below: Serj Tankian Rise Against rocked it! Gave props to Naked Raygun Show...

twitter:title: KROQ Acoustic Christmas - Day One

og:title: Myspace Taste of the Week

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

twitter:title: Myspace Taste of the Week

og:title: Live in L.A.: Tokyo Police Club at the Troubadour

og:description: Driven by sporadic guitars and pulsating urgency, their danceable garage rock has been compared to the Strokes.  They opened with lead singer/bassist Da...


src: MX

dest: US

og:title: LACMA Raided! Updated With Search Warrants

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

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

og:title: Don't Stop Believin'

twitter:title: Don't Stop Believin'

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?


src: TW

dest: LA

og:title: Euro Flava

twitter:title: Euro Flava


src: SD

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

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

og:title: Love it or Leave it

twitter:title: Love it or Leave it

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

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

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

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


src: IT

og:title: BRIAN LICHTENBERG

og:description: There was something that made me feel sexy about the unveiling of Brian Lichtenberg’s Spring and Summer Collection at the Museum of Architecture a...

twitter:title: BRIAN LICHTENBERG

og:title: Fashion Week

twitter:title: Fashion Week

og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

og:title: Brows, blowouts and Oscar bloggin'

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

twitter:title: Brows, blowouts and Oscar bloggin'

og:title: Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday

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

twitter:title: Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday


src: ZA


src: US

og:title: Rise of the writers

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

twitter:title: Rise of the writers

og:title: The bad rap on the 'death' of the boompa beat

og:title: Out Today in Stores: Larry Norman, "The Father of Jesus Rock," Gets Anthologized

og:description: You don't get a head of hair like that without a little divine intervention, and Larry Norman, who, beginning in the late 1960s, started singing about h...

article:tag: Jesus Rock

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: Chino Prison Guard Accused of Nazism on Hunger Strike

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

article:tag: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment


dest: PL

og:title: Dave Navarro Wants The Style Council Naked

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

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

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

og:title: Cobrasnake at Fashion Week, NYC

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

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Cobrasnake at Fashion Week, NYC


og:title: Old Crow Medicine Show, Avalon, 8/8

og:description: It pains me to say this about Old Crow Medicine Show, because the Nashville quintet just seem so nice.  Kind.  Smiley.  Like the good country boys they ...

article:tag: Nashville

twitter:title: Old Crow Medicine Show, Avalon, 8/8

og:title: Any Given Sunday

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

twitter:title: Any Given Sunday

og:title: Stroke My Orb

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

twitter:title: Stroke My Orb


src: VN

dest: ID

og:title: M.I.A. – Kala

og:description: She proposes in her new disc that this is the Third World Democracy, and there’s no arguing here. M.I.A. did a lot of jumping from continent to co...

article:tag: Oscar Pascual

twitter:title: M.I.A. – Kala

og:title: Skinny Bitches, Orange Men and Rockin' Wild Boys

og:description: Sick of the post-Emmys coverage yet? Even if you only a watched a smidge of the entertainment shows the past two days, you know more than enough. Where ...

og:title: Justice, Teddybears, Satellite Party

og:description: The show didn't end after Kinky, but my laptop battery did. After a full day of jogging up and down the streets to catch good bands, things seemed to sl...

twitter:title: Justice, Teddybears, Satellite Party

og:title: Into the Groove

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

twitter:title: Into the Groove

og:title: On the List?

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

article:tag: Tom Anderson

twitter:title: On the List?


dest: SA


dest: EG

og:title: Shower Power

twitter:title: Shower Power

og:title: Rockin' in the Tree World

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

article:tag: Holidays

twitter:title: Rockin' in the Tree World

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

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


og:title: Anti-gang Founder Marroquin Gets Prison

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

twitter:title: Anti-gang Founder Marroquin Gets Prison

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

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

og:title: 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...

twitter:title: Christmas Charity Shows


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

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

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

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

og:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

twitter:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

og:title: Damn that Jonathan Gold!

twitter:title: Damn that Jonathan Gold!

og:title: Once more in the River

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

twitter:title: Once more in the River


src: BD

dest: LR

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 ...


src: JM

dest: NG

og:title: Where Do You Get Off?

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

twitter:title: Where Do You Get Off?

og:title: Glen and Marketa at the Oscars

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

twitter:title: Glen and Marketa at the Oscars

og:title: Heads or Tails

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

article:tag: Documentaries

twitter:title: Heads or Tails

og:title: Maria Shriver for Obama

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

twitter:title: Maria Shriver for Obama

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


src: AF

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...

twitter:title: The Atkins Advantage


src: LV

dest: TH

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: The Queering of Cosmo

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

twitter:title: The Queering of Cosmo

og:title: The Weekend in Music: Quiet Storm Action with Keith Sweat, Abe Vigoda, Punky Reggae and The Parson Redheads

og:description: If you're looking for some nookie this weekend, as in: your special one has been hesitatin', and you've been motivatin' but there is no reciprocatin', w...

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

og:description: The Kills, The El Rey, May 21, 2008 By Jeff Weiss Photos by Timothy Norris There’s something primal about the Kills. Not some sort of cheap $2 voo...

article:tag: Robin Head

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

og:title: Claremont Folk Festival

og:description: By Ryan Colditz Get the folk out of the city on Saturday and mosey on over to Clarmont (just a few miles past the Glass House in Pomona) for the 28th An...

twitter:title: Claremont Folk Festival


src: CN

dest: SD

og:title: Who's the Best: Debating DJ Khaled

og:description: Last week, DJ Khaled announced the creation of his We the Best Music, a new vanity label that will be distributed and released under the Def Jam umbrell...

twitter:title: Who's the Best: Debating DJ Khaled

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

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

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

og:title: Cupcake Challenge Winners (We Called It)

og:description: Cupcake Challenge took place Saturday in Hollywood. Read about the overload of sugar, butter, chocolate, frosting and wine here. The winners have finall...

article:tag: Cupcakes


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

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

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...

twitter:title: The Glamorous Life

og:title: Who's That Girl?

twitter:title: Who's That Girl?

og:title: Kids Get Retarded at City Hall, Make Out in Confessionals

og:description: Thousands of urban urchins took hits on bowls and marveled at their shroom trails while sitting on the steps of City Hall during the LA Weekly's Detour ...


dest: MW

og:title: RIP: Bingo

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

twitter:title: RIP: Bingo

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

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

og:title: Shootin' At The Walls of iTunes (bang bang)

article:tag: Internet Music Services

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...


src: UG

dest: PG

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

og:title: Emos prepare to rumble in Tijuana, march for peace in Mexico City

og:description: The nationwide assault campaign against emos in Mexico continues to surge forward, as word is spreading that emos will be hunted and beaten by anti-emo ...

article:tag: San Diego

og:title: Crazy Antiks

twitter:title: Crazy Antiks

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...


src: IN

dest: IN

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

og:description: Coachella, Day One It was hard to watch, honestly. There was blood all over the place. The security guys kept pulling Jack White off of Vampire Weekend ...


og:title: Coachella news: Kraftwerk! Madness! Portishead! Madness! Roger Waters! Kraftwerk!

og:description: This just in! (kudos to Joshua Glazer at Urb)...

article:tag: Electronic Music

og:title: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed

twitter:title: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed


src: PK

dest: UG

og:title: Still Waters

og:description: I got 5 minutes. That's it. 5. To ask John Waters whatever I could. But you may have to wait for the LA Weekly "list issue" to read what he had to say, ...

article:tag: Christmas

twitter:title: Still Waters

og:title: Simpsonize Yourself!

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

twitter:title: Simpsonize Yourself!

og:title: 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: Euro Flava

twitter:title: Euro Flava


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

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

article:tag: Cat Power


src: AZ

og:title: DUI Crackdown Greets the First Weekend of April in L.A.

og:description: Los Angeles police and sheriff's deputies have DUI checkpoints and patrols planned for the weekend.


og:title: Girls In Films

twitter:title: Girls In Films

og:title: Devendra Banhart jumps the shark

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

article:tag: Topanga

twitter:title: Devendra Banhart jumps the shark


dest: ET

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

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

article:tag: Mel Schwartz

og:title: 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: New Beck song, "Chemtrails," streaming at Beck.com

og:description: photo by Autumn Dewilde It starts off lightly with Beck Hansen in soft, sad falsetto mode, his moan high lonesome and sounding like a missing Beach Boys...

og:title: Delta of Urine

twitter:title: Delta of Urine

og:title: LAPD Motor Pool, Under the 101

og:description: Recently I found myself wandering outside the back of Union Station and beyond the Denny's that sits under the Hollywood freeway. There'ss some prime, f...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: LAPD Motor Pool, Under the 101


src: NP

dest: CN

og:title: Obama Iron Man

og:description: Photo by Shelley Leopold. Spotted on LaBrea over the weekend - Iron Man posters retooled. If there was any pro-Hillary or McCain street art we'd post th...

twitter:title: Obama Iron Man

og:title: Shary Boyle tonight at Hammer: Visual collaborator with Will Oldham and Swan Lake

og:description: Shary Boyle at the Hammer Museum By Casey Henry No one has better appropriated the image of the chain-smoking single mother than Shary Boyle. Her expans...


src: DE

og:title: Coachella news: Kraftwerk! Madness! Portishead! Madness! Roger Waters! Kraftwerk!

twitter:description: This just in! (kudos to Joshua Glazer at Urb)...

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

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

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

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...


dest: BR

og:title: Bad Brains, House of Blues, 9/26

og:description: Bad Brains House of Blues, Sept. 26 By Matthew Flesicher “The bourgeoisie had better watch out for me. All throughout this so called nation, we do...

twitter:title: Bad Brains, House of Blues, 9/26


dest: CM

og:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

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

twitter:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


src: PE

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: Ernie Krivda at Catalina Tonight

og:description: By Brick Wahl Ya gotta love my buddy Dean, he's a nut. And inspired, brilliant, funny, knows everything and everybody Sicilian motormouth of a musician ...

twitter:title: Ernie Krivda at Catalina Tonight

og:title: The Best Grammy Party I Got Invited To (but not really)

og:description: SATURDAY, midnight, my bedroom When I saw the invite in my inbox to Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy shin-dig in Beverly Hills, I couldn't rsvp fast enoug...

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

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

og:title: Rivers Run Dry

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

twitter:title: Rivers Run Dry


dest: TR

og:title: Marc Cooper in Iowa: Obama Strategist "Optimistic"

og:description: Obama campaign top strategist David Axelrod said, "He can't help but be optimistic about tonight's results." He described the energy bubbling at the Iow...

og:title: Tamil Twofer: M.I.A. at the Echoplex

og:description: Before you even start reading this, open a new browser window and head to http://www.myspace.com/mia. After a few seconds, M.I.A.'s recent single, &ldqu...

article:tag: M.I.A. (Musician)

twitter:title: Tamil Twofer: M.I.A. at the Echoplex

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: Sooo Trashy!

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

twitter:title: Sooo Trashy!


dest: PK

og:title: David Bazan, Spaceland, 12/11

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

twitter:title: David Bazan, Spaceland, 12/11


dest: US

og:title: Old Crow Medicine Show, Avalon, 8/8

og:description: It pains me to say this about Old Crow Medicine Show, because the Nashville quintet just seem so nice.  Kind.  Smiley.  Like the good country boys they ...

article:tag: Nashville

twitter:title: Old Crow Medicine Show, Avalon, 8/8

og:title: Ekundayo on Melrose

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

article:tag: stickers

twitter:title: Ekundayo on Melrose


og:title: Corey Lynn Calter: Pretty Persuasion

twitter:title: Corey Lynn Calter: Pretty Persuasion

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

og:title: Linda Immediato

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

twitter:title: Linda Immediato

og:title: It's All Geek To Me

twitter:title: It's All Geek To Me


src: CL

dest: CI

og:title: Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

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

twitter:title: Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

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...


src: MM

dest: BD

og:title: NY Hates Jack. Does LA?

og:description: Jack is Dead; Radio Listeners Rejoice The Village Voice reports that their version of Jack FM, which is probably very close to our version of Jack FM on...

twitter:title: NY Hates Jack. Does LA?

og:title: It Ain't Like That Anymore

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

twitter:title: It Ain't Like That Anymore

og:title: Outer Spaceland

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twitter:title: Outer Spaceland

og:title: Camera Eye - Santa Monica and Myra

og:description: All photos by Mark Mauer...

twitter:title: Camera Eye - Santa Monica and Myra

twitter:description: All photos by Mark Mauer...

og:title: Grammy Stylin'

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og:title: Remembering LA Firefighter Brent Lovrien

og:description: Hundreds of firefighters and other emergency workers gathered to remember Los Angeles city firefighter Brent A. Lovrien, who died in a freak accident on...

article:tag: Ted Soqui

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

og:description: In honor of Nate Dogg (who's currently recuperating in a rest home after somehow having a stroke at 38)) and because I really just want to watch old G-F...

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

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

og:title: Back in Black

twitter:title: Back in Black

og:title: LA Times Polls Gays, Not the Opposition

og:description: Yesterday, the LA Times released an amazing poll of Californians' views on same sex marriage. One startling fact--from the gay point of view, at least--...

article:tag: Social Issues

twitter:title: LA Times Polls Gays, Not the Opposition


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og:title: Kevan Hall Kicks off Fashion Week

twitter:title: Kevan Hall Kicks off Fashion Week

og:title: Flea's Bitten

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

twitter:title: Flea's Bitten

og:title: Happy Skull Hair Clips

twitter:title: Happy Skull Hair Clips

og:title: Shary Boyle tonight at Hammer: Visual collaborator with Will Oldham and Swan Lake

og:description: Shary Boyle at the Hammer Museum By Casey Henry No one has better appropriated the image of the chain-smoking single mother than Shary Boyle. Her expans...


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og:title: Cuckoo for Haiku

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

twitter:title: Cuckoo for Haiku

og:title: On the List?

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

article:tag: Tom Anderson

twitter:title: On the List?

og:title: Wale Realizes the Full Potential of the Mixtape

og:description: Last November, Zeus wrote a post dissecting the differences between albums and mixtapes for the benefit of crits and fans who had been mistakenly confla...

og:title: Another Clintonite Bites the Dust

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

twitter:title: Another Clintonite Bites the Dust

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

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

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og:title: Arthur Mag Dead

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Dead

og:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

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

twitter:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

og:title: 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

og:title: Tastes Like Gold!

og:description: Is this Auger making this insane mess? It's one of the most unsettling new pieces I've seen, which makes me think it's life-span will be short - and tha...

article:tag: Painting

twitter:title: Tastes Like Gold!


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

og:description: KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas, Gibson Amphitheater, December 8, featuring Linkin Park, Bad Religion, Serj Tankian, Angels & Airwaves, Avenged S...

og:title: My Conversation with Charles "Cookie" Thornton

og:description: I don't remember much about the conversation, but enough of it to know that this morning when I heard NPR report that a lone gunman had walked into a ci...


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og:title: Coachella news: Kraftwerk! Madness! Portishead! Madness! Roger Waters! Kraftwerk!

og:description: This just in! (kudos to Joshua Glazer at Urb)...

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: Meeting of Styles, L.A. River

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

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


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og:title: Chick Power

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

twitter:title: Chick Power

og:title: Rutling Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

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

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

og:description: Becks is coming to LA in July to start a five year contract with LA Galaxy! He will be paid around $1million a week! LA will become the soccer ep...

og:title: Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants

og:title: I Am...Doll Parts

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

twitter:title: I Am...Doll Parts


og:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

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

twitter:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

og:title: 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: 10 Reasons Why The Wu-Tang Clan's "The Heart Gently Weeps" Video Might Be Their Worst Ever

og:description: 1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video's main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answe...

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

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


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og:title: Calendar Girls

og:description: 2008 is around the corner and you need a new calendar doncha? Forget about The Girls Next Door and check out this foxy bunch, all whom happen to be awes...

twitter:title: Calendar Girls

og:title: Out Today in Stores: Larry Norman, "The Father of Jesus Rock," Gets Anthologized

og:description: You don't get a head of hair like that without a little divine intervention, and Larry Norman, who, beginning in the late 1960s, started singing about h...

article:tag: Jesus Rock

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

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

og:title: Phenomenal (Grammy) Women

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

twitter:title: Phenomenal (Grammy) Women


og:title: Saturday Eve of Destruction

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

twitter:title: Saturday Eve of Destruction

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

og:description: The Coachella mainstage on Saturday night was a glory to behold, a spirit-lifting evening celebrating joy through technology, through contemplation and ...

article:tag: Hot Chip

og:title: The Weekend in Music: Quiet Storm Action with Keith Sweat, Abe Vigoda, Punky Reggae and The Parson Redheads

og:description: If you're looking for some nookie this weekend, as in: your special one has been hesitatin', and you've been motivatin' but there is no reciprocatin', w...

og:title: New John Mellencamp Album Unveiled with Fancy New T-Bone Burnett-developed High-Def Process

og:description: It's going to take a lot for me to forgive John Mellencamp for 2007 and that the whole Ford Chevrolet commercial nightmare. While it's true that maybe I...

article:tag: T-Bone Burnett

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...


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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


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og:title: Mixner for Obama

og:description: David Mixner, a gay politico who was an integral part of former Bill Clinton’s kitchen cabinet during his successful 1992 run for the White House,...

twitter:title: Mixner for Obama


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og:title: Fashion Week, Take 2: Marvin & Quetzal line dazzles

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

article:tag: Clothing and Accessories

og:title: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell

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

twitter:title: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell

og:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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

article:tag: Clothing

twitter:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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 Parson Redheads-”Got It All”

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

article:tag: Apple iPod

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


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

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

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.


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og:title: Bald and Er, Bald

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

twitter:title: Bald and Er, Bald

og:title: “Die in Anacortes”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 4 of 4

og:description: What happens in Anacortes, stays in Anacortes.

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


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

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

og:title: Stop, in the Name of Vanity

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

article:tag: Commuting

twitter:title: Stop, in the Name of Vanity

og:title: Pellicano Rebooted

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

twitter:title: Pellicano Rebooted


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

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

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

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


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dest: CN

og:title: Where's The Good Dance Music in LA?

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

twitter:title: Where's The Good Dance Music in LA?

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

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

og:title: Oh What a Feelin'

twitter:title: Oh What a Feelin'


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og:title: Crass chose iconography and dissed photography

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


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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...


og:title: The Great Rap Swindle

og:description: Yeah, Kanye West keeps it real. First his Bush comments on the Katrina telethon, then his stance on the MTV/Britney debacle. (One word: “exploitat...

twitter:title: The Great Rap Swindle

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

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

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

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

og:title: Highland Ave. South of Sunset Blvd.

og:description: Three large tags on a wall in an empty lot. Painted some time in June or July? More pictures after the jump. See something cool? Email pictures to lurke...

twitter:title: Highland Ave. South of Sunset Blvd.


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dest: CO

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Billy Bob Thornton

og:title: So Domestic It's Scary

twitter:title: So Domestic It's Scary


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

og:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

twitter:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs


src: UA

og:title: Bodies moving at MX Beat

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

twitter:title: Bodies moving at MX Beat

og:title: Mermaids at Deborah Lindquist

twitter:title: Mermaids at Deborah Lindquist

og:title: Hurts So Good

twitter:title: Hurts So Good

og:title: Meeting of Styles, 5th Batch

twitter:title: Meeting of Styles, 5th Batch

og:title: Manu Chao Sits Down with Falling James

og:description: Here's a link to an extended version of Falling James' interview with Manu Chao appears on L.A. Weekly's website this week.  They cover his first L...

twitter:title: Manu Chao Sits Down with Falling James


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dest: UA

og:title: Queer Town: Good Fun at the Cock Ring Toss

og:description: It is six o'clock on a warm Saturday evening, and the Christopher Street West Gay Pride Festival on San Vicente Boulevard is jammed. Nothing much is hap...

article:tag: Consumer Electronics

og:title: MBW All Over LA

og:description: Mr Brainwash is on fire. His solo art show opens in just two weeks, and he's been pasting and painting his icons all over LA. So which gallery is he sho...

twitter:title: MBW All Over LA

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

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


og:title: Get Your Book On: Book Expo America 2008

og:description: It was so deserted at the Book Expo America at the Convention Center today, I was beginning to despair about the state of the book industry. But it turn...


src: UG

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.


dest: KR

og:title: Alan McGee says "No Need" for Record Shops Anymore

og:description: Alan McGee, legendary British record exec, (referenced in an earlier post about the LA version of his Death Disco club night), posted the following...

og:title: Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

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

og:title: In The Hood

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

twitter:title: In The Hood

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

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


og:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

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

twitter:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

og:title: Candice Held: Eco Fashion Gets Sexy

twitter:title: Candice Held: Eco Fashion Gets Sexy


dest: NG

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

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

og:title: Donita Sparks' Mushroom Mullet

og:description: I remember going to see L7 at London's Brixton Academy as a teenager. It was 1992, I was 15, and L7 were, in my opinion, the crown princesses of grunge....

twitter:title: Donita Sparks' Mushroom Mullet

og:title: Tonight at the Silent Movie Theatre: Becky Stark, Mia Doi Todd and Others

og:description: Our favorite sprightly happy-cake, Becky Stark, presents a "first glimpse" screening of her band Lavender Diamond's new film, Imagine Our Love, tonight ...


dest: MD

og:title: Gas Snaps Four Bucks

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

twitter:title: Gas Snaps Four Bucks


dest: ET

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: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#30-26)

og:description: 30. Jay-Z -American Gangster Is American Gangster that good or was Kingdom Come that mediocre? They're suprisingly surprisingly similar when you think a...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#30-26)

og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 (#25-20)

og:description: 25. Chamillionaire ft. Slick Rick: "Hip Hop Police" Chamillionaire's a good rapper. His flow kind of reminds me of Krayzie Bone had he grown up chugging...


og:title: Cuckoo for Haiku

twitter:title: Cuckoo for Haiku


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dest: BR

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...

og:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

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

twitter:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate


og:title: New Beck song, "Chemtrails," streaming at Beck.com

og:description: photo by Autumn Dewilde It starts off lightly with Beck Hansen in soft, sad falsetto mode, his moan high lonesome and sounding like a missing Beach Boys...

og:title: BOXeight: Cosa Nostra

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

twitter:title: BOXeight: Cosa Nostra


src: IT

og:title: Where Do You Get Off?

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

twitter:title: Where Do You Get Off?


og:title: Tamil Twofer: M.I.A. at the Echoplex

og:description: Before you even start reading this, open a new browser window and head to http://www.myspace.com/mia. After a few seconds, M.I.A.'s recent single, &ldqu...

article:tag: M.I.A. (Musician)

twitter:title: Tamil Twofer: M.I.A. at the Echoplex

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

og:title: Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan

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

article:tag: Hulk Hogan

twitter:title: Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan


dest: UG

og:title: Murals of Estrada Courts

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

twitter:title: Murals of Estrada Courts

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Entertainment


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og:title: ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

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

twitter:title: ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

og:title: Rivers Run Dry

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

twitter:title: Rivers Run Dry

og:title: 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: Underworld, Hollywood Bowl, 9/10

og:description: Underworld Hollywood Bowl, September 9, 2007 By Jonah Flicker Underworld’s recent appearance at the Hollywood Bowl felt strangely momentous. No de...

twitter:title: Underworld, Hollywood Bowl, 9/10

og:title: Seattle Pop Conference kicks off talk of diaspora and hegemony (what else is new?)

og:description: There's a reward at the end of this post for those of you who read it, by the way. There are a few words that you don't hear in mixed company, and two o...

article:tag: Seattle Pop Conference


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og:title: Gen Art Turns 10

og:description: (Gen Art's fresh faces) There it was— the Peterson Automotive Museum splayed out along the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire. I could see part of its...

twitter:title: Gen Art Turns 10

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

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

og:title: 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


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dest: VE

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

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

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

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: Cuckoo for Haiku

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


src: ET

dest: CI

og:title: The Burning Man Returns

og:description: By Randall Roberts The Burning Man, which was prematurely torched by burner-assassin Paul Addis on Tuesday morning, has returned. This morning at about ...

twitter:title: The Burning Man Returns

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

og:description: 20. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala On first listen, Jens Lekman reminds you of Morrissey. Like the ex-Smith's frontman, the 26-year old Swede's ...

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

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 ...

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

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. ...


dest: BD

og:title: Before the Hyenas

og:description: The wall full of Hyenas wearing oil company bling was previously a Seventh Letter wall covered in a lot of complex, almost dizzying, writing. These pict...

twitter:title: Before the Hyenas

og:title: The Justice League

og:description: Stewart Copeland, Slash, Flea, Pete Yorn, Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Travis Barker, Steve Vai, Cypress Hill and more come out for Tom Morello at The T...

twitter:title: The Justice League

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: Community Farm on Sunset in Silver Lake

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

article:tag: Staten Island

twitter:title: Community Farm on Sunset in Silver Lake

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

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

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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...


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

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


og:title: So Domestic It's Scary

twitter:title: So Domestic It's Scary

og:title: They're Back!

twitter:title: They're Back!

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.

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: Daft Punk at Vegoose

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

twitter:title: Daft Punk at Vegoose

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

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


og:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

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

twitter:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

og:title: Art Brut - Considering another Trip to LA

og:description: I love Art Brut as though they were my own children. This band has it all - the wit, the hair, the affable cockney charm...they also have tickets and bo...

article:tag: Eddie Argos

og:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

twitter:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

og:title: Letting the Days Go By

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

twitter:title: Letting the Days Go By

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, ...

twitter:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss


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

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

article:tag: Cat Power

og:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

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

twitter:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

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

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


og:title: Truckin’ Down the ‘Vard with Papa Joe

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

twitter:title: Truckin’ Down the ‘Vard with Papa Joe

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

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

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


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og:title: Prince added to Saturday's Coachella Line-Up

og:description: This just in: Prince has joined this year's line-up for the ninth COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA (Friday, ...

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

og:title: How Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract” Explains Why (Many) Women Like Assholes

og:description: One of the most common complaints I hear from my female friends is that they always seem to fall for "assholes." Quite mistakenly, they ask for advice o...

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

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


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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...


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og:title: Making Eyes At Sir Paul, Chatting Up Rodney B

og:description: Even though he's a millionaire rock star, it totally sucks to be Sir Paul McCartney. I know, I saw him last night at the EMI Grammy party on the Paramou...

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: American Art Core: Behind the Orange Curtain

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

og:description: The Coachella mainstage on Saturday night was a glory to behold, a spirit-lifting evening celebrating joy through technology, through contemplation and ...

article:tag: Hot Chip

og:title: Dance Into the Fire

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

twitter:title: Dance Into the Fire


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

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

og:title: UTLA: This election wasn't about change

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

twitter:title: UTLA: This election wasn't about change

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

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


og:title: Sara Lov, Silverlake Lounge, 4/12

og:description: Photos by Timothy Norris Puppet show! Cool! Why don't more bands have interesting opening acts like this, I thought, as The Cinnamon Roll Gang set up sh...

twitter:title: Sara Lov, Silverlake Lounge, 4/12

og:title: Is Don Henley Dead?

twitter:title: Is Don Henley Dead?

og:title: It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

og:description: CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practical...


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og:title: Manu Chao Sits Down with Falling James

og:description: Here's a link to an extended version of Falling James' interview with Manu Chao appears on L.A. Weekly's website this week.  They cover his first L...

twitter:title: Manu Chao Sits Down with Falling James

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: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed

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

twitter:title: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed


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og:title: The bad rap on the 'death' of the boompa beat

og:title: Earth Day Events Around L.A.

og:description: All day long at 3700 Wilshire Blvd., between Oxford and Serrano Aves. there will be live music on a solar-powered stage, as well as a bike raffle. Micha...

article:tag: Earth Day

twitter:title: Earth Day Events Around L.A.

og:title: “Die in Anacortes”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 4 of 4

og:description: What happens in Anacortes, stays in Anacortes.


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og:title: Gas Snaps Four Bucks

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

twitter:title: Gas Snaps Four Bucks

og:title: Voodoo Knife Holders and Other Holiday Gift Ideas

og:description: Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your cheating boyfriend or sleazy boss? Well here's one that says it all - the Voodoo Knife Holder. Made in Ita...

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

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

og:title: K-Cars lot on Santa Monica Blvd.

og:description: The K-Cars auto lot on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood is a bit of a landmark, though if you're like most people, you've probably only ever just driven ...

twitter:title: K-Cars lot on Santa Monica Blvd.

og:title: Emos prepare to rumble in Tijuana, march for peace in Mexico City

og:description: The nationwide assault campaign against emos in Mexico continues to surge forward, as word is spreading that emos will be hunted and beaten by anti-emo ...

article:tag: San Diego


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og:title: Any Given Sunday

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

twitter:title: Any Given Sunday

og:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

og:description: Here's a list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin next week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for ...

twitter:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW


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og:title: Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, March 1

og:description: Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday, March 1 photos by Timothy Norris You knew Saturday night was turning ma...


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og:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

twitter:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

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

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

og:title: Christian Brando to Be Autopsied

og:description: The death of Christian Brando is officially a Los Angeles County Coroner's case. According to sources, the coroner's office took possession of the 49-ye...

twitter:title: Christian Brando to Be Autopsied

og:title: Nightclubs of Hollywood, Ballrooms of Mars