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og:title: Tapes 'N Tapes, Troubadour, 5/8

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

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

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

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og:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

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og:title: Cock-a-Doodle Doo Doo

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og:title: The 10 Best Local Albums Of 2007

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og:title: The Man Behind The Tan

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og:title: The Return of The Watch

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

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og:title: Introducing Teenage Kicks + A Moment of Rock Crit Glory

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og:title: Sue Wong Gets Fresh

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og:title: Arroyo Art Project Whitewash Hits AP

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

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og:title: Clementine Takes Grilled Cheese Month Very Seriously

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og:title: Peanut Butter Wolf to spin at Obama's California party tonight

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article:tag: James Rockwell

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

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og:title: Fun in the Sun

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og:title: Candice Held: Eco Fashion Gets Sexy

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og:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

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og:title: Babes in Oi-land

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

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og:title: Happy Valentine's Day

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og:title: Sometimes It Sucks To Be A Woman

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og:title: Screw Yourself for Charity

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og:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

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

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

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og:title: MANDOE On Gower Near Fountain

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og:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

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

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

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og:title: Into the Groove

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

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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...

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og:title: Introducing Teenage Kicks + A Moment of Rock Crit Glory

og:description: Welcome to Teenage Kicks...

og:title: Sometimes I Like Santa Monica

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og:title: Chills, Hills and (Cheap) Thrills

og:description: Catching the fashion bug takes on new meaning during flu season, or so we've discovered. The collections and presentations at Mercedes Benz fashion Week...

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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...

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

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

article:tag: toys

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


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og:title: Tryptophan-tastic!

og:description: Black Friday is my idea of hell. I would rather pay more money to have less people in my way while I shop. Who are all these people who get up at 3 am t...

twitter:title: Tryptophan-tastic!

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

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

og:title: Detour Band Schedule

og:description: Saturday, October 6. Gates are at noon. Here are the stage lineups: City Hall East Bloc Party 10-11:30 Teddybears 8:30-9:30 Satellite Party 7:10-8:00 Ki...

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og:title: Deep Blue

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

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twitter:title: Deep Blue

og:title: Conde Anarchists

twitter:title: Conde Anarchists

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

og:description: On record cover design: "But you don't get much work to do when you're young, because you haven't learned how to do it yet... You're given simple, dispo...


og:title: Brian Setzer Christmas, Gibson, 12/22

og:description: All photos by Timothy Norris. More after the jump...

twitter:title: Brian Setzer Christmas, Gibson, 12/22

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

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

og:title: Doncha Wish Your Girlfriend Was A Reality Slut Like Me?

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

article:tag: Relationships

og:title: Beirut at Avalon, 10/10

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

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og:title: Frankie B. Jeans & Genes

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og:title: Laurence Tribe Tangles with CBS and L.A. City Hall

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

og:title: Vegoose: This is How they Dance

og:description: Random observations on dancing at Vegoose and elsewhere: photographs by Timothy Norris Shins fans don't dance. I know this because it was at the beginni...

twitter:title: Vegoose: This is How they Dance

twitter: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...

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


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

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

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: Wait, That's Not Pam Anderson!

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

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

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


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

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og:title: Jumpin Jack Flashed

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

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twitter:title: Jumpin Jack Flashed

og:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat

twitter:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat

og:title: Lefsetz vs. Hilton?

og:description: A new odd couple is born.

twitter:title: Lefsetz vs. Hilton?

twitter:description: A new odd couple is born.

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

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

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

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og:title: Picture this

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

twitter:title: Picture this

og: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: 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...

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og:title: Moz Is Sick :(

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og:title: Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

og:description: Bummer to start Monday off with bad news, but, alas, this news from Hot Chip's people: "Hot Chip have been forced to cancel tonight's show at the El Rey...

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

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og:title: M.B.W. on Melrose

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twitter:title: M.B.W. on Melrose

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: 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 ...

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

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og:title: Muggs-ing for the Camera

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twitter:title: Muggs-ing for the Camera

og:title: Blek le Rat Stencils up in Silver Lake

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

twitter:title: Blek le Rat Stencils up in Silver Lake

og:title: It's Record Store Day!

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twitter:title: It's Record Store Day!

og:title: Going to the Grammys...

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twitter:title: Going to the Grammys...


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."...

og:title: Grammy Nominations

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

twitter:title: Grammy Nominations

og:title: Some Thoughts on the "Best. Politician. Inspired. Single. Ever." Also, Nazis. Also, Jesus. Also, NFL football.

og:description: Los Angeles's own Sa-Ra create a rallying cry for Obama. Plus, a bunch of other crap this video brought to mind. Super random, super fun.


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...

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twitter:title: LAPD Motor Pool, Under the 101

og:title: The streets are screaming at you

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twitter:title: The streets are screaming at you


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

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twitter:title: Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

twitter:description: Bummer to start Monday off with bad news, but, alas, this news from Hot Chip's people: "Hot Chip have been forced to cancel tonight's show at the El Rey...

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: 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: Boys Town - Not Safe for Girls?

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

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

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og:title: Mexican Coke vs. Pepsi Retro, Part 2

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

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og:title: SABER's Heart of Darkness

twitter:title: SABER's Heart of Darkness

og:title: License to Ill

twitter:title: License to Ill

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.


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og:title: The Atkins Advantage

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

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twitter:title: The Atkins Advantage

og:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

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twitter:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

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: Burn these get-ups!

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

twitter:title: Burn these get-ups!

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


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og:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC

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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...

og:title: Stroke My Orb

twitter:title: Stroke My Orb


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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...


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og:title: Getting to the Gala...

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twitter:title: Getting to the Gala...

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

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

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

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

og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

twitter:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

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

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

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

og:title: Tapes 'N Tapes, Troubadour, 5/8

og:description: Tapes ‘n Tapes The Troubadour, May 8, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Photos by Timothy Norris About halfway through the first night of Minnesota’s Ta...

twitter:title: Tapes 'N Tapes, Troubadour, 5/8


og:title: Madame X

twitter:title: Madame X

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: 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: SXSW Flashback: Even Jandek is a SXSW whore

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

og:title: Mama Mia

twitter:title: Mama Mia


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

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

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

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

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

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

article:tag: P.J. Harvey

og:title: Road Trip: Day 4 (still in Santa Fe)

og:description: It dawns on me this groggy, windy morning that Santa Fe Time (SFT) is one hour ahead of Los Angeles Time (LAT). I rationalize a lazy day to acclimate to...

article:tag: Santa Fe

twitter:title: Road Trip: Day 4 (still in Santa Fe)


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

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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: 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...

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: Radiohead not playing L.A. until late summer at the earliest

og:description: The bad news: we're gonna have to wait until the fall. The good news: we've got frequent flier miles. RADIOHEAD CONFIRMS MAY 2008 U.S. DATES & VENUES RA...

og:title: 'Billy Babes in da Hood

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og:title: Kinky at Detour

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

article:tag: Mexico City

twitter:title: Kinky at Detour

og:title: Revok Saber and others on Virgil

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twitter:title: Revok Saber and others on Virgil


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og:title: Advance Warning: David Bowie's Classic 1972 Bootleg, Live Santa Monica '72, To See the Light of Day

og:description: David Bowie in Santa Monica in 1972 (photo by Jon Levicke) We just received an advance of the soon to be issued Live in Santa Monica '72 disc, the first...

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

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

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

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

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

og:title: Getting to the Gala...

og:description: When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate...


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

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

og:title: It's A Wrap- LA Fashion Week Trend Report

og:description: Another LA Fashion week has ended and now that we’ve recovered –from the clothing cacophony and that nasty cold that’s been going arou...

og:title: Snooze City

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og:title: Ryan Adams, Royce Hall, 1/30

og:description: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Royce Hall UCLA, Jan. 30 By Timothy Norris There’s something inspiring about visiting college campuses. The architectu...

twitter:title: Ryan Adams, Royce Hall, 1/30

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

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

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

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


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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: 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: Sorry Mack Reed

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

twitter:title: Sorry Mack Reed


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

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

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

og:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

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twitter:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

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

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

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...


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

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

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


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dest: IN

og:title: KHAAN! The Greatest Syllable Ever Told

og:description: It's funny the first time Shatner yells it out. It is, after all, the named-turned-curse heard throughout a galaxy. That one word - that one syllable - ...

twitter:title: KHAAN! The Greatest Syllable Ever Told

og:title: A Nip Driver remembered: Mike Webber's Legacy

og:description: Remembering Mike Webber of the Nip Drivers By Jula Bell Being an underground musician in L.A., I'm inundated with music. Everyone is up there rocking ou...

og:title: Street art in Tokyo

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

twitter:title: Street art in Tokyo

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


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og:title: Shows and Tickets Coming Up

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

twitter:title: Shows and Tickets Coming Up

og:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

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: Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

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

article:tag: Games

og:title: Rock Exclusive - Slash Gives Up Drinking Jack Daniels


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dest: US

og:title: Prince William's killer two-step

twitter:title: Prince William's killer two-step

og:title: Pretty Baby

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

twitter:title: Pretty Baby

og:title: 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: 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: Sometimes It Sucks To Be A Woman

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

article:tag: Botox

twitter:title: Sometimes It Sucks To Be A Woman


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og:title: Black Celebration

twitter:title: Black Celebration

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...


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dest: MX

og:title: Echo Park Chickens - 2 & 3

og:description: Once again, it's Cache/K4P's impossible to miss chickens along Sunset and on the occasional side street. All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump...

twitter:title: Echo Park Chickens - 2 & 3


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og:title: Fun in the Sun

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

twitter:title: Fun in the Sun

og:title: OBEY Your Thirst?

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

twitter:title: OBEY Your Thirst?


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dest: ZA

og:title: Vote Finke in '08!

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

twitter:title: Vote Finke in '08!


og:title: Welcome to the Jungle

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

twitter:title: Welcome to the Jungle


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dest: CO

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

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

article:tag: Jonny Bell

og:title: 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: Oh What a Feelin'

twitter:title: Oh What a Feelin'

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


src: MX

dest: NG

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

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

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: Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)

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

article:tag: Dov Charney

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

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

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

og:description: I am 33, the same age of Jesus. Clearly those kids in their teens and early twenties who you're meeting have some work to do to get as arrogant as me. B...


src: ID

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: Rime Art Opening at Ghettogloss

og:description: New works by Jersey Joe aka RIME went on display at Ghettogloss on Friday. More photos after the jump. Check out the art in person at Ghettogloss on Gle...

twitter:title: Rime Art Opening at Ghettogloss

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...

article:tag: Entertainment

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

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

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

og:title: 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...


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dest: ZW

og:title: Pellicano Trial Bombshell

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

twitter:title: Pellicano Trial Bombshell

og:title: Coachella Sunday Photos

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

article:tag: Coachella

twitter:title: Coachella Sunday Photos

og:title: Live in L.A.: Slint at the Henry Fonda Theatre

og:description: The tension between the dweebs and the rockers was palpable last night at the Henry Fonda Theatre. The dweebs, giddy at the opportunity to hear Louisvil...

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

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

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

og:title: Deniece Williams, Emotions / Sunset Junction; Saturday, August 18, 2007

og:description: It was the bitterest of ironies. Deniece Williams' opened her Sunset Junction set with an a cappella version of "God is Amazing," punctuated with sista ...


dest: ET

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

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


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dest: MA

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

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

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

article:tag: The Addams Family

og:title: Hot Week at Dublab: Live Neil Hamburger, Peanut Butter Wolf, Anticon, Lucky Dragons and others

og:description: Our favorite local music collective/studio/radio station/creative non-profit/record label/DJ team/inspiration to us all, Dublab, is offering an amazing ...

article:tag: Peanut Butter Wolf


dest: CD

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: 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

og:title: Last Night: Pearl Jam in Düsseldorf

og:description: Pearl Jam Düsseldorf, Germany, ISS Dome June 21, 2007 By Ryan Colditz The German crowd at the ISS Dome Germany was more reminiscent of a fütbo...

twitter:title: Last Night: Pearl Jam in Düsseldorf

og:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones

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

twitter:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones

og:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

twitter:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux


dest: MZ


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og:title: STYLE WARS TONIGHT!

og:description: I'm not a "designer," but I am a fierce competitor -and a STYLE Councilor- so I figured why not? Watch me compete TONIGHT against 7 other fearless fashi...

twitter:title: STYLE WARS TONIGHT!

og:title: Like Father Like Son

twitter:title: Like Father Like Son


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dest: SS

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: 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 ...

twitter:title: Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

og:title: Best Shows in LA, 2007

og:description: Do we need to count down backwards? For a change, why not start with the best and just work our way back to the merely excellent. Frankly, when you get ...

twitter:title: Best Shows in LA, 2007

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...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours


og:title: Snooze City

twitter:title: Snooze City

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

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

og:title: 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: Nightclubs of Hollywood, Ballrooms of Mars


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dest: GB

og:title: Tastemakers Class of 2008

og:description: Cute brunette girl invites people to sample the hors d'oeuvres at the Tastemakers "Class of 2008" public exhibition, spearheaded by style-guru Laurie Pi...

twitter:title: Tastemakers Class of 2008


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dest: CL

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: Concerts and Tickets Coming Up

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

twitter:title: Concerts and Tickets Coming Up

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...

twitter:title: Buzzcockin'

og:title: Last Night's Love-in

og:description: "Everybody knows I give the best blowjobs in Hollywood, but there's gotta be something in it for me too," said a fairly subdued Courtney Love at her not...

twitter:title: Last Night's Love-in


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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: Coachella Day Two: The Accidental Tourist, or Can We Please All Agree To Stop Using the Phrase “Coachella-Ella-Ella-Ella”

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

og:title: Gorilla in East Hollywood

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

twitter:title: Gorilla in East Hollywood


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dest: BR

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: Neil Hamburger: The LA Weekly Interview

og:description: Interview by Jonah Flicker Comedian Neil Hamburger released the musically excellent and thoroughly funny Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners (Drag City...

article:tag: Weird Al Yankovic

twitter:title: Neil Hamburger: The LA Weekly Interview


dest: IN

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

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

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

og:title: Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

og:description: Put horror king Clive Barker in a room with some naked people and some body paint, and you've got an enraptured crowd of "art lovers" in your gallery. T...

twitter:title: Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

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: Unwanted Neighbors for Hollywood Sign?

og:description: By Casey Henry The Hollywood sign may soon have unexpected neighbors. Today, Teles Realtors held a press conference declaring the 138 acres of hillside ...

twitter:title: Unwanted Neighbors for Hollywood Sign?


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

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: L.A. River Along the Golden State - Two


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...


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og:title: Barry Bold

twitter:title: Barry Bold

og:title: Looks Good Enough to Eat

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

article:tag: Sophia Loren

twitter:title: Looks Good Enough to Eat


og:title: Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

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

twitter:title: Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble


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og:title: Rock the Bells '07

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

twitter:title: Rock the Bells '07

og:title: 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...


src: IT

og:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 1

twitter:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 1

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

og:title: Banksy Back in LA?

og:description: Bobby S. saw and snapped this on Melrose near the New Beverly on the site of a previous Banksy piece. Check out his bigger picture and write-up here on ...

article:tag: Street Art

twitter:title: Banksy Back in LA?


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dest: AR

og:title: 15 More Minutes

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

twitter:title: 15 More Minutes

og:title: F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour

og:description: The Yeah Fest formerly know as Fuck has announced its summer tour across the Eastern, Southern, and Middle United States, and a little bit of Canada. Ba...

twitter:title: F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour

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: 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: 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: Black Mountain's Stormy High

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

article:tag: Los Campesinos!

twitter:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

og:title: GOLDEN GIRLS

og:description: The Sex and the City movie is finally gonna happen. Whoo hoo! The edited repeats of the show on TNT may be sanitized sex-wise, but they’re still s...

twitter:title: GOLDEN GIRLS


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

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

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

og:title: Vegoose: This is How they Dance

og:description: Random observations on dancing at Vegoose and elsewhere: photographs by Timothy Norris Shins fans don't dance. I know this because it was at the beginni...

twitter:title: Vegoose: This is How they Dance


og:title: Black Lips, El Rey, 2/14

og:description: Black Lips, El Rey, February 14 By Jonah Flicker Reports of Black Lips’ onstage antics have apparently been greatly exaggerated. The Atlanta quart...

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og:title: CBS Crew Rat Fink

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

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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: 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: Well-Spent Youth

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

twitter:title: Well-Spent Youth


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

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

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 ...


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og:title: L.A. residents slam Special Order 40, Clear Channel shakedown

og:description: Correction below: Alleged murderer Espinoza was released from jail by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, not the LAPD. Update: The LA City Cou...

og:title: Hellbilly Poetry

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

twitter:title: Hellbilly Poetry

og:title: Love it or Leave it

twitter:title: Love it or Leave it

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: Vote Finke in '08!

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

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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: Maude!

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

twitter:title: Maude!

og:title: Cobrasnake Party Photos

twitter:title: Cobrasnake Party Photos

og:title: Damn You Kids and Your Hip Hop Music

og:description: (Photo of Brother Reade by day19.com)  Things went from "totally awesome!" to "way less than rad..." in mere seconds after cops shut down the Broth...

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

twitter:title: Damn You Kids and Your Hip Hop Music

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

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

article:tag: Taz Arnold


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

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose

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twitter:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose

og:title: Just Another Night On The Strip

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

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

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

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

og:title: 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...

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

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

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og:title: Reggae, Ska, and Resistance

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

article:tag: Mexico City

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og:title: Leslie and the Lys, Devon Williams at the Echoplex, 3/7/2008

og:description: The Church of Glitter. Photos by Rena Kosnett. For the rest of this review, body glitter = sweat. Iowa’s mainframe zaftig-white-female hip hop sta...

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...


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og:title: Radiohead: Rainbows in Curved Air

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

twitter:title: Radiohead: Rainbows in Curved Air

og:title: Fun in the Sun

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

twitter:title: Fun in the Sun


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

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

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

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: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

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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,...

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og:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

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og:title: Alive at the D!ve

twitter:title: Alive at the D!ve


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

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

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

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

og:title: Looks Good Enough to Eat

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

twitter:title: Looks Good Enough to Eat


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

twitter: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: Nomadaz: Street Art from Spain and Italy at Scion

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

og:title: Friday Video: Ozark Jubilee

og:description: The Ozark Jubilee: Li'l Liza Jane and more clips from the 1950s TV show

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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: Echo Park Murals & the Chickens

og:description: Love them or hate them, Cache's chicken murals along Sunset Blvd in Echo Park have become quite the landmarks. And considering a lot of the street art i...

twitter:title: Echo Park Murals & the Chickens


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

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

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

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

og:title: 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...

og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

og:title: Marilyn Manson 08/25

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

twitter:title: Marilyn Manson 08/25


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og:title: The Old Spaghetti Factory in Hollywood

og:description: The recently shuttered Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset east of Vine didn't take long to get a new paint job. These pieces went up within the past week. ...

twitter:title: The Old Spaghetti Factory in Hollywood

og:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

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

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

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

og:title: Smashbox Day Three: GREY ANT RETURNS!!

og:description: Grey Ant hasn't been seen on an LA runway since 2005. And thank God for its return! It was my favorite show so far this fashion week. It seemed to incor...

twitter:title: Smashbox Day Three: GREY ANT RETURNS!!


og:title: Land of the Lost

twitter:title: Land of the Lost


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

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

article:tag: Rena Kosnett

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

og:title: 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: Talladega Shoes

twitter:title: Talladega Shoes

og:title: Un-Fashion Week

twitter:title: Un-Fashion Week

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: Today and tomorrow

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

twitter:title: Today and tomorrow

og:title: 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?

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


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

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

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

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: Grammys from the Press Room

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

twitter:title: Grammys from the Press Room

og:title: Mika, Superhero in Red Levis

twitter:title: Mika, Superhero in Red Levis


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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

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...

og:title: New Orleans Jazzfest

twitter:title: New Orleans Jazzfest


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

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

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

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

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

og:title: Sexy Mamas

twitter:title: Sexy Mamas

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

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


og:title: Last Chickens in Echo Park

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

twitter:title: Last Chickens in Echo Park

og:title: 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: Leslie and the Lys, Devon Williams at the Echoplex, 3/7/2008

og:description: The Church of Glitter. Photos by Rena Kosnett. For the rest of this review, body glitter = sweat. Iowa’s mainframe zaftig-white-female hip hop sta...

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

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

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

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


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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: 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...

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


og:title: I Just Shit My Pants

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

twitter:title: I Just Shit My Pants

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


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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: The Style Council After Hours

twitter:title: The Style Council After Hours

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

og:title: Road Trip: Day 1

twitter:title: Road Trip: Day 1


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og:title: Buddhas

og:description: The Buddhas can be seen at the corner of Western and Marathon A map to the hidden Buddhas: More on RETNA, one of the Buddha's creators, here...

twitter:title: Buddhas

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

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

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


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og:title: Waiting For Bowiedot

og:description: Waiting for Bowiedot Act I Caroline: Let's go! Linda: We can't Caroline: Why not? Linda: We're waiting for Bowiedot ok, that's my interpretation ...

twitter:title: Waiting For Bowiedot

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

og:description: The sun was already going down fast by the time I noticed this gem on retaining walls going up a hill in Echo Park. I took some shots anyway and decided...

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


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

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

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


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dest: CN

og:title: Euro Flava

twitter:title: Euro Flava

og:title: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

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

article:tag: Government and Politics

twitter:title: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

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

og:description: One of the pleasant little surprises of this year's festival is the arrival of Jamaican born, British-bred poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. He made his mark b...

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...

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


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og:title: Fuck Saint Patrick

og:description: It's St. Patrick's day and I'm working my regular shift at new Melrose hotspot, The Village Idiot, which is a welcoming haven on this Saturday night for...

article:tag: Eating Out

twitter:title: Fuck Saint Patrick

og:title: ROCK ROYALTY, ANYONE?

twitter:title: ROCK ROYALTY, ANYONE?

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

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

article:tag: toys


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og:title: Maude!

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

twitter:title: Maude!

og:title: Happy Valentine's Day

og:description: This will be the second Valentines Day in a row I have no official object of affection. But this year, February 14th singledom feels perfectly OK, ...

twitter:title: Happy Valentine's Day

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: Mex-Emo News Coverage Explodes

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

twitter:title: Mex-Emo News Coverage Explodes


og:title: 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: Pigeon Poop Blamed for Safari Sam's Sign Spontaneous Combustion

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

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

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: G-Funk Week Continued: 10 Things An Alien Would Conclude About Mankind After Watching the Video For "Girls All Pause"

og:description: 1. If one were ever to try to lure a human woman back to one's spaceship for a late-night probe, it is highly advisable to try to find women dancing in ...


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

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

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

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

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


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og:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin

twitter:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin

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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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: 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

og:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

twitter:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

og:title: Romance Not Dead At Chulo Pony

twitter:title: Romance Not Dead At Chulo Pony

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

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

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


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og:title: Jean Genie Lets Herself Go

twitter:title: Jean Genie Lets Herself Go


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dest: IT

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: 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...

article:tag: Mark Mauer


src: CN

dest: GT

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: Florida 2000 Hits The Grove

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

twitter:title: Florida 2000 Hits The Grove

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: Risin' Up, Straight to the Top!

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

twitter:title: Risin' Up, Straight to the Top!

og:title: Absolutely FAB-ulous!

twitter:title: Absolutely FAB-ulous!


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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: 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: Lovin' Cups

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

article:tag: Clothing and Accessories

twitter:title: Lovin' Cups

og:title: Here's Mud in My Eye

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

twitter:title: Here's Mud in My Eye

og:title: Morphine Generation Goes Country Club

twitter:title: Morphine Generation Goes Country Club


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og:title: Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

og:description: That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped l...

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

og:title: Oh, Ya-Ya

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

twitter:title: Oh, Ya-Ya

og:title: Monsters Ball

twitter:title: Monsters Ball

og:title: Goriest album covers

og:description: Dallas Observer has a nice set of disgusting album covers on their site worth checking out. Above, an image from one of John Zorn's projects. Ahh, John ...

twitter:title: Goriest album covers


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


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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


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og:title: Smashing Pumpkins, San Diego, 9/19

og:description: Smashing Pumpkins SDSU Open Air Theatre, Sept. 19 By Carlie Armstrong As far as southern California nights go, Wednesday night was alarmingly chilly. Ho...

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og:title: Not worn out (yet)

twitter:title: Not worn out (yet)

og:title: BBB (Big, Bold and Beautiful)

twitter:title: BBB (Big, Bold and Beautiful)


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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...

twitter:title: I’m Only Five Foot Two

og:title: Dueling Dungarees

twitter:title: Dueling Dungarees


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og:title: LA Fashion Week Buzz

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

twitter:title: LA Fashion Week Buzz


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og:title: Revok Saber and others on Virgil

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

twitter:title: Revok Saber and others on Virgil


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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


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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.

twitter:title: Lollapalooza Photos

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...

og:title: Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

og:description: Put horror king Clive Barker in a room with some naked people and some body paint, and you've got an enraptured crowd of "art lovers" in your gallery. T...

twitter:title: Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

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

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


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og:title: Beirut at Avalon, 10/10

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

article:tag: Rena Kosnett

twitter:title: Beirut at Avalon, 10/10

og:title: L.A. River

og:description: This post starts a look at a few miles of the L.A. River going north from Atwater Village to the 134 that will continue for the next week or so. Because...

article:tag: Local Politics

twitter:title: L.A. River

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


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og:title: Blek le Rat Stencils up in Silver Lake

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

twitter:title: Blek le Rat Stencils up in Silver Lake

og:title: Reggae, Ska, and Resistance

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

article:tag: Mexico City

twitter:title: Reggae, Ska, and Resistance


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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: Live in L.A.: Spoon at Little Radio

og:description: Spoon Little Radio, downtown, July 16 By John Curry Photos by Timothy Norris It was at least 100 degrees in the slam-packed, converted, downtown warehou...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

twitter:title: Live in L.A.: Spoon at Little Radio

og:title: Bob the Lefsetz vs. Antony & the Johnsons. ALSO, some words about Coachella.

og:description: Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.

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

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

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: The One Am Radio's "Brittle Filament" and some feedback on Elv(e)rum

og:description: The One AM Radio's video "A Brittle Filiment" was a recent YouTube hit, and a wonderful introduction to Hirway's thing.

article:tag: Media

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...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours


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

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

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: Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest

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

og:title: Vince McMahon Gets Star on Hollywood Blvd.

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


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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: The Night Marchers, All Star Lanes, Feb. 10

og:description: The Night Marchers All Star Lanes, Feb. 10, 2008 By Ryan Ritchie Photos by Timothy Norris Two songs into The Night Marchers’ L.A. debut on Monday ...


dest: JP

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

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

article:tag: Entertainment

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

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

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

og:title: Giant Joystick Lands in Echo Park

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

twitter:title: Giant Joystick Lands in Echo Park

og:title: License to Ill

twitter:title: License to Ill

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

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

article:tag: South by Southwest Festival


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dest: GB

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."

og:title: Conflict!

og:description: Perhaps no show on television is more suited to the wonders of TiVo, or in my case, an Adelphia DVR/cable box, than the Academy Awards. Way too many com...

twitter:title: Conflict!

og:title: Radiohead: Rainbows in Curved Air

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

twitter:title: Radiohead: Rainbows in Curved Air

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

og:title: Foo Fighters, The Forum, March 5

og:description: Foo Fighters The Forum, with Against Me!, Serj Tankian March 5, 2008 Photos and text by Timothy Norris More photos here. What can be said about the Foo ...

article:tag: Serj Tankian

twitter:title: Foo Fighters, The Forum, March 5


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dest: BR

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

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

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

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

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

og:title: Flea's Bitten

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

twitter:title: Flea's Bitten


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og:title: Outside of the Box

twitter:title: Outside of the Box

og:title: Sticky Fingers

og:description: Ever since Sunday’s Felt Club craft fair at the Ukrainian Culture Center, I’ve been dreaming of pin cushions. Lots and lots of pin cushions....

twitter:title: Sticky Fingers

og:title: Vote Finke in '08!

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

twitter:title: Vote Finke in '08!

og:title: Brian Setzer Christmas, Gibson, 12/22

og:description: All photos by Timothy Norris. More after the jump...

twitter:title: Brian Setzer Christmas, Gibson, 12/22

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

article:tag: Internet Music Services