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og:title: The Queering of Cosmo

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og:title: Seymour Stein Loves The Flairz

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og:title: Gas Snaps Four Bucks

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og:title: Echo Park Murals & the Chickens

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og:title: For Joe Donnelly

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og:title: Delta of Urine

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og:title: Marilyn Manson 08/25

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

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

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og:title: Thousands Predicted To Attend Fallen SWAT Officers Funeral

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og:title: Echo Park Chickens - 2 & 3

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og:title: Whoreson Bitches and Coincidence

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

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

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og:title: Street art in Tokyo

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og:title: Yagman to Surrender

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

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og:title: Bravo Bebe!

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

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og:title: Dodos, Akron/Family, Natural History Musuem, 5/2

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og:title: Neil Hamburger, Spaceland, 3/30

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

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

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og:title: Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

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

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og:title: Sherman Alexie on Margaret Seltzer

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

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og:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

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

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og:title: I Am...Doll Parts

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og:title: Snake Shoe-ter

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og:title: MBW All Over LA

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og:title: Melrose Misplaced

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og:title: Bravo Bebe!

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og:title: The Editors on Jimmy Kimmel live

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og:title: The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex

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og:title: Maria Shriver for Obama

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og:title: Screw Yourself for Charity

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

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og:title: I’m Only Five Foot Two

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og:title: Amy Winehouse's Cocktail Recipe

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

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

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og:title: Cashmere Alert! Sale Tomorrow!

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

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og:title: Amazon's MP3 Bargains

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og:title: Rogue Wave, El Rey, 10/11

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

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

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

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

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og:title: Ten or so from Jonathan Gold in 2007

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

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og:title: Kifune You Up

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og:title: Mama Mia

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og:title: Nomadaz: Street Art from Spain and Italy at Scion

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og:title: Clementine Takes Grilled Cheese Month Very Seriously

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og:title: Seventh Letter "Letters First" Show

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

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og:title: For Joe Donnelly

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og:title: Stevie Wonder at the Greek 9/5

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

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

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

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

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

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og:title: Push and Retna in Koreatown

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og:title: The Goddess Provides

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

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


og:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

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og:title: Meghan's Secret Rendezvous

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og:title: Workin It

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og:title: Mixner for Obama

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

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og:title: The Fug Girls on Rock & Republic in New York: "72 separate, skanky looks!"

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

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

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og:title: DESERT DOs AND DONTs

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og:title: LA Fashion Week Buzz

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og:title: Introspection: An Illustrated Overview

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og:title: Camera Eye - Santa Monica and Myra

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og:title: QUEER TOWN: Obama and the Gays

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og:title: Laughing All The Way To The Banksy

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og:title: Hootenanny Photos

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og:title: Live in L.A.: Peter Bjorn & John

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og:title: Kelly Clarkson New Face of NASCAR

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og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 2 (#19-15)

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og:title: ELLEN'S GAY

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og:title: Biggie Smalls Shuts Down Sunset Boulevard

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og:title: Shower Power

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

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Linda Immediato

og:title: Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories

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

article:tag: Food and Cooking

twitter:title: Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories


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

og:description: Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal) By Ben Westhoff The long awaited fifth Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diagrams, just leaked, and it’s fucking ...

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

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: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

og:description: Down a little driveway alley next to Brooklyn Projects in Echo Park is an excellent collaborative piece between OBEY and SABER. Enjoy: All photos by Mar...

twitter:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

og:title: Cashmere Alert! Sale Tomorrow!

og:description: Wearing cashmere makes me feel validated. Empowered. Like a big girl. So when I noticed my roommate floating around the house in beautiful knitted wraps...

twitter:title: Cashmere Alert! Sale Tomorrow!


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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

og:title: The Frames, 9/6

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

twitter:title: The Frames, 9/6


og:title: KooKoo for Coco

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

twitter:title: KooKoo for Coco

og:title: To Live And Try In LA

twitter:title: To Live And Try In LA

og:title: School of Rock

og:description: The LA Weekly's "Class of 05" music issue is out now (check out my local class favorites piece here) and the yearbook-themed edition sure took me back t...

twitter:title: School of Rock

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

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


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

og:title: Check it Out: A New Los Angeles Billboard Database

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

article:tag: Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety

og:title: Coachella Day Two: Yo! Majesty and Rilo Kiley

og:description: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Day 2 Yo! at the Gobi tent, 7:40 p.m. By Chris Martins Yo! Majesty kept it in their shirts. It's true - the Ta...


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

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

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

og:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello

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

article:tag: Timothy Norris

twitter:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello

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

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

og:title: 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


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

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

article:tag: Christianity

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

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

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


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

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


og:title: Bast Art Opening

og:description: Brooklyn-based street artist Bast opened a rare LA show at New Image Gallery in West Hollywood this past weekend. Click here to see more photos from the...

twitter:title: Bast Art Opening

og:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos

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

twitter:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos


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

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

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

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


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

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

og:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose

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

article:tag: Painting

twitter:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose

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?

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

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

og:title: Kevan Hall Kicks off Fashion Week

twitter:title: Kevan Hall Kicks off Fashion Week


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og:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:description: We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season ...

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:title: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau

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

twitter:title: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau

og:title: South, The Echo, 5/15

og:description: South, The Echo, May 15, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Once upon a time, near the dawn of this decade, James Lavelle's Mo'Wax label ruled the record sto...

twitter:title: South, The Echo, 5/15


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: 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: Live in L.A. Very Be Careful

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

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


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twitter: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 ...

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: Coroner Chronicles: Homicides Down

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

article:tag: Crime and Law

twitter:title: Coroner Chronicles: Homicides Down


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

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

og:title: Phone Talk at Pellicano Trial

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

twitter:title: Phone Talk at Pellicano Trial

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

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


og:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

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

article:tag: Cultural Institutions and Parks

twitter:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl


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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


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og:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

twitter:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

og:title: The Frames, 9/6

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

twitter:title: The Frames, 9/6

og:title: Marc Cooper in Iowa: Zero Hour

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

twitter:title: Marc Cooper in Iowa: Zero Hour

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

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

article:tag: Coachella


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og:title: Morphine Generation Goes Country Club

twitter:title: Morphine Generation Goes Country Club


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@tags: error info

og:title: RIME / Jersey Joe Pix

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: RIME / Jersey Joe Pix


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og:title: Live in LA: Iron Maiden invokes Coleridge, Crowley, Eddie in Irvine

og:description: Iron Maiden at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, May 31 By Skylaire Alfvegren (photos by Anne Varak). “I’ve got to pinch myself and say...


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

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

og:title: Crazy Antiks

twitter:title: Crazy Antiks


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dest: CN


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...


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og:title: Dewey Cox at the Coxy, 12/3

og:description: Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers at the Roxy, Tuesday, December 3 By Randall Roberts You know what? Dewey Cox can kiss my ass. He’s all back and eve...

twitter:title: Dewey Cox at the Coxy, 12/3

og:title: Louis Verdad: Modness of Love

twitter:title: Louis Verdad: Modness of Love


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

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

article:tag: The Jesus and Mary Chain

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

og:title: 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: 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: LA Fashion Week Buzz

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

twitter:title: LA Fashion Week Buzz

og:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose

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

twitter:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose


dest: JP

og:title: Prince Is Coming!

og:description: As LA Weekly readers already know Prince will be performing a string of dates at the Roosevelt Hotel in H-Wood, just around the corner from the LA Weekl...

article:tag: Eating Out

twitter:title: Prince Is Coming!


dest: SN

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

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

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


dest: IN

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: Flooding in Hancock Park and Larchmont

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

article:tag: Ted Soqui

twitter:title: Flooding in Hancock Park and Larchmont


dest: PK

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: Coachella, ah the memories

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

twitter:title: Coachella, ah the memories

og:title: Still Waters

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

article:tag: Christmas

twitter:title: Still Waters

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

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


dest: PE

og:title: Viva la Taxi!

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

article:tag: Empire State Building

twitter:title: Viva la Taxi!


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og:title: Seattle's Bumbershoot

og:description: The Shins, The Lashes, Panic! at the Disco, The Frames, Wu-Tang Clan and many more descended on Seattle for three days of music, arts and fun. Photo by ...

twitter:title: Seattle's Bumbershoot

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

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

article:tag: Seattle Pop Conference

og:title: Portishead mow us down

og:description: Portishead's newly unveiled song, "Machine Gun," rubs your face in change. The mood has shifted from something sexy to something claustrophobic, industr...

twitter:title: Portishead mow us down

og:title: "Talking Heads are the Enemy" (aka Dirty Projectors as Black Flag, Jeffrey Lee Lewis as Crass)

og:description: Has the post-modern condition taken hold to the degree that all artists have left is the ability to comment on what has come before?


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og:title: Coachella: Friday

og:description: (Brief note regarding Lina's very complete Do and Don't list: I'd like to add one thing: DO bring your tickets! I overheard someone saying they got with...

twitter:title: Coachella: Friday


og:title: Devendra Banhart jumps the shark

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

article:tag: Topanga

twitter:title: Devendra Banhart jumps the shark

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

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

article:tag: Ghostface Killah

og:title: 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: 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: Dewey Cox at the Coxy, 12/3

og:description: Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers at the Roxy, Tuesday, December 3 By Randall Roberts You know what? Dewey Cox can kiss my ass. He’s all back and eve...

twitter:title: Dewey Cox at the Coxy, 12/3

og:title: The Old Testament: Fela Kuti

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

twitter:title: The Old Testament: Fela Kuti


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dest: IL

og:title: Vegoose, Day 1

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

twitter:title: Vegoose, Day 1

og:title: Paris Cuffed

twitter:title: Paris Cuffed


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

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

og:title: Rolling on the Coachella Express to Indio

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

og:title: 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


src: IQ

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

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


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dest: TR

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: Sonic Youth at Urban Outfitters, July 21

og:description: Walking through Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade mall, on my way to see Sonic Youth perform at Urban Outfitters, sponsored by Toyota’s Fr...


dest: GH


src: RU

og:title: Melrose Tour

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

article:tag: Tourism

twitter:title: Melrose Tour

og:title: Muggs-ing for the Camera

twitter:title: Muggs-ing for the Camera


src: SO

og:title: Lily Allen Attracts Gwen, Orlando, Lohan, Lennon - and Taylor Dane

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, ...

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

og:description: I got lucky Saturday when just a few blocks from my apartment I came across Retna and Dame working on a new wall on Virgil. Above, Dame working on his p...

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

og:title: 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...


dest: NG

og:title: Grizzly Bear make mustaches actually cool rather than ironically cool.

og:description: When the mustache meme became a thing.

twitter:description: When the mustache meme became a thing.

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

og:description: Led Zeppelin/A Tribute to Ahmet Ertegun O2 Arena, London, December 10 By Steve Baltin As was the case for so many people, Led Zeppelin began my ascent i...

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


src: CN

og:title: MBW on MLK

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

twitter:title: MBW on MLK


dest: CO

og:title: Gulity Pleasures at Ghettogloss

og:description: Ryan Graeff, Sharktoof and Pingping at Ghettogloss This is what's going on in Los Angeles right now: You drive to an art gallery having a show. On the w...

twitter:title: Gulity Pleasures at Ghettogloss

og:title: In Da Club Belamar

og:description: My friend Anne was moving back to San Francisco from San Diego, and she wanted to spend one night in a swanky L.A. hotel by the beach. Only problem was,...

twitter:title: In Da Club Belamar


dest: YE

og:title: Old Crow Medicine Show - A Disssenting Opinion

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

twitter:title: Rolling on the Coachella Express to Indio

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

og:title: 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?

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

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


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og:title: Screw Yourself for Charity

twitter:title: Screw Yourself for Charity

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

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

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

og:description: Photos by Rena Kosnett Claiming that I just happened to catch a Portishead concert during my recent visit to the UK would fashion me a liar. The trip wa...

article:tag: Edinburgh

og:title: Should Auld Aquaintance Be Forgot

og:description: Whew! What a New Year's Eve celebration! I was invited to an Upper East Side mansion, think Mr. Drummond from Diff'rent Strokes, no, think Silver Spoons...

twitter:title: Should Auld Aquaintance Be Forgot

og:title: Label Whores and Logo Wars

og:description: When news of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers lawsuit against our favorite cheapie chic mall chain Forever 21 got some buzz last week, I couldn&rsqu...

twitter:title: Label Whores and Logo Wars


dest: FR

og:title: Hipster Olympics

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

article:tag: Sports

twitter:title: Hipster Olympics


og:title: 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: Steve Aoki Has a Blog

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

twitter:title: Steve Aoki Has a Blog

og:title: Deadly Syndrome at Detour

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

twitter:title: Deadly Syndrome at Detour

og:title: Raiders of the Lost Art

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

twitter:title: Raiders of the Lost Art

og:title: Queer Town: Acrobats at the Abbey, No Shirts at Here

og:description: The nights go nearly sleepless, but the last day of Gay Pride Week is no time to flake out. Promises are made and need to be kept, so I head over to the...

article:tag: Social Issues


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

article:tag: Meghan Fabulous

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

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

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

og:title: Oscars Overall

twitter:title: Oscars Overall

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

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

og:title: Arroyo Seco Mural Saga Continues

og:description: Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...

twitter:title: Arroyo Seco Mural Saga Continues


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

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

og:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:description: We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season ...

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Heavens to Betsey

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

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

twitter:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

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


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dest: NE

og:title: Rivers Run Dry

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

twitter:title: Rivers Run Dry

og:title: Trees stripped down in Venice

og:description: Los Angeles Unified School teacher Michael Zeno was sickened when he pulled into his regular shopping area at Lincoln Boulevard and Rose Avenue in Venic...

article:tag: Venice (California)

twitter:title: Trees stripped down in Venice


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dest: RU

og:title: Folk Yeah! to Big Sur

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

twitter:title: Folk Yeah! to Big Sur

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

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

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

og:title: 17th Annual Divas Simply Singing featuring Natalie Cole, Linda Hopkins, RuPaul and others

og:description: 17th Annual Divas Simply Singing Wilshire Ebell Theater, October 6, 2007 By Ernest Hardy When former choir nun Darlene Koldenhoven let loose a piercing ...

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

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


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dest: CN


og:title: Pause and Rewind: The Show

og:description: I remember watching The Show for the first and only time when I was a freshman in high school. I wasn't very impressed. This was 1995, Biggie was alive,...

twitter:title: Pause and Rewind: The Show

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

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

og:title: Flea's Bitten

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

twitter:title: Flea's Bitten


og:title: 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...

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

og:title: Holy Shit It's Robert Plant

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

twitter:title: Holy Shit It's Robert Plant


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dest: MY

og:title: Another Clintonite Bites the Dust

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

twitter:title: Another Clintonite Bites the Dust

og:title: Label Whores and Logo Wars

og:description: When news of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers lawsuit against our favorite cheapie chic mall chain Forever 21 got some buzz last week, I couldn&rsqu...

twitter:title: Label Whores and Logo Wars

og:title: MBW and MLK Get Greywashed

og:description: It's a fact of life for street artists that their work is going to get covered up, torn down, painted over, or if you're Man One, billed for tens of tho...

article:tag: National Public Radio

twitter:title: MBW and MLK Get Greywashed

og:title: Neil Hamburger Spins Bing Crosby Live at Dublab.com NOW!

og:description: No, really, you should listen to Neil Hamburger's guest DJ slot at Dublab right now...

article:tag: Bing Crosby


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: 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


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og:title: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau

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

twitter:title: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau

og:title: Hootenanny Photos

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

twitter:title: Hootenanny Photos

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

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

article:tag: Clothing and Accessories

og:title: 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


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

og:description: Led Zeppelin/A Tribute to Ahmet Ertegun O2 Arena, London, December 10 By Steve Baltin As was the case for so many people, Led Zeppelin began my ascent i...

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

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

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

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

og:title: Hyperion Ave. and Sunset Blvd.

twitter:title: Hyperion Ave. and Sunset Blvd.


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og:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 2

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 2


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og:title: Once more in the River

twitter:title: Once more in the River

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


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og:title: UNMASKED

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

twitter:title: UNMASKED

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

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

article:tag: Barack Obama


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dest: IN

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...

twitter:title: Getting to the Gala...

og:title: Barry Bold

twitter:title: Barry Bold

og:title: Fashion Week

twitter:title: Fashion Week

og:title: Get Off My Shuz Or I'll Betch Slap You

og:description: Now you too can learn to talk like a transvestite shoe-whore from Tarzana - and it's all thanks to an educational YouTube movie current...

twitter:title: Get Off My Shuz Or I'll Betch Slap You


og:title: License to Ill

twitter:title: License to Ill

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

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

article:tag: Entertainment

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

og:title: American Apparel Branches Out

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

article:tag: Dov Charney

twitter:title: American Apparel Branches Out

og:title: Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

og:description: Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer...


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

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

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

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


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

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

article:tag: Eddie Argos

og:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse

og:description: Walking into the shopping mall with the big pink cherry blossom on the corner of Alameda and 3rd at 8pm on Saturday night, it didn't seem possible that ...

twitter:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse

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

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

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

og:title: Alive at the D!ve

twitter:title: Alive at the D!ve

og:title: No Shit, Sherlock

twitter:title: No Shit, Sherlock


dest: RO

og:title: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 3: Why "1st of Month" is the Greatest Song Ever Written About Welfare

og:description: Sometimes, I feel sorry for the 13-year olds of today. I can't even begin to imagine how disgruntled my adolescence would've been had I been forced to l...


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

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


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og:title: Black Celebration

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

twitter:title: Black Celebration

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

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

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

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

og:title: Presets Preview

og:description: The Presets play Los Angeles Tuesday, May 20 at the El Rey Theater. Sorry, sold out. But hey, don't go away sad. Here's the new video for the "You Are t...

twitter:title: Presets Preview


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dest: CD

og:title: Elf-ing cute!

twitter:title: Elf-ing cute!

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

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


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og:title: Workin It

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

twitter:title: Workin It

og:title: Viva la Taxi!

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

article:tag: Empire State Building

twitter:title: Viva la Taxi!

og:title: Gettin' My Groove Back

og:description: I've been missing in action for a week and you don't wanna know why. It aint glamorous or seedy or anything, but let's just say I've been in a post-NYE ...

twitter:title: Gettin' My Groove Back

og:title: Rogue Wave, El Rey, 10/11

og:description: Rogue Wave El Rey, October 11, 2007 When the red curtains parted, Zach Rogue stood on the drum riser pumping both fists in the air like a prize fighter,...

twitter:title: Rogue Wave, El Rey, 10/11


og:title: Tony Wilson of Factory Records Dead

og:description: The man who founded Factory Records in Manchester, home of Durutti Column and A Certain Ratio (as well as Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays) has...

twitter:title: Tony Wilson of Factory Records Dead

og:title: Out of their "L"ement

twitter:title: Out of their "L"ement

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

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


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og:title: Not worn out (yet)

twitter:title: Not worn out (yet)

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

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

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

og:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:description: We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season ...

twitter:title: Heavens to Betsey


og:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

twitter:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

og:title: Xmas Xcess

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

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

twitter:title: Xmas Xcess

og:title: Wale: Actually Worth the Hype

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

twitter:title: Wale: Actually Worth the Hype

og:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction

twitter:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction


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og:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

og:description: Caroline and I swung by Get The Fuck Up Radio last night, check her blog, coming soon, I'm eating leftovers, working, drinking cheap red wine, and blogg...

article:tag: Technology

twitter:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

og:title: Musicians Get In Free At Safari Sams

og:description: Sam Lanni, the owner of Safari Sams in Hollywood, has decided to let musicians see shows in his club for free. Here's an excerpt from the SS w...

twitter:title: Musicians Get In Free At Safari Sams


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


src: EG

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

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

article:tag: Life Sciences

og:title: Fashion Week

twitter:title: Fashion Week


src: IT

og:title: Mr. T

twitter:title: Mr. T


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

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

og:title: Land of the Lost

twitter:title: Land of the Lost


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

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


og:title: 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: Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories

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

article:tag: Food and Cooking

twitter:title: Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories


src: CN

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

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

og:title: 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


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og:title: Tim Biskup Mural on La Brea

og:description: Yeah, it's actually an ad for Helio... Kind of. There's a small Helio logo off to the left side. But for the most part it's just a cool huge original pa...

twitter:title: Tim Biskup Mural on La Brea


dest: IR

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

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

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: Seventh Letter Wall, Long Gone

og:description: These pictures are from late '07, and never got posted. The plan was to go back at another time, and get over the fences to get more pictures. Unfortuna...

twitter:title: Seventh Letter Wall, Long Gone


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og:title: Hipster Flu Sweeps The Eastside

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

article:tag: Bioterrorism

twitter:title: Hipster Flu Sweeps The Eastside

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

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


og:title: MBW and MLK Get Greywashed

og:description: It's a fact of life for street artists that their work is going to get covered up, torn down, painted over, or if you're Man One, billed for tens of tho...

twitter:title: MBW and MLK Get Greywashed

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

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

og:title: Anti-gang Founder Marroquin Gets Prison

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

twitter:title: Anti-gang Founder Marroquin Gets Prison

og:title: 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: Brain Candy and the Karma of Art

og:description: Q: What's the best thing to do on a cold, rainy Saturday night? A: Go to the movies with your friends and drink hot chocolate! I almost st...

twitter:title: Brain Candy and the Karma of Art


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og:title: No Shit, Sherlock

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

twitter:title: No Shit, Sherlock


src: CO

dest: GB

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

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

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


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og:title: REVOK and AUGER in Hollywood

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

twitter:title: REVOK and AUGER in Hollywood

og:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

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

twitter:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

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

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

article:tag: Maximo Park

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

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

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

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

og:title: 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: 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: 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


src: CI

og:title: A Real Monster Mash

og:description: Halloween is for amateurs. If ya wanna party with the real freaks this week, don't wait for Saturday or even Tuesday…. go down to the Henry Fonda...

twitter:title: A Real Monster Mash

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

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


dest: BF

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


dest: SD

og:title: Lots of Yucks Tomorrow Night at the Echo: Eugene Mirman, Marc Moran and Andy Kindler

og:description: We usually leave the comedy tips to the obsessive freaks who follow the scene, but we've been kind of focused on Eugene Mirman for the past, uh, forever...

article:tag: Marc Moran

og:title: Another Tastes Like Gold

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

twitter:title: Another Tastes Like Gold

og:title: The Greatest TV Love Story of My Time

twitter:title: The Greatest TV Love Story of My Time

og:title: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

og:description: Molasky Pacific, a real estate development firm based in Las Vegas, will no longer take part in the effort to build a 40-story skyscraper on Sunset Boul...

twitter:title: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

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

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


src: ZA

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


dest: TR

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

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

og:title: Crass chose iconography and dissed photography

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

og:title: Weed Patch

og:description: O'Briens pub on Main Street, in an area of Santa Monica I like to refer to as "Venice Adjacent" was host last night to a sweet band called Weed Patch, w...

twitter:title: Weed Patch


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dest: CN

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: Art Show Openings: Luke Chueh, Miles Thompson, Audrey Kawasaki

og:description: There are a lot of art shows around town well worth checking out. Miles Thompson's show, "CA," at La Luz de Jesus on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Feliz runs t...


og:title: Old Crow Medicine Show - A Disssenting Opinion

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

og:title: Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

og:description: A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fe...

article:tag: Studio City

og:title: Radiohead: Reviewing the Price You Paid

og:description: Once upon a time, the music editor and maybe 1 or 2 others at LA Weekly would have gotten an advance of a hotly anticipated new album, often months befo...

twitter:title: Radiohead: Reviewing the Price You Paid


src: TZ

og:title: Last Night: Architecture in Helsinki

twitter:title: Last Night: Architecture in Helsinki

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

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

og:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

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

twitter:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props


src: IR

dest: EC

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

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

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

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

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

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

og:description: Ok they weren't really flip-flops, more like comfy black slides with rubber soles, and they were hidden under an entirely appropriate long and billowy 7...

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

og:title: Monsters Ball

twitter:title: Monsters Ball

og:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

og:description: Caroline and I swung by Get The Fuck Up Radio last night, check her blog, coming soon, I'm eating leftovers, working, drinking cheap red wine, and blogg...

twitter:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes


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og:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction

twitter:title: Show Me The Oscars Correction

og:title: The Empire (Waist) Strikes Back

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

article:tag: The Viper Room

twitter:title: The Empire (Waist) Strikes Back

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

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


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

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

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og:title: What is Not Sexy

og:description: Victoria's Secret launched its first "What is Sexy" list. (why? your guess is as good as mine) But it leaves me seriously wondering if Victoria has any ...

twitter:title: What is Not Sexy

og:title: His Cortship

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

twitter:title: His Cortship

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

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

article:tag: West Hollywood

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


og:title: Birthday Perez-ants

og:description: Sometimes I feel like I need a shower after I read it, but I'm gonna be honest right now and admit that Perez Hilton's gossip blog is a fairly frequent ...

twitter:title: Birthday Perez-ants


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og:title: Paddle On

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

article:tag: Climatology

twitter:title: Paddle On

og:title: Delta of Urine

twitter:title: Delta of Urine

og:title: Pause and Rewind: The Show

og:description: I remember watching The Show for the first and only time when I was a freshman in high school. I wasn't very impressed. This was 1995, Biggie was alive,...

twitter:title: Pause and Rewind: The Show

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...

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


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og:title: To Live And Try In LA

twitter:title: To Live And Try In LA

og:title: Cinespia Returns to Hollywood Cemetery

og:description: By Guelda Voien Global climate change put the brakes on that celebrated preamble to summer in Los Angeles - the inaugural screening at Hollywood Forever...

twitter:title: Cinespia Returns to Hollywood Cemetery

og:title: Krist Novoselic Says Flipper Still Rules, OK???

og:description: If you're going to listen to any aging punk rocker wax nostalgic for a cult-band like Flipper - and we've all probably heard more than we need to - is t...

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 ...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: CBS Crew Rat Fink

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

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


og:title: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

og:description: Molasky Pacific, a real estate development firm based in Las Vegas, will no longer take part in the effort to build a 40-story skyscraper on Sunset Boul...

twitter:title: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

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

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


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og:title: Folking Around

og:description: Flight of the Conchords Amoeba Records in-store, April 24 Clement (left) and McKenzie There’s a lot of l’amour in this room tonight. The rac...

twitter:title: Folking Around

og:title: A Tale of Two Top Hats

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

twitter:title: A Tale of Two Top Hats


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og:title: THE URGE TO PURGE

twitter:title: THE URGE TO PURGE

og:title: DAY 2: Mr. Nobody and Other Fashion Week Friends

og:description: MONDAY AT SMASHBOX STUDIOS, CULVER CITY, CA: PHOTO 1: So it's like, raining and stuff, everyone's late for the shows, PR people are all upset - but this...

og:title: 17th Annual Divas Simply Singing featuring Natalie Cole, Linda Hopkins, RuPaul and others

og:description: 17th Annual Divas Simply Singing Wilshire Ebell Theater, October 6, 2007 By Ernest Hardy When former choir nun Darlene Koldenhoven let loose a piercing ...


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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: Not worn out (yet)

twitter:title: Not worn out (yet)

og:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:description: We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season ...

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Heavens to Betsey

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

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

article:tag: Electronic Music


og:title: Thinking Bluer

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

twitter:title: Thinking Bluer

og:title: Bonnaroo 2007 Slideshow

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

article:tag: Bonnaroo

twitter:title: Bonnaroo 2007 Slideshow


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og:title: BOXeight: You Wear It Well Film Festival, The Mayor and Eduardo Lucero

og:description: (Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flanked by two women. He sat front and center at Eduardo Lucero to show his support for BOXeight and LA fashion, and pretty ...

article:tag: Dino Dinco

og:title: The Frames, 9/6

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

twitter:title: The Frames, 9/6

og:title: Amy Winehouse's Cocktail Recipe

twitter:title: Amy Winehouse's Cocktail Recipe

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

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


og:title: Metaform-Standing On the Shoulders of Giants

og:description: It's reductive to say that if you like Deadringer and Entroducing, you'll probably like Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. Then again, that's just the...

article:tag: Entertainment

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

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

article:tag: Hollywood Bowl

og:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!

twitter:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!


og:title: Polyphonic Spree at the El Rey

og:description: Timothy Norris photos from the sold out Polyphonic Spree show concert Wednesday night. The band's new album, The Fragile Army, came out June 19. Click t...

twitter:title: Polyphonic Spree at the El Rey

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

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

og:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

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

twitter:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

og:title: Paris Cuffed

twitter:title: Paris Cuffed

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

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

article:tag: Games

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


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

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

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

og:title: Fox's Tail - Assistants March

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

twitter:title: Fox's Tail - Assistants March

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: TV Eye Yi Yi

og:description: Ah summer TV. It's really shititlicious fun aint it? Painting the town is what I do, but that doesn't mean I don't love my tube time. My DVR always gets...

twitter:title: TV Eye Yi Yi


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og:title: Crank that Crunk

twitter:title: Crank that Crunk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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og:title: KROQ Acoustic Christmas - Day One

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

twitter:title: KROQ Acoustic Christmas - Day One

og:title: 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...

twitter:description: Timothy Norris photos from the sold out Polyphonic Spree show concert Wednesday night. The band's new album, The Fragile Army, came out June 19. Click t...

og:title: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell

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

twitter:title: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell


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og:title: Louis Verdad: Modness of Love

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: Modness of Love

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


og:title: FASHION NIRVANA?

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

twitter:title: FASHION NIRVANA?

og:title: The Goddess Provides

twitter:title: The Goddess Provides

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: 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...

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

og:title: ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

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

twitter:title: ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater