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

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

og:title: The Man Behind The Tan

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og:title: Rock the Bells '07

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og:title: Hootenanny Photos

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og:title: Oh Nose They Didn't

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og:title: Home Sweet Home

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og:title: Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine's Blues

og:description: The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who's that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in...

article:section: News

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

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

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og:title: Kelly to Play LA!

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og:title: Vice Magazine's Tales of Colt 45 at King King

og:description: Photos and text by Guelda Voien While Vice magazine represents many things, most prominent is the value on stupid, constant debauchery. Crystal Antlers ...

article:tag: Pabst Blue Ribbon

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

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

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

og:title: Live in L.A.: Qui, the Bronx, Circle Jerks, Melvins and the Locust at the Echoplex

og:description: Fergie Cuilda deserves a benefit show just to honor his drumming, but last night's benefit at the Echoplex was bittersweet. While on a summer U.S. tour,...

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

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

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og:title: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

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og:title: The Fab Five

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og:title: Back in the Style Saddle

og:description: From grungey Southern comfort to saucy high glamour, my world has been one of extremes the past weeks. Just got back from Texas' South By Southwest Musi...

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

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og:title: Gutter Twins, Great Northern, Avalon, 4/2

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og:title: Siren Music Festival in NYC

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

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og:title: Sex crimes investigator assassinated in Juarez

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

og:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

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

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

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og:title: California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage!

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

og:title: Sue Wong Goes Wrong

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og:title: John Loder, the "ninth" member of Crass

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og:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

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og:title: MANDOE On Gower Near Fountain

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og:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

twitter:title: Rock Anthem, Part Deux

og:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

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og:title: Hair Today, Still Freakin' Hair Tomorrow

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: What's Cookin' With The Black Panthers

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

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og:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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

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og:title: Catalina Dreaming

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og:title: Bjork at the Nokia Theatre, 12/12

og:description: Bjork at the Nokia Theater, December 12 By Randall Roberts Last night’s Bjork show at the Dystopia – er, I mean Nokia -- Theatre downtown di...

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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: 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...

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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...

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og:title: It Ain't Like That Anymore

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

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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: Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine's Blues

og:description: The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who's that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in...

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

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og:title: Bonnaroo 2007 Slideshow

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og:title: Beauty Mark(et)

og:description: They put Cahuenga on the clubber map, made manicures and martinis a classic combo (wish we could always sip a cocktail while getting clipped and dipped!...

article:tag: San Francisco

twitter:title: Beauty Mark(et)

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

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og:title: The Magic of David Lee Roth's voice, naked

og:description: Attention producers: I defy any of you to listen to this vocal track of David Lee Roth singing "Runnin' With the Devil" and not stumble across some samp...

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: BOXeight: Cosa Nostra

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

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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: Grammy Stylin'

twitter:title: Grammy Stylin'

og:title: Schlockgirl

og:description: Gag me with a glove. The only reason I saw the "romantic" "comedy" Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella of the same name, was because my friend and...

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

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

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


og:title: They're Back!

twitter:title: They're Back!

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


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og:title: Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

og:description: Today was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Picket Day at the WGA strike, and the three-foot-and-under marchers were in abundance proudly waving their signs. A favorite...

og:title: Truxtapoz at Meltdown Gallery

og:description: I wish I could tell you to head down to Meltdown's Sunset Blvd. location to check out the Truxtapoz show that debuted Saturday night, but it's over: One...

twitter:title: Truxtapoz at Meltdown Gallery

twitter:description: They put Cahuenga on the clubber map, made manicures and martinis a classic combo (wish we could always sip a cocktail while getting clipped and dipped!...


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og:title: On Weezer, the Numa Numa dance, and Internet Fame

og:description: Weezer reminds us of all the internet fads we tried so hard to forget. ALSO, my exit, screen left.

article:tag: Numa Numa

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

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: Spiritualized, Vista, 11/12

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

twitter:title: Spiritualized, Vista, 11/12

og:title: Rule Brut-annia

twitter:title: Rule Brut-annia

og:title: Fox's Tail - Assistants March

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

og:description: Akron/Family, The Dodos, Natural History Museum First Fridays May 2, 2008 By Mark Mauer For the past couple of years, one of the best venues in town to ...


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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 ...

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


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og:title: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25

og:description: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Fut...

twitter:title: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25

og:title: Muggs-ing for the Camera

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og:title: The Cure, The Shrine, June 1

og:description: The Cure The Shrine Auditorium, June 1, 2008 By Rita Neyter Last Sunday was an absolutely bright and beautiful day, but as the sun slowly descended over...

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

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

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og:title: RIP Ike Turner

og:description: It seems that just about everybody, at one time or another, hated Ike Turner (hell, even the Black Panthers once beat his ass onstage at the Oakland Civ...

article:tag: Tina Turner

twitter:title: RIP Ike Turner


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

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

og:title: The Police: Arrested Development

og:description: Dodger Stadium, June 23 By Siran Babayan Dodgers Stadium. Never Again. I had an easier time getting through the birth canal than I did zigzagging in and...

twitter:title: The Police: Arrested Development

og:title: Crank that Crunk

twitter:title: Crank that Crunk

og:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat

twitter:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat

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

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og:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose

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twitter:title: Bike Chicks on Melrose

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: Bitter Sweet

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

twitter:title: Bitter Sweet

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

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


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og:title: Sea Wolf at Natural History Museum, 1/4

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

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


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og:title: Mama Mia

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

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og:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE

og:description: From www.weaknights.com...

twitter:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE

twitter:description: From www.weaknights.com...

og:title: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed

twitter:title: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed


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og:title: Crass chose iconography and dissed photography

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

og:title: The Great Rap Swindle

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twitter:title: The Great Rap Swindle

og:title: Snooze City

twitter:title: Snooze City

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


og:title: Bast Art Opening

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og:title: Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton

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

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

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

og:title: Seventh Letter "Letters First" Show

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

twitter:title: Seventh Letter "Letters First" Show


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og:title: Vampire Weekend, Amoeba, 2/4

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twitter:title: Vampire Weekend, Amoeba, 2/4

og:title: Obama Iron Man

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

twitter:title: Obama Iron Man

og:title: Photos: Christmas Day in Santa Monica

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twitter:title: Photos: Christmas Day in Santa Monica

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

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

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

og:title: Down below in the Metro

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og:title: Dueling Dungarees

twitter:title: Dueling Dungarees

og:title: The Queering of Cosmo

twitter:title: The Queering of Cosmo

og:title: Phenomenal (Grammy) Women

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twitter:title: Phenomenal (Grammy) Women

og:title: MAD FOR PLAID

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twitter:title: MAD FOR PLAID

og:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema

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twitter:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema


og:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

twitter:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

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

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

og:title: Sunset & Sanborn in Silver Lake

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twitter:title: Sunset & Sanborn in Silver Lake

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

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og:title: How Phil Elverum keeps the mystery alive Pt 3: hard work

og:description: A celebration of work and packing tape.

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

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article:tag: Social Issues

og:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

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article:tag: Los Campesinos!

twitter:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

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

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

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: Spice Girls, Staples Center, 12/10

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

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

og:title: El Dud

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twitter:title: El Dud


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og:title: K Fed Gets Axe'd

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

twitter:title: K Fed Gets Axe'd

og:title: John Loder, the "ninth" member of Crass

og:description: With The National, I traveled to the never fashionable north London district of Wood Green to visit the home and studio of Southern’s founder John...

twitter:title: John Loder, the "ninth" member of Crass

og:title: About

twitter:title: About


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

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

og:title: HOOCHIEWOOD

og:description: Heidi Montag may be the most annoying person on television (and that includes Donald Trump, Dr. Phil and the entire cast of every dating/singing/dancing...

twitter:title: HOOCHIEWOOD

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: Grammy Lemons

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twitter:title: Grammy Lemons


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og:title: Marfa Film Fest Dispatch: World Premiere of Heath Ledger-directed music video

og:description: (photo by Randall Roberts) Today's a travel day for me, having just experienced the best little festival I've ever attended, the first annual Marfa Film...

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: Road Trip: Day 2 (still in Sedona)

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


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: Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

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

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

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

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.


dest: ZM

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: 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: Another Free Download from NIN

og:description: Yet another free download from Trent Reznor is available from the Nine Inch Nails website. No new full-length LP this time - in fact no new NIN music at...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours

twitter:title: Another Free Download from NIN


dest: SY

og:title: Kushcush: Electric Youth

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

twitter:title: Kushcush: Electric Youth

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: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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

article:tag: Clothing

twitter:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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


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og:title: Augor: There Will Be Blood

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

twitter:title: Augor: There Will Be Blood

og:title: 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: The Little Radio NYE Fallout

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

article:tag: Buck Owens

twitter:title: The Little Radio NYE Fallout

og:title: 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...


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dest: JP

og:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC

og:description: After posting a couple of different Obama art pieces (Iron Man, Obey and Kofie'One), I said that I would happily post photos of pro-Clinton art if only ...

twitter:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC

og:title: More on the emo attacks in Mexico

og:description: As I've reported at my personal blog Intersections, emos are under attack in Mexico. Here are a few good primary sources to better understand what's hap...

twitter:title: More on the emo attacks in Mexico

og:title: Weiss'  Muxtape #2: A Tribute to Albert Hofmann-Pour Out a Little Lysergic

og:description: Lost somewhere in the shuffle of the 43,214 stories on the potential impact of Obama's ex-pastor's crack-pot comments*, was the news that Albert Hoffman...


src: HN

dest: BO

og:title: Bald and Er, Bald

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

twitter:title: Bald and Er, Bald

og:title: 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: 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


dest: CN

og:title: The Islands' "Arms Way," Islands' Kona Pie and The Pros of "Miscenegenation"

og:description: Last year when Sasha-Frere Jones wrote his now-infamous piece on the whiteness of indie rock, he repeatedly included the phrase "miscenegation" to descr...

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

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

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

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

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

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


src: YE

og:title: Justice, Teddybears, Satellite Party

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

twitter:title: Justice, Teddybears, Satellite Party

og:title: 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

og:title: The Goddess Provides

twitter:title: The Goddess Provides


dest: ET

og:title: Britney and Ray Charles on Melrose

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

twitter:title: Britney and Ray Charles on Melrose


dest: UZ


src: UA

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

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


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@tags: warning security


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og:title: Beds That Follow You Around

og:description: Hell yeah! Sleeping bags that you can walk around in. We like these. You need never buy a bed again because your bed will follow you wherever you go. Ac...

twitter:title: Beds That Follow You Around


src: MX

og:title: Introspection: An Illustrated Overview

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

twitter:title: Introspection: An Illustrated Overview

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: THE URGE TO PURGE

twitter:title: THE URGE TO PURGE


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dest: PY


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: Stevie Wonder at the Greek 9/5

og:description: All photos by Timothy Norris...

article:tag: Celebrity News

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

twitter:description: All photos by Timothy Norris...

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: Sticks + Skin + Bones

twitter:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones


dest: RU

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


dest: ID

og:title: Sue Wong Gets Fresh

twitter:title: Sue Wong Gets Fresh

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

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


src: ET

dest: DE

og:title: Coachella Day Three: Neil Diamond's Amazing Performance Opening for Justice

og:description: Sunday at the Empire Polo Field is softer than Saturday, more like Seurot than the previous day's Van Gogh, a little hazy and lazy and everybody's sleep...

og:title: Shout Out Louds

og:description: Who do I gotta blow to get a drink around here? It's very annoying that you have to choose between drinks and seeing bands. The "beer garden" is roped o...

twitter:title: Shout Out Louds

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

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

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

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

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

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

twitter: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...


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dest: IT

og:title: Insane in the Brain

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

article:tag: The Wizard of Oz

twitter:title: Insane in the Brain


src: ID

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: 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


src: CM

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

og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

og:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER

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

twitter:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER


src: KZ

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: Air at the Greek Theatre, 9/21

og:description: A little rain fell, but no damage done. Air, whose new one, Pocket Symphony, is their best in a while, played the usually dry Greek Theatre along with N...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

twitter:title: Air at the Greek Theatre, 9/21

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

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

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

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: Remembering the Time: Minor Epiphanies Gleaned Upon Re-Watching Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" Video 17 Years Later

og:description: In honor of poor Teddy Riley. Nothing says "epic video" more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing. I'm fairly certain that "Remember the ...

article:tag: Michael Jackson


src: TR

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

og:title: Kifune You Up

twitter:title: Kifune You Up

og:title: Talladega Shoes

twitter:title: Talladega Shoes


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dest: KE

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

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

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

og:title: Bitter Sweet

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

twitter:title: Bitter Sweet

og:title: Sink or Swim

twitter:title: Sink or Swim

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?


dest: KR

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

og:title: Skullphone hacks Clear Channel electronic billboards

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

article:tag: Business

twitter:description: A little rain fell, but no damage done. Air, whose new one, Pocket Symphony, is their best in a while, played the usually dry Greek Theatre along with N...

og:title: Laker Mania Sweeps Hollywood

og:description: Five hundred Los Angeles Laker fans swarmed the Hollywood Billiards Sports Bar & Grill on Thursday night to watch Kobe Bryant and the boys take on Kevin...

twitter:title: Laker Mania Sweeps Hollywood


dest: MX

og:title: Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

og:description: You can download the entire search warrant issued to Los Angeles County Museum of Art here, but these two pages provide the most details of LACMA's invo...

article:tag: Crime


dest: CS

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


src: CD

dest: IN

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

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

article:tag: Mel Schwartz

og:title: Concessions on a Dance Floor

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

twitter:title: Concessions on a Dance Floor

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


dest: KZ

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: Chris Rock Guest-Stars at the Pellicano Circus

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

og:description: Immagine In Cornice "Picture in a Frame"- A Pearl Jam Film By Ryan Colditz I have been on Pearl Jam overload the past few months. That's saying a lot if...

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

og:title: Grammy Friends and Family: Spankrocked and A Change of...Pace?

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...


src: BF

dest: BD

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: 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

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

og:title: This Weekend in LA: Foghat, AMC, Naked on the Vague, Robyn, Dirtbombs, Noisy People

og:description: Remember, it’s still technically bike to work week, so if you’re working the clubs this weekend and feel like saving the earth, maybe you sh...

og:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat

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

twitter:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat


dest: CD

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: BIG PIMPIN

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

twitter:title: BIG PIMPIN


src: PH

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...


dest: IL

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

og:title: Maria Shriver for Obama

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

twitter:title: Maria Shriver for Obama


dest: CN


src: CN

dest: PH

og:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

twitter:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

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:title: Burning Man Burns Early

og:description: News Flash from the Playa: The Man Upstaged the Moon By Judith Lewis Here's the news. While the full eclipsed moon still floated above the Playa like a ...

article:tag: Judith Lewis

twitter:title: Burning Man Burns Early

og:title: White Light, Hot Chocolate

twitter:title: White Light, Hot Chocolate

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

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


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src: IR

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

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: 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: 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


src: DK

og:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

twitter:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

og:title: Rise of the writers

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

twitter:title: Rise of the writers

og:title: Madonna Finds Xanadu

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

article:tag: Crime and Law

twitter:title: Madonna Finds Xanadu

og:title: Portishead to headline Coachella

og:description: Urb magazine's website is reporting that Portishead will be one of Coachella's 2008 headliners. Read the full story (reported by occasional LA Weekly fr...

article:tag: Josh Glazer

twitter:title: Portishead to headline Coachella

og:title: The Police: Arrested Development

og:description: Dodger Stadium, June 23 By Siran Babayan Dodgers Stadium. Never Again. I had an easier time getting through the birth canal than I did zigzagging in and...

twitter:title: The Police: Arrested Development


dest: HK


og:title: Coachella by the Numbers

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

twitter:title: Coachella by the Numbers

og:title: 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...

article:tag: Eating Out

twitter:title: Deep Blue

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?


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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.


src: NG

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

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

article:tag: The Adolescents

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


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dest: ZA

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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src: MA

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

og:description: I was not stoned for the High Times sponsored comedy night at the Hollywood Improv tonight. I repeat, not stoned. At first I was mostly just pissed off....

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


dest: JP

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

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

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

og:title: The Devil Inside

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

article:tag: Patricia Field

twitter:title: The Devil Inside


src: VE

og:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

twitter:title: Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

og:title: SXSW Thursday night: Le Loup rocked my world, the Playboy party rocked my privates.

og:description: Okay, so I actually cried tonight. Not sobbed, not wept, not got all blustery and snotty. But about five songs into Le Loup's remarkable, thrilling set ...

og:title: White Stripes Cancel Dates, Including the Forum

og:description: The White Stripes have canceled their North American tour, including the band's show on the 19th at the Forum. "Health issues" and Meg White's "acute an...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours


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dest: PK


dest: ER

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: Spice Girls, Staples Center, 12/10

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

article:tag: Celebrity News

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

og:title: 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: Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism

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

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism


dest: AR

og:title: Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

og:description: I am still waiting on confirmation that the dark haired muffin with pin-up girl bangs in a demure dress was Lily Allen. I swung by Ashley Paige's shop o...

article:tag: Pets

twitter:title: Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

og:title: McCartney Vetoed Weird Al's Chicken Pot Pie

og:description: Well, it's been a quiet few days, involving mainly indigestion and a marathon L Word viewing session (seven episodes, back to back). So here's a funny s...

og:title: Why Three Pairs of Stilettos Are Absolutely Vital When Backpacking Around Mexico

article:tag: Hiking and Backpacking


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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: 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: Yagman to Surrender

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

twitter:title: Yagman to Surrender

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


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og:title: Madonna playing Coachella

og:description: Madonna, clearly incensed that fellow music icon Robert Plant got to hang with the Style Council in the desert, is now planning a little sandy excursion...

twitter:title: Madonna playing Coachella

og:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

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

twitter:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

og:title: Outer Spaceland

og:description: If you weren't there, it sucks to be you. The LA Weekly hosted a kick-ass show at Spaceland last night to celebrate their new music issue featuring The ...

twitter:title: Outer Spaceland

og:title: Blogolicious

twitter:title: Blogolicious


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dest: SZ

og:title: Live in L.A.: Qui, the Bronx, Circle Jerks, Melvins and the Locust at the Echoplex

og:description: Fergie Cuilda deserves a benefit show just to honor his drumming, but last night's benefit at the Echoplex was bittersweet. While on a summer U.S. tour,...

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

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

og:title: Fashion Week

twitter:title: Fashion Week

og:title: Por El Suelo on Virgil: Retna, AWR, Dame, Werc

og:description: The wall that went up a couple of weeks ago on Virgil a few blocks south of Santa Monica is looking beautiful. Here are some sections that weren't finis...

article:tag: Manu Chao

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: Love It To Death!

og:description: After four hours at this afternoon's Billion Dollar Babes media/celebrity preview sample sale, I felt a bit like the Babes' patron saint A...

twitter:title: Love It To Death!

og:title: Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

og:description: Today was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Picket Day at the WGA strike, and the three-foot-and-under marchers were in abundance proudly waving their signs. A favorite...

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: Strap-a-licious

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

article:tag: Caroline Ryder

twitter:title: Strap-a-licious


dest: KH

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


dest: IN

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...


dest: MX

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

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

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


dest: DE

og:title: NY Hates Jack. Does LA?

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

twitter:title: NY Hates Jack. Does LA?

og:title: 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: 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: Bo Knows Death

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

twitter:title: Bo Knows Death


og:title: 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: Entropy at the French Cottage, Hollywood

og:description: The French Cottage hotel stood a few feet away from Sunset and Highland, near a stretch of old hotels and motels which are vanishing as steadily and unn...

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

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

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

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

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


src: HU


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

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

article:tag: T-Bone Burnett

og:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

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

article:tag: Business

twitter:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss


src: KR

dest: NZ

og:title: Talladega Shoes

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

twitter:title: Talladega Shoes

og:title: Elizabeth McGrath: Incurable Disorder

og:description: It's hard not to love Liz McGrath. There's the art, the music she make with her band Miss Derringer, heck, the very building that she lives in is so coo...

article:tag: Dogs

twitter:title: Elizabeth McGrath: Incurable Disorder


dest: CN

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

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

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

og:title: Batteries Not Included

og:description: I'd be lying if I said I didn't check out the Babeland goody bag (see Where Do You Get Off? post below) while waiting in line at Pinks. I'd be lying aga...

twitter:title: Batteries Not Included


dest: CU

og:title: Little Boxes

og:description: I'm a karaoke slut, but just like most real ladies of the night, I have to be properly liquored up before I give it up (on the mic). Brass Monkey, Smog ...

twitter:title: Little Boxes

og:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

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

twitter:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

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: Photos: Christmas Day in Santa Monica

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

article:tag: Extreme Sports

twitter:title: Photos: Christmas Day in Santa Monica

og:title: Watch this now: new Radar Brothers video

og:description: The new video for "When Cold Air Goes to Sleep," from the Radar Brothers' upcoming Auditorium, does exactly what a clip should: sent me racing to the CD...


dest: TG

og:title: Editors, Wiltern, 9/24

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

twitter:title: Editors, Wiltern, 9/24

og:title: Rockin' in the Tree World

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

article:tag: Holidays

twitter:title: Rockin' in the Tree World

og:title: Amanda Demme - She Nice

og:description: I just got back from interviewing Amanda Demme, the so-called Queen of LA Nightlife, and marketing brain behind 'hot' nightlife venues like Teddy's and ...

twitter:title: Amanda Demme - She Nice


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

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


src: ID


src: TH

og:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

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

twitter:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

og:title: Meghan Where's The Love?

twitter:title: Meghan Where's The Love?

og:title: Daft Punk Photos

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

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

twitter:title: Daft Punk Photos

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


src: RU

og:title: Camera Eye - Santa Monica and Myra

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: Camera Eye - Santa Monica and Myra

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

og:title: Panic at the Disco loses their exclamation point, help sell a Honda

og:description: Panic at the Disco at Studio 540 of the Honda Corporation's headquarters, Torrence, January 10. By Julie Seabaugh Around 250 VIPs, suits and press membe...

og:title: Ray Cortines: Friend or Foe?

og:description: Once again, the name of Ray Cortines is buzzing around the halls of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, according to today's LA Times. The...

twitter:title: Ray Cortines: Friend or Foe?


src: BD

dest: NE

og:title: Billion Dollar Belle

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

twitter:title: Billion Dollar Belle

og:title: Christmas Charity Shows

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

twitter:title: Christmas Charity Shows

og:title: 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


dest: ID

@tags: warning login


src: EG

dest: MG

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)


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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: 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


og:title: Yeasayer at the Ukranian Culture Center 4.25.08

og:description: I can’t freakin' wait until Yeasayer come back to Los Angeles. I feel itchy knowing that last Friday's show at the Ukranian Culture Center on Melr...

og:title: Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008

og:description: Want proof that L.A.'s in the middle of an astoundingly fertile period of musical expansion? See the list below. We're going to have our hands full this...

article:tag: Austin (Texas)

og:title: Democratic Debate Love Fest - So Far

og:description: The only thing that really stands out about the debate in Hollywood between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is that the softball questions and heavy fo...

twitter:title: Democratic Debate Love Fest - So Far


dest: MW


dest: BD

og:title: Britney and Ray Charles on Melrose

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

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Britney and Ray Charles on Melrose

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

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

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


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dest: BR

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

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

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

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

og:title: Evenings Become Eclectic

og:description: I love those nights that don't feel planned or forced in any way, but just become brilliantly memorable, seemingly of their own accord. That's kinda wha...

twitter:title: Evenings Become Eclectic

og:title: Charmed, I'm Sure

og:description: If you read my post about the Billion Dollar Babes sample sale then you know that I really didn't need to buy any more goodies. But there ...

twitter:title: Charmed, I'm Sure


src: KE

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: Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

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

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


src: PL

og:title: Oh Nose They Didn't

og:description: Prediction: N*E*R*D’s Seeing Sounds will be the soundtrack to a very sexy summer. Okay, maybe just ours. In Search Of still shakes up our decks (u...

twitter:title: Oh Nose They Didn't

og:title: Heavenly Creatures at Saja

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

twitter:title: Heavenly Creatures at Saja

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: Fashion Week

twitter:title: Fashion Week


dest: RU

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

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

og:title: 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: Sink or Swim

twitter:title: Sink or Swim

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: Siren Music Festival in NYC

og:description: The Village Voice's Siren Music Festival took place over the weekend with performances from M.I.A., New York Dolls, Elvis Perkins, The Black Lips and a ...

twitter:title: Siren Music Festival in NYC


src: CN

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

og:description: Welcome to Teenage Kicks...

twitter:description: Welcome to Teenage Kicks...

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: Gwen takes a bath

twitter:title: Gwen takes a bath

og:title: Fashion Week Warrior

twitter:title: Fashion Week Warrior


src: US

dest: MA

og:title: Christian Brando to Be Autopsied

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

twitter:title: Christian Brando to Be Autopsied

og:title: 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...


src: NG

dest: JM


src: PK

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: Retna, Revok and Frida Kahlo

og:description: On the south side of Pico near Harvard is this nice two artist piece on the side of a Korean food store. Revok. I'm not sure of the age of the wall. It ...

twitter:title: Retna, Revok and Frida Kahlo


dest: US

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Electronic Music

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


dest: AF

og:title: San Fernando Valley Bloodbath

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

twitter:title: San Fernando Valley Bloodbath


src: NL

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: 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


src: GM

og:title: Why Three Pairs of Stilettos Are Absolutely Vital When Backpacking Around Mexico

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

article:tag: Hiking and Backpacking

og:title: Brewer hires Cortines

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

twitter:title: Brewer hires Cortines

og:title: Meeting of Styles, 5th Batch

twitter:title: Meeting of Styles, 5th Batch

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


src: LK

dest: IN


og:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

og:title: It's A Jungle Out Here

twitter:title: It's A Jungle Out Here


src: JP

dest: JP

og:title: DJing on EastVillage Radio.com right now!

og:description: Go clickity-click at EastVillageRadio.com if you want to listen in, okay?

article:tag: Beverages

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

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

og:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

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

twitter:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

og:title: 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?


dest: NG

og:title: Bjork at the Nokia Theatre, 12/12

og:description: Bjork at the Nokia Theater, December 12 By Randall Roberts Last night’s Bjork show at the Dystopia – er, I mean Nokia -- Theatre downtown di...

twitter:title: Bjork at the Nokia Theatre, 12/12

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...

article:tag: Atlanta

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

og:title: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed

twitter:title: 944 Magazine - Los Angeles Revealed


dest: KP

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: Obama Wins in Iowa, Huckabee Crushes Romney

og:description: Obama wins the Democratic Caucus in Iowa, with 37 percent of the vote, leaving Edwards and Hillary to battle it out for second. On the Republican side, ...

og:title: Stop Making Sense

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

twitter:title: Stop Making Sense


dest: PK

og:title: The Lipstick and The Damage Done

og:description: I have a confession to make. I'm a junkie, but my speed is eyeshadow, my smack is lipstick. I got hooked young, 13. I would skip religion classes to buy...

twitter:title: The Lipstick and The Damage Done

og:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE

og:description: From www.weaknights.com...

twitter:title: A BILLBOARD WE'D LIKE TO SEE


src: IN

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

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

og:title: Linda Immediato

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

twitter:title: Linda Immediato

og:title: Killer Fashion Instincts

twitter:title: Killer Fashion Instincts

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


src: PT

og:title: Live in L.A.: Editors at Jimmy Kimmel

og:description: Editors Jimmy Kimmel Live! July 25, 2007 By Timothy Norris OK, so we’ve all heard about it and Jimmy’s Green Room really is the best. I was ...

twitter:title: Live in L.A.: Editors at Jimmy Kimmel

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


src: NI

dest: SA

og:title: Tonight in LA: Ghanian Hip Hop, Blowfly and Les Nubians, Among Others

og:description: Okay, so on the surface perhaps a slow Thursday night in LA. No grand slams, it would seem, few hipster throw-downs. But I would like to present a few p...

article:tag: Angus Khan

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: 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: Paul, Prince and Paris

twitter:title: Paul, Prince and Paris


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og:title: Coachella: Sunday

og:description: Coachella: Day Three 10:00 a.m. I can barely wake-up, I'm in complete denial that there's another full day to go. The press band and the ID bracelet tha...

twitter:title: Coachella: Sunday

og:title: Ray Cortines: Friend or Foe?

og:description: Once again, the name of Ray Cortines is buzzing around the halls of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, according to today's LA Times. The...

twitter:title: Ray Cortines: Friend or Foe?

og:title: M.I.A. – Kala

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

article:tag: Oscar Pascual

twitter:title: M.I.A. – Kala

og:title: The Other Side of Cordon's Market

og:description: It was interesting that while one side of Cordon's Market had some stunning work on it (click here to see it), the opposite side, which wasn't even fenc...

twitter:title: The Other Side of Cordon's Market

og:title: Grammy Lemons

og:description: So by now you've seen the Madonna-Gorillaz performance at the Grammy's on Wed. Holograms of the animated band rock-stared it out above what looked like ...

twitter:title: Grammy Lemons


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og:title: Calendar Girls

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

twitter:title: Calendar Girls


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og:title: Bald and Er, Bald

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

twitter:title: Bald and Er, Bald

og:title: Paint It Black

twitter:title: Paint It Black

og:title: Queer Town: June Weddings For Gays

og:description: This morning, the California Supreme Court denied a request to rehear its May 15 ruling that legalized same sex marriage. Gay and lesbian couples can no...

article:tag: Social Issues

twitter:title: Queer Town: June Weddings For Gays


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

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

og:title: 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: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:description: I stopped into The Mandrake after Gary Baseman's opening at Billy Shire Saturday night (I'm guessing Caroline will be blogging about the show, so all I'...

twitter:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:title: Shit List

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

twitter:title: Shit List


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og:title: Tonight in LA: Le Switch at the Echo, Harvey Sid Fisher at Pehrspace and Mezzanine Owls at Spaceland

og:description: Big ass night for Los Angeles music. If you're in from out of town, you picked a good frickin' Monday to be here. Fortify with a big dinner cuz there's ...

article:tag: Harvey Sid Fisher

og:title: 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...

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

twitter:title: Japanese Art Behind Zen Sushi

og:title: Retna, Revok and Frida Kahlo

og:description: On the south side of Pico near Harvard is this nice two artist piece on the side of a Korean food store. Revok. I'm not sure of the age of the wall. It ...

twitter:title: Retna, Revok and Frida Kahlo

og:title: Too Trendy Tykes

twitter:title: Too Trendy Tykes


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: Mistakes Were Made

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

twitter:title: Mistakes Were Made

og:title: Tids and Bits

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

twitter:title: Tids and Bits


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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


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

og:title: Spankrocked

twitter:title: Spankrocked


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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: 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: For Joe Donnelly

twitter:title: For Joe Donnelly

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!

og:title: Herrrre's Jennifer!

twitter:title: Herrrre's Jennifer!


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

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

article:tag: Edinburgh


og:title: Fashion Week Warrior

twitter:title: Fashion Week Warrior

og:title: Banksy in Bethlehem

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

twitter:title: Banksy in Bethlehem

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: Maria Shriver for Obama

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

twitter:title: Maria Shriver for Obama

og:title: The Kidz Are Alright, Mate!

twitter:title: The Kidz Are Alright, Mate!


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og:title: The Great Rap Swindle

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

twitter:title: The Great Rap Swindle

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

og:description: There are quite a few twists to the story of the new Radiohead album that broke on the band's website last night . One that is getting very little atten...

article:tag: Pop and Rock Music

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

og:description: Welcome to Teenage Kicks...

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

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

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


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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: The Greatest TV Love Story of My Time

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

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: Shay Todd Stays Afloat

twitter:title: Shay Todd Stays Afloat


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og:title: Skullphone may have bought time?

og:description: Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies d...

twitter:title: Skullphone may have bought time?

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: Tim & Eric's Awesome Show live @ the Echoplex 5.5.08

og:description: They're so sweet and innocent. Photos by Rena Kosnett. Writing about the experience of seeing Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job! live on tour wo...

article:tag: Robin Williams

og:title: Coachella '08 Set Times Announced

og:description: You can complain all you want about Coachella 2008's roster, but the reality that I'll be seeing Kraftwerk followed by Portishead followed by Prince on ...

twitter:title: Coachella '08 Set Times Announced

og:title: Seymour Stein Loves The Flairz

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

twitter:title: Seymour Stein Loves The Flairz

og:title: Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine's Blues

og:description: The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who's that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in...

og:title: Hootenanny Photos

twitter:title: Hootenanny Photos


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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: 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: 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


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

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

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

og:title: RIME / Jersey Joe Pix

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: RIME / Jersey Joe Pix

og:title: QUEER TOWN: Obama and the Gays

og:description: On Tuesday, the Democratic Party will finally wrap up its long, hard fought primary season. There will be a lot of talk about who will ultimately be the...

twitter:title: QUEER TOWN: Obama and the Gays


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

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


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


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

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

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: Frontiers at Eleven

og:description: (Photos by Patrick Range McDonald. Above: Aaron Savvy) On a chilly Wednesday night, the swanky West Hollywood nightclub Eleven hosted a promotion party ...

article:tag: Ultimate Fighting Championship

twitter:title: Frontiers at Eleven