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

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

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

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og:title: Seymour Stein Loves The Flairz

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og:title: Little Boxes

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og:title: The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

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og:title: Should Auld Aquaintance Be Forgot

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og:title: Polyphonic Spree at the El Rey

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og:title: Rock the Bells '07

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

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og:title: Clementine Takes Grilled Cheese Month Very Seriously

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

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og:title: What Happend to My Piece of The Cake?

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og:title: Echo Park Murals & the Chickens

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og:title: Mr. T

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

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og:title: Rule Brut-annia

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

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

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og:title: Robert Nudelman: A Tireless Defender

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og:title: Juan McLean at Avalon

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og:title: SMASHBOX final days

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og:title: Shay Todd and Hot Bods

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og:title: Obama Wins in Iowa, Huckabee Crushes Romney

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

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og:title: Welcome to the Terrordome The Good, The Beige and The Queen

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og:title: Gettin' My Groove Back

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og:title: Burial's Untrue is a Moody Masterpiece

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

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og:title: LACMA Raided! Updated With Search Warrants

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

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og:title: Heavenly Creatures at Saja

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og:title: Bits: Los Feliz Trash

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og:title: For Joe Donnelly

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og:title: Paul McCartney Played Lots Of Beatle Songs

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

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og:title: Whitley Kros, Beck and Juliette Lewis

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og:title: Bravo Bebe!

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og:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

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

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og:title: Alias Hair

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og:title: Dina Bar-El: Red Carpet Safe

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og:title: Elisha Cuthbert in Captivity or Free 2 B?

og:title: ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

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og:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

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article:tag: Technology

twitter:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

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

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og:title: Gen Art Gets Glam

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og:title: Billion Dollar Belle

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og:title: Five Songs About Thanksgiving

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og:title: In Da Club Belamar

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

twitter:title: In Da Club Belamar

og:title: Hipster Olympics

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

article:tag: Sports

twitter:title: Hipster Olympics

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

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

article:tag: Motley Crue

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: Calvin Harris, Henry Fonda, 4/23

og:description: Photos from the Calvin Harris show, Wednesday night, at the Henry Fonda Theater by Timothy Norris More after the jump. All photos by Timothy Norris...

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


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

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

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

og:title: Laughing All The Way To The Banksy

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

twitter:title: Laughing All The Way To The Banksy


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dest: UA

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

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

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Serj Tankian

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

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

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

article:tag: P.M. Dawn


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dest: DE

og:title: Strikers March Through Hollywood

og:description: Thousands of strikers and supporters made their way down Hollywood Blvd. this afternoon as the WGA strike continued. All photos by Steven Mikulan...

twitter:title: Strikers March Through Hollywood

og:title: Not worn out (yet)

twitter:title: Not worn out (yet)

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: Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

og:description: I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and...

og:title: Why to Love This Song: The Dodos "Fools"

og:description: How does Pitchfork.tv stack up against YouTube? ALSO, let's just talk about how rad this song is, okay?


dest: ID

og:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema

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

twitter:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema


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

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

og:title: Treat Yourself: Head To Bittersweet Butterfly

og:title: Its The Oscars and I'll Cry If I Want To

og:description: It always creeps up on me...the Oscars. Already, Hollywood Blvd is shut off at Highland. I know this because I had to go to the Roosevelt Hotel this eve...

og:title: We Heart Denim...Honest

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

twitter:title: We Heart Denim...Honest


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og:title: An Interview With Pete Rock

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

article:tag: Fela Kuti

twitter:title: An Interview With Pete Rock

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

og:description: Pasted on a box coming off the 101 offramp into Echo Park is this bi-lingual manifesto. There's something very honest in the frustration voiced here: An...

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

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

og:title: SXSW Flashback: Interview With Del Tha Funky Homosapien

og:description: It was my third night in Austin. Devin had just blazed through an epic set that had been celebrated in the appropriate fashion , El-P was currently on-s...

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


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og:title: “My Megalomania”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 2 of 4

og:description: Elverum on Elverum: "I think I'm trying to one-up my megalomania [pauses] -- or however you pronounce that" - "I am trying to get old people interested ...

article:tag: Phil Elverum


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

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

og:title: 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


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

og:description: In its ongoing coverage of the R. Kelly trial currently under way in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times has been diligently reporting the details of the pro...


og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#25-21)

og:description: 25. Wu-Tang Clan-8 Diagrams 8 Diagrams is east coast hardcore rap that doesn't sound like it was made on the east coast. It was recorded in LA but it do...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#25-21)

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

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

og:title: 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


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og:title: Coachella to Rage

og:description: "Rage Against the Machine, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bjork to headline Coachella" - just announced today. It's a bit too early to start planning our...

twitter:title: Coachella to Rage


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@tags: warning login

og:title: Love it or Leave it

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

twitter:title: Love it or Leave it

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

og:title: ReLAX... Don't Do It

og:description: Time to play catch up kiddies. The holidays are behind us, and so far, the ‘08 social calendar is proving to be more jammed-packed -and jammin&rsq...

twitter:title: ReLAX... Don't Do It

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!


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og:title: Smokin' Safari Sam's

twitter:title: Smokin' Safari Sam's

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

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

og:title: Wake for Authur Mag, Come Pay Your Respects

og:title: Another Tastes Like Gold

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: Another Tastes Like Gold

og:title: Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

og:description: Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only so...

article:tag: Magazines


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dest: IT

@tags: warning security

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 guide to more LA Bands at SXSW

og:description: In our ongoing attempt to prop some worthy musicians headed to Austin this week, yet another list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austi...

article:tag: Sebadoh

twitter:title: Another guide to more LA Bands at SXSW

og:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

twitter:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

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

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

og:title: Lefsetz vs. Hilton?

og:description: A new odd couple is born.

twitter:title: Lefsetz vs. Hilton?

twitter:description: A new odd couple is born.


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@tags: error security


src: DE

og:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose

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

twitter:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose

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

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

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


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dest: AR

og:title: Chocolate-covered Snails and Other New Year's Delights

og:description: Even if they weren't my friends, I would still think Jenna and Oliver from Materials and Applications were totally rad. Their Maximillian's Schell insta...

og:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)

og:description: (photo from Oreskaband.com) So it happened: That magical, transportive moment of which I have heard rumors.... the moment when you discover a band at So...

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)

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

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

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

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

og:title: Daft Punk at Vegoose

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

twitter:title: Daft Punk at Vegoose

og:title: Day One in Photos

og:description: All photos by Timothy Norris. Vampire Weekend appear in broad daylight, above and below. Kim (or Kelly) Deal of The Breeders Jack White with The Raconte...

twitter:title: Day One in Photos


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

og:title: 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


dest: ES

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

og:description: The farther north you go, the more you see these massive letters 20 feet high or more... While others stay out of the river and instead work topside. Al...


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dest: VN

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

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

og:title: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

og:description: I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract ...

twitter:title: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

og:title: Fun in the Sun

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

twitter:title: Fun in the Sun

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

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


src: IN

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

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

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

og:title: Two Cats and a Screamer

og:description: Two cats in Hollywood: The yellow one near the Roosevelt Hotel on a parking sign, and other near the shuttered Fox Theater in Hollywood And a damsel in ...

twitter:title: Two Cats and a Screamer

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: SXSW Flashback: Even Jandek is a SXSW whore

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

og:title: 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: IN

og:title: Paddle On

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

article:tag: Climatology

twitter:title: Paddle On

og:title: OBEY Your Thirst?

twitter:title: OBEY Your Thirst?


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

og:title: The Ambassador Forty Years After RFK

og:description: I drove by the Ambassador last night inadvertently, trying to find some way to shave a couple of minutes off of my commute. The last bit of the hotel's ...

twitter:title: The Ambassador Forty Years After RFK

og:title: Heavens to Betsey

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

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Heavens to Betsey


src: IR

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


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dest: SN

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

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

article:tag: The Adolescents

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

og:title: The Ugg-ly Truth About Shopping

og:description: I accompanied Miss Steffie to the annual Billion Dollar Babes sale yesterday, and just so ya know, it was only pure guilt that kept me from doing the sa...

twitter:title: The Ugg-ly Truth About Shopping

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

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


dest: BD

og:title: New Orleans Jazzfest

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

twitter:title: New Orleans Jazzfest

og:title: Weiss' Top Albums of 2007 (#40-36)

og:description: 40. The Twilight Sad-Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters Take note Bloc Party. This is how you do histrionic, nostalgic and bombastic arena rock for in...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top Albums of 2007 (#40-36)

og:title: Workin It

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

twitter:title: Workin It


src: BD

og:title: Ekundayo on Melrose

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

article:tag: stickers

twitter:title: Ekundayo on Melrose

og:title: Spoon Fed... Up

twitter:title: Spoon Fed... Up

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


dest: PK


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

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

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

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: Old Crow Medicine Show, Avalon, 8/8

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

article:tag: Nashville

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


og:title: Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

og:description: "I've never performed at a festival," says Madonna, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Well la-dee-da. ...

twitter:title: Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

og:title: Screw Yourself for Charity

twitter:title: Screw Yourself for Charity

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: A Rant in Remembrance

twitter:title: A Rant in Remembrance

og:title: Chick Power

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

twitter:title: Chick Power

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

og:description: I got on a bus in Los Feliz yesterday at about 1 p.m. headed for Marfa, Texas, to attend the first annual Marfa Film Festival. If you've been to the mov...


og:title: 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: Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

og:description: "Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even...

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

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Hot Chip


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dest: EC


src: ET

og:title: Meeting of Styles, 3rd Batch

twitter:title: Meeting of Styles, 3rd Batch

og:title: Detour Videos

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

article:tag: Turbonegro

twitter:title: Detour Videos

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

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: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

twitter:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs


dest: PT

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

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

article:tag: Electronic Music

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

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

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

og:title: Where Bling Never Dies

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

twitter:title: Where Bling Never Dies

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...

twitter:title: M.I.A. – Kala


src: RU

og:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

twitter:title: It Doesn't Kill Germs

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: 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...

twitter:title: Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism

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


src: PK

dest: CD

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

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

article:tag: Cupcakes

og:title: Fashion Week

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

article:tag: Clothing

twitter:title: Fashion Week

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.


dest: JP


src: SV

og:title: Cobrasnake

twitter:title: Cobrasnake

og:title: The Hills Were Alive

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

twitter:title: The Hills Were Alive

og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls


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

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


src: KP

og:title: RIP Anna Nicole Smith

og:description: I met Anna Nicole Smith last year when she showed up at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood with her now-deceased son Daniel. It was Bingo night, and Dan...

twitter:title: RIP Anna Nicole Smith

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

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

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


dest: GY

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: 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...

og:title: Retna, el Mac on Hollywood Western Bldg.

og:description: At the corner of Hollywood and Western (right across the street from the Metro stop), a strange confluence of art, architecture and bureaucracy exists, ...

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.


dest: BR

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...

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

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

article:tag: Barack Obama

og:title: Heads or Tails

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

article:tag: Documentaries

twitter:title: Heads or Tails


dest: MY

og:title: I Am...Doll Parts

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

twitter:title: I Am...Doll Parts

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

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

og:title: Prince Is Coming!

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

article:tag: Eating Out

twitter:title: Prince Is Coming!

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


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og:title: To The Max

og:description: My '70's fetish is probably most evident by the Technicolor collection of maxi frocks in my closet. I've been amassing these vibrant columns for years (...

twitter:title: To The Max

og:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose

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

twitter:title: CBS Yard Behind Melrose

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: Shopping Daze

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

twitter:title: Shopping Daze

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

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


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

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

og:title: 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: Getting to the Gala...

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

twitter:title: Getting to the Gala...

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

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

og:title: 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


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og:title: “My Megalomania”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 2 of 4

og:description: Elverum on Elverum: "I think I'm trying to one-up my megalomania [pauses] -- or however you pronounce that" - "I am trying to get old people interested ...

article:tag: Phil Elverum


og:title: The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

og:description: 10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give ...

article:tag: Joliet


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og:title: Live in LA: Aimee Mann Christens the New Largo at the Coronet

og:description: Aimee Mann at Largo at the Coronet, June 2, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Aimee Mann christened the new Largo at the Coronet last night with a memorable...

og:title: RIP: Bingo

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

twitter:title: RIP: Bingo


og:title: Pellicano Trial’s Restless Defense

og:description: Today defense attorneys in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants began their closing arguments, with lead-off hitter Chad H...

twitter:title: Pellicano Trial’s Restless Defense

og:title: Bayou Buh-bye

twitter:title: Bayou Buh-bye

og:title: Caetano Veloso, Pasadena Civic, 11/14

og:description: Caetano Veloso Pasadena Civic Auditorium, November 14 By John Payne At age 65, sweet-voiced singer-composer Caetano Veloso represents perhaps the ultima...

twitter:title: Caetano Veloso, Pasadena Civic, 11/14


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

og:title: Bast Art Opening

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

twitter:title: Bast Art Opening


src: US

og:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

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

twitter:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

og:title: Naughty Girls, Dirty Knickers

og:description: I love this adorable little skirt by Mexican artist/fashion designer Amor Munoz...Even though it does feature a naked masturbating girl showing her cooc...

twitter:title: Naughty Girls, Dirty Knickers

og:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

twitter:title: Alanis Morissette Gets Really Ironic

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)


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

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

og:title: 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


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dest: TD

og:title: James at Spaceland Friday night

og:description: At the end of James' rather excellent live set this morning on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, Nic Harcourt let slip a little leak that the band would ...

twitter:title: James at Spaceland Friday night

og:title: Reggae, Ska, and Resistance

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

article:tag: Mexico City

twitter:title: Reggae, Ska, and Resistance

og:title: Fashion Week

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

twitter:title: Fashion Week


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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: Bitch Please

og:description: What's gayer than Jeffree Star turning up at the Abbey on Friday with a Tarina Tarantino haircut and Perez Hilton on his arm? Or gayer than the parents ...

twitter:title: Bitch Please

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

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

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

og:title: Os Brasileiros at Carmichael Gallery

og:description: The first showing of 2008 for the Carmichael Gallery featured over thirty street and outsider artists from Brazil. Shelley Leopold was at the opening Ja...

article:tag: Sports

twitter:title: Os Brasileiros at Carmichael Gallery

og:title: Down The Rabbit Hole at Petro Zillia

og:description: I skipped out on the St. John show Thursday night, leaving Caroline to man the post, and followed Lina and Steffie (fellow council members) down the str...

twitter:title: Down The Rabbit Hole at Petro Zillia


og:title: Last Chickens in Echo Park

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

twitter:title: Last Chickens in Echo Park

og:title: The Brothers Factor

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

twitter:title: The Brothers Factor


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

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

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

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

og:title: I Found Salvation in Maui

og:description: No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festiva...

article:tag: Willie Nelson

twitter:title: I Found Salvation in Maui

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

og:description: On the afternoon of Friday, March 14, the LA Times' Stephan Pechdimaldji, senior manager of media relations, tossed out an email to his media list annou...

og:title: Veggin' with Alicia

twitter:title: Veggin' with Alicia


og:title: Lovin' Cups

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

article:tag: Clothing and Accessories

twitter:title: Lovin' Cups

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

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

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


dest: MM

og:title: Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

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

twitter:title: Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

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

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

article:tag: West Hollywood

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


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dest: PH

og:title: Folk Yeah! to Big Sur

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

twitter:title: Folk Yeah! to Big Sur

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


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og:title: Louis Verdad: Modness of Love

twitter:title: Louis Verdad: Modness of Love

og:title: Raiders of the Lost Art

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

twitter:title: Raiders of the Lost Art

og:title: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

og:description: I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract ...

twitter:title: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

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: Grammys from the Press Room

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

twitter:title: Grammys from the Press Room


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dest: LR

twitter:description: I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract ...

og:title: My New Radio Crushes

og:description: Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with t...

twitter:title: My New Radio Crushes


src: MM

dest: IN

og:title: Letting the Days Go By

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

twitter:title: Letting the Days Go By

og:title: 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: The Goddess Provides

twitter:title: The Goddess Provides


src: PK

og:title: Every Week is Fashion Week...

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

article:tag: Fashion and Style

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

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

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Life Sciences


dest: DK

og:title: Girl School/Hell Ya! Night at the Viper Room

og:description: Timothy Norris checks out the Viper Room on a Thursday Night. Lady Tigra, Wallpaper and Buddy Akai perform. Click here for more photos from Timothy Norr...

article:tag: Buddy Akai


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og:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

twitter:title: Yeah, Yeah, FUCK Yeahs

og:title: Actor Slaying Rattles Local Theater Company

og:description: Darius Ever Truly, who played Bobby Seale in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's stage production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, was fatally stabbed last Satur...

og:title: No Shit, Sherlock

twitter:title: No Shit, Sherlock

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...

og:title: Single Show, No Single Theme

twitter:title: Single Show, No Single Theme


dest: SA

og:title: I Found Salvation in Maui

og:description: No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festiva...

twitter:title: I Found Salvation in Maui

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

og:description: Numerous studies have shown that even small amounts of arsenic have been associated with raising the risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ...


og:title: Catalina Dreaming

twitter:title: Catalina Dreaming


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dest: UA

og:title: The Year of the Dog

twitter:title: The Year of the Dog


dest: SV

og:title: Alive at the D!ve

twitter:title: Alive at the D!ve

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: To Live And Try In LA

twitter:title: To Live And Try In LA

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

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


src: ZA


og:title: Cashmere Alert! Sale Tomorrow!

twitter: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...

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

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

article:tag: Celebrity News

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

og:title: Before the Hyenas

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

twitter:title: Before the Hyenas

og:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER

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

twitter:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER

og:title: Is Don Henley Dead?

twitter:title: Is Don Henley Dead?


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dest: ID

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

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

article:tag: World Politics

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

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

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

og:title: Beyond Thunderdome

og:description: Yanuk featured models in denim corsets, skinny jeans, and wild frayed coats. And remember the tuck and roll of the 80s? You know where you folded your j...

twitter:title: Beyond Thunderdome

og:title: Frontiers at Eleven

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

article:tag: Ultimate Fighting Championship

twitter:title: Frontiers at Eleven

og:title: Bits: Los Feliz Trash

og:description: Craig Gaines has a Flickr page of trash found around Los Feliz. CCM hockey helmet: Check Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Pop Tarts: Check...

article:tag: Pop-Tarts

twitter:title: Bits: Los Feliz Trash


src: CN


dest: FR

og:title: I Am...Doll Parts

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

twitter:title: I Am...Doll Parts

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

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

article:tag: Eddie Argos

og:title: Hyperion Ave. and Sunset Blvd.

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

twitter:title: Hyperion Ave. and Sunset Blvd.


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@message: 211.27.207.106 - - [2015-05-18T15:04:02.685Z] "GET /people/type:astronauts/name:joseph-a-walker/profile HTTP/1.1" 200 442 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

og:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

twitter:title: Where Are You Hollywood?


dest: RU

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: Hellbilly Poetry

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

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Hellbilly Poetry


src: US

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: UCLA hits back at animal rights terrorists

og:description: By Max Taves Two weeks after animal-rights extremists fire-bombed the home of a respected primate researcher, UCLA is fighting back—legally, of co...

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

og:description: Harry Nilsson Tribute Bordello, Jan. 15 "Happy Birthday, Harry," one of the band's singers said into his mic before a bandmate whispers in his ear. "Wha...

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

og:title: Melrose Misplaced

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

twitter:title: Melrose Misplaced


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dest: CM

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

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


src: TR

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

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


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

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


dest: CN

og:title: Tiger Army, Wiltern, 11/17

og:description: Tiger Army Wiltern, 11/17 I love the stand-up bass. It's a ridiculously big, bulky instrument that looks cool as hell, especially when painted dark blue...

twitter:title: Tiger Army, Wiltern, 11/17

og:title: Add three more SXSW bands from L.A. to the list

og:description: Last week we offered an extensive list of L.A.-based bands hitting South by Southwest in Austin this year (March 13-16). Alas, we missed three of them, ...

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

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

og:title: Oh What a Feelin'

twitter:title: Oh What a Feelin'


og:title: For Joe Donnelly

twitter:title: For Joe Donnelly

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: 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: Pellicano Rebooted

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

twitter:title: Pellicano Rebooted

og:title: The Return of The Watch

og:description: I know, I know - ever since God invented cell phones that can tell the time, no-one wears watches anymore. Watches are annoying. You have to put them on...

article:tag: Caroline Ryder

twitter:title: The Return of The Watch

og:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

twitter:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star


og:title: Hurray for Tar-jay: Rogan Roars

og:description: Its bastardization of The Beatles in those relentlessly dizzying TV commercials aside, we still pledge undying love for Target. Where else can you buy m...

twitter:title: Hurray for Tar-jay: Rogan Roars

og:title: Amazon's MP3 Bargains

og:description: Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "12...

twitter:title: Amazon's MP3 Bargains


dest: BD

og:title: Rock the Bells '07

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

twitter:title: Rock the Bells '07

og:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

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

twitter:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary


src: ID

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

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

og:title: Snow Angels at ThinkSpace

og:description: Ten artists made up the new Snow Angels show at ThinkSpace including new works by Stella Im Hultberg. Above, Hultberg's “Heartbeats,” Availa...

article:tag: Cardiovascular Medicine

twitter:title: Snow Angels at ThinkSpace

og:title: Dance Into the Fire

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

twitter:title: Dance Into the Fire


src: KR

dest: MX

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

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

article:tag: Apple iPod

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


og:title: Tids and Bits

twitter:title: Tids and Bits

og:title: Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday

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

twitter:title: Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday

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

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

article:tag: The Adolescents

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

og:title: The Ugg-ly Truth About Shopping

og:description: I accompanied Miss Steffie to the annual Billion Dollar Babes sale yesterday, and just so ya know, it was only pure guilt that kept me from doing the sa...

twitter:title: The Ugg-ly Truth About Shopping

og:title: Shields at Club Violaine, 9/15

og:description: Shields Club Violanie at Roberto's, Chinatown By Ryan Ward Every third Saturday of the month, Roberto's in Chinatown becomes Club Violaine and opens the...

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og:title: Melrose Tour

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

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twitter:title: Melrose Tour

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

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

og:title: Pearl Jam - Nijmegen, Holland

twitter:title: Pearl Jam - Nijmegen, Holland

og:title: F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour

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

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og:title: Maude!

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

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

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


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

article:tag: Hiking and Backpacking

og:title: Portishead mow us down

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

twitter:title: Portishead mow us down

og:title: 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...

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twitter:title: Madonna Finds Xanadu

og:title: Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

og:description: Pellicano Briefs Team Pellicano is now taking its turn at bat, but the past few days of the defense’s case have seemed like prosecution by other m...

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og:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER

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

twitter:title: BOLLES SOAP OPERA OVER


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

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

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

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: Chino Prison Guard Accused of Nazism on Hunger Strike

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

article:tag: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment


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og:title: No Age Plays in the River

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

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

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

og:title: My New Radio Crushes

og:description: Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with t...

twitter:title: My New Radio Crushes

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

og:description: The fact that it was Friday the 13th and there was a full moon only compounded the creepiness of certain co-incidences I found myself entangled in last ...

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: 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...

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

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og:title: Studebaker near Staples

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

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: Studebaker near Staples

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

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

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

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

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

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

og:title: Actor Slaying Rattles Local Theater Company

og:description: Darius Ever Truly, who played Bobby Seale in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's stage production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, was fatally stabbed last Satur...

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

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


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og:title: Fashion Week

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

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og:title: Jean Genie Lets Herself Go

twitter:title: Jean Genie Lets Herself Go


og:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

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

article:tag: Technology

twitter:title: Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

og:title: Hurray for Tar-jay: Rogan Roars

og:description: Its bastardization of The Beatles in those relentlessly dizzying TV commercials aside, we still pledge undying love for Target. Where else can you buy m...

twitter:title: Hurray for Tar-jay: Rogan Roars

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

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


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og:title: Un-Fashion Week

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: Calvin Harris, Henry Fonda, 4/23

og:description: Photos from the Calvin Harris show, Wednesday night, at the Henry Fonda Theater by Timothy Norris More after the jump. All photos by Timothy Norris...

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

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

og:title: Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

og:description: "Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even...

og:title: Villaraigosa's Pico-Olympic One-Way Plan Killed

og:description: It's got to come under the category of "what was City Hall thinking?' that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa kept insisting his plan to funnel commuters onto P...

og:title: “My Megalomania”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 2 of 4

og:description: Elverum on Elverum: "I think I'm trying to one-up my megalomania [pauses] -- or however you pronounce that" - "I am trying to get old people interested ...

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og:title: Introspection: An Illustrated Overview

twitter:title: Introspection: An Illustrated Overview


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og:title: Lily Allen Rumored to Be Next Face of Chanel

og:description: Just yesterday I was talking to Lily Allen's manager Neale and he mentioned something "big and fashiony" was about to happen with Lily, but decli...

og:title: Buddhas

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

twitter:title: Buddhas

og:title: The whole shootin' match

og:description: So, I need to tell you about the show of the festival. My mind is blown, dude! I'm sitting in this bar, reading my Archies comics, because I am desperat...

twitter:title: The whole shootin' match


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og:title: The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

og:description: 10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give ...

article:tag: Joliet

og:title: SABER's Heart of Darkness

twitter:title: SABER's Heart of Darkness

og:title: Coachella: Saturday

og:description: Lessons Learned Day One: Don't be a hero and fuck fashion. I'm in flip-flops. Fuck it, that half inch of high density foam is better than having to trod...

twitter:title: Coachella: Saturday


og:title: What Number Are You? More Macca at Amoeba

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

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


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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...


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og:title: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light, Hollywood Bowl, 9/20

og:description: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light Hollywood Bowl, September 20. By Randall Roberts There was a moment about three-quarters of the way through ...

og:title: Strife at the Roxy, July 14

og:description: L.A.'s hardcore band Strife haven't put out a record or played live for several years now, but you wouldn't have known it from their Saturay night show ...

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Strife at the Roxy, July 14

og:title: The Goddess Provides

twitter:title: The Goddess Provides

og:title: Back in Black

twitter:title: Back in Black

og:title: Cat Scratch Fever

og:description: The leopard loving lass is a special kinda gal. She can be a sweet kitty cat, but get on her bad side and she'll scratch you. I've been a leopard print ...

twitter:title: Cat Scratch Fever


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og:title: Murakami Revoked

og:description: By Shelley Leopold n the early morning hours in mid-December, an amazing masterpiece of epic pink proportions appeared above the Melrose strip. Not MOCA...

article:tag: Coups

twitter:title: Murakami Revoked

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

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

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

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

article:tag: Serj Tankian

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

og:title: The Hills Were Alive

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

twitter:title: The Hills Were Alive

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

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


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og:title: Detour Videos

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

article:tag: Turbonegro

twitter:title: Detour Videos