Email Author Keith Plocek

Awards

• 2007 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published May 18, 2006

  "Needling the Haystack"

• 2007 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published February 9, 2006

  "Shortchanged"

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2011 Stories by Keith Plocek

• Louis Vuitton's Copyright Claim Against Artist Nadia Plesner Thrown Out by Dutch Court

  published May 05, 2011

  The Louis Vuitton logo has appeared on all kinds of ridiculous things, from Mexican bungalows to live pigs, but the luxury brand seemed particularly irked when its signature multi-colored design appe... More >>

• Infographic: Judge Judy is Bigger than Oprah Winfrey

  published May 04, 2011

  Do you watch Judge Judyr We don't, but apparently we're in the minority. Or maybe we just have day jobs. According to a nifty infographic from Paralegal, Judge Judith Sheindlin's show was bigger than ... More >>

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  Exclusive: Smashing Pumpkins' New Song "Owata" Debuts on West Coast Sound

  published May 03, 2011

  The Smashing Pumpkins have been releasing their 44-track opus, Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, one song at a time, and West Coast Sound has the exclusive first listen of track no. 10, "Owata." The song'... More >>

• Explosions in the Sky Float Over Hollywood Forever Cemetery

  published May 02, 2011

  For more photos, see "Explosions in the Sky @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery." "We're called Explosions in the Sky, and we come from Texas," says guitarist Munaf Rayani before the band bursts into a spra... More >>

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  Star Wars Street Art: Free Humanity Talks Barack Obama, Akira Kurosawa and Mr. Brainwash

  published Apr 27, 2011

  Jabba the Hutt and Salacious Crumb, stenciled on top a page of the Wall Street Journal with the words "Greed is good." Boba Fett, standing alone with "I'm sorry for the deaths of the innocent but that... More >>

• Day 3: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (feat. Kanye West, Duran Duran, PJ Harvey and the Hilton Sisters)

  published Apr 18, 2011

  Check out more photos from day three at "Coachella 2011: Day Three with Kanye West, Death From Above 1979, The Strokes, Ratatat, The National, Duck Sauce and More" We came, we saw, we sweated off fo... More >>

• Coachella 2011: Kanye West Closes the Fest with Bangs and a Whimper

  published Apr 18, 2011

  Kanye West is way up on top of a crane, its arm slowly spinning above the crowd. "Can we get much higherr", the opening refrain from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, blasts from the speakers. The m... More >>

• Day 2: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (feat. The Kills, Animal Collective, Paul Van Dyk, Arcade Fire and Mariachi El Bronx)

  published Apr 17, 2011

  See more photos from Saturday at "Coachella 2011: Day Two with Arcade Fire, Paul Van Dyk, The Kills, Broken Social Scene and More." Without road trips lingering or looming, and with just the right ... More >>

• Woman Almost Falls Off Ferris Wheel at Coachella

  published Apr 16, 2011

  A unidentified woman almost fell from the Ferris Wheel on the Coachella grounds Friday night. Details are scant, but it appears she was saved by someone else on the ride. We hustled over to the site ... More >>

• Coachella Heat: Temps Go Up, Clothes Come Off

  published Apr 16, 2011

  [For the definitive recap of Coachella 2011 see "Telling It Like It Was: How Coachella 2011 Really Went Down"] It's currently 98 degrees in the Coachella Valley. Gone are the thoughtful outfits of y... More >>

• Coachella and the Myth of $10 Water

  published Apr 16, 2011

  "You're heading to Coachellar Watch out for $10 water bottles." It's a joke likely as old as Coachella itself, and at this point it's entered Hackville, right up there with bitching about airline foo... More >>

• Day 1: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (featuring Paul McCartney, Black Keys, Chemical Brothers and Craigslist)

  published Apr 16, 2011

  Check out photos from day one at "Coachella 2011: Day One with Boys Noize, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys and More" Compared to last year's problems with wristbands and overcrowding, the first day o... More >>

• Coachella 2011: Paul McCartney Spins with Afrojack. Usher Too.

  published Apr 16, 2011

  Coachella 2011 now officially has its first mash-up. Our own Wendy Gilmartin just saw Sir Paul McCartney spinning with Afrojack. Usher was up there too. We'd just been joking about guest appearanc... More >>

• Coachella 2011: Sleigh Bells Passes the Shazam Test

  published Apr 15, 2011

  [UPDATE 4/19: We've gotten some emails complaining about our supposed implication that Sleigh Bell's Alexis was lip-synching at Coachella. That's not what we wrote and that's not what our reporter wit... More >>

• Coachella Security Includes RFID Tags, Grease

  published Apr 15, 2011

  The good people behind the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festivals aren't leaving all security measures to local Indio police. They've also rolled out some fancy cloth wristbands with RFID tags embedd... More >>

• Slideshow: Graffiti Removal on Eagle Rock

  published Apr 07, 2011

  You read that headline right. We're not talking about buffing over graffiti in Eagle Rock. We're talking about Eagle Rock itself. Today a team of civil servants used power tools and rappelling rop... More >>

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  Marijuana Delivery: 8 Lessons from HempCon

  published Apr 03, 2011

  For more images from HempCon 2011, visit "Medical Marijuana, Booth Babes and Glass Bongs." HempCon 2011 came to the L.A. Convention Center this weekend, and with it Rasta hats, glass pipes, bong coas... More >>

• Porn Star Stencils Spotted on Melrose

  published Mar 29, 2011

  After spending a couple hours at Adultcon on Saturday, we'd swore off adult entertainment for a while, but this tidbit from AfterDark LA was a bit too intriguing to pass up. Spreading her spray-paint... More >>

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  Trollface Artist Carlos Ramirez Talks 4chan, Incredible Hulk and Viral Fame

  published Mar 28, 2011

  Like many memes, Trollface was conceived in the online bowels of 4chan and after-birthed all over the Internet. The squiggly, smiling face is the perfect mascot for /b/, the dank basement of 4chan not... More >>

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  Adultcon by the Numbers: Porn, Stuffed Animals and Masculinity

  published Mar 27, 2011

  We saw all kinds of attendees at Adultcon yesterday - groups of men, groups of women, male-female couples, lone wolves - but the most common configuration was what we'll call Two Straight Dudes. Jus... More >>

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  Village Voice Media's "Best Of..." App Goes Live

  published Mar 24, 2011

  Exciting news from the mother ship: The Village Voice Media "Best Of..." app, featuring 10,000 of the best things to eat, drink, see, hear and buy all over the nation, is now available for free in the... More >>

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  Elizabeth Taylor, R.I.P.

  published Mar 23, 2011

  Elizabeth Taylor died last night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 79. We don't even know where to begin eulogizing the woman, and we'll have more to say soon, but we'll start by recommending ... More >>

• Wu-Tang Clan Headline Village Voice Media's SXSW Party

  published Mar 18, 2011

  Last night Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf, Wild Flag, Fishbone, Trae Tha Truth, Marz Lovejoy, Rocky Business, Trouble Andrew, Ume, Times New Viking and DJ Erykah Badu all provided music for the Village Voice ... More >>