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2012 Stories by Siran Babayan

• Laugh Your Way to 2013

  published December 27, 2012

  Everyone knows L.A. turns into a ghost town over the holidays, and if you're stuck here while all your friends are off someplace way more festive,... More >>

• Go Miz Yourself

  published December 27, 2012

  Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables was turned into the third biggest musical of all time. It also inspired several movies and is now a... More >>

• Hair We Come a Caroling

  published December 20, 2012

  If you missed Cavern Club Theater's holiday drag shows this month with Jackie Beat and Feliz Navi Divas, make sure to catch the Boofont Sisters'... More >>

• Betty White and Her Wild Life

  published December 6, 2012

  In the years since she's become the senior "It" girl, Betty White has written two books: 2010's Here We Go Again: My Life in Television and... More >>

• Who's Smarmy Now?

  published December 6, 2012

  Think Dylan Moran will be in the Christmas spirit? Bollocks. Seeing a dark, moody British lush with disheveled hair and a smarmy answer for... More >>

• Armenian Film Festival

  published November 29, 2012

  A city with the largest Armenian immigrant population is befitting an event like the Arpa International Film Festival. For 15 years, nonprofit... More >>

• Bent Con

  published November 29, 2012

  For years, fanboys and fangirls have argued that some of the biggest comic book characters are gay – Batman and Robin? Please – or at... More >>

• Little Bummer Boy

  published November 29, 2012

  If you feel like jumping off a ledge every time you hear "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire," don't expect Denis Leary to talk you down. The... More >>

• For Those About to Nyuk . . .

  published November 22, 2012

  Wish you could poke one of your relatives in the eyes? Soytainly! Better yet, a pie to the face? Maybe a better way to get out your... More >>

• Lord of the Prog

  published November 15, 2012

  Just as grunge might've never existed if it hadn't been for hair metal, punk might've never existed if it hadn't been for prog rock, even if the... More >>

• Fake it Baby, Fake It

  published November 15, 2012

  Take whatever you do to your pillow, blow-up doll or latest Japanese invention at home to the fourth annual Air Sex Championships, a traveling... More >>

• A Vogue is a Vogue is a . . .

  published November 15, 2012

  No one ever did the Macarena outside a banquet hall, and the same should apply to "Gangnam Style." Vogueing in the early 1990s – back when... More >>

• The Latest Brit Wit

  published November 8, 2012

  Ricky Gervais is considered too mean. And Russell Brand married Katy Perry. America is waiting for a less-controversial, less-grating British... More >>

• RIPPED: Expressions from the Underground

  published November 1, 2012

  Nothing makes you look like a music-diggin’ hepcat more than vintage rock T-shirts, those wearable pieces of memorabilia you only wore to... More >>

• Be Dead or Be Square

  published October 25, 2012

  Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever is as quintessential an L.A. event as the Oscars, and the biggest communal gathering honoring the dead in... More >>

• Best Costumes on Display

  published October 25, 2012

  Last year's Muse Costume Ball at LACMA — the biggest arty Halloween event in town — was centered on the Tim Burton exhibit. Guests at... More >>

• Who's Your Deady?

  published October 18, 2012

  It's good to be alive, but with Halloween only a week away, the Last Bookstore would rather celebrate the departed at "Dead Men Do Tell Tales."... More >>

• It's Hammett Time

  published October 18, 2012

  Metallica's Kirk Hammett has been playing the devil's music for nearly 30 years and in his new book, Too Much Horror Business (named after... More >>

• Cuckoo for Mappelthorpe?

  published October 18, 2012

  Robert Mapplethorpe was the quintessential New York artist, but the late photographer's work has found a new home in L.A. After February's... More >>

• There Will Be Mud

  published October 11, 2012

  Here's mud in your eye — nearly four miles' worth, to be exact. That Dam Mud Run invites overgrown kids to play dirty at the inaugural L.A.... More >>

• Which One's Oates?

  published October 11, 2012

  Comedic cuties Garfunkel & Oates celebrate their fourth anniversary at Largo where past shows have included guests like Sarah Silverman, Nick... More >>

• That Touch of Ink

  published September 27, 2012

  Getting a tattoo these days has about as much shock value as getting plastic surgery. The Craft and Folk Art Museum's "L.A. Skin & Ink" is a... More >>

• Freddie's Not Dead

  published September 20, 2012

  This month, Queen fans celebrated what would have been singer Freddie Mercury's 66th birthday. Tonight, the American Cinematheque marks another... More >>

• Damien Echols

  published September 20, 2012

  After spending nearly 20 years on death row, accused killer Damien Echols gets to have his say on the West Memphis 3 saga in his new book, Life... More >>

• Aziz Ansari

  published September 13, 2012

  When Jay-Z and Kanye West ask you to make a cameo in one of their videos, you're either Beyonce, a Kardashian or Aziz Ansari. The comic stars in... More >>