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Evelyn Lozada Poses Nude For PETA Ad (Photo)

If you're hungry for publicity, all you have to do these days is renounce your formerly sinful ways, get naked and embrace PETA. That is, if you're a hot reality star. Such was the case for Evelyn Lozada, four-season star of VH1's Basketball Wives, who has switched teams more in love than Dennis R ... More >>

The Best Punk Shows to See in L.A. This Month

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Sunday, September 9th Restavrant Echoplex Upon seeing the spelling of Restavrant's name you may ask, "Why are they misspelled like that?" Who fucking cares? This Texas-bred, L.A.-based duo's shows will have you pogo-ing, st ... More >>

Will Gay Teenagers Be Protected from Mad Therapists and Whacked-Out Parents?

Are you gay and your parents want you to be straight? Have they suggested different "therapies" to make you "normal"? A bill working its way through the California state legislature seeks to protect you from such bad craziness so you can't be forced into shock treatments or any other demented proced ... More >>

The Adicts on Football Hooliganism, Masturbation, and Running Up $400 Bar Tabs

The Adicts' music is fast-paced and upbeat, and they sport a Clockwork Orange droog look - except for front man Keith "Monkey" Warren, who dresses like some kind of evil joker. Their live sets feature bubble machines, streamers, giant beach balls, and sing-a-longs. They invite their fans on stage. ... More >>

LinA In LA: What To Do This New Year's Eve

Lina Lecaro​See also: *Ten Mystical Songs For Making Out With Your Hippie Boyfriend on New Year's Eve *Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011 We love L.A. We love the nightlife. We always will. It was a tough year for a lot of us, but the sounds and sights we soaked in, the floors we tore up and ... More >>

Justin Bua's Paintings Of His Most Influential Rappers

Justin Bua​Justin Bua is a hip-hop painter; you may have seen the print of his painting "The DJ" (see below), at Target, of all places. It's been out for over a decade, and has been selling ridiculous amounts of copies for years. He's done portraits of everyone from Nas to Kool Herc to Quee ... More >>

LinA In LA Weekend Picks: They'll Be Coming 'Round Magic Mountain

Lina Lecaro Out On The Mountain​A wildly amusing party week awaits, which the emphasis on "amusing." Black lights, glowing boobies, circus performers, rock freaks, and gay gaggles at L.A.'s most thrilling theme park are just a few of the offerings this week. Enjoy the ride(s)! Fri., Sept. 23 ... More >>

Five Revelations from the Hollywood Bowl's Trippy, Light Stick-Crazy AFI Great American Movie Quiz

Mathew Imaging"If Timothy Leary was here he'd say 'Boy did they give me some real good stuff," quipped AFI Movie Quiz host Alex Trebek about patrons' light sticks.​ There's typically a spot on the September Hollywood Bowl calendar for its revue of classical Hollywood scores, aka The Big Pictu ... More >>

The Go-Go's and Girl in a Coma - the Greek Theatre - 8-17-11

Falling JamesThe Go-Go's​The Go-Go's, Girl in a Coma The Greek Theatre 8-17-11 Better Than . . . Falling 20 feet from a cliff while hiking in Northern California. You've got to hand it to the Go-Go's. At a time in their career when they could be touring with some predictable '80s new-wave ol ... More >>

Active Child on His Debut Album, Rent-to-Own Harps, and Breaking into Churches

Brent MartinsActive Child​Harps by and large are pretty unpopular instruments. Why? Well, it's not easy to rock out on a harp. They're hard to play with your teeth. You can't pound on them, and there is no chance of an Air Harp Competition starting anytime soon. However, if you're not looking ... More >>

Helter Skelter's Gothic Prom, plus Six Reasons Why Goth Clubs Are the Happiest Places on Earth

Lina Lecaro Helter Skelter Prom King and Queen From Hell 2011​Helter Skelter (born of out the legendary live glam-meets-death-rock destination The Scream) was L.A.'s premiere goth haunt from the evening it opened in '89 and throughout the '90s. So it is no surprise that its dark denizens just ... More >>

LinA in LA: Top DJ & Dance Club Picks for this Weekend (& Beyond)

Todd HartmanPerish Dignam is a party warrior; see Sat.​Superstitious types might opt to stay home this Friday and go out Saturday or Sunday instead, but we consider the night pretty lucky when it comes to club revelry in LA. Putting aside any friggatriskaidekaphobia (the actual name for fear o ... More >>

Lina in L.A.: Perversion, Departure, Balance, Trash, Repeat

Where Will the 18 Crowd in Hollywood Dance When The Ruby Closes This Week? Club Wannabe's Top 10 So-Bad-They're-Good '90s Playlist Offers an Answer

​Prediction: fifteen years from now, at a random hotspot in Hollywood, Rebecca Black's "Friday" will be the song that gets everybody on the floor. Club kids will grind to Gaga and they'll cut it to Kanye, too, sure, but the tracks that'll incite screams and singlalongs and dancing in unison wi ... More >>

Nightranger: Music & Passion Were Always the Fashion

Who Needs The Concert? LCD Soundsystem and Rye Rye After-Parties End Show Nights With A 'Bang'

Lina Lecaro Rye Rye Rocks The Shocker​ Yep, it's all about after-concert shindigs for Nightranger lately. They've become a frequently more-fun alternative to sitting through an entire arena spectacle, not to mention the disco nap factor. We were tempted to go see M.I.A. and Rye Rye at the Ma ... More >>

Nightranger: California Paradise

Halloween 'Missed Connections' Out Of Central Casting

If you were the "super-tall fireman" on Halloween, a 1920s flapper is looking for you. The Clockwork Orange "boys" in Vegas over the weekend are also sought for amorous inquiry by a woman. Likewise, "that Indian girl at Monster Massive" is the subject of a virtual gentleman caller. Craigslist's Mis ... More >>

2001: A Space Odyssey @ The Edison Downtown

The darkly gilded depths of the Edison – resembling as it does something like inside of the Nautilus, or maybe the League of Extraordinary Gentleman's rec-room – might at first seem an odd atmosphere for as pristinely, intensely cinematic a movie experience as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet despite ... More >>

Best Fishy Puns: The Reel Inn

Club Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Saturday-night fever, Thursday-night Evil

Comics Amongst the Comics

Comedy Meltdown 2: Electric Boogaloo Meltdown Comics, January 25th Who needs too-tightly packed tables and a two drink minimum, especially if there’s an option to pick up a Buffy The Vampire Slayer omnibus and a maquette of Sub-Mariner before the show? Arguably LA’s best recurring comedy show ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

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This Week Only As Always

Theater Reviews

Including White Trash Catholic Circus, Toyer and this week's pick, the Latino Laugh Festival

Music Picks

For the week of July 20 - 27

Beethoven, Myth and Reality

Music Picks

For the week of June 15 - 22

Global Warning

Gnarls Barkley, the Beauty of Being Blunt, and the Poppy Lips Battle the Apocalypse

Dance Club Listings

For February 24 - March 2

Rock & Pop Listings

For February 10 - 16

Nightranger

On the List

Nightlife by the numbers

As the World Burns

The national idea as soap opera

Jack Black Goes to Hollywood High

The 25th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

The 25th Annual LA Weekly Theater Award Nominees

Including A Clockwork Orange, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union and more

Letters

Clubland

You Ain’t From Around Here, Are Ya, Boy?

Tim Burton on Alabama roadkill, Brother Zontar and the all-time best double bill at the Van Nuys Drive-in

The Breast Is Yet To Come

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Last Picture Show

Of Los Angeles’ great archival double-bill theaters, only Sherman Torgan’s New Beverly Cinema remains. Can this revival house be saved?

Sincerely Excessive

Hidden City: Looking for Hugo

Stuck in Low, Riding High

Tom Hanks stalls on Road to Perdition; Paul Bettany soars through Gangster No. 1

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered

Beat Freaks

Dance clubs L.A.: a forbidden world beckons

Time After Time

Dance clubs L.A.: In one era and out another

The Atrocity Exhibition

Notes on Happiness and Hollywood

Falling Rock

Michael Bay, terminator