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Downtown Arts District: 6 Things That Will Change the Neighborhood's Future

This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts District *How the Arts District Got Its Name *5 Best Places to Eat in the Downtown Arts District The ... More >>

4 a.m. Last Call For Alcohol Nixed By California Lawmakers

The prospect of a 4 a.m. last call for alcohol in California had some of you jumping off your well-worn couches and professing never to be sedentary about politics again. Woo-hoo, you said. Sorry to spill our mojito on your new American Apparel t-shirt, but the 4 a.m. bill by state Sen. Mark Leno, ... More >>

Shoplifting from American Apparel Director Pirooz Kalayeh Discusses His New Meta-Film and Its Unique Distribution Process

Pirooz M. Kalayeh is an energetic and loquacious multi-hyphenate who directed and wrote the film adaptation of Tao Lin's novella, Shoplifting from American Apparel, which has its world premiere tonight at the Los Feliz 3 theater. Combining absurdist documentary and cinematic realism, the dramedy ble ... More >>

Ball-Nogues, the Red-Hot L.A. Architecture Firm, Creates an Avant-Garde Tanning Booth

To construct the mock-up of a tanning booth, Ball-Nogues used a 1973 Volkswagen and a 1970s speedboat as molds. Liquid paper pulp were poured on each. Once dried, shapes were cut from the material, then attached to each other to create the shape of the booth. It's Friday, May 28 at 5 p.m. Many in ... More >>

My 4-Year-Old Twin Sons Have Terrible Taste In Music

So, here's how my sons started listening to lite rock. Not long ago, my wife was out grocery shopping (aka grocery shopping). I was at home taking care of my 4-year-old twin sons (aka playing on the Internet and being really clever on Twitter). They were practicing writing letters and numbers at t ... More >>

Is 'Indie' the New 'Hipster'?

Flickr/Gibson Claire McGuire RegesterAccording to my students, looking dreamy in a field is the pinnacle of indie.​ As a young L.A. high school teacher, I share a generational moment with my students but often view them as daft friends or little siblings, distortedly mirroring the pursuits of ... More >>

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American Apparel Gives Los Angeles Neighborhoods Their Own Nail Polish Colors: What Shade Is Your Community?

americanapparel.netThe color of downtown L.A?​So Los Angeles, tell us, what color are you? West Hollywood would be a rainbow of light, of course. And Compton? Red or blue. Beverly Hills? Gold. Maybe platinum. Huntington Park? The "tricolor" array of the Mexican flag. These are just guesses. B ... More >>

American Apparel Finance Deal Good News For Dov Charney's Hipster Label: Federal Lawsuit Is Not

Dov Charney's American Apparel gets good financial news.​Updated after the jump with info on the employee involved in the lawsuit. Originally posted at 4:11 p.m. American Apparel is in much better shape financially today after one of its major lenders agreed to revise the terms of its loan to ... More >>

American Apparel Looks To Corporate-Turnaround Firm To Change Fortunes

Dov Charney​Reuters reported this week that financially struggling clothing maker American Apparel was in talks with a restructuring firm in an effort that could save the hipster brand from bankruptcy. Sources told Reuters that American Apparel chief Dov Charney was in talks with the corporat ... More >>

New Shareholder Lawsuit Against American Apparel Emerges

americanapparel.net​In what appears to be about the fourth shareholder lawsuit against the financially embattled clothing maker American Apparel, a New York law firm announced on Tuesday that it was joining the in-court battle against the downtown L.A. company. The filing in the local U.S. Di ... More >>

Dov Charney Blames Illegal-Immigrant Crackdown On American Apparel's Woes

Dov Charney.​American Apparel chief Dov Charney this week blamed last year's federal crackdown on its undocumented workers for the downtown L.A. clothing maker's current economic woes. Although American Apparel is weighed down by $120 million in debt, a market saturation that includes about 28 ... More >>

Development Fights Of The Week: Echo Park, Lopez Canyon

Echo Park​ Sure, when your formerly inexpensive and sleepy neighborhood becomes a hipster haven, you get the obligatory American Apparel and better quality coffee. Plus, beautiful people who take hours trying to make themselves look greasy. But there's downsides: Lots of new development and ev ... More >>

Hipsters, Where Art Thou? American Apparel's Finances Are Hurting

American Apparel​Los Angeles-based hipster-uniform maker American Apparel announced Wednesday that it had a first-quarter loss of $17.6 million and, as such, it could end up afoul of certain loan terms and ultimately default of some of its debt. The company, run by colorful and controversial ... More >>

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American Apparel Puts Father Yod On A T-Shirt, Anthology Provides The Soundtrack

Celebrated Hollywood Hills cult head and far-out psych-rock band leader Father Yod may have died in an unfortunate hang-gliding accident in Hawaii in 1975 (we realize the inherent oddness of that sentence to any not familiar with the Ya Ho Wha 13 story), but his image is being resurrected thanks to ... More >>

L.A.'s Rag Trade Faces Grim Outlook

Today's L.A. Times Business section has an alarming story about the downturn in the city's garment industry. The plight of L.A.'s rag trade seldom gets the spotlight that, say, Hollywood's shifting fortunes receive, and even though their industry provides a powerful economic generator for the county ... More >>

American Apparel T-shirts Under Attack

Perhaps it's not as iconic a still life as the cop-shattered storefront window with the big Huey Newton poster in it. But the image of an American Apparel shop's plate glass, smashed because it displayed a pro-gay marriage T-shirt, should give us  pause. The incident happened this week at a sub ... More >>

American Apparel: Made in East L.A.?

L.A. Garment and Citizen's Dot Dot Dish column (spotted by the Eastsider L.A.) recently reported on rumors that American Apparel may move its operations from the gritty industrialscape just east of downtown and into the old Sears store on Olympic and Soto. The Sears locale makes sense, given AA's r ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

We Have a Budget L.A.'s City Council unanimously passed a $7.01 billion budget that compromises over the issue of freezing new police hires. L.A. Daily NewsMurdered Cop's Mom Shot A stray bullet fired during a West L.A. street altercation Friday entered a nearby home and struck the mother of Ricardo ... More >>

The Dov Boat: Woody Allen & American Apparel Settle for $5M

David Shankbone/WikepediaLos Angeles-based garment manufacturer American Apparel has made an out-of-court settlement with Woody Allen, the Associated Press reports. Allen, the idiosyncratic film maker of Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, had sued the company, owned b ... More >>

Woody Allen's Ticking Bomb Scenario

Just when you thought the war of legal words between filmmaker Woody Allen and American Apparel's Dov Charney couldn't get any more bitter, it appears that AA plans to add even more vitriolic verbiage to the mix. Specifically, from Mia Farrow, whom the company's attorneys plan to call to the witness ... More >>

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LA People 2009: Tech's Popular Girl — Shira Lazar

She's the human manifestation of the convergence of tech and entertainment — the stepsister of American Apparel's Dov Charney, Shira causes a commotion just by showing up

Daniel Baldwin The Gray Kid Dov Charney's Silver Lake Mansion = Video Thrills

Still from The Gray Kid's "Happy Feet video" It doesn't take Daniel Baldwin long to tell a joke that punchlines with philosophical rhetoric on the necessities of an on-set blow-job. That he plays the priest in the day's music video only makes it funnier. That the day's setting is the American Appar ... More >>

American Apparel Responds to SEC Story

A spokesman for American Apparel took issue with yesterday's New York Post article that claimed AA was being investigated by the Securities Exchange Commission. "American Apparel is a good L.A. company," Ryan Holiday wrote in an email to the L.A. Weekly. "It's nowhere near bankruptcy, it would be he ... More >>

SEC Investigating American Apparel?

UPDATE: See American Apparel's response to story.A New York Post item claims that the Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing a trove of emails that were pilfered December 24 when American Apparel's computers were accessed by an unidentified hacker. One of the messages is purportedly from AA ... More >>

Barack and Bondage, Crafting and Camel Toes: Nightranger's Annual L.A. Style Survey

From Katy Perry and Shepard Fairey to handmade frocks and stretchy skinnies

WORN OUT: Knocking Us Out With Those American Thighs

Though they're mostly associated with the trendy '80s workout wear resurgence of a couple years ago, the return of the legging –or rather legging(s)- looks to be more than a passing fad. Now that the temps are dipping in LA, we're seeing the booty-hugging Lycra-blend confections everywhere, and af ... More >>

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Saving cash amid the flash

Signs of the Dov: The American Apparel Flea Market and the Search for the Next Top Billboard Model

Shoppers wait five hours just to browse for T-shirts

OUTFIT OF THE WEEK

As you can probably imagine, we see a lot of "hot" and "not" fashion out there while patrolling LA's clubs and hubs every week, but sometimes it's all about context... The funky lame ensemble and multi- colored hair here wouldn't have caught our eye at Cinespace Tuesday or Club Moscow or any night a ... More >>

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Siren call

Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)

Anyone who made it out to the American Apparel Flea Market event last Sunday knows what I'm talkin' about when I say it was post-apocalyptic insanity- a flurry of t-shirts, tube socks, hoodies, tees, halter dresses and (the highly coveted) metallic disco dancewear....lines, lines and then more lin ... More >>

Tee-For-All

Oh boy oh boy! 1 Million (or as Dr. Evil would say, ONNE MILLLION) garments are supposed to be available for the pickin' this Sunday at the American Apparel Factory flea market downtown. Tanks, shorts, and leggings for holiday gifts? Maybe. Not sure if these are seconds or what, but for a buck ... More >>

No-Escape Best Looting On the Eve of Destruction

Crossbows, medical pot and American Apparel

In The Hood

If I hear Outfield’s "Your Love,” one more time I’m gonna hurl. It’s definitely this year’s answer to Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That”- the ironic, catchy yet cheesy sing-a-long pop–rock anthem of choice for deejays right now, and a fave with today’s dance floor fiends who p ... More >>

Dancing in Tropical Snow

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Elf-ing cute!

Elf cafe, located at 2315 Sunset Blvd. in Echo Park on the same block as American Apparel and next to the abandoned movie theater, has no phone or website, but since this teeny vegetarian bistro is owned by the members of the band Viva K., they do have a myspace page. Elf, just so you know, is 18 y ... More >>

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