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The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 31 Trixie Whitley TROUBADOUR As the daughter of country rock & blues musician Chris Whitley and the vocalist for Daniel Lanois' Black Dub project, Trixie Whitley pairs a youthful yet worldly outlook with big-lung ... More >>

Funny or Die's iSteve Beat All the Other Steve Jobs Biopics to the Screen. Maybe Because It Was Shot in Five Days

Venice Drum Circle Goes Digital

The popular Venice Beach Drum Circle has done away with the bongos and embraced the digital age. This week the group, which meets every Sunday just before sunset, announced that it has replaced traditional instruments with a collection of smartphones and Rock Band drum kits. Ariel Coriander, who de ... More >>

5 Food-Related Things to Cross Off Your Bucket List Before Friday's Apocalypse

There's nothing quite like a drop dead deadline to inspire you to contemplate all the things you always wanted to eat in this city before it was too late. And so, with the apocalypse scheduled for sometime on Friday, we put together five food-related things to do before the Four Horsemen come gallop ... More >>

Old Soul Pop-Up: Jeremy Fox, Morcilla Latkes The Dave Chapelle Analogy

This past weekend marked 2012's last run of Old Soul, a pop-up by Jeremy Fox held at Square One Dining in Hollywood. If you missed it, it's probably forgivable -- Old Soul has only served eight nights of dinner so far, with plans to continue well into next year. It would be a good move, though, to ... More >>

Massage Girl Steals iPad, Laptop From Guy In Burbank Hotel Room When He Turns His Back

After a guy got his iPad Mini and MacBook Pro laptop stolen by a massage girl he called to his hotel room, Burbank police are warning folks to use only reputable masseuses. Um. Yeah. We have out doubts that the "victim" was searching for a real legit muscle-stroker at 4 o'clock in the morning. (Or ... More >>

In-Chan's Little Secret

This family restaurant in Van Nuys delights with northern Thai dishes — as long as you ask for the special menu

Geeks Rejoice: Acne Cure Could be Near as UCLA Discovers Pimple-Eating Virus

Dear zit-having, computer-programming, getting-your-asses-kicked-at-school teens. Sorry. We know life sucks, but just think, the geeks shall inherit the earth. Someday you be rolling deep in Apple stock and you'll have to use motherboards just to pry the chicks off you. And science, she's breaking ... More >>

Mitt Romney Says U.S. Failing Like California ... While Asking For Cash Here

Mitt Romney has been a great giver of gaffe in the last few weeks. Shortly after video showed him dismissing nearly half the nation as a bunch of non-taxpaying moochers he sported a fresh tan during an interview aimed at Latino voters last week. The latest: Over the weekend, the Republican presiden ... More >>

iPhone Robberies in Venice Prompt LAPD Warning: Keep Your White Earbuds on The DL

If you're walking around Venice at night listening to tunes on your iPhone, your ears plugged with white "buds," you're an idiot, of course. And cops this week are warning you not to do it because a) it looks retarded, b) it keeps you from hearing potential criminals sneak up behind you and c) it a ... More >>

HotPad: The Coffee Warmer for Your New, Overheating iPad

If you're one of the over three million or so proud owners of the new iPad, you also are the proud new owners of a coffee warmer. All you need to do is visit the HotPad website and hit Run; the site then will run a script to purposely overclock your iPad's processor and make the tablet nice and toa ... More >>

Your Lost Phone Probably is at a Coffee Shop or Restaurant, or: More Reasons to Stop Tweeting and Just Eat

If you've misplaced your cell phone, chances are, you probably lost it the same way you lost your retainers in the 9th grade: sometime during lunch, because you were distracted and forgot to take it with you before you went back to fourth period. Based on Lookout, Inc.'s study of lost phones, old b ... More >>

[Updated] UCLA's Science & Food Series: Or, Why There's A Modernist in Your Soup (or at Your Dinner Table)

Update: The lovely folks at UCLA have just told us that there are still spots available for the June 9 lectures. Maybe go reserve one now. General admission is $20; UCLA students get in free with a valid student ID. This semester is a pretty good time to be a "non-science student" at UCLA: 50 lucky ... More >>

$5.59 Gas in Los Angeles: Fuel Reaches High Not Seen Since 2008

The jobless rate is down. People are starting to spend money again. Some of Wall Street's biggest stocks, like Apple, are trading at record highs. Damn, this Great Recession might have just turned a corner for the better. Finally. Wait a minute. Did you say $5.59-a-gallon gas? Right here in L.A?

Food Poisoning Detector Coming to Your Smartphone?

Want to check if that meat is really spoiled, or just smells off? UCLA reports that a new attachment for smartphones may be able to detect E. coli and Salmonella contamination and save you from a trip to the emergency room. Researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Scie ... More >>

Condoms Suck

We're spending billions to develop an HIV vaccine. Why not also focus on building a better condom?

Pre-Golden Globe Pampering Noshes: But Not for You

Let us make clear from the outset that you, Common Person, cannot go. This event is only for celebrities and their hangers-on (aka "plus ones"). Members of the hoi polloi, the riff raff, the masses or the Occupy Movement best not show up. Nine Zero One Salon in West Hollywood is hosting a two-day ( ... More >>

Market Research Mambo: Secrets of a Focus Group Aficionado

Buster Ringling isn't his real name -- but this really is his silhouette​ "If you're really strapped for cash, you can sell your blood plasma," Buster Ringling says. "You can become an extra, but $60 for eight hours' worth of work? You get treated literally like cattle. It wasn't for me." Whe ... More >>

An Anti-establishment Black Friday: A Few Foodist Places to Shop, if You Must Shop

Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas season, but just because it's time to deck the halls doesn't mean you should risk getting decked in the face. Those Black Friday sales can be downright vicious. So why not skip the bum rush and support your local purveyors of craft goods? The next month ha ... More >>

Richest Americans Saw 400 Percent Increase in Income, 40 Percent Decrease in Tax Rates, According to Calif. Sen. Boxer (It's Almost True)

yunguyen666​This whole class warfare thing is kind of cool. We haven't seen this much bloodlust among the masses since Apple introduced the iPhone 4. After President Obama proposed that millionaires and billionaires pay the same tax rate as working-class folks (sparking charges by the right t ... More >>

DJ Turntables Become Art in Pop-Up Gallery Outside MOCA's 'Art in the Streets'

Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

Free Comic Book Day Events in Los Angeles

Liz OhanesianYou can get your Free Comic Book Day Dark Crystal book signed at Meltdown Comics tomorrow.​May 7 is the first Saturday of May and, as many comic book lovers know, that means it's Free Comic Book Day. The annual event encourages people to support their local comic book shop with lo ... More >>

Grilled Cheese Invitational: We Came, We Saw, We Curdled [Photo Gallery]

Guzzle & NoshScenes from the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational. (Photo Gallery after the jump.)​The griddles have grown cold, the butter has congealed. As the 2nd 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational (a.k.a. the 2011 GCI) recedes into memory, the losers bandage their burned fingers and the v ... More >>

Last Night: Second Glass Wine Riot at Santa Monica Place

​ They came with their propaganda and their party fever. They welcomed everyone, invited the masses into the cavernous space where they assembled at Santa Monica Place mall, jamming to the driving beats of DJ Andie Cassette. And they poured wine. Lots of wine. Wine from all over the world. Sec ... More >>

Y2K, 2011-Style: We're Running Out of Internet Protocol Addresses

hotgirlswithiphones.comOne IP address at work.​When the precursor to the Internet was developed at UCLA in 1969, little did the pioneers know that we would all someday be connected by this thing many times over: Your computer at work has an IP address. Your laptop has an IP address. Your iPhon ... More >>

Governor Jerry Brown to Californians, Via 'State of the State' Address: We Seek Your Guidance (and Cash Money)

Governor Brown vs. the deficit​Governor Jerry Brown reached out to the broke-ass peoples of California this evening in his career-second State of the State Address, telling us over and over that he respects our right to vote. (He even juxtaposed our glorious ballot-wielding powers with a shout ... More >>

Marijuana Prices In Medical-Pot States Like California At Low, Low Prices (Thanks To Drug Gangs And Mexican Cartels)

Your bud Mary Jane doesn't cost as much as she used to.​The legalization of medical pot in 14 states including, of course, California, has driven the price of weed down to new lows. This, of course, makes no economic since, since legalization = more demand = less supply = higher prices, in ou ... More >>

PETER AND GORDON AND EVERYBODY ELSE

Across the Universe: WTF is 'Rape Gaze?,' Ben Harper/Dino Lady Split, Gaga Needs Some Air and Waters Changes 'Wall' Vid

Across the Universe: WTF is 'Rape Gaze?,' Ben Harper/Dino Lady Split, Gaga Needs Some Air and Waters Changes 'Wall' Vid

Music Picks: John Lee Hooker Jr., Faun Fables, Tribute to Dolly Parton

Also, Ray LaMontagne, Wait. Think. Fast., Crooked Fingers and others

Steve Jobs Rolls Out iPhone 4 Fix: A Free, $35 Case

Gizmodo​In a hastily organized news conference called to respond to criticism that the iPhone 4 has serious reception problems, Apple chief Steve Jobs announced a solution that sidestepped a recall that could have cost the company $1.5 billion: Free, $35 cases that seem to put virtual duct tap ... More >>

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT (THURSDAY NIGHT, THAT IS)

Must Have Kitchen Tool? The Celebrity Chef iPhone App

Brooke Burton​ The list of necessary kitchen utensils - whisk, wooden spoon, fish spatula, immersion circulator, nitrogen canister - now seems to include an iPhone. Because now not only must the celebrity chef have the de rigueur stack of cookbooks and (ideally) a reality television show, but ... More >>

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Where To Spend New Year's Eve: In A Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name. At Least For One Night.

Logline for the proposed horror film, "Where To Spend New Year's Eve": Thousands of hallow-eyed would-be-revelers, in a desperate search for a party, comb the streets in their finest digs, racing against the stroke of midnight. This year, instead of staying home like a curmudgeon, or running aroun ... More >>

Awesome or Awful? The Battle of Milkquarious

Awesome or Awful: The Battle of Milkquarious

Comedy and Pickles - A Match Made In Heaven

The Apple SistersNew West Coast Gals​As summer here in Los Angeles sizzles to a fiery close, one's mind turns to other things that are hot and canned, like pickles and comedy -- specifically McClure's Pickles and L.A.'s brightest new comedy troupe, The Apple Sisters. Certified Kosher by Rabbi ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Seafarer

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's I ... More >>

12 Consumer Products That Should Not Have Exploded But Did: Recall-a-rama

In honor of April Fools, I give you a dozen consumer products (and one nuclear battleship) that should not have exploded but unfortunately did. Or, in the case of the ship, could. These are all true. (Except for the last one.) As usual, the joke is on the hapless consumer. 1. Electrolux Vacuum Cle ... More >>

The Woz on Dancing with the Stars

Oh man. Steve Wozniak is going to be on Dancing With the Stars. I don't watch the show, but they've now found the one star that would make me start. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs. I wonder if they tried to get Jobs to dance as well. Or Bill Gates. That would have been the ultim ... More >>

Some Thoughts on the "Best. Politician. Inspired. Single. Ever." Also, Nazis. Also, Jesus. Also, NFL football.

Los Angeles's own Sa-Ra create a rallying cry for Obama. Plus, a bunch of other crap this video brought to mind. Super random, super fun.

SXSW Postmortem...but first a word from our sponsors

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.

The Mall Is His Classroom

Auditing a class at the Apple store

One of Those Weeks

Christopher Rouse's Requiem and Mark Robson at Zipper Concert Hall

Hard Lines

Letters

Waxing Nostalgic

Bun There, Done That

The Auteur as Gearhead

Notes on the digital video revolution, Part One

American Pie