Austin Young

LACE It Up, I’ll Take It

Top 10 Badass L.A. Parties of 2011

Also see 10 Ways to Get Past a Bouncer and Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011. At the risk of referencing LMFAO again, LA knows its party rockin' and we do it bigger and better than any other city in the world. New York may beat us at chic soirees, Miami might be sultrier and Vegas gaudier, but Los A ... More >>

Club Cliques Get Wet n' Wild at Summertramp's Downtown Kick-off

Lina Lecaro Swigging and jiggling at Summertramp​ "LA clubs can be kind of clique-ish ... this party is like Switzerland," says Andres Rigal, the creator of Summertramp, the monthly blow-up toy dec'd blowout that brings together clubbers and rubbers from LA's most popular, often competing, po ... More >>

Lenora Claire: P.T. Barnum With Boobs

Lina Lecaro Swigging and jiggling at Summertramp​ "LA clubs can be kind of clique-ish ... this party is like Switzerland," says Andres Rigal, the creator of Summertramp, the monthly blow-up toy dec'd blowout that brings together clubbers and rubbers from LA's most popular, often competing, po ... More >>

Nightlife: Face Time at Austin Young's PoptART Unveiling Exhibit

Lina Lecaro Portraits that Pop. ​ Sly and the Family Stone sung "Everybody is a star" and Saturday night, it sure felt like it, as revered celebrity/drag queen/art star photographer Austin Young unveiled the shots he's been working on for the past several weeks as part of "Your Face Here, ... More >>

Lina In L.A.

It's easy to be green on the club dance floor

LinA in LA: This Week's Dance Club Picks

Attention clubbers and nightlife revelers: Here, we present our brand new club-centric column for LA Weekly's print edition, a platter of party picks to mark your calendar by every week. If it's popping in LA (get it... L "in" A?), and DJs or dancing are involved, we'll have it for you right here.. ... More >>

Your Face Becomes the Art Show

Attention clubbers and nightlife revelers: Here, we present our brand new club-centric column for LA Weekly's print edition, a platter of party picks to mark your calendar by every week. If it's popping in LA (get it... L "in" A?), and DJs or dancing are involved, we'll have it for you right here.. ... More >>

This Week in LA Nightlife: Characters, Cannibals, and Horny German Impersonators

Lina LecaroClub Alchemy​ Characters. Personalities. Genuises. This week, we couldn't help but think about the people in LA who always seem to stand out, even in the most audacious of crowds. It's not just how they dress or who they know or even what they do. It's a combination of these and so ... More >>

Pop tART Pose Party at Austin Young's "Your Face Here"

Lina LecaroKelly Mantle contemplates picture placement. ​It's not unusual for a colorful crowd to garner as much attention as the art at some openings, especially when curvalicious club personality/curator Lenora Claire is involved, but at Claire's latest, the crowd was the art. She and scene ... More >>

Nightranger: The Bitch Is Back

Lina LecaroKelly Mantle contemplates picture placement. ​It's not unusual for a colorful crowd to garner as much attention as the art at some openings, especially when curvalicious club personality/curator Lenora Claire is involved, but at Claire's latest, the crowd was the art. She and scene ... More >>

2010's Top 10 Fashion Trends In LA: Tranimals, Feathered Femmes, Wonderland Wares, And More

Lina LecaroWe Heart 2010 Fashion. Well, some of it...​ For many, 2010 was a year for dressing to express, often in excess. Blending in, for the most part, was not an option when out on the town in LA. Inspired by everything from music and movies to retro style and well, we don't know what, her ... More >>

Fruit, Foregrounded

Lina LecaroWe Heart 2010 Fashion. Well, some of it...​ For many, 2010 was a year for dressing to express, often in excess. Blending in, for the most part, was not an option when out on the town in LA. Inspired by everything from music and movies to retro style and well, we don't know what, her ... More >>

Nightranger: Evil Wo-Men

Lina LecaroWe Heart 2010 Fashion. Well, some of it...​ For many, 2010 was a year for dressing to express, often in excess. Blending in, for the most part, was not an option when out on the town in LA. Inspired by everything from music and movies to retro style and well, we don't know what, her ... More >>

Nightranger Goes Gaga for Comedienne Nadya Ginsburg ( Hilarious Gaga and Madonna Impersonations)

We've known of self-proclaimed "edgy, Jew-Talian Tracy Ullman" style comedian/singer Nadya Ginsburg as part of a posse of pals and performers around Los Angeles that includes club king/actor Mario Diaz (Full Frontal, B.F.D), song parody/comedy queen Jackie Beat and burlesque star/reality fave Selene ... More >>

Ann Magnuson Kicked Off Facebook For Inoffensive Roxy Music Hommage

[Thanks to Lina Lecaro for the tip.] Facebook, which started off as a "Hot or Not" type application for horny preppies to evaluate Harvard coeds, has unceremoniously booted off the amazing singer and performer Ann Magnuson for posting this photo: Austin Young​ The picture is, of course, an ... More >>

EATLACMA Debuts This Weekend: A Year-long Project From LACMA and Fallen Fruit

EATLACMA is neither Joachim Splichal's latest museum café nor an art house monster movie, but a year-long project investigating the social role of food and art and the rituals of eating. The project is a collaboration between the LA County Museum of Art and Fallen Fruit, the LA-based artist collect ... More >>

DRAG-HAGGING WITH THE BEST OF 'EM

Going beyond drag with Tranimals Squeaky and Fade-dra and shutterbug Austin Young

Drag Makeup Workshop Tonight at Machine Gallery

Learn how to do makeup like a drag queen at Machine Gallery tonight at 7 p.m.: In conjunction with Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag at the Downtown Independent Theatre, we are having a makeup workshop, featuring Fade-Dra and Squeaky Blonde, who will teach the assembled how to apply tranimal drag make-up. ... More >>

Public Fruit Jam with Fallen Fruit This Sunday: Preserve That Guava

August through October is prime preservation season, which means busting out the pots, jars, and hot bubbly vats of sweet fruity goo to "put up" for later in the year. Tighter times and the ample free time allotted to the unwillingly unemployed (now at a dismally high 12% in LA County) have graduat ... More >>

Fallen Fruit: You Can Pick Your Friends, You Can Pick Your Friend's Fruit

Jaime JuantaraFallen fruit map of Echo ParkIn 2004, three Silver Lake-based artists, David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young, mapped out the public fruit trees in Los Angeles as a response to the volume of fruit wasting in neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles and an attempt to unify the commun ... More >>

Interview: Margaret Cho Talks "Fingerbang" at Largo

Austin YoungL.A. Weekly got a chance to talk with Margaret Cho about "Fingerbang," her upcoming March 24 musical show at Largo, before she headed over to South by Southwest last week. With an album of comedic songs in the works, Cho has been learning the guitar and working with an eclectic collectio ... More >>

Freaky Friday

Party at Houdini's; Henry Rollins on Target; All Girl at the Echo

Dial M for Madonna

Ciccone in my dreams; Heffing good time; Topanga happening

Entrance

No trash; in with the out crowd; empire Burlesque

Twinkle Toes

No trash; in with the out crowd; empire Burlesque

Best Way to Reap What Others Sow

No trash; in with the out crowd; empire Burlesque

King of the Hill

No trash; in with the out crowd; empire Burlesque