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Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen Makes Its L.A. Debut, After Becoming a Hit Stand-up Show in Brooklyn

A standing crowd of 200 welcomed L.A.'s newest alternative-comedy offering, lauded New York City transplant Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen, to The Virgil cocktail bar Monday night. Nattily-dressed titular duo Kurt Braunohler (IFC's Bunk, Chelsea Lately) and Kristen Schaal (30 Rock, Flight of the Conc ... More >>

Top 10 Food-Based Beauty Gifts: If You Get Desperate, You Can Eat Your Make-Up

Body scrubs made with coffee and sugar, bath salts scented like cinnamon, facial peels crafted from crushed papayas, makeup palettes packaged like chocolate bars, face powder made from ground rice -- foodie hysteria has clearly infiltrated the beauty/cosmetics market. If the idea of rubbing cookie ... More >>

Institute for Art and Olfaction Will Bring Together Art and Perfume

I spent a solid 30 minutes last Friday night attempting to figure out what exactly was "old lady" smell, sniffing through several bottles trying to find a version of it, before I finally gave up -- but not without learning a thing or two about scents. If that doesn't strike you as an evening of enc ... More >>

The Bizarre World of Makeup Artists, Where Ovals are Perfection and Monsters are Beautiful

When the International Makeup Artist Trade Show rolls into town, it brings with it a million tiny pans of eye shadow -- and the utter conviction that the right shade of lipstick can change your life. At the Pasadena Convention Center, where the trade show took place earlier this summer, beauty i ... More >>

Skid Row's Growing Homeless Population Treated to Free Mother's Day Makeovers (PHOTOS)

Mother's Day is the best day of the year -- besides maybe Thanksgiving -- for the homeless ladies of L.A.'s notorious Skid Row. Local charities are practically fighting over the chance to hand out free makeovers to this growing population of bedraggled womanfolk: Red Eye, Inc. booked the Row for ... More >>

Coachella in the Rain: Top 5 Ways We Ladies Can Still Look Cute

See also: *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers *Going to Coachella? Bring This Gear or You're Effed! When it comes to Coachella, what's better: 103-degree temperatures or a drizzly, windy, muddy polo field? The latter is what many festival-goers might be facing ... More >>

Silverlake Beard/Mustache Contest Brings Hairy Hipsters to L.A. Public Library

Adam Gropman​The L.A. Public Library's Silverlake branch wants to raise a lot of community awareness and a little extra funding. That means they're probably gonna throw a bake sale or a car wash or maybe a used book clearance event, right? Are you kidding me? This is Silverlake! They hold a ... More >>

The Young Woman and the Sea

John Hodgman, Author of That is All , on the Trials of Being a Deranged Millionaire and Oprah's Secret Space Ark

Brantley Gutierrez, courtesy of DuttonFormer PC, John Hodgman hangs out with his favorite ferret skeleton​ Like a perfectly normal person, John Hodgman prowls the vast data tubes of the internet late at night...in his underwear....stuffing himself with kimchi. He devours factoids ranging from ... More >>

Hollywood's Hair-Feather Fad Pits Hipsters Against Fly Fishermen, Dries Up Rooster Population

Outta my way, Gramps.​Bob Marriott's Fly-Fishing Store in Fullerton is sold out of rooster feathers. You know -- those long, stripey suckers peeking from the underhairs of everyone from Steven Tyler to your babysitter. "We're out of stock," says Annie Stamper, a Marriott's employee who, for t ... More >>

Sutan Amrull: King of the Queens

New Spirit: Is Tempus Fugit's Liqueur de Violettes As Sweet As It Smells?

JGarbeeInhale​Tempus Fugit Spirits, an absinthe and liqueur importer in Petaluma, has just released Liqueur de Violettes, a floral liqueur based on a 19th century recipe made from -- surprise! -- violets. Those purple petals also happen to be hand picked in the Côte d'Azur, a.k.a. the French ... More >>

Spoke 'n' Hammer

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie

Bath Salts: L.A. Councilman Paul Koretz Proposes Citywide Ban on Cocaine-Like Household Product

AirplaneLloyd Bridges demonstrates the bath-salt effect.​Being the kick-ass, $178,000-a-year-earning public servants they are, L.A. City Council members have attacked the hardcore issues of the day like cat declawing and an Arizona boycott that has gone nowhere while the LAPD makes do with few ... More >>

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

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Lolita Man!: Middle-Aged Japanese Transvestite Dancing Around in a French Maid's Uniform

[Via Topless Robot.] Now, you either wanna look at a middle-aged Japanese man dancing around to hypnotic lounge music in his little bedroom wearing nothing but a French maid's uniform and pigtails or you don't wanna look at a middle-aged Japanese man dancing around to hypnotic lounge music in his l ... More >>

Today in WTF: Smells Like Teen Usher!

​For some unfathomable reason, celebrities often partner up with ginormous cosmetics cartels and release fragrances. These stunts are usually accompanied by some press conference and junket where, say, Britney, Kim Kardashian, the tattoed guy from Buckcherry who loves da cocane, or whoever is ... More >>

MAY BE KHARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH

The Smell Of Michael Jackson, Hair And Now: Company Formulates Cologne Based On MJ DNA

​A company that makes fragrances based in part on the DNA of dead celebrities has unveiled a Michael Jackson signature scent that's purported to be based on genes extracted from locks collected from the pop star's head. Hairy! Los Angeles-based My DNA Fragrance recently partnered up with cele ... More >>

Wine Hair Gel, Or What to Do With That Crappy Bottle of Merlot from Your Last Dinner Party

Thank goodness for hair gel. Now we can all finally get over our Sideways "I'm not drinking any f#cking merlot!" complex. Of course, we all know that celebrity hairstylist Ted Gibson makes a mean cocktail party chignon (a fancy and expensive name for your grandmom's bun). Now he's added a line of wi ... More >>

More Fun With Heston Blumenthal: Whale Vomit & Pig Bone Flutes

Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck) is kind of like the Ozzy Osbourne of the kitchen. Okay, so he's not cooking bats' heads, at least not yet. But Blumenthal has been upping the weird factor lately. On his television Christmas special this year, the chef will be serving up whale vomit, also known as am ... More >>

WE-HALLOWEEN!

BREAKING: Bret Michaels' Hairpiece Breaks Silence, Gives Extended, Tell-All Interview

photo courtesy of The Pantaloonan udated image of Buzz Goldman, Bret Michaels' longtime hairpiece​Website The Pantaloon has just published what it says is an exclusive interview with Poison lead singer and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels' hairpiece. The wig, whose name is Buzz Goldman, has a l ... More >>

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EASTER SCHMEASTER

Makeup for Pussy Cats: Hello Kitty & MAC

Last year they did Dame Edna, now they're doing a Hello Kitty line of cosmetics. "Somewhere between a coy girl and sexy siren, M·A·C Hello Kitty represents the desire in all of us to be both innocent and mischievous," says their PR. She is coy girl, sexy siren, and all cat.The color palette is bl ... More >>

Severed Arm Made of Chocolate

So, recently this mysterious chocolate arm arrived in the mail. My cubicle-mates all coveted the arm. Some tried to steal it outright. Some gnawed off its fingers. One person claimed the thumb, which we cut off and left on his desk. There were many questions. Here are the F.A.Q.'s: What the hell ... More >>

Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of cour ... More >>

The Weekend Report: Robyn at the Wiltern

Robyn: built to last (Photos by Timothy Norris) Swede pop darling Robyn capped off her spring 2008 tour at the Wiltern on Saturday night with a propulsive, mechanized set of dance pop numbers about falling in love, falling out of love, falling for the wrong man, longing for a good one. Love: the u ... More >>

Final Check Yo Ponytail tonight starring Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan

I Heart Comix's long-running Check Yo Ponytail series comes to a close tonight at the Echoplex. The legendary party ends its run with a doozy: Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan. Here's what you might see if you decide to hit it:

Chapped...Nipples?

Hey it happens. I guess. Agent Provocateur's got your areolas covered with their nipple balm, called Titillation. The "nipple refresher" also comes with a lip plumper for those "high traffic areas." But you might want to consider taking it easy with those nipple clamps... $40, available at Bloomi ... More >>

The Goddess Provides

I stopped by Taste of the Goddess on Beverly for an overpriced sub-par smoothie. A failed parking meter brandished its very own torn Dior scarf. A glimpse of my reflection in the passenger window of my car confirmed that three days no shower does not a happy hairdo make. I thanked the Universe fo ... More >>

Killer Fashion Instincts

Quick: name that band. Who is it, the latest art damaged country punks to stagger out of Joshua Tree? Some long lost side project of J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne and Neil Young? The Devendra Banhart fan club? Any way you look at 'em, their beards are impressive: it takes a long time, and a total dis ... More >>

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