Birthdays

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: An Ian MacKaye Wrap-Up and Loads of Great, New Music

KCRW BROADCAST #211 04-13-13   See also: Henry Rollins: Joe Cole and American Gun Violence Fanatics! I hope you had a chance to listen to last week's show by now. Ian MacKaye was our guest and like last year, it was a great night that went by all too quickly. I didn't want to spoil the fun by putt ... More >>

Cocktail Nerdom: Happy Birthday Washington Irving A Recipe For The Sleepy Hollow Cocktail

Today in 1873, Washington Irving was born in New York City. It was the same week the American Revolution ended, and Irving was named after the hero of the day, George Washington.

Have a Happy, Tacky Christmas

Carmen Trutanich Delivers $30,000 To L.A.'s Best After L.A. Weekly Calls Out Broken Pledge

Loyal L.A. Weekly reader Carmen Trutanich must have seen our post from Wednesday, in which we noted that he had yet to deliver on his pledge to donate $100,000 to the L.A.'s Best after-school program. Trutanich had promised to come up with the money by his birthday, which was on Sunday, and had yet ... More >>

Carmen Trutanich Breaks Another Pledge, Fails To Deliver $100,000 To Kids' Program By His Birthday

Carmen Trutanich, the L.A. city attorney, has been keeping a low profile since being drummed out of the D.A.'s race earlier this summer. Sure, he announced a big crackdown on ticket scalpers last week, but he sounded subdued about it, as though he no longer takes the same satisfaction from pummeling ... More >>

Magic is Fun

Burns Supper: Celebrating a Scottish Poetry Legend With Whisky and Sheep Innards

One of the frustrating trials and tribulations of contemporary culture is, of course, the obligatory Facebook birthday wish. From the thought-free exchange of a computer reminding you that your fourth cousin thrice removed has again made it around the sun, to the process of cutting and pasting "Happ ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Every Day's a Birthday with Ace Young

Anger and resentment on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills seem to follow the first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Only transferred. Case in point: Taylor arrived at Lisa's tea party fuming at her. Two years of stomaching insults from the sarcastic ... More >>

Kenny Burrell, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder - Royce Hall - 11-12-11

Reed Hutchinson​Kenny Burrell, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder and others Kenny Burrell: 80 Years Young UCLA's Royce Hall 11-12-11 Better than...working on my birthday. On Saturday night guitarist and UCLA jazz studies director Kenny Burrell celebrated his 80th birthday alongside his colleagues, hi ... More >>

5 Star Day Review

Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos at Duncan Miller Gallery. You're Welcome.

Copyright Lawrence Schiller​ Life magazine called it "the skinny dip you'll never see." In what would have been Marilyn Monroe's last film role, the buxom, platinum-haired icon frolicked in and around a swimming pool for the unfinished Something's Got to Give in 1962, a remake of the screwbal ... More >>

Kreayshawn's Impromptu Birthday Party - Freak City - September 25, 2011

David BallThe birthday girl ​Kreayshawn's Birthday Party Freak City September 25, 2011 Around 9:30 last night, just as I was settling in for the evening, I got a message from Freak City's Rick Ross. "Krea just decided to have her birthday party at Freak City tonight. Wanna come by?" Well, du ... More >>

Meet The Guy Who DJs for Obama

​The Secret Service was busy digging through the background of Adam Bravin, aka DJ Adam 12, when the two of us spoke yesterday. The reason? The spinner behind popular old school hip-hop party AFEX -- which debuts at Los Globos on Thursday night -- will perform at an Obama fundraiser at House o ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: A Time Change and Curtis Mayfield

​KCRW BROADCAST #131 for Saturday, September 10 Fanatics! I'm writing to you from Port Au Prince, Haiti. I have been here for about a week now and tomorrow will be flying back to Los Angeles, getting a few hours of sleep, and then coming into the studio at our new time of 8 pm to do the show ... More >>

Bob Gray and the New Cellphone That Made Him a Celebrity. Sort Of.

Impostor Bob with girlfriend Liza, top left, and Andy Dick, bottom left​ There are people who kinda love their cellphone service, and then there is Bob Gray. A refreshingly friendly and stoutly built Cleveland native, bursting with the unfiltered enthusiasm and tendency for "straight talk" ass ... More >>

Hedi Slimane

Los Angeles Celebrates Photographer Gary Leonard's 60th Birthday

Gary LeonardSee more photos in "Gary Leonard: Selling Out @ 60"​ When asked to identify himself at photographer Gary Leonard's 60th-birthday-party photo sale two weeks ago, a tall man with a large camera hanging from his neck refers to himself as "the other Gary Leonard." He is Gary McCarthy, ... More >>

Los Angeles Celebrates Photographer Gary Leonard's 60th Birthday

Happy Birthday, Mr. Governor: Jerry Brown's Low Rent Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday, Governor Brown. Jerry Brown tweeted his surprise (and characteristically low rent) birthday party yesterday -- the governor turned 73 on Thursday, April 7th -- which appears, via YouTube, to have involved a traditional sheet cake, a venue that resembles the setting of an AA meeting, ... More >>

Perez Hilton Grows Up: Chats About New Music Projects, His New Attitude. Plus, A Peek Inside His Blue Ball Birthday Bash

Lina Lecaro Selena Gomez and Perez Hilton are true blue. ​ With live performances by Macy Gray, Dita Von Teese, Prince Poppycock, and Greyson Chance to name a few and Debbie Gibson, recorded greetings by Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, and Justin Bieber, and an in person Happy Birthday serenade from ... More >>

Someone Stole Paris Hilton's Birthday Cake

Paz's Facebook pageParis Hilton's birthday cake​ You may not have noticed it after all the drinks you downed from any and all of the six open bars at Paris Hilton's 30th birthday party (our invite must have gotten lost in the mail), but that cake you saw? Yeah, you didn't get a piece. In fact ... More >>

Paris Hilton's Massive Birthday Cake Ends Up on L.A.'s Skid Row, Feeds Homeless, Thanks to Rapper Paz

Alex CDParis Hilton's cake ended up on Skid Row.​An aspiring L.A. rapper says he made away with what appears to be a huge and unmolested wedding-like cake presented at Paris Hilton's birthday celebration and gave it to homeless people on Skid Row. The celebutante marked her 30th birthday on T ... More >>

Blast from the Past: 10 Pictures from Cookbooks for Kids

Because teaching kids to cook isn't the same as teaching grown-ups, cookbooks have always used a different approach in getting children to learn how to prepare food: they get them into the kitchen with pictures of cute, fun-to-make desserts. Flickr user Charm and Poise has compiled vintage kid-food ... More >>

Milk and Egg Allergies Linked to Month of Conception

Flickr User Naked_Eyes​ April really is the cruelest month. At least for the 11-week old fetus. The Independent reports on a Finnish study that found that babies who celebrate their eleventh week of gestation in springtime have a higher likelihood of developing allergies to milk and eggs tha ... More >>

SHABBY CHIC

A Birthday Regale

Best Place to get Soaked with Champagne (and Uploaded onto YouTube) on Your Birthday

Flickr/siikThe Birthday Champagne Spray at Manna ​ Leave the vegetarians and tight pants behind for birthday dinner at Manna. The Korean BBQ restaurant offers an all-you-can-eat meat fest for an outrageous 17 dollars every night of the week. The staff and restaurant, accustomed to accomodating ... More >>

Good-bye, Dolly!

Blemishes are forbidden in Boys in the Band and Survival Exercise

Free Cupcakes: Sprinkles Has a Birthday Party

So what do you want for your birthday? World peace, a nuclear arms treaty, a trip somewhere, a job. Probably not a Lexus. But cupcakes, definitely cupcakes. We all want cake, especially if it's portable. Well, today Sprinkles is turning 5 years old, and they're celebrating their birthday by giving y ... More >>

Nightranger: The Rest Is Still Unwritten

RUDY DON’T FAIL

Rest in Peace Roland S. Howard, 'King of Kalifornia,' Proto-Goth Guitarist for the Birthday Party

In the "Unsung Heroes of Rock & Roll" category, it is with great sadness to report the death of one of the most inspired guitarists of the post-punk era -- and self-proclaimed 'King of Kalifornia' -- Roland S. Howard. Best known for his strange, angular, genius work with Australia's best punk band, ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Mr. Scorsese: How to Cook Pasta in Prison

Happy birthday, Martin Scorsese. Here's the perfect YouTube birthday card, courtesy of the director himself, who turns 67 today. For anyone who loves Goodfellas, good pasta, and properly sliced garlic, here's a better cooking demo than anything you'll find on the Food Network.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR RACHEL

Flying Lotus Hosts Epic B-Day Jam w/ Computer Jay, Shafiq Husayn, Gaslamp Killer, more (MP3)

Local party-thrower and events curator ArtDontSleep recently organized an impromptu jam session between several beat music masters and acoustic instrumentalists at Echo Park's Knobworld recording studio. Grace Oh​The guest of honor was Flying Lotus, a.k.a. Steven Ellison, on the occasion of ... More >>

Today in Photographs: September 12, 1959

​French actor-singer Maurice Chevalier celebrates his 71st birthday with fellow Can Can cast members Louis Jordan and Shirley MacLaine.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

Happy Birthday Mr. President: All Buttercream Frosting is Bipartisan

It's President Obama's birthday today. He's 48. The President is not taking the day off, but working at the White House, meeting with advisers and having lunch with the Senate Democratic Caucus. On the agenda: health care reform, the economy, and cash for clunkers. "Chuck E. Cheese was booked," Pres ... More >>

Ice Cube Turns 40, Lakers Win the Championship: Today is a Good Day

On this very special day, we at West Coast Sound want to wish Ice Cube a wonderful birthday. We hope that this morning you woke up and thanked God, and that the day felt kinda odd, perhaps because there was no barking from the dog, and there was no smog. We hope that right now your momma is cookin ... More >>

PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT FOR MY BIRTHDAY

Happy Birthday, Bob Baker!

Come for the Peace, Stay for the Cake

A Cinematic Centennial

Live in LA: Elvis Costello Goes Way Late at the El Rey, May 28

Elvis Costello and the Imposters, El Rey, 5/28 By Randall Roberts Photos by Timothy Norris Elvis Costello performed a jumbo show at the Hollywood Bowl with the Police earlier on Wednesday night, but apparently he was itching for more, because he and his Imposters headed up La Brea to the El Rey o ... More >>

Dan Monick - Very Good Photographer, Looks Pretty in Wigs

This is Dan Monick. He's the girl on the left. Not only does he look very pretty in wigs, as you can see, he also happens to be a very good photographer. This photo was taken shortly after his one-night only show, held Saturday in Downtown L.A. Monick's pictures look like giant tea-stained polaro ... More >>

Milking It

It was my birthday this past weekend, and though the Leo in me usually takes a whole week to celebrate, this year I've got another birth on my mind- the one I'll be enduring when my little one comes in early November. Still, I had a hubby who wanted to spoil me and I just couldn't let the double wh ... More >>