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Five Great Hang-Out Spots at Coachella

Have you heard of Coachella? We've been writing a lot about it! Though most of you are there to, um, see the music (and, of course, smuggle in drugs) sometimes you want to take a break from all that and roam around. So here are five spots you might not have yet hit up, to cool off, people watch and ... More >>

S.S. Coachella Fashion: Do's and Don'ts

By Liz Tracy Most of the people we met on the S.S. Coachella had never been on a cruise before. Like us, they weren't so sure what to pack or how to dress for three days of awkwardly saying hi to their favorite bands on a floating building at sea. But, like the festival, the fans also brought their ... More >>

Why Are So Many International DJs Moving to Los Angeles?

Los Angeles has recently experienced a heavy influx of international dance music producers, DJs, and label chiefs. Brits like Michael Cook and Mark Lewis were throwing raves in the Southland in the late '80s and early '90s, while French dance royalty Daft Punk arrived at some point in the late '90s ... More >>

The Gaslamp Killer Confronts Tragedy and Finds His Way Forward

A String of GOs in This Week's New Theater Reviews, Plus a Best of Fringe Award

The third annual Hollywood Fringe festival is now history, and this L.A. Weekly best of award goes to Eric Davis' demonic Red Bastard. Also check out this week's stage feature on Theatricum Botanicum's production of Shaw's The Heartbreak House, and Guy Zimmerman's The Black Glass. Our critics were ... More >>

Deniz Kurtel Brings Art Basel LED Sculpture to Los Globos: Like Walking Into a Kaleidoscope

Deniz Kurtel makes dance music. She also creates LED sculptures. Saturday night at Los Globos, Kurtel brought together both of her artistic pursuits for her "Double Exposure" tour. Inside the venue, she played tracks from her latest release, The Way We Live. Right outside the club's patio, party-goe ... More >>

Coachella: What the Hell Is That Giant Flower?

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 15 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Coachella-goers arrived to the festival Sunday to find a giant 100 foot tall lotus flower on the grounds near the Gobi tent. Trippy! The crazy thing was that the flower swooped up and down; half construc ... More >>

Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival - NOS Events Center - 3/3/12

See also: Cypress Hill Rallies Medical Marijuana Advocates for Smokeout at City Hall (With Photos) Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival with Rusko, Wiz Khalifa, Korn, Sublime with Rome, Thievery Corporation NOS Events Center, San Bernardino 3/3/12 Love was in the San Bernardino air Saturday. Well, that, ... More >>

How to Throw a Vintage Party the Edwardian Ball Way

Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss​See more photos in "CuriousJosh: The Edwardian Ball 2012 @ The Belasco Theater." Whether the setting is the Victorian era or the Roaring '20s, vintage-themed parties have become increasingly common in recent years. Few, though, can create a world that bridges together ... More >>

El Bordello Alexandra: How a Venice Goth House Came to Be

Wendy GilmartinEl Bordello Alexandra​When Tony and Brittany Stevenson bought the apartment at 20 Westminster Ave. in Venice ten years ago, the place was a heroin den with a slumlord owner who never fixed things. The front was covered with decaying wood shingles, grimy linoleum hid the historic ... More >>

tUnE-YarDs - The Music Box - 11-2-11

Timothy Norris​By Maud Deitch See also: *Our tUnE-yArDs slide show *tUnE-yArDs' w h o k i l l: 21st Century Soul Music: The inside story on the best album of 2011 (so far) tUnE-YarDs The Music Box 11-2-11 Better than...that one time in college. You were just experimenting. Within moments ... More >>

Faces of Occupy L.A.: The Student, the Actor, the Addict, the Vet

Walking through the tent city out front L.A. City Hall last night, spirits were high. A man in a ragged suit balanced on a fire hydrant, waving a sign with "Join us, don't be scared!" magic-markered in Spanish. Another man, in dreads, lit up some sage on the lawn next to him. Little kids with "99 p ... More >>

Wasteland Weekend: It's My Apocalypse, And I'll Party If I Want To

Brian ErzenEnter at your own risk.​Blood sports, cars, hot chicks, music, booze, and gambling -- who knew that the apocalypse would be so much fun? Actually, make that the post-apocalypse, which serves as the setting, dress code, and all-purpose adjective suitable to describe any situation, o ... More >>

Lewis Lee, O.C. 22-Year-Old, Dies After Taking Acid, Running Around Naked, Jumping Out of Moving Car

OC RegisterLSD victim Lewis Lee​The drug-fueled death of young Cypress man Lewis Lee on September 6 has ignited a familiar debate on the Orange County Register's comment board: Should acid, that peace-loving Burning Man staple borne of the 1960s flower-child movement, be considered as dangero ... More >>

Vegas Bomb Plot: Zachary Jackson and Fellow Simi Valley Teen Threaten to Blow Up Strip

High five!​Updated after the jump: Ventura County officials say the 16-year-old has not yet been arrested, and Vegas cops call the Strip "a very important part" of Nevada. Aw. Originally posted at 12:30 p.m. SoCal's bad little suburban boys (and girls) just keep getting craftier. Most recent ... More >>

Studio 69's "Pirates vs. Ninjas" Night Brings Out Epic Props and Partiers

Lina Lecaro Perish Dignam, Adam Lambert and Roxy Contin rrrrrrock matey.​Studio 69 definitely knows how to throw a theme party. The hedonistic underground happening meshes fetishy fashion, art, music and performance in the boldest, most bodacious and imaginative way. We're talking huge, wild p ... 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 >>

Music Picks: Julieta Venegas, Deicide, Yefim Bronfman, Chick Corea and Gary Burton

Also Conspiracy of Beards, Lykke Li, Khaira Arby and others

Top 10 Worst Lyrics of 2010

​This year there have been some pretty bad lyrics. And then there's been some pretty, pretty atrocious, awful bad lyrics. And then there's been some hellish verses like something that would spew from Satan's hairy anus. And then there's...well, you'll see. Here, for your poetic enlightenment, ... More >>

Punked in Spain

Alex Cox returns to his disaster film Straight to Hell

No On Prop. 19 Campaign Already Practically Claiming Victory In Its Battle Against California Marijuana Legalization

Legalization opponents say they have this thing in the bag.​You pot legalization supporters better get serious, because the No on Prop. 19 campaign is dancing on the proposition's grave before it's even dead. They're that confident that 19, the initiative that would legalize marijuana possessi ... More >>

DJ Q&A: Pete Tong Says 'L.A. Is The Home Of The BIG Event' When It Comes To Global Dance Music

It's all going Pete Tong Saturday at Monster Massive.​Pete Tong, as the U.K.'s Independent newspaper put it, is "the god of dance music." With BBC Radio 1's "Essential Selection" and "Essential Mix" shows, he certainly is global clubland's most influential DJ. He's the guy who every other A-l ... More >>

Best of the LA Party Scene 2009

When your faithful correspondents weren't geeking out at conventions this year, we were searching L.A. for parties, preferably ones where people donned cosplay and we could engage in conversations about Nerf herders (really, I wish I was kidding about that last part). Fortunately, there was no short ... More >>

Over the Holiday Weekend: Lady Gaga, Kid Cudi Plus Best of the Year

The work week ended early and many Angelenos took the opportunity to head out of town for a few days. For those who stayed in L.A., though, there was Lady Gaga at Nokia Theatre and Kid Cudi at neighboring Club Nokia. Plus, with the end of the year rapidly approaching, it's time to start checking out ... More >>

Post-Apocalyptic Party: Road Warrior Weekend Brings Mad Max Fans to the High Desert

Road Warrior Weekend wasn't your typical fandom convention. There were no stuffy hotels, no lines to pile into meeting rooms, no overpriced convention center lunches. Instead, this one-time-only event brought fans of the Mad Max series out to Southern California's High Desert for a three-day, post-a ... More >>

This Weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival: An Interview with Promoter Pasquale Rotella

By Dennis Romero For the 13th year Los Angeles promoter Pasquale Rotella and his company Insomniac are putting on one of the nation's largest dance music festivals, Electric Daisy Carnival. We say festival because rave just doesn't do it justice, even though he started off in the glowstick undergro ... More >>

Death's a Circus: Cirque Berzerk Combines Acrobatics with a Post-Rave, Post-Goth Sensibility

View more photos in the "Cirque Berzerk @ Los Angeles State Historic Park" slideshow Shannon CottrellIt's a humdrum world. Every day you hustle through city streets amidst a sea of suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying clones. Then you die and the party begins. Cirque Berzerk's Beneath, which opened la ... More >>

Some [Gay] Marriage Semantics

LA People 2009: The Mad Scientist — Ray Cirino

Best Moving Pictures: The Engine Theater

Movie Reviews: Boarding Gate, Run Fat Boy Run, Priceless

Also Superhero Movie, Flawless and more

Theater Listings

For the Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6

Project Runway’s Season 4

Fabulousness all around: a fan’s notes

No, You Shut Up!

Eric Whitacre’s children of paradise lost

Freaks and Freaks

Apocalypse in Progress

In Daniel Pinchbeck’s world, that’s not such a bad thing

Style from the Pile

Digging for buried vintage treasure in Long Beach

I Drive, Therefore I Am

Friday, Jan. 27

Cash, Grass and Ass

How Am I Not Myself

Welcome to AFI Fest 2005 — all of them

Mike Davis’ 6 Remarkable Ways To Die

NASCAR Country

Southern California, that is

Our selective list of (almost) 100 actor-driven ensembles that have staying power:

Koren Paalman, the Yoga Principle

Pranksters, Deviants and SoCal Satanists

Disinformation: The Interviews

Blinded With Really Big Science

Talking to L.A.'s burning men of comedy

Fire and Fire Marshals

The 22nd Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

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