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10 Best Drag Clubs in L.A.

L.A. is the unofficial capital of drag. Yes, New York, Las Vegas and San Francisco are formidable contenders too, but thanks to the "sickening" mainstream success of RuPaul's Drag Race (which is filmed here in Los Angeles), the per capita queen count in Cali has gotten kinda cray-cray. After the co ... More >>

Smoking Wax Weed With Rapper Demrick

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with Demrick, aka Young De, a rapper and songwriter who has collaborated with Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Kurupt and Xzibit. Als ... More >>

The Five Best Los Angeles Rap Albums of 2012

As Max Bell noted in his round-up of L.A. rap earlier this month, it was a very good year for hip-hop in our city, with all corners of the varied scene -- from Open Mike Eagle's smart 4NML HSPTL to Odd Future's rambunctious The OF Tape Vol. 2 to Ty$ and Joe Moses' raunchy Whoop! -- well represented ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi. You may be able to eat chef Nobu Matsuhisa's stunning Peruvian-influenced Japanese cuisine at one of hi ... More >>

Kottonmouth Kings' Pakelika Is Dead

Hip-hop performance artist and former Kottonmouth Kings member Pakelika died of cardiac arrest following an asthma attack Saturday night. According to a statement from his manager Doug Cosgro, Pakelika -- whose real name was Patrick Cochrun -- had been battling asthma for years, and this latest unex ... More >>

Medusa, Dumbfoundead and Gizzle - LACMA - 6-21-12

Medusa, Dumfounded and Gizzle LACMA 6-21-12 See also: Koreatown rapper Dumbfoundead inspires a tremendous following with his unlikely story Better than... your last visit from your fairy Godmother. The Crowd included a man who looked like Jesus: long brown hair, beard, long white dress. Last nig ... More >>

Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him

We were saddened by word that Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock fell into a coma last week. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old Los Angeles native (real name Seth Binzer) is now conscious, though he remains in an intensive care unit at a local hospital. We love the guy, and figured this was as goo ... More >>

The Adicts on Football Hooliganism, Masturbation, and Running Up $400 Bar Tabs

The Adicts' music is fast-paced and upbeat, and they sport a Clockwork Orange droog look - except for front man Keith "Monkey" Warren, who dresses like some kind of evil joker. Their live sets feature bubble machines, streamers, giant beach balls, and sing-a-longs. They invite their fans on stage. ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Three for the Price of One -- Engineer X, the Young Will Bentley, and Henry

KCRW Broadcast #147 for Saturday, January 7, 2012 Fanatics! Just so you know, this set was specifically engineered and put together with great care in order to bring you the maximum enjoyment as we gather together live for the first time this year. 2012 promises to be interesting to say the least ... More >>

Top 5 Ridiculous But Awesome Christmas Shows In L.A.

​Need a break from all the credit card-maxing, house-lighting, bad party-attending and general seasonal stressing? Why not try something outside of the gift box this year? Here, five festive, somewhat freaky holiday haps in town that are anything but cookie-cutter Christmas confections. 5. Ch ... More >>

New Dog Haus Biergarten Offers $1 Specials In Honor Of 11/11/11

Guzzle & NoshThe Sooo Cali Dog​The recently opened Dog Haus Biergarten in Pasadena is already practically giving away its food -- for 49 minutes at a time. If you manage to get down to Old Town Pasadena between 11:11 a.m. and 12 p.m. or 11:11 p.m. and 12 a.m. on this blessed 11/11/11, they'l ... More >>

1st Generation at Club Nokia, 7/23/11

Ian Cohen​1st Generation Club Nokia July 23, 2011 Better than: Compton High School's annual talent show, but possibly not. It's been said that you can instantly judge the economic health of a neighborhood based on the prevalence of barriers: fences, security systems, especially speed bumps. ... More >>

Marijuana From California Increasingly Ending up in Middle America

Shreyans BhansaliWe wish they call could be California girls.​How epic is California's medical marijuana scene? Well, pot here is a little like water -- as it floods it spreads. So much so that some authorities think that purveyors of find Golden State cannabis -- said by some to be the sta ... More >>

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

California, America's Left-Leaning, Pot-Smoking Republic, Ranks Almost Last in Study of 'Freedom in the 50 States'

Put some clothes on.​California is loose, man. We roll with it. We can buy and smoke weed pretty much legally. We're home to the porn capital of the world -- the San Fernando Valley. We're pretty much for same-sex marriage, especially when the Mormons don't meddle in our affairs. Our bell- ... More >>

Californian Sex Offender Moves to Arizona, Sparks Quiet United States Tennis Association Official Background Checks

Tennis just got a bit safer for the tykes: this time, it's the officials' foul play under review​The Enterprise Report brought attention today to the United States Tennis Association: The United State Tennis Association (USTA), secretly and quietly launched a program to background check all c ... More >>

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

Which Flamboyant LA Underground Characters Are Infiltrating the Mainstream? And Which One is the Next Cross(dressing)over Star?

Lina Lecaro Rebel's a hot tramp​In this week's Nightranger column (out tomorrow), we cover some of LA's most flamboyant polysexual characters and performers (nothing new), but ya know what is? Many of them are suddenly infiltrating the national pop mainstream in a big way. Ryan Heffington -a ... More >>

Live Review: Black Milk at The Roxy

Rebecca HaithcoatBlack Milk, Master of Ceremonies​"We at nine right now; I wanna bring it up to ten," Black Milk instructed the orchestra of fans near the end of his set last night at The Roxy. Actually, they'd already surpassed his directive. The crowd's energy, simmering dangerously close to ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Rock the Bells Hip-Hop Festival, featuring Snoop, Wu-Tang, Lauryn Hill

Kasey StokesMethod Man of Wu-Tang Clan​As it turns out, you should not fuck tha police. Our Rock the Bells road trip began promisingly: left for San Bernardino early, avoided traffic. We'd maintained a cool objectivity all week, but now were free to exclaim over the lineup, a mix of ones-to- ... More >>

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

The Specials: Back in Black and White

Lynval Golding on the return of ska's magnificent seven (minus one)

Earl Krugel, Irv Rubin: Silenced?

Art Nightlife — on Wheels

Burrito Battle Continues: The Beef Leads Back to Gold -- SFist Editor Not-So-Secretly Admits LA Burritos are Better

This week's Ask Mr. Gold has ignited an intrastate burrito battle that seems founded more on geographical pride than tortilla fillings. If there's one thing we've learned from the overwhelming response to Gold's burrito ode, it's that other cities have more than a bit of burrito envy. San Francisco' ... More >>

Down and Out in L.A.: Novelist Patrick deWitt Comes Home

His newest, alcohol-fueled book, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, is set among the city's marginalized

Nick Cave, Spiritualized, Cat Power Stanch the Wounds at the Hollywood Bowl

Film Reviews: Get Smart, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

Also, Never Forever, Viva, Brick Lane

Kat Von D

Ink stained

Add three more SXSW bands from L.A. to the list

Last week we offered an extensive list of L.A.-based bands hitting South by Southwest in Austin this year (March 13-16). Alas, we missed three of them, all from the beautiful township of Midcity, Cali. This from Brian Miller: Noticed on the la weekly sxsw blog that 3 la acts are missing. I have a ... More >>

N.W.A: Compton's Most Vaunted a Hard Act to Follow

Two decades later, Straight Outta Compton is as vital — and brutal — as ever

Youth Gone Wild

The MisShapes: style revolutionaries or hipster hair/skinny jeans/80’s revisionists simply in the right place at the right time? I’m not sure. But, I will say this- the striking, early-twentysomething NYC club promoter/ DJ trio’s new book documenting the wild looks that made their club so fabu ... More >>

A Legend Lives On

Luckyiam’s sweet sounds of success

Rick Klotz

T-shirt provocateur

Moment of Truce

After a five-year war, Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound reunite for love, profits and West Coast pride. Ben Quiñones catches the buzz.

Freaky Kinky Nation

The weird-ass, beautiful history of ’80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

Give 'Em the Boot

Life after Uggs

Anytime, Anywhere

Hardcore provocateur Eugene Robinson searches for the almost-perfect punch

Wearing the Pretty

Helter Shelter

Architectural intervention: Head for the hills or take it to the streets

On the List

Nightlife by the numbers

Kids Rock

The bands that are saving L.A.’s music scene

Lowrider Ergo Sum

The code and creed of the Ranfla Tribe

New Music

U.S. Pissed Office

Lunatik Derelikts

Free 2 B V & Legacy

Trip to Know

Groove Robbers

The Best of Counter Intelligence

The Other Continental Cuisine