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Rolling Stones - Staples Center - May 3, 2013 (With Photos and Set List)

Rolling Stones Staples Center May 3, 2013 The Rolling Stones still put in the work, as was demonstrated by their stint here in Los Angeles over the last two weeks, which included a series of rehearsals in Burbank -- Falling James lurked outside -- and their secret show at the Echoplex. See also: ... More >>

5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including the Return of the Joffrey Ballet

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance shows include the start of a 9-month Stravinsky Festival. 5. Who's Joffrey Now? The Joffrey Ballet may call Chicago home now, but it con ... More >>

Ohana Brewing Company: L.A.'s Newest Craft Brewery Was a Long Time Coming

Two years ago, Ohana Brewing Company was supposed to be the next great Los Angeles beer-maker. The tiki-themed tap handles were made, the beer list decided and the old brewhouse from Craftsman Brewing in Pasadena had moved into Ohana's new space just south of Downtown. Adding to the hype was its fou ... More >>

10 Best Pizza Restaurants in Los Angeles

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. 10. 800 Degrees Not since Bill Walton led the Bruins to a 30-0 record have UCLA students had such good reason to rejoice. Westwood's newest pizzeria, a fast-casual concept dreamed up by Umami guru Adam Fleischman, is open until 2 ... More >>

Josh Nelson Is On Another Planet

This summer, the Mars rover Curiosity will finally reach its destination after a nine month journey. Tomorrow, while the space module prepares to roam the red planet looking for dust, signs of life and a perhaps a good place to put our stuff once the Earth is destroyed, pianist Josh Nelson will be a ... More >>

Awkward: CSU Presidents Receive Pay Raises at Apocalyptic Meeting on Budget Cuts

Two doomsday scenarios were laid out by the California State University Board of Trustees at today's meeting: If the state cuts CSU funding by $250 million next fall, as it has promised to do if voters don't agree to the governor's proposed tax hike, the university system will either have to 1) rais ... More >>

Ted Nishihara is Latest School Sex Scandal Suspect: Lewd Act Alleged in La Mirada

January's Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal has unleashed a torrent of accusations against area teachers. The latest involves Ted Nishihara, a substitute educator at Los Coyotes Middle School in La Mirada. The 29-year-old was arrested yesterday after a student said he touched her inappr ... More >>

Swan Angeles

Lou Reed on How His Attempt at Career Suicide, Metal Machine Music, Became an Art Show

Lou Reed is a rock & roll legend. That is an indisputable fact. And he doesn't bless Southern California with his downtown swagger very often. So when he takes part in a staged conversation, it is only fair that he gets to pick the subjects. Unfortunately for many who paid 45 bucks to hear Reed's ... More >>

Ball of Artists Crashes Greystone Mansion With Nude Party Ball and Clowns Breaking Plates

On Saturday night, LAXART and the Getty threw a lavish Ball of Artists, billed as the "culminating event" of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival (which, in case you haven't noticed, has been going gangbusters for the past two weeks). Although the press release positioned t ... More >>

Bella Lives

$100 Billion Bullet Train

Democrats fray as cost skyrockets, feds bail, and Amtrak starts to look good

Kim Barrios-Thomas: Marmed and Dangerous

Bernabe Basurto, 19-Year-Old CSU Long Beach Student, Killed by SUV While Standing on 110 Freeway

TwitterBernabe Basurto​A young man who had gotten into a minor accident and stepped out onto the 110 North in the wee hours this morning -- only to be fatally hit by a 2008 Mazda Tribute trying to avoid the crash's buildup -- has been identified as 19-year-old Bernabe Basurto. A preliminary C ... More >>

Lisa Nguyen, Long Beach Graphic Designer, Murdered By Suicidal Father At 27 Years Old

MySpaceLong Beach's Lisa Nguyen was home on a two-week vacation when her father snapped​Updated after the jump: One of Lisa's professors remembers how fellow students used to call her "WikiLisa." Originally posted on Jan. 10. The youngest victim of a bizarre Harbor City murder-suicide on Sun ... More >>

Brian Eno Returns to the Stage!

This is gonna be really interesting and hopefully not a one-off: Brian Eno is returning to the stage to play three improvised pieces at the Brighton Festival 2010 in the UK. Eno, who's one of the artistic directors of the festival and would be showing his art installations there, will perform as pa ... More >>

GO LA: Mort Sahl, Ziggy Marley and Everything In Between

What to do in L.A., May 1-7

LA People 2009: Cool Twist — LemonLime Agency's Robin Harrington

Advertising America's alternative-culture darlings are quirky-cool nerds, and Harrington knows just where to find them

Sex ... er ... Art and the City: Sarah Schrank's L.A. Art

New novel explores our city's civic imagination

Sheeple: Mob thinking on both sides at the Palin event in Carson

By Daniel Heimpel Saturday was a little weird. First, I was in Carson. Second, I was eating a chicken sandwich from KFC. And third, Sarah Palin was coming to town. Seated at a concrete table in front of the fast food restaurant, I had a good view of the action. A large group of predominantly black ... More >>

Lothar Schmitz, Lauren Bon

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

Skeptics' Society: Sandow Birk, Jeffrey Vallance

Coming Back From Iraq

And all they want are normal jobs

In Search of a Full Deck

Brad Spence’s airbrushed cloud of unknowing

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

For the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6

Amateur Knights

Edward Wilson aims to keep the theater young

State Of Emergence

Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog

At Long Beach, Unusual Biz As Usual

Goddard's Kid

The Thin White Line

Ghosts of Tappers Past

Thou Art Slain

Denmark's Raveonettes crack the whip

Passport to Hell

A man from Kuwait meets the War on Terror in Long Beach

The Little Company that Can

Summer Calendar

Black and White and Black

Carrie Mae Weems and The Hampton Project

My Friend the Holy Man

The quest for heaven as a scaled-back dream

V-Day Celebration

Sex, violence, RAWA and The Vagina Monologues

Leaf Blowers

New fiction from T.C. Boyle, first fiction from Tod Goldberg, City in Fiction from David Fine

Upending the Past

Baryshnikov, Roussève and Harris take turns mining history

Shipshape

Life Force

Gerald Locklin on poetry, children and immortality

A Jovial Buddha

Duane Ebata, 1950–2000

Letters

The World Festival of Sacred Music -- the Americas

Global Sacredness, Locally

BattleBots!

Mechanical gladiators who maim one another may be the spectator sport of the future

Healing Art

Dance makes a difference

Hot Dates

A guide to summer fetes and flights of fancy

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars