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Does Hollywood Have an Active Fault?

The quake zone along Franklin and Yucca could mean billions in future development will be banned

Uh Oh, Are the Millennium Skyscrapers Atop the Hollywood Fault?

Updated at the bottom with the City Council's vote: Also: The developer denies its fault study is wrong. First posted at 12:43 p.m. Tuesday. Despite a sharp warning to the L.A. City Council from Gov. Jerry Brown's top geologist on Saturday not to move forward on development permits, the council app ... More >>

Capital Cities Ponied Up For an Expensive Radio Campaign. It Worked

As they sit in a conference room at Capitol Records, Sebu Simonian and Ryan Merchant can barely hide their smiles. The next day, their Los Angeles based group Capital Cities will play KROQ's Weenie Roast before zipping up the freeway to Mountain View for a big show at Shoreline Ampitheatre. In less ... More >>

The Time Axl Rose and Steven Adler Nearly Killed Each Other

Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman comes out today. It's an amazing account of the four-decades-old genre -- more than 700 pages long, with hundreds of interviews, many of them with essential players. It gets into everything from the mu ... More >>

L.A.'s First Official Bike-Friendly Street: Our Review

Six years ago, when I decided to abandon my car for a multi-modal cocktail of walking, biking and bus-riding, I lived in Hollywood. The pedestrian and transit parts came easy in my super-dense neighborhood, but biking terrified me -- rolling out of my driveway I was confronted with three routes, eac ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Arts & Culture Apps

Law & Order, Special Fugly Unit: Parker Center, 150 N. Los Angeles St., Downtown

The building that housed the LAPD's headquarters between 1955 and 2009 starred in TV shows like Dragnet in its heyday, but its slow, fifty-year slide into disrepair gave it a real world stigma that's left it tarnished and crumbling from the inside out -- most obviously because the community doesn't ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Banana Peel

For this week's L.A. Weekly Flickr photo pool, we bring you a banana, courtesy of Lucyrk in LA. Or rather, just the peel. Artfully twisted so that the label faces the viewer, but upside down. It's Chiquita. Look closer, and you read, "Ecuador." Meanwhile, the backdrop is plainly L.A.: Grey sky. Cars ... More >>

Hollywood Community Plan, aka Skyscraper Hell, Approved by L.A. Planning Commission at Dodgy Meeting

Illustration by Jack BalingitForty stories? That's nothin'!​Hollywood is about to become a sea of skyscrapers. And our only consolation prize is a goddamned cat park. Opponents to L.A.'s new "Hollywood Community Plan" never stood a chance. As if it wasn't off-putting enough that today's Plann ... More >>

Fury over Plummer Park Historic Destruction

West Hollywood politicians set to destroy historic buildings for Jetsons look

Top 10 Pool Party Hotel Restaurants: Welcome to Summertime in L.A.

Jeff KirshbaumSmall plates from Gordon Ramsay's kitchen at The London WeHo's pool​ Despite the June gloom, summer is officially here and that means Los Angeles hotels go a bit Vegas when hosting poolside parties. Although people don't always go into the pool (and there's no European-style sunb ... More >>

Rock & Roll, Entry Level

What does the perennial L.A. dream of stardom look like circa 2010?

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

The North Pole Melts with R&B, Funk, Soul-Jazz, and Boogaloo on 'In the Christmas Groove' [MP3]

By Daniel Siwek ​Not everyone dreams of a white Christmas, if I have to hear Bing Crosby one more time I swear I'll make Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places look like Kris Kringle in the Miracle On 34th Street. Luckily Strut Records offers a surefire way to get some mistletoe smooching this yuletid ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Places

Who the Hell Is Holy Grail?

An L.A. metal band with songs about “chicks, Vikings, ex-chicks, being tough, macho/machismo, FEMA, Fabio, Conan, rad dinosaurs, UFOs and Bilderberg Group,” that’s who

Screwed by Blue Note, Van Hunt Still Rocks. and Funks. With Soul

Honoring Alan W. Livingston: Capitol Records' Kingmaker Signed the Beatles, Beach Boys, the Band (and Bozo the Clown)

Alan Livingston is said to have come up with the initial idea for the design of the iconic Capitol Building The legendary longtime Capitol Records president Alan Livingston died yesterday, and with the loss comes the end to a remarkable Los Angeles story. Among his other accomplishments, Livingston ... More >>

Capitol to Reissue Key Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beach Boys, Ben Harper Releases on Heavy Vinyl

Capitol Records has just announced its next round of 180 gram vinyl reissues, and it's a fantastic list. This next batch will arrive June 16. The Beach Boys / Sunflower (1 LP, single jacket) The Beach Boys / Surf's Up (1 LP, single jacket, lyrics sheet insert) Plastic Ono Band / Live Peace In To ... More >>

Nielsen SoundScan 2008 Sales Figures Released: LP Sales Up 89 Percent -- And Neutral Milk Hotel Breaks the Top Ten

Among the many fascinating revelations in the recently released Nielsen SoundScan 2008 sales tally of recorded music product is the ranking of the year's top vinyl sellers. As anyone reading this probably knows, the music industry is in the middle of a much ballyhooed "vinyl revival." Publications ... More >>

Barack and Bondage, Crafting and Camel Toes: Nightranger's Annual L.A. Style Survey

From Katy Perry and Shepard Fairey to handmade frocks and stretchy skinnies

2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

By Annie Zaleski Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The ... More >>

The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul

Two of the iconic Southern California artist's classic compositions, Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It for the Money, will get the grand reissue treatment

Capitol's Vinyl Series: A Storied Label Digs in its Crates, Uncovers Some Gems

Yeah, it's easy to pile on the major labels these days for all their foul-ups and foibles, for their lawsuits and their protectionism, for single-minded focus on money at the expense of dignity (see below blurry photo of Coldplay banner sullying the roof of the majestic Capitol Building of this su ... More >>

Best Views

L.A. from the top and bottom

Meet Glen Campbell: Will He Be Clean, or Mean?

Velvet Underground interpreter?

Ken Nelson: L.A. Loses a Record Man

1911-2008

Bedroom Confidential: New Crop of Boutique Record Labels in Town

Corporate counterparts may want to study this model

McCartney's Vintage Clothes

Paul gets heavy on Memory Almost Full

Sadao City

Karaoke and Khmer flavors at Battambang

Best Sunken Lair For Techno-Geeks

Music Picks

For the week of June 15 - 22

Rock Out. Get Sprung. Reconsider K-Fed.Say Goodbye to Love Monkey.

The Bridges of L.A. County

Let us now praise famous spans

Cocks of the Rock

The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

High Fashion

Thrilla on Third

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

You Can’t Hurry Lust

The Shit Less Taken

The Great Pig in the Sky

Money: It’s a hit

Is the Corpse Smelly Yet?

Independent music in 2001

Fuck Fisch, Let's Spoon

Check Your Bazooka at the Door

Strange Effects

The truthful way of Billie Holiday

Work the Angles

Dilated Peoples in the main event

Waxing Nostalgic

Love and Hell

Merle Haggard's Twin Oracles

The World Festival of Sacred Music -- the Americas

Global Sacredness, Locally

Highway 65 Revisited