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Lebowski Fest - Saban Theatre - 03-22-13 (With Video!)

Lebowski Fest, Night One Saban Theatre 03-22-13 Beverly Hills was full of far more "achievers" on Friday -- the handle Lebowski Fest co-founder Will Russell has applied to the hardcore fans of the Coen brothers' 1998 film. Lebowski Fest, held here in Los Angeles since 2002, brought about a thousa ... More >>

A Wild Night on the Town With Rapper Problem

[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 quickly-emerging, 29-year-old Compton rapper Problem. Also along for a small part of the ride was Jamie Foxx.] 10:21 p. ... More >>

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Angelyne to Auction Off 'Celebrity' Memorabilia

Angelyne is the original zero threat, a star in her own mind without any discernible talent besides self-promotion. As such she paved the way for legions of self-styled stars -- Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian -- who have made a living off pure fame. It's not clear if Angelyne, whose heyday was in th ... More >>

Manhattan Beach Cops' Hit-and-Run Career Fiasco

Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 5 Iconic Works of California Design on Sale Sunday

Courtesy of Los Angeles Modern AuctionsRichard Neutra's VDL House in Silver Lake, photographed by Julius Shulman in 1966. A print of this image, and some of the furniture photographed, are up for auction this weekend. Life in sepia remains unavailable.​In the material world, the past is never ... More >>

Four Things to Love About Patrick Warburton

​ Patrick Warburton has a knack for scoring roles that foster pop culture obsession. Back in the 1990s, he played Elaine Benes' boyfriend, David Puddy, on Seinfeld. He went on to star in the short-lived, yet beloved live-action adaptation of The Tick. More recently, you can hear his deep, boom ... More >>

Music Picks: Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Peter Murphy

Also, Erykah Badu, Andre Williams, Animals & Men and others

Dreamiest Mugshot Ever? Rick Springfield Arrested in Malibu

Rick Springfield​Soap star and "Jessie's Girl" singer Rick Springfield was arrested in Malibu last night on suspicion of drunk driving. According to the Sheriff's Department, Springfield, 61, caught the attention of a patrol deputy from the Malibu/Lost Hills Station at approximately 8 PM as ... More >>

L.A. County Sheriff's Car: Coming to a Wal-Mart (and Chinese Sweatshop) Near You

Zev's BlogCharge this, China.​The kids were apparently getting tired of pushing around those frumpy old Ford Crown Victorias that used to epitomize the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. A few lucky deputies have since upgraded to the menacing, pitbullish Dodge Charger -- and so upgrade ... More >>

Four Manhattan Beach Police Officers Allegedly Involved in Drunk Hit-and-Run One Year Ago Finally Fired (But Still on Paid Leave)

grunionsmb.comJanuary 31, 2010: One expensive boys' night out for the City of Manhattan Beach​We're big fans of the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing -- and certainly wish it had applied more thoroughly to cases like that of 18-year-old Jeremy Marks -- but in heel-dragging, money-wast ... More >>

Wanna Buy Slash's Corvette, Top Hats -- Dinosaurs?

LA Weekly​Billboard reports that Guns N Roses (and Velvet Revolver, Snakepit, etc.) Slash will be holding a garage sale of unwanted stuff that has accumulated in his house. Now, him being Slash, this means the garage sale is run by a big-time Beverly Hills auction house and that if you wanna g ... More >>

Top 10 WTF LA Nightlife Moments of 2010

Lina Lecaro(T)hat's All Folks! at Dragstrip 66​ What a year. Looking back as we always do around this time, one thing was very clear, LA be crazy after dark! Was it end-(or beginning?)-of-decade (yup, look it up) dementia, all the mercury in retrograde activity or something else that gave th ... More >>

Nightranger: REBEL, REBEL(S)

Former NASCAR Driver Nabbed After High-Speed Chase Now Suspected Of Attempted Rape

​This is the story of a guy who really could get arrested. A couple weeks ago we told you the how a former NASCAR driver, despite getting away from authorities in a high-speed chase, got caught when the Corvette he was lead-footing croaked in an engine FAIL that would make BP proud. James Ed ... More >>

Former NACAR Driver Still Caught After Successfully Speeding Away From Authorities

KTLA News/O.C. Sheriff's DepartmentDeputies' on-board footage of the chase.​What we like about this story is that the guy actually got away. Authorities called off the chase after he sped south on the 5 freeway at a reported 140 miles an hour in a C5 Corvette. Forget it, the cops said, it's no ... More >>

Macabre Corvette Crash Kills Four In Van Nuys

Google Maps​Mangled victims and car parts were spread along a half-mile stretch of Roscoe Boulevard in Van Nuys after a late-model Corvette, thought to be speeding, veered out of control and crashed, killing all inside. "Remains of four persons have been discovered at scene," Los Angeles Fire ... More >>

West Coast Chromeo? San Fran's Sugar & Gold Love Laser Beams & Zima

West Coast Chromeo? Sugar & Gold Sound Like Laser Beams and Zima

Camp Freddy's Donovan Leitch Lists His Top Ten Cultural Moments of the 1980s

Donovan Leitch​In honor of the second week of Camp Freddy's December residency, which happens tonight at the Roxy, West Coast Sound asked members of the band to chime in on their favorite music of the decades. Last week Billy Morrison highlighted his favorite things about the 1970s. Tonight's ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Fest: Hot Rods and Fast Times

Get your motor running with LAFF's auto stimulus package

Chris Darrow's Kaleidoscopic Vision

A mentor to Ben Harper; a "world music" propenent before there was even a name for it

LA Myth: Exploring the Creatures That Run the City @ Meltdown Comics

A guest checks out one of Aaron Clarke's creatures at LA Myth Inside the gallery of Sunset Boulevard comic book outlet Meltdown on Saturday night, Los Angeles was imagined as a sometimes whimsical, sometimes disturbing fairy land filled with cracked skateboards, smog monsters and grotesque starlets, ... More >>

The TV Crank's Wish List

A DVD gift guide for curmudgeons who think there's nothing good on TV anymore

The Glowing Trough of Music: Five Days of South by Southwest

We laugh, we cry, we hate, we score some dirt weed, suck at the corporate teat, rejoice

SXSW Day 2-Formed a Band, Everyone Formed A Band

Hey, Aren't You Juliette Lewis? Walking down 6th street yesterday, you had to wonder if everyone in the world somehow heard that Art Brut song, "Formed a Band" and decided that if Eddie Argos could do it, how hard could it really be? I've seen telephone directories thinner than the official SXSW ... More >>

Rock Picks: Siouxsie Sioux, Iron Maiden, Maceo Parker

Plus other Feb. 14-21 shows

Rock Picks: The Police, Sage Francis, Radio Birdman and more

For the week of June 14 - 21

Summer? Summm . . . Errr?

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Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop Concerts Clubs Other Country & Folk

The Great Water Heater Launch of 1966

Hawthorne, we have a problem

Quik As F**k

The violent life, tumultuous career and fundamental goodness of DJ Quik

School of the Holy Beast

Beheading on Mount Baldy

The strange tale of how a man lost his home, his money and his head to the woman he took in

Pet Sounds

Petra Haden + The Who = ♥

Crispy Critters

Just Another Day in the Valley

Where ordinary homes are put to extraordinary use

Hijacked by Hybrids

Who unplugged the electric car?

Musclin’ and Guzzlin’

In praise of V-8s

From the Red Car to the Hummer

An automotive timeline

¡Arriba Chalino Sánchez!

Like father, like son: Adán takes over

It’s Democracy, Stupid

The people want to vote

Knick Knack Paddy

Bianca Halstead

1965–2001

Mommy Dearest

Oedipal dreams in The Deep End and The Others

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

The Steamy Muse

Rhapsodies of light and heat and hope

Gone North

Tom Waits, upcountry

Y2KAOS

Chop Shop Guys

Boho Rhapsody

This aging punker really feels like a creep in exile