Los Angeles is America's City of Cars, the town built around four-wheeled transportation, the birthplace of custom-auto culture and couture. But what if our traffic were so bad that it actually encouraged some of you to walk, bike and take the train? That just might be the case as L.A. has ranked a ... More >>
It's Memorial Day weekend! What better time to practice that ancient art of drinking while the sun is still up. Actually, here in Los Angeles, the world capital of atypical work schedules, we need reliable day bars all the time. See also: The 10 Best Bars in Silver Lake The impetus behind day dri ... More >>
The prospect of a 4 a.m. last call for alcohol in California had some of you jumping off your well-worn couches and professing never to be sedentary about politics again. Woo-hoo, you said. Sorry to spill our mojito on your new American Apparel t-shirt, but the 4 a.m. bill by state Sen. Mark Leno, ... More >>
The EDM-focused Sahara tent is twice as tall this year, and much wider and longer too. It's now roughly the size of an airplane hangar. The arched mega-tent is not just a dubstep paradise, but a behemoth of truss and LED panels. The visuals are otherworldly, with kaleidoscopic light and graphic disp ... More >>
Bordered by the Pacific, the Palisades and the 405, Santa Monica is home and host to every shade of bar and every breed of drinker. Tourists may be our bread and butter, but they're also the bane of our existence, and we prefer our drinking establishments to be minimally invaded by camera toting, di ... More >>
When the LudoBites cookbook landed with a thud on our desk, our reaction was the same as when the Ludo Truck is parked less than a block away. Other Cookbooks Of The Week can wait -- there is duck fat fried chicken to eat. Ludo Lefebvre's wife and business partner extraordinaire, Krissy, and food ... More >>
Sigur Ros Hollywood Forever Cemetery 8/13/12 Better than...a bowl full of hakari (rotten shark) As the sun was setting along a hot and sticky stretch of Santa Monica Blvd, a line of excited picnickers snaked through the lush lawn in front of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Tickets for Sigur Ros had ... More >>
This weekend the traveling dance music bacchanal Electric Daisy Carnival comes to Las Vegas and, for some reason, you're not going to be there. Perhaps you couldn't afford the gloves with the glowing fingers, or your roommate ate all of your drugs. But never fear! Beginning Saturday morning and c ... More >>
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 >>
Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffA scene from SantaCon 2010.Grilled Cheese & Soup For the final night of Breadbar's Food Truck Hatchi Series, the Grilled Cheese Truck stops by with a menu of eight grilled cheese sandwiches each paired with a different soups. There's the North African/Middle Eastern zaatar me ... More >>
John Cádiz Klemack via TwitvidCops in riot gear swarmed the financial district this morning.Update: As of 10:30 a.m., Figueroa has been reopened for cars and foot traffic. The first real arrests of the two-month Occupy L.A. demonstrations just went down at Fourth Street and Figueroa, where ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffAngelenos aren't strangers to the works of British street artist Banksy. His participation in MOCA's street art show was a (predictably secret) given, and the man plastered L.A. during the run-up to the Oscars, inspiring residents of Westwood Village to petition for his works ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffRavers in Vegas.After a 15-year-old died following an ecstasy overdose at an L.A. rave last year, a lawmaker sprung into action and proposed banning the parties at public venues like the Coliseum, where teen Sasha Rodriguez saw her last night out. But this is a great lesson ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffYasmine Kittles of Tearist performing with PictureplaneWho: Pictureplane, oOoOO, Javelin, Babe Rainbow, Hollagramz Where: Check Yo' Ponytail 2 @ The Echoplex When: August 16, 2011 Better than... Tumbling psychedelic druid gifs all night. With the increasing amount of refe ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffLudoBites recipe book If you, like the zillion people who tried and failed to get reservations for LudoBites 7.0 opening night, which sold out in about the time it took to find your cell phone, were not able to witness much less consume Ludo Lefebvre's salt cod panna cotta an ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffA kiss at EDC in Vegas.In June the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival rave moved from L.A. to Las Vegas, and organizers of have been trying to make us jealous ever since. Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman called Los Angeles a "second-class entertainment venue" for letting the par ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffA kiss in Vegas.See our EDC slideshow of photos here. Reporting from Las Vegas. As expected, things mellowed out on the third day of Electric Daisy Carnival's massive three-day rave fest in Las Vegas over the weekend. While organizers claimed 80,000 people attended on Sunday ... More >>
Flaming Lips Stir Souls (Living and Dead) at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Colin Young-WolffR. Kelly at Nokia Theatre [For more photos, see Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow "R. Kelly at Nokia Theatre".] Who: R. Kelly (with openers Marsha Ambrosius and Keyshia Cole) When: Saturday, June 11, 2011 Where: Nokia Theatre at LA Live Here's what we wrote for the Page Two pre ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffSounds like twice the fun. Big news for fans of desert music: Next year the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be over two consecutive weekends. Tickets go on sale this Friday. That's right. Almost a full year away. The reason for both the expansion and the early ... More >>
Colin Young-Wolff Compared to last year's problems with wristbands and overcrowding, the first day of Coachella 2011 was smooth sailing. Greasy even. Let's take a look at yesterday's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs.
Photo by Colin Young-Wolff If you're just now looking into volunteer opportunities for Thanksgiving Day, we hate to break it to you: You might be too late. Many volunteer lists are already full, especially for those photo-op moments of scooping out corn niblets and ladling gravy for a sea of ... More >>
Colin Young-Wolffthe crew of LudoBites 6.0 If you weren't at Loteria Grill stalking Diana Kennedy last night, or pitching a tent waiting for Obama at today's Boxer rally, or in a sports pub watching the Lincecum-Halladay game, or at home in the rain actually cooking your own dinner, you were ... More >>
Lina Lecaro [For more exclusive images, see Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow "Eagle Rock Music Festival 2010"] We're surely not the only LA native who wistfully recalled Sunset Junction Street Fairs of yore while stomping along Colorado Blvd. at the Eagle Rock Music Fest Saturday evening. Like ... More >>
View the photo gallery here. Ah, the new Facebook and what your "likes" say about you. As you've (hopefully) read by now, Facebook's new API turns the social networking site into a bargain-bin of users' tastes for publishers and marketers to sift through, store and sell. Facebook (and companies li ... More >>
At the Monday night premiere of Banksy's Documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop at Los Angeles Theater, guests were offered the chance to tag a bus and limo parked on the street. Check out what they wrote below and see Colin Young-Wolff's photo gallery, "Where's Banksy?" for more scenes from Monday ... More >>
See more from the show in Colin Young-Wolff's photo gallery. Thursday night at the Wiltern, an ample crowd arrived to catch a relatively early show from British band Editors. It was, in many ways, a pivotal moment in the band's career, a chance for the former ones-to-watch to show off their sublime ... More >>
It was a long weekend, even for those who decided to stay in Sunday night. Keep reading for a taste of what we saw across the city. Lucent L'amour @ Shrine Auditorium Josh "CuriousJosh" ReissLucent L'amour returned for another Valentine's Day event filled with heavy beats, spectacular perfo ... More >>
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 >>
Those of you just returning from Jamaica, the French Riviera, Dubai or Missouri may have missed the interesting Christmas that singer/rapper Kid Cudi had last week during a media blitz in LA. Timothy NorrisKudi had an interesting week in LA On Monday, December 21, he and his entourage were ... More >>
There were holiday parties galore this weekend, with events catering to indie rockers, goths and people who just want to dress like Santa Claus and hit a couple pubs. Keep reading to see what we did. Jay Oligny Club Underground vs. Hang the DJs Long-running indie clubs Underground and Hang t ... More >>
Despite this weekend's downpour, and the subsequent rain traffic, Angelenos still hit the town. It's hard to resist the urge to leave the house when there's a tribute to classic literature at Bordello and a classic hip-hop artist at House of Blues. Wig Out! "Get Your Dickens On" Shannon Cottrell ... More >>
Thanksgiving isn't just about food comas and the countdown to Black Friday. For those who stayed in L.A. during the holiday weekend, there were plenty of parties as well as the opportunity to give back to the community. Keep reading to see what we did. Gobble Gobble Give Colin Young-WolffOve ... More >>
It was a Vampire Weekend for more than just the hip Brooklyn band's appearance in the South Bay. From vampire balls to "bats and cats" masquerade, it's almost like Halloween never ended. Add The Raveonettes and a dessert-themed burlesque show to the mix and you have one wild November. Keep reading t ... More >>
Thought the LA nightlife would calm down after Halloween? You thought wrong. From secret shows to Asian pop culture conventions, we were out and about this weekend. Keep reading to find out what happened. Julian Casablancas at Palace Theater Timothy Norris Julian Casablancas marked his mov ... More >>
Thought the LA nightlife would calm down after Halloween? You thought wrong. From secret shows to Asian pop culture conventions, we were out and about this weekend. Keep reading to find out what happened. Julian Casablancas at Palace Theater Timothy Norris Julian Casablancas marked his move ... More >>
Patrick Range McDonaldNow that the costume stress and sugar rush are history, take some time to check out LA Weekly's Halloween party coverage.
Halloween in Los Angeles can be overwhelming, so many parties to attend, so many elaborate costumes to catch our eyes. While the costume party madness began for us over a week before the big day, the festivities didn't kick into full gear until Thursday night. Keep reading to find out what we did. ... More >>
No matter where you went over the weekend -- a restaurant, bar, or even a friend's house -- there were more baseball-crazed Angelenos glued to the television than normal as the Dodgers finished off the St. Louis Cardinals in the postseason throwdown. Looks like Villaraigosa is going to be sending a ... More >>
View more photos in Colin Young-Wolff's "M.I.A. 'Secret' Warehouse Party" slideshow. Still images not doing it for you? Here's a glimpse of the action via YouTube clips. What do they call these things ... oh yeah, PARTIES. A couple more after the jump ...
This weekend marked the annual Sunset Junction festival in Silver Lake, the last big summer street bash that signals a fast approaching fall and, for many, a return to school. Despite ongoing conflicts between festival promoters, local residents and business owners, Sunset Junction went off in full ... More >>
View more photos from Saturday's Sunset Junction at Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow. Street fairs stand to remind us of two thing: 1) People love grilled meat on a stick; and, 2) teenagers love to try and have sex in public. Saturday's first day kickoff of the Sunset Junction was no different. Those ... More >>
Sunday's Sunset Junction seemed a little empty. West Coast Sound investigates...
Now in the final stretch of summer, each weekend we scramble to take in as many decadent hotel pool parties and outdoor film screenings as possible before the long days and warm nights end and we're forced back indoors to get our drink on at crummy dive bars. This weekend we went Swimming with Shark ... More >>
To put it simply, our weekend was HARD. On Saturday night, this summer's highly anticipated electronic music festival also turned out to be highly controversial. HARD Summer at the Forum was shut down by Inglewood police who ordered the closure of the rave event after it was "declared a hazard" and ... More >>
Jeff CowanLakers fans: Storm Troopers and Transformer Bumble BeeLos Angeles doesn't really do civic pride. We're too aloof and jaded for that sort of thing. We're a secular, sunglasses indoors, windows up, bowling alone type of town (except that when we bowl, it's usually at some swanky alley with a ... More >>
Sunday night was a winning night for L.A. Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club Awards ceremony at the Universal City Sheraton hotel. Writers Christine Pelisek, Daniel Heimpel, Gendy Alimurung and Nancy Rommelmann all took home first place awards, while Darrick Rainey, Steven Leigh Morris, Patrick Ra ... More >>
Mother's Day may already be a Hallmark holiday but that didn't stop Oprah, KFC and El Pollo Loco from turning it into a full-blown, corporate flame (grilled chicken) war over the weekend. Is nothing sacred? As Gendy Alimurung reported on Saturday, "The latest installment in our continuing coverage o ... More >>
View more photos in the "MusiCares: Anthony Kiedis, Iggy Pop, Ronnie Wood, Steve Jones @ Club Nokia" slideshow. Colin Young-WolffAnthony Kiedis at the fifth annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit"I'm not crying, that's just Iggy Pop's sweat in my eye," joked Anthony Kiedis at the MusiCares fifth annual ... More >>
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