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Los Angeles Sugar Daddies Spend $5,448 A Month On Their Ladies?

The economy is dire. People are selling their used underwear on Craigslist. You've downgraded from DirecTV to YouTube. You buy your fresh produce from a freeway offramp! And yet Los Angeles sugar daddies are spending $5,448 a month on their chickadees? Yep. So says the latest annual sugar daddy rep ... More >>

Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Why do so many rich men want to buy it? And how did it get to this point anyway?

Lady Lazarus Rising

Singer-songwriter Melissa Sweat released her inner artist through great trial and tribulation

Oh, To Be Young & Gay & Witty

Jade Douglas Harris Charged In Craigslist Murder Rampage

Prosecutors announced that Jade Douglas Harris will face multiple capital murder charges for the Downey attack last week that left three people dead and two wounded. It was all over a Camaro that the 30-year-old suspect allegedly wanted to steal after spotting it for sale on Craigslist, prosecutors ... More >>

5 Places in L.A. to See Affordable Opera

Centuries ago, opera was more affordable, not just something thought to be for the country club set when the dained to put on their long silk gloves and gold-rimmed glasses. Several companies in Los Angeles have strived to recreate this custom, but it hasn't always been easy. Ticket prices are one ... More >>

Screw Everyone Who Got Into the Green Day Show at the Echoplex Last Night

Here's what our yesterday morning looked like: 9:45 AM -- We arrive at Village Bakery, consume coffee and "Fightin' Cake" (shut up, it's delicious) 9:46 AM -- The internet informs us that tickets for Green Day's semi-secret last minute show at the Echoplex in support of their upcoming triple albu ... More >>

The Shrine Skate Pools, Play "Psychedelic Violence"

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Josh Landau has just eaten shit while skateboarding in the deep end of an empty pool somewhere in Burbank. His bandmates, bassist Court Murphy and drummer Jeff Murray, sit watching from the ... More >>

Coachella Craigslist Ticket Scammer Anthony Berson Busted by Hawaii 5-0, Cops Say

Busted. A genius in Hawaii allegedly advertised Coachella tickets via Craigslist but took the money and ran. Cops on the Big Island say 19-year-old Anthony Derick Berson of Keaʻau promised to send the tix and wristbands via FedEx to at least four victims who wired him hundreds of dollars. Of cour ... More >>

Sex Offenders No Longer Welcome at eHarmony, Match.com

Has your dating site served you up a heaping plate of loser or, worse, a straight-up perv? California Attorney General Kamala Harris is coming to the rescue. Today she announced a deal with three big dating websites, eHarmony, Match.com and Spark Networks (home of JDate and ChristianMingle) that wi ... More >>

10 Best Romantic Restaurants in L.A.

Valentine's Day is fast approaching, thus it is time to book reservations at your favorite swank restaurant. Assuming you have a date for the evening. If you do not, well, check back later for our Best Dive Bars in L.A. list. Of course your significant other may not be the white tablecloth sort, s ... More >>

Coachella 2012 Lineup Announced

See also: Coachella 2012 Sold Out The Coachella 2012 full lineup was just announced. Go crazy! Headliners include The Black Keys on Friday, April 13th and 20th; Radiohead on Saturday, April 14th and 21st; and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Sunday April 15th and 22nd. Full lineup below.

Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Call It Quits: The Year's Five Biggest Music Couples to Hit Splitsville

See also: Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012 It was a sad day in indieville yesterday as actress/singer Zooey Deschanel officially filed for divorce from Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Though the two had been rumored to be on the rocks for some time, fans held out hope that the du ... More >>

Harry Burkhart's Mother Dorothee Linked to Erotic Massage Business: Alleged L.A. Arsonist Reportedly Upset Over Her Possible Extradition

Updated at the bottom with allegations that the mom committed fraud as a member of a gang. Really. First posted at 2:08 p.m. The mother of L.A. serial arson suspect Harry Burkhart has been linked to a massage services website and to online advertisements for "body rub" services. A woman with the ... More >>

Los Angeles Leads Nation in Plastic Surgery, Says New Poll -- But Still Ranks Below D.C. in Superficiality

Plastic, and proud of it.​The most classic L.A. stereotype, long perpetuated by out-of-touch New York journalism, is that we're the most superficial city in America. But we've always had a sneaking suspicion that the land of shirtless Chris Lees and boxerless Anthony Weiners might be playing ... More >>

Jodie Foster's Ancient Father, or 'Bernie Madoff of Sherman Oaks,' to Be Jailed for Bad 1-Percent Behavior

radaronline.comLucias Foster, left -- the most resilient scammer alive.​Today's proceedings in Van Nuys Superior Court could not have gotten any weirder: Lucius Foster, the 89-year-old father of actress Jodie, was declared "guilty" of concocting a home-building scheme that leeched thousands ... More >>

Bouncing Souls - Troubadour - 11/9/11

Javier CabralBouncing Souls​There are only a few punk rock bands that can take over The Troubadour for four nights in a row and sell out the run. But as part of their "For All The Unheard" international tour, upbeat New Brunswick quartet Bouncing Souls did just that. Even better, they performe ... More >>

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds. Neither government officials n ... More >>

The Want Ads: A Bacon Cheeseburger Bed Of One's Own

Craigslista cheeseburger bed​If you're the sort of person who eats out way too often at Umami Burger, frequently invokes Thomas Keller's well-documented love of In-N-Out as justification for your fast food burger fetish, and spends your weekends in close proximity to your charcoal briquets and ... More >>

The Want Ads: McMurdo Station Executive Chef

USGSMcMurdo Station, Antarctica​ Thanks to the HuffPo for news of this want ad, which is looking pretty damn good right now. McMurdo Station, the research community in Antarctica, has just posted a job listing for an executive chef. The chef would be responsible for the operation of the McMurd ... More >>

Day 2: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (feat. The Kills, Animal Collective, Paul Van Dyk, Arcade Fire and Mariachi El Bronx)

Without road trips lingering or looming, and with just the right amount of hangover, the Coachella crowd attacked the grounds on Saturday, and the bands fought along heroically. The only real loser was the grass, which is starting to get sticky, but more on that in a little bit. Let's take a look a ... More >>

The Want Ads: A Chef de Partie at Bouchon

Thomas Keller Restaurant Group​ Bouchon Beverly Hills has an opening for a chef de partie (that's the French kitchen brigade name for a line cook or station chef). To quote the job listing, which was posted on the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group website on March 1st: This is a great opportunity ... More >>

Now Open: Olio Pizzeria, Serving Neapolitan Pizza Breakfast Bialy's on Third Street

Christie BishopMargherita Pizza at Olio Pizzeria & Cafe​ Can't get a dinner reservation at Pizzeria Mozza? Don't worry, neither can we. So instead, we decided to check out Olio Pizzeria & Cafe, a new Neopolitan-style pizza joint on Third Street that officially opened Friday evening and serves ... More >>

Should The Hollywood Boulevard Superheroes Be Allowed To Return To The Walk Of Fame?

Should the Hollywood Boulevard superheroes be allowed to return home?​Los Angeles has a special relationship with comic-book superheroes. It's where many of them came to life on the big screen. And, for a while, they also thrived on Hollywood Boulevard, where costume-donning entertainers would ... More >>

Stream the Entire New No Age Album, Everything in Between, Out Now on Sub Pop

Hometown heroes No Age play the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday with Sonic Youth and Pavement.​No Age's stunner of a new album, Everything in Between, is out today on Sub Pop, and in honor of that occasion -- plus the band's Thursday Bowl gig with Pavement and Sonic Youth -- you can listen to the e ... More >>

Nightranger's Wild Ride

Music Picks: Sunset Junction Street Fair, Lucinda Williams, Y & T, Tanya Morgan

Also, GZA, Jimmy Webb, Fol Chen and others

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law

On the Airwaves: Zero 7 on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

On the Airwaves: Zero 7 on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

Missed Connections at Clubs: The Holiday Desperation Edition

As a service to our readers still looking for a date to all the holiday parties, we've got a bunch of music-related Craigslist 'missed connections' to relay. It's been a busy week not hooking up when you should have, so let's get down to business. guy en Universal Music Group - m4m - 20 (woodland ... More >>

Time Magazine Says Viva California

Dubai might have its man-made islands and Shaghai residents might squint under the glare of all the new skyscrapers there, but California is still where the economic action is. That's according to the latest issue of Time magazine, which states that, despite the budget mess in Sacramento, struggling ... More >>

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?

During the President's health care speech two days ago, the shared experience that is the realtime Internet reacted to a perfect Twitter-fodder event -- Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst -- with a surprising amount of conversation about the real issue in the room, health care reform. This realtime 2 ... More >>

Reznor Nails It One Last Time

Nickel Diner: Heart Attack and Main

Not your father's diner but it still might kill you.

Advertising Now: Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

When death of your industry becomes default small talk in the conference lobby and every media related conversation devolves into something along the lines of "how do we save the Los Angeles Times?" you know things are not boding well. Perhaps this is why media buyers (the typically underpaid twenty ... More >>

Victorians Gone Wild: Opening Night of Skingraft's New Store in Downtown

What do you do if you are edgy, avant garde, theatrical and in need of a nice, dark, gothy, neo-Victorian outfit? You're a bride, maybe, who wants a blood red gown, or a frothy black wedding dress. Options were few and far between until today. Now you go to Skingraft's couture atelier. The design tr ... More >>

Taxidermy Gone Wild: Polar Bears, Cougars, Lions, Oh My! Insane Stuffed Animal Collection For Sale on Craigslist

Everything IS bigger in Texas. And freakier, and weirder. As evidenced by this taxidermy collection up for sale on Craigslist San Antonio. Is that...a polar bear?? One of the largest unrepating taxidermied animal collections in Texas. Most of these are Boone & Crockett trophies. Some of th ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Woyzeck, Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got the Will

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Stage Raw: One Sucker's Lament

Woyzeck Photo by Andrew Rothenberg >NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK WOYZECK 19th Century German playwright Georg Büchner's an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military and medical machines, has been fodder for myriad adaptations throughout the last century, and there's no sign of ... More >>

Election '08: The Night Before Christmas

I have a special guest blogger today. His name is Justin Warfield. You may know him as the frontman and songwriter for the great band She Wants Revenge. He's a very cool guy who has an interesting and emotional take on this election. His post is below. Also, here's a link to my piece on socialism, o ... More >>

Dog Days of Summer: Seeking Sausage Satori

Along the hot-dog trail, stops at Jeff's Gourmet, Brats Brothers, the Infield and Yaki's

Luring Cougars, Wooing Audiences

And more from our readers

She & Him, Vista, 4/28

She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, eager fans waiting to see She & Him perform. It soon became clear that there was some sort of delay, as 7:30 came and went and the doors rema ... More >>

Getting to the Gala...

When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate one, considering my sparse excuse for a wardrobe, overrun with tattered t-shirts, baggy jeans, moth-eaten sweaters and a few other shapeless th ... More >>

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