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A Night on the Sunset Strip With Matt Sorum, of Guns N' Roses

[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 drummer Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses, the Cult, Velvet Revolver and Camp Freddy.] 10:10 p.m.: Sugar Ray singer Mark McGra ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week

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 events include the return of the ever-popular Alvin American Dance Theater, dances about desire and a body to be discovered at UCLA 5. ... More >>

Tap Takeover at Steingarten LA: All the Dogfish Head You Can Drink

With the Labor Day holiday weekend approaching, you are undoubtedly destined to have a few lowest common denominator beers with your barbecue. Even those of us who tend toward craft are destined to live the High Life. You can start the weekend on a much higher note by attending the Dogfish Head tap ... More >>

Jonathan Gold's 60 Korean Dishes Every Angeleno Should Know

See Also: A Google map for all 60 of the Korean dishes Jonathan Gold says every Angeleno should know, read "5 Koreatown Restaurants Open 24 Hours: Hangover Soup," learn about "5 Koreatown Beer Joints: Hite Requirement," or just look at more of Anne Fishbein's beautiful Koreatown food photography. I ... More >>

William Shatner Interview Outtakes: Star Trek Star on His Solo Show, Horses and Starbucks

William Shatner, as you can imagine, has a lot to say. Now 80, the Star Trek legend opens his one-man show, Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, on Broadway Feb. 16, before launching the national tour at the Pantages on March 10. Here are some outtakes from our William Shatner interview we feature ... More >>

The Great Myth-Off

Jackie Kashian's Dork Forest

With Marc Maron

Shark Week: 5 Knockoffs Surprisingly Less Popular Than the Discovery Channel Series

Discovery.com​Now in its 24th year, Discovery Channel's Shark Week is a testament to just how much people love watching prehistoric death machines create circles of pink in choppy water. This year Discovery has trotted out host Andy Samberg (he's on a boat, with sharks!) and a fancy new iPad a ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's The Tree of Life Gets Irate Boos Followed by Thin Applause

Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life​ CANNES, FRANCE -- Much improved since I last posted, the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its midpoint in train-wreck fashion, its wagon to hitched to The Tree of Life. The first screening of Terrence Malick's long-awaited new movie, three years in the editing, ... More >>

Even in Spring, Flip-Flops Are a Bad Habit For Your Feet, Doc John Whyte Says

Da Reel P3Miley Cyrus wears thongs.​Ah, flip-flops. Them's formal wear in L.A., where the most under-dressed person in the room is usually the most powerful. (It says you have gravitas when you show up to a high-power meeting riding a beach cruiser in your jammies). Spring is upon us, so ... More >>

Elephant Porn at the L.A. Zoo: Because What's Valentine's Day Without a Little Bestiality?

wazteca via PhotobucketIt'll be like you're really there​So many fabulous ways to celebrate V-Day this year, it's a pity we have to choose just one. Ah, but the options: We could go on a worldwide Wiki hunt for all four (or more!) of Julian Assange's estranged love children (turns out the man ... More >>

Celebrity Chef Scandals: Pastry Dude Pleads in Plot to Pop Wife His Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

​One of the more twisted stories in fooddom came to a near-close today when Juan-Carlos Cruz, the former Calorie Commando host on the Food Network, pleaded no contest to the charge that he solicited three homeless men at the Santa Monica Promenade to rub out his wife, Jennifer Campbell. Sen ... More >>

James Lee, Suspected Discovery Channel Hostage Taker, Was Convicted Of Immigrant Smuggling

​The strange saga of James Lee, the man suspected of taking hostages at the Discovery Channel's Washington, D.C. headquarters this week, keeps getting more bizarre. ABC News reports that in 2003 he was convicted of smuggling a woman into the United States from Tijuana. It's an odd revelation ... More >>

James Lee, Suspected Discovery Channel Hostage-Taker, Lived In L.A.

James Lee.​James Lee, the deceased suspect who police say took three people hostage at the Discovery Channel's headquarters Wednesday, lived in Los Angeles for a spell, with KCAL9 reporting that he lived at the Tivoli Apartments in Hollywood from 1998 to 2000. Fox 11 News played audio of an i ... More >>

James Lee: Discovery Channel Standoff Suspect Has Southern California Roots

James Lee's mug shot.​Updated at 3:05 p.m. with authorities saying the suspect is dead. The man suspected of taking three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside of Washington, D.C. has a Southern California connection: He lost a job in his hometown of San Diego before going fu ... More >>

W00tstock 2.4 PWNS Thursday Evening Events at Comic-Con 2010

Nicole CamposLen Peralta's W00tstock 2.4 poster - drawn during the show, right on stage!​For what is typically considered one of the lighter, less big events-heavy days of Comic-Con, this year's must-see-and-do Thursday events in and around the convention center were outrageously plentiful. Yo ... More >>

Nerds Own Largo! The Nerdist Podcast Goes Live with Mythbuster Adam Savage

Erin Broadley(L-R) Nerdists Chris Hardwick, Adam Savage, Matt Mira and Jonah Ray at Largo​That venerable 21st century form of entertainment known as the podcast can be as wonderful (so much variety... and usually, free!) as it is frustrating. With hundreds upon hundreds of podcasts available o ... More >>

Oprah's Move: Good luck or good riddance?

On the Road to Burma

Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats

Lobster Las Vegas: The City Where Crustaceans Go to Die

Las Vegas is the city where crustaceans go to die. Apart from the copious amounts of tea I drank this past weekend at the World Tea Expo at Mandalay Bay (see Squid Ink for the dispatches), I also ate lots of seafood. The populace at large, in fact, seems to have seafood on the brain. I spotted this ... More >>

Tonight: Plushies and Furries Screens for "Fetish Film Night" at American Cinematheque

By Paul Gaita Editor's note: View photos of the Plushies and Furries art display at the Egyptian in the NSFW slideshow. Sexual subcultures just ain't the hot button topic they used to be. Once strictly relegated to the musty back rooms of adults-only establishments or RE/Search publications, in th ... More >>

Time Warp's Cool Science: What Mentos Wrought

Discovery Channel gives dude-friendly experiments the slo-mo treatment

Alter Eco's Eco-MacGyver, Peter Fonda and Anna Getty on the Green Carpet for Josh Tickell's Oil Doc FUEL

Eco and Narcissus

Aquarium Connection: Exotic-Fish Emporium Makes Waves

Owner Andrew Bunya-Ananta is an industry name at 22

The Gangs of Los Angeles

Our readers write

Skeletons in The Closet

Your average county coroner’s gift shop

The Good Word

Fiction: New voices

What a Trend We Have in Jesus

The Body of Christ? Or some other long-haired dude in The Lost Tomb of Jesus?

Savage TV

From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem. Reality goes wild

Ask a Mexican!

Sometimes a CD Is Just a CD

Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

Oscar Hangover

Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

New Theater Reviews

T-Bone’s Dream

Katrina victim washes ashore in Echo Park, goes to NASCAR race, kisses Sandra Bullock

Down on Main Street

A guide to living among the crack addicts, mentally ill, homeless and young-pros-on-the-go in a changing downtown

The Man in the Green Shirt

Storming Fort Brag

Military fakes and the people who bust them

Grand Old Illusions

Exposing the secrets of an empire

Doctor Goodwrench

Black Sheep on the Head of a Pin

Why they won’t let badass batteries out of the pen

Off to see Mr. Wizard

The Electric Battery Acid Test

The Doctor of Shirts

Koren Paalman, the Yoga Principle

The Television War

Cabaret Tammy Faye

Is the fallen but always camera-ready icon the original reality-show pioneer?

The Transhumanists

Meet Max and Natasha. They hope to live forever. Seriously.

The Citizens Band

Omnivorous Welsh art-poppers Super Furry Animals use guerrilla tactics

Corruptors

The rap on Styles of Beyond

Survival, Revivalle

Mutants, campers, martyrs . . .