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Tattoo Nation Chronicles the History of the SoCal Ink Scene, From Danny Trejo to Ed Hardy

Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael: Comedians Who Bond Over Terrible Hollywood Movies

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here June Diane Raphael and her husband, Paul Scheer, make fun of bad Hollywood movies. They're also in them, occasionally, but why should that stop the mockery? The couple's wildly popular podcast, How Did This Get Made, co-hosted with actor Jason Mantzouka ... More >>

That Touch of Ink

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here June Diane Raphael and her husband, Paul Scheer, make fun of bad Hollywood movies. They're also in them, occasionally, but why should that stop the mockery? The couple's wildly popular podcast, How Did This Get Made, co-hosted with actor Jason Mantzouka ... More >>

Ryan Lochte Is Moving to Los Angeles

America's douche capital is about to get a whole lot douchier: Olympic swimmer and gold-medal douche Ryan Lochte went on the Today Show this morning to tell Matt Lauer, "I definitely want to move to L.A." Why Los Angeles, and not his Florida hometown? "That's been a big goal of mine, getting into ... More >>

Energy Drinks Lead to ... Casual Sex?

Besides classing up your appearance like a an Ed Hardy cap worn backward, energy drinks can also apparently erase any of the potential gains of a college education in the span of just one night. That's because new research suggests that mixing the likes of Red Bull, Monster or Rockstar with your fa ... More >>

Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera Arrives in L.A., Co-Written by Danny Franzese (aka the Gay Friend in Mean Girls)

You probably know him as Damian, the flamboyant scene stealer from the 2004 film Mean Girls, where various quips ("I want my pink shirt back") earned Danny Franzese a modest cult following consisting primarily of tweens and queens. While his film cohorts Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan graduated to 30 Ro ... More >>

10 Best Neighborhood Bars in Los Angeles

The neighborhood bar is a tough thing to define. Sometimes, it occupies the intersection of dive and sport. Sometimes, it's a lounge time has thankfully forgotten. When a comfortable neighborhood bar gets too crowded, it turns into a destination, overrun by scene-seekers for a spell until it can s ... More >>

4 Japanese Valentine's Day Chocolates for Guys

photo credit: Janne in OsakaJurassic Chocolat​Valentine's gifting is especially tricky for women. You want your gift to tell him how you feel, without telling him how you feel. (Not because you're cryptic or unsure of how you really feel, but because he's not a heart-shaped box kind of guy and ... More >>

Joey and Anthony Hernandez, the T-Shirt Millionaires

Sift through the sale rack at your local Forever 21 mall store and you may come across a T-shirt with a picture of a girl staring into shards of a mirror. Retailing for $14.90, it is a seemingly edgy but ultimately innocuous shirt. It has no particular brand affiliation, no band or product or compan ... 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 >>

World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five

Pauly D didn't make our list. He's a douche, but he's not much of a DJ.​Finding a douchey DJ is about as easy as finding an Ed Hardy t-shirt in Vegas on a Saturday night. Still, we strive for accuracy at LA Weekly, and we've gone through the list of top global spinners with a fine-tooth comb ... More >>

La Luz De Jesus Gallery's 25-Year Retrospective Exhibit (Part 2)

Lina Lecaro Two heads (and exhibits) are always better than one. Wayne Martin Belger and his skull camera know it...​ So expansive was the exhibit celebrating Billy Shire's legendary -- don't call it lowbrow! -- L.A. art gallery's 25th anniversary, it had to be split into two separate shows, o ... More >>

Missoni At Target: Shoppers Go Apeshit For Zigzags

L.J. Williamson$380 Worth Of Joy​Is Missoni in line to become the next Ed Hardy? The well-established Italian fashion house's special Target line of clothing and housewares debuted this morning, on the same day I needed to hit the store for an early-morning toilet paper run, and zigzags were flyi ... More >>

Abercrombie & Fitch Asks The Situation to Stop Wearing its Clothes (Sure, if it Stops Selling Faux SoCal Surfwear)

Not WASPy enough for Abercrombie.​Does anyone find it a little ironic that Abercrombie & Fitch is putting the 10-foot poll to Jersey Shore's The Situation? Sure, The Situation is the epitome of spiky-haired sleeze, almost to the point of self-parody. And we wouldn't blame almost any clothier ... More >>

GQ Says Second-Worst-Dressed Men in America Are in Los Angeles

GQL.A. men.​Ah, Los Angeles. A world capital of billionaires and red-carpet style. And yet it would be hard to find a sloppier city when it comes to men's fashion. Our theory goes something like this: In L.A., the most powerful man in the room is the one who's most casually dressed. At a tabl ... More >>

Christian Audigier's Hancock Park House For Sale at a Discount, Sort of Like His Ed Hardy Clothes

Captain Fromage: Christian Audigier.​It would be fitting that the purveyor of the cheesiest fashion to hit the world since Hammer pants would be putting his Hancock Park home back on the market at a discount. After all, Christian Audigier's Von Dutch, Ed Hardy and eponymous labels are widely ... More >>

Inside Christian Audigier's House: The Five Gaudiest Choices from the Ed Hardy Designer

Redfin​When we heard Christian Audigier's Hancock Park house was back on the market, our first thought was, Gross. But our second thought was, Oh cool, that means there's pictures. The listing's 16 photos offer a unique perspective on what the man behind Ed Hardy looks at behind closed doors. ... More >>

Culver City Bar Report: The Mandrake Bar

Cool Hunting Project/FlickrMandrake, Interior Gumby​ The Place: The Mandrake Bar, 2692 S. La Cienega Boulevard., Los Angeles; 310-837-3297. The Hours: Tue.-Thu. 5:00 p.m.-Midnight, Fri.-Sat. 5:00 p.m.-1 a.m., Sun. 6 p.m.-Midnight The Digs: The Mandrake is not in Hollywood. The Mandrake ... More >>

Robert Plant and The Band of Joy: Live Review

Daniel KohnRobert Plant: A Whole Lotta Love​WHO: Robert Plant and The Band of Joy WHERE: The Greek Theater WHEN: 4/23/11 If you came to the Greek on Saturday night expecting to a hear a half-assed, run-of-the-mill set of Led Zeppelin covers, well, you have another month until Jason Bonham's ... More >>

Los Angeles Chihuahuas Being Abandoned Like Ed Hardy; Rest Of Country Adopting Trend

No longer the "it" pup in L.A.​Does anyone else find it ironic that in this self-absorbed bastion of PETA-loving celebutards yesterday's top dog for Hollywood types -- the Chihuahua -- has been kicked to the curb like trash? Really, L.A? We reported this week how the Society for the Preventi ... More >>

Top Ten LA Musician Mansions For Sale (Sorry Millionaires: Jack Black Just Snapped Flea's Los Feliz Pad)

Jack Black Buys Flea's House More Musicians Insane Mansions For Sale

Happy Hour: Miru 8691 in Beverly Hills

K. Robbins​ The place: Miru 8691, 9162 W Olympic Blvd, Beverly Hills (310-777-8378) The hours: Daily, 5-9:30pm The deals: From the website, "Drive off town to search for cheap eats or put your self out on the street with food truck or Drive back to Beverly Hills and enjoy 16 oz Sapporo for ... More >>

Music Picks: Plastic Ono Band, Ooh La LA Fest, Belle & Sebastian

Also, Marianne Dissard, Bad Company, Matador 21 and others

Man With Pants Down Terrorizes Celebrity Shoppers On Robertson Boulevard

Swaggahottie via Tweetphoto​Robertson Boulevard has a high-concentration of star power for the sightseer: Kitson and The Ivy, Paris and Lohan. But the street's high-end shoppers and paparazzi were treated to an extra eyeful on Monday when a man with his pants down put on a show, according to t ... More >>

HEY NEW YORK -- BITE US!

Swaggahottie via Tweetphoto​Robertson Boulevard has a high-concentration of star power for the sightseer: Kitson and The Ivy, Paris and Lohan. But the street's high-end shoppers and paparazzi were treated to an extra eyeful on Monday when a man with his pants down put on a show, according to t ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Miike Snow at El Rey

​ After dancing my ass off at the El Rey on Sunday night, here's what I've successfully established: Miike Snow is not: mythical, Mark Ronson, a lonely Swedish dude, a blinged-out jackelope. Miike Snow is: where the party at, secretly into Phantom of the Opera, responsible for some unexpecte ... More >>

Top 10 Baffling Wine Labels

Whether you accept the notion that a single nose and its acclaimed-or-reviled 100-point scale have transformed the way wine is marketed and sold, especially in the United States, today there is a superabundance of bottles at American retail and more wine neophytes are earnestly cultivating a taste f ... More >>

Big City Blues: L.A. Ranks 17th In Penis Size

Ron Jeremy couldn't carry the team.​Los Angeles might be the adult video capital of the world (as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa might say), but when it comes to penis size, the city doesn't quite measure up. The chain store and prophylactic-maker Condomania states that it analyzed its sales of di ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: BOXeight's Fashion Show As Performance Art (Skingraft, Gold Spun, Funktional, Isabel Lu)

​ BOXeight was back for their second season of "fashion installations" this weekend. What that means is models getting dressed and having makeup and hair done in front of the audience, photographers shooting and photo-editing on site, stylists primping and pinning and touching-up in plain view ... More >>

Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music

​ BOXeight was back for their second season of "fashion installations" this weekend. What that means is models getting dressed and having makeup and hair done in front of the audience, photographers shooting and photo-editing on site, stylists primping and pinning and touching-up in plain view ... More >>

Denver Steps In To Take L.A.'s Out-Of-Date Fashion -- Chihuahuas

​Ah, Californians, we're so special. The rest of the country -- the "flown over" part -- gets our hand-me-down trends long after we've milked every bit of cheese from them: They can have our Von Dutch, our Ed Hardy, our trucker hats. We've given them our tired, our poor and even our bottle ser ... More >>

Not the Usual Haunts

​Ah, Californians, we're so special. The rest of the country -- the "flown over" part -- gets our hand-me-down trends long after we've milked every bit of cheese from them: They can have our Von Dutch, our Ed Hardy, our trucker hats. We've given them our tired, our poor and even our bottle ser ... More >>

Blood on the Dance Floor

​Ah, Californians, we're so special. The rest of the country -- the "flown over" part -- gets our hand-me-down trends long after we've milked every bit of cheese from them: They can have our Von Dutch, our Ed Hardy, our trucker hats. We've given them our tired, our poor and even our bottle ser ... More >>

More Flooding in September: Ed Hardy Gets Wet

A day after a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power spokeswoman told the Weekly that all the subterranean water-system carnage that's happened over the week is "normal," another pipe burst, closing Melrose Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue and sending water rushing into a nearby -- gasp! -- Ed Hardy ... More >>

Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

Nightranger: Maggie Barry, Box 8, Shin BBQ, Brian Lichtenberg, and Fashion Accessories by Cobrasnake

ROCK ’N’ WEAR CIRCUS EIGHT’S GREATS

Last Night: Jay-Z Reopens the Palladium

Jay-Z and Memphis Bleek on stage at the Palladium. Click on image to view entire slideshow. Photo by Timothy Norris. The irony of Jay-Z being asked to open the revamped Hollywood Palladium wasn’t lost on the man who calls himself “the black Frank Sinatra.” After all, it was 68 years ago las ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: Debra Davenport, Giving Talbots A Run For Its Money

People kept asking me "Who is Debra Davenport?" and I kept having to say, "I'm not sure." A bit of googling reveals that she is the CEO of a luxury women's fashion house headquartered in Phoenix Arizona. HauteAZ tells us "She received her B.A. at the age of 19, her M.A. degree at the age of 21, and ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: Rock Princesses & American Lords at Christian Audigier

Christian Audigier, the king of the Ed Hardy empire and moving force behind the Von Dutch brand, is a master showman. At his Spring 09 show, entitled "American Lord," models walked on a runway lined with live grass. Two British guards with big black poufy hats stood at attention then began dancing a ... More >>

Best Boutiques for Breaking Melrose Monotony

Beyond Hardy and hoochies

Wax On, Wax Off

Car wash, yeah; pole-dancing queen; photo Zone at Drkrm

They Blinded Us With Scions: L.A. Riots Among Bands Entering Corporate Marriages

A car company recruits rising stars of the L.A. music scene to help sell autos. Who's buying?

Paper Dolls

The high road and the low road

(Powdered) Sugar Walls

The Grammy parties and the pod people

Dog Day Afternoon

The Grammy parties and the pod people

The Westside of the Eastside

La Luz de Jesus, Pink and Circle Elephant Art

Holiday Trimmings

Vallance, McCarthy, Besemer, Ott, Calabrese, more