Elvis Presley

I Was Arrested on Hollywood Boulevard

More First Person pieces: *I Was Sick of L.A. Traffic. So I Took a Plane to Work *I Rode the Entire L.A. Metro in a Single Day *Why the San Fernando Valley Hate Needs to End Once and For All When I first moved to Los Angeles, I read a lot of how-to books on making it in this city. Hollywood's multi ... More >>

Food News Roundup: White House Beer, Best L.A. Tacos A Recipe for the Elvis Presley Milkshake

Mental Floss: Does drinking booze really keep you warm? Hmmm. Ever gotten drunk in Minnesota? Right. The New York Times Diner's Journal: Slow Food USA gets a new leader. Michael Ruhlman: A review of Alex Witchel's book All Gone, a memoir with refreshments. The Smithsonian: Whether or not diet sod ... More >>

10 Best Judd Apatow-Inspired Artworks at Gallery 1988

See also: *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Pee Wee Herman Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Real-life freaks and geeks gathered at Gallery 1988 Tuesday night for the opening of the A Tribute to Judd Apatow ... More >>

Some Velvet Painting

Food News Roundup: Josh Goldman Challenges Our Cocktail Choices, Cat Cora's DUI Mugshot Homemade Hummus

Zester Daily: The sweet, peppery bite of ginger-infused summer drinks. MSNBC Bites: Food Network Chef Cat Cora's DUI mugshot. Good Food: A recipe for lemon meringue tarts with canned lemon curd. L.A. Foodie: Vicious Dogs in North Hollywood is Ben and Drew's number one favorite hot dog place in ... More >>

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Fidlar Are Drunk, Reckless and Proud of It

The garage punks are about to blow up. Either that, or crash and burn

Deep Fried Fluffernutter at Black Market: Sandwich of the Week

Deep-frying improbable edibles is hardly new. County fair concessions maven Chicken Charlie has fried up Oreos, Twinkies, frog legs, White Castle burgers, SPAM, zucchini, Pop Tarts, brownies, ribs and Kool-Aid balls -- and that's only the beginning The combo of crisp batter and gooey center speaks ... More >>

Sesame Street Jason Schwartzman Iron Chef = Genius

​Sporting a cape like Liberace and hair like a demented Elvis, Jason Schwartzman visits Sesame Street for a quick turn in "Cast Iron Cook," an Iron Chef parody. Starring alongside Elmo, Schwarzman plays the discerning and dramatic judge, Super Chef, a man prone to screamed exclamations and pur ... More >>

Make Saint Motel's a Scotch, Splash of Tiger Blood (Plus Download New Song, "Puzzle Pieces")

​Los Angeles-based indie-pop rockers and hipster darlings Saint Motel are going to Vegas, baby! The band's taking its theatrics to a select group of co-eds at the Palms--the kind of select group that migrates to MTV's Spring Break. In a town where there are no guarantees, the closest thing to ... More >>

Wanda Jackson and Jack White at El Rey Last Night: Live Review

Timothy Norris​ [See also "9 Reasons Wanda Jackson Rules Rockabilly and Beyond" and more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Wanda Jackson feat. Jack White @ El Rey".] What: Wanda Jackson (feat. Jack White) Where: El Rey When: 1/24/11 Wanda Jackson has had three major men in her life--Elvis ... More >>

9 Reasons Wanda Jackson Rules Rockabilly and Beyond

9 Reasons Wanda Jackson Rules Rockabilly and Beyond

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

"L.A. proved too much for the man," sang Gladys Knight, "So he's leavin' the life he's come to know, He said he's goin' back to find [Ooh, said the Pips] what's left of his world, The world he left behind, Not so long ago." Well, "the man" was kind of a wuss, right? You don't have to take that mid ... More >>

Music Picks: Amy Kuney, Whispertown, the Civil Wars, Jake Bellows, Plan B

Also, Thom Bresh, Pictureplane, James Intveld and others

NIGHTRANGER: NIGHT NYMPHS

Today in Artists Sticking It to the Record Industry: Liz Phair Self-Releases Weird New Album, Tom Jones Delivers Christian Hymns Record Instead of "Sex Bomb, Part 2"

Stuff MagazineNot a Photoshop: The actual Liz Phair​Remember Liz Phair? And Tom Jones? Sure you do--they're both adult artists with a sizable fanbase who still buy records and have the income to pay for concert tickets. They might not be making Bieber or Bublé moolah, but the right record ind ... More >>

Margie and Robert E. Petersen: Driven to Collect

EXCLUSIVE Interview: Greil Marcus On His New Van Morrison Book (Tonight @ Skylight Books)

​If you care at all about music, then we don't need to tell you who Greil Marcus is. The pioneering combiner of pop music criticism and academic depth (read Lipstick Traces or his very smart, influentital books on Dylan and Elvis if you haven't yet) will be appearing live and in person at Skyl ... More >>

Dumbass Poll Crowns Celine Dion as America's Favorite Musician Ever

America's Dumbass Choice: Best Musician Ever?​ BREAKING Yahoo Finance (via BeatCrave) reports that America's Favorite Musician is... Celine fucking Dion. She beats Elvis, Sinatra, The Beatles, the Boss, and a bunch of country singers for the heart of America's listeners, according to a Har ... More >>

Would You Like Some OG Bebop With Your Pasta?: The Legendary James Moody @ Spaghettini

​This Thursday, January 28, jazz lovers should head out to Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club in Seal Beach for a very special treat: James Moody, the legendary bopper, Dizzy Gillespie associate, and composer of the immortal "Moody's Mood for Love" will be appearing with the Grammy Jazz E ... More >>

List of the Worst Fad Diets To Avoid in 2010: No Elvis Sandwiches For You

If you're contemplating a fad diet to work off some of the excesses of the holiday season, you can forget about the Cabbage Soup Diet, the Maple Syrup Diet, and, yes, the Blood Group Diet (not making this up). The British Dietetic Association, the professional association for registered dietitians i ... More >>

THEY WROTE THE SONGS

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Today in Photographs: August 16, 1957

​Elvis Presley confers with composer-singer Dudley Brooks at Stan's Play Room on Wilshire and Western. LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

LA People 2009: Buckskin Blues — Pat Boone

Rock Picks: The Little Ones, Eagle and Talon, Elliott Murphy

Also, Ida Maria, Sara Lov, John Legend and others

Chai Thung: Isaan Also Rises

The unexpected Thai restaurant

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

Also, Veruca Salt, Mike Einziger, Kings X and Junior Brown

Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age

For the week of Jan. 3 - 10

In The Hood

If I hear Outfield’s "Your Love,” one more time I’m gonna hurl. It’s definitely this year’s answer to Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That”- the ironic, catchy yet cheesy sing-a-long pop–rock anthem of choice for deejays right now, and a fave with today’s dance floor fiends who p ... More >>

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

For the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6

Jailhouse Rock

Singing for supper in the Alcatraz of Arizona

Music Picks

For the week of August 17 - 24

Film Reviews

5 Blogs for Musical Archaeologists

10 Things John Fleck Misses About L.A. When He�s Away

By our favorite actor

10 Questions With John Oates

Thai Town After Dark

Threepenny Broadway

The Quicksand

Tommy Sands sinks and swims

Party Munster

How Steven Mikulan learned to get his groove on

Ding-Dong Electro-Song

Edited by Kateri Butler

Letters

Protest: Rat Trap

Ghosts

Poe holds a s�ance

All That Ken Burns

Jazz ain�t got that swing

The Pig

Barbecue, Memphis-style

The Formosa Café

Gone North

Tom Waits, upcountry

Jackie Lee Waukeen Cochran, R.I.P.