Festivals and Parades

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FYF Fest 2013 Lineup Announced

The lineup for FYF Fest 2013 was announced this morning and features Saturday Sunday headliners My Bloody Valentine and Sunday Saturday headliners the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Artists including TV on the Radio, Flag, Deerhunter, MGMT, Beach House, Yo La Tengo, The Breeders, Devendra Banhart, Solange and Shl ... More >>

They Never Promised Us a Rose Parade

Top 3 Weekend Events: A Graham Elliot Dinner, Taste the Future Cherry Blossom Festival

Graham Elliot Dinners For two nights, Son of a Gun will host the culinary stylings of Graham Elliot, chef-owner of the two-Michelin-starred eponymous restaurant in Chicago. The chef and his team will be offering a five-course tasting menu paired with regional wines. Reservations can be made by phone ... More >>

Dance in L.A. Is Alive and Kicking

Burning Man Fans Not Stinky Hippies But Rather Educated And Even Republican

Burning Man is L.A.'s favorite party. And everyone knows a burner is a stinky hippie who washes with bong water and raves to 1999 break-beat trance. Wait, what? The latest Burning Man "Afterburn Report" of attendee demographics was released this week. And guess what? Burners are surprisingly cosmo ... More >>

Burning Man Decompression Is Just Like Burning Man, Minus the 12-Hour Drive and $390 Fee

Thumping EDM? Check. Lasers? Check. Fishnets and booty shorts? Check. Now that we've got that out of the way, we can get on with what the more ambitious scope of the L.A. Burning Man community's goals, achieved through its big fat Decompression event, which was held at Los Angeles State Historic Pa ... More >>

Your Oktoberfest Round-Up: Beer, Brats, Pretzels More Beer

L.A. Oktoberfest -- October 20-21: Bust out the lederhosen for this one, because it's likely to get a little crazy. This two-day festival at the Vanguard in Hollywood sounds like a scene from the movie Beerfest: busty Bavarian babes, beer song sing-a-longs, roving accordion players, stein-holding co ... More >>

15 Burning Man GIFs That'll Make You Wanna Go Next Year

By Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss Editor's Note: Maybe you didn't make the trek out to the the playa for Burning Man this year. Maybe you had even vowed that you never, ever would. We got ace photographer CuriousJosh to bring us back these amazing GIFs from Burning Man in hopes of changing your mind. ... More >>

Burning Man Getting Smoked Out by California Wildfires? Reports Overblown ...

Burning Man attendees are used to getting stinky, dirty and even smokey as the eponymous hombre is eventually torched. But this year their lungs might be exposed to a different kind of smoke, and not the good kind either. As the annual festival in Black Rock, Nevada opened this week, two major blaz ... More >>

Burning Man Expands to 60,900 Stinky People

Burning Man can now have 10,000 more stinky, naked hippies than it was allowed to have last year. That means there will be a few more parking spaces in Venice as people head to the the Black Rock Desert Playa north of Gerlach, Nevada for this year's festival Aug. 27 through Sept. 3. But seriously, ... More >>

Pssssst: L.A. -- Your Pride Is Showing

Laguna Dances

FOX 11 Interviews L.A. Weekly Photographer CuriousJosh

Looks like the local news is starting to care about Burning Man. Our ace L.A. Weekly photographer Josh "CuriousJosh" Reis chatted about the event on FOX 11 last night. Check out the video after the jump.

The Rose Parade -- We Love It!

If It's the Sunday After Thanksgiving, It Must Be This Cavalcade of Show Business

Burning Man's New Lottery Ticketing System Provokes Outrage

See also: Burning Man 2011 Sold Out, Literally and Figuratively; Tickets Go for $5,000 on eBay Earlier this month, Burning Man's newsletter announced a new lottery system for buying tickets to the 2012 edition of the the seven-day experimental arts and music festival. It works like this: During a ... More >>

Das Beer Boot: Best Oktoberfest Song Ever

Sure, it's an advertisement masquerading as a German pop video, but we have to agree with Europopped that Das Beer Boot may be the best Oktoberfest song ever. The 1:50 parody is actually the work of a couple of Americans aping every stereotype of German culture -- lederhosen, beer, techno-pop -- in ... More >>

4 Places to Celebrate Oktoberfest This Weekend

Tim Sheerman-ChaseMunich's Augustiner Beer Hall during Oktoberfest​ With just over a week left of Oktoberfest, it's time to don the lederhosen, bust out the bierkrug, and hop on a redeye to München (Lufthansa will fly you there and back this weekend for $2,079.22). Or if that's not an option, ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Oktoberfest, Taste of Taiwan, GOOD Food Festival, KCRW Pie Contest, Pig Parts and Beer

Guzzle & NoshIt's always a party when you bring out the pig's head.​ Farid Zadi's 2nd annual couscous festival, originally scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled (of cous, it was) as the chef is in the process of opening his first restaurant, but you can still head out to Arcadia for the Greek F ... More >>

Burning Man 2011 Sold Out, Literally and Figuratively; Tickets Go for $5,000 on eBay

PHOTO BY JOSH "CURIOUSJOSH" REISS​We didn't even know this was possible: Burning Man, great Black Rock Desert gathering of all people freaky and junk funky, sold out of tickets today for the first time since tickets started selling in 1995. Burning Man spokeswoman Andie Grace says the festiv ... More >>

Top Five Tips Festivals Should Take from Primavera Sound

Andrea DomanickBig Boi at 2 a.m., BFFs 4 lyfe: the party don't stop at Barcelona's Primavera Sound​The past couple of years have seen a proliferation of summer festivals in the U.S., but many have been accompanied by a proliferation of financial swindles, musical shortcomings and logistical fo ... More >>

Pasadena Pageantry, Geek-Style

Where Desperate Men Go to Fry

Rose Parade Rules: No Tents, Fires, Horns, Pets, Alcohol, Drugs, Fireworks, Throwing Things, Unsupervised Minors, Suspicious Packages Or 'Unoccupied Chairs' Allowed

NASANASA's 2007 float: worth the wait​Boy, the annual New Year's Eve campout along the Rose Parade route in Pasadena sounds like a barrel of fun this year! Police are warning they'll be stricter than ever on the exhaustive list of parade rules, including fun-extinguishing items like: "Throwin ... More >>

YET ANOTHER WURST OF TIMES

Happy Diwali: Where to Celebrate Indian New Year

Flickr/Swami StreamDiwali festival of lights​ Get dressed in your Indian best, meaning saris, sparkly shawls, glittery jewels or anything glamorous and Indian-inspired in order to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights, which is also Indian New Year. The holiday lasts for five days, Nov. 5- ... More >>

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DON'T RANT ON MY PARADE

Star of Alleged Burning Man Inspiration "The Wicker Man" Dies

​UK's Uncut magazine reports the death of Edward Woodward, star of cult TV shows The Equalizer (US) and Callan (UK), and, more crucially, the 1973 film version of The Wicker Man. The film was remade in 2006 by Neil LaBute (starring Nicolas Cage) as a hysterically misogynistic flop, but the or ... More >>

WE-HALLOWEEN!

L.A. Beer Week: Get Out Your Steins, The Festival Has Begun

The first Los Angeles Beer Week Festival began last night--did you hear the sound of a thousand steins lifting--and will run until October 25th at a number of venues across the city and surrounding environs (by which, yes, we mean Orange County). The 11 days of beer-guzzling will feature a variety o ... More >>

BEER HERE!

LAND OF A 1,000 DANCES

COMEDY WRITERS ON THE LOOSE!

Egg Hunt and Spring Fest at the Watts Healthy Farmers' Market

The Watts Healthy Farmers' Market hosts an Egg Hunt and Spring Festival on Saturday, April 4. Lots of activities for kids: basket making at 10 a.m., egg hunt at 11:00, and other games and face painting between 11:30 a.m and 1 p.m. Market goes until 2 p.m. Ted Watkins Memorial Park, 103rd and Central ... More >>

Brazil Nut?

A Political Halloween in West Hollywood

If a fun-loving public was looking for a break from a tense political season, the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval was not the place to be. "No on 8" signs, buttons, and stickers were impossible to avoid, and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared in the form of multiple look-a ... More >>

Athlete's Feats: Trey McIntyre Project

The daring choreographer makes his West Coast debut at Laguna Dance Festival

In Their Own Words

Samba Summer

Green Rhythms

Breaking the Trance

The unexpected Burning Man soundtrack

The Burning Man Returns

By Randall Roberts The Burning Man, which was prematurely torched by burner-assassin Paul Addis on Tuesday morning, has returned. This morning at about 11:30, a crane lifted what is now known as the Spawn of Burning Man into its rightful place at the center of Black Rock City. The soundtrack to ... More >>

Burning Man, Day One

he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from poles at the front gate. The cars, RVs, trucks and buses crawl along the highway toward the entrance like ants to a watermelon. As you roll onto the d ... More >>

Übie and the Man

Mr. Bananas and Two Young Prize Winners

Letters

Problems on Parade

West Hollywood may end up taking control of next year’s Gay Pride Weekend