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Brazilian Carnaval: Exotica - Club Nokia - 2-25-12

Brazilian Carnaval: Exotica Club Nokia 2-25-12 On Saturday night Brazilian Carnival descended upon Club Nokia. The exhilarating festival aimed to recreate the party scene that galvanizes Brazil every year around this time. Women danced in glitzy, revealing attire, many wearing feathers on their bac ... More >>

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!

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.

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

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.

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 >>

Video: Burning Man Time-Lapse Imagery Fails to Capture Hippie Smells

CuriousJosh​You thought Burning Man as seen from space was a trip. Some YouTuber recently posted a time-lapse video of the hippy dippy action at the Playa near Black Rock, Nevada, and from the looks of it you wouldn't know this was the dirty, debaucherous, bacchanalian rave it has come to be. ... 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 >>

'Scuse Me While I Kiss My Squeezebox

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

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 >>

Where Desperate Men Go to Fry

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival Releases Set Times

Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash​ The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>

BACK IN BLOOM

Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash​ The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>

WARNING: CONTENTS MAY BE HOT

Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash​ The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>

DON'T RANT ON MY PARADE

Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash​ The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>

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!

​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 >>

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 >>

Oktoberfest L.A. Drowns in Sorrows

View more photos in the Oktoberfest slideshow. When the air becomes crisp and the summer turns to fall, Germans host a raucous event as a gateway to season change: Oktoberfest. The mere mention of Oktoberfest conjures up images of sauerkraut and sausages, beer maids shuttling steins overflowing wit ... More >>

LA Oktoberfest This Weekend: Lederhosen, Barmaids, Bavarian Music, Oh And Beer

Katherine Sacks​There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of cool autumn days then by walking around downtown L.A. in a pair of lederhosen and drinking a strong German beer. This year, instead of paying for the expensive flight to Munich (or driving to Alpine Village in, umm, Torrance), c ... More >>

BEER HERE!

Katherine Sacks​There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of cool autumn days then by walking around downtown L.A. in a pair of lederhosen and drinking a strong German beer. This year, instead of paying for the expensive flight to Munich (or driving to Alpine Village in, umm, Torrance), c ... More >>

LAND OF A 1,000 DANCES

Katherine Sacks​There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of cool autumn days then by walking around downtown L.A. in a pair of lederhosen and drinking a strong German beer. This year, instead of paying for the expensive flight to Munich (or driving to Alpine Village in, umm, Torrance), c ... More >>

COMEDY WRITERS ON THE LOOSE!

Katherine Sacks​There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of cool autumn days then by walking around downtown L.A. in a pair of lederhosen and drinking a strong German beer. This year, instead of paying for the expensive flight to Munich (or driving to Alpine Village in, umm, Torrance), c ... More >>

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?

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 >>

Aisle Be Seeing You at Amoeba!

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 >>

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 >>

Flower Drum Dance

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

Athlete’s Feats

The Trey McIntyre Project makes its local debut

In Their Own Words

The Trey McIntyre Project makes its local debut

Samba Summer

The Trey McIntyre Project makes its local debut

Green Rhythms

The Trey McIntyre Project makes its local debut

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 >>

Sub Pop One Hummer

By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, where Bruce Pavitt, co-founder of Sub Pop Records, is some sort of minor legend. You know, Bruce Pavitt, the dude with the vision to uncover a few of the gr ... 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 >>

Sunset Serenade

Summer Festival at the Huntington

Übie and the Man

Summer Festival at the Huntington

Mr. Bananas and Two Young Prize Winners

Summer Festival at the Huntington

Letters

Summer Festival at the Huntington

Problems on Parade

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