Festivals and Parades

5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week Including a New Festival, Awakenings and Beginnings

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Best Comedy Shows to See 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 highlights includes the answer to the question, Does L.A. need another dance festival? 5. ... More >>

Streets Closed for the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval

The West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval is going down tonight. That means the streets of WeHo will morph into a sweaty, bacchanalian scrum of frankenstorms and binders full of women and guys galloping Gangnam Style, all jockeying for each other's costume compliments. Incidentally, those stre ... More >>

Burning Man: Guess How Many Times Some Rando Creeper Told Me He 'Loved My Energy' While Rubbing My Hand?

See also: *15 Burning Man GIFs That'll Make You Wanna Go Next Year *Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names Most local RV rental spots have a "Burning Man clause" in their contracts, which is how I found myself, along with a bag of bike tubes, coconut water and some of the ... More >>

We're All Going to Die: How to Pack For the Most Intense Burning Man Yet

Illustrations by Jena Ardell See also: *Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man *Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names Unlike some festivals, you can't just casually roll up to Burning Man with only a bottle of Jack and a spirit hoodie. Prepping for a week in the desert is onl ... More >>

Mix Match

Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names

See also: Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man Burning Man 2012 kicks off on Monday, and unlike our intrepid colleague Nicholas, we are headed to the Playa and looking forward to it. In fact Jack Rabbit, the festival's official newsletter, has been hitting our inbox since February, informing the nearly ... More >>

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 >>

9 Alternatives For Burning Man Lottery Losers

John Halcyon Styn​So you couldn't get a ticket. Join the club. Burning Man has been a rich man's game for a while now, and since BMORG, the group behind it, can't seem to figure out any way to prevent scalpers (like by, say, printing your name on your ticket), prices will surely be jacked up e ... More >>

'Occupy the Rose Parade' Plans to Form Human Float, Slip Into Parade Lineup

OWS got puns.​Ah, the Rose Parade. That fresh, floral, ferociously American march of Girl Scouts and City Councilmembers and high-school tuba nerds -- who, every New Year's, make Pasadena's main drag into a 1950s-era celebration of tissue-paper patriotism, and the center of the televised natio ... 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 >>

2 Great Weekend Food Events: La Feria de Los Moles Oktoberfest at Lucques (Beer! Lederhosen!)

La Feria de Los Moles: The 4th annual Mole Fair is an all-day event, featuring 13 moles from the states of Puebla and Oaxaca, the two states known for the estimable sauce. Come prepared, as last year's event drew about 20,000 people. The fair is organized by the immigrant community of Puebla and Oax ... More >>

Couscous Festival 2011: Start Your Couscouseries

It's time to get out your couscouserie again. Or rather, time to let Farid Zadi get out his. Zadi and his wife and business partner Susan Park are hosting their second annual Couscous Festival, Sunday October 23 from noon to 6 p.m. Last year's festival, you may recall, took place in Pasadena, comple ... More >>

Norse Hollywood Dining Vikings Plunder Alpine Village Oktoberfest

​It started like any other Family Fun Day at Alpine Village's Oktoberfest. Kids in tiny dirndls and lederhosen, parents enjoying a Paulaner responsibly, people laughing and relaxing while sharing a mutual love of all things Bavarian. At times it seemed like the ghost of Herman Prey could be he ... More >>

Raving For The Rich: Burning Man Can be Done in Relative Comfort if You're Elon Musk

avramcYou can almost smell this photo.​We've never been tempted to feel the burn, frankly, because Burning Man is such a hippy affair, what with the pungent, sobriety challenged people and unpaved conditions. Not our idea of fun. However, it turns out that the annual Black Rock psychedelic sh ... More >>

'Scuse Me While I Kiss My Squeezebox

The Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse

No Wonder It Tastes Like Leather

Dr. Dre vs. The Hippies: Did Dre Try to Make Money Out of Burning Man?

​Fader magazine and a mysterious Tumblr misleadingly called drdrestartedburningman.tumblr.com are currently pimping a pseudo meme called "Dr. Dre Started Burning Man." Of course Dr. Dre did not start Burning Man--a bunch of hippies did. But Fader and the Tumblr site have posted a 1995 letter a ... More >>

HALLOWEENY HOOTENANNY, CELEBITY EDITION

WEST HOLLYWOOD AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE

GENTLEMEN, START YOUR LADY SCHICKS!

Top 4 Soft Pretzels: Happy Oktoberfest

J.KoslowLa Brea Bakery fresh pretzels​ Celebrating its 200th year, Oktoberfest officially kicked off this past Friday, as it does mid-September every year in Munich. And although it may be confusing -- you'd think the event would take place in, well, October -- Bavaria bases the timing on a ... 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 >>

Local Natives and Janeane Garofalo Join FYF Fest

Local Natives and Janeane Garofalo Join FYF Fest

WE SAY, "GO NISEI"

Baby Ain't Got Back (Yet)

Mike Kelley and Baby Ikki wander the desert of the real

SOUND + VISION + UP + COMING

Day 3: Infected Mushroom Brings Head-Banging Trance To Coachella

Dennis RomeroInfected Mushroom performs at Coachella.​Confession: Trance (spikey-haired douches bouncing to 135 beats-per-minute music) is not our thing. Burning Man (sweaty, 40-year-old shaved-head guys perving on 18-year-old, pigtailed girls with lollipops) -- also not our thing. Put the two ... More >>

PAS DE DENA

NIHILIST YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

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 >>

Kabinet Theatre: The Wandering Marionettes Usher In LA's Burner Wave

Shannon CottrellThe Wandering Marionettes Present Kabinet Theatre​ Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and hardened to form organic designs. Scattered between the party-goers were ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Feds Probe Inglewood Cop Shootings The Justice Department announced it will investigate Inglewood's police force and instances in which its members have shot unarmed civilians and allegedly used excessive force. L.A. TimesAnna Nicole Smith Figures Arrested The late Anna Nicole Smith's friend and att ... More >>

GOLD DIGGER?

Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Says Sunset Junction Needs an Overhaul

Lina LecaroCrowds at the annual Sunset Junction street fair. Sunset Junction Street Festival still exists, but it might not be continuing in the large, Coachella-light style that it has for the bulk of this decade.

I'D LIKE TO THANK MY STUFFED ANIMALS...

Aisle Be Seeing You at Amoeba!

Flower Drum Dance

Athlete’s Feats

The Trey McIntyre Project makes its local debut

HARD Festival with N*E*R*D, MSTRKRFT, 7/21/08

By Timothy Norris From dusk to dawn, HARD's all-night Summer festival hit the Shrine Auditorium with stages inide and out, skate ramps, and lots of dancing. Above, Pharrell Williams of N*E*R*D onstage. Click here for the rest of Timothy Norris' pictures from the show, including A-Trak, DJ ... More >>

The Black Rock Diaries

Reports from Burning Man

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 >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Corn Dogs at Disneyland

Waiting for the End of the World

Snakebites

Burning Gram

An Actor's Life: Send Out the Clowns

Berlin Journal

Bomb the Love Republik