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Best of Coachella: Weekend One

Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might have worn had he ever bee ... More >>

Worst of Coachella: Weekend One

Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix's set. Why? Because we were fucking teased. On the main stage before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a long commercial for their new album played, and then we found out that members of the ... More >>

San Diego Beer Week: Top 5 Events Worth The Drive South

To most Angelenos, San Diego is the kid sister of SoCal cities. But to beer lovers, San Diego is Mecca. Ten years ago, when L.A. was still trapped by endless Bud and Miller tap handles, San Diego brewers were over-hopping their suds, blowing palletes (and minds) and defining an entirely new west coa ... More >>

The L.A. Craft Beer Crawl: Rare Beers, A Speakeasy A Slideshow

With a steep ticket price for a relatively new event, there was a knot of anticipation about whether this year's L.A. Craft Beer Crawl would prove worth its malt. By every measure, it most certainly was. On Saturday, Aug. 18, two thousand eager beer nerds and bar regulars received their wristbands ... More >>

The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>

Q & A with Henry and Adriana Nguyen of Monkish Brewing Co.: Opening a Brewery in L.A., Feminist Beer Gambling in Vegas

Monkish Brewing Co. feels like the best kept beer secret of the South Bay. Located in a modest business park along Western Avenue in Torrance, you won't find the usual bells and whistles that alert you to the presence of fine, craft beer: The beer is speaking for itself. Open just over three months, ... More >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List The history of Los Angeles punk is largely composed of a series ... More >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: 20-11

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List The history of Los Angeles punk is largely composed of a series ... More >>

Beer Belly Celebrates 1st Anniversary

It feels like much longer than a year has passed since Jimmy and Yume Han opened Beer Belly, the Koreatown craft beer bar that introduced the Hite-heavy neighborhood to a volume and variety of local-brewed suds like it had never seen. But sure enough, this weekend will mark the bar's one year annive ... More >>

The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 15 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs *"What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain The Bathroom Situation The porta-potties at Coachella were truly repulsive. As the festival progressed, the combined waste of 90,000 accumulated, ... More >>

The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 15

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

The Best Of Coachella: Friday, April 13

See also: *Coachella: The Garbage Situation Is Out of Control *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Day one of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits or that poor guy who couldn't get his flip flops on ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #15-11

See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List 15. Gwen Stefani Hers is the face that launched ska's third wave, compelled Claire's to mass-produce bejeweled bindis, and brought Harajuku makeup from the streets of Tokyo to TV sets ... More >>

Tyler, the Creator Costumes For Sale At Urban Outfitters: Sign Of The Apocalypse?

Kai Flanders​By Kai Flanders If you want to be Tyler, The Creator for Halloween this year -- and who doesn't? -- just head over to Urban Outfitters. The Westwood and Santa Monica locations, in any case, feature ready-to-wear outfits almost certainly directly inspired by the Odd Future leader ... More >>

SoCal's 8 Best Breweries: Cismontane's Evan Weinberg Tells All

beerguy.tvCismontane Brewing Co.'s Evan Weinberg harvests wild California buckwheat ​ Last month, we asked Stone Brewing Company's Greg Koch and Golden Road Brewing's Meg Gill to share some of their favorite beers. And this month, we contacted Cismontane Brewing Company's Evan Weinberg to do ... More >>

Two Local Brewers Win Big at the Great American Beer Festival

Jason E. KaplanThe crowds converge on GABF​ Over a dozen L.A.-area craft brewers traveled to Denver last week to compete in the 30th annual Great American Beer Festival -- arguably the oldest and most prestigious national beer competition outside of Europe. This year, 526 breweries submitted 3 ... More >>

The Mill and the Cross Review

'Chuck Norris'-Brand Marijuana Sold In L.A: The Actor Probably Not Happy About It

A spitting image of Flanders.​He isn't the first celebrity to have a strain of weed named for him, but Chuck Norris, a noted conservative, isn't taking the honor in stride. We noted in the past that Michael Phelps has had a line of bud sold in his honor at some L.A. medical marijuana dispensa ... More >>

Film Reviews: Surf's Up, Memories of Tomorrrow, Flanders

War and Remembrances

City of Lights, City of Angels winds down with dark ruminations and hopeful sentiments

Missing the Ex-Factor

AFI remembers the past, neglects the present

Let Them Eat Film

Tales of wars and misguided youth dominate Cannes 2006

For All Seasons

Stop Making Sense

GOP Girl Power

Laura Flanders’ Bushwomen

Brueghel in Bosnia

Kristine McKenna talks with graphic journalist Joe Sacco

Baby Greens

Politics may be a drag, but kids today are turning Green instead of tuning out

Venus Rising

Mad loves and awakenings in Satin Rouge and Juana la Loca

Private Lies, Public Lives

Aldrich Ames, Walter Winchell, Harry Houdini

Colonial Life

The brave bugs of Antz and the rabid racists of The Life of Jesus