Friday the 13th

Iron Maiden and Megadeth - San Manuel Amphitheater - September 13, 2013

Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and others San Manuel Amphitheater September 13, 2013 Better Than: Commemorating the day by playing the shitty NES game, Friday The 13th. Some of our fondest live metal memories have occurred in basements, garages, and even sushi restaurants. But for our money, there is stil ... More >>

Party Pick of the Week: Up All Night to Get Lucky

Los Globos 3040 W. Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake, Fri., Sept. 13, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., 21 ; RSVP for $5 entry before 10 p.m. Dragonfly 6510 Santa Monica Blvd., Hlywd., Fri., Sept. 13, 9 p.m. Catch One 4067 W. Pico Blvd., Arlington Heights | Fri., Sept. 13, 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Like most of the made-up holidays p ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, September 13 Monophonics THE MINT Monophonics are like a whole section of the record store come to life -- especially that wall above the register where they keep the serious stuff. The Bay Area band do acrobatic son ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints in Hollywood, Koreatown, Silver Lake TONIGHT

It's Friday the 13th. And if you're superstitious, you should hear the one about the chupacabra with a badge. He hunts down idiot drunk drivers in places like Hollywood, Koreatown and Silver Lake only to lock them up and take lots of their money. Don't be stupid. We happen to know where this crime- ... More >>

Music Picks: Mad Decent Block Party, Weeknd, Cold War Kids

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Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including Broadway's Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson

Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immigration saga Long Way Go Down at the Art of Acting Studio, and for the silly Aussie import Priscilla Queen of ... More >>

Dispatches From the Viernes 13 Booze Cruise

Rock the Boat LA, featuring Viernes 13 Long Beach Harbor May 31, 2013 Underground ska band Viernes 13 -- which means Friday the 13th, you gringo -- incorporate elements of punk and rockabilly. On Friday night, for a booze cruise called Rock the Boat LA, they performed on a boat called the Grand Rom ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Richard III In Overdrive

Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and comprehensive theater listings, see below. Beauty to be found in ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pulitzer Finalist About the Iraq War

Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they come in. Christopher Shinn's drama Dying City, about a family in the wake of the Iraq War, being performed a ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Meet the Fabulous Morgans: The Castle-Dwelling, High-Flying, Coolest, Quirkiest Family in L.A.

6 Movies to See This Week, Including Wet Hot American Summer in a Cemetery

Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.: Thursday, Aug. 16 6. Last January at Sundance, a movie starring Frank Langella (who played Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon and, more importantly, the scheming owner of the Knicks in Eddie) as a man who becomes friends with a robot made qui ... More >>

What? No Meatballs?

Gordy Grundy 'Burns' Off All His Art in a 'One-Day Retrospective' in Chinatown

Beneath glowing lanterns along Chinatown's Chung King Road on Friday the 13th, more than 400 people passed through the doors of Coagula Curitorial to check out Gordy Grundy's one-man, one-night-only art-show, "BURN." Two bartenders and a spokesmodel poured lemongrass-tinged Bombay Sapphire East Gin ... More >>

Slake 'n' Shake

Gordy Grundy Goes Up in Flames

Why L.A. Schools Should End Their Ban on Hugging

By Dr. Paul Abramson and L.J. Williamson Riot Act is a semi-regular column that challenges conventional wisdom in controversial issues Last month, Tennessee, the state where Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old first cousin and John Thomas Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution, made waves ... More >>

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Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses: Now Open in Sun Valley

Just a couple of months after opening up her own first restaurant, Rocio Camacho, the J. Gold approved Mole'ra formerly of Mole's La Tia and La Huasteca, has opened up a second locale. The Sun Valley extension of Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses officially opened last Saturday, Jan. 14 in a strip mall ne ... More >>

Happy Friday the 13th: What's Your Food Superstition?

Happy Friday the 13th. For some, this is a reason to avoid cats, errant ladders, chopsticks, stray moving vehicles and not-as-random-as-they-seem numbers and letters. But unless you're a baseball player, in which case you have every reason to be superstitious (that's a joke, unless maybe you're Jame ... More >>

LudoBites 8 Reservation Lottery Starts Now (You Have 24 Hours)

Got your computer open and your dates and times picked out? If not, well, find your iPad and stop, oh, working at your job. The lottery for LudoBites 8 reservations starts now. (Voiceover. Padma.) LudoBites 8, which takes place at Lemon Moon on weeknights between January 18 and February 22, is using ... More >>

LinA in LA: Top DJ & Dance Club Picks for this Weekend (& Beyond)

Todd HartmanPerish Dignam is a party warrior; see Sat.​Superstitious types might opt to stay home this Friday and go out Saturday or Sunday instead, but we consider the night pretty lucky when it comes to club revelry in LA. Putting aside any friggatriskaidekaphobia (the actual name for fear o ... More >>

'Re-Animator The Musical,' Now With Ravaging Rock Band Openers

Lina Lecaro Head bangers welcome at Re-Animator- The Musical. ​From Alice Cooper to GWAR to Marilyn Manson, sinister schlock and rock have always gone hand in (severed) hand. Music artists embellishing their stage show with theatrical thrills will never cease (even Lady Gaga's got monsters and ... More >>

The Secret Day Jobs of Indie Musicians

Have guitar, will work

Music Picks: Tift Merritt, Clinic, Microscopic Septet

Also, J. Cole, the Crazy Squeeze, Wild Flag and others

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Goodbye, John Chase: West Hollywood Urban Designer Dies

Photo via Gelato Baby​West Hollywood's urban designer John Chase died of an apparent heart attack the morning of this past Friday the 13th. Editors Alissa Walker of Gelato Baby, and Marissa Gluck and Josh Williams of Curbed remember Chase's flamboyant, passionate, maximalist life and times. He ... More >>

Many Are Afraid To Work On Friday The 13th

Rebecca Smeyne​Afraid to travel, shop or generally just get out there to do your job because it's Friday the 13th? You're not alone. According to CNBC employers lose as much as $800 million in productivity on this day as a result of superstitious employees who are afraid to get out there and ... More >>

BETTER LIVING THROUGH FREE MUSIC

Q&A: Themselves' Adam 'Doseone' Drucker Talks About His Bizarro YouTube Series, 'TVhaha'

They got jokes -- Themselves​Stow away what you think you know about indie rap auteurs Themselves, a.k.a. Doseone and Jel. Yes, the Anticon duo is performing at The Echo tonight, June 9 (with support from Talkdemonic and Baths). And yes, they plan to slay all comers with their inimitable mix ... More >>

Monday, the 24th

I Love You Phillip Morris: Out of the Closet, but Not out in Theaters

Why the funniest, most subversive film of the year — starring Jim Carrey as a gay felon — isn't coming to your local multiplex anytime soon

Ready for His Retouch: David Yow Adjusts the Picture as He Prepares for the Jesus Lizard Reunion

The singer hadn't seen original drummer Mac McNeilly for 12 years: "We hugged for, like, three minutes and just giggled."

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