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Most Men Don't Carry Condoms On Dates, L.A. Poll Finds

Men are pigs. And to prove it, an L.A.-based website about all things masculine has unleashed a poll of some of its readers showing that most guys show up on dates ill prepared, e.g. without condoms. Of course, this could just mean that ...

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

Rock Star Fashions, Without the Douchiness

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Almost everyone has once wanted to dress like a rock star, but most people realize how absurd they look in leather pants and sequins. Wisely, then, Holly ... More >>

Is Music Site Uncool Cool Enough to Get Funding?

Music writers David Greenwald and Daniel Siegal want to create a site for in-depth music reporting and criticism, and they want to pay writers a fair wage to do that work. Sort of like the L.A. Weekly's music section, but they want to do it minus the kind of pageview-driving clickbait -- listicles a ... More >>

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

Odd Future and Streetwear Employees Resent Fairfax Avenue Tourist Influx

Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies

Oscar Duncan Murder in Venice Sees 2 Arrests: Kevin Dwayne Green and Hopeton Bereford Parsley

[Update: Gang member Kevin Dwayne Green, 28, will be arraigned later today at the LAX courthouse, according to the D.A. He's charged with Oscar Duncan's June 4 murder (with gang enhancement), along with an alleged May 21 robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The D.A. says Green was k ... More >>

Los Angeles Is the Best-Smelling City on the Planet?

Among L.A.'s prouder distinctions -- worst traffic, rudest people -- is a new one: Smelliest City on the Planet. So says GQ magazine this week. The thing is, it's not a put-down. It's a love letter:

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Crown City Theatre, Reviewed

Justin Bieber's Underage Sex Tale Could Have Unhappy Side Effect: Teen Boys Engaging in Early Sex Could Have Small Endowments

jake.auzzieBaby Beebs.​Good thing it's looking more and more like that 20-year-old woman's baby-daddy claim against L.A.'s own underage heartthrob Justin Bieber is a crock. Turns out that teen boys who have sex at a younger age could end up with, well, smaller parts. Yeah, and you thought tha ... More >>

Five Pop Songs Ruined By Glee

Glee's GQ shoot​You've got to hand it to Lea Michelle, Matthew Morrison, and the rest of the cast of the TV show Glee -- they certainly have a special talent for taking a once awesome pop song and turning it into an insufferable case of over-singing and unnecessary theatricality. The third sea ... More >>

Fashion Issue 2011: Does L.A. Have a Fashion Identity?

Starlets, surf bums, shagsters, scarecrows, rocker vampires, and more: Our fashion issue explores L.A. style from the streets up

GQ Says Second-Worst-Dressed Men in America Are in Los Angeles

GQL.A. men.​Ah, Los Angeles. A world capital of billionaires and red-carpet style. And yet it would be hard to find a sloppier city when it comes to men's fashion. Our theory goes something like this: In L.A., the most powerful man in the room is the one who's most casually dressed. At a tabl ... More >>

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Review: Michael Bay Destroys Chicago, Abe Lincoln and Our Brain Cells

Hero and his new hottie​ The two hours and 34 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where I watched it speechless. They cheered the robot-on-robot slugfests, rendered in terabyte-straining slow moti ... More >>

Silver Foxes and Silver Vixens: Top Ten Musicians "Of a Certain Age" That You'd Still Do

Pray you are this cool at 58​Sheila E.'s being just as hot as she was in Krush Groove at her recent appearances during Prince's 21 Nite Stand at the Forum sent us spinning fantasies involving other musicians who are just as hot (or hotter) with a little age on 'em. This is our list, though- wh ... More >>

Werner Herzog, Crazy-Man Film Director, Thinks L.A. Is The Only City in America With Substance

Werner Herzog.​City Hall has more red ink than Nicolas Cage, the Dodgers are a mess, and our pothole-pocked, traffic-clogged roads are really the worst in America. But make no mistake, we love L.A. No town like it, from the Chinese delicacies of the SGV to the surfing inadequacies of Venic ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY: MIKE SACKS

Saveur, Cooking Light are National Magazine Awards Finalists

WordRidden/Flickr​The National Magazine Awards finalists were announced yesterday, and aside from the usual suspects (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire), never-before-nominated Cooking Light was a finalist in the Leisure Interests category -- alongside Golf Digest, Runner's World and Los ... More >>

Foo Fighters To Glee Creator: "F**k That Guy!"

GQ MagazineDave Grohl doesn't want this twentysomething lady who plays a teenager on TV to belt out "Everlong" (twentysomething lady who plays a teenager on TV pictured here being secsy for GQ Magazine)​ According to a Hollywood Reporter interview at SXSW, the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and dru ... More >>

Ryan Gosling Says 'Nobody Works' In Hollywood, 'So They Do Drugs' (Word)

GQRyan Gosling bites the hand that feeds him.​Nobody walks in L.A? Nobody works in L.A. Kudos to actor Ryan Gosling for confirming what we suspected all along: Well-paid actors in this city have way too much time on their hands (and thus, the Lindsay Lohan saga). He tells GQ: "The problem w ... More >>

GQ's 4th Best New Restaurant in America? The Tasting Kitchen on Abbot Kinney

Anne FishbeinCasey Lane and crew at the Tasting Kitchen​ For those of you who do not read GQ for photos of Jessica Alba or sartorial advice but for other things, like restaurant news, Alan Richman has picked The 10 Best New Restaurants in America. Welcome to the year's end. New York City's Lin ... More >>

[Updated] Bon Appétit Names Adam Rapoport New Editor-in-Chief

Update: Over at The New York Times yesterday, Julia Moskin caught up with newly named Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport, hours after he was officially named to the post on Monday. Rapoport, who is 40 and likes to cook and play golf with Justin Timberlake, spent the night grilling lamb and m ... More >>

Elon Musk's Super-Green Hawthorne Company SpaceX Gets $45,600 EPA Fine For Mishandling Hazardous Materials

​We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried: Elon Musk, the love-him, hate-him chief of electric-car company Tesla Motors -- the Bay Area automaker with the green-friendly halo over its head -- is also the leader of a Hawthorne company that just received a slap on the wrist by federal official ... More >>

Taste of a Magazine: Condé Nast-themed Restaurants

Novikov GroupMoscow's Vogue Café​ Condé Nast is continuing to do odd food-related things with its magazines, following the Gourmet-as-iPad-app plan by making its rags available to license for themed restaurants in Asia, South America and the Middle East. It's a business practice the company ... More >>

Master of the House of Playboy

Hef, still doing it his way (does he really have a choice?)

We Are the Mods, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

Also, Inception, Predators, Kisses

Jonathan Gold Writes Fiction?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes Arizona Policy, Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

GQ's 10 Best Food Trucks in America: The Bandwagon Rolls On

GQ.comFojol Bros. of Merlindia​So GQ, the glossy magazine of mens style and perpetual home, it seems, of Derek Jeter, has published their list of "10 Best Food Trucks in America." The bandwagon rolls inexorably on, and although food trucks are a great, cheap way to eat these days--eclectic and ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Jackson Unburied Funeral arrangements for Michael Jackson remain pending, according to his father, who says the family is still seeking answers to the singer's death. L.A. Daily NewsBaby, the Rain Won't Fall Los Angeles is poised to record its fourth straight year of below-normal rainfall. L.A. Time ... More >>

Brits Diss Kate Winslet's Globes

The Independent UK's sniffing dismissal of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards was harsh enough, but then it went after Kate Winslet with glee for two days running. "It was, by any standards," wrote Judith Woods, "the performance of a lifetime. Swooping emotional glissandos ... More >>

Power and Performance: Richard Avedon, Master of Cruel

“I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer”

Not Dead Yet: The Novel as Lifeline

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Pause and Rewind: The Show

I remember watching The Show for the first and only time when I was a freshman in high school. I wasn't very impressed. This was 1995, Biggie was alive, Warren G was the biggest star in the world, Wu-Tang was in the middle of the greatest run in rap history and Snoop Dogg hadn't yet released Tha D ... More >>

Paper Dolls

The high road and the low road

Where To Eat Now

Decision 2007: Kanye West vs. 50 Cent

A voter’s guide to the most important rap election in a generation

No Reservations: Light Dining

Sweet and savory fare — without the foam

Loose Prose

Rock & Pop Listings

For February 10 - 16

Rock Listings

For Feb. 10 - 16, Country & Folk listings follow

L’Étranger in a Strange Land

Michel Houellebecq’s Weekend in L.A.

The Blind Leading the Mauled

White tigers, white men and white mischief

“Ka-ching, Ka-ching?”

Discovering Jayson Blair

Buck Fushers

Edited by Kateri Butler

A Hit for Ovitz

Spoof video takes on the fallen Disney prez

Text and the City

Londoner Toby Young gets hired and fired by Vanity Fair and lives to write about it

Call Waiting

An actor caters