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Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss

Marilyn Manson, Slash, Evanescence - Club Nokia - 4/11/12

Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>

Music Picks: Guns N' Roses, Nneka, Billy Childs, Willie Nelson & Family

Also, Slow Club, Kneebody, The Pretty Reckless, Apparat and others

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

Q & A with Emily Ansara Baines: The Unofficial Hunger Game Cookbook, T.C. Boyle and Foraging Skills, Sourcing Squirrel in L.A. What Muskrat Tastes Like

​If you live in any proximity to a middle school or teenage girl, you probably know all about The Hunger Games, the young adult dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins. You will also know that the movie comes out in March. What you might not know is that there is also a cookbook about the trilogy ... More >>

Tyler Shields: Warhol or Wannabe?

Ominous glitz of a controversial celebrity photographer

Douglas Wright, Christine Wilson and Janice Perlin: Three of Hollywood's Copycat Artists

Carolina Liar, 5 Towers Concert Plaza at Universal Citywalk, 7/16/11

Jena ArdellWho says you get what you pay for? We caught a great show for free at Universal Citywalk this weekend.​ WHO: Carolina Liar WHERE: 5 Towers Concert Plaza at Universal Citywalk WHEN: Saturday, July 16 Better Than ... Saves The Day Carolina Liar performed as part of Universal CityWal ... More >>

Was Reese Witherspoon's Sexting Advice on MTV Intended for Anthony Weiner?

Hollywood LifeCome on, Weiner -- it's a no-brainer.​Everyone seems so sure that Reese Witherspoon's condescending sext lesson at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles last night was directed at Blake Lively, the young "Gossip Girl" hottie whose bedroom-mirror body shots recently took the celebri ... More >>

Music Picks: Duran Duran, Jessie Evans, k.d. lang, The Dodos, Swahili Blonde,

Also, Janet Jackson, Greg Laswell, The Crystelles, Big Audio Dynamite and others

Kevin Smith: "I Am So, Like, Sick of Movies and Shit"

On the road with the cult filmmaker turned podcaster turned DIY warrior

Happy Hour: Miru 8691 in Beverly Hills

K. Robbins​ The place: Miru 8691, 9162 W Olympic Blvd, Beverly Hills (310-777-8378) The hours: Daily, 5-9:30pm The deals: From the website, "Drive off town to search for cheap eats or put your self out on the street with food truck or Drive back to Beverly Hills and enjoy 16 oz Sapporo for ... More >>

Lunch Hour Show At Blue Plate Oysterette: The Health Inspector And The Hot Dog

J. GarbeeDan, the health inspector​If you've ever worked the front or back of the house in the restaurant business, you're likely very familiar with "the look." It's the moment when the hostess' eyes widen, followed by a quick head nod towards anyone on staff -- anyone -- to please god hurry u ... More >>

The Warner Brothers Gate Crasher's 5 Real Reasons For Plowing Through Gate With Camaro And Flammable Liquid

Not the actual camaro, but a great camaro regardless.​A guy crashed his Camaro through Gate 5 at the Warner Brothers lot last week and got charged Tuesday with attempted arson because of all the flammable liquids found and igniton device found stuffed inside, the Daily News reported. As if drivin ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Enemies of the People, Step-Up 3D, The Other Guys

Also The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, Patrik Age 1.5 and more

Gwyneth Paltrow Sings!: Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird

​ Gwyneth Paltrow sings! (see #10). In celebration of this amazing revelation, we've compiled this handy list of Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird, starting, of course with: 1. William Shatner. Who can forget Shatner's much-parodied musical career, especially after Rhino Records' inclu ... More >>

Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music

Movie Reviews: Amelia, Astro Boy, Saw VI

Also Cirque du Freak, Stan Helsing and more

Moving Up

Rock Picks: Doves, Ceci Bastida, Carina Round, New York Dolls

Also, The Detroit Cobras, the Aggrolites, Loney Dear and others

LA People 2009: Style Alchemist — Mandy Ma

By day, she's a chemical engineer at a "skincare CSI," by night she's a fashion arbiter, blogger and lonely clown

Friendfeed: Not Just For Geeks Anymore, Scobleizer Gives Us The Lowdown

Last night instead of watching another installment of Gossip Girl on the CW, we decided to bite the bullet and do something we had been meaning to do for weeks but put off (no, not taxes) -- we took a deep breath and signed up for a new profile on Friendfeed.com. The impetus for this newfound brave ... More >>

Rock Picks: Thurston Moore, James Blackshaw, Lisa Hannigan, Modest Mouse

Plus, Scott Walker Night, Dead Confederate, A.C. Newman

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Nightranger Catches the Party Bug at BPM

Vapors and Filter mag's holiday parties, and getting sicko on disco at Shits & Giggles too

In Her Madgesty's Court

Also, Paper's trail and Punk Rock Karaoke

Buy the Gossip Girl Closet: Only $38,560!

If you've been watching Gossip Girl, maybe you too have fallen in lust with their outfits. I've always had a soft spot for the preppy, WASP-y, schoolgirl look. Bluefly.com has been doing a promotional "buy the Gossip Girl closet" thing (though have been ever careful to include a "No celebrity endors ... More >>

Among the Size-0 Crowd at Fashion Week

Painful stilettos, accreting around Mandy Moore, and more

Fashion Week Diary: Oh, that Whitley Kros!

That Whitley Kros! She's so hip, clever, funky, and well-traveled. She's kooky about how she mixes her prints, but she always looks good despite herself. For spring/summer 2009, she's wearing Africa-inspired chambray jumpsuits, tunic dresses, dip-dyed tanks, bloomers, and chiffon dresses. As her web ... More >>

Last Night: The Fratellis and The Airborne Toxic Event at the Wiltern

Last night, September 16, the Wiltern was bursting with excitement  for The Fratellis and The Airborne Toxic Event, which became shriekingly clear  once the Fratellis hit the stage with an explosive set.  The Fratellis' recent release, Here We Stand, has seen tracks included in a few hit TV show ... More >>

Yes, When I Think of Christmas, I Think of Nazis

Hollywood Is This Summer's Action Film

Myers starts writing, Universal gets pirated, Barker is dumped and Geffen is set to jump

Movie Reviews: Bra Boys, Super High Me, Alexandra

Also, Young @ Heart, Remember the Daze and more

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos

The students of Sunnydale High’s class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school reunion. A demon is here. So is a vampire, a werewolf, one of the witches, an ex-cheerleader, the geeky class clown and of course, the slayer herself, Buffy Summers. Cast members from ... More >>

Undead, Again: Buffy Reunion

Welcome back to the Hellmouth

Sk8ter Boi: Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park

The director returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets

War Haters, Tastemakers and Kightlingers

What to do in L.A., March 14-20

A Hero for Our Time

Are rocker video games the new MTV — and will they help save the music universe?