Hair Care and Styling

Sonya Clark's Art Uses Thread Made of Human Hair

There are many materials artists can choose to make into a portrait, but for artist Sonya Clark, the portrait of Madam CJ Walker could only come to life through one very ordinary object -- the comb. When visitors walk into the Craft and Folk Art Museum, they will encounter a towering, shimmering col ... More >>

Eleanor Antin & Simone Forti

Skid Row's Growing Homeless Population Treated to Free Mother's Day Makeovers (PHOTOS)

Mother's Day is the best day of the year -- besides maybe Thanksgiving -- for the homeless ladies of L.A.'s notorious Skid Row. Local charities are practically fighting over the chance to hand out free makeovers to this growing population of bedraggled womanfolk: Red Eye, Inc. booked the Row for ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver: Squirrels That Look Like Skrillex

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: I follow you on Tumblr and I absolutely love your blog! What are your next upcoming events? I woul ... More >>

816 Pacific Avenue, Venice: The Bad Haircut

Did you ever go to a Supercuts and ask for the cheapest haircut? 816 Pacific Avenue in Venice is the building equivalent of that bad decision. Or maybe you've been the lucky recipient of one of those free do's from a local beauty school that leave you considering a wig? This apartment building is l ... More >>

Stomp Grapes at Malibu Family Wines Food Fest

Flickr/MulsanneFirst, take off your shoes.​ If you've ever wanted to stomp grapes a la Lucy and Ethel, now's your chance. The 11th Annual Malibu Family Wines Grape Crush & Harvest Festival is being held this Sunday, September 25 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu. And, beca ... More >>

Can We Buy This With Groupon?

Hollywood's Hair-Feather Fad Pits Hipsters Against Fly Fishermen, Dries Up Rooster Population

Outta my way, Gramps.​Bob Marriott's Fly-Fishing Store in Fullerton is sold out of rooster feathers. You know -- those long, stripey suckers peeking from the underhairs of everyone from Steven Tyler to your babysitter. "We're out of stock," says Annie Stamper, a Marriott's employee who, for t ... More >>

The Ballad of Kickball Katy

Spoke 'n' Hammer

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

COME ON AND TAKE A TRAIN RIDE

HONOR THY THIGHMASTER

Wild Grass: Red Bull

Alain Resnais does his carrot-topped muse no favors

KNOW YOUR CREEP

Lolita Man!: Middle-Aged Japanese Transvestite Dancing Around in a French Maid's Uniform

[Via Topless Robot.] Now, you either wanna look at a middle-aged Japanese man dancing around to hypnotic lounge music in his little bedroom wearing nothing but a French maid's uniform and pigtails or you don't wanna look at a middle-aged Japanese man dancing around to hypnotic lounge music in his l ... More >>

The Big Game's In Two Days!

Wine Hair Gel, Or What to Do With That Crappy Bottle of Merlot from Your Last Dinner Party

Thank goodness for hair gel. Now we can all finally get over our Sideways "I'm not drinking any f#cking merlot!" complex. Of course, we all know that celebrity hairstylist Ted Gibson makes a mean cocktail party chignon (a fancy and expensive name for your grandmom's bun). Now he's added a line of wi ... More >>

WE-HALLOWEEN!

BREAKING: Bret Michaels' Hairpiece Breaks Silence, Gives Extended, Tell-All Interview

photo courtesy of The Pantaloonan udated image of Buzz Goldman, Bret Michaels' longtime hairpiece​Website The Pantaloon has just published what it says is an exclusive interview with Poison lead singer and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels' hairpiece. The wig, whose name is Buzz Goldman, has a l ... More >>

MARY LYNN RAJSKUB: MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNYGIRL!

Videothing Does Black Lips at El Rey: "Better Than the Warped Tour"

Better late than never on this, but totally worth the wait. A few weeks back Videothing used the West Coast Sound guestlist portal to make their way with video camera into the Black Lips show at the El Rey Theatre.

Vivid Entertainment Celebrates 25th Anniversary: Co-Founder Steven Hirsch Talks All-American Porn

View a full gallery of teaser photos from the exhibit in the Vivid Entertainment cover art slideshow. Vivid EntertainmentBack East I'd had more than a few glimpses of what was considered pornography by the time I was nine. There were the nudist rags I found in ditches on the way to school and rolle ... More >>

Name That Tune with Josh Kun and Leonard Nimoy

Robyn to Perform Acoustic Set at Spaceland next Wednesday

Robyn, whose fans are as dedicated and adoring as My Morning Jacket's (but better smelling and better dressed and with much nicer haircuts), will perform as part of Club NME at Spaceland this Wednesday, October 22. When last she performed in LA, she killed at the Wiltern, and gayboys rejoiced. Thi ... More >>

Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of cour ... More >>

Out Today in Stores: Larry Norman, "The Father of Jesus Rock," Gets Anthologized

You don't get a head of hair like that without a little divine intervention, and Larry Norman, who, beginning in the late 1960s, started singing about his own experiences with Jesus, seemed pretty obviously touched by the hand of God. But rather than go the cheesy white-bread gospel route, the nas ... More >>

Final Check Yo Ponytail tonight starring Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan

I Heart Comix's long-running Check Yo Ponytail series comes to a close tonight at the Echoplex. The legendary party ends its run with a doozy: Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan. Here's what you might see if you decide to hit it:

Kings of Leon, Greek Theatre, 9/7

Kings of Leon The Greek Theatre, September 7, 2007 By Jonah Flicker When did the Kings of Leon hire a rock stylist? As they took the stage at the Greek Theatre this past Friday night, the once long-haired, Southern-fried throwback-rockers were sporting a look straight from the boy-band handbook. Ma ... More >>

The Goddess Provides

I stopped by Taste of the Goddess on Beverly for an overpriced sub-par smoothie. A failed parking meter brandished its very own torn Dior scarf. A glimpse of my reflection in the passenger window of my car confirmed that three days no shower does not a happy hairdo make. I thanked the Universe fo ... More >>

BBB (Big, Bold and Beautiful)

The clouds have parted and the birds are chirping what sounds like Japanese power pop. SXSW being an industry event I attend my first industry panel, "Idiots Unite!" (The idiots, of course, being anyone involved in this crazy business of show.) David Katznelson, president of Birdman Recording Group, ... More >>

Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim

Kim Jong-Il, North Korean Dictator is straight up gangsta style, he admits to lovin many bitches and he's had way more people killed than Shug Knight. He drives a Benz and has a penchant for extravagances like lobster and Hennessy. He's big fan of the NBA (he even has a signed ball by Michael Jord ... More >>

Splitting Hairs

Best Eastside locks for Westsiders

Hipster How-to: The Klute Kut

Absinthe & Old Lace

A local clothing line heralds the rebirth of vintage

Given to Flier

Welcome to the Jungle

In Defense of Da Vinci Hair

Behind the Garb

The 99-cent costume crew

14 Hairstyles of the Pundits

Hair’s Looking at You

10 Guidelines for Divorce After 30

You'll Never Eat Ass in This Town Again

Guerrilla Public Service: The Man Who Would Be Caltrans

Colleen Calleen

Head Trips

The new film from the director of Eve’s Bayou

Washed Up

Truth or Hair

How do you say moo-lay?

Resurfacing

How to avoid looking like yourself