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We Hang Out With Kiss at Their New Restaurant in Torrance

Kiss co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are partners in a restaurant called Rock & Brews, which on Wednesday will open its third location, on PCH in Torrance. "Often this idea of themed restaurants means that it's an excuse for crap food," self-described "foodie" Stanley tells us on-site, as ... More >>

How the Arts District Got Its Name

This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts District *5 Best Places to Eat in the Downtown Arts District *6 Developments That Will Change the Dow ... More >>

Henry Diltz, the Man Who Shot The Doors

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Entering rock photographer Henry Diltz's North Hollywood house feels like stepping into Merlin's cottage, if the wizard carried a Canon rather than a cau ... More >>

Slash Gets A Walk of Fame Star: "The Very Street Axl Rose Will One Day Be Sleeping On," Jokes Charlie Sheen

In case you don't trawl celebrity news, Slash got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. To celebrate the occasion, a phalanx of paparazzi and fans showed up -- not to mention radio host Jim Ladd and even goddamn Charlie Sheen. The star for the 46-year-old former Guns N' Roses axeman sits ... More >>

Les Paul's Watch -- the One He Got From Sinatra -- Goes For $20,000 at Auction

See Also: Only in LA: Les Paul, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx and the Invention of Multi-Track Recording Les Paul died about three years ago. He was 94 and still gigging every Monday night in Manhattan. If you don't know much about him other than the guitars that bear his name, know that he was "withou ... More >>

I Wish They All Could Be California Bands

Sonia Leigh on Country Music In L.A. (Yes, It Exists)

See also: *If You Don't Like Country Music You're A Blue State Elitist *Olin & The Moon: Cigarettes, Coors, And Startlingly-Sincere Alt-Country Atlanta-based artist Sonia Leigh is a master storyteller, whose truly-American songs are about the struggles and joy of daily life. Her sound melds classic ... More >>

Rolling Stone Restaurant: Beer and Loathing in the Hollywood and Highland Center

Away from street performers dressed as sort of sexy cops and cardboard Transformers, the new Rolling Stone Restaurant faces the California Pizza Kitchen on the upper floors of the Hollywood and Highland Center. In front of the restaurant, tourists mosey around, mouths open, cameras out, photographin ... More >>

307 Restaurants Participate in dineLA Fall 2011 Restaurant Week

Anne FishbeinSpicy chicken pops at Lukshon.​Ever wanted to try the Lukshon's squid stuffed with fermented ground pork or spaghetti at Scarpetta but can't afford it? dineLA, which returns for 12 days in early October, might be your chance. The restaurant promo returns October 2-7 and 9-14, and ... More >>

Re:Play LA Tonight: J*DaVeY Don't Need No Stinking Genres

Kevin Scanlon​Re:Play LA is our concert series with local indie acts covering classic albums. The final installment -- tonight, Aug. 17 at the Hard Rock Café on Hollywood Boulevard -- will feature genre-unclassifiable duo J*DaVeY. But unlike the other artists in the series, J*DaVeY weren't im ... More >>

Nite Jewel - Hard Rock Cafe - 8/10/11

Sam BlochRamona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel​Nite Jewel Hard Rock Café Hollywood 8/10/11 Better Than: A school night concert at Fresno's Tokyo Garden. I wasn't at the first installment of LA Weekly's RE:Play LA series, but unfortunately this week's edition, with Ramona Gonzalez of adult contempor ... More >>

Bring in Da Kraut Funk: Nite Jewel Performs Tomorrow for Re:Play L.A.

Justin LoyNite Jewel​Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, was the first artist we considered here at LA Weekly when putting together our Re:Play L.A. series, which consists of four local indie artists covering their favorite classic albums, for free, at the Hard Rock Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard. ... More >>

Nite Jewel on performing Kraftwerk's Computerworld in L.A. Weekly Re:Play L.A. Series

Sun Araw and Warm Climate - Hard Rock Cafe - 8/3/11

Sam BlochCameron Stallones (Sun Araw) and Caitlin C. Mitchell (Warm Climate)​Sun Araw Warm Climate Hard Rock Café in Hollywood 8/3/11 Better Than: The Elvis impersonator at Palm Thai. "Had we known it was gonna be like this, we might have done it a little differently." Cameron Stallones ... More >>

Tomorrow Night: Sun Araw, L.A.'s Modern-Day Psychedelicist, Tackles Brit Power-Pop Classic Bandwagonesque

Ward RobinsonSun Araw​When we asked Cameron Stallones, the fascinating L.A.-based polymath who performs and records as Sun Araw, to cover a favorite album in its entirety at L.A. Weekly's RE:Play L.A. series at the Hard Rock Café in Hollywood, we expected him to pick something like Pink Floyd ... More >>

Bandwagonesque: Teenage Fanclub Wasteland

Sun Araw, L.A.'s own modern-day psychedelicist, tackles Brit power-pop classic

Nocando Kicks Off RePlay LA Tomorrow at the Hard Rock; Talks Quik and Swagnosticism

​James "Nocando" McCall titled one of his first solo releases, "Nocando is a Virus." And like any virus, he's innately aware of the importance of mutation. By 25, the Leimert Park-raised rapper had toured the country with Project Blowed avatar, Aceyalone, won Scribble Jam, dropped a pair of al ... More >>

David Lynch, (Non-)Musician: The L.A. Weekly Interview

NIGHTRANGER: 2010

Nightranger: REDRUM & RITZ

Buddyhead Redux

L.A.'s most loved and feared music Web site is back, leading the never-ending quest for music that doesn't suck

Sounds From Common, Looks From Louis Verdad & Brian Lichtenberg

Remembering Onyx Proprietor John Leech

Rock Picks: Black Mountain, PJ Harvey and John Parish, Alice Russell, Starfucker

Also, T-Model Ford, the Sadies, Van Dyke Parks and others

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

JOURNEY BACK TO 40 YEARS C.D.

No More Whining in 2009!

What to do in L.A., Dec. 26-Jan. 1

Rock Picks: Tegan & Sara, Patti Smith, Stereolab

Also, Pinback, the Quarrymen, Kris Kristofferson and more

For Some Reviewers, the Party's the Thing

Critics at the trough

Last Chance to Be a Better Person!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo, 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo,24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

No More Monday Nights at Morton's

Remembering a Hollywood legend

Best Mall for (Actual) Rats

Stumbling Toward 2006

Nightranger

Lung Gone

Experimental Jet Set & a Few Stars

Edited by Kateri Butler

Pot Parlor Tricks

Landmarks

A Perfect Pop Plan

Shooting Off Sparks

All Aboard: Off the Pig

On the Black Panther legacy Tour, history sits in the back of the bus