Repo Chick breaks out alongside polished-up Straight to Hell
Twitter user NewCookDanSausage or Bacon?To some folks, news reports on the latest tensions in Lebanon simply means a customer didn't particularly care for that salty country ham biscuit (clearly one of those crazy Californians) at Cracker Barrel, arguably the mightiest of all chain diners. Th ... More >>
Nicole CamposThe Avengers, together at last! A genius ending to an insane day... The largest exhibition room at the San Diego Convention Center is Hall H, a huge 6,000-plus seater situated at the complex's south end that every year during Comic-Con International hosts the biggest, baddest, an ... More >>
Artist Carlos Ramos is an Annie Award winner and creator of the mid-'00s cartoon spy series The X's. He's also a Stanley Kubrick fan. Liz OhanesianCarlos Ramos with art blogger/curator Caro Saturday night, Ramos opened his latest show, "Kubrick," at Copra Gallery inside Bergamot Station. As ... More >>
Last weekend at Pacific Media Expo, we were blown away by the overwhelming representation of cuteness. From tea parties to purikura booths, the convention was brimming with all things adorable. Check out what we saw below. Shannon Cottrell
In the pink half-price appetizers and $5 martinis
View more photos in the SXSW Parties: Bigg Digg Shindigg Driskill Flashmob slideshow Erin BroadleyL.A. Weekly's Alexia Tsotsis and Digg's Kevin RoseAfter spending long afternoon holed up in the Hilton lobby getting our blog on, LAWeekly.com decided to hit the streets of Austin to find out where ... More >>
Erin Broadley No, it's not the new Twitter (according LAWeekly.com sources that's mobile phone app foursquare) but a Dutch woman giving away weird things in the Hilton lobby is so totally #SXSW that we thought it was newsworthy. Why? Because when you have to ask someone "is that your stack of busin ... More >>
SXSW Life in the Lobby: An L.A. Weekly Moment with Wavy GravyErin BroadleyWho: Wavy Gravy - Peace Activist, Comic, "Official Clown" of the Grateful DeadLocation: Lobby on the ground floor of the Hilton on 4th Street, across from the SXSW convention centerQuote: "You! I used to have a desk at the L.A ... More >>
SXSW convention center full of LA Weekly issues... even the old ones LAWeekly.com's first day at SXSW started early as I couldn't wait to get up and start my morning with a huge breakfast -- which of course led to the requisite dash for Pepto-Bismol because my body isn't used to a Texas "small," ba ... More >>
VIP = Very Irate People
The start of a spicy new year
Also Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox, Tekkonkinkreet
Brilliant PR tie-in of the week-- PARIS CUFFED! Just got a press release with the above subject line for the Linz hangbag line. The bags feature "police grade" handcuffs and chains and apparently Mz. Hilton bought 'em in every color, way before her arrest. And while some might find it ironic, ... More >>
SXSW or no SXSW, my first sign of Texas pride was the Texas-shaped gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery I noticed outside the airport shuttle. Landed in Austin in drizzling weather; even in a crowded airplane making four stops it's easy to single out the passengers headed here – they're the ... More >>
Media darling Lily Allen’s hype exceeds her
A dictator in training buys his way in, as politically active superstars stay mum
What to do in L.A. this week
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at House of Blues, August 11
L.A. security guards seek more security
Teenage rebels rule in Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers
In TCM’s new Bette Davis biodoc, the fierce icon makes a comeback
Community activists say LAX area needs face-lift
David Newman liked his pals at MySpace.com as much as children of celebrities. Then he helped bring down a prosecutor
The name Vignali receded into L.A. history after the “Pardongate” scandal of 2001, but questions remain about drug-dealing son Carlos and his real estate magnate father, Horacio, who just might be pulling the strings in the remaking of downtown L.A.
L.A. stocks up for hotel workers
Why we love to hate Plum Sykes
Why we love to hate Plum Sykes
Murder, melancholy and Murakami’s In the Miso Soup
Inside the U.S. roundup of Muslims
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