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The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, February 25 The Residents EL REY THEATRE Somewhere between rock & roll's spiritual mystique and a distinctly unhinged surrealist pathology, you'll find the lair of bizarro-art-imitates-music tribe The Residents. Unprecedented, with no discernible frame of reference save for a magnificently ... More >>

Hollywood Blacksmith Recreates Classic Pop-Culture Weapons in a New Web Series

Walking onto the set of the new web series Man at Arms, released today, it soon becomes clear that the Sword and the Stone, Tony Swatton's shop of goods, is every (convention-going) boy's dream. There are Roman soldiers, scantily clad female mannequins in leather and metal costumes, and very familia ... More >>

Horrific Wheelchair Death At Hollywood Metro Stop; Leaders Fume Over Response

A woman confined to a wheelchair experienced a tragic and horrific death in the subway stop beneath the Hollywood & Highland Center this week. The woman and an assistant used an ascending escalator because an elevator was out of service, a Metro official said. Both fell, and the 60-year-old in the ... More >>

Jonathan Gold's 60 Korean Dishes Every Angeleno Should Know

See Also: A Google map for all 60 of the Korean dishes Jonathan Gold says every Angeleno should know, read "5 Koreatown Restaurants Open 24 Hours: Hangover Soup," learn about "5 Koreatown Beer Joints: Hite Requirement," or just look at more of Anne Fishbein's beautiful Koreatown food photography. I ... More >>

Massive LAPD Security Detail at Oscars Included Bomb-Squad Robot, Forklift

The Academy Awards in the heart of Hollywood make the perfect target for a terrorist. (Or an Occupier.) They're the ultimate symbol of Western culture, celebrating billion-dollar blockbusters and caught up in a media frenzy of nip slips/gown slits. Of this, the LAPD is well aware. Thus the massive ... More >>

Sunset Gordon, Eric Garcetti's High-rise Pet Project, Slated to Break Ground in Hollywood Next Week

The latest chapter in a six-year Hollywood development saga starts next week when money-bags real estate conglomerate CIM Group will reportedly break ground on a controversial project that has already eaten up millions of dollars of city money in a protracted legal fight with perturbed neighbors. ... 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 >>

Deaf Man Choked By Forever 21 Security Guard In Hollywood Threatens Suit

YouTube​Attorneys for a deaf man taken down and choked to blueness by a Forever 21 security guard at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood threatened to sue the fashion retailer if it doesn't come up with a satisfactory settlement offer, according to ABC7. The chain suspended the gua ... More >>

L.A. City Council Sells Control Of Lucrative Parking Lots For Quick Budget Fix

​The Los Angeles City Council this week followed through with a proposal to give up control of some of the public's most lucrative parking lots when it voted 9-3 to start soliciting bids from companies that want to take over the properties based on 50-year leases. In exchange the city expects ... More >>

L.A. City Urged To Give Up Control Of Public Parking Lots In Exchange For Quick Fix Of Cash

Pershing Square.​It seemed like only yesterday that the city of Los Angeles was facing more than $500 million in red ink, the prospect of thousands of layoffs, and the dreaded "b"-as-in-bankruptcy word. Wait, it was only yesterday -- like last month. The City Council ended up balancing the bud ... More >>

Security Guard Goes UFC On Deaf Guy At Hollywood & Highland Center

YouTube​The latest in what seems like a string of videos capturing security guards behaving badly hit the internet this week: This edition (after the jump) has a guard pretending to be a UFC fighter and choking out a deaf man as his also-deaf friend tries desperately to alert the meathead that ... More >>

Slayer Signs Guitars, Kids, Shark-Eaten Feet at Hot Topic

Slayer Signs Guitars, Kids and Shark-Eaten Feet at Hot Topic

Death of a Munchkin: Mickey Carroll, 89

A flower memorial will be placed today on The Wizard of Oz's Munchkins' group star on Hollywood Boulevard, for Mickey Carroll, who played the town crier in the Judy Garland film classic. Carroll, 89, was one of the last surviving little people who brought to life the Munchkin Land scenes, in which h ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Roman Polanski's Trial by Film Just days before a crucial Los Angeles court hearing, the Associated Press' Linda Deutsch explains how a 2008 HBO documentary stirred the film auteur to resolve  the legal charges that had kept him in European self-exile for three decades.One Picture Is Worth a Th ... More >>

Twilight Freaks and Star Trek Geeks, Handcuffs and Honchos

Just a typical week in Hollywood

Brick's Picks: West Coast Cool and Latin Heat

Jazz in L.A., July 18-24

Death of Raven, a Hollywood Beauty

The city's noir streets made her the star of her own tragedy, then took it all away.

Phrancly, Tommy, I Don't Give a Proops

What to do in L.A., June 13-19

How the Hell Is It June Already?

What to do in L.A., May 30-June 5

Tastemakers Class of 2008

Cute brunette girl invites people to sample the hors d'oeuvres at the Tastemakers "Class of 2008" public exhibition, spearheaded by style-guru Laurie Pike. Exhibit (of fashion, art, jewelry, home design, music, graphic design, etc.) runs through March 30th at Hollywood Plaza at the Hollywood & Hig ... More >>

Old Books, Old Stars, Old Punks, New Undies

What to do in L.A., Feb. 15-21

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Death Makes a Holiday

What to do in Los Angeles this week

MTA's $1 Billion Development Scheme

Eleven transit honchos were barred from voting due to money conflicts. So they drew straws.

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