Hollywood Hills

Jewish L.A.: 5 People Who Helped Shape the City's History, From the Autry's New Exhibit

Jewish history in turn-of-the-century America usually conjures up images of deeply religious East Coast garment district workers or greased-back, penny-pinching Old Hollywood studio moguls. The Autry National Center attempts to break down this second stereotype with its latest exhibit, "Jews in the ... More >>

Swatting Celebrities Could Cost Pranksters $10,000 Under Proposed Law

See also: SWATting, a Deadly Political Game. Swatting has hit the homes of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others. And, while it probably is pretty funny to the braces-wearing little buttheads who dial 911 with app-enabled masked numbers to report that their fa ... More >>

Humongous Mall Project Sparks Controversy in West Hollywood City Council Race

WEHOville recently broke a jaw-dropping story that's causing a major stir in West Hollywood and could possibly impact any driver passing through that city on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is already a rush hour nightmare. Developer Charles Cohen, who owns the Pacific Design Center and recently adde ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Three Rooms of Leaning Walls

This week, a geophysicist speaks at LACMA, a long-lived gallery says goodbye and Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid's fictional marriage kind of inspires an exhibition. 5. Musical mystery No instruments at all will be used at Dog Star 8: Almanacs, one in a series of music events happening at the Wulf t ... More >>

Bath Salts in SoCal? Five Recent Freak-Outs That Signal a Zombie Apocalypse

Cops can never say for sure whether their suspect has been taking bath salts. Like "spice" (imitation marijuana), the synthetic drug is so popular because it can't be detected in urine tests. But unlike spice, which is banned across the country, only two of the 17 chemicals used to make bath salts ... More >>

VIDEO: Laurel Canyon Residents 'Mad as Hell' at Hillside House-Flipper, Department of Building and Safety

The fuming neighbors along Grand View Drive should really give the rest of L.A.'s neighborhood activists a lesson in how to sway the city to your cause. They just put together this super-impressive YouTube saga, titled "We're Mad As Hell," to demonstrate what they consider to be an egregious lack o ... More >>

Stop-Sign Cameras Ticket 70,000 in Los Angeles Parks

What Chefs Feed Their Kids A Recipe for Josiah Citrin's Potato Chip-crusted Chicken Tenders

Sick of hearing "yucky" when you set food in front of your offspring? Then you might need What Chefs Feed Their Kids (Lyons Press, $24.95) by Fanae Aaron, a mom who's been through all that and much more. If you don't have kids, you still could use this book. And if you hate kids, you might want it ... More >>

Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You"

Minneapolis band Semisonic are quintessential one-hit wonders. Their 1998 song "Closing Time" cracked the top ten, and lives on through movies and TV, and everyone seems to know the words when it plays. The group never topped the song; never really came very close, in fact. But the act's lead singer ... More >>

Human Head Found Near Hollywood Sign

Updated at the bottom: There are now two hands, and two feet, to match the head. Originally posted January 17 at 5:15 p.m. No, this is not a bad zombie movie. This is life in Los Angeles, where for whatever twisted reason, our true-life slayings are often sicker than our on-screen ones. A human h ... More >>

Eric Greenspan's New Restaurant-Bar-Hangout: The Roof on Wilshire

Photo by Kathy A. McDonaldChef Eric Greenspan at his new spot, The Roof on Wilshire​ The Roof on Wilshire is Eric Greenspan's new restaurant, sort of. It's a bar, but not really. It's both, but neither. "It's a hangout," Greenspan says, which really is the best way to describe it. Situated on ... More >>

Bogus Bike Plan

Sum 41's Drummer Steve Jocz: "I Think We're Professional Morons, Not Musicians"

​Interview by Mikhael Agafonov Their latest release, Screaming Bloody Murder, is Sum 41's darkest one to date. Still, on August 10th, the Canadian punk band will make crowd jump during the annual Warped Tour, mixing classics like "Still Waiting" with brand new tracks like "Skumfuk." Steve "St ... More >>

Doug Hutchinson, 51-Year-Old Actor, Marries 16-Year-Old Beauty Pageant Contestant: They Plan to Live in L.A.

E! OnlineHutchinson and Stodden.​In the Creep File comes the story of 51-year-old Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison, who reportedly married his 16-year-old victim sweetheart, beauty contestant and aspiring country singer Courtney Stodden. We were double checking the calendar to make sure it was ... More >>

Un-Gerrymandering Los Angeles

Get ready for the brawl of cutting Southern California in pieces, on paper

BRICK'S PICKS: MILES IN THE SKY WITH SHORTER

Valley Girl Rachel Lee, Accused Of Robbing Lindsay Lohan's Hollywood Home In 'Bling Ring' Spree, Gets Off As Easy As LiLo Herself

Lee's got the "Talk to my lawyer" princess glare down​The young Calabassas hoodlums known as the Bling Ring -- who glamorously raided the homes of equally young, unequally loaded celebrities for whatever their hearts desired in 2008 and 2009 -- just saw their ringleader skip off scot-free. As ... More >>

East Coast Clobbers West Coast in 2009 Pazz & Jop Music Poll

Well, if you're keeping track at home, the so-called "west coast sound" got clobbered this year in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best music. And when we say "clobbered," we actually mean "beaten to a bloody pulp." Consider this: In the list of the top 100 albums o ... More >>

Vampire Weekend in Los Angeles: Ezra Koenig Talks Third Wave Ska, Song Construction, the Clash and California

Vampire Weekend spent much of late 2009 in and around Southern California. The New York four-piece, whose second album, Contra, comes out today, are gigging a sold-out show at the Fonda tonight, the biggest in a series of performances that it has done in Los Angeles since mid '09. For much of the fa ... More >>

Pablove to Throw Benefit Show in Honor of Founder's Cross-Country Ride: Tom Morello, BRMC, Others Confirmed

Back in September we announced the then-pending cross-country bike trek of Dangerbird co-owner Jeff Castelaz, riding from the far end of Florida to our own Hollywood Hills in 30 days to raise money for The Pablove Foundation. Castelaz founded that non-profit in honor of his late 6-year-old son -- Pa ... More >>

American Apparel Puts Father Yod On A T-Shirt, Anthology Provides The Soundtrack

Celebrated Hollywood Hills cult head and far-out psych-rock band leader Father Yod may have died in an unfortunate hang-gliding accident in Hawaii in 1975 (we realize the inherent oddness of that sentence to any not familiar with the Ya Ho Wha 13 story), but his image is being resurrected thanks to ... More >>

Modern Burlesque, Treasure or Trash?

Plus Goings-On at the Velvet Hammer and Pull My Daisy

Sylmar fire in Los Angeles could become a "siege"

NOTE: This post is about the Sylmar fire in October of 2008. For news on the Sylmar fire of November 15, 2008, click here. Note: 10:41 a.m. update regarding the Martin Mars amphibious craft capable of dropping thermogel. With a wall of fire hundreds of feet long in places, wind-driven smoke billow ... More >>

Best L.A. Comic Book Shops

Hand, ink and brain

Best Views

L.A. from the top and bottom

Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

Molasky Pacific, a real estate development firm based in Las Vegas, will no longer take part in the effort to build a 40-story skyscraper on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Instead, the company asked its New York City-based partner, Apollo Real Estate Advisors, to buy them out for an undisclosed sum ... More >>

Escape from Allentown

Beardo’s long journey into teenage wasteland

Go Fourth and Boomify!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Tween Demo

Bringing smarty back, Nancy Drew returns for another generation of young consumers

King Jeremy the Wicked

Around the world and back with designer Jeremy Scott, guest-starring Karl Lagerfeld, Cory Kennedy, Mario Testino and the FedEx lady

Movin' On Up

Our city gets vertical with a crop of new high-rise condos

Man and Superman

An American hero shows his dark side in Hollywoodland

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Watchdog Scorned

Is Fran Reichenbach the patron saint of Hollywood or its biggest NIMBY?

Schlockgirl

Gag me with a glove. The only reason I saw the "romantic" "comedy" Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella of the same name, was because my friend and I got lost on the way to Pasadena and it was too late to see The Squid and the Whale. Now, I can appreciate a good chick flick as much as anyone, p ... More >>

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Riding the whirlwind in the bike lane

Richard Strauss and His “Pretty Hybrid”

Burning Blades

Riding high with the LAPD’s Air Support Division

Driven

In Hollywood, your car is who you are

Thoroughly Modern Living

The Killing Years

Death in El Salvador, bloody hands in Washington

Beat Bush

But don’t lose your sanity

Monsters of German Modern Art

Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

The Day Job

Vintage Valiance

Who put the funk in the hip-hop boom?

Style Council

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

Makeup or Breakup

The Handyman

By Carolyn See | Random House 220 pages | $23 hardcover

Hollywood and Ruscha

Ed's new paintings at Gagosian, plus Michael Coughlan and Jory Felice's ''Telephone'' at Works on Paper

Block Party