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Here's What I Listened To While I Underwent Incomprehensible Dentist Torture

"You're going to bleed, ok?" There were a lot of things said to me Monday afternoon, but that was the only thing I heard. It was said to me by Teresa, an otherwise perfectly pleasant dental assistant. Big as Barack Obama becoming the first Black President, big as Thomas Edison coming up with the ... More >>

L.A.'s Premiere LGBT Stage Celebrates 30th Anniversary, As Its New Artistic Directors Discuss the Future of Queer Theater

Only in Los Angeles could you expect to find a star-studded gala in a shopping center parking structure. But that's because only Burbank would think of squeezing its premiere legitimate stage in amid Macy's' and Ikea's otherwise disinterested parking-space trollers at Burbank Town Center mall. Yet ... More >>

The Tasting Kitchen: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Sweden Dominated '90s Radio, and a New Generation Threatens to Do the Same

See also: What The Hell Is Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" About? UPDATE: Mind-blowing Shit Has Come To Light Sweden makes big hits. And we're not talking about Abba and Ace of Base songs, we're talking about American hits. In the '90s, much of the most famous (and ridiculous) pop music was ... More >>

Beachwood Sparks Are One of L.A.'s Most Influential Bands You Don't Know

With folk music back in the mainstream consciousness via acts like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes, the timing for Beachwood Sparks' reunion is right. "I think we were one of the bands that paved the way for that," founding member and bassist Brent Rademaker tells us. He's excited to talk about their new a ... More >>

Popping That Ass: The Ladies Who Won Diplo's Contest

Recently, producer and Blackberry spokesmodel Diplo released his Express Yourself EP. He simultaneously ran a contest, encouraging female fans to, um "express" themselves in odd locations, preferably by popping their butts in public, as pictured above. The hash tag #ExpressYourself was employed, th ... More >>

Budweiser Magnum Soon to be the Costliest Beer in India

Last week Anheuser-Busch InBev announced that the new Budweiser Magnum will become the highest priced super-premium beer in India, Economic Times reports. The strong, American-style lager will debut in a 650 ml bottle (22 oz. bomber) for 150 rupees. Is that a wildly high price? While 150 Rs comes in ... More >>

Spike Lee on Shooting in His Favorite Borough for Red Hook Summer

Lee talks making the very indie Red Hook Summer

Elgin Olu Stafford, USC Student, Found Dead in Carson Water Channel

The body of a man found last week in the Dominguez Channel in Carson, not far from a popular Ikea store, was identified over the weekend as belonging to 23-year-old USC master's student Elgin Olu Stafford. Reports indicated he interned last summer for area U.S. Rep. Karen Bass. He was studying publ ... More >>

L.A.'s Craft Beer Revolution Has Golden State's Jason Bernstein Raising His Pint Glass

Peaking Lights Got Pregnant. That's When Their Musical Dreams Came True

It's a sunny Saturday afternoon and Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis -- members of breakout psychedelic duo Peaking Lights -- are trying to mellow out Miko, their vivacious 10-month-old son. He's gnawing on an unopened furniture box from Ikea. "Dude," Coyes says. "You're being extrasilly today." It's a ... More >>

5 Sexy Condom Tips For More 'Pro-Phylactic' Safe Sex

It seems like everyone from Popes to porn stars are down on condoms these days. (Note to Self: Write treatment for potential new reality show: "From Popes to Porn Stars.") The outrage over a new law requiring adult film actors to wear condoms in porn seems to imply that cock socks are the ultimat ... More >>

Samara Golden's Rape of the Mirror Transforms Night Gallery Into Beachside Villa in the 'Sixth Dimension'...With a Jacuzzi

The buzz on Night Gallery -- a unique art space in Lincoln Heights that is only open between 10pm and 2am, Tuesday through Thursday -- is growing steadily. A few months ago, co-proprietors Davida Nemeroff and Mieke Marple made the decision to turn the gallery into a full-on commercial venture, and s ... More >>

It's a Kinky Reggae Party

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Paradis (Day 21)

Paradis had already made inroads in Montrose, when the shop opened a new outpost in April on the Hollywood/Los Feliz border. These are, so far, the only two, U.S. franchises of a popular Danish gelato chain with over 30 shops in its native land.

Kreayshawn: Overnight Sensation

Study Shows Longer Commutes Lead to Crappier Marriages; That Explains Los Angeles

Ahnold's true downfall?​A study recently conducted in Sweden can tell Los Angeles a lot about its trafficky, sexually frustrated self. After following the work and home habits of over 2 million Swedes for five years, researchers at UmeÃ¥ University found that "the risk of separation is 40 perc ... More >>

Kaboom movie review

The beautiful horndogs of Gregg Araki's latest get blown

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- What to do if there's a fly in your soup? [Bon Appetit] -- Indo Kitchen: Eat, Pray, Meh. [Eating L.A.] -- The mysterious case of the Ikea Tabasco thieves. [Stick A Fork In It] -- The Hottest Restaurant in Paris. [David Lebovitz] -- "We're all out of cookies. Sorry." And other lies parents co ... More >>

Getty's Foundation: Dirty Projectors Play Disney Hall

Show features L.A. Philharmonic and Alarm Will Sound

The Junk Man’s Daughter

Allee Willis is Queen of Kitsch

You’re a Pig!

If you want to be, at Koreatown’s Don Dae Gam

Movie Reviews: Dark Streets, Nothing Like the Holidays, Timecrimes

Also, What Doesn't Kill You, While She Was Out and more

Letter From Moscow: Back in the USSR

You can't rely on the official media to learn much of what's going on in Russia. The government owns all Russian TV stations, on which never is heard a discouraging word. Jon Stewart-style political satire has disappeared from the airwaves. Those pundits who dared to challenge government policy have ... More >>

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#20-16)

20. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala [Secretly Canadian] On first listen, Jens Lekman reminds you of Morrissey. Like the ex-Smith's frontman, the 26-year old Swede's got a rich baritone warble, a sly wit and a penchant for moony-eyed romanticism. But that's where the similarities stop. Lekma ... More >>

Battle of the Bulb

Is it lights out for the chandelier?

Jest Fest

Dave Eggers on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

To Live and Die (But Not Show) in L.A.

Jason Rhoades, 1965–2006

In the Realm of the Senses

Ettore Sottsass at play

Miller Time in the Church of Arnold

Voodoo Knife Holders and Other Holiday Gift Ideas

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your cheating boyfriend or sleazy boss? Well here's one that says it all - the Voodoo Knife Holder. Made in Italy, it is the biggest seller at the newly-opened A R design store in Silverlake (just a hop across the street from Spaceland), and costs $150, inclu ... More >>

Art for Artists’ Sake

Collectors named Baldessari, Pittman, et al.

The Tears of Tyra

Pirates, Pimps, Artists and Anarchy

Hollywood’s Gershwin Hotel is a freak’s paradise

Rocket From Russia

Time-traveling with an American in Moscow

Makeover 2

Photos by Larry Hirshowitz

Memories of Blurry Donald

Burning Down the House

Simon Block’s Chimps takes a comic view of suburban immolation

The Coffee Table, Revisited

Kama Sutra Journalism

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

The Face of Pirate Cat Radio

Screwing the Airwaves Since 1997

Portraits of Obsession

Photographs by Max S. Gerber

Leaf Blowers

New fiction from T.C. Boyle, first fiction from Tod Goldberg, City in Fiction from David Fine

The Grandeur That Was (Or Might Have Been) Egypt

The Accidental Gourmand

Food as afterthought

The Art of Dining

Museums try to please the eye, and the palette

Ecstasy Without Fear

DanceSafe uses Web site to make rave dosing less risky

Travels in Hyperreality

Small Is Psychedelic

Los Angeles under a microscope