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Tyrese Gibson: One-Man Band

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Tyrese Gibson is checking out new office space for his expanding record label, Voltron Recordz, while talking to a reporter and fielding phone calls from underlings. "I like thi ... More >>

Sexy Import Models Get New Reality Show (PHOTOS)

So, you've enjoyed the so-called Asian American Jersey Shore, K-Town, but say to yourself, Too much beef, not enough cheek? Well, the producers of K-Town have just what you ordered: Roll Models, a show about so-called import models. What are import models, you ask?

Professor James Franco: A UCLA Student Talks About What It Was Like to Take the Actor's Screenplay Class

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage James Franco: actor, director, screenwriter, poet, painter and now professor. Last quarter, the man with many talents decided to take his gifts and share them with the students of UCLA. Franco is still teaching at UCLA for the winter quarter and then will ... More >>

Jeremy Radin Works as an Actor to Support His True Passion -- Poetry

"Why is no one laughing?" the actor asks. He's sitting under stage lights, wearing a robe and a pair of pajama bottoms. "Have you earned it?" the teacher responds, sipping from a fast-food coffee. The audience murmurs with understanding. This is the scene Thursday night at the Beverly Hills Playhous ... More >>

Koreatown: America's Hippest Neighborhood

Reality show K-Town unmasks the liquid rituals fueling Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood

Music Picks: Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Low End Theory Anniversary

How a Shabby Hollywood Intersection Became a Hot New Art District

K-Town by K-Town: A Jokbal Platter Seoul Train Partying in Rounds

Coverage of the delicious side of Koreatown has expanded past the well-tread over the years. We've learned about chic naengmyon (kudzu noodles in chilled beef broth) and gamjatang (pork neck soup). If we want Korean-style barbecue, we can distinguish places by cuts of meat and quality of banchan. Ev ... More >>

Culver City Restaurants Serve Free Spiked Lemonade: Happy Summer Designated Engineers

Next Wednesday, June 20, Culver City restaurants will be celebrating the official start of the summer season and the opening of the Culver City station on the Metro's Expo Line by putting a little something-something in their fresh-squeezed lemonades.

James Franco Clowns USC 'Undergrads' With New Reality Show: VIDEO

It looks like reality show footage produced by actor James Franco during his time on the USC campus in 2010 is coming to fruition. The renaissance man who has written a book, taught poetry as a post-graduate and starred in major Hollywood roles -- none of which he's apparently done very well -- tak ... More >>

There's A Girl Who Looks Like Adele On My Sons' YMCA Basketball Team, And I Hate Her

My son Bay, point guard​See also: Mama, I Don't Want To Die! My Four-Year-Old Identifies With Freddie Mercury There's this 5-year-old girl that I know. Her name is A. And she's the fucking worst. I know her because Bay and Meechy, my twin 4-year-old sons, are on the same YMCA basketball tea ... More >>

Top 11 Fashion Trends of 2011

Lina Lecaro ​The barrage of blogs tallying the year in trends and fashion has begun, and of course, we are totally participating. We do it every year, after all. And while we try to note the obvious, we also strive to call out the stuff you're not likely to see on the other blogs, stuff we no ... More >>

7 Ridiculously Tacky Commercialized Christmas Tree Ornaments

You know that complaints about the commercialization of Christmas are as unfashionable as figgy pudding when "Your Ad Here"-equivalent Christmas ornaments are popular store items. Companies like Coca-Cola pay big bucks to buy advertising space on billboards and bus stops, but they've cleverly figu ... More >>

David Guetta - Chinese Theater Hollywood - 12-03-11

Chris Walker​See also: Lady Gaga, David Guetta and others perform at the KIIS Jingle Ball on Saturday night David Guetta Chinese Theater, Hollywood 12-03-11 Better than...driving all the way to Vegas "I'm David Guetta, bitch." Each time the French DJ dropped this line, the crowd went nuts ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! A Modest Proposal: Occupy Music Festivals

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Does music have the power to cause real change? Several times in my life I have been as ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa - Nokia Theater - 10/18/11

Daniel Kohn​Wiz Khalifa Nokia Theater 10/18/11 Better than...taking bong hits alone. For a couple years or so now, the mainstream hip-hop world has been engulfed with what seems to be a never-ending wave of stoner rap. Over the course of his abridged 75-minute set -- due to the venue's stric ... More >>

Tiesto Heads to L.A. For Record Crowds at Home Depot Center Saturday: We Ask Him Why

See also: *Our review of Tiesto's show at Home Depot Center, October 8, 2011 *Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto is a love-him-or-hate-him DJ, but if you look at his draw in the L.A. market and beyond, you have to think people really do l ... More >>

Five Best/Worst Lines of Dialogue from Nerd Porn Parodies

What's the old adage? "If it exists, someone's made porn out of it." I suppose it's not really an old adage...but I've been told it's The 34th Rule of the Internet. Recent controversy about condom use in The Industry has cast another dark cloud over Porn Valley, as highlighted in LA Weekly's cover ... More >>

If You LOL in Front of Your Computer, Nobody's Listening

Six L.A. Neighborhoods With the Most Distinctive Fashion Styles

Jason Levesque​ How we dress can send messages not only about who we are and what we like but also where we're from. There is no singular "L.A. look," and Silver Lake isn't all beards and ironic T-shirts, either. Still, there are certain aesthetics -- in the form of everything from accessorie ... More >>

Party House Crackdown: New L.A. Ordinance Targets Notorious Ragers in the Hills

Lina Lecaro"Kandyland" at the Playboy Mansion​It's no secret: An almost institutionalized circuit of L.A. house parties has long operated in the sprawling estates above Ventura and Hollywood Boulevards. Druggy, boozy, Sheeny "privates" have become integral to city nightlife for a number of re ... More >>

Bicurious Girls In Bikinis, on Acid: Vacation! at Outfest

​ The third feature from Brooklyn-based Zach Clark, Vacation! is a psychological study wrapped up in a girls-will-be-girls beach-party movie and given a post-post-punk spin. Nerdy Sugar (Maggie Ross) invites her old college friends -- butch-glam superbabe Dee-Dee (Melodie Sisk), prudish schoo ... More >>

E Street Band Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, the Sound of Triumph and Hope, Has Died

Clarence Clemons and Bruce Springsteen on the cover of "Born to Run"​Clarence "The Big Man" Clemons, the powerful and inspiring saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died on Saturday at the age of 69. People who aren't Springsteen fans may not truly understand what a sad day it ... More >>

Jersey Shore's Pauly D, Worst DJ Ever, Makes $50,000 a Night Spinning

djpaulyd.comPauly D's iconic hair.​Worst DJ news ever. While your favorite house jockey has been toiling behind the decks for years trying to make enough to pay her electricity bill, Jersey Shore's Pauly D is pulling down (wait for it ... ) $50,000 per gig. So says the show's co-creator, Sal ... More >>

States May Slash Subsidies For Hollywood

Jersey ShoreIn New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie is thinking about paring back film and TV tax credits​The New York Times reports that as states tighten their belts, some governors are thinking about reducing Hollywood subsidies.That's bad for Hollywood, the industry, but maybe not so bad for Hollyw ... More >>

(UPDATE From Snowed-In Newark International Airport) For Travelers Stuck At LAX, Weather Continues To Make Life Suck

PHOTO BY PATRICK RANGE MCDONALDContinental passengers delayed by a New Jersey blizzard last night were left in the dark through the wee hours​Twitter via spanishNYTimes Square is buried under at least one foot of snow​Updated after the jump: The Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald live-blogs ... More >>

Justin Bieber Teaches Barbara Walters How to Dougie, Cali Swag District Officially Jumps the Shark

​As YouTube commenter Hubbard35 wisely put it, "you know when white people start to do black trends, it's time to switch to something new." Yhe infamous "Dougie" dance--introduced by LA novelty hip-hop crew Cali Swag District's "Teach Me How to Dougie" and pimped out by Soulja Boy, the Jers ... More >>

L.A. Billionaire Eli Broad Collects Great Art Like Some Guys Collect Fast Cars

Broad foundationDoes Eli Broad (with wife Edythe) collect art to show he's better than you?​What inspires rich people to collect masterpieces? Is it art's transcendence, which reaches straight to the heart of humanity? Is it the works' connections to beauty and history in this age of digital d ... More >>

Backstreet Boys, New Kids On The Block Announce More New Tour Dates ("LOL")

​ No, This is not next season's cast for Jersey Shore. Remember New Kids on the Block? You know--Donnie Wahlberg's band, which sold eighty million records worldwide? (This was in the late '80s and early '90s, when people still deigned to purchase music.) And who won two American Music Awards ... More >>

LET THEM EAT BOOKS

50 Ways New York City Pretends It's Not Shitty

Hate to break it to you​The New York patriots at the Village Voice news blog -- our counterpart on America's crappier coast -- have been tooting their own horn so loud lately that we heard it all the way over here in Los Angeles. So, re: 50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New Y ... More >>

The L.A. Weekly Interview: Best Coast

A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are

The LA Weekly Interview with Best Coast: Bethany Cosentino on Why She Had to Leave Brooklyn, How She Is (and Isn't) Like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Being Only Slightly Less Cool than Kanye, and Joan Didion (Yes, Joan Didion)

Sean TeegardenLA Weekly cover girl: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino​ Alright--we gave you the sneak peek a couple of days ago, and now here it is. The LA Weekly Interview: Best Coast (read the whole thing here). It is a profile of rising star Bethany Cosentino that we're sure is gonna challeng ... More >>

We Met Outside The Mummy Ride: The Best Of Halloween Weekend's 'Missed Connections'

PHOTO BY NICHOLE O'CONNORDon't be fooled -- he's as lonely as Mark Zuckerberg​The only thing harder than making a lasting connection in L.A. is making a lasting connection when you can't recognize the person the next day. In the tradition of our sister news blog at the Village Voice, we've be ... More >>

New Location

Same old Pal Cabron

First Bite: New Location, Same Old Pal Cabron

Jonagold apple, portions missing​The original Pal Cabron was one of those pop-culture miracles we have come to expect in Los Angeles, a Huntington Park sandwich shop specializing in overstuffed versions of Puebla's beloved cemitas, run by a young Oaxacan woman, Bricia Lopez, and splashed with ... More >>

Do Not Adjust Your iPod

Sleigh Bells, the band everyone's talking about, is meant to sound messed up. Roll with it

Vaux Swift Birds Flock to Chimney in Downtown Los Angeles

Last Friday, people of all ages and zip codes gathered to witness the roosting of the Vaux's swifts in the chimney of an abandoned building located off Broadway and Fifth Street. The swifts have been stopping in Los Angeles for quite a few years as they migrate down to Guatemala for winter. "Birds ... More >>

The Joke's on Who?

Take that, Hollywood! Joaquin Phoenix implodes to prove a point. Some point. We think

DEA Raids Las Vegas Pot Shops; L.A. Party People Bummed

​Just this week marijuana dispensary backers were whining to the Los Angeles City Council about its tough pot-shop law (even though it's not even being enforced). They're lucky they're not in Las Vegas, L.A.'s own Jersey Shore in the desert, where the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this ... More >>

Wavves: All Hail King Skinny Shitster

Does frontman Nathan Williams speak for the loser in us all?

DJ Q&A: Sander Van Doorn Brings His 'Darker, Tougher' Trance To Avalon Saturday

​Love it or hate it, trance continues to dominate the biggest venues in club-land, from Electric Daisly Carnival to Avalon. While we revile the Jersey Shore-like cheese of some trance DJs, the latest euphoric juggernaut out of the Netherlands, Sander Van Doorn, we get. He'll be headlining (a ... More >>

Manic at the Polysexual Disco

Music geeks and local promoters have created a gay-straight dance alliance

"Jersey Shore" Guidos Do Cali Swag District's "Do the Dougie": Viral or Not?

Ok--here are the facts: Cali Swag District is a hip hop trio from Inglewood. They're teenagers. They have a song/dance craze called "Teach Me How to Dougie." It's being pushed as this year's Soulja Boy, but we (and many others) are ambivalent. Today their press person emailed us a video of the Je ... More >>

DJ Tiesto Rocks Peak Time Set At Coachella

Dennis Romero​For those about to rock, we ... ask that you step aside and make room for 50,000 raging fans of the operatic dance sound known as trance. For all of Coachella's claims to being a desert temple of rock-god worship (Muse, Them Crooked Vultures, The Dillinger Escape Plan), the peak- ... More >>

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore: Hypothetical Jerzification

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

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