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For 66 Years, Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School Dads Have Put On L.A.'s Weirdest Annual Drag Show

See also: *10 Best Drag Clubs in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews The year was 1947. Headlines announced the establishment of the Cominform and the formation of the CIA that marked the non-declaration of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In suburban Glendale, meanwhile, a differ ... More >>

JASH: Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts Create a New YouTube Channel

It's 2 p.m. and I'm sitting on a blue exercise ball in an office at Culver City Studios, across from Emmy-nominated TV writer/producer Daniel Kellison. To the right are the essentials for a late night work-athon: stocked mini fridge, snacks, Bulleit Bourbon. Covering the walls, like the masterpiece ... More >>

Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti Duel Over Celebrity Vote in L.A. Mayoral Race

It's always fun to see who the cool kids -- i.e., celebrities -- line up with come election season, and this year's mayoral race is starting to attract that kind of attention. L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti recently rolled out a video starring a gushing Salma Hayek. Now it's City Controller Wend ... More >>

Wendy Greuel Launches First Mayoral TV Ad

Tuesday, 11:15 a.m. Updated below with video. Controller Wendy Greuel will be the first candidate to run TV commercials in the race for L.A. mayor, according to records filed with the Federal Communications Commission.Greuel's ads will start airing Tuesday morning. The campaign spent at least $125,0 ... More >>

Our Ten Most Anticipated Indie Albums For 2013

With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>

Music Picks: The Weeknd, That '70s Soul, Power of the Riff

Youngblood Hawke Come Running

Failure breeds maturity, at least for Simon Katz and Sam Martin of indie-pop quintet Youngblood Hawke. In 2008, their former band Iglu & Hartly had a hit single, "In This City," and a European tour. But after being dropped by Mercury Records, they soon dismantled. Katz and Martin found themselves jo ... More >>

Adam Carolla Gave Money To Eric Garcetti's Mayoral Campaign, But Has No Idea Who He Is

Comedian Adam Carolla -- of radio, TV and podcast fame -- made a contribution to Eric Garcetti's mayoral bid back in April.But don't take that as an endorsement. In fact, in a recent podcast segment, it became clear that Carolla has no idea who Garcetti is.Once he figures it all out, Carolla likely ... More >>

Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

Councilman Eric Garcetti Throws Out The First Ball At Polo Fundraiser

Councilman Eric Garcetti, a candidate for L.A. mayor, has been on a fundraising tear lately. He had an event at Moby's house. He had one with Jimmy Kimmel. In a couple weeks, he'll have one with (OMG OMG OMG) Howard Dean.But it'll be hard to top the event he had on Sunday at a polo match at Will Rog ... More >>

Obama's Medical Marijuana Crackdown Could be Stopped by Executive Order

It wouldn't surprise us to see a sitting president tighten up on marijuana enforcement as he faces an upcoming election against an increasingly right-wing Republican party. However, we are a little surprised that Obama did so using some less-than-honest reasoning. He recently explained his federal ... More >>

Vintage Trouble's Soulful Homecoming

The hills of Laurel Canyon might not be the first place you'd think to look for a gritty soul band like Vintage Trouble. But one thing that gives the band's rollicking, old-school flavor some authenticity is their decision to rehearse at their drummer Richard Danielson's house there, pitted inside a ... More >>

Atomic Holiday Free-Fall at Actors' Gang Raises the Question: Was Cirque du Soleil Created by Aliens?

Cecile DelepiereAliens from planet Cirque​Christmas, 1963. At 20 minutes before 8 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, weather watchers observe several explosions of incandescent hydrogen gas, occurring at regular intervals on a planet called Cirque. The gas begins moving with enormous velocity toward ... More >>

Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

Charlie Sheen's Comedy Central Roast: The Fort Knox of Comedy Gold

Charlie Sheen at his roast​If you didn't know better, you'd think that Charlie Sheen spent all this time sabotaging the highest-paying gig in TV just so he'd wind up the guest of dishonor at his own roast, specifically, the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, airing Sept. 19. For the show' ... More >>

Lady Gaga Crowd Behaves Day After Ravers Stand Off With LAPD in Hollywood

Gaga​After the Great Raver Standoff of 2011, cops were justifiably concerned about a Lady Gaga crowd that was expected for her Jimmy Kimmel Live performance Thursday near the same stretch of Hollywood Boulevard that saw unrest Wednesday night.. But when it comes to riotous gatherings, the pop ... More >>

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LAUSD Bans Chocolate Milk: Thanks To Parents, Jamie Oliver & Jimmy Kimmel

photos by Gendy Alimurung​ Say goodbye to chocolate and strawberry milk at Los Angeles public schools beginning July 1. The LAUSD Board of Education voted 5-2 to remove flavored milk with added sugar. A new dairy contract will exclude the chocolate and strawberry milk as part of the district's ... More >>

Sex Toy Sales to Rival Smartphone Buys in The Next 10 Years: Stars Like Cameron Diaz Popularize This Booming Lady Business

Cameron Diaz talks about this stuff. For real.​Ring ring. Who is it? It's your libido calling. It wants a new toy. And not an iPhone 4, either. A British study making the rounds this week claims that sex-toy sales will rival smartphone purchases in the next 10 years. Of course, your pocket ro ... More >>

ABC Pulls Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Watch Some Dancing, Drink Some Chocolate Milk

Jamie Oliver​ If you tuned in last night to see Jamie Oliver, with or without his tomato suit, fighting the good fight on the streets of Los Angeles, if not in its public school cafeterias, you will have been disappointed. And though you doubtless enjoyed Dancing With The Stars as much as we d ... More >>

Q & A With Adam Carolla: His Sledgehammer Wine, Jimmy Kimmel's Pizza Oven, "Mangria" Where to Eat Pie

​ It only took him 35 years, but Adam Carolla finally learned to stop worrying and love wine. Well, at least the part about loving wine is true. The Manny Pacquaio-bashing, Antonio Villaraigosa-hating comedian, budding podcast entrepreneur and notorious complainer recently declared Sledgehamm ... More >>

Are You Ready For Some Football, L.A?

chargers.comWould L.A. get the Charger Girls as part of the deal?​Strange days, these. The economy seemed to have bottomed out around here sometime in summer, even as the recession was declared officially over ... for a year. But rich guys, they play by their own rhythms, and the movement to b ... More >>

'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' Draws Midnight Nerd Herd To L.A. GameStops, Best Buys

A GameStop employee braces himself for the stampede​Updated after the jump: L.A.-area GameStop stores weigh in on the success of their midnight launch parties. Originally posted at 6:05 a.m. The economy had a pretty wild night last night. While you were sleeping, it partied with passive-aggr ... More >>

Shoplifters Unite and Pick Up "Mozipedia": 'The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths' Comes to the US

​ British journalist Simon Goddard's Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia Of Morrissey And The Smiths was recently released in the US. And seeing as how we were once his neighbors (maybe still are, occasionally, even if he disses us in interviews), West Coast Sound combed through the book's more-than 5 ... More >>

EXPECT A MOB SCENE

NBA Champion Ron Artest Has Wheaties, Vodka and The SLS Hotel

The Lakers are NBA Champions again (not World Champions, as some teams like to claim), and there's a parade at 11 o'clock this morning to help commemorate that fact. But if you simply turned off the T.V. after game 7 and decided that you were done following basketball this year, you missed a few imp ... More >>

BREAKING: PiL Opening 2010 US Tour in LA

Butterface: UK Dairy Spokesperson (and PiL Frontman) John Lydon​Public Image LTD (PiL), the post-punk art-rock project John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) created as a much smarter but less catchy followup to the gamechanging Sex Pistols, will now begin its upcoming US tour not at Coachella, as had ... More >>

Manny Pacquiao: The Fight of His Life

Boxer goes for his greatest win yet — congressman

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

THE MYSTERIOUS ALLURE OF SARAH SILVERMAN, A.K.A. WE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT SHE'S DOING THESE DAYS

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

Is Leno Ready for Prime Time?

The over-the-hill NBC hack should have shuffled off to ABC

Everybody Skate!

What to do this week

Over the Weekend: Dodgers in Snorkel Masks, Charles Bukowski Remembered, Italian Feast in Hollywood, Abbot Kinney Festival

They say people turn to comfort food in times of grief and, well, nothing proved more true in Los Angeles over the weekend. To ease the worry brought on by the current economic crisis and looming presidential election, we gladly welcomed a weekend of over-eating and over-imbibing. Check out what we ... More >>

Meat Loaf

Do you love me?

Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

Bummer to start Monday off with bad news, but, alas, this news from Hot Chip's people: "Hot Chip have been forced to cancel tonight's show at the El Rey Theatre in L.A. due to illness. The band apologize to fans." They're working on rescheduling the show, but for now your best bet is to catch them ... More >>

Strike Fix

Highlights from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

ELLEN'S GAY

Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on their ... More >>

Nightranger: Role Model in the Brown Bottle

And glamour ghouls

Flavor Flav in the Roaster

“How do you embarrass a crackhead?”

Music Picks

For the week of June 22 - 29

Class Honors

HONOR ROLL

San Grove-ero Fest And Mo Cheese

Balls Out

Dane Cook does whatever it takes to make you laugh

Cuddle Up

Put on your jammies and get close, very close, to a perfect stranger

Dynamic Dualities

Anger Management

The Growing Pains of Liberal Talk Radio

Graham Crackers

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Buck Fushers

Edited by Kateri Butler

Girl Against Boys

Salty comedian Sarah Silverman slays the men . . . and the men are grateful