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How To Be an Awful House Guest: Musician Edition

By Joseph Hess and Mabel Suen Editor's note: This post is half of a two-parter! Please read its companion post as well, Six Tips For Hosting Dirty Vagrants (Also Known as Touring Bands). Musicians are selfish, entitled bastards. The most insidiously horrible ones tend to take their acts on the ro ... More >>

Hit and Runs? Readers Are Still Talking About L.A.'s Epidemic

Beer May Help Fight Cold Virus

Instead of reaching for that box of Kleenex, maybe you should grab a six-pack. According to a new study, beer has anti-viral properties, being particularly effective against the respiratory syncytial (RS) virus, which can cause pneumonia and bronchitis in young children and symptoms similar to the ... More >>

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler: "When I Took Idol, There Was a Lot of Jealousy"

Aerosmith On Their New Album and How Impossible Steven Tyler Is After American Idol While in town filming the last two seasons of American Idol, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler kept a storm of paparazzi busy. But that's not all he was doing during his time in L.A. Following his daily reality show obligati ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: British Invasion

KCRW Broadcast #175 for Saturday, July 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns Fanatics! Since I will be in beautiful Dorset, UK on this evening, we have already put this show together and it is ready to lunge forth when the engineers at KCRW hit the b ... More >>

Dita Von Teese: How She Became the Most Famous Stripper in America

See also: *Top 10 Strip Clubs in Los Angeles *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos at Duncan Miller Gallery Dita Von Teese can't remember the first time she took her clothes off for someone. It was probably early on, before she became the queen of burlesque and undressing bec ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Aussie Tribute

KCRW Broadcast #160 for Saturday, April 14, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Japanese Guitar Freaks From Outer Space Fanatics! I am Australia bound. At this moment, I am in Wellington, New Zealand with show #60 for the year a few hours behind me. I will be in Australia for quite a long sp ... More >>

Night Gallery Moves in to Chateau Marmont: Move Over, Lindsay Lohan

Night Gallery, already one of the coolest and most intriguing galleries in Los Angeles, took their practice to another level this past Sunday night by holding a special exhibition and private hosted party at Bar Marmont, the chic little bar at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel. A small lounge and ... More >>

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Ashby or Snoopy?

Echo Park Lake Is About to Get Drained Into an Empty, Stinking Mud Flat

The Eastsider via PicasaThe lake was last drained in 1984. Yes, it was awful.​For the new wave of borderline-eastside gentry who weren't around to see Echo Park Lake in a surly state of "stinking mud flat" in 1984 (or 1902, 1906, 1919, 1922, 1932 or 1946): We hate to be the bearers of bad ne ... More >>

Allergies Increase in California, Possibly Thanks to Global Warming

George Hamilton, like allergens, thrives in warm weather.​Allergies especially bad this spring? (Us too). Along with rising oceans, hotter-than-normal temps, and Al Gore's ego, you might be able to blame this boon to the makers of Kleenex on global warming. New research suggests that allergen ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: L.A. Weekly Cover Stars Tearist, Plus La Sera, Lydia Kavina

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #113 for Saturday, May 7. Fanatics! Greetings from Louisiana. I am down here doing a little work with National Geographic. It's just the start of a lot of footage we will be shooting over the next several weeks all over America and abroad. It's going to be very ho ... More >>

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A VERY OTTER CHRISTMAS

Out at the Movies

From bisexual bromance to lesbian Marines to Le Tigre: 15 picks for Outfest

It’s Complicated: It’s Fucking Annoying

Nancy Meyers makes another Nancy Meyers movie

Updated: Craigslist Declassified

Besieged by politicians and media, the founder of the popular online classifieds site finds an unlikely ally: a victim’s family

LA People 2009: Death Becomes Her — Gillian Shure

The queen of Hollywood splatterfests talks eviscerations and paper products

Woody Allen's European Vacation: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

He lived the young man's dream in Spain; next, he directs Larry David in NYC and Puccini for L.A. Opera

Miguel Was My Dog, Jorge Was My Partner

The federal trial of private eye Anthony Pellicano and his co-defendant, super-lawyer Terry Christensen, resumed this week after a long, 10-day break. In some ways the case, in which the two men are charged with wiretapping and conspiracy, resembles one of those fish-out-of-water buddy movies from l ... More >>

Pellicano Trial reveals Hollywood's Top Bottom Feeders

The Sleaze Factor-y

Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine’s Blues

The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who’s that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in April, 2001, as he and his girlfriend Hayley DuMond began noticing telephone problems and other odd events occur in Carradine’s Valencia RV pa ... More >>

RFID: Tag, We're It!

As the technology spreads, who will protect our freedom from information

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Aaron Cohen: Sex Slaves, Drug Trade and Rock n' Roll

In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought he’d seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar.

Theater Reviews: Ray Bradbury's Green Town, Last Call at Moby Dick's and More

Also reviews of Zombie Joe's Victims, Richard III and Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Love and Other Social Issues

Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances

Hollywood starts new year with a bang

The Maude Squad

Our tribute to Harold’s gal, the ultimate granny-chic icon

The Party Revisited

Delta 5’s non-reunion of Soviet socialist punk

Don't Postpone Maximum Joy!

A buncha beloved Brit post-punk finds its day in the (reissue) sun

Hurricane of the Eye

Artist Tim Hawkinson’s maelstrom of twisted fun

Dancing in the Rain

U.S. Iraqis visit the polls twice to vote

Peter-Anne Dies Again

The Painting Cure

Mark Dutcher’s "After the Fall" and Jean Lowe’s "The Loneliness Clinic"

Echoes of the Fall

The Smithsonian’s September 11 collection

Want To Get Away?

The airline horror show

Minor Miracles at the HMO

Song of the Orphan Girl

Amaryllis Kornfeld meets the Westside kids

Heaven on Earth: The Seminar

Come as You Are

“Hyped to Death”: DIY’s cutout classics

Words to Whips

Greet and Mate

Sex is in the details

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

Beached

DiCaprio finds trouble in Paradise

The Wild, The Innocent, The Pugilistic Shuffle

Isabella Rossellini in Central Park, Don Cheadle in Louisiana, Jon Favreau in the ring

Getting Lew'd

How Mr. Wasserman Changed Hollywood

Spying on Justice

that's free entertainment

Sailing to Byzantium