Liberace

Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts, Updated

RIP Santa Monica Civic Auditorium: Former Punk Haven Finished Holding Concerts

For the last 55 years, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium has had all types of boring conventions, cat shows and craft fairs. But it's also held some amazing concerts; truth be told, its importance to the local rock and punk music scenes cannot be overstated. Due to a combination of obsolescence and ... More >>

Oral Sex & Cancer: Should You Go Down?

So can going down cause cancer? You better hope not, because it would be the greatest excuse ever for your partner to stay off his knees. After Michael Douglas announced that cunnilingus was to blame for his throat cancer, it set off a storm of media coverage. We talked to an expert at UCLA who say ... More >>

Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio

Best of Coachella: Weekend One

Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might have worn had he ever bee ... More >>

Before There Was Elvira

These Five Rappers, Like Frank Ocean, Should Boycott Chick-fil-A

See also: Frank Ocean - The Wiltern - 7/17/12 Why Is Frank Ocean's Coming Out a Big Deal, But Not Syd the Kyd's? Depending on your political point of view, Chick-fil-A is either a patriotic chicken chain whose brass advocate "traditional" marriage or a homophobic gulag to be avoided. R&B singer F ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11

See also: *Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 15. Michael McDonald A yacht-rock refugee, McDonald took the blandest elements of his former bands Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers -- smooth jazz keys, pinched falsetto harmonies, bass lines kidnapped from d ... More >>

Waugh's Angeles

Pools in Palm Springs

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Your Elvis Food Moment

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettyElvis sandwich​This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer averagebetty, is of an Elvis sandwich, or one of the many variations of sandwiches built in memory of the late Elvis Presley, a man known as much for his questionable food habits and Libera ... More >>

Sesame Street Jason Schwartzman Iron Chef = Genius

​Sporting a cape like Liberace and hair like a demented Elvis, Jason Schwartzman visits Sesame Street for a quick turn in "Cast Iron Cook," an Iron Chef parody. Starring alongside Elmo, Schwarzman plays the discerning and dramatic judge, Super Chef, a man prone to screamed exclamations and pur ... More >>

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: Frank DeCaro Goes from The Daily Show to Peter Falk's Pork Chops A Recipe

​Sure, there are plenty of cookbooks out there written by chefs or celebrity chefs or home cooks or people who somehow cook things for a living. But who needs kitchen experience to write a cookbook when you've been the movie critic on The Daily Show. Which is what Frank DeCaro, author of The D ... More >>

Sutan Amrull: King of the Queens

Sammy Davis's porno, Linda Evans's androgyny & other jewels from Rona Barrett's cavalcade of celebrity non sequiturs

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Rona Barrett's Gossip Super Special Summer Annual Author: Rona Barrett and, presumably, her staff Date: Summer, ... More >>

THE BITCH IS BACK

Queen Latifah Not Coming Out of the Closet on May 5th (If She's Indeed In Any Kind of Closet--We Wouldn't Know)

NOT coming out on 5/5: Queen Latifah​Word got out that a celebrity will be coming out on May 5, possibly on the cover of People magazine. Rampant speculation started on popular site Jezebel and other internet founts of gossip and innuendo. Then, the Queer Town column in the LA Weekly's LA Dail ... More >>

WHEN NELLIE MET DORIS

Would You Like Some OG Bebop With Your Pasta?: The Legendary James Moody @ Spaghettini

​This Thursday, January 28, jazz lovers should head out to Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club in Seal Beach for a very special treat: James Moody, the legendary bopper, Dizzy Gillespie associate, and composer of the immortal "Moody's Mood for Love" will be appearing with the Grammy Jazz E ... More >>

Birthday Girl

Che, Cannes and Hi-Def Video

Steven Soderbergh, 20 years after his Sundance hit

Dressing Down With the 99 Cent Calendar Girls

Also, stores that are "so last year," and wearable pop art

R.I.P. Retail Stores That Bit the Dust

So many stores didn't make it through 2008. Here is a list of them (and a few things I'll miss about each). More here.  Ann Taylor -- closed 117 stores out of 966.• Things to be missed: Classic black cardigans. Determined-looking petite Asian women elbowing you in the stomach when you reach for ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's "Top Seven Music Things of the Year That Weren't Compact Discs" List

Taking the Sleighride to Artistic Hell With the Trans Siberian Orchestra

I'm not normally one to chuck stones at the tastes of an entire population, but I feel more comfortable doing it when I'm a member of said population, in this case a white Midwestern American (returning from the west coast for Thanksgiving) wanting to do something special with family to kick off the ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Redhead Musical Manifesto, The Belle of Amherst

Also, Once on This Island, True Love, and more

Beethoven, As I Knew Him: The Music of Ludwig van Beethoven

For Those Who Stand Long . . . A Led Zeppelin Reunion?

Checking out the rumors at the Sunset Marquis' Gibson Through the Lens reception

Flavio Medium de los Muertos

Whoa, Nellie! You're the Best!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Film Reviews: Dynamite Warrior, License to Wed

Also Joshua, Vitus and more

Black Fag Is a Cover Band

Dry and On the Rocks

New British comedy imports

Film Reviews

Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.

¡Ask a Mexican! Does L.A.

Nightranger

Graham Crackers

Edited by Kateri Butler

Cheesy Hits of the Rich and Famous

On the Feminization of Menswear

Holiday Trimmings

Vallance, McCarthy, Besemer, Ott, Calabrese, more

Makeup or Breakup

X-Small

30 years of little art in Laguna

Time After Time

Dance clubs L.A.: In one era and out another

The Greatest Art Show on Earth

(Be careful not to splash marinara sauce on the paintings.)

Nightlife

Music Reviews

Off the Strip:

A Guide to Weird Las Vegas

Portrait of the Critic As a Cool Guy

Dave Hickey's Air Guitar