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Eric Garcetti Woos Hipster Vote With Steve Aoki Fundraiser

When a 15-year-old girl died from a drug overdose after she attended Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2010, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was quick to question whether raves should be even be allowed at such a publicly owned venue. Steve Aoki, along with will.i.am and other ... More >>

Raves: 14 Deaths After Insomniac, Go Ventures EDM Parties

In recent years 14 people have died from overdoses or drug-related incidents after attending raves put on by some of the nation's biggest electronic-music event promoters, Insomniac Events and Go Ventures, both based in L.A. Most of the deceased were teenagers or twentysomethings attending events t ... More >>

Raves Dead At Some L.A. Venues, But San Bernardino County Says Yes To EDM

While raves have essentially been shut out of two public venues in Exposition Park, including the Coliseum and Sports Arena, San Bernardino County officials are welcoming electronic dance music events to Glen Helen Regional Park. The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors yesterday voted 3-2 to ... More >>

Bernard Parks Responds to Our Coliseum Story -- Plus, Los Lobos

Marijuana Dispensary Lawsuit Seeks to Stop L.A. Pot Shop Ban From Taking Effect Sept. 6

Updated at the bottom with the city's response. First posted at 1:29 p.m. A group representing 300 marijuana dispensaries in L.A. filed suit today in an attempt to stop L.A.'s pot shop ban from taking effect Sept. 6. The Patient Care Alliance-Los Angeles was filing the suit at L.A Superior Court l ... More >>

Comments: Readers Talk Coliseum, Fairfax Avenue, and Stop-Sign Tickets

L.A. Will Now Treat Scalpers Like Gang Members

That guy with the cardboard sign yelling "Tickets!" is on par with a gangbanger. At least that's the message City Attorney Carmen Trutanich sent with an announcement yesterday that Los Angeles will institute the nation's first-ever scalper injunction. What that means is that "known scalpers" -- 17 o ... More >>

NFL Failures, EDM Greed and Massive Corruption: The Inside Story of the L.A. Coliseum Scandal

Rave Promoters in Coliseum Scandal Get Access Back to Some Frozen Cash

In the case of the rave promoters accused of bilking the L.A. Coliseum out of more than a million dollars, they get to keep a little of their own money. Some of the assets of Pasquale Rotella and Reza Gerami, rival promoters who held electronic dance music parties at the Coliseum and L.A. Sports Ar ... More >>

Rave Promoters Rotella, Gerami Face Potential of 10 Years-Plus in Jail

The rave promoters indicted as part of the L.A. Coliseum corruption scandal could see more than 10 years each behind bars if convicted, an L.A. County District Attorney's office official tells the Weekly. In fact the potential sentence for Reza Gerami of Go Ventures is 15 years, 8 months, according ... More >>

Rave Promoters Reza Gerami, Pasquale Rotella Plead Not Guilty in Coliseum Corruption Case

Updated at the bottom with indictment details from the District Attorney's office. First posted at 12:22 p.m. Defendants in the corruption scandal at the L.A. Coliseum today pleaded not guilty today. Indictments, the details of which had yet to be revealed to the press, targeted rave promoters Rez ... More >>

Rave Promoters Paid Millions to L.A. Coliseum Union Workers Under the Table and in Cash, Sources Say

Timothy NorrisYoung faces at the 2009 Electric Daisy Carnival.​More than $2.5 million in cash was paid to union hands who worked concerts, mostly controversial raves, at the publicly run L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena, according to sources and documents obtained by the Weekly. On Tuesday lawy ... More >>

Top 5 Douches of 2011, L.A.-Style: Kobe Bryant Breaks The Color Barrier

rorjnd.com​This is Los Angeles, douche capital of the world. When you talk douche here, you have a lot to talk about. So it wasn't easy chosing our Top 5 douches of the year. L.A. can go douche-for-douche with just about any global metropolis -- even New Jersey. Perhaps the only place on ear ... More >>

Bernard Parks' Office Owes L.A. Coliseum $40,000 For Fireworks Party: Councilman is a Critic of Venue's Shady Finances

Kim Smith​Updated at the bottom with a response from Parks' office. L.A. Coliseum officials are looking into a $40,000 bill left unpaid by the office of city Councilman Bernard Parks following one of his annual 4th of July community parties at the venue. Documents outlining the outstanding d ... More >>

Monster Massive Halloween Rave 'Canceled,' Says Ticket Seller: Top DJs Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo Pull Out

erickmorillo.comErick Morillo is frightened by the L.A. market.​Groove Tickets announced on its website today that the Halloween rave Monster Massive has been canceled. The party, which had Moby, Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo and other superstar DJs on its lineup, apparently had trouble fin ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Wants to Return to L.A: After Hollywood Near-Riot 'Los Angeles Times' Says Hell No

Dennis RomeroCops vs. ravers on Hollywood Boulevard.​We here at the Weekly have gotten some shit for affiliating the premier of a documentary about the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival rave with the chaos that ensued outside the theater last week. EDC organizers say a DJ's free performan ... More >>

L.A. Rising - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - 7/30/11

Torry PendergrassThis is for the people of the sun​L.A. Rising feat. Rage Against The Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Lauryn Hill Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 7/30/11 Better than...spending a Saturday at the beach. "Apathetic music with apathetic fans." "Do the fans even get it?" "Rage Agai ... More >>

EDC Rave Promoter Makes $75,000 Worth of Donations to Vegas Charities, But That Wouldn't Even Cover Extra Cops For Parties Here

Colin Young-WolffA kiss at EDC in Vegas.​In June the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival rave moved from L.A. to Las Vegas, and organizers of have been trying to make us jealous ever since. Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman called Los Angeles a "second-class entertainment venue" for letting the par ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival: Vegas Could See Nearly One-Third The Cops The LAPD Puts on Smaller Raves Here: Are They Really Ready For This?

YouTubeA girl in a crush of people at EDC in L.A.​Updated with LAPD Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon's thoughts on rave deployment, at the bottom. As Electric Daisy Carnival hits Sin City for what promoters are anticipating will be their biggest rave yet, the big question is, is Las Vegas really p ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Death in Dallas Prompts Vegas Official to Call For Reevaluation of Policies Related to Rave's Move to Sin City

wfaa.comDallas raver Andrew Graf died at EDC -- the second teen to do so in a year.​At least one Las Vegas official says "policies and procedures" related to an L.A. promoter's controversial rave in that city next weekend will be "reevaluated" following the death of a teenager at the Dallas ed ... More >>

Oscar Goodman, Las Vegas' Mayor, Calls L.A. a 'Second-Class Entertainment Venue' For Letting Controversial EDC Rave Head to Sin City

nba.comOscar Goodman.​Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman today welcomed L.A.'s controversial Electric Daisly Carnival rave to his town, saying our city is a "second-class entertainment venue" for letting it go. EDC last June at the publicly owned L.A. Coliseum saw more than 200 medical emergencies ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Promoter Pasquale Rotella Wants Another Shot at Hosting Massive Parties at the L.A. Coliseum

Pasquale Rotella, second from right.​One tragic death, about 60 arrests, and 200-plus medical emergencies couldn't really pry the massive rave called Electric Daisy Carnival from its home base at the publicly owned L.A. Coliseum. But when it was revealed that the rave's promoter allegedly pai ... More >>

Rave Promoters From Electric Daisy Carnival, Together As One Paid L.A. Coliseum Manager $10,000 a Year

Caesar SebastianEDC.​A report in today's Los Angeles Times expands the number of side jobs former L.A. Coliseum events manager Todd DeStefano had, indicating his own private companies took tens of thousands of dollars from the likes of Coca-Cola and UCLA as those entities booked events at the ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Expands to Three Days Under Las Vegas Sun in June

Caesar SebastianEDC ravers.​We told you back in February that it looked like the controversial, two-day Electric Daisy Carnival rave might be expanding to three days in L.A. Well, after moving to Las Vegas for its annual June party, EDC is indeed expanding to three days, organizers announced ... More >>

Rave Promoter Insomniac Claims Troubled 'Electric Daisy Carnival' Had Greater Impact on L.A.'s Economy Than NBA All-Star Weekend

Caesar SebastianRavers at EDC.​A study commissioned by a controversial rave promoter claims that its troubled Electric Daisy Carnival last summer "boosted economic output in Los Angeles by almost $42 million" and had a bigger economic impact on L.A. than the NBA All Star game. The study, cond ... More >>

Rave Promoter Reza Gerami Says He'll Fight (And Sue) For His Right to Party at L.A. Sports Arena

Go VenturesReza Gerami.​Much of the focus regarding raves at the publicly controlled L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena has been trained on the promoter of last summer's controversial Electric Daisy Carnival, which attracted about 160,000 young people over two days. But there's another major prom ... More >>

Raves: Electric Daisy Carnival Leaving L.A. Coliseum For Las Vegas

Caesar SebastianElectric Daisy Carnival.​Update: City council candidate Forescee Hogan-Rowles is claiming victory over raves, after the jump. See our piece about how raves could be finished at the L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena here. After a thorough shellacking over their controversial 2010 ... More >>

Coliseum Manager Todd DeStefano Hired Lobbyist to Represent Pro-Rave Argument in City Hall

Caesar SebastianA dancer at Electric Daisy Carnival.​The L.A. Coliseum manager who was doing double duty working for the embattled promoter of controversial raves there had also hired a lobbying firm to fight for organizer's right to throw these parties. L.A. City Ethics Commission website sh ... More >>

Raves: Coliseum Commission Calls Special Meeting Over CEO Patrick Lynch Following Coliseum Manager's Double Dipping With Rave Promoter

Electric Daisy Carnival.​You might call it a Lynch mob, at least if the job of Los Angeles Coliseum general manager Patrick Lynch is up in the air tomorrow. The Coliseum Commission has called a special meeting to discuss his employment after it was revealed that the Coliseum events manager, T ... More >>

Raves: Coliseum Commissioner Rick Caruso Says Rave Ban Back on the Table, Electric Daisy Carnival Still up in the Air

The crowd at EDC.​Following revelations that the L.A. District Attorney's office is investigating an L.A. Coliseum official for working on the side for a rave promoter who's been lobbying the public venue to continue his controversial events there, Coliseum Commission member Rick Caruso says a ... More >>

Raves: Pro-Marijuana Group Drug Policy Alliance Supports Coliseum Raves and L.A. County's How-to-Take-Ecstasy Fliers

Caesar SebastianRavers at Electric Daisy Carnival.​The Drug Policy Alliance, an influential pro-marijuana group that supported the pot legalization initiative in California last year, is backing the L.A. County Department of Public Health's controversial how-to-take ecstasy fliers that were to ... More >>

Raves: Challenger to L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks Asks Him to Give Back Contributions From 'EDC' Promoter, Coliseum Manager

Bernard Parks is being challenged for supporting raves and taking money from a rave promoter.​Never thought we'd see the day when raves were an issue in an L.A. City Council race, but that they are -- especially this week, after the Los Angeles Times reported that a public employee who helped ... More >>

Raves: Rick Caruso Calls for Resignation of Coliseum G.M. Patrick Lynch

Rick Caruso is calling for Patrick Lynch to resign as G.M. of the L.A. Coliseum.​Rick Caruso, the influential developer who also happens to sit on the public Coliseum Commission in L.A., called on Wednesday for the resignation of the venue's general manager, Patrick Lynch. Caruso's demand com ... More >>

Red Medicine's Medicine

Ravers Say 15-Year-Old Overdose Victim Sasha Rodriguez, Parents Are To Blame For Her Death And The Subsequent Controversy Over The Massive Parties In L.A.

Electric Daisy Carnival ravers.​Our story this week about how the family of a 15-year-old girl ecstasy-overdose victim filed a $5 million claim against the city and county of L.A. has drawn a lot of passionate response -- mostly against the teen's parents. Sasha Rodriguez died a few days afte ... More >>

L.A. Coliseum Commissioner Rick Caruso Likely To Ask For Ban On Raves

Rick Caruso.​Rick Caruso, developer of the Grove mall and a member of the public commission that oversees the L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena, told the Weekly Wednesday that he'll likely ask his fellow officials to ban raves at the venues in coming months. Caruso has been the biggest critic of ... More >>

Family Of Late Teen Sasha Rodriguez Files $5 Million Claim Against City, County For Allowing Electric Daisy Carnival Rave To Happen

FacebookSasha Rodriguez.​This was bound to happen. The family of a 15-year-old girl who died after attending a rave on ecstasy has filed a $5 million claim against the city and county of Los Angeles. June's Electric Daisy Carnival was held at the publicly owned Los Angeles Coliseum, which is ... More >>

Megaraves in the News

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'Los Angeles Chargers' Could Be Playing In Coliseum In 2012

NFLWelcome, all.​We were the first in L.A. to echo reports that the San Diego Chargers might be coming to the City of Angels Now the Los Angeles Times T.J. Simers does the math and argues that not only are the NFL's Chargers likely to to come to town, but they could do so by 2012 and play in ... More >>

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Makes Dubious Claim About Crime Rate

​On Friday morning, through his Twitter account, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made the dubious claim that L.A. is "still safer than it's been in 50 years." Which means we're back to 1960, when John F. Kennedy successfully ran for president, Elvis Presley was promoted to sergeant, an ... More >>

This Weekend: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings, Dead Man's Bones, Warped Tour, Black Francis, Danzig

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings​Can it get any more real that Sharon Jones? Well, it can't get any more heartwarming. The leading lady of the Dap-Kings is, after all, a rising star at 54, having shucked the uniforms of her previous careers (corrections officer at Rikers Island, and armor truck g ... More >>

Halloween 'Missed Connections' Out Of Central Casting

If you were the "super-tall fireman" on Halloween, a 1920s flapper is looking for you. The Clockwork Orange "boys" in Vegas over the weekend are also sought for amorous inquiry by a woman. Likewise, "that Indian girl at Monster Massive" is the subject of a virtual gentleman caller. Craigslist's Mis ... More >>

Gatecrashers Hit Halloween Dance Parties: Nearly 100,000 Attend, About 50 Arrests Made

View photos from HARD Haunted Mansion in our Friday night and Saturday night slideshows. About 50 arrests were made at the biggest Halloween dance parties over the weekend, including HARD Haunted Mansion Friday and at Monster Massive Saturday, Los Angeles police told L.A. Weekly. Lt. Darrell Belt ... More >>

Go Fourth and Boomify!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Year of the Dog, Weekend of the Wiener

Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae

Downtown Parcel Is Park Place

But will it be for trees or cars?

Darkness Audible

An interview with Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Taco Bowl

Carson meets Michael Ovitz