Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn: My Secret

Body Art Expo: At the World's Biggest Tattoo Convention, Roving Artists Charge by the Limb

See also: 10 Awesome Tattoo Artists in L.A. Welcome to my life, tattoo I'm a man now, thanks to you I expect I'll regret you But the skin graft man won't get you You'll be there when I die -"Tattoo" by The Who People with tattoos are sentimental. Most of them, anyway. No one gets a ... More >>

Fuck Rodeo Drive: A People's Guide to Los Angeles is an L.A. Guidebook for the 99 Percent

Let the tour buses take the throngs to visit Marilyn Monroe's hand prints at Grauman's Chinese Theater or to press their noses up to the windows on Rodeo Drive and wander Beverly Hills like they're Julia Roberts. Despite what the entertainment industry would have you believe, the city of Los Angeles ... More >>

Freddy Leyva, L.A. Job Corps Honors Student, Arrested for Stabbing His Counselor to Death

A 22-year-old honors student at the federally funded L.A. Job Corps was jailed for allegedly stabbing his counselor to death at the program's iconic Hollywood dorms yesterday afternoon. LAPD officials and witnesses tell reporters that Freddy Levya was inside an office with program adviser Dwayne A ... More >>

Weegee Strips Hollywood Naked

Courtesy of MOCALiz Taylor, ca. 1950​ "Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees." So said crime photographer and full-time self promoter Arther Fellig, who was also known as Weegee. He was New Yorker to the the core, having grown up in the bitter poverty of the Depression-era Lower Eas ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

Marilyn Monroe's $5 Million Subway Dress and Debbie Reynolds' Ginormous Hollywood Auction: An Official Bidder's Insider Account

​ Debbie Reynolds held Hollywood's largest garage sale at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills on Saturday. In case you missed it on Oprah, Ms. Reynolds had one of the largest private collections of classic Hollywood memorabilia and most of it was up for grabs this weekend in front of a ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe's Iconic Upskirt Dress to be Sold at Auction in Beverly Hills

The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

Girls Talk

Kill the Irishman

Theater Reviews: Lemon Durang Pie, Hyperbole: Origins, Lucia Mad

Also, Into the Woods, Barrymore and more

Dom Pérignon Releases Andy Warhol-Inspired Champagne

Dom PerignonLimited Edition Andy Warhol-Inspired Champagne​ Pop artist Andy Warhol, perhaps best known for his vivid immortalization of pop culture icons like Marilyn Monroe and Campbell Soup cans, is on the receiving end of his own colorful tribute. Starting Friday, October 15, French champa ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Glass Menagerie, The Good Boy, Stepping on a Few Toes

Also Beast on the Moon, Martyrdumb and more

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

Bashing With Bad Girls at Nylon Magazine's London Hotel Happening

Wire ImageDrew's favorite LA dive? Chez Jay in Santa Monica ​It would have made sense to hit up Smog Cutter or Lost & Found or Chez Jay after talking drunks and punks from our Dive Bar book on Indie1031.com Tuesday night, but nothing about Nightranger's social schedule ever makes sense (and we ... More >>

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

Day 2: John Waters Is a Great Role Model for Young America (No, Seriously)

Gustavo TurnerStars! They have trouble with reception just like us!: John Waters backstage at Gossip's set​ [Report by Justin Jasper] Once Know as the "Prince of Puke", John Waters has become something of an elder statesman of fringe Americana. His one-man shows have repositioned him from cu ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe-Adjacent Crypt A Dead End

The saga of the crypt above Marilyn Monroe's resting place in Westwood added a new chapter over the weekend when it was revealed that zero bidders weighed in on the auction for the spot, which was valued at more than $500,000.​Widow Elsie Poncher wanted to sell the crypt that is the site of her hu ... More >>

Audrey Hepburn at LACMA

Funny Face (and Teeth and Neck)

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Obama's Man in El Sereno Political newcomer Emanuel Pleitez, who's served on Barack Obama's transition team, is shaking things up in the 32nd District Congressional race. L.A. TimesMortgage Black Hole Located Ground zero for the nation's catastrophic mortgage meltdown was 4500 Park Granada, Calabasa ... More >>

Everybody Skate!

What to do this week

Art Around Town: Flux Soup

The magic of Marlene Dumas; the theater of Philip-Lorca diCorcia

World of Wonder Gallery, Where Camp Meets Vamp

Wonder walls

K-Cars lot on Santa Monica Blvd.

The K-Cars auto lot on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood is a bit of a landmark, though if you're like most people, you've probably only ever just driven by it. It's defining characteristic was a long mural of Hollywood with creepy painted images of Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Arnold Schwarzenegge ... More >>

Twinkle Toes

Fun With Air

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Who Are You?

Auditioning for The Next Best Thing

Phil Noir: The Tooth of Crime

A coroner gets examined and cross-examined

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, It Ain't No Fairy tale

What Lies Beneath

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Theater Reviews

Hallowed Kitty

The Siren’s Song

A Hollywood landmark comes under fire

Sex & Beauty, Art & Kitsch

The exquisite mayhem of Benedikt Taschen

Selling the Sun

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival at 10

Hurry Sunrise

Hollywood’s last act before daybreak

Land and LAPD Scapes

Photographs by Warren Neidich, Laurie Brown, Anthony Hernandez. Plus, 100 years of crime and punishment

Flashes in the Pan

Stage odes to a hard-boiled past

Fuck Fisch, Let's Spoon

Tick, Tick . . . Kablooey!

15 Minutes and Company Man

Boy Toys

Into Finn Air

Helsinki week

Puppet Regimes

Political-themed theater across the city

Cheesy Hits of the Rich and Famous

Landmarks

But the ''Y'' Looked Cool

Et Cetera, Et Cetera, Et Cetera!

Anna and the King, plus The Emperor and the Assassin

Justice

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

Canter’s

Pann’s