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The Crucial Mistake Most Bands Are Making With Facebook

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Rap Genius Got $15 Million in Investor Financing. So Why Does Everyone Hate Them?

In Malibu last weekend, an ebullient crowd including rappers Mike G and Shawn Chrystopher have gathered for the birthday party of Mahbod Moghadam. Champagne is poured into red solo cups, while a volvano vaporizer circulates. Moghadam is an eccentric character who is the face of the extremely succes ... More >>

Slate Puts D.I.Y. Slaughter on the Chopping Block

In his take-down of urban butchery, "The Butcher Next Door," published June 6, Slate contributor and vegan animal rights activist James McWilliams tackles the so-called "hipsters" who think D.I.Y. slaughter is the next step in responsible animal husbandry. McWilliams worries that the cool kids -- t ... More >>

Five Bizarre Social Networking Sites From Musicians

Remember about a decade ago when every rapper had to have his own clothing line? And then remember about four years ago when every rapper had to have his own social networking site? Surprisingly, it turns out that artists from all across the musical spectrum have been impersonating Mark Zuckerberg f ... More >>

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Review

Lisbeth Salander, meet David Fincher

More L.A. Craft Beer News: Enegren Brewing Company

Steven ArmstrongJoe Nascenzi and Matt Enegren at Enegren Brewing Co. ​ As often happens in life, collegiate eccentricities lead to post-baccalaureate vocations. For one Harvard dropout, late-night computer programming led to multi-billion dollar "facebooking." And for three Loyola Marymount gr ... More >>

30 Minutes or Less Review

Is 'Indie' the New 'Hipster'?

Flickr/Gibson Claire McGuire RegesterAccording to my students, looking dreamy in a field is the pinnacle of indie.​ As a young L.A. high school teacher, I share a generational moment with my students but often view them as daft friends or little siblings, distortedly mirroring the pursuits of ... More >>

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Our New Responsible Carnivore

Flickr/kate.gardinerdinner for billionaires​ Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is good at picking up on trends. His latest? Butchery. Locavorism. Sustainable eating. According to Fortune and CNN, Zuckerberg has recently decided only to eat meat he kills himself. Which news he announced, ... More >>

Addictive Music Website Alert: The Ambient Genius of "You Are Listening to L.A."

​One of the most annoying things about the current state of the Internet is it's lack of elegance. When Mark Zuckerberg wiped the floor with the cluttery, vile thing MySpace had become, his mantra was "make a product that is useful and doesn't suck" (Facebook has struggled, with different degr ... More >>

NBC Los Angeles Gets Awkward Web Makeover

​Maybe this is just one of those whiney world-is-over moments we experience whenever one of our bookmarked sites is redesigned (Gawker quickly grew on us; so did the new Facebook), but NBC Los Angeles' home page is looking mighty retro this morning. And not in a good way. They call it "clean, ... More >>

Facebook Users Upload A Record 750 Million Photos Over New Year's Weekend

PHOTO BY JOSH "CURIOUSJOSH" REISSFor the Weekly's version of a Facebook album, see slideshow "CuriousJosh: New Year's Eve"​Either we had such an awesome time on New Year's Eve that we want to relive the moments over and over again, or we had such an awesome time on New Year's Eve that we want ... More >>

The 2010 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Poll

From best to worst, the results are in

The Social Network, Or Why I Quit Facebook

​ Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerberg has been named by TIME Magazine as the 2010 Man of the Year. Countless awards bodies, polls (including the Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll) and film critics groups (including the LA Film Critics Association, of which I am a member) have named The Social ... More >>

We Met Outside The Mummy Ride: The Best Of Halloween Weekend's 'Missed Connections'

PHOTO BY NICHOLE O'CONNORDon't be fooled -- he's as lonely as Mark Zuckerberg​The only thing harder than making a lasting connection in L.A. is making a lasting connection when you can't recognize the person the next day. In the tradition of our sister news blog at the Village Voice, we've be ... More >>

Jon Stewart Crowned 'Most Influential' Man Of The Year

Jon Stewart influences people.​It looks like L.A. will be enjoying hosting (he'll appear via satellite) the most influential man in America Saturday -- Jon Stewart, who topped AskMen.com's "Top 29 Most Influential Men of 2010" list this week. Stewart is appearing, via satellite, at his "Rally ... More >>

Mick Jagger's Topless Daughter Stars in Hedi Slimane Video, with Music by Rising UK Stars Egyptian Hip Hop

Hedi Slimane for Harper'sMick and Jerry's baby, all growed up!​Once upon a time, Hedi Slimane was a queer kid who was way into the cover of Bowie's David Live album. Then he ran Dior for a while. He lived the high-fashion life. Made stylish, tailored and androgynous hip and viceversa. Then h ... More >>

The Social Network: Who Needs Friends?

David Fincher commented on Mark Zuckerberg's status. His latest, on Facebook's birth and the minds behind it, invites you to join him

Facebook Goes Down: Angelenos Have Nothing To Do But Work

Social networker Mark Zuckerberg.​Facebook went down Thursday and we were bummed not just because we're not able to post pictures of our last Ibizan romp, change our status to "loving life," or link to New York Times articles we didn't read. We were bummed because this is affecting the lives ... More >>

L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

Facebook Buys Friendfeed, Because Techcrunch Says So

​Valley behemoth Facebook just bought 12-person startup and vanguard of the real-time web Friendfeed. Once again,Techcrunch's Jason Kincaid had the scoop at least 20 min before tech badass Kara Swisher at All Things D got the press release (we too had to find out the Techcrunch way). What doe ... More >>

Top 10 Things You Don't Want Facebook to Own (About You, FOREVER)

On February 15 the user awareness blog Consumerist discovered that Facebook had discretely changed its Terms Of Service - slashing a couple of lines about the expiration of Facebook's ownership of your content after you delete your profile, as well as tacking on the following addendum: "The follow ... More >>

Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the future.