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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Paparazzi Art

This week, a flashing sign turns a basement into a danger zone, a veteran paparazzo exhibits his best shots and an exhibition at the MOCA Pacific Design Center outpost makes you feel you've swallowed Alice's shrinking potion. 5. Lazy Sunday music Critic and professor Jan Tumlir has written about ar ... More >>

Gil Turner's, Liquor Store to The Stars on Sunset Strip, Robbed: Suspects Nabbed Fast

If you rob the high-profile liquor store patronized by the rich and famous on the Sunset Strip, you better have a good exit plan. Gil Turner's place is known for hosting shoppers such as Mary-Kate Olsen, Jessica Alba and Avril Lavigne. It also was the site of a robbery over the weekend, West Hollyw ... More >>

Marijuana-Like Compound in Your Brain Could be Magic Pill For Weight Loss: But Don't Reach For The Doritos Just Yet

Oh boy. You stoners are going to love this one. Turns out the key to weight loss might be a marijuana-like chemical that already exists in your brain. While there are skinny weed advocates out there like Seth Rogen (after) and James Franco, consider all the Taco Bell you ate in the name of bud or t ... More >>

5 Most Fashion-Forward Muppets (Sorry, Miss Piggy)

As you know, in fashion, one day you're in and the next day you're out. How then to explain the cheerful ubiquity of Miss Piggy? Last August, the porcine mop/puppet turned up at Opening Ceremony to promote a muppet-themed apparel line. This month, she graces a spread in InStyle magazine sporting J ... More >>

Martha Marcy May Marlene Review

An Olsen sister falls in and out of a cult

Mikey Welsh Is Dead: How Weezer's Green Album Changed My Life

Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever. Editor's Note: Former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh was found dead in a Chicago hotel room on October 8, 2011. The cause of death is unknown, ... More >>

Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Flying Lotus Plans To Direct A Feature Film

[See also "Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Feeding People On Their Debut LP And A Particularly Memorable Encounter with the Devil" "Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus," "Top Five Reasons Why Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma is the Best L.A. Album of the Year," "Flying Lotus Ris ... More >>

Beastly

Sundance Film Festival: Duh, Hot Girls Make Difficult Films More Marketable

An alternate universe with an uncertain future

Beauty Is Pain: L.A.'s Popular 'Brazilian Blowout' Bashed For Toxic Fumage

Bobby Cooper SalonWe'd rather be doing Brazilian Blow​Nicole Richie swears by it. The Olsen twins bathe in it. (Their hair, you perves.) Lindsay Lohan would go back to jail for it. Studio Noi -- a shmancy little salon in Venice -- blasts it on the daily. From across the country, the ball-bust ... More >>

Courtney Dearest: Courtney Love Celebrates Frances Bean Cobain's 18th Birthday by Publicly Berating Her on Twitter

Mamma Mia: One of Courtney Love's sad, sad tweets on Frances' birthday​Living with a very possibly mentally ill relative is never fun, even if one says one will never talk to them again and spends a lot of time on the East Side, hanging out at Wacko and the Echo, while said insane relative tou ... More >>

The Last of The Hills

Remembering what Spencer said to Brody about Lauren, and all that crazy drama

Theater Reviews: Hollywood Fringe Festival

Pixie Dust Bowl Ballads: Pocahaunted at the Echo Curio (3/9)

Pocahaunted, Eagle Rock's self proclaimed "Olsen twins of blissed-out drone," played one last local warm up gig last night at the Echo Curio before heading to Texas and SXSW. The Curio storefront was packed with a young, chill crowd who danced to the beat of ace weirdo drummer Ged Gengras and swayed ... More >>

It Came From Spanish Harlem

N.Y. transplant Coati Mundi has been a Buzzard and a Coconut. Now he’s just himself

Eminem and Jay-Z to Play at Wiltern Tonight for DJ Hero Launch (UPDATED)

Hot Monday night in LA: Eminem and Jay-Z are doing a surprise show at the Wiltern tonight to promote their new relationship with DJ Hero, the hugely anticipated (and contentious) new game from Activision's Hero franchise. Below is an exclusive look at DJ Hero: The two rap superstars recently si ... More >>

More Books Than You Can Shake A Dead Indie Bookstore At

The Book Expo America convention has come and gone. Here are 12 things I saw on the last day, in absolutely no order whatsoever. 1. The Independent Publishers Group Alley Standing strong! 2. Self Help Books on Murder and Drugs "Buy your kids educational toys. Like a metric scale and tiny bag ... More >>

Neil Hamburger, Spaceland, 3/30

Neil Hamburger Spaceland, March 30 Walking on stage cradling three drinks in his arms, Neil Hamburger makes his first impression on the audience by spilling them slowly onto his own tuxedo while setting up his notes on the monitors in front of him. Much of the booze in his glasses ends up soaked in ... More >>

Style and the City

Beth Jones, fashion blogger

The Life and Death of JT LeRoy

Lies and follies of Laura Albert

The Lies and Follies of Laura Albert, a.k.a. JT LeRoy

No exit plan

Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dream

Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival

Gone With the Wind

Santa Anas at night, surfers’ delight. Santa Anas in the morning, homeowners take warning.

We’re a Happy Family

And Sweet Tarts in the pink

Summertime, and the Livin' Is Easy

Kids in the Mall

Welcome to the Jungle

The Maude Squad

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

Mary-Kate and Ashley’s, Temporarily

State Of Emergence

Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog

Hank Hill Rules!

Kids Rock

The bands that are saving L.A.’s music scene

Next Big Thing: Looking for That Song

The Unbearable Likeness of Being

Twins, clones and multiple lives

Nudes Ascending: Farrah’s Naked Art Special, Version 2.0

Notes From E3

A day with the booth babes at the Electronic Entertainment Expo

Mr. Happy Does the Dew

Golly!

David Lynch's The Straight Story

Love, Death and Déjà vu

Cupid, Brimstone and Seven Days

On TV

Homicide anatomized, Sports Night's backstage dramedy