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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including an Exhibit About Prince at the Forum

A festival run by a rapper, brunch inspired by Prince, a Cadillac in a gallery, a soap opera cast with women in white, "taking account of oneself" taken to its extremes: It feels like spring. 5. The "fun" in fundraiser Until May 6, the Beastie Boys' Mike D is moonlighting as a MOCA curator. He has ... More >>

Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA

Mike D, Beastie Boy, recent Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductee, mad collector of modern furniture and in general, the man with all the fly juice, has now found the time to curate his own museum show. "Transmission LA: AV Club" is a free, 17-day festival of art, music and food, opening to the publi ... More >>

Stolen Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW Headed For Asia Seized at Port of L.A: PHOTOS

A Gone In 60 Seconds-style stolen car ring saw a shipment to Asia disrupted by federal authorities, who seized a near-new Ferrari and other vehicles, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today. The 20-car haul at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach was worth $1.5 million, according to a CBP ... More >>

L.A. Fire Department Posts Gruesome Photos of Train vs. Benz Crash in Downtown L.A.

One week after the controversial media blackout on L.A. Fire Department response times and addresses -- ordered by Fire Chief Brian Cummings -- is the department overcompensating for its much-ridiculed secrecy? LAFD photographers Rick McClure and Mike Meadows snapped some insane photos of a train v ... More >>

L.A. Food Truck Driver Dies in Crash With Mercedes Near Pico-Union

Update: The dead driver has been identified as 55-year-old L.A. resident Elba Escobar. More at the bottom. Originally posted March 20 at 6:10 p.m. A horrific crash between a food truck and a Mercedes in the Pico-Union area of central Los Angeles has left one dead and two seriously injured, says Se ... More >>

The Five Most Hilariously Offensive Misuses of Classic Songs For Commercial Purposes

​ We were so excited when we saw the wooden box on our desk with the words "Bob Marley" branded into the top. A CD box set? Possibly--if we are very very lucky--a box set of 7"s? With little booklets that have liner notes full of interesting and amazing facts about one of the word's seminal p ... More >>

Yousef Akbari and Amin Najib -- El Camino Real High Students -- Missing Since Yesterday Morning, May Be Driving Gold Benz

Two students missing in Woodland Hills​Two students last seen "leaving for school" at 7:20 a.m. (but never quite making it) yesterday morning in a gold 1996 Mercedes-Benz still haven't turned up at school, or otherwise. The Afghani boys, 17-year-old Yousef Akbari and 14-year-old Amin Najib, a ... More >>

Mercedes To Open Teen Driving School in Los Angeles For The Rich And The Furious

MBUSASL65 AMG: Educational.​Not so sure that if we had a teen daughter we'd want her to learn how to drive behind the wheel of the same kind of car Lindsay Lohan ditched on the side of a local road en route to a DUI conviction and her much publicized legal woes. But if there's anyplace in Ame ... More >>

L.A. Woman Pays $200K to Rid Herself of Family Curse

Angel cards... $200K. Not buying that crock... priceless.​Gypsies who hand out fliers on the streets of West Hollywood can seem mighty trustworthy, we know; but when they start asking you to buy them gold bars and Mercedes Benzes, we'd hope your inner "This is a freaking scam" buzzer might sta ... More >>

(Video) Part Of Violent UCLA-USC Weekend Brawl Caught On Tape

KTLA NewsFans got into it at the Rose Bowl.​Portions of that violent brawl before Saturday's annual USC-UCLA football game were captured on a video obtained and posted by KTLA News. Reports differed on whether the fight, which ended in the stabbing of two men, was the fueled by a longstanding ... More >>

Murdered Hollywood Publicist Ronni Chasen Videotaped Driving Mystery Mercedes

TMZRonni Chasen in a mystery Mercedes.​TMZ has obtained video of murdered Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen driving a Mercedes-Benz -- not the one she was killed in -- and police are taking a look. The video, however, was taken down Wednesday afternoon. The video was shot by a private investig ... More >>

Ice Pick Attack In Yorba Linda Ends Harmlessly

​Only funny because no one was seriously injured: A Yorba Linda woman was arrested on suspicion of stabbing her ex-boyfriend and roommate with an ice pick in a church parking lot, Brea police reported today. The victim was leaving a meeting at a Lutheran Church in Yorba Linda Monday night whe ... More >>

Who's Crashing Charlie Sheen's Cars?

​For the second time this year one of Charlie Sheen's vehicles was found at the bottom of a hillside off Mulholland Drive, according to reports. Just like the incident in February, the keys were left inside a Mercedes-Benz belonging to the actor, and it was apparently taken from his home, whic ... More >>

Man Drains 97-Year-Old's Life Savings Via ATM

LAPDThe suspect.​Police on Wednesday announced they were looking for a Mercedes-driving suspect they say drained a 97-year-old's life savings by using an ATM card stolen from the victim. The man's alleged take was $46,000 withdrawn at Southern California ATMs between August and November. Los ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Shopping

LAPDThe suspect.​Police on Wednesday announced they were looking for a Mercedes-driving suspect they say drained a 97-year-old's life savings by using an ATM card stolen from the victim. The man's alleged take was $46,000 withdrawn at Southern California ATMs between August and November. Los ... More >>

Inside The Baader Meinhof Complex

Seeing red

Possible Jasmine Fiore and Ryan Jenkins Cars Found

Buena Park Police are reportedly examining a car, found in the parking lot of the West Hollywood Trader Joe's, as possibly belonging to murdered model Jasmine Fiore. Fiore was strangled late last Friday night and her teeth extracted and fingers cut off, before her corpse was stuffed into a suitcase ... More >>

'Scarecrow' Compton Minister Busted

The L.A. Times and other sources report that the Rev. E. Joshua Sims, who leads Compton's LASDDefrocked: Rev. E. Joshua Sims​Double Rock Baptist congregation, has been arrested on embezzlement charges. Not only is Sims accused of channeling $800,000 of church funds toward his personal use, but, ac ... More >>

City Councilman Takes Power From the People

Today's O.C. Register reports that Westminster city councilman Andy Tuan Ngoc Quach was arrested for DUI after he wrapped his S550 Mercedes Benz around an electric pole just after midnight this morning. Although the councilman was apparently unhurt, the crash knocked out power to 300 homes until thi ... More >>

Rapper Dolla Shot to Death at the Beverly Center [UPDATE UPDATE: SUSPECT NAMED]

Rap artist Dolla was shot to death today near an entrance to the Beverly Center mall, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Dolla, whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot several times at  3:11 p.m., after a fight between a group of individuals broke out. The 2 ... More >>

Advertising for Trouble: Supergraphics Landlord Protested at Home

Curbed L.A. has a report about Sunday's protest by anti-billboard activists at the Brentwood home of Frank Rahban. He is the owner of several buildings in L.A. that have become giant easels on which vinyl supergraphics ads have been draped. The Rahban-owned office building at 10801 National Boulevar ... More >>

La Vida Loca: Monsters, and Cory Kennedy's Socks

Plus, Obama socks take off big time

Fashion Week Diary: Goodie Bag Confidential--The Stuff!

Fashion Week is over now, but for my final Fashion Week post, I wanted to show you what was inside the goodie bags. Every designer, if you sit in the front two rows or so, gives out a goodie bag. Each night, I'd come home, deposit the bags on the floor and sort through the contents. This is a port ... More >>

Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

Cheetahs never prosper In a Dickensian twist, Anthony Pellicano was confronted this past week by women whose lives he had touched over the years – although the ladies in question might claim “blighted” is a more appropriate word. Tuesday saw L.A. assistant district attorney Karla Kerlin take ... More >>

Chills, Hills and (Cheap) Thrills

Catching the fashion bug takes on new meaning during flu season, or so we've discovered. The collections and presentations at Mercedes Benz fashion Week at Smashbox Studios the past few days have been fairly interesting, but nobody should have to cram into stuffy rooms filled with bitchy fashion fi ... More >>

Gonna Party Like It's $19.99

From Krazy Straws to frozen salmon, a housewarming soiree where nothing is more than 99 cents

Un-Fashion Week

I've been unnoticeably absent from Fashion Week this season for no real reason other than I have been doing lots of random shit. It's not 'cause of any beef I may have with Smashbox (even though I am on Fern Mallis' shitlist after accidentally misquoting her in a piece I wrote for the LA Times - she ... More >>

The Crisco Kid

Brian Friedman wants you to fill 'er up with veggie oil

We Heart Denim...Honest

I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even though denim and sportwear are LA's greatest exports - or at least most lucrative - how exciting can a pair of jeans get, right? Maybe that's why I ... More >>

M�s Mexican Media Response

And a Spanish translation of �The Island of Jorge Hank Rhon�

California Dreamin�

And a Spanish translation of �The Island of Jorge Hank Rhon�

Whips, Whacks and a Whole Lotta Love

And a Spanish translation of �The Island of Jorge Hank Rhon�

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.�s Fashion Week

Snakebites

How I learned to love L.A.�s Fashion Week

From Motown to Rimtown

The blinging of Los Angeles

The Capital of Car Design

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

The Fashion Week We Need

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

What L.A. Style?

The California sportswear monster that ate L.A. Fashion Week . . . and the designers who valiantly fought back

Hummer Bummer

Going for a test drive the day after explosions rip through a dealership

Strike a Pose

L.A. Fashion Week Fall 2003

The Making of a Designer

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith � and garmentos

Thugs on Film

Suspect Entertainment helps Hollywood keep it real

Brave New Year

Suspect Entertainment helps Hollywood keep it real

L.A. SPECTATOR

Gaga for Guga

Mope Springs Eternal

Gaga for Guga

Them's the Breaks

Gaga for Guga

Rat Patrol

Gaga for Guga