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10 People Who Are Transforming Hollywood

This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing. Among those 56 are fashionistas, musicians and novelists -- and, of course, the movers-and-shakers in Hollywood. Check out all of our People 2013 profiles Their influence can be felt on both the screen and behind the ... More >>

Jessie Andrews: The Porn Star as a Brand

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Jessie Andrews was a 17-year-old American Apparel salesgirl in Miami Beach when company founder Dov Charney, impressed with her abilities, hired her to instruct the other area e ... More >>

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Magic City on Starz = Mad Men More Sex A Hint of The Sopranos

Perhaps we shouldn't have worn jeans to the premiere of Starz' Magic City, their latest original series set to hit the airwaves April 6. Some event-goers who gathered for the screening at the Director's Guild (and later flowed into the Chateau Marmont after party) had on much more appropriately glam ... More >>

James Beard Awards 2012: Semifinalists Announced

Los Angeles chefs made a strong showing among the semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Local nominees for the Best Chef, Pacific award include Josef Centeno (Lazy Ox Canteen), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), David Feau (The Royce at the Langham), Matt Molina (M ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Considers Moving to L.A. for Cold Winter Months

Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles TimesWill OWS thaw its toes out west?​SoCal's famously bland winter weather is looking mighty appealing to the frozen campers at Occupy Wall Street right about now. The roughly 200 tents occupying New York's Zuccotti Park are facing a long season of snowstorms and fre ... More >>

Adam Chester's S'Mother and the Lessons He Learned from His Mom

Adam Chester with Elton John​ -Please don't eat sushi. Love, Mom -Grapes are good for your bowel movements. Love, Mom -Don't have anything to do with your paternal grandmother. -There's a resistant form of gonorrhea going around...use a condom. -Don't drink rainwater. -Make sure it's childre ... More >>

Flo Rida Gets Arrested on Suspicion of DUI, Asks Officers for "Another Test"

The eyes say it all​The rapper Flo Rida was arrested early this morning in Miami Beach on suspicion of drunk driving. His blood alcohol level was reported to be .185, more than twice the legal limit in Florida. According to TMZ, he was stopped by the police when they saw him swerving in his ... More >>

Porn Star Karaoke at Sardo's: A Valley Industry Tradition, Also Featuring Fake Bono

Paul T. BradleyNicki Hunter and her superfan: a night's expectations achieved.​ We'll get to (Fake) Bono in a minute. Ok, you know that one where the librarian loses the glasses and becomes the master of all things sexual? All it takes is a change in music and a little lighting...and voila! ... More >>

Q & A With Maida Heatter, Part 2: Starting With Dropping The President's Pies

Andrews McMeel PublishingShe Likes Brownies​When we left off with the prolific -- and fantastic -- cookbook author and home baker extraordinaire Maida Heatter, she was telling us about her worst baking disaster. Or not telling us, actually ("You know, I can't think of a baking disaster... hold ... More >>

Sex Crime and Violence During DJ-Driven 'Ultra Weekend' in Miami -- And, Yes, Californians Were in the Thick of It

YouTubeHeadquarters, we have a wedgie.​The just-wrapped "Miami Music Week/Ultra Weekend" in South Beach was marred by violence, and allegations of rape. Our sister publication Miami New Times reports that three Californians were arrested on suspicion of gang raping a college student at the Fon ... More >>

L.A. Area Suspects Paul Thorington, Anthony Albano, Ray Joseph Laranjo Held in Miami Spring Break Gang Rape Case

the undergraduateMiami Beach.​Three suspects arrested last week in the alleged gang rape of a college student in Miami Beach are from L.A.'s South Bay, police tell the Weekly. The trio is from Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes and Torrance, Miami Beach Juan F. Sanchez told us. They were arrested ... More >>

President Of Conman Barry Minkow's 'Fraud Discovery Institute' Apologizes Following 'Weekly' Article On 'ZZZZ Best' Mastermind's Latest Lies

Carpet cleaner, liar, corporate swashbuckler, Barry Minkow​By Beth Barrett The president of conman Barry Minkow's Fraud Discovery Institute (FDI) has apologized to "friends" and other followers, saying the company had "fallen away from our mission and our credibility and our sweat equity that ... More >>

Yes, Georgio's!

New York's Robins Takes a Turn at Studio City Cucina

'Go Topless Day' Goes Off In Venice Without A Hitch

Rae Rae / YoVenice via Flickr​National Go Topless Day apparently went off without a hitch in Venice over the weekend. The Los Angeles Times reported that about two dozen women and nearly two hundred onlookers gathered for the demonstration against laws that treat chest-baring differently for m ... More >>

Arms Merchants of South Central

Did the rich and intrigue-filled Botach family get a pass from Henry Waxman?

America's Cocaine King Hid From Drug Cartels for 25 Years

It took a screenwriter to find him

How to Blow Your Career and Alienate Your Family, featuring Scott Storch

Illustration by Jason Seiler​Our sibling publication Miami New Times just published a long article about hip hop/pop producer (and LA resident) Scott Storch. Writer Gus Garcia-Roberts tried to interview Storch for this account of the spiral into drug-addiction and debt that destroyed his once- ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

James Beard​This morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>

IF YOU KNEW SUSHI LIKE THEY KNOW SUSHI

SushiMasters Competition in Little Tokyo This Sunday: Chefs With Knives A Food and Sake Festival Afterwards

If you should find yourself in downtown's Little Tokyo this Sunday afternoon, trolling for zuke maguro or morikomi or hamachi sashimi or iwashi sushi, say, you might do well to stop by the Artani/Japan America Theatre before you down too many cups of sake. There you will find, mid-afternoon, the fin ... More >>

Jerry Lewis Retrospective at Cinefamily

Turns out the French were right all along about an American comic genius

Rick Ross, Slumboss Millionaire: A Closer Look at the Real-Life Inspiration Behind "Southern Gangsta"

With a tip of the cap to Danny Boyle and A Way Between Voice and Presence, we take a deeper look at the alternately painful and joyous recollections that led to the construction of Rick Ross' verse on Ludacris' "Southern Gangsta." Little known fact: Ross' boss qualities are purported to be the in ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Rose, Spring's Awakening

Rose

How to Get Divorced by 30

A beginner’s guide to ending your starter marriage

Brett Ratner, The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3's director has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway

Film Reviews

Including The Astronaut Farmer, Gray Matters, Reno 911!: Miami and more

The Fearless Personal Inventory

Urban archaeology and the pleasures of mortification

Shine On, You Crazy Gem Sweater

Leslie Hall gives us the skinny on chafing and, of course, Bedazzling

L.A. Simonized

Kerry Simon, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chef, comes west

Underground Flier

Tequila Mockingbird

One More Real Cool Time

Somewhere Between Rammstein and Twiggy

Remembering the short, conflicted life of the Screamers — an excerpt from the new oral history We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

Shut Up and Park

Silver Lakers say: Not in my front yard

No Significant Features

The Caribbean, the dark and a ghost

Where's the Left?

American liberalism at century's end

Forever Edie

Grey Gardens' Edie Beale

Dizie With Anticipation