Mickey Mouse

Jennifer Lee: Disney's New Animation Queen

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Disney's blockbuster Wreck-It Ralph, Vanellope is a digital princess in a video game who's stripped of her coding and mistreated as a flickering computer "glitch." Vanellope' ... More >>

Ode to Joy Division

You Can Have Your Cake and Decorate it Too at Duff's Cakemix

It's the day after the opening of Duff's Cakemix in West Hollywood, the place where you decorate cakes instead of ceramics. And business is good. TV celebrity, baker and pastry chef Duff Goldman is there himself. He's living in Santa Monica while the new place gets established -- actually two new p ... More >>

Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss

12th Planet is the Johnny Appleseed of Dubstep

Skrillex sleeps on his couch

15,000 Faux 'Paul Frank' Pirate Pajamas Seized at L.A. Port (Could Have Fooled Us)

U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionJulius just got a little uglier.​They must really be hurting for new things to counterfeit in Indonesia these days. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port just intercepted a 20-foot terminal container filled with -- get rea ... More >>

Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day in West Hollywood

Siran Babayan​It was raining men in West Hollywood Saturday night as the city organized its first Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day. Leave it to WeHo to declare a Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day and Motley Crue Day in the same year. And only in WeHo will you find a scantily clad dancer outside a yog ... More >>

Five Fashion Street Styles of Occupy L.A.

Occupy L.A., the Hooverville-like protest that surrounds Los Angeles City Hall, is not just an anti-Wall Street movement -- it's also a fashion showcase for a street style that is far different from the stiletto and Ugg boot-loving crowd so often seen in L.A. From the aging hippie to FIDM hipsters ... More >>

Page Two: 7 Fun Facts About Shilpa Ray

Nick Cave is a fan. What are you waiting for?

The 10 Most Embarrassingly Named L.A. Bandits

Just don't call her Snowflake Bandit​It's got to be rough, naming a bandit. In one short, catchy phrase, you've got to embody a criminal's entire countenance and M.O., so that he (or she -- can't forget the Bonnies of the world) will be instantly recognizable to all who come in contact. Of t ... More >>

Girl Talk vs. Deadmau5: Which Non-DJ Rocks the Party Harder?

Timothy NorrisThe dance floor at the Palladium for Girl Talk.​Read more in Ali Trachta's story "Mash-Up Party in the USA: The LA Weekly Interview with Girl Talk." Over the course of the past week, both Deadmau5 and Girl Talk, two of the biggest names in dance-oriented music, have played Los A ... More >>

Six-Figure Banksy Piece Ripped From Sunset Boulevard Billboard Just Not Good Enough For CBS Outdoor

Ted SoquiBanksy is just not CBS Outdoor material.​Banksy might be a world-renowned street artist whose work can fetch six-figure prices. But don't tell that to CBS Outdoor, the advertising company that ripped the Brit's "Livin' the Dream" piece from a billboard above Sunset and Crescent Heigh ... More >>

Banksy Art Worth Six Figures Ripped Down From Sunset Boulevard Billboard, Crumpled Up in a Ball

MELROSEandFAIRFAXBanksy blasts L.A.​Update: Video of the take-down added after the jump. British guerrilla artist Banksy has quietly been ninja-footing through town, putting up his signature images in the days before the Academy Awards, where his Exit Through the Gift Shop is up for an Oscar. ... More >>

Benihana Sues Blogger for Bad Review

Guzzle & NoshScenes from Benihana in San Francisco.​Bloggers, beware. Writing a bad review of Benihana could get you sued for $18,000 -- at least if you live in Kuwait. Mark Makhou, a Lebanese national working in Kuwait, wrote a fairly mild but definitely negative review of his nearby Benihan ... More >>

Sex, Death and Pragmatism

Bill Plympton's DIY cartoon cottage industry

There's No Time Like the Old Time Social and Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest

Daiana Feuer​Banjos and fiddles and washboards, oh my! The Old Time Social and Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest proved it's hip to be square-dancing. Taking over some of the most unique dusty locales around, these two events brought together promising practitioners of old-time music and colorful h ... More >>

The Smell Celebrates Its Anniversary with Mi Ami, Lucky Dragons and Foot Village

Mi Ami, Lucky Dragons, and Foot Village @ the Smell, January 23. The Smell concluded its two-day anniversary celebration with a magic trick. Lucky Dragons made rainbows appear out of a projector, literally playing the light by waving blank CDs in front of the lens. This capped off a night in which ... More >>

The Gaga Code: Top Ten Signs Lady Gaga Is a Pawn of Occult Forces

Last Summer, the Vigilant Citizen blog--a website devoted to trolling gullible morons into getting riled up about supposed "occult" messages everywhere investigating the hidden symbols all around us--started analyzing the symbology of Lady Gaga and concluded that there is plentiful evidence that the ... More >>

Mexicans: The New Jews?

Insults Across the Divide

She Sat Wrapped: The Yarn- and Felt-Covered Chairs of Tanya Aguiñiga

Rocks and logs as seating too

Me Party Long Time

2 Live Crew, Ron Jeremy and a Germs Biopic

An L.A. Speculator Plans a Disney-Style Park in Baghdad

What a blast

King Jeremy the Wicked

Around the world and back with designer Jeremy Scott, guest-starring Karl Lagerfeld, Cory Kennedy, Mario Testino and the FedEx lady

It's a Wonderful Life?

Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

The Meat of the Matter

Richard Linklater maps out his Fast Food Nation

From Russia With Love

Best auto bodywork for the bourgeoisie and proletariat

Free the Peoples!

On 20/20, Dilated Peoples saygoodbye to Kanye, return to basics. Indie snobs approve

A Short Shorts Story

Ears to You

Really Big Packages

Forget what EW says, it’s the moguls’ perks that are out of control, not the stars’

Yet More Lists

Monty Python and the Flipping Bird

Disney Goes to the Dark Side

The Battle for the Mouse’s heart and soul reaches epic proportions

Murdered Dreams

Son of peace activist dies in party shooting

Mr. Holloway Can Talk

A free-speech guide to angering county supervisors

Keepers of the Magic Kingdom

Watch closely among Disneyland’s tourists and you might spot the Disneyana people, protecting Walt’s vision and living most of their waking lives in the happiest place on Earth

The Face of Pirate Cat Radio

Screwing the Airwaves Since 1997

Cuba Now

Notes on the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana

Cuba Now

Notes on the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana

The Transhumanists

Meet Max and Natasha. They hope to live forever. Seriously.

Smog and Thunder and Really Big Eyes

Sandow Birk and Margaret Keane in Laguna

Filthy Lucre

And stirring conscience

Obscure Objects of Desire

Cinecon 35

Your Ad Here. And Here. And Maybe Here.

Shooting Off Sparks

L.A. Mob Does Vegas

Mickey Mouse Mafia still kicking

Affirmative Abstraction

It Would Be a Suicide Mission for Iraq To Use These Weapons