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Flash Mobbing With Carrotmob: No More Ozone Depleting Freezers at Pasadena's Fresh & Easy

The art of flash mobbing will be practiced this Saturday at Pasadena's Fresh & Easy supermarket for the cause of the environment. A flash mob, for the uninitiated, is a group of random people who assemble suddenly in a place to perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time. In th ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhap ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #10-6

*Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List 10. Jennifer Lopez As Eminem said (more or less), we'd have sex with this chick ... More >>

L.A. Pedophile Bust Dismantles International Child Porn Ring

Elizabeth Macias: Pepper Spray Lady's Black Friday Gassing Under Review by L.A. City Attorney

Lalo Alcaraz​As the holiday season is upon us, we turn with warm thoughts to the case of Pepper Spray Lady, the woman who unleashed a torrent of bitter tear juice on fellow shoppers during a Black Friday sale at a Porter Ranch Walmart. National headlines ensued. As we told you previously, the ... More >>

Peter Archer Rowing Center in Long Beach, Where Injured Vets Learn to Get Moving Again

He was walking through the combat zone when he slipped and fell. Sgt. 1st Class Rorey Nichols landed hard on his lower back. He lay there for a while. He was alone, which was bad. But it was daytime, and he thanked God for that. Slipping sounds stupid. Slipping on your way to the chow hole while ... More >>

Black Friday Mayhem: Pepper Spraying, Fighting And Shooting, Oh My (Video)

Updated at the bottom: As cops tell the Weekly charges will be recommended, details emerge about the number of witnesses (victims?). First posted at 8 p.m. Friday. Ah, the season of giving is upon us, a time when we celebrate family, our nation and, yes, peace on earth. Wait, was that pepper spray ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Why Liz Phair's MILF Makeover Is Over Your Head

By Dan Weiss [Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Last year, Liz Phair quietly posted an album to her website called Funstyle, which contained rapping, light ... More >>

Gears of War 3: We Played It

​What do you do when you come into possession of a copy of Gears of War 3 and your taste in games is decidedly more Super Mario Brothers? You find someone with an Xbox 360 who is down to play and can, hopefully, show you the ropes. I'm not a gamer. I like what I played as a child-- arcade sta ... More >>

Atari Updates Classic Video Games with Centipede: Infestation and Warlords

Shannon CottrellCheck out our E3 2011 category for more coverage from the show. See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshows, "E3 2011: Day One" and "E3 2011: Day Two." Inside Atari's E3 Booth​At E3 it's easy to get swept away by the new. The three-day show, centered around games that hav ... More >>

USC VIDEO: Techies Pwn Google, Turn 'Gmail Motion' April Fool's Prank Into Reality

YouTube​Updated after the jump: One of the USC techies shows us how to work real-life Gmail Motion. And it's ever radder than we thought. Google unleashed many a poke in the rib on April Fool's Day 2011. There was the Helvetica-turned-Comic Sans search -- a budding typophile's wet dream -- an ... More >>

Justin Bieber Accidentally Violates Own Copyright, and Other Insane Tales of the Ongoing Intellectual Property Crackdown

What do a Texas cheerleader, a parking lot attendant, OnSmash.com, and the founders of Pirate Bay have in common? If you guessed "alleged criminals" you are correct!

Nightranger: Gamer Gauche

Top 10 Video Game Food References

It takes a powerhouse blend of stamina and strength to plant yourself on the couch and nudge a thumbstick back and forth for hours at a time. Why else would gamers require a dedicated line of "performance snacks?" Ok, every collaboration between gamer and grub doesn't need to be farcical and insulti ... More >>

Flying Lotus Rising

Could spiritual electronica be the next great California sound?

We’re Jerkin’ (Starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk and Pink Dollaz)

Gangsta rap is over. Clownin’ and Krumpin’ too

Music Gaming at E3 Expo: First Look at Beatles Rock Band, Last.fm's Xbox Partnership

Alexia TsotsisThose of us who remember the '80s (um, not me) might recall Sony introducing the first CD player in 1982. We've all come a long way since then, and nowhere was this more evident than at E3 Expo this week. West Coast Sound's "three is a trend" alarm went off when we realized that the pl ... More >>

Fast & Furious: Made-for-VG Movie

No. 4 in this Vin Diesel series should have gone straight to Xbox

Killsonic: A 24-Piece L.A. Big Band's "Cloud of Noise"

Roving musicians fill city's Metro tunnels with sound

Comic Demetri Martin on Important Things

Like trees, deserts and his yia yia

Over the Weekend: Candy Cane Lane Light Riot, Downtown on Ice, Automatico Party Cultivates Spanglish Underground, Boxing Fans Party for PacMan

If you're reading this, congratulations. It can only mean one thing -- you survived another holiday season of over-eating, over-imbibing and (probably) over-spending. So, welcome home, double-up on that espresso and let's get back to work. Somehow in the midst of our holiday haze, L.A. Weekly found ... More >>

The Amazing Hunt: Sci Fi gives Chase, for Race heads who might like their reality TV even more like a video game

Pilot episode takes place at Port of Los Angeles

Super Boll

In a web exclusive, our conversation with the Postal director continues

Uwe Boll Goes Postal

Notorious German director spars with his critics, makes an intentional comedy

A Hero for Our Time

Are rocker video games the new MTV — and will they help save the music universe?

The Zombie Zeitgeist

On the stump since 1968

Back to Old School

Highly Flammable

Jerry Bruckheimer’s newest TV law firm, TNT & G, blows up the image of the earnest defense lawyer

One Hot Restaurant

Kill Them All. Kill Them All!

Music and video games: an endless, wretched love affair

Wicked Games

Film Reviews

Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.

Quest for Fire: Out of the Flames

L.A.'s best roasted, grilled sizzled and wood-baked cooking

Smash Box

The Incredible Hulk’s cathartic punch

Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

The Hipster’s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

Man's Best Friend

Nintendogs puts existentialism in the palm of your hand

Star Wars Rules/Sucks

Lucas’ best-selling video game shows which trilogy is better

The Moralgorithm

How the little black box knew the Spurs would (probably) win the NBA Finals

All whacked out on E3

God Free

Give PEACE^® a Chance

7 Ways To Waste Time

Inside Your Xbox (or Playstation 2)

Making Very Nice With Tiny Tim

After the Lights Go Down

What's up at AFI Fest 2004

Get on It or Else

Straight Shooters

Guerrilla filmmakers PSTOLA declare war on jigabooism

Pass the Paddles

Our guide to the games

Upscale Activism: Raquel Welch Rallies Beverly Hills Behind the Troops

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

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