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Is Your Band Playing Too Many Shows?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you s ... More >>

Let's Talk About the Greatness of Hanson

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] In 1997, my little sister got Hanson's Middle of Nowhere as a birthday gift. I teased her. My judgment was mostly based o ... More >>

5 Hipsters We Love To Hate: A Guide to L.A.'s Sub-Species

Last month, Public Policy Polling data confirmed what so many of us have already suspected: America hates hipsters. And it's not just that the majority of us loathe the ironic masses -- it's that our loathing makes us positively gleeful. Hipster hatred isn't just a hobby these days; it's a badge of ... More >>

Queens of the Stone Age - The Wiltern - 5/23/13

Queens of the Stone Age The Wiltern 5/23/13 Better than...moshing alone. Queens of The Stone Age were becoming reliable, but as they were hitting their stride at the end of 2008, the band decided to take a break and work on solo projects, most notably Josh Homme with Them Crooked Vultures. The Que ... More >>

Mammoth Brewing Company: To the Ends of the Earth for a Microbrew

It never ceases to amaze me where microbreweries turn up. You can be in a shithole town in Texas, in the shadow of Miller Brewery's hulking complex in Milwaukee, you can be in Utah, so far off the beaten path that you're wondering if you can even buy beer in the county you're in and wham, turn the c ... More >>

Randy Blythe, Ahead of His Manslaughter Trial, Talks About Losing a Child Himself

Randy Blythe, lead singer of Richmond, Virginia-based heavy metal band Lamb of God, spent most of the summer in prison in the Czech Republic. It happened due to a strange series of events culminating in late June, when he arrived in Prague to play a show. There, he was arrested by Czech police for t ... More >>

Summer Drinks, Part III: The Shandy

The very first drink my father ever made for me - the first drunk not behind his back in some friend's basement, but in our basement, with him - was a shandy. That must be part of the reason I love them, but that shouldn't detract from the fact that a properly-made shandy just might be the most refr ... More >>

MAP: Los Angeles Is Bigger Than These Eight Major U.S. Cities Combined

Whenever out-of-towners complain about how hard it is to get anywhere in Los Angeles, we try to tell them: It's no more difficult than trying to traverse the entire Bay Area in a single shot. Because this city is HUGE. Like, half the size of Rhode Island. And because of that, we've got a whole serie ... More >>

China Debuts $44 Bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon

Maybe we've watched Blue Velvet too many times, but to us there's something uniquely American about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Sure, it's been widely acknowledged from Williamsburg to Echo Park as the beer du jour of the hipster masses, but really, who doesn't appreciate a blue-collar beer once in a while, ... More >>

Venn Food Diagrams: L.A.'s Idea of Midwestern Food vs. What Midwesterners Really Eat

After exploring L.A.'s perceptions of Indian, Armenian, and Vietnamese cuisine in our oh-so-scientific Venn Food Diagrams series, it's time to circle back to some American regional cooking, and do like we did for Southern food--this time with the Midwest. D. Berson​

Rock Out With Your Mock Out

Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay Youths Less Likely to Use Condoms, More Likely to Use Drugs, Alcohol -- Study

Infidelic​As if life isn't hard enough for them, the Centers for Disease Control on Monday reports that gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students are more prone to drug, alcohol and tobacco use. The study (PDF) includes data from Southern California and indicates, according to a CDC stat ... More >>

Potluck Purpose: New Hollywood Chapter Of Dining For Women Launches Tomorrow

Michael Sears, www.jsonli.jpgAfghani Culinary Themed Potluck At A Milwaukee Dining For Women​Charity dinners at restaurants are great presuming you can afford the high dollar price tag that comes along with them. For the rest of us, or at least half of us, Dining for Women's first L.A. chapter ... More >>

Students Called Out For Flipping Tickets To Rose Bowl Football Game

Students flip tickets to Jan. 1's Rose Bowl game.​Kids these days. Guess we can't blame you for being entrepreneurs in the age of the Great Recession and tuition and fees that have risen faster than the price of gas in the last decade. But have you gone too far? Some University of Wisconsin ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Glass Menagerie, The Good Boy, Stepping on a Few Toes

Also Beast on the Moon, Martyrdumb and more

Top 10: Fictional TV Food Establishments

Even though The French Chef premiered in 1963, the rest of American TV land wasn't exactly keeping up with Julia in that decade. Nor would it catch up in the food department any time soon. But that's fine, because restaurants on television don't focus on the food. Until the non-fictional TV world ge ... More >>

L.A.'s Economy? It's Not So Bad

​Los Angeles' struggling economy and comparatively high unemployment rate has been cited in the debate over hiking Department of Water and Power rates by as much as 28.4 percent. The metropolitan area's jobless number, about 13.2 percent, indeed outshines the national figure of 9.7 percent. B ... 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 >>

The Week in Weirdos

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY GIRL!

Grim Sleeper, Westside Rapist, Milwaukee Madman: DNA sampling misses its mark again

When a serial killer is finally nabbed, some now ask: "What took so long?" LAPD believes that the long-elusive Grim Sleeper may ultimately be identified through a DNA swab. But the national news now features stories about police or jailers failing to take required DNA swabs from felons -- some of wh ... More >>

GQ's 10 Best Food Trucks in America: The Bandwagon Rolls On

GQ.comFojol Bros. of Merlindia​So GQ, the glossy magazine of mens style and perpetual home, it seems, of Derek Jeter, has published their list of "10 Best Food Trucks in America." The bandwagon rolls inexorably on, and although food trucks are a great, cheap way to eat these days--eclectic and ... More >>

A World of (Jazz) Music

Muy Caliente Summer Edition

'The Onion' Peels -- Out of L.A.

The semi-funny paper The Onion is shutting down its print editions in Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to Gawker, which notes the humor pub will still be available through U.S. Mail. "The Onion," Gawker says, "will retain its New York paper for the immediate future, though it is rumored to b ... More >>

Dangerbird's Wings: Silversun Pickups' Label Bangs Out a Template for a Post–Major Label Landscape

Pickups’ new LP, Swoon, hits the streets soon

Bob and Bob Make It Legal: The LA Arrival of the Milwaukee Tax Attorneys That Saved Wesley Snipes

Don't fall into the prosciutto — Robert Bernhoft and Robert Barnes set up shop in Century City and throw themselves a cocktail party

Comedian Bruce McCulloch Fills Steve Allen Theater with Funny

By Chris Martins By the time headlining "Kids in the Hall" alum Bruce McCulloch took the stage on Saturday night, October 18, the Steve Allen Theater was filled up with funny—so much so that it'd have to spill into the street sooner or later. The small building was packed to the gills for McCullo ... More >>

Sex and the Country: Do Me and Sex for America

Two collections of erotica feel us up

Rock Picks: Built to Spill, Meat Puppets, Julia Fordham

Plus other Feb. 21-28 shows

Rock Picks: Siouxsie Sioux, Iron Maiden, Maceo Parker

Plus other Feb. 14-21 shows

Where to Find Frozen Custard

Soft serves

Kings of Leon, Greek Theatre, 9/7

Kings of Leon The Greek Theatre, September 7, 2007 By Jonah Flicker When did the Kings of Leon hire a rock stylist? As they took the stage at the Greek Theatre this past Friday night, the once long-haired, Southern-fried throwback-rockers were sporting a look straight from the boy-band handbook. Ma ... More >>

Must See Art

Tyson Reeder’s “Menomonee Valley” and Judy Ledgerwood and Pae White

Straight Outta Leimert Park

Richard Grant leaves home base for a show at Café 322

Casting by Craigslist

Ethos Theatre Company’s unorthodox classicist

'Phone Phreaks

The B.E.C.K. Quartet and other jazz picks

Mental Ward

Wish-I-could-bake- some-brownies-I-can’t wait-for- Christmas!

Ask Mr. Gold: Cinammon and Spice

From Motown to Rimtown

The blinging of Los Angeles

Letters

Edging Your Bets

Edgefest holds the answers to those handicapping the future of theater in L.A.

Letters

Hear and Now in L.A.

Up Close

And personal

American Movie Classic

Go Away

New Clear Fishin'

In Her Room

Punk video diva Sadie Benning