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Nanette Gonzales

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    April 12, 2013

    Doing Drugs at Coachella? Here's How to Avoid Trouble With the Police

    Hate to say it, but some of you at Coachella (which starts today!) are going to be approached by police officers assuming you have drugs. Well, you just may, but guess what? You still have rights, man. See also: Everything You Need to Know About Coachella Cameron Bowman is here to help! As a music ... More >>

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    December 11, 2012

    10 Best Eats in Little Osaka: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

    Just north of the intersection of Sawtelle and Olympic, in the neighborhood known as Little Osaka, there's a quadrant of Los Angeles with so much outstanding food crammed into a relatively small space that it makes you wonder why these neighborhood planners can't have a crack at other parts of town. ... More >>

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    October 9, 2012

    10 Best Workouts in L.A. for People Who Hate Working Out

    See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. *Top 10 Gyms in L.A. *10 Bars Most Likely to Get You Laid in L.A. Running is boring. Treadmills make me feel like a rat in an experiment. And tennis -- my racket is somewhere, and, do do I have t ... More >>

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    October 9, 2012

    Cake and Art: A West Hollywood Bakery Translates Art into Frosting A Video

    Elton John's Eiffel Tower, Bob Hope's piano and Bernadette Peters' shoe have one thing in common: They've all become cakes from Cake and Art, a West Hollywood bakery that can seemingly recreate anything into a cake. From cars to sculptures, animals to accessories, from a bloody body to a family phot ... More >>

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    September 24, 2012

    An Ode to Fruit Cart Vendors: In Photos

    If you spend any time driving around Los Angeles (yeah, that's a joke; like you have a choice), you're doubtless familiar with the sudden neighborhood rainbows that comprise the fruit cart vendors found on many sidewalks and at many street intersections around this town. The vendors set up shop, whi ... More >>

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    August 9, 2012

    Tavi Gevinson, 16-Year-Old Magazine Editor, Turns an L.A. Gallery Into a Teenage Bedroom

    Tavi Gevinson -- blogger, fashion icon, cultural phenomenon, 16-year-old girl -- is happy to be in Los Angeles, her favorite city, at the tail end of a long, exhausting, amazing and smelly road trip across the country. Specifically, she is in Hollywood, turning Space 15 Twenty gallery into a tee ... More >>

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    June 28, 2012

    What the Hell is Gloving?

    Hand in Glove: 'Gloving' Light Shows Dominate Raves, Stir Controversy Do You Have to Be on Ecstasy to Appreciate Gloving? Judge For Yourself Top Ten Awkward Electric Daisy Carnival Dance Move GIFs Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs In our music feature this week we explo ... More >>

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    April 16, 2012

    Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs

    *"What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella: The Black Lips' Cole Alexander Goes Full Monty, Plays Guitar With His Ding-Dong At Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They'll employ almost anything in this quest -- but mostly drugs. ... More >>

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    April 12, 2012

    7 Things to Do Under $7 in L.A. This Week

    Bibliophiles, engine-loathing cyclists and fans of absurd but beautiful Technicolor art can probably leave their wallets at home this week, at least if they're looking for something fun to do.

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    March 29, 2012

    Top 10 Strip Clubs in Los Angeles

    So you're curious to go to a strip club, but unless your buddy is a regular and brings you along, how are you going to pick which one? Yelp? Give me a break. Thankfully for you, our L.A. Weekly experts have compiled the top ten strip clubs in L.A. But don't get too excited -- save it for the girls.

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    February 16, 2012

    Geek Chicks: PyLadies, a Gang of Female Computer Programmers

    Nanette GonzalesKatharine Jarmul, PyLady​It's not that the PyLadies are intimidated by the men who dominate computer programmer events and workshops. It's just that they got tired of feeling like outsiders.Katharine Jarmul, 29, remembers the day they first identified the problem. She and t ... More >>

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    January 25, 2012

    George Duke Is 
A Lot Older Than You. 
And A Lot More Hip

    Nanette Gonzales​[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Q: What's cooler than being cool? A: George Duke. All apologies to Andre 3000, Antarctica and Wilt the Stilt circa 1971. But jazz ... More >>

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    January 11, 2012

    J-Swift Made Big Hits 
With The Pharcyde 
Before Tragedy And Drugs 
Nearly Took Him Down

    Nanette Gonzales​[Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List J-Swift hit rock bottom five years ago. Sacks o ... More >>

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    January 5, 2012

    Mr. Brainwash's 'Art Show 2011' Gets Populism Right

    photo by Nanette GonzalesMr. Brainwash's "Art Show 2011"​ Update: Show has been extended, and will be open one more day, on Jan. 8. Doors open at 2 p.m. Location is 960 N. La Brea Ave. At "Art Show 2011," equivocal street artist Mr. Brainwash's 80,000 square-foot feat, Mr. Brainwash sat at a ... More >>

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    January 4, 2012

    Lynwood Parents Fight Back Against Nasty, Anti-'Parent Trigger' Newsletters From Teachers Union

    PHOTO BY NANETTE GONZALESAlma Alvarado and her daughter, Jessica Alvarez, at Lynwood's Washington Elementary.​At a heated press conference in Lynwood today, a group of parents whose children attend the Lynwood Unified School District are trying to clear up some recent rumor-mongering by the lo ... More >>

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    December 30, 2011

    50 Craziest Occupy Movements of 2011

    Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>

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    December 27, 2011

    5 Most Influential L.A. Architectural Shifts in 2011

    What were the five most influential shifts in Los Angeles' architectural realm this year? It turns out they're not about pretty pictures. Or at least that's the feedback we got when we took a poll to come up with this LA Weekly best of 2011 list. Instead of touting singular designs, the answers o ... More >>

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    December 8, 2011

    Q & A with David Larsen of Haven Gastropub Brewery: Beer Geeks in Pasadena, Adventures in Dry Pork Your Brewmaster as Ukekele Player

    Orange County's Haven Gastropub has a reputation for rather maniacally obtaining their mercurial selection of craft brews. On one occasion, Beverage Director Wil Dee took a Smokey and the Bandit-style run up to San Francisco to bootleg a vanload from 21st Amendment Brewery, which has no wholesale d ... More >>

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    December 5, 2011

    Pancakes & Booze Showcases Underground Art in a Downtown Warehouse

    Nanette GonzalesBreakfast for dinner​Also check out our slideshow by Nanette Gonzales on The Pancakes and Booze Art Show Some gallery owners organizing a show might draw inspiration from their college degrees in art history. But when Tom Kirlin curated his first art show, he was inspired by co ... More >>

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    November 17, 2011

    Mulholland Drive's 'No Litter Zone,' Where a Homeless Man is the Solo Clean-Up Crew

    Nanette GonzalesTrying to keep Mulholland Drive clean​Green signs announce that the stretch of Mulholland Drive between Laurel Canyon and Coldwater Canyon has been declared a "No Litter Zone," and for the most part, they're right. Considering the volume of traffic that passes through here, th ... More >>

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    October 27, 2011

    7 Must-See L.A. Halloween Events This Weekend

    Nanette Gonzales​ No plans for Halloween? Not looking forward to trying to park in WeHo for the parade Monday night? Check out these seven other weekend events. We won't say they're spook-tacular. If we did you'd have to shoot us.

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    October 18, 2011

    Sand One and Vyal One Paint a Downtown Mural That Gets Buffed Within a Week (VIDEO)

    Nanette Gonzales​This week in print, Tony Cella and Simone Wilson look at L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's war on public murals and the moratorium that has left many artists seeing their sanctioned work get buffed almost before the paint has even had time to dry. Two such artists are San ... More >>

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    October 14, 2011

    Achtung! Über Graffiti Twins How & Nosm Take L.A. By Paint

    Nanette Gonzales​For more photos, see "How and Nosm in L.A." Raoul and Davide Perre, otherwise known as artists How and Nosm, are identical German twins that yes, speak their own graf language and even finish each others sentences. To mark their first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, opening ... More >>

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    September 20, 2011

    Lil B's Manager Sebastian Demian Is Calmer Than You Are

    Nanette Gonzales Sebastian Demian with Lee "Scratch" Perry painting​Sebastian Demian is the director of Dem Passwords, an oddly-named art gallery-cum-music venue that is difficult to find. It's located beneath a West Hollywood hydroponics store, but it's not accessible from the street, so you ... More >>

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