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Armando Gonzalez: The Skate Shopkeeper

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Latino neighborhoods in the early 1980s, skateboarders were rare. The ones who were around were mocked as whitewashed wannabes. After all, skateboarding was born when beach k ... More >>

Hanni El Khatib: Hunka Burning Love

The hard-partying singer is sexy, raw, wild and, hopefully, dangerous

L.A. City College Student Shames Serial Masturbator (VIDEO)

Los Angeles Collegian student reporter Regine Simmonds contributed to this report. A young, Latino male allegedly masturbated outside the car of student Beatrice Alcala in the Los Angeles City College parking lot on Monday, and Alcala -- a graphic designer for the student newspaper -- had the prese ... More >>

Antaeus Company Casts Two Actors in Each Role. Is That a Good Thing?

10 Awesome Tattoo Artists in L.A.

When it comes to tattooing, we are fortunate to have an enormous wealth of talent in Los Angeles. Though tattoo culture erupted in mainstream popularity several years ago it was a vital part of L.A. long before that and remains so today. There are artists in every corner of the city, with faithful c ... More >>

Hanni El Khatib Makes an Album With Dan Auerbach, Gets Drunk

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "I'm blaming you if I puke later." "Fine. But admit it in the story," Hanni El Khatib replies, passing a vodka and soda that I didn't order. We've been ... More >>

Sexual Assault on UCLA Campus: Third One This School Year

Daily Bruin / YouTubeThe Saxon Steps, a.k.a. the "Rape Trail."​Updated at the bottom: Investigators have leads in the latest case. First posted at 5:50 p.m. A UCLA student was sexually assaulted on campus early today, according to campus police. The attack happened about 2:20 a.m. "at the to ... More >>

Machete's Danny Trejo: From Inmate to Icon

Danny Trejo: Who's Your Badass

[UPDATED WITH JAIL TIME] Fernanda Romero, Mexican Actress, Lied About Paying L.A. Man $5,000 to Marry Her for Green Card

TIGER TIGER via IMDBWould you marry this chick for $5,000?​Updated after the jump: Romero and her questionable hubby get 15 weekends in jail. Update: Romero admitted to lying about her marriage to immigration officials, but not to the $5,000 sham marriage itself. Finally -- a half-confessio ... More >>

You are the punk-rock lion Christ of Human Resources: 3 motivational business books based on deeply stupid metaphors

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. For years the most popular method of getting through the workday for America's busines ... More >>

The Future Is Odd

Missing the energy and vision of early Wu-Tang? Meet L.A.'s Odd Future, your new favorite hip-hop anarcho-surrealists

Comic-Con 2010, Day 1: Street Fashion in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter

Convention fashion isn't all cosplay and oversized Batman t-shirt. Check out what people were wearing in and around the San Diego Convention Center on Day 1 of Comic-Con. Shannon Cottrell​ Cassie Carpenter, Los Angeles Outfit: Urban Outfitters blazer, high wasted sailor shorts, black fanny pac ... More >>

Over the Weekend: The Final L.A. Show of ISIS

Over the Weekend: The Final L.A. Show of ISIS

Tonight: DJ Skee Reinvents the Wheels of Steel with "Skeetox"

Via DJ Skee's TwitpicNo word if J. Lo is one of the surprise guests at Skeetox (Probably not). ​Taking the DJ performance to a new level is a tall task. Since DJs stepped outside of the club and onto the stage, they've struggled with making the often-obscure craft translate to their crowd. Wha ... More >>

The Big Canvas

If you give an artist a billboard ...

Movie Reviews: The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, Paranormal Activity

Plus, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, In Search of Beethoven and more

Ludo Bites at Breadbar

Ludovic Lefebvre Brings Post-Molecular Gastronomy to Third Street

Movie Reviews: The Haunting in Connecticut, Three Monkeys, 12 Rounds

Also, The Education of Charlie Banks and Spinning Into Butter

Wayne Coyne Debuts Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars, Adam Goldberg Tries to Steal the Thunder

Last Night: Nike Sportswear Brightens Up Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla at Montalbán

Juxtapalooza

The Lowbrow sickness continues to spread, from Burbank to Laguna

Wax On, Wax Off

Car wash, yeah; pole-dancing queen; photo Zone at Drkrm

TRS-80: Tron on Acid

Jay Rajeck founded TRS-80 in Chicago in 1997, and while the line-up and location have changed over the past 11 years, he's remained consistent in his delivery of relatively minimalistic, predominantly instrumental electronic music, which he often mixes with bizarre retro samples. The result is a s ... More >>

Bo Knows Death

Like many people my age, I learned about Bo Diddley not from any unremembered nostalgia for British Invasion swipes of the ancient bluesman's slippery guitar technique, but from the myth-making "Bo Knows" Nike commercials of the late 80s. See the above YouTube clip and marinate on the '88 cameos f ... More >>

No Age: Rather Ripped

The buzz surrounding L.A. noise-pop band is deafening

The Rise of the Seventh Letter

Mad society kings

Upside Yo Head

All the ladies in the house say “hegemony”

Failure to Launch

With six flops in 13 years, indie filmmaker Eric Schaeffer is at it again

DEPTH BEHIND THE DECKS: THE ART OF URBAN GURU GARTH TRINIDAD

Tee Is for Tits

Periel Aschenbrand’s 100-percent-cotton awareness

Attention, Skaters With Visa Cards!

Insurgency Insipience

Flip-floppin’ again

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

Willie Nelson & Friends

Triumph of the Ill

“Beautiful Losers” in Newport Beach

’Toon Town

You’ve Been Served

Reading tennis queen Serena Williams’ fashion statement

Brother From Another Planet

Tom Hanks in Spielberg’s The Terminal

The Shit Less Taken

Pettibon in the Sky

In the Land of the SUV

In the Land of the SUV Josh Connole meets the FBI

A Tale of Two T-Shirts

Please Pass This Notice On

Netlore is fast replacing urban legends in limning 21st-century angst

The Hidden

Or, how The Blair Witch Project conquered the world

The Asphalt Jingle

Pavement's creeping Terror

Soviet Blocks

A story of getting lost -- and found -- in pre-glasnost Kiev

Colonial Life

The brave bugs of Antz and the rabid racists of The Life of Jesus

A Little Bit o' Heaven

The Gospel Midgets reach for the stars

'Da Funk