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Meet Emanuel Pleitez

He's the Most Amazing Person Who Won't Win the March 5 Los Angeles Mayoral Primary

Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland - House of Blues - 2/10/13

Nero, Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland House of Blues 2/10/13 A crew of electronic artists and pop stars performed last night as part of a Grammy afterparty that was also a benefit for Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Orthopedic Center. (Tickets started at $250.) But the cost didn't deter ... More >>

Deadmau5 - Sonos Studios - 10/19/12

Deadmau5 Sonos Studios 10/19/12 Better Than: The cheap seats On Friday night, Deadmau5, née Joel Zimmerman, played for a crowd of 200 people at acoustic gallery space Sonos Studios. This is a guy who played four nights in a row at the Palladium last August and was the first electronic artist to h ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: And In This Corner...

Remember Mike Tyson's Punch Out? That old Nintendo game in which scrawny "Little Mac" fought his way through towering opponents, eventually taking down the heavyweight champion despite his apparent feebleness? Well, on last night's episode of Top Chef Masters, chef Lorena Garcia followed a similar t ... More >>

Koreatown Bar Report: Blipsy Barcade

The Place: Blipsy Barcade, 369 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles; 323-461-7067. The Hours: Mon. - Sat. 4 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sun. 12 p.m. - 2 a.m. The Digs: A neon Pac-Man ghost outside the door lets you know you've arrived at the right spot. Inside, the bar area is lit up like one of those glowing video g ... More >>

An L.A. Riots Video Game Concept in Which You Can Be Rodney King

See also: *The Problem Solverz Creator Ben Jones: Using Video Games 'Like Religion' *Five Cheap Ways You Can Support Your Favorite Artists *UCLA Game Art Festival Features Caine's Arcade Made by a 9-Year-Old, and More With E3 ready to take over downtown Los Angeles this week, it makes sense that G ... More >>

Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16

See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the l ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

The Gamepad Cutting Board: Smash Garlic Like Mario (the Other One) Smashes Bowser

Firebox.comGamepad Chopping Board​ The original Nintendo controller -- so simple, so rectangular -- is a touchstone of nostalgia for many of us, a reminder of a time when two simple red buttons were all you needed to jump, shoot, and beat Bowser at Mario's own game. UK company Firebox takes u ... 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 >>

What, Exactly, is 8-Bit Music?

Liz OhanesianComputeHer live at Obsolete​ Cristina Fuentes is a master of Game Boy beats. She plays "8-bit" music, also known as "chip" music or "chiptunes," whose name references computer chips. What unites musicians of this genre is not so much a specific sound, but rather the technology ... More >>

Sega Unleashes Sonic Generations Demo Today for Sonic the Hedgehog's 20th Anniversary

Sega​ Read more in "Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog Turns 20, Joins Nintendo's Mario for London 2012 Olympics Video Game." June 23 marks the 20th anniversary of Sega's beloved mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. Beginning today, gamers can download demos of Sonic Generations, the anniversary game, via Xbox ... More >>

Frogger 3D and Four Other Games for Those Who Miss Arcades

Shannon CottrellPlaying Skullgirls with Arcade-in-a-Box controllers​"We are now missing the classic arcade style games," says Tak Fujii, producer of Konami's forthcoming Frogger 3D game. It was a sentiment that we heard a lot at E3 last week. Game developers, who are arguably the biggest fans ... More >>

Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog Turns 20, Joins Nintendo's Mario for London 2012 Olympics Video Game

Shannon CottrellSonic the Hedgehog's 20th anniversary party​Check 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 the E3 booth for Sonic Generations, the 20th anniversary Sonic the He ... More >>

Harold Goldberg's All Your Base are Belong to Us and the Cultural History of Video Games as Emotional Story of American Entrepreneurship

Screencap from Sega's Zero Wing​ "All Your Base are Belong to Us" famously circulated as an Internet meme a decade ago. Originating as a poor English translation (from Japanese) of dialogue in Sega's 1991 video game Zero Wing, the phrase has a new life as the title of Harold Goldberg's cultura ... More >>

Marco Brambilla at Santa Monica Museum of Art

"The Dark Lining" heralds the future of video installation

Anamanaguchi's Peter Berkman Shares His Top 3 Influences: Tim and Eric, Japanese Music and Video Games

Ethan Saks​ Tonight, Anamanaguchi plays The Roxy with Peelander-Z and, tomorrow, the 8-bit punk band behind the music for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game will head down to Meltdown Comics, where they will appear inside the Nerdist Theater. Right before the band left for South by Southwe ... More >>

Star Wars, Metroid and Zelda Vintage NES Games Turned into 1TB External Hard Drives

It's official -- dreams do come true on the Internet. This whole time we thought online shopping store Etsy.com was mostly for stay at home moms pimping handmade oven mitts or for hippies slinging animal cruelty-free soaps. Turns out we were wrong. So, so wrong. Exhibit A: Vintage Nintendo video gam ... More >>

Pikachu Girls: Dressing Up Like Pokemon, The Cute, The Bad, The Slutty

Why do cute girls like to dress up as Pikachu? It's a question for the ages. Pikachu is Nintendo's small, chubby, ground-dwelling rodent whose main powers are electricity and getting cute girls to wear short yellow skirts. You'll see them at every anime or comic book convention, rain or shine. I'd p ... More >>

Friend Finder

Classic Tetris World Championship Celebrates 20 Years of Knocking Down Virtual Walls

It was the summer of 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and millions of Americans were knocking down virtual walls of their own alongside their Soviet counterparts as Nintendo released the Game Boy with Tetris packed in with the system. Ivan Fernandez​Over 20 years later (25 fo ... More >>

5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana

5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

INCHES011: New Wax from Fool's Gold, Now-Again (Rare Psych!), Samiyam, and Inca Ore ( MP3s, chart)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and ... More >>

The Holy Grail of Gaming: $17,500 for the World's Most Collectible Game Cartridge...And That's the Cheap Price

Would you spend $17,500 on a video game? An old video game? This guy did. He bought a gold (painted) Nintendo World Championships cartridge. It is considered "The Holy Grail of Gaming" to collectors of video games. JJ Hendricks bought the thing on eBay. It was listed for $25,000 so it seems he got ... More >>

Food On Film: "Know Your Mushrooms," Dude

Canadian director Ron Mann's film, "Know Your Mushrooms," one of a number of food-focused documentaries to come out this summer, finish ... More >>

Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky Make a Visceral Comeback in The Wrestler

Lord of the ring

The Next Big Thing at the Detour Festival: Buraka Som Sistema's Kuduro Beats and the Sound of Tomorrow

The Portuguese DJ collective's rhythms have yet to catch on here, but they will

At L.A.'s E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Games

Faster, Dracula! Kill! Kill! Bloodthirsty peeks at the latest versions of Flock, BioShock, Borderlands, WolfQuest and Castlevania, plus Konami designer Koji Igarashi

The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 2 (#19-15)

This list has very little to do with Back to the Future II. However, I am writing it from the inside of a Delorean. 19. Pete Rock ft. Styles P & Sheek Louch-"914" Released by Nature Sounds in January as the single from Pete Rock' s still shelved New York's Finest record, "914" has inevitably bec ... More >>

The King of Kong's Rival Arcade Gamers

No quarter

Well-Spent Youth

My dad, fully aware that I have been traumatized since turning 30 last November, sent me these words of wisdom today. They reminded me just how fortunate I am to have been born in the pre-information technology era, back when cellphones were just a brick-like twinkle in some nerd's ey ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 18 – 25

A Rasta-Colored Dixie Flag

If ’60s turned out to be ’90s: Brightblack Morning Light

Man's Best Friend

Nintendogs puts existentialism in the palm of your hand

Donkey Kong in the Bowl

An 8-bit evening with the LA Phil

God Free

The Last Hurrah

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

Strange Bedfellows: Winona and the Chicago 7

Playtime

Fanboys and Cheesecake

Snow Princes

Strong, sexy, scarred and psycho

Pocket Pal

NeoGeo’s hand-held gaming system bucks Nintendo’s hegemony

Beached

DiCaprio finds trouble in Paradise

Speed Sells

A tale of methamphetamine, drug cartels and an amateur chemist named Fester.

The Balding Soprano

From antipasto to antidepressants: a Mafioso's midlife crises

Solo

Dating Yourself