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Heather Taylor: Culver City Gallerist and Lifestyle Maven

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. To gallery owner, blogger, fashionista, lifestyle maven and all-around It girl Heather Taylor, life consists of "little moments of making things pretty." Sitting barefoot and cr ... More >>

10 Types of People You See at Coachella Parties

See also: *More Coachella coverage *5 Fashion Combos to Expect at Coachella *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Festival schmestival. The party scene that's emerged and evolved around the Coachella Music Fest has gotten nearly as huge and musically plentiful as the main event. This year, our W ... More >>

Brett Shaad Aftermath: John Duran Apologizes to Family as Meningitis Vaccinations Uptick in West Hollywood

West Hollywood Councilman John Duran offered an apology on Monday to the family of Brett Shaad, who died from meningitis over the weekend. Duran held a press conference on Friday about the Shaad tragedy, which sparked national media coverage. "Please offer my deep condolences to the Shaad family," ... More >>

UPDATE: Brett Shaad, West Hollywood Lawyer, Brain Dead after Contracting Meningitis

Update: Shaad family releases a statement about the tragedy, after the jump. Shock. That's what a lot of people in West Hollywood were feeling after hearing the news that Brett Shaad, a gay man and lawyer in his early 30s, was announced brain dead after contracting bacterial meningitis. As of Frid ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan's Rehab Deal Had To Work Around Coachella Parties, Report Says

Coachella is a must-see event on the annual Southern California party calendar. And nobody is more aware of said calendar, it seems, than one Lindsay Lohan. RadarOnline says the celeb wanted to ensure that her recent deal for locked-up rehab, which might or might not be in jeopardy, did not conflic ... More >>

Why Is Everyone So Pissed About the EDM Reality Show?

As the Hollywood-based casting guru behind Jersey Shore and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Doron Ofir knows how the lowbrow culture game is played. But even the man who gave the world Snooki might have been caught off-guard by the outrage over one of his latest projects: a competitive EDM reality ... More >>

Earthquake 'Swarm' in Imperial Valley Still Raging, Could Signal Larger SoCal Event

An underground thunderstorm of seismic activity, officially called a "seismic swarm," hit a farm town called Brawley in the Imperial Valley yesterday -- gearing up around sunrise with some magnitude 2s and 3s, peaking with a magnitude 5.3 and 5.5 just after noon, and rolling into Monday morning with ... More >>

American Royalty Are a Dance Band Playing for Crowds Too Cool to Dance

On American Royalty's latest EP, Matchstick, it seems like there's more than one band playing. Marc Gilfry and Billy Scher, two 23-year-old multi-instrumentalists who like to "fall down every rabbit hole," and drummer Mat Ungson make up the band. They write psychedelic dance songs that venture dow ... More >>

Coachella: Organizers Threatening to Leave Indio

See also: Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs The 2013 Coachella could well be its last in Indio, say organizers, due to their opposition to a new events admissions tax initiative proposed by a city councilman there. If the initiative makes it onto the November ballot, they warn, they would ... More >>

Coachella: Rain, Wind, Cold Temps Possible as Storms Approach SoCal

See our guide to 2012 Coachella acts here. And, check out our photo primer of Coachella eye candy. Bad news for Coachella hipsters this weekend: The second of two storms headed for Southern California will bring a chance of rain, windy conditions and low temperatures to the desert valley where Ra ... More >>

The Gold Standard 2012: Save The Date, Start Fasting

Anne Fishbeinglasses at the 2011 Gold Standard​It's that time of year again. No, not movie award time -- note to foodists: you may want to bring a bag of macarons to The Artist, just to keep yourself awake -- but time to gear up for the 2012 Gold Standard, that glorious event in which Jonathan ... More >>

Christwire Creators Want You to Read The Christwire Handbook Or Burn In Hell

For the past three years, Christwire.org creators Bryan Butvidas and Kirwin Watson have come off sounding like the bastard sons of Ted "Kill It and Grill It" Nugent with their right-wing rhetoric on gays, liberals and foreigners. Most followers eventually caught onto the joke, as did major media out ... More >>

Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 5 Iconic Works of California Design on Sale Sunday

Courtesy of Los Angeles Modern AuctionsRichard Neutra's VDL House in Silver Lake, photographed by Julius Shulman in 1966. A print of this image, and some of the furniture photographed, are up for auction this weekend. Life in sepia remains unavailable.​In the material world, the past is never ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Lappert's (Day 26)

Outside of its birthplace in Hawaii, Lappert's Ice Cream is mostly a Northern California brand. Bored in retirement, Walter Lappert mixed his first batch of ultra rich, high-butterfat ice cream in Kauai in 1983. The brand took off, and his son, Michael, opened a California production facility the ... More >>

Everyone Loves a Troll: How Christwire Fooled Rachel Maddow, Howard Stern, 3 Million Coachella Heads and Counting

ChristwireThe mega-trollers, in costume as Bryan Blake and Mike Watson​Christwire.org is a joke. IT'S NOT REAL. Not a genuine bone in its blogroll. (Except for when they also fool their Christian freelancers.) Every day, the two dudes who run Christwire read hundreds of your angry comments a ... More >>

Coachella 2011: Same Festival, Polar Opposite Crowds

photo by Wendy GilmartinThis guys wasn't at Duran Duran​ Coachella is all about variety and sure there are those fleeting chocolate-in-my-peanut butter moments when scenesters, hippies and douchebags all get down together (see Animal Collective, Saturday night). But right now we're talking ab ... More >>

U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott Threatened With Death: SoCal Man Charles Turner Habermann Arrested

U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott.​Updates with a minor correction (as a result of erroneous info from federal authorities in Seattle) after the jump. Following the massacre in Tucson over the weekend that apparently targeted U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Southern California man was arrested for all ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Loses Role As Porn Star Linda Lovelace; News Hard To Swallow

Lohan loses porn-star role.​You know you're, er, going down as an actor when you're not even suitable to play a porn star. That's the latest rap for Lindsay Lohan, who was set to make a comeback of sorts as Linda Lovelace in Inferno. Reports state that the movie's producers couldn't get insur ... More >>

Sex, Thugs and Catholic Rage

Oscar winner excavates lost, hilariously offensive labor of love

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Out at the Movies

From bisexual bromance to lesbian Marines to Le Tigre: 15 picks for Outfest

Lawsuit Alleges Cardinal Roger Mahony Covered-Up Molestation Claim

Cardinal Roger Mahony.​A new lawsuit against the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles alleges that Cardinal Roger Mahony built a "conspiracy of silence" that kept church officials addressing claims that a parishioner who was 12 at the time was being molested regularly. The victim, now 27, stat ... More >>

Oscar Winner Brings Lost B Movie to Egyptian Theater

​ Bob Murawski just won an Oscar for editing Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a long-in-the-works indie project that came seemingly out of nowhere to earn the respect and accolades of the Academy. Now Murawski's own long-in-the-works indie project is about to be unveiled at the Egyptian Thea ... More >>

Spiritual Voice Of KCRW To Retire

KCRW (89.9 FM) general manager Ruth Seymour announced Wednesday that she's retiring after 32 years running the public station out of Santa Monica College. She said she'll leave in February. Meanwhile, the college has already begun a search for a replacement.KCRWRuth Seymour​

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Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Coachella Day Two: The Accidental Tourist, or Can We Please All Agree To Stop Using the Phrase “Coachella-Ella-Ella-Ella”

I ran into a guy I knew from high school standing in line for the restrooms in the VIP area. I hadn't seen him in a decade but was about four glasses of $7 wine deep and feeling good. No reason not to be friendly, after all, I no longer harbored a grudge from that time in the 11th grade when he tr ... More >>

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