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Think You Like the Hollywood Bowl? These People Really Like the Hollywood Bowl

See also: *More articles about the Hollywood Bowl *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Annoying Things About Summer in L.A. Tickets for the Hollywood Bowl went on general sale to the public Saturday morning at 10 a.m., and for Alisha Staten, Gwen Corben, Sheila Tunnel and their cohorts, this ... More >>

Top 3 Weekend Events: Food Truck Haven, Superba Snack Bar Cooking Demo DRINKfest

Food Truck Haven A fleet of food trucks are lining up at Angel City Brewery in Little Tokyo. Calling it a modern-day picnic, the brewery has invited a range: White Rabbit Filipino Truck, Belly BombZ KBBQ Wings, George's Greek Truck, Surfer's Taco Truck, Crepes Bonaparte, Gobbles & Oinks Truck, Grill ... More >>

Pomona Street Artist Alleges That Odd Future Stole His Design

By Ren MacDonald Ten years ago, Inland Empire native Ian Campbell founded Cat Cult, an artist collective whose members paste pictures of screen-printed cat heads on sidewalks, traffic signal boxes and buildings throughout L.A. County. As a teen in his Pomona garage Campbell, now 33, started making ... More >>

Our Ten Most Anticipated Indie Albums For 2013

With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>

Kyle Bangayan Arrested For Making Political Statement About Newtown On Facebook?

Kyle Bangayan, the man accused of making Newtown-like threats to shoot up local schools, might have just been joking when me posted his feelings on Facebook. In fact, he says he was making a political statement. That didn't stop the LAPD from going gangbusters on the East Hollywood home of his pare ... More >>

Music Picks: Lauryn Hill, Bad Brains, Shuggie Otis

Vets and Doctors Don't Usually Talk to Each Other. Zoobiquity Is Trying to Change That

Clad in a white coat, teal scrubs and leather clogs, the doctor describes the case to the group. He explains that 27-year-old Rosie had painful periods and trouble conceiving. "She just wouldn't get up in the morning, and she wasn't eating or drinking during her periods," he says. After a sonog ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Across L.A. For Memorial Day Weekend: Here's Your Cheat Sheet

Memorial Day weekend is the traditional kick-off for summer. Don't start it $10,000 in the hole, which is about what you will pay in fines and legal costs if you get a DUI -- not to mention a likely night in jail. The CHP, the LAPD and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department will be testing you this ... More >>

Sam McPheeters, of the '90s Punk Band Born Against, On His Bizarre Novel About L.A.'s Angriest Chevron Owner

"I wanted it to be like a firework show," Sam McPheeters says about the crescendo of energy and tension in his debut novel, The Loom of Ruin. "It just gets more and more insane." Co-founder of the legendary hardcore punk band Born Against, McPheeters' first novel was just released via Mugger Books ... More >>

Music Picks: Robben Ford, Hard L.A., Adams Conducts Adams, the Polyphonic Spree

Also, Mindless Self Indulgence, the Pierces, Heartless Bastards, Darasuum and others

Music Picks: Iggy & the Stooges, Morrissey, Esa-Pekka Salonen

Also, Henry Rollins, Liz Pappademas, Greg Bissonette Quintet

10 Best Ethnic Spas in L.A., From Gail Herndon and Brenda Goldstein's Book The Spa Less Traveled

​ If your version of an "ethnic massage" is limited to Swedish rubdowns, a new book promises to open your eyes. For The Spa Less Traveled: Discovering Ethnic Los Angeles, One Massage at a Time, authors Gail Herndon and Brenda Goldstein anonymously visited hundreds of Thai, Korean, Chinese, J ... More >>

Meet Speak, Who Co-Wrote Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci"

BrassSpeak​It's an August afternoon in Hollywood, and the shaggy-bearded rapper Speak is snacking on mac 'n' cheese in a recording studio at Atlantic Records. He doesn't seem like he belongs here. For starters, he's wearing beach bum attire: sun-bleached peach board shorts and Sperry Top-Sid ... More >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 15-11

​ See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party ... More >>

Music Picks: Esperanza Spalding, Elbow, Toro Y Moi, Blink-182

Also, Glen Campbell, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lanie Lane and others

Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low

Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others

Derek Verdugo, 25-Year-Old From La Habra, Killed by Apparent Facebook Friend in Hit-and-Run Crash

FacebookDerek Verdugo​Update: Verdugo's friends have emailed us to say that, contrary to reports, he and Ortiz were actually riding in the same car when the accident happened. One commenter says that "Derek and Ortiz were good friends for years." R.I.P. Originally posted July 27 at 10:30 a.m. ... More >>

Music Picks: Tinariwen, Colbie Caillat, A.R. Rahman, Best Coast

Also, Monopoly, David Bazan, Gravespawn and others

Music Picks: The Undertones, Prince, Eternal Summers, Check Yo Ponytail 2

Also, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tinie Tempah, Arctic Monkeys, Woodsman and others

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

Music Picks: Talib Kweli, Pete Yorn, Lucy Schwartz

Also Rise Against, Piney Gir, Deradoorian and others

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

This weekend: Wild Flag, Richard Thompson, Avi Buffalo, Shadow Shadow Shade, Daedelus, Bob Mould, Eisley

Richard Thompson​You (and your fellow audience members) have died and gone to the underworld. You're in a waiting room, waiting to be processed. To entertain you, the gatekeeper drags various unsuspecting souls onto the stage to "perform songs defending their character and existence." And you ... More >>

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

Los Angeles Has New NFL Stadium ... Website

Majestic RealtyWould an NFL stadium in Industry be too far away?​We might not have a new NFL stadium or even a team to fill it, but Los Angeles has a new NFL stadium website. In what seems to us to be an increasingly competitive battle over who will get a stadium built -- Ed Roski's Majestic ... More >>

Stage Raw: Greetings from Saratov

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's Favorite​Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell, in their Saratov hotelI'm in Saratov, Russia (about 500 miles from Moscow) right now, where Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell just premiered their wonderfully whacked-out ... More >>

This weekend: Klaxons, Chapterhouse, the Besnard Lakes, Maroon 5, Caribou, Jack Johnson, Liz Phair, Tom Tom Club, the Weepies

The Besnard Lakes​The Culture Collide festival, which kicked off Thursday night at five venues in Silver Lake, Echo Park and downtown, is making for some wonderful daze in the neighborhood. The brainchild of Filter music mag, the inaugural event has imported bands from more than a dozen natio ... More >>

$9 Billion Subway-to-Sea Rip-off

War of words erupts when data show tiny ridership won't help jammed L.A. or Westside

Nightranger: Tatted and Torn

Nightlife: Wonderland LA Opening featuring Kat Von D & Jesse James' "Love," Lemmy's Head, and Some Seriously Mad Art

Lina Lecaro Kevin Llewellyn, Kat Von D and Jesse James in Wonderland​ Tabloid culture met tattoo culture in an over the top, somewhat curious (and curiouser!) fashion last night at the grand opening of Wonderland, the new art gallery from LA Ink's Kat Von D (adjacent to her shop) featuring the ... More >>

Cold Cave Does Southern California, Plays the Glass House & Echoplex, 'Guest Curates' Origami Vinyl (w/ Free Colt 45)

Up-and-coming darkwave sensation Cold Cave are in town. Tonight they will be appearing at the Echoplex, for a sure-to-be-packed show in their natural habitat. Last night, however, the band ventured out for a preview to Pomona, where they played the far less hipsterastic Glass House venue. If you ha ... More >>

Prayer Vigil held for Fallen Deputy

Over 100 family members, friends, neighbors, local politicians, police and firefighters attended a prayer vigil last night for a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down outside his parent’s home in Cypress Park on August 2. “It takes a lot of courage to be here,” said Councilman Ed Reyes who w ... More >>

Shooting of Deputy Still Remains a Mystery

Los Angeles Police Department detectives still don’t have a clue as to why a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was gunned down outside his parent’s home in Cypress Park on August 2. Deputy Juan Abel Escalante, who was assigned to guard the county’s most dangerous inmates at Men's Central Ja ... More >>

Singleton's "Small-Town L.A." Papers Nosedive

Suburban coverage hit hard as the Press-Telegram, Daily News, Daily Bulletin, others, falter

Awesome Music

What might the classical music establishment learn from pop?

Gallery Listings

For the week of November 9 - 15

Medusa

The real

Marching Orders

The president speaks, and the immigration fight is far from over

Turkey, Tequila and Numb Nuts

Driving in Utopia

Cleaning the air means solving every urban ill at once

The Billy Pulpit

Here Comes . . .Who Are You Again?

Thou Art Slain

Denmark's Raveonettes crack the whip

Up All Night

On patrol with one good cop

Judgment Day

Letters

Can�t Claremont Just Get Along?

Of Rodney King, Jesse Jackson and Irvin Landrum Jr.

Working for Themselves

Day laborers gather in Northridge

Last Sunset

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