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World Star Hip-Hop's Founder Defends His Site

Lee "Q" O'Denat, is the founder of WorldStarHipHop.com, a site once known mainly for rap videos that is now synonymous with grainy urban street fights. (When one breaks out nowadays, you can bet smartphones will come out and someone will yell "World Star!") Q recently came to L.A. for a round of pr ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Whistling Performance

This week, an artist makes deadpan jokes in vintage photographs, whistlers convene in Glendale and a Japanese novelist's tragedy of frustrated love is re-staged in Mexico. 5. Crowd of copycats It's not yet certain how many people will participate in artist Sara Roberts' Clump and Whistle, a group ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See This Week, Including Balanchine's "Rubies"

This week's dance events include Los Angeles Ballet with Balanchine Festival Red, visitors from Canada, and a last chance to meet Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre at the Oasis. See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Thing ... More >>

Vagabond Grillyard Brings Roaming Burgers to Glendale and Beyond

Burgers may as well be dropping from heaven in Los Angeles. While, as a city, we may be cresting over the hump of our beef and bun obsession, the ride is far from over. Chefs continue to find inventive ways to integrate burgers onto their focused concept menus, often with interesting results. Take ... More >>

Peter Murphy's People Say Bauhaus Legend Had Barely Trace Of Alcohol During DUI

Peter Murphy, the legendary Bauhaus vocalist arrested over the weekend on suspicion of DUI, hit-and-run and meth possession, had barely a trace of alcohol in his system, his handlers say. Which begs the question: What then, was he allegedly on? Because a witness was so terrified over the Brit's dri ... More >>

Budweiser Attempting World Domination, Justice Department Says 'Hell Naw'

Anheuser-Busch, brewer of Budweiser, has been looking to buy Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo for $20.1 billion, giving them ownership of brands like Corona, Pacifico and Negro Modelo. But yesterday, the Justice Department sued to stop the merger, saying it would lead to an unfair market share for Anheus ... More >>

Serious Drinking: A Boozy Gift Guide

Ah, Christmas. It comes but once a year, but the drinking it inspires is, well, inspiring. So too the spending on said drink, on bottles that otherwise might not justify such expenditure. But why not? There's hardly a better occasion than the holidays to drink something good or give something good t ... More >>

Top 5 Sushi Restaurants in the Valley

One of the hard truths reached while researching our 10 Best Sushi Restaurants list a few weeks ago was that Los Angeles has far too many superb sushi restaurants to ever be condensed into a single list. One area that felt particularly overlooked (with only one entry in the top ten) was the San Fern ... More >>

John Puncel Targeted Underage Girl For Upskirt Video at The Grove, Mom Says

Glendale policePuncel.​John Puncel, the former college volleyball coach arrested for allegedly taking lewd "upskirt" videos of a woman at Glendale Galleria this week is suspected of similar crimes at L.A.'s famed Grove shopping center. If the accusations are true, this guy and his trusty came ... More >>

Ara Najarian: Eastsiders Angry Over Glendale Councilman's Comment That Sign Pollution Reminds Him of East L.A.

Oh no he didn't. Some Eastsiders are up in arms because Glendale City Councilman Ara Najarian said he didn't want to see his city turn into another East L.A. The comment came as Glendale is moving toward downsizing business signs or ordering them removed altogether. Here's what Najarian told the G ... More >>

Umar Khan, 'Sexually Frustrated' Driver, Arrested for Cruising Glendale With Pants Down, Masturbating in Driveways

Don't do meth, kids. If "Breaking Bad" doesn't have you convinced, just look to the Glendale Police Department, whose Thursday-morning arrest of 34-year-old Umar Kahn is the best anti-drug PSA ever to grace the news wire. Cops tell City News Service that they pulled Kahn over for running a stop si ... More >>

Woman Drives Mercedes Into L.A. River Tributary, Thinks It's the Freeway

A 53-year-old woman who possibly thought she was getting on the freeway drove her Mercedes into a concrete-lined tributary of the L.A. River today and continued going at freeway speeds, police told the Weekly. It all happened ...

Carousel: The Joy of Mezze, With or Without Belly Dancing

Flickr/Polkaroomuhammara sauce​The Lebanese-Armenian restaurant Carousel has been holding down its position in Little Armenia longer than almost anyone can remember, as it's a reliable place for kebab platters, the usual salads, and an exemplary version of muhammara, a rough, spicy paste of po ... More >>

Christmas Rapping: Jim Carrey, Busta Rhymes, And Eazy-E Bring The Ho, Ho, Hoes

​While visions of sugarplum fairies might be dancing in your head this time of year, it's going to take a little more to bring your Christmas party to the next level. While the traditional seasonal standards are... standard, the surefire way to put the star on your tree -- or the eggs in you ... More >>

Facebook Messages to Appear on SoCal Freeway Billboard Thanks to Robbins Brothers Jewelers

There's a new way to broadcast your Facebook feelings to the world: Robbins Brothers, the L.A.-based jewelry store chain, is giving you a chance to put your "love" on its digital billboard on the westbound 91 freeway in Corona (right before the 15 freeway) during the holiday season. In fact the je ... More >>

Seven Terrible L.A. Halloween Costumes (With Suggested Improvements)

Yes. Yes it is.​ OMFG! Halloween starts this weekend! Even though CVS put out the candy and the knickknacks right after Labor Day, you still waited 'til the last minute to get a costume, didn't you? Only recent temperate climate transplants that have been waiting for the palm trees to change ... More >>

Next Door by Josie, In Free Verse

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ I saw the best chefs of my generation employed by gastropubs; Racer 5, wild game chili, dry-rubbed riblets with their calico slaw dragging themselves through the steel seats at dawn looking for artisanal grits, molasses-glazed bacon, with New Orleans spiced shrimp, ... More >>

Gallery Girls, Dr. Sketchy and L.A.'s Sexy Underground Drawing Clubs

Cinco de Mayo Drunk Patrol in Full Effect Tonight Through The Weekend, Says LAPD

Horia Varlan​Updated after the jump with the sheriff's department and the CHP jumping in on the fun. A victory over the French is like saying you beat Andy Dick only using your left hand. Too easy. Still, any excuse is a good excuse to party, and, to be fair, Cinco de Mayo has become America' ... More >>

President Obama to Be Met in L.A. by Angry Latinos, Armenian Protesters (Including 'System of a Down' Frontman Serj Tankian)

Asbarez.comL.A. Armenians to Obama: Just say it.​Updated after the jump: Obama arrives -- and the riot gear comes out. Update: Obama is prepared for the worst after being sung to by a group of San Franciscans this morning. Apparently they paid $5,000 each to air their outrage that a WikiLeake ... More >>

Kirk Spiegel, Second-Grade Teacher at LAUSD's Pinewood Elementary, Commits Suicide off 210 Freeway Overpass

FacebookSecond-grade LAUSD teacher Kirk Spiegel​Updated throughout. Early this morning around 2 a.m., 49-year-old Kirk Spiegel -- a Los Angeles Unified School District employee, according to LAUSD -- jumped to his death off the 210 freeway overpass in La Canada Flintridge. "He was a second-g ... More >>

Two SoCal Taco-Shop Fights in One Week: Is This War? (VIDEOS)

There ain't room in this town for the two of us​Taco shops are supposed to be peaceful territory -- you know, of love and mystery meat. So these two SoCal/YouTube blowouts, in which 1) Eastvale hooligans wreak havoc on Tacos del Rio and 2) Hillcrest trannies cat-fight over whose body is better ... More >>

Wooden Arrow Shot Through Elderly Couple's Bedroom Window in Burbank; Grandma Suspects Party Crew Next Door

pensacolafishingforum.comThe only place worse to find an arrow than hovering over one's floral bedcover​Big things going down in the Glendale News-Press today, like six unidentified police officers on paid leave for unpolicemanlike conduct and a charity drive to collect 100,000 lemons, grapefr ... More >>

Top 10 Kinds of Bacon in My Refrigerator This Morning

Flickr/Chuck T.guanciale​ 10. Guanciale. Made by some guy in Colorado, or so says Rosario, the cured-meat impresario at Roma Deli in Pasadena. A nice, gamy pig cheek, anyway, suspiciously like the ones I used to get from Salumi Biellese on 8th Avenue in Manhattan.

Seasonal Highway Jams: Traffic Jams Fruit Jams

Flickr/Larry Page​ Can you tell what's in season by what's under your car's wheels? First, you see the vehicle in front of you slow down. Then, you stop and start, stop and start. Forty-five minutes later, you coast past and see a pile of oranges that have tumbled from the back of an over- ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/7-9/10

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Did we agree to stop calling them gastropubs? Very well, they're no longer gastropubs." First Bite: Half a Dozen of Each, or Mix & Match at The Six. "Some people think that food started when goat cheese was introduced on ... More >>

Tonight: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Xavier Rudd, Childish Gambino, Mestizo, Neville Brothers

Chris StrongRodrigo y Gabriela​It's not a Presidential State Dinner -- at which they performed this spring -- but when Rodrigo y Gabriela arrive at the Greek Theatre tonight, it will be as one of the unlikeliest amphitheatre/festival headliners around these days. The Mexican duo of Rodrigo SĂ ... More >>

West Los Angeles Skate Park 'Made By Skaters For Skaters'

Steve La​Alec Beck, the 23-year-old co-creator of the Stoner Recreation Center's new skate plaza, hopes the skate park becomes a safe haven for board-riders looking for a place to meet outside of public spaces that usually don't welcome them. A recent visit to the granite playground demonstrat ... More >>

Stinkers Bar to Re-Open as Thirsty Crow A Look at Their Bourbon Menu

1933 GroupThirsty Crow's Scotch menu​By now you probably already know that Stinkers bar in Silver Lake will re-open on April 23 as Thirsty Crow, a thematic shift that moves the venue from Ironic Truck Stop Chic to Grampy's Neighborhood Bourbon Bar. Named after one of Aesop's Fables -- in whic ... More >>

Jazz for the Holidays

Brick’s Picks: the Real McCoy

There Will Be Blood (Shots) at Katsuya

Rather, there will be "blood" at Katsuya, in shot form. Tomorrow on Halloween, strawberry-flavored rum and acai berry juice, called "Blood Shots," will be two for $5 at the restaurant's Glendale location. Adding even more holiday color to the restaurant's white and tan palate, a costume contest in t ... More >>

Loan-Mod Agents Get Faces Modified

Not to blame the victims, but this was bound to happen. The home-loan modification business has been filled with so many sharks that state Attorney General Jerry Brown has called the entire statewide industry a "shadowy world." The source of his ire are those companies that take cash up front from h ... More >>

Man Bites Off Protester's Finger at Health Care Rally

KTLAAftermath: Blood on a sidewalk​Call it a case of bite and run, but a 65-year-old man opposed to health care reform struck another man who was trying to reach a MoveOn.org-backed pro-reform rally of 100 participants -- and had half his pinky finger bitten off in return. And, in a dramatic tour ... More >>

All Fire, All the Time

As firefighters slowly but stubbornly turn the tide against the Station Fire, FM radio station KPCC offers a full Web page devoted to Southern California's wildfires. The page, which fills a void left by television stations that have pretty much abandoned round-the-clock coverage of the Station Fire ... More >>

Soul Clap & Dance-Off at Nomad Gallery

Plus Illumination Radio at the Brand Lounge

Juliette Commagere's Vividly Orchestrated Art Pop

Singer performs each Monday in May at the Echo

Weiss' 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008

25. Prafit-"Nice Weather" The nice weather is long gone--the ostensibly immutable Los Angeles sun blotted by kidney colored clouds and cold rain. So Prafit's ode to the sizzle of July feels like an antique postcard documenting endless light, chicken breasts smothered in BBQ sauce, and basement ... More >>

Best Landlocked Treasure Island

News Hounds

Literary Armenia

Harout Yeretzian

Rossmore Glamour

Ask Mr. Gold

King of the Hill

Folk Explosion

Jimmy Kay puts redemption songs back in the radio spotlight

Side Tripping

DJ Muggs smokes alone

Endorsements

The Weekly’s recommendations in the November general election

Oh Unlucky Luckman

Why A Noise Within is without a venue

Hum

Gorky's sweet weirdness

Obscure Objects of Desire

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