Red Bull GmbH

Heather Shaw: The Futurist Designer

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Here's how Heather Shaw spent 2012: She was production designer on her first TV show, a little singing competition called American Idol. She had three installations on various s ... More >>

A Wild Night on the Town With Rapper Problem

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with quickly-emerging, 29-year-old Compton rapper Problem. Also along for a small part of the ride was Jamie Foxx.] 10:21 p. ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia - L.A. State Historic Park - 3/8/13

Swedish House Mafia L.A. State Historic Park 3/8/13 Better than: Just...anything. Most other things. Anyone who thought that chilly temperates and some rain might deter the rave kids from raving full throttle at the Swedish House Mafia show last night underestimates the heartiness of rave kids an ... More >>

Avicii - Vanguard - 2/7/13

Avicii Vanguard 2/7/13 Avicii played at the grand reopening of Vanguard in Hollywood last night. But Vanguard isn't a regular club. It's a MEGA CLUB. And Avicii isn't a regular DJ. He's a MEGA DJ. So it wasn't a regular night out. It was a MEGA NIGHT OUT. There were glowing bottles of vodka! And fi ... More >>

Hard Day of The Dead - Justice, Diplo - 11/3/12

Hard Day of The Dead Los Angeles State Historic Park 11/3/12 5:30 PM: I'm driving through downtown Los Angeles scavenging for a parking spot. The doors at Day of the Dead don't open until 6 so I'm under the impression that arriving early will save me from shelling out 20 bucks to stash my car and/o ... More >>

I Hung Out With Ty$ the Other Night. Things Got Out of Hand

10:00 PM, Monday, Oct 8: I'm standing outside Paramount Recording studios on Santa Monica Boulevard waiting for the publicist for rapper Ty Dolla $ign -- aka Ty$. The plan is for me to hang out with the Hollywood denizen, who rolls with the Pushaz Ink label crew (YG, DJ Mustard, Fuego). Ty$'s blowin ... More >>

The Best of Coachella: Friday, April 20

See also: *Our complete Coachella coverage *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs The first weekend of Coachella: cold, damp, and wet. The second weekend of Coachella: hot, sultry, and steamy. Here are our scribes' picks for the best of what they saw on Friday, April 20 at Coachella.

How the Disappearance of a Gas Station's 'Magic Gas' Sign Pissed Off All of Echo Park

When Victor Abraham's friend Stan bought a troubled gas station on the corner of Echo Park Ave. and Morton Ave. in early February, everything seemed to be broken. Defunct credit card scanners irked customers on a daily basis, all the snacks inside the mini mart had expired and the dysfunctional pump ... More >>

The Worst Moments of SXSW 2012

See also: *The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012 *Ten Awesome Concert Posters at SXSW Spontaneous tattoo at the S.O. Terik-Filter showcase On Friday, Samantha Urbani from Brooklyn indie band Friends did something to a fan he might forever regret. At the S.O.Terik-Filter showcase, beneath a bl ... More >>

Maxi Pad Stadium Proposal For Downtown L.A. Could Include Unprecedented, Off-Site Roof That Wasn't a Part of The Deal

AEGLike Red Bull, Farmers Field gives you wings.​In the proposal to build an NFL stadium in the middle of the publicly owned Convention Center, it's all about the roof. The stadium's would-be owner, Anshutz Entertainment Group of next-door Staples Center, promised the city a retractable roof ... More >>

Power-Con/ThunderCon Brings Together Fans of He-Man, She-Ra and ThunderCats

Shannon CottrellSkeletor sighting at Power-Con/ThunderCon​See more of Shannon Cottrell's photos from Power-Con/ThunderCon in "Celebrating He-Man, She-Ra and ThunderCats at Power-Con/ThunderCon." It's not too often that we go to a convention and end up sitting poolside as we sip on themed cock ... More >>

Fig & Garcia Farms Teach At-Risk Teens About Nutrition & Local Produce

C. BishopBraised Oxtail with oranges and prunes from FIG & Garcia Farms' dinner​ Last night, Fig's executive chef Ray Garcia hosted the restaurant's first farm dinner of 2011, serving dishes filled with Fallbrook's Garcia Farm's (no relation) recent harvest of over 50 varieties of citrus. Whi ... More >>

Q & A With Ray Garcia, Part 2: What Dogs Order At The Peninsula, Real Restaurant Cooking Helping Kids With Heirloom Tomato (And Marijuana) Issues

J. GarbeeSeared Tuna Nicoise With Quail Eggs​We left off yesterday's chat with Ray Garcia, Executive Chef at Fig in Santa Monica, with dog food. "It was probably seared ground sirloin, some of the best beef in the country, and the dog didn't like the temperature or something like that," says G ... More >>

Rushmore meets Fight Club: Lots of Youths, Just a Little Revolt at Montalban Screening

Nicole CamposYouth in Revolt​Be gone, miserable graveyard of cinema that is January, when the studios are notorious for dumping sub-par product while everyone plays with their Christmas toys and spends any movie-going time catching up with the Oscar bait that came out last month. Dimension Fi ... More >>

Simpsons Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Two of America's Best-Loved Icons: Homer Simpson and Bacon

FOX broke out the booze and the bacon to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons's "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween specials at Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar on Sunday night. The tricks? Twisted Twister games, Lucha Libre mask making, custom-screened T-shirts, and a caged-kid-as-bowlin ... More >>

Nightlife Fail: Signs the Party is Over

You know you've been there: it's late... you've had too much to drink... you should have called it a night hours ago, but against your better judgment, opted for the after after party instead. In honor of those who take hangovers to a whole new level, we've compiled some of the best partied-out phot ... More >>

The Anatomy of a Web Hit: Wallpaper's Autotuned Mash-Up of Jay-Z's "Death of Autotune" Explodes, Subsides

About three weeks ago, Oakland's Wallpaper (signed to L.A. indie Eenie Meenie), made headlines by remixing Jay-Z's "Death Of Autotune" and AutoTuned Jigga in the process. Wallpaper's primary songwriter Eric Frederic has long used AutoTune satirically under the guise of his frontman alter-ego Ricky R ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Food, Inc., Imagine That, Moon

Also, The Art of Being Straight, The Taking of Pelham 123 and more

LA People 2009: Viral Style — Miguel De La Barracuda

Fanning the Fame: Rapper Fannius Makes the Journey From Disney to the Viper Room

Unhappy as clean-cut rap star, Fan 3 finds new indie voice on being dropped by studio and record label for smoking pot

Over the Weekend: HARD Haunted Mansion, Dia De Los Muertos, Children of the Candy Corn, West Hollywood Carnaval, LACMA Costume Ball

Lucky for us, Halloween fell on Friday this year so we could fully indulge without having to worry about crawling into work the next day dressed in the tattered remains of a sexy bee costume. There were too many events and parties this weekend to count and keeping up required more stamina than Red B ... More >>

Rock Picks: Exodus, Altamont, Art Ensemble of Chicago and more

For the week of Jan. 18-24

Chest of Lies

Identity theft, self-promotion and the search for laminates at Sundance

Nightranger at SXSW

On Deck With the Dealer to the Stars

The stakes aren’t as high, but the action’s still hot when Hollywood holds ’em

Dave the Brave

Stupid President Tricks can only be seen on Letterman

Honesty is the Holiest Disease

My Ruin's prayer under pressure

Septic Infection

Stanton Warriors’ break-step-tococcus

Get Loose

Afro-beaten, Afro-burned