Roosevelt (New York)

Top 10 Songs About Presidents (in Honor of Presidents Day)

Remember Clinton and the sax?​ Monarchs, political authority figures, and presidents have been inspiring pissed-off punk rock anthems or passionate, pleased glorification--whether subtle or direct--since human beings could pick up an instrument and pluck or pound out a feeling. And given our ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Train Driver

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's FavoriteNEW REVIEW GO THE TRAIN DRIVER ​ Photo by Ed Krieger South African playwright Athol Fugard's plays have dealt with the havoc wrought in his country by Apartheid, but his more recent works also often possess the feel of a ghos ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Be a Vegetarian, Just for One Day

Santa Monica Farmers Market​ It's Monday, the grudging beginning of another work week, and the end of a weekend perhaps spent barbecuing or, if you were anywhere in the vicinity of Koreatown, consuming plenty of what others threw on the grill at the Korean BBQ Cook-Off, called, appropriately e ... More >>

Library of Congress Acquires Entire Twitter Archive: Top 9 Responses

​By now you probably know that the Library of Congress is archiving every single tweet on Twitter since Twitter's inception in 2006. If you didn't know, it's probably because (a) you're not on Twitter, (b) you have a real life that exists apart from the internet that is not dependent on tellin ... More >>

Aqualillies Mash-Up Old and New Hollywood with Water Ballet Performances

Tonight at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, TCM Classic Film Fest opens with a poolside screening of Neptune's Daughter, a 1949 musical featuring Esther Williams, Betty Garrett and Ricardo Montalban. In the spirit of Williams' famed water ballet scenes, the screening will feature a performance from ... More >>

Video Feast: New Clips from Foreign Born, Nite Jewel Dam-Funk, We Are The World, and Edward Sharpe

In honor of, err, it being Thursday, West Coast Sound has rounded up a spate of newly released videos from around the L.A. underground -- and the Ugandan one as well, as the first clip illustrates. Need a feel-good moment? Look no further than this video, which shows the Gulu Widows Group of Ugand ... More >>

Disco Bloodbath: LA's Freakiest, Creepiest, Trashiest Themed Halloween Dance Parties

​The clock is ticking, and even if you don't have a (clever) costume yet, it's time to brave your social fear and figure out what the Hell you're gonna do this Halloween weekend. As far as dance dens go, pretty much everything bubbling this weekend will have a creep factor (more than usual in ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Long Beach Comic-Con, Eagle Rock Music Fest, Graffiti Spirits

Over the weekend Los Angeles seemed obsessed with one thing and one thing only: Radiohead's Thom Yorke, who, after a surprise DJ gig at the Roosevelt on September 15, L.A. Weekly learned would play an exclusive gig at the Echoplex on October 2 in addition to two gigs at downtown's Orpheum Theatre on ... More >>

Thom Yorke Makes Surprise Guest DJ Appearance at the Roosevelt Last Night

Thom Yorke spun at Tropicana at the Roosevelt Hotel last night, according to many Tweets. The Tuesday evening gig, normally a weekly event hosted by Ashtar Command/Yum Yum/Paul McCartney DJ Chris Holmes, turned up a notch when longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich showed up with Yorke, who jumpe ... More >>

Digital Pool Party: Digital L.A. at Pagoda Bar

With record heat in Los Angeles it seemed that anyone who had even remote access to a pool had a pool party over the weekend. But what if you didn't have a pool-ready friend or didn't have the cash to plunk down for the Roosevelt or even one of those inflatable numbers? Bikini business card holder. ... More >>

Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

August Madness: The Doheny Hosts a Sweet Sixteen Chartreuse Competition

Green Chartreuse shots for breakfast kick off a Monday right nice, especially when they're being served to you on the patio at The Doheny. Starting at the ungodly hour of noon, sixteen men and women representing the city's top drinking establishments--The Varnish, The Doheny, SLS, Rivera, Copa d'Oro ... More >>

Prince Getts Off At Avalon Post-Oscars Party, Covers the Cars, Rolling Stones and Jimmy Eat World

We'll get to a review of the show in a minute, but first, oblige us to cut to the chase and share/brag/go crazy/get nuts about something: We danced on stage with Prince last night! Near the end of The Artist's astounding covers-packed set at Avalon (for his "surprise" post-Oscar bash), he had one of ... More >>

Last Night: Digital Drinks @ Digital L.A. - When Swank and Tech Collide

Alexia TsotsisApparently the best way to get to Coco de Ville, the location of this month's Digital Drinks @ Digital LA, is to "just look for the paparazzi out front and you'll find it." When you spend most of your time at networking events it's very easy to forget that "the paparazzi" exists. I hav ... More >>

Downtown L.A. Film Fest: The Good, The Bad, and The Booze

This past Sunday marked the finale of the first Downtown LA Film Festival, closing five days of spectacular centerpieces, freely flowing booze, and the occasional glitch. As a coherent festival to be enjoyed as one large mega-event, it was hampered by the distances between venues (too far too walk, ... More >>

DFA'S 'DISCO' AT THE ROOSEVELT NOT CANCELED

Ah, the internet… shit spreads faster than herpes on a roadrunner these days, don’t it? Purveyors of fine electro-punk dance weirdness know that this weekend’s double-whammy gigs from DFA Records/LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Pat Mahoney are can’t misses, but for those of us who decid ... More >>

Live In L.A.: Prince — Straight, With Chaser

Prince The Roosevelt Hotel Blossom Room June 29 2007 At his concert Friday night, Prince joked that his L.A. friends had warned him: Ain't nothing goin' on in L.A.! Stage banter aside, the truth is that we live in a remarkable place at a remarkable time — The Kid's decision to perform an e ... More >>

Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

New York City's most glamorous political cabaret troupe, the Citizens Band, is marching into the Avalon this Thursday for their Los Angeles debut (a lucky few caught their act at a private party at the Roosevelt last year). The show's theme is "Masquerading in Paradise," and you can expect a fanta ... More >>

The 'Stache

From Teddy to Magnum — facial hair makes a comeback

Put Heading Here

Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop Concerts Clubs Other Country & Folk

She Loves the Nightlife

Private Prince

Amanda Demme - She Nice

I just got back from interviewing Amanda Demme, the so-called Queen of LA Nightlife, and marketing brain behind 'hot' nightlife venues like Teddy's and Tropicana at the Roosevelt. If you go online and google her, you'll find a fair amount of press on Amanda, most of it bitchy gawker.com and Perez Hi ... More >>

Leaving Home

In defense of secession

Saying Goodbye

Reflections on the funeral of August Wilson

Crystal Blue Persuasion

Diving into the newest scenester abyss

Last Chance for a Full Cincinnati*!

The Man in the Green Shirt

Small Revolt

The Futureheads take over, one listener at a time

Leaving Home

In defense of secession

Leaves

All Together Now

The trick is spreading unity into the countryside

Jan Gable: Power Source

The Doctor of Shirts

The War on Due Process

With Patriot Act power, Bush and Ashcroft try to conquer the legal system

The Artful Codger

Director Robert Altman

The Death Count

In people, freedoms and decency lost, it’s still too early to know

Apocalypse, Tuesday

All-American

Letters

Press Comes to Shove

An uncivil war erupts among journalists

Altered Chords

Artie Shaw on music, God, sex & fame

Why Are We in (or Anyway, Over) Kosovo?

A case for intervention

The Promised Land

The American Cinematheque (and Cecil B. De Mille) returns

Polls, Pols and Propositions

Twenty years of political coverage

From Liberty Hill to the Living Wage

A brief history of Progressive Los Angeles

War Without Borders

Cleaning Up Tujunga Wash

Making nature safe for equestrians

Watch on the Rhone

What did you do during the Occupation?

Is This Any Way To Run a Country?

Loony prosecutors! Rabid media! Oval Office obsessions!