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Tattoo Nation Chronicles the History of the SoCal Ink Scene, From Danny Trejo to Ed Hardy

Why Do So Many Movie Characters Get Hit in the Balls?

Being a lucky guy, I've only been kicked in the balls once. How did it rate on the comedy scale? Well, it was funnier than a monologue by Chelsea Handler, but not quite as hilarious as my last screening for colorectal cancer. Yet despite the fact that this act hurts like hell, Hollywood still thinks ... More >>

A Renowned Cardiologist Never Dreamed of Being an Actor...Until His Son Joined the Eight-Hour Play Gatz

When the actor Jim Fletcher talks about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, it is with the same mixture of familiar intimacy, sublime awe and wary respect that an experienced Himalayan mountain guide might use to describe the shimmering icefalls and man-eating crevasses of that range's most famo ... More >>

Richest Cities in California Slum For Rides, Prefer The Prius

California has more billionaires than just about anywhere in the world except the United States itself, China and Russia. Really. So, if you were to survey a couple of the Golden State's wealthiest communities, what car make do you think would enjoy top rates of ownership? Maybach? Maybe Ferrari? A ... More >>

How to Stage Classic Sitcoms...With Sock Puppets

The dozen or so people gathered at Atwater Crossing on this Wednesday night are watching the first episode of Friends. You remember how it goes: After ditching her fiance, runaway bride Rachel starts a new life in Manhattan with the help of her friends -- uptight Monica, ditzy Phoebe, smarmy Chan ... More >>

A Lemmy Interview You Can Read in 30 Seconds ... Go!

Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Motörhead frontman Lemmy is surrounded by a staunch pack of protectors. When the publicist for the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival -- a handle so long you practically need an energy drink to get through it -- offered a phone int ... More >>

Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White

Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others

Joey and Anthony Hernandez, the T-Shirt Millionaires

Sift through the sale rack at your local Forever 21 mall store and you may come across a T-shirt with a picture of a girl staring into shards of a mirror. Retailing for $14.90, it is a seemingly edgy but ultimately innocuous shirt. It has no particular brand affiliation, no band or product or compan ... More >>

Iman Omari Isn't Ashamed To Be Emo

Iman Omari's uncle Josef Leimberg is scuttling around his Eagle Rock studio, working on improving its feng shui. He pauses by a door that's become unhinged. "A 400-pound dude busted through this, trying to get his rappers in to record." That wasn't going to fly, however, because Bootsy Collins was w ... More >>

Future Islands - Echoplex - 11/17/11

Ian Cohen​See also: Future Islands: Too Noisy For New Wave, Too Pussy For Punk Future Islands Echoplex 11-17-11 Better than: Nursing your woes while crying in your beer. Having someone spill theirs on you while dancing in place takes way less effort I'd been told that Baltimore synth-pop be ... More >>

The Ten Bloodiest Metal Album Covers [Gross, but not entirely NSFW]

Exhumed​At Exhumed's Sunday night show absolutely nothing trendy, hip, or fashionable will be on display. Picking up where they left off after a five-year hiatus, the California deathgrind pioneers will headline at the Key Club in support of their comeback release All Guts, No Glory. That titl ... More >>

Christian Audigier's Hancock Park House For Sale at a Discount, Sort of Like His Ed Hardy Clothes

Captain Fromage: Christian Audigier.​It would be fitting that the purveyor of the cheesiest fashion to hit the world since Hammer pants would be putting his Hancock Park home back on the market at a discount. After all, Christian Audigier's Von Dutch, Ed Hardy and eponymous labels are widely ... More >>

Curly Junior Ross Killed by DUI Driver Who Went Wrong Way, With Bloody Car, Through a DUI Checkpoint, Cops Say

LASDThis car, wrong way, through a DUI checkpoint -- allegedly.​Added: Sheriff's officials say the District Attorney's office this week charged the suspect "with Second Degree Murder, Felony DUI, & Hit and Run from a traffic collision." Here's a doozy of a tale out of scenic Lancaster. Sheri ... More >>

Lobbyist John Ek

LASDThis car, wrong way, through a DUI checkpoint -- allegedly.​Added: Sheriff's officials say the District Attorney's office this week charged the suspect "with Second Degree Murder, Felony DUI, & Hit and Run from a traffic collision." Here's a doozy of a tale out of scenic Lancaster. Sheri ... More >>

'Saxophone Superstar' Sergio Flores Terrorizes Mall Cops Across L.A. With Rendition of George Michael's 'Careless Whisper'

YouTube'He is above the law:' Sergio Flores.​This guy was begging to be arrested, but he wasn't. Our Annoying Prank of the Week Award goes to sax man Sergio Flores for exposing the impotence of the L.A. mall cop. Because if anyone needs to be exploited and looked down upon, it's the our $10-a ... More >>

Ross From 'Friends' Gets His Own Crosswalk in Santa Monica: Heed the Rosswalk

LA TacoRoss walks AND talks​We'll just apologize right now for how not news this is. It's just that -- there's really nothing like a network-television pun to save us from the gloom of overseas government torture, cops who lie about getting shot and Echo Park gangsters stabbed in front of bar ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

Lawsuit: Woman Claims a Princess Cruise Line Employee with a History of Sexual Misconduct Assaulted Her

​Did Princess Cruise Lines have a serial sexual predator working aboard one of its ships? According to California resident Marisa Foppoli, who filed a lawsuit earlier this week in Los Angles Superior Court against the third largest cruise line in the world, the answer is yes. It was the wee hour ... More >>

The Night of the Tribades

​Did Princess Cruise Lines have a serial sexual predator working aboard one of its ships? According to California resident Marisa Foppoli, who filed a lawsuit earlier this week in Los Angles Superior Court against the third largest cruise line in the world, the answer is yes. It was the wee hour ... More >>

Pregnant Woman Shot On The Westside (Updated)

​(Updated throughout at 12:20 p.m.): A pregnant woman and her fetus died in a shooting in the Westside community of La Cienega Heights Wednesday morning, police said. The attack appeared by be a gang-related, drive-by shooting near the Ward Plaza Shopping Center, which contains a Ross, a Toys ... More >>

Janice Hahn Breaks Out the Hand Sanitizer for Dem Convention Weekend

​Back in December, Councilwoman Janice Hahn wrote an open letter to her opponent in the lieutenant governor's race, Sen. Dean Florez, urging him to "avoid a costly and divisive fight" by joining in a pledge not to seek the Democratic Party endorsement."As we have seen in the past," she wrote, "see ... More >>

Shopping For Valentine's Day on Hollywood Blvd. with Kool Keith [NSFW]

​Kool Keith waited for the rain to let up on Sunset Blvd & Vine. The corner, once flanked by prostitutes and drag queens like a scene from Pretty Woman, now has a Borders bookstore sitting on it. Here Kool Keith drinks tea with producer Yeti and rapper/allies Bushman and Denis Deft, describing ... More >>

Breaking the Code

​Kool Keith waited for the rain to let up on Sunset Blvd & Vine. The corner, once flanked by prostitutes and drag queens like a scene from Pretty Woman, now has a Borders bookstore sitting on it. Here Kool Keith drinks tea with producer Yeti and rapper/allies Bushman and Denis Deft, describing ... More >>

Movie Reviews: American Violet, Crank: High Voltage, Sleep Dealer

Also, Every Little Step, Lymelife and more

Theater Reviews: Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, Bachelorette

Also: Departures, The Time Machine and more

The Cavalier Jew

Also: Departures, The Time Machine and more

Theater Reviews: The Bald Soprano, Dear Brutus, Fool For Love

Also this week's pick, Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30

Brothers in Arms

The Cribs look to extend their family

Primp'n Hos

Uncovering the goods in Hollywood Boulevard’s legendary stripper-ware shops

Theater Reviews

Including The Heiress, The Berlin Blues, and this week's pick, 1 to 10?

Hole, Sweet Hole

The last weekend of CBGB

Hidden Yoga

Best savasanas off the beaten track

Look Hot, Stay Cool

Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

That Golden Moment

Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

The Miseducation of Bill Rosendahl

Lincoln Place proves a tough test for new councilman

Pussy, No Pussy

Lincoln Place proves a tough test for new councilman

Saving the Laugh Track

Is the sitcom drought coming to an end? The new contenders: Jake in Progress, The Office and Life on a Stick

Beastly Men

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and Love Tapes

In Service to the Outsider

How I came to counsel a young addict just back from the edge

Gods and Monsters

And a big hello to Mr. Green Genes

The Godfather

Miguel Contreras and the New Los Angeles

Music To Kill By

War with Iraq? It's in the bag, dad

Razorlines

War with Iraq? It's in the bag, dad

Fresh Produce and Streets of Fire

Making sense of the methane explosion in Fairfax

First Words

Making sense of the methane explosion in Fairfax

Last Sunset

The victims were identified as . . .

Size Matters

Former Governor Pete Wilson said that reducing class size would be good for kids. He should have said it would be good for affluent kids.

The Pest Years of Our Lives

Anthony Clarvoe's London plague drama

Michael Darling's (Museum and Gallery) Top 10 Plus 10

Anthony Clarvoe's London plague drama

Resurfacing

How to avoid looking like yourself