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Jay Z and Justin Timberlake - Rose Bowl - July 28, 2013

Jay Z and Justin Timberlake Rose Bowl July 28, 2013 When Jay Z last performed here, in December 2011 with Kanye West, it was a very serious show, with sharks and wild animal visuals, Kanye daring anyone to say anything about his skirt, and lots of talks of "thrones" and "watching them." Last night ... More >>

Magna Carta Holy Marketing

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] When we look back on 2013, we'll consider it the year of the event album. What's less clear is whether we'll remember the music or simply the marketing. ... More >>

How USC Grads Freddie Wong and Ryan Coogler Became the Future of Filmmaking, Via Two Very Different Paths

Fruitvale Station was a hit at Sundance, while Video Game High School has millions of teen fans

No One Cares about Jay-Z's New Music

Ever since the announcement of his game-changing arrangement with Samsung Electronics, most of the conversation about Jay-Z's forthcoming studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail has revolved around the nature of the deal, not the any of the coming music. Even as the project is being rolled out via in-s ... More >>

Food Gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show: Vibrating Forks Smarter-Than-You Refrigerators

The Annual Consumer Electronics Show is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and as usual there's a lot of buzz around the size-du-jour of the screen-type-device we'll all be utterly dependent upon soon (apparently 2013 will be the year of the phablet. No, really). But there's also some fun food ne ... More >>

Fuck SXSW: 10 Ways to Re-Create It in Los Angeles

South by Southwest (or just "South by" if you're cool and/or in a fake hurry) is well under way, with the interactive and film portions kicking off last weekend and the biggest draw, the music, just beginning. Couldn't make it all the way to Texas? Fuck it. For those of us left behind, we bring you ... More >>

S[edition]: Would You Pay $800 for a Digital Image?

Shepard FaireyPeace Guard by Shepard Fairey, available at the new digital art company s[edition]​When you can have a Shepard Fairey image on your computer for the cost of a right click, is a company like s[edition] barking up the wrong tree, or ahead of its time? The new enterprise aims to m ... More >>

Cellphones in Your Butt: The Extreme Lengths Prisoners Take to Get Phones Inside California Prison

SamsungIs that a phone in your arse or are you just happy to see me?​At LA Weekly we've been all over the prison cellphone-smuggling story. It's gotten so bad that authorities have had to ask Facebook to cancel the accounts of people known to be behind bars. (They can get accounts through smar ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Shakes Her Jelly for a Celly, The Kills Te-Kill-Ya

Lina Lecaro Darling Nicki sung for Samsung. ​Nicki Minaj for cell phones, The Kills for tequila ... it was another winning week on the Hollywood party circuit. If you read Nightranger posts regularly you know we rarely miss an opportunity to cover LA's money bags-backed promotional bashes. An ... More >>

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

Twist and Shout

In a Dark Theater, Everyone Hears a Cell Phone

Cue the ringtone

’Stache Box

And Falcon Fest

Black Celebration

Goth always seems to rear its gloomy head up from the graveyard every couple of years or so, and even though the abundance of the black nail polish and peg legs on every fashionista in town kinda prepared me for its resurrection about now, I had no idea it'd be so blatantly retro-vamp. At least that ... More >>

Readings: Laughing With Wen Ho Lee

Y2K Bugs

It Grates! It Juliennes! It Plays MP3s!

Cooking with Jane Jetson

The Nice New Norton Simon

And a lament for the old

Money No Enough

Asia's financial crisis has its filmmakers scrounging for dollars