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All the Clothes in This West Hollywood Store Cost 2 Dollars. So Dive Into the Pile...

See also: *At This West Hollywood Fashion Library, the Prada Dress You Rent Could Save Your Life Nothing at the 2 Dollar Clothing store in West Hollywood costs more than $2. Not the new Marc Jacobs or DKNY tops, not the BCBG skirt or the Michael Kors boots, not the Gucci, Miu Miu, Armani or Jimmy Ch ... More >>

Writers Guild Awards 2013: Behind the Scenes

Last night, men and women who are more used to working at home in their pajamas donned black tie attire for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live -- and it seemed like a surprisingly number of media didn't really care. (Except us, of course.) With a red carpet th ... More >>

I Rode the Entire L.A. Metro in a Single Day

I once dreamed of being a transportation planner: fast-roping into jungles, skirting ancient booby traps to snag gilded idols, natives and Nazi occultists in hot pursuit. Sadly, urban planners do none of those things. The most daring thing most of them will ever do is Sharpie "Fuck you, Robert Moses ... More >>

Marijuana Fortune Found In Silver Lake Backyard By Mack Reed

What would you do if you found a duffle bag filled with prime, dispensary-style weed in your backyard? A) Kiss your peace fingers, kneel down and point at the sky (in gratitude to your god of choice). B) Curse the world because you ran out of rolling papers and can't find your lighter. C) Immediate ... More >>

When a Video Artwork Showed the Presidential Debate, the Audience Tried to Change the Volume. But Is That Like Drawing on a Picasso?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app Last night's presidential debate didn't get nearly as heated as the firestorm that erupted during it at the Hammer Museum. Within the My Land/Your Land exhibit, a performance art piece by Jonathan Ho ... More >>

Q & A With Luisa Weiss: Her New Book, the Future of The Wednesday Chef Cooking in Germany

If you've spent much of the last seven years reading Luisa Weiss' celebrated food blog The Wednesday Chef, as many of us have, it will not surprise you to learn that her new book is a charming read. Nor will it surprise you to learn that she's an engaging reader in real life, as she was when she c ... More >>

Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong Is the Restaurant Koreatown Didn't Know It Needed

The Bumbys Judge Los Angeles: "You Actually Have a Lot of Amazing Qualities"

The red carpet is always a place to be judged. But at Fashion's Night Out at the rustic and usually sedate Malibu Country Mart last Thursday, while a DJ segued from "Benny and the Jets" to Frank Ocean's on-the-nose "Super Rich Kids," the well-heeled crowd wasn't strutting for cameras, press or onlin ... More >>

Los Angeles' War on Street Artists

The art world sees a vibrant movement. Metro's cops see jail fodder.

HARD Summer, Day 1 - Los Angeles State Historic Park - 8/3/12

Top Ten Awkward Electric Daisy Carnival Dance Move GIFs World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five Ten EDC Girls Who Are Out of My League Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep HARD Summer 8/3/12 Lo ... More >>

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/4 - 6/8

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The different ways in which starch is coaxed out of slivered potatoes using vats of high-temperature fat reflect the variety of our city itself, and tastes and preferences are entirely subjective." 10 Best French Fries in Lo ... More >>

LAUSD Police State? School Cops Reportedly Issue About 30 Citations to Kids Each Day

$100 for cussing on campus? $200 for fighting on the playground? $300 for showing up late? Tickets like these are all too common at LAUSD, says Manuel Criollo, lead organizer for the Community Rights Campaign. In fact, his parent org -- the Labor-Community Strategy Center -- recently forced the dis ... More >>

14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention

It's that time of year where it seems like there's at least one big fan convention going on every weekend somewhere in the country. Whether you're planning on heading to New Jersey for The Steampunk World's Fair later this month or counting down for San Diego Comic-Con in July, there are a few esse ... More >>

Umamicatessen: Meating Place

A "soft open," in restaurant parlance, is a kind of dress-rehearsal period, wherein the establishment throws open its doors and hopes for a manageable trickle of customers to walk in, allowing the kitchen and waitstaff to work out kinks in the menu and service. In the Twitter age, however, a soft o ... More >>

Best Lunchbag Art Ever

Some parents, at least in TV commercials, draw a heart in their kid's PBJ. Peter Balogh elevates lunchtime art to a higher plane with his brilliant, whimsical, amusing drawings. The method? Freehand drawing with a Sharpie. The medium? His daughter's lunchbags. (He also posts them on his blog.)

Dee Rees, Director of Pariah, Interviewed

Her identity struggles as a black lesbian, funneled into her first feature

LA Weekly Poetry: 'Brushes, Not Sticks' by Leigh White

Original art in progress by Leigh White, entitled The Last Tower Falls, made with acrylic and Sharpie on canvas​LA Weekly is now taking poetry submissions. Interested in having your work posted right here on our arts blog? Send previously unpublished poems along with an image to go with it to ... More >>

Amon Tobin - The Music Box - 10/16/11

Brian Erzen ​Amon Tobin The Fonda 10/16/11 Better than: All that shit that happened at Burning Man while you were on acid and can't remember anyway. For trogedytes and other uninitiated, Amon Tobin is a Brazilian electronic composer and producer now in the middle of a mad project to radicall ... More >>

Not the Beach Boys

DJ Turntables Become Art in Pop-Up Gallery Outside MOCA's 'Art in the Streets'

Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

Architecture and Design Museum's 'Come In! 2: Surf.Skate.Bike' Exhibit Let the Artists Run the Asylum. They Drew 'Boobies.'

Lea LionAshkahn Shahparnia with her work Anything at the Architecture and Design Museum​ Even in the art world, where breaking the rules is the golden rule, some things still follow an equation. Take, for example, the gallery opening. It's one part boxed wine, one part background jazz, add som ... More >>

Nightranger: Supermassive Black Hell

Tera Patrick: Market Penetration

Twist and Shout

Jamming on Hump Day with Michel Gondry @ Amoeba

It takes a certain je ne sais quoi to get the go-ahead to get your friends together to drink some beers and have a jam session right in the middle of Amoeba Music on a Wednesday summer night. Mind you, if you're Michel Gondry, you're just about clever and French enough to pull that off, and major b ... More >>

Getting Pinked: Waiting for the LAUSD Layoff Slip

Born Again Korn: Guitarist Fieldy Does Book Soup, Plays a Little Bakersfield Country

Adam GropmanFieldy: Every Dreadlock is numbered, like every grain of sand By Adam Gropman Last Thursday night, some of the gnarly, tattooed, hard-rock world often associated with the western Sunset Strip invaded the higher-brow literary/intellectual world of Strip oddity Book Soup. Korn bassist Fi ... More >>

Eliott Smith's Wall, Five Years On

Elliott Smith would have turned 39 on August 6. If. Not long ago I stopped in front of the Solutions Audio wall on Sunset Blvd. made famous in Autumn DeWilde's photos of Smith taken for the Figure 8 album and took some pictures of what it looks like now. The wall is still there with the same ... More >>

Exene Cervenka: Exile in the Ozarks

Away from the treasures and trappings of L.A., punk's godmother finds her muse in small-town Missouri

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No cartooning today

Here's the story:  Before going on stage with my band, The End, in Philadelphia, I found myself waiting for my fucking brother to show up so we could agree on the set list.  He was always late in the same way that I imagined Liza Minnelli was for her gigs.  Anyway, after getting a Sha ... More >>

No cartooning today

Here's the story:  Before going on stage with my band, The End, in Philadelphia, I found myself waiting for my fucking brother to show up so we could agree on the set list.  He was always late in the same way that I imagined Liza Minnelli was for her gigs.  Anyway, after getting a Sha ... More >>

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Big Man On Campus

Our Space Invader

The New Blacklist

Corporate America is bowing to anti-gay Christian groups’ boycott demands

Eye of the Sky

The Republican National ConVention: Call to Action!

Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America

Stossel’s Choirboys

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Children of Paradise

Urban Warfare: Grappling With Asan Akbar's Descent

The Writing on the Wall

Scribbles, scriptures and the Mid-Wilshire explosion

Vinyl Fetish

The often weird, sometimes sad and occasionally wonderful world of song-poems

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