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Top 10 Facebook Check-Ins For 2012 Shows Southern California On Top

America loves Southern California, at least according to Facebook's end-of-the-year data. Of the social networking site's recently revealed 10 most popular domestic "check-ins" for 2012, three of the locations are in Southern California, beating out any other region. Top spots include:

Fuck Art, Let's Read

America loves Southern California, at least according to Facebook's end-of-the-year data. Of the social networking site's recently revealed 10 most popular domestic "check-ins" for 2012, three of the locations are in Southern California, beating out any other region. Top spots include:

Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu

America loves Southern California, at least according to Facebook's end-of-the-year data. Of the social networking site's recently revealed 10 most popular domestic "check-ins" for 2012, three of the locations are in Southern California, beating out any other region. Top spots include:

Sunset Boulevard Project at Site of Late Tower Records On Hold For a Month as West Hollywood Opponents Ask For Downsizing

Developers of a proposed mixed-use strip mall that would stand at the former site of the famed Tower Records store on Sunset Boulevard hit the pause button over the weekend as opposition to the project, which would feature Times Square-like electronic billboards, grew to a roar. Project spokesman B ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Recovering From A Stooges Coma

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? KCRW Broadcast #144 for Saturday, December 10 Fanatics! What a show! It's the mother of all shows. It's gigantic and fantastic! It is extraordinary and wonderful in every way. It hits all the marks a ... More >>

Shepard Fairey, L.A. Street Artist, Designs Party Invite for Occupy Wall Street

theoccupationparty.comA West Coast legend does his part.​Yup. This just happened. Right after receiving the victorious news from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that Occupy Wall Street doesn't have to move out of Zuccotti Park after all, protest organizers learned they'd been blessed with a S ... More >>

Green Tea Shaved Snow Food Fight: Salju Dessert vs. Fluff Ice

Jim ThurmanMatcha green tea shaved snow with red bean & mochi at Salju Dessert​ Taiwanese shaved ice has been featured before at Squid Ink, and with good reason. It's perhaps the perfect summer dessert. However, as good as shaved ice is, it's just so 2010. This year, it's all about the next le ... More >>

Flawed Science

Jim ThurmanMatcha green tea shaved snow with red bean & mochi at Salju Dessert​ Taiwanese shaved ice has been featured before at Squid Ink, and with good reason. It's perhaps the perfect summer dessert. However, as good as shaved ice is, it's just so 2010. This year, it's all about the next le ... More >>

Digitally Ad-Wrapped Skyscrapers Coming to L.A.?

Jan Perry opens a new front in the Los Angeles billboard wars

(UPDATE From Snowed-In Newark International Airport) For Travelers Stuck At LAX, Weather Continues To Make Life Suck

PHOTO BY PATRICK RANGE MCDONALDContinental passengers delayed by a New Jersey blizzard last night were left in the dark through the wee hours​Twitter via spanishNYTimes Square is buried under at least one foot of snow​Updated after the jump: The Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald live-blogs ... More >>

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

PHOTO BY PATRICK RANGE MCDONALDContinental passengers delayed by a New Jersey blizzard last night were left in the dark through the wee hours​Twitter via spanishNYTimes Square is buried under at least one foot of snow​Updated after the jump: The Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald live-blogs ... More >>

THE SPITTLE SCREEN

PHOTO BY PATRICK RANGE MCDONALDContinental passengers delayed by a New Jersey blizzard last night were left in the dark through the wee hours​Twitter via spanishNYTimes Square is buried under at least one foot of snow​Updated after the jump: The Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald live-blogs ... More >>

White Like Me

PHOTO BY PATRICK RANGE MCDONALDContinental passengers delayed by a New Jersey blizzard last night were left in the dark through the wee hours​Twitter via spanishNYTimes Square is buried under at least one foot of snow​Updated after the jump: The Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald live-blogs ... More >>

Blowback: Shaheed and The Arsonists

Car bombs, arson and the history of empire

Patrol Your Own Damn Skyscraper: LAPD Disbands Terror Task Force

​As we first told you yesterday, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has disbanded a counter-terror unit that patrolled skyscrapers and high-profile public events.The Protective Security Task Force consisted of a couple dozen plainclothes cops who hung around tall buildings looking for the next Faisal Shahzad ... More >>

LAPD Counter-Terrorism Unit Being Disbanded?

​Given the attempted car bombing in New York over the weekend -- with initial implications for the Los Angeles area and its entertainment media -- this would be an ill-timed move: The union representing Los Angeles police and pseudonymous cop writer Jack Dunphy both say that the Los Angeles Po ... More >>

Terror Suspect Arrested In New York; L.A. Authorities Beef Up Studio Patrols

​As federal authorities announced late Monday that a suspect in Saturday night's attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square was arrested, Los Angeles-area authorities said they have beefed up patrols of area movie studios as a precaution. It's not clear if the terror attempt targeted th ... More >>

Bomb Threat Made On Mayor Villaraigosa's Office

​Someone contacted officials with a bomb threat on the mayor's office, prompting tighter security in City Hall Tuesday, a mayoral spokeswoman said. The threat comes as police patrols of area film studios has also been beefed up in the wake of the weekend's failed car-bomb attempt in New York' ... More >>

Did An Episode Of 'South Park' Inspire New York Car Bomb?

South Park Studios​Authorities are looking into the possibility that a recent episode of Los Angeles-based animated comedy series South Park that was deemed insensitive to Islam by some Muslims could have inspired the failed car bomb in New York's Times Square over the weekend. "This vehicle ... More >>

Nocando Vs. Wrekonize Battle Tape: Stamina Vs. Homophobia [NSFW]

A few months ago we wrote about LA rapper Nocando, whose work during Project Blowed and, recently, the Low End Theory have garnered him much praise on the experimental beatz scene around town (and in London). We just found this battle clip in which the emcee takes on Miami rapper Wrekonize, and w ... More >>

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

All Time High Support For Legal Pot In U.S.

This must be green week. On Monday President Obama called off Bush-fearing federal agents who had their guns trained on medical marijuana dispensaries in California and 13 other states where medicinal pot is legal. A county superior court judge ruled the city's moratorium on new dispensaries is ille ... More >>

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Talk about Their Next Big Foodie Flick: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

​Writers and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have thought an awful lot about food. But not in any sort of usual way. While working on their animated film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs based on the 1978 classic kid's book, Lord and Miller had to take the initial premise involving frea ... More >>

Movie Reviews: All About Steve, Loren Cass, Ink, Walt & El Grupo

Also, Sandstorm, No Impact Man, Gamer and more

Not Your Father's Drunk Tank

Jim Washburn at the urban-living site, FourStory, gets worked up over Canadian Club ads that trade in on both retro chic and the presumed nostalgia of 21st-century males for a more  take-charge era of guy. That is to say, a time when men in Van Heusen shirts were free to roam the bedrooms of th ... More >>

I Rode With a Zombie: An Undead Memoir

“Whadda they think this is, Grand Central Station?” my father would always exclaim about the zombies.

New loopholes for Los Angeles billboards and "sign districts"

A heated hearing unfolded earlier today before the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, which wants to create yet another complicated, exception-filled plan to try to control street clutter in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.Details of today's hearing will come from ace r ... More >>

The Mermaid & Sportsmen's Lodge Remembered

Two more vintage nightlife venues that helped define Southern California's quirkiness have closed or face possible extinction. L.A. Daily asked some longtime locals for their thoughts about Hermosa Beach's Mermaid bar and restaurant (whose lot is for sale), and Studio City's shuttered Sportsmen's Lo ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Champagne Grooves

Jazz in L.A., ’08-’09

No More Whining in 2009!

What to do in L.A., Dec. 26-Jan. 1

Troubling Signs

Comments on billboards gone wild

Shoving 850 digital billboards down LA's throat

We're thrilled to see Steve Lopez skewering the blazing, flashing, crass digital billboard clutter now sweeping L.A. while billboard-industry financed, highly conflicted members of the City Council, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo let it all happen. Lopez has joined t ... More >>

Broadway Crowd Pleasers: August: Osage County, Gypsy, November, Top Girls

Great White Way getaways

Kathy Griffin's Kodak Moment

A Q&A with the former D-lister

Last Chance to Be a Better Person!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Mean Snacks and Monkey Shit

Talking bananas with George Saunders

The Areas of My Expertise

Talking bananas with George Saunders

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Talking bananas with George Saunders

New York Playbill

A winter sampler

The Areas of My Expertise

A winter sampler

Stumbling Toward 2006

A winter sampler

Mezmerized

A winter sampler

The Perfect Storm

Remember me to Herald Square

Coming from all over

Remember me to Herald Square

New York Marquee

Now playing in the big town

Pine-Box Office Hits

Now playing in the big town

The City So Nice They Named It Twice

Now playing in the big town

My Favorite New Year’s

A personal history of the ’60s

Mallywood

Can David Malmuth’s “urban destination entertainment center” save the Boulevard?