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John O. Dabiri: The Jellyfish Genius

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.John O. Dabiri, 32, is the impossibly young chair of faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he studies jellyfish propulsion and fish schooling behavior — ... More >>

How Medicare Fraud Became the Nation's Most Lucrative Crime

It costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. But the feds say they're finally trying to crack down

Intronaut's Tour Diary II: Buying Weed in the Middle of Nowhere

See also: Intronaut's Tour Diary I: From Playing Clubs to Opening For Tool in Sports Arenas Los Angeles metal group Intronaut is currently on tour opening for Tool. Last week, guitarist/vocalist Sacha Dunable shared his thoughts on the trip's opening days -- which saw them playing arenas for the f ... More >>

The Toledo Show - Harvelle's - 1/22/12

The Toledo Show Harvelle's 1/22/12 Walking into Harvelle's on a Sunday night is disorienting. The long rectangle of a lounge is lined with a row of red leather banquettes full of couples, ladies with shiny red lips and fur-collared jackets. A cocktail waitress drifts by in a black dress and possibl ... More >>

$100 Billion Bullet Train

Democrats fray as cost skyrockets, feds bail, and Amtrak starts to look good

Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

Halfway through, and it's clear: Cannes 2011 has issues

Cardinal Roger Mahony Vilified for Cleansing 'Predator Priests' List of Names from His L.A. Archdiocese Web Site

Cardinal Roger Mahony​With Cardinal Roger Mahony getting ready to retire from the Roman Catholic Los Angeles Archdiocese, his eminence is pulling some strange, ill-conceived moves again, now refusing to maintain an updated list of sexually abusive priests on the archdiocese's web site. The ... More >>

Al Jazeera To Be Broadcast In Los Angeles?

​On the eve of Sept. 11, the date that helped put Arabic news network Al Jazeera on the global map, it looks like the controversial broadcaster could be coming to Southern California airwaves, albeit radio ones. The Washington Post reported this week that liberal Berkeley-based Pacifica Radio ... More >>

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

Q & A With Popcycle's Michelle Sallah: A Lifetime in Restaurants & on Bikes A Popsicle Recipe

J. KoslowMichelle Sallah and John Cassidy of Popcycle​ The arrival of consistent summer sunshine is well received by Michelle Sallah and John Cassidy of Popcycle, which means they are finding it quite easy to sell out of their frozen creations. And it's easy to understand why. Not only are th ... More >>

Music Picks: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Bridget St. John, Bad Astronaut, Kings of Leon

Also, Lilith 2010, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Smokey Robinson, Antibalas and others

Admiral Radley: the Other California

Quartet pays tender tribute to the Central Valley

Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival

Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others

Free the Robots, Dr. John. Alex Cuba and Merle Haggard

Also, Bestial Mouths, The Dreaming, Echo Lush and Elevaters

Live in LA: Greg Laswell, Ruby Friedman Orchestra, more

Joseph Llanes​People love Greg Laswell, and it's not just the music supervisors who've funneled his ballads of heartache into shows such as "Grey's Anatomy," "90210" and "The Hills." The 36-year-old singer-songwriter's deft ability to turn melancholy inside out served him well on his 2006 brea ... More >>

Robert Mallary at the Box

Stolen Library Book Returned By Beverly Hills Reader After 60 Years

​An eponymous biography of Napoleon first published in 1926 survived world war, television, and the rise and fall of most socialist states, but you could say at least one copy has been a victim of sticky fingers: It was stolen from a library 60 years ago and only recently came home. A Beverly ... More >>

LA Labels Recovering from Lumberjack Mordam's Closure; Where Do They Go Next?

It was the e-mail that every record label dreads. At the beginning of July, Toledo-based distributor Lumberjack Mordam Music Group informed its clientele that it was no longer in the music distribution business. It was the latest chapter in the saga of a struggling music industry that includes Feb ... More >>

George Torres, Numero Uno No More: Even After His Racketeering Conviction, Questions Remain About Which L.A. Political and Business Figures Were Influenced by His Money

Troubling allegations unsealed in investigative files of case against the grocery-chain magnate, who was a symbol of either the ethnic striver or the ingenious gangster -- or both

Nightranger has a ball with The Mutaytor, the Kibitz Room's Jammers and MyHouse's Hot-to-Trot Homies

Rock Picks: George Clinton, the Kris Special, Banyan

Also, Eleni Mandell, Tom Verlaine & Jimmy Rip and others

Put Heading Here

Concert Clubs Other Jazz Concerts Clubs Other Blues Other Country/Folk

The Magic of David Lee Roth's voice, naked

Attention producers: I defy any of you to listen to this vocal track of David Lee Roth singing "Runnin' With the Devil" and not stumble across some sample-worthy snippet. Holy Toledo think of the remixes! The mashups! Those grunts are golden! (courtesy Chunklet) photo by Randall Roberts

Oh, Christmas Tree!

Keeping wood-be robbers at bay

Rock Picks: Lee ''Scratch'' Perry, The Swell Season, Maximo Park and More

For the week of July 26 – August 2

Love Each Other So, Androgynous

A Real Pickle

Sweet, hot and wholly Toledo

Sticks + Skin + Bones

Freedom's Just Another Word for Arty Videos, the Doors and Sippy Cups

What to do in Los Angeles this week

That Beatnik Shit

Jazz Listings

For Feb 10 - 16, 2006 Blues, Cabaret, Latin and World Music Listings Follow

Nightranger

Mods & Rockers, Goatherds and a Sober George Carlin

Wounded Souls

Director Kirby Dick exposes the psychic scars of abuse; TNT’s The Closer and Fox’s The Inside send their female sleuths deep into homicide’s twisted grasp

Feral Child

Process is born

Wholesome Paternal Story

Letters

Life as Music

John Adams goes public

Cool Times

Hanging with the actor kids at the Oakwood Apartments

Upscale Activism: Raquel Welch Rallies Beverly Hills Behind the Troops

Goils, Goils, Goils

Savoring the Jack Amster living-vaudeville experience

Lip Service

Edited by Kateri Butler

London Calling

The American Embassy, plus Andy Richter and Bernie Mac

Dogs, Bodies

Amores Perros and Chopper

Everbody's the Greatest

Letters

Music Reviews

Music Reviews - Unwritten Law, Broadcast, L.A. County Line, Ralph Towner - Gary Peacock