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Can Aja Brown, Compton's Hip, Refreshing Reform Mayor, Turn This Woeful City Around?

Annoying Orange Creator Dane Boedigheimer Tells Us How His YouTube Series Made the Jump to Cartoon Network

Annoying Orange is one of the biggest successes of YouTube, as the series that started as a lying-in-bed revelation from creator Dane Boedigheimer eventually found 2.4 million subscribers and more than 1.2 billion views online. The series follows its title character as he interacts with other food i ... More >>

Skateboard as 'Deadly Weapon' in Venice Attack: Ashley Berg, Savoy Anderson Charged

Skateboards are for riding, not for fighting. But the L.A. City Attorney's office today said that a Venice homeless couple -- 21-year-old Ashley Berg and 33-year-old Savoy Anderson -- was involved in using a board as a weapon in an attack on another pair last week. It happened on a street becoming ... More >>

Skateboarder Wields Ax on SoCal Freeway, Leads CHP on High-Speed Chase

A sick new move that has rocked the skateboarding world in a way not seen since Tony Hawk's historic "900" was completed near The Birdman's hometown of San Diego this week. That's right, authorities allege that 24-year-old Thomas Robert Landry of San Diego executed the "5150" flawlessly, starting w ... More >>

Steve-O at the El Rey: Jackass's Comedy Show Trades Wounds for Words

"Trying to convince people that I'm a stand-up comic is a real uphill battle," Jackass cohort Steve-O confessed before Friday's headlining show at the El Rey. "I realize I have a lot of work to do to get to that point." Notable bit of introspection and self-awareness for a guy whose resume boasts s ... More >>

Omar Von Muller's Skateboarding Dogs. Yes, Skateboarding Dogs.

Adam GropmanDash goes skateboarding​It's a pleasant summer day down at Venice Beach, the boardwalk humming with activity. On the paved path pointing toward the water, near where Windward Avenue ends at the beach, a skateboarder shows off, kicking sturdily against the pavement, leaning into ... More >>

Video Games Live: The E3 Event That's Open to the Public

Marcin Wichary, Creative Commons via WikipediaTommy Tallarico playing Video Games Live in 2009​Today is the first day of E3, the annual event where video game companies unveil their latest products. There's a lot of hype surrounding the three-day show, but, unfortunately most people won't be a ... More >>

Nightranger: Gamer Gauche

Beach-punks and Ballyhoo: Pac-Sun's Seaside Sound and Swag Fest

The weather may have been breezy, but there was a definite warm-up going on at PacSun's Beach Ballyhoo in Santa Monica this past weekend -- warming up for skimpier fashions, warming up for summer sports like skateboarding and biking, and if the considerable showing of punky, pierced tweens was any i ... More >>

Celebrities Caught Tagging at Banksy Premiere

At the Monday night premiere of Banksy's Documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop at Los Angeles Theater, guests were offered the chance to tag a bus and limo parked on the street. Check out what they wrote below and see Colin Young-Wolff's photo gallery, "Where's Banksy?" for more scenes from Monday ... More >>

Daggers of the World Unite! Skateboarders, Artists, and one Runaway Visit Exhibit A

Daggers of the World Unite! O.G. Skateboarders, artists, and one 'Runaway' Visit Exhibit A

A pricey Venice loft steals a historic name. Laddie John Dill and others say: "It's the antithesis of Dogtown."

​Lance LeMond, you're a second generation Dogtown skater, ("third generation, technically" you correct us), you make your living through an online skateboard store, you are calling the L.A. Weekly from the newly "ollied" skatepark in Venice, you helped organize its opening day. Can you afford a un ... More >>

Breakestra Celebrates the Release of Dusk Til Dawn Tonight at El Rey

If you're a music fan in LA, no doubt you know Breakestra, whose work in that gray area between breakbeat, old school funk, Latin grooves, jazz and soul comines to create something both fresh and timeless. Tonight the legendary LA live breakbeat band Breakestra celebrates the release of its new albu ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Casi Divas, Post Grad, Shorts

Also, Earth Days, Gotta Dance and more

N.A.S.A.'s DJ Squeak E. Clean: Ready for Liftoff

Teams with Tom Waits, David Byrne, MIA, Santogold, Spank Rock, RZA, Ghostface Killah, Kanye West and others to create The Spirit of Apollo

OUTFIT OF THE WEEK: JEREMY SCOTT & KELLY CUTRONE

Last week we started a new Style Council feature in which we spotlight a stylish scenester out on the town, and we chose a gal who really stood out from the crowd of carbon-copy cuties around her at The Kress, the fancy schmancy new restaurant and nightclub in Hollywood. The sentiment on her Hyste ... More >>

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

Also Beyond Hatred, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and more

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

D'oh! Simpsons Limited-Edition Vans

Is that a Bart on your shoe?

Extreme Campers

Best place for your inner child to do backflips

Nice Monster

Screen and Be Seen

Sk8er Girl in Z-Boy Land

Director Catherine Hardwicke on being the Lady of Dogtown

From Motown to Rimtown

The blinging of Los Angeles

Valhalla on a Tank of Gas

Photo Essay

Fanboys and Cheesecake

The Ghosts of Dogtown

A quarter-century later, the Zephyr Competition Skate Team still rules