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The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 29 Fol Chen BOOTLEG THEATER Fol Chen is one of the most creative bands in the local electro-pop underground, conjuring unusual sounds that flutter, mutate, shimmer and trail sparks just as colorfully as the flying fish and luminous butterflies in Oz the Great and Powerful. While the m ... More >>

Bassnectar: The DJ as Guidance Counselor

With hair flying across his face as he twists together gnarly basslines, Bassnectar is one of the most compelling figures making electronic dance music. He plays the Palladium today and just dropped his new EP, Freestyle. But the Berkeley-based DJ-producer, whose real name is Lorin Ashton, is less s ... More >>

Gordy Grundy 'Burns' Off All His Art in a 'One-Day Retrospective' in Chinatown

Beneath glowing lanterns along Chinatown's Chung King Road on Friday the 13th, more than 400 people passed through the doors of Coagula Curitorial to check out Gordy Grundy's one-man, one-night-only art-show, "BURN." Two bartenders and a spokesmodel poured lemongrass-tinged Bombay Sapphire East Gin ... More >>

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Randolph's Smoke House: The Taming of the Hog

If you happened to be the kind of guy who takes his pair of Stacey Adams for a weekly polish at Chambers Shine Parlor and Shoe Repair -- proudly serving South Central since 1955 -- you may have noticed a change in atmosphere recently, an intoxicating plume of meaty smoke wafting from the space next ... More >>

Did Andy Cohen Go Too Far With Kim Richards?

Among the middle-aged princesses who've been born out of Bravo's Real Housewives franchise, Andy Cohen has always been king. As both a high-level network executive and an on-air personality who regularly interviews the women, he's in a unique position to oscillate between superfan and superior. He ... More >>

Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson - The Greek Theatre - October 7, 2011

Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson The Greek Theatre October 7, 2011 Better than...Elton John and Billy Joel. What does Stetson cologne smell like? I've never actually smelled it, but I'm certain Merle Haggard embodies everything the average man is trying to portray when he sprays it on. Meanwh ... More >>

Gypsy

The 10 Worst Songs About California That Aren't "California" By Datarock

Their latest single is terrible.​We used to like Datarock a lot. Our working theory is that in 2007, while we slept, we were taken over by a hipster succubus that abused cocaine and drank too much Pedialyte--plausible explanation for how our critical functions were deactivated. Fortunately, D ... More >>

Stage Raw: It's Official, Rada to replace Dillingham at CTG

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS   Stage FEATURE on Rajiv Joseph's The Monster at the Door Craig SchwartzEdward L. Rada to replace Charles Dillingham at CTG​An unconfirmed tip reported to the Weekly a couple of weeks ago that Edward L. Rada would be taking over the reti ... More >>

Movie Review: Leaves of Grass

Hot Dog And Wine Pairings: 5 L.A. Sommeliers Answer The Dog

J. GarbeeRiesling Works, Too​When it comes to burgers and hot dogs, the wine pairing world is not created equal. A recent Google search for burgers wine pairings yielded more than 2.7 million hits; try the same search for hot dogs and you get a paltry 111,000. And so began Squid Ink's recent ... More >>

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Rock Picks: THE JOE KROWN TRIO, THE FIERY FURNACES, THE LILYS, MR. GNOME

Also, Simian Mobile Disco, Wolfmother, El Perro del Mar and others

Brick's Picks: Festivals of Nations

The Henry Clay People to Convene A "Mustache Circus" Featuring Fol Chen, Flying Tourbollin Orchestra

Timothy Norris Last Thursday we got a note from Andy Siara, he of the Henry Clay People, to inform us of an upcoming HCP show at the Echo and Echoplex that has the potential to be a great event: A Mustache Circus, slated for Friday, August 14. Says Siara: We're callin it the "Rock n Roll Mustache ... More >>

Van Morrison Goes Astral on The Tonight Show

Special Tortilla Contest Edition

Corn vs. flour: Cual es mas masa?

LA Weekly Road-trips to Catch Tom Waits in Phoenix

Tom Waits, Orpheum Theater, Phoenix, Arizona, June 17. By Peter Gilstrap And so it was that Tom waits came to Phoenix after a three-decade absence on the first night of the American leg of his Glitter and Doom tour, an expedition that will take him to such exotic ports o’ call as El Paso, Tul ... More >>

Josh White

Documenter

Rock Picks: Meat Beat Manifesto, Jay-Z, Eels

Plus other music shows for April 10-17

Brick's Picks: Kids 'n' Players

Rollins and Hubbard keep the flame; Los Angeles Jazz Collective lights a fire

Theater Listings

For the Week of Dec. 7-14 Opening This Week Larger Theaters Smaller TheatersHollywood, West Hollywood, Downtown The Valleys Westside, Beaches Special Events

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For the week of Nov. 23-29

Faster Cynthia!! Kiln! Kiln!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Theater Listings

For the Week of Nov. 23-29

Put Heading Here

Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop

¡Ask a Mexican! the Dating Gain

Dear Mexican: Why do so many of my peers assume I must have low self-esteem just because I’m dating a Mexican guy?

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe

Action taken in solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Death and Girl Talk

Mash-up star Gregg Gillis may be about to blow up — literally

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Dancing On the Moon

Looking for the meaning of “alternative” with a pair of L.A.’s newest comedy impresarios

Between the Covers

Books on photography

(I Belong to The) Blank Generation

Jazz Odyssey

(no puppet show)

Armand and Dangerous

An interview with Hammer director Ann Philbin

Sexy Beasts

Larry Clark, John Waters and Bruce Hainley on their big, big . . . books

Injustice for All

Taryn Simon and The Innocents

General Objections

The commander of the air war in Gulf War I lobs a few bombs at the current war

Under the Lava Lamp

Letters

Lust and Liberty

Larry Clark’s teen dreams

Snow Princes

Strong, sexy, scarred and psycho

Big Top Brainville

Nowhere To Hide

Filmmaker Floyd Mutrux

Boys Are for Noise

Hanson busts out

Heart Beats

Kid Loco's love song

Letters

..."From Liberty Hill to the Living Wage" by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Drier [October 2-8], I assume that both authors come from the Mike Davis school of Los Angeles history, in which Chicanos have played no significant part in this city. ...

Mockin' Bird

Patti Page comes out swinging