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Bobak Ferdowsi: The JPL Mohawk Guy

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Last year's Mars landing by the NASA rover Curiosity was a nail-biter broadcast live from the control room at the Jet Propulsion Lab in La Cañada Flintridge. Yet as the r ... More >>

Jessie Andrews: The Porn Star as a Brand

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Jessie Andrews was a 17-year-old American Apparel salesgirl in Miami Beach when company founder Dov Charney, impressed with her abilities, hired her to instruct the other area e ... More >>

Davy Rothbart: Professional Fool for Love

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Davy Rothbart sits at a picnic table in Elysian Park with a Discman in his pocket. Someone actually stopped him on the street recently while he was traveling on a book tour and ... More >>

David Sabastian: A Rapper and Fashionista on the Verge

"Not to be vague, but I think everybody of this generation has Anti in them," emerging rapper David Sabastian argues, sweat trickling down his face. It's hot out here. Twenty minutes earlier, he was spray-painting an empty swimming pool, dressed in a black, mostly leather outfit and matching ski mas ... More >>

Dirty Girls: How a Bizarre 1996 Film About Santa Monica Punk-Feminist Eighth Graders Became a YouTube Sensation

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild In high school, Michael Lucid was an artsy, friendly kid who floated around from one campus clique to the next. "I was more approachable and kids felt comfortable talking to me," he says of his time at S ... More >>

One Woman's Super Annoying, Super Lazy Quest to Meet Moby

Moby will hang out with anyone. It's practically written in the Constitution. Short only perhaps, of Bill Murray, everyone has their "hanging out with Moby" story: "Oh, my sister's college roommate's best friend's cousin made out with Moby last year" or "My neighbor sent him an email once and he jus ... More >>

Moby: L.A. Architecture's New Mascot

See also: *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Those hoping for Moby to launch into the lyrics from "Extreme Ways" in this video might have been surprised to see him riffing on L.A.'s "baf ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

Suri's Burn Book: The Ultimate Dig at Our Celeb-Obsessed Culture, Now in Book Form

In our celeb-obsessed culture, it seems everything is fair game. We gather around blogs that pick apart stars' outfits and possible romantic entanglements and other scandals. So are celebrity children fair game? Blogger Allie Hagan attempts to make light of that idea. However, being a 25-year-old p ... More >>

Ruth Bourdain's Comfort Me With Offal: From Twitter to Your Local Bookstore

If you've spent the last two years laughing over the comic genius of Ruth Bourdain, you'll need no reminder that her eagerly (to some) awaited book has just come out from Andrews McMeel Publishing. If you are not among the initiated, here's a thumbnail sketch: In March of 2010, a hilarious Twitter f ... More >>

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 20-11

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existence of hipster groups that distress ... More >>

The Best Jazz Concerts to See in L.A. This Month

Friday, August 10th Dale Fielder LACMA Saxophonist Dale Fielder has been honking around Los Angeles for some time now. He has recently gravitated towards the underappreciated majesty of baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams. Friday's appearance in front of LACMAs 202 streetlamps will be a preview of h ... More >>

Five Cheap Ways You Can Support Your Favorite Artists

Art shouldn't be intimidating, but when you walk into a gallery and note that even the low priced items are several hundreds of dollars, it can be. But fear not, art lovers. There are plenty of ways you can support the artists whose work you've reblogged on Tumblr or pinned to Pinterest even when ... More >>

Is Riff Raff Serious?

One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are

Best Coast - The Wiltern - 5/18/12

See also: The Branding of Best Coast: The Duo Partners With Urban Outfitters, Inspires Internet Wrath Best Coast, Jeff the Brotherhood, Abe Vigoda The Wiltern 5/18/12 Better than: listening to The Only Place on a "My First Turntable" from Urban Outfitters. Last night I was officially converted t ... More >>

Father John Misty Just Quit Fleet Foxes: We Get High in His Van

Ask a Teen Raver: Our Teen Raver's Last Column

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Do you like any crusty old DJs like Sasha and Digweed and Paul Van Dyk and all them? Don't you thi ... More >>

Father John Misty Just Quit Fleet Foxes: We Get High in His Van

Until January, Josh Tillman was the drummer from Fleet Foxes. When I meet him at Good Luck Bar in Los Feliz it's two weeks after the announcement of his departure from the band. Slumped over the bar, beer in hand, the bearded 6'4" singer-songwriter stands out; through somewhat of an awkward grin, he ... More >>

Los Angeles Review of Books Founder Tom Lutz on His Literary Site's Relaunch Today

Tom Lutz is one happy man. He has every reason to be. This morning, Lutz watched as the online literary behemoth that he founded, the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), finally launched its new website. With more than 250 contributors, including Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Jane Smiley, Jeffrey Eu ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver: Do You Have a Boyfriend?

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. See also: *Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs *DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. See also: *Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs *DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep ... More >>

"Eat It Don't Tweet It:" When Food Bites Back

We foodists have a sense of humor, right? We'd better, because we deserve to be made fun of for lighting up everyone's minifeed with excited tweets about the "fucking brown buttered hedgehog mushrooms" and "Yakima applewood smoked sea salt" we're about to eat. Our latest find, "Eat It Don't Tweet I ... More >>

Paul Robertson, Animator of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Video Game, Shows Pixel Art at GR2

Paul Robertson makes some of the coolest video game-inspired art you will ever see. In his prints -- several of which are on display right now in GR2's group show, "Diversions" -- the past clashes with the present in a brightly colored, pixelated fashion. Robertson artfully pieces together familiar ... More >>

Alex Weinschenker, Occupy L.A. Protester Behind 99% Bandana on Cover of TIME, Dies in Alleged Overdose

Though Occupy L.A. has always been firm about its status as a collective, not a group of individuals, some protesters have inevitably achieved more celebrity than the rest. The first and foremost being Sarah Mason, whose portrait at a Bank of America occupation ended up on the cover of TIME's "Prot ... More >>

Bacon Milkshake: It's Real

We're still pinching ourselves to make sure this isn't a dream. Our sister blog City of Ate at the Dallas Observer tells us it isn't. The Bacon Milkshake from Jack in the Box is here!

Time Warner Cable Launches 'Ryan Gosling On Demand' for Valentine's Day

From "The 20 Most Flawless, Perfect Pictures Of Ryan Gosling At The Airport." Really.​You're welcome, Time Warner, for the free publicity. Don't get used to it. But this time, you knew exactly how to rope a lady blogger into covering your clunky, last-century cable services: all Ryan Gosling, ... More >>

Five More Girls Who Look Like Skrillex

See also our original post: Top Five Girls Who Look Like Skrillex Skrillex is back in town for a six night performance run. Here's our review of his show at Cinespace, and be sure to check out our cover story from a few months back, in which we embedded with the reluctant dubstep star and told his ... More >>

Weegee Strips Hollywood Naked

Courtesy of MOCALiz Taylor, ca. 1950​ "Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees." So said crime photographer and full-time self promoter Arther Fellig, who was also known as Weegee. He was New Yorker to the the core, having grown up in the bitter poverty of the Depression-era Lower Eas ... More >>

Brandon Olterman, Young L.A. Artist, Goes Missing After Runyon Canyon Hike

bluffton.eduMissing person Brandon Olterman played soccer in college.​A young children's book illustrator and graphic artist from Los Angeles has gone missing after taking off for a hike in Runyon Canyon on Sunday afternoon. Brandon Thomas Olterman, 26, is currently being sought by the LAPD's ... More >>

Rodarte's Fra Angelico Collection at LACMA: How a Monk Inspired Fashion's Famous Duo

(c) 2011 Museum Associates/LACMADetail of an orange dress by Rodarte, in LACMA's new exhibit​It is the most unusual of pairings -- a 14th century Italian monk and two fashiony young sisters from Los Angeles, 2011. Yet the devout Fra Angelico was the perfect muse for couturiers Kate and Laura M ... More >>

Rap Industry Fan Fiction: Here Are Some Freestyled Stories About Tyga And Tyler, the Creator

Sure, you have your cosplay and your Star Trek, but Rap Industry Fan Fiction takes the genre to a place that it isn't know for going -- hip-hop. The brainchild of UNC history major Kate Davis Jones and grad Drew Millard, the site makes good on titles like "Ice Cube Shows Ice-T His Model Train Set" a ... More >>

A Pie Crust Recipe or 3: Thanksgiving, Plugra, Thomas Keller A New Technique

J. Kelleypie crust pie​For some reason, making piecrust scares people. Bakers who confidently turn out fancy frosted and piped layer cakes and cooks who can sauté and deglaze with the best of us balk at humble pie dough. Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, friends drop by for impromptu ... More >>

A Release Date For Odd Future Subgroup The Internet; See Their Video That Outraged One Corner Of The Lesbian Community

Syd and Matt Martian​The Internet, the Odd Future subgroup composed of producer/singer Syd and producer Matt Martian of the Super 3, will digitally release their debut album December 20, entitled Purple Naked Ladies. Its tracklisting is at the end of this post. The physical release for the w ... More >>

Kreayshawn Has a Video Game, In Which She Shoots Down "Basic Bitches"

Beth Maher​See also: Van Halen Assteroidz Is Back! She ain't no Princess Peach, but Kreayshawn now has her very own video game. Kreayshawn: The Game bowed earlier this month, courtesy of Toronto-based illustrator-cum-game-designer Beth Maher. The 8-bit creation places the L.A. rapper alongsid ... More >>

Top Five Girls Who Look Like Skrillex

Girls That Look Like Skrillex, submitted by BittyBandolero​See also: *Our cover story on Skrillex *Skrillex Is Making Music With Members Of The Doors! We Speak With Him And Robby Krieger About It *The Top Five Covers of Skrillex's 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites'" In this week's cover story, ... More >>

'We Are the 53 Percent' Claims Middle Ground Between Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, Tells Protesters to 'Suck It Up'

See also: "Occupy L.A. Now Allowed to Camp on City Hall Lawn: Why Are Politicians Sucking Up to Protesters?" Our very own Gene Maddaus created an enlightening similarities chart between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party yesterday. In short: Same approach, opposite ends of the spectrum. But ther ... More >>

Make No Mistake: Bleached Are Punk as Fuck

Smooth out punk's crinkly guitar riffs, replace the genre's frenetic deliveries with soothing harmonies, and give its drums a low dose of Xanax, and you have Jennifer and Jessica Clavin's brand-new band, Bleached. Like the visuals from their recent "Think of You" video, their sound is that of a vint ... More >>

The Pulp Revival Continues With Eve Woods' Documentary The Beat Is Law

Screen shot from The Beat Is LawJarvis Cocker on stage at Glastonbury​On August 10, L.A. Pulp fans gathered at Cinefamily for a sold-out screening of The Beat Is Law: Fanfare for the Common People, part of this year's Don't Knock the Rock film festival. The movie is Eve Wood's follow-up to the ... More >>

Go Fish Yourself!

Adventure Time Is a Hit at San Diego Comic-Con

Shannon CottrellAdventure Time takes over a Gaslamp Quarter pizza spot​See more photos in "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Preview Night," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day One," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day Two,""San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day Three" and "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day Four." If you were ... More >>

Ginger Lee, Anthony Weiner's Porn-Star Sexter, Hires Gloria Allred to Protect Her Good Name

Is Ginger Lee hiding something?​Some dirt is about to drop on Nashville porn star Ginger Lee, one of New York politician Anthony Weiner's chosen women (and the sexiest of the sexters, if we do say so ourselves), according to a cagey statement issued by her freshly hired lawyerette. Though L.A. ... More >>

James Urbaniak: Dr. Red Herring

Shira Lazar Discusses Her New Show What's Trending, Daniel Tosh and Arianna Huffington

We hear Shira Lazar knows Keyboard Cat personally.​Today at 10 a.m. local media maven Shira Lazar will step in front of an HD camera in a swank new Hollywood studio and debut What's Trending, a live online show devoted to what's hot on the internet. We spend a lot of time online (you don't wan ... More >>

Pete Licata Wins US Nat'l Barista Championship; Nik Krankl Takes 2nd

Here's an early afternoon pick-me-up. This past Sunday, Pete Licata of Honolulu Coffee Company beat out dozens of competitors to win the United States Barista Championships. The man who who won the 2011 Southwest Regional Barista Championship will go on to compete in the World Barista Championshi ... More >>

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[Updated] Unmasked LA Times Critic Virbila Responds to Red Medicine Fracas

Update: Yesterday, December 23rd, shortly after we posted Virbila's response, her photo and the explanation of why she was booted from the restaurant were removed from Red Medicine's Tumblr site. From Red Medicine's site.​Since we broke the story yesterday that Los Angeles Times restaurant c ... More >>

Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick and the Cult of 'The Venture Bros.'

The Venture Bros., which begins the second half of its fourth season Sunday night at 11:30 on Adult Swim, is a curious show. It hasn't won the awards that Robot Chicken and The Boondocks have. It didn't spawn a rock band with a Billboard top 20 album like Metalocalypse did. It doesn't have the super ... More >>

Grammys' Social Media Rock Star Summit: Music Fans at the Forefront of Digital Culture

Melissa Jun RowleySocial Media Rock Stars: Digg's Kevin Rose and Mashable's Pete Cashmore​For more than half a century the Grammy Awards have been the pinnacle institution of American music. (But that doesn't mean the tone of the show and the brand itself have to be institutional.) While the ... More >>

The Restaurant in Apartment 205