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Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Peter Murphy Of Bauhaus Arrested For Alleged DUI, Meth Possession

Updated at the bottom: He says he didn't do it. First posted at 7:01 a.m. Peter Murphy, the "Godfather of Goth" and the vocalist for legendary group Bauhaus, was in jail this week after he was arrested based on an alleged felony in Glendale, according to L.A. County Sheriff's Department inmate data ... More >>

Vivid Porn Building Catches Fire

Flames erupted on the rooftop of a building famous for housing the offices of one of the world's largest porn studios, Vivid Entertainment in the Cahuenga Pass. Hot stuff, indeed: Luckily, no one was hurt in the making of this blaze. The fire at 3599 Cahuenga Boulevard near Universal City was repo ... More >>

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:

Los Angeles DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet For the Aug. 3 Weekend: Look Out, Hollywood

Ah, summer in L.A: A nearly full moon, warm, breezy nights and ... more LAPD drunk-driver checkpoints. And this weekend cops are hitting you where it hurts -- in the heart of Hollywood. So ride along with us as we take you on the journey that is our DUI checkpoint cheat sheet for the weekend of Au ... More >>

Joe's Falafel: Laffa Now, Smile Later

When fresh from the oven, the variety of Israeli flatbread known as laffa is delicious enough to inspire fever dreams: a stretchable, oval-shaped length of unleavened bread -- not dissimilar to a good Indian naan -- pulled just thick enough to form a kind of textural duality between its soft chewy i ... More >>

My Morning Jacket and Sharon Jones - Gibson Amphitheatre - 12-01-11

My Morning Jacket and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings Gibson Ampitheatre 12-01-11 Better than...any ride at Universal Studios. Past the gauntlet of Universal City Walk with its seizure-inducing lights, blaring Christmas pop remixes, and downright oppressive wafts of popcorn and cologne, there was a ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY! BILL MAHER

In Backward Attempt to Remedy 'Billboards Gone Wild,' L.A. Considers Opening 9 More Sign Districts

City of Billboards​NYC isn't the only one who thinks L.A. wants to be Manhattanized -- our own city leaders seem to be under the same supergraphic spell. But don't get too excited, NYU film-school rejects who settled for USC: We're not talking Manhattanized in a cute, compact "these lights wi ... More >>

Carmageddon Survival Guide: 10 Artsy Ways to Salvage Your Weekend

Cult soul singer Evie Sands in the 1960s; Sands is performing at Viva Cantina this Sunday.​ With the impending shutdown of the 405, everyone's unsure of what to do this weekend. Quoth a friend: "Should I leave? Should I stay? And if I stay, what should I do?" Have no fear, we've got you cove ... More >>

Los Angeles Bus Cuts: MTA Axes 305,000 More Hours of Service, Stranding Low-Income Workers in L.A. Outskirts

Beverly PressThe 757, from Hollywood through Koreatown, will no longer run on weekends.​About every six months, we receive a deja-vous press release from the Bus Riders Union, furious at the Metropolitan Transit Authority for a new wave of massive cuts to the decrepit L.A. bus system. The cut ... More >>

10 Best Neon Signs in Los Angeles

Flickr/thomashawkSign to the Earl Carroll Theater, now on display at Universal CityWalk in Universal City.​ There's something beautiful about a flickering motel light, all arrows, "vacancy" and red sizzle. Neon signs are hypnotic, fantastical creations -- and L.A. is a great city to go hunting ... More >>

Bar BLVD & Lounge Opens Inside Studio City's Newest Hotel

Bar BLVD​Studio City isn't famous for its nightlife, for its sushi maybe, but now we have another option to consider: 3,000 square foot Bar BLVD, inside BLVD Hotel Spa, opening Thursday, April 14th. The boutique hotel, which soft-opened February 4th with 58 rooms, is still smoothing out the ... More >>

Snow in Los Angeles: Burbank, Universal City See Flurries (Photos)

bowtothecrownSnow in Burbank.​Updated after the jump: There seems to be some debate about whether the white stuff is snow or "graupel." Snow in Los Angeles? Looks like it. The National Weather Service told us there was an outside chance as the snow level for metro L.A. fell to 1,500 Saturday. ... More >>

Porn Protesters Target Biggest Adult Video Maker, Vivid Entertainment, Near Universal City

VividDid Kim Kardashian violate state law?​The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's war against condom-free porn struck at the heart of the adult industry Thursday when AHF organizers held a press conference in front of the Universal City-area headquarters of the globe's leading smut maker, Vivid Ente ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY BOY! DOUG STANHOPE

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Universal Appeal

National Weather Service: 'Dangerous Heat Expected' For Much Of L.A.

NASA​Hot enough for you yet? Still complaining about that cool summer? Didn't think so. And it looks like Madre Nature is about to turn it up a notch. The National Weather Service has issued a notice that states, in part, "dangerous heat expected" for Wednesday. The usual suspects should be o ... More >>

'Excessive Heat Watch' Issued For L.A. This Week: Record Temps Expected

​An "excessive heat watch" has been issued by the National Weather Service for much of Los Angeles Tuesday and Wednesday, with "dangerous heat possible" and even record temperatures for the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Santa Monica Mountains. A high-pressure system is ... More >>

Conan O'Brien To Give First Post-NBC Interview To '60 Minutes'

Meghan SinclairSuper CoCo.​In his first interview since leaving NBC, late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien will appear on CBS News program 60 Minutes Sunday, Associated Press reports. O'Brien's exit deal with NBC -- he walked away from the network with more than $40 million for himself and ... More >>

Conan Fans Plan Rally, Might Be Too Late

Mike Mitchell​Fans of late-night TV host Conan O'Brien announced an "I'm with Coco"-themed rally outside the taping of his show Monday in Universal City. The rally, however, might be too late, as The Wrap is reporting that NBC and O'Brien have come to a $30-million deal that would have him wal ... More >>

SECOND CITY

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

It Came From Cinecon

Expensive posters, cheap pinups and celluloid curios at Hollywood's annual cinephile summit

Ambulance Becomes Man's Hearse

The L.A. Daily News and other sources report that a "criminally insane" man jumped out of an ambulance that was heading southbound down the 101 Freeway near Universal City last night. He was struck and fatally injured by a Volvo driven by a Van Nuys man. The mental patient was being transported to a ... More >>

Posse Dining: Top 5 Places to Eat with a Crowd

Partying used to be so simple. It's almost Friday and fifteen of your closest friends are itching to celebrate a special occasion over dinner and drinks. Since you and your cronies aren't swimming in funds like the guys from Entourage, renting out an entire restaurant is beyond the monthly budget. E ... More >>

City Council Votes for Permanent Ban on Digital Billboards

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to ban all digital billboards in the city, an action brought before them by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, who feared that an existing "Interim Control Ordinance" that temporarily bans digital billboards and super-graphics may soon be found inval ... More >>

Judas Priest's Performance of British Steel at Gibson Amphitheatre: Sonically Beefier, Possibly Record-Breaking

By Skylaire Alfvegren Judas Priest at Gibson Amphitheatre, August 2 Last year, Birmingham, UK stalwarts Judas Priest released an ambitious double album conceptualizing the life of French seer, Nostradamus, and mounted an epic summer escapade with Motorhead and Heaven & Hell. Under the stars abo ... More >>

LA Weekly best in Southern California Journalism Awards in news, investigative, column, feature and political reporting

It was a huge, huge night for LA Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club's awards gala in Universal City a few hours ago. Staff writer Christine Pelisek triple-swept in the Hard News, Investigative and News Feature categories for major newspapers with more than 100,000 circulation, beating the Los Ang ... More >>

Staycations Here to Stay?

Southland residents are looking no further than their own back yards, relatively speaking, when it comes to planning summer getaways. According to a feature in today's L.A. Daily News, 2009 represents the second year so-called staycations are in vogue. Last year holiday travel was cut by skyrocketin ... More >>

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 >>

Killsonic: A 24-Piece L.A. Big Band's "Cloud of Noise"

Roving musicians fill city's Metro tunnels with sound

Killsonic Marching Gang to Play... The Red Line Today?

This afternoon (as in Saturday, January 31), East L.A.'s latin/jazz/gypsy/punk mega-band the Killsonic Marching Gang will storm the underground, quite literally. Twenty-plus musicians with 20-plus instruments plan to invade the Metro Red Line, playing a series of 20-minute sets at subway stops be ... More >>

Thank God It's Frightday

What to do, Halloween Week 2008

Your Scream Date

Jazzed? But Not Motivated?

The week in fun, June 27-July 3

Last Chance to Be a Better Person!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Kofie'One's Obama Mural

Obamanation Photos and text by Shelley Leopold A mural appeared in Mid-Wilshire on a recent morning — not on a rooftop or an overpass, but at the ninth-floor entrance to a nondescript office building. Like most pieces of graffiti art, it rose to greet its environment seemingly uninvited as it sta ... More >>

Above It All

Universal City Overlook

Best of L.A. 2007 Armageddon it!

The last things we'd ever do

I Got Yer Inconvenient Truth!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Everybody in The Fishtank!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

I'm in the Band

The rock & roll fantasy of live-band karaoke

Go Duck Yourself

There’s just something about the crackly skin and the dark juicy meat that has us craving duck now and again...

Rock & Pop Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006 Country listings follow.

Stumbling Toward 2006

Universal Lifeline

The power of Hollywood keeps lights on

About That Money

The caravan moves on, but someone forgot to pay the bill

Nice Work If You Can Get It On

Cracked!

The Disaster Waiting To Happen Inside L.A.'s Steel-Frame Towers