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Urban Outfitters Inc.

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2012

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 10, 2012

    The Branding of Best Coast

    The Duo's Singer Bethany Cosentino Partners With Urban Outfitters, Inspires Internet Wrath

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Coachella 2012: Fashion Combinations You Can Expect

    See also: *10 Fashion Combinations You Will Find Every Year at Coachella *Coachella in the Rain: Top 5 Ways We Ladies Can Still Look Cute *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers We hear it might be rainy or cold this year at Coachella. (If that happens, here's som ... More >>

  • Music

    April 5, 2012

    Music Picks: Soweto Gospel Choir, Garbage, Neon Trees, Jennifer Leitham

    Also, Kitty, Slaughterhouse, James, Chairlift and others

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Mofones: Dress Your iPhone in Art, Made in Los Angeles

    Courtesy of MofonesHow cool would it be to talk into this Fossilfishfone?​ Like it or not, the Christmas shopping season is upon us. For those who prefer not to get pepper-sprayed by kamikaze shoppers at big box stores, however, there are thankfully other options. Even better -- there are opti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums Of 2011

    ​The best albums of 2011 from Los Angeles artists came from a suitably diverse Angeleno cast of characters; there are rappers and singers, legends and transplants, folks with great careers in front of them, and those who may have peaked this year. One thing's clear: it was unquestionably a gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog Food Fight: Echo Park Street Vendor vs. The Stand

    There is so much fuss over new baconized products (bazookas, salt, alphabets) that we sometimes forget that street vendors were outfitting hot dogs with bacon long before anyone knew how to tweet or Instagram. The vendors wheel out their carts like clockwork, punching in just as you're punching out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Sexy Holiday Gift Guide: 5 Presents to Spice Up Your Love Life

    Black Friday has passed and Cyber Monday just happened. Some of you spent your time huddled on sidewalks waiting for frightened store employees to unchain the front doors of Best Buy/Target/Urban Outfitters. Others of you stayed in bed bundled in blankets while clicking around those stores' Internet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Best Posts Of The Week

    ​How well do you know your L.A. hip-hop dances? For the debut of her column on the subject, Jessica A. Koslow ran down the controversial origin story of the Dougie this week. Turns out a rapper named Lil Wil was doing it first, and had some choice words for our Inglewood heroes Cali Swag Distr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Tyler, the Creator Costumes For Sale At Urban Outfitters: Sign Of The Apocalypse?

    Kai Flanders​By Kai Flanders If you want to be Tyler, The Creator for Halloween this year -- and who doesn't? -- just head over to Urban Outfitters. The Westwood and Santa Monica locations, in any case, feature ready-to-wear outfits almost certainly directly inspired by the Odd Future leader ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Sexually Suggestive Teen Photo Shoot in L.A. Results in Big-Money Lawsuit Against Urban Outfitters

    Urban OutfittersOne of the offending images.​A clothed 15-year-old girl spread her legs, posed sans bra and even allegedly exposed parts of her breasts during a fashion photo shoot in Los Angeles in 2010. Now the teen and her parents are suing the photog, Jason Lee Parry, other targets, and r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    No Age - MOCA - 8/7/11

    David GreenwaldNo Age performs at MOCA​No Age MOCA 8/7/11 Better than... A Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Sunday night's show was a strangely modern intersection of corporate invasion and countercultural retaliation: No Age, L.A.'s leading independent experimentalists, clos ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 28, 2011

    Spirit Hoods: The Weirdest Fashion Startup Ever

    David GreenwaldNo Age performs at MOCA​No Age MOCA 8/7/11 Better than... A Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Sunday night's show was a strangely modern intersection of corporate invasion and countercultural retaliation: No Age, L.A.'s leading independent experimentalists, clos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Is 'Indie' the New 'Hipster'?

    Flickr/Gibson Claire McGuire RegesterAccording to my students, looking dreamy in a field is the pinnacle of indie.​ As a young L.A. high school teacher, I share a generational moment with my students but often view them as daft friends or little siblings, distortedly mirroring the pursuits of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Q & With Coffee Geek Mark Lamberton Blue Crow Media's Best Coffee In L.A. App

    David BernsteinMark Lamberton at work​ Over the past year, London-based Lamberton brothers Derek, 33, and Mark, 23, have rolled out Best Coffee iPhone apps -- the kind of comprehensive, searchable interactive map of cafes that java enthusiasts dream of -- for London, San Francisco and New Yor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Obama Hope: Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters Sued by Associated Press Over Shepard Fairey-Designed T-Shirts

    'Hope' t-shirt.​The battle between Associated Press and L.A. artist Shepard Fairey over his use of an AP image to create the iconic "Obama Hope" image might be over, but now the news agency is going after retailers such as Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters over their sales of Hope t-shirts. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Banksy's Valuable 'Crayon Soldier' Piece in Westwood Removed

    Pia MiaBanksy has left town.​Banksy has left the building and so has much of his art, seems like. After his art was spotted on the back of a Westwood Urban Outfitters last month in the weeks ahead of the Academy Awards, where the Brit vied unsuccessfully for a best documentary Oscar, a Facebo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2011

    Banksy Boy-With-Gun Art in Westwood Vandalized; Singer Pia Mia Has the Photos

    Pia MiaBanksy's boy soldier gets splashed with paint.​Looks like the latest twist for British guerrilla artist Banksy is Friday night/Saturday morning vandalism for his attention-getting boy-with-a-gun piece in Westwood. Teen singer Pia Mia, who has taken to serenading the work behind a Westw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Banksy in L.A: 14-Year-Old Singer Pia Mia Serenades Banksy Artwork in Westwood (Video)

    YouTubePia Mia sings for Banksy.​British guerrilla artist Banksy has stirred up quite a whirlwind of media, emotion and debate over his street pieces, spotted around L.A. recently in advance of his shot at an Academy Award for Exit Through the Gift Shop. A crowd gathered and hurumphed earlier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Banksy Facebook Protest Erupts to Protect Westwood Graffiti Art (New Photos)

    Ted SoquiBanksy's telltale work in Westwood.​Photos by Ted Soqui L.A. art lovers are banding together on Facebook in an attempt to prevent the removal of another Banksy piece in the city. This after ...

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    How Many Shoes Does Lauren Conrad Have? Brief Interviews With Beautiful Women

    ​Lauren Conrad, The Hills reality star-turned-fashion icon-turned-authoress, spoke with me on the phone yesterday about clothes and stuff. She'll be signing her new Style book tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble at The Grove in Los Angeles. Do you have any favorite items in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    The Best of FYF Fest: Best Fashions, Surprising Bands to Watch, Biggest Bummers (oh, and Ariel Pink: Still Crazy)

    Timothy NorrisThere's a thin line between hipster and furry, wethink​[See also Timothy Norris' slideshow "FYF Fest 2010 with The Rapture, Dead Man's Bones, Panda Bear and More".] Given that I refuse to pair a word as lovely as "summer" near detractors such as cruel "end" or the gentler "fade, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Cat Lipstick: Paul & Joe's Kitty-Shaped Makeup

    ​This cat head-shaped lipstick by Paul & Joe is weird. Pretty, but weird. It's from their Clair De Lune collection, which "celebrates the Paul & Joe woman," who is "unique" with "capricious and unpredictable tastes." Well, that much is clear. Buy it at Urban Outfitters for $25. Kinda pricey fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    David Cross Appears with Lightbulb Mouth Radio Hour in Long Beach

    Thanks to a little thing called the Internet, approximately 150 people in and around Long Beach descended upon the East Village Art District's Basement Lounge last night for a not-so-secret performance by comedian David Cross. Seeing a well-known celebrity in a tiny venue with cheap, stiff drinks is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Comic-Con 2010, Day 1: Street Fashion in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter

    Convention fashion isn't all cosplay and oversized Batman t-shirt. Check out what people were wearing in and around the San Diego Convention Center on Day 1 of Comic-Con. Shannon Cottrell​ Cassie Carpenter, Los Angeles Outfit: Urban Outfitters blazer, high wasted sailor shorts, black fanny pac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

    Live Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

  • Film+TV

    February 5, 2010

    Yippee Ki Yay, Fils de Putain

    Cowboy diplomacy from our man in Paris, John Travolta

  • Music

    December 31, 2009

    Oh-Nine at Night

    Cowboy diplomacy from our man in Paris, John Travolta

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Show review: M.I.A. "Secret" Warehouse Party at Lot 613

    M.I.A. Brings Polyglot Jams to Lot 613

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    SXSW '09, Day 2: On Applying for Secret Canadian Citizenship, The Tidal Wave of Tastemaking, and Dirty Projecting

    Last year was my first year in Austin, so I can't really speak to nebulous notions of the SXSW "good ol' days." Anecdotal evidence suggests that the place has expanded exponentially each year since the rise of the Internet, and the demolition of the quasi-mythological monoculture. In layman's term ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Last Minute Gifts for Hard to Please People, Gardeners, Techies & Pirates

    It's tough with gift guides. Both assembling them and following them. For the assembler (that's me), they are fraught with second guessing and trying to psychically determine what will suit someone's mother, when in reality, I know nothing about her. I could tell you to get her a day at Bliss Spa  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Urban Owl Pellet: Raptor Vomit Has Never Been So Hip

    In college, my friend Ryan who had a mild crush on me gave me a mouse skeleton. He assembled it out of an owl pellet. An owl pellet is basically what the owl throws up (which is a lot, apparently, because FYI, owls don't chew.) It's all the undigested bits of prey--the bones, the fur--mixed in with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2008

    Melrose Misplaced

    Once the epicenter of all that was hip and cutting edge in fashion, Melrose -at least the part between La Brea and Fairfax- is now just a mish-mash of kinda-sorta trendy threads and Downtown LA fashion alley type shops. The punks are gone. The boho types are all on the Eastside. The rich bitches a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

    Here's a list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin next week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for a band to break, license, co-opt, manipulate, convince to sell out? Here are some tips. Abe Vigoda Gender: Four men Their MySpace descriptive: "Tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    Melrose Tour

    Want to get a guided tour of these Melrose back alleys by the excellent graffiti author Steve Grody? The Alleys of Melrose Join Steve Grody, photographer and author of Graffiti LA: Street Styles and Art, for a walking tour that explores the array of graffiti art found in the back ways and alleys ... More >>

  • Music

    December 13, 2007

    Record Reviews: Badd Santa, Beanie Sigel, Regime Noir

    Holiday music that doesn't suck, unhinged thug talk and a MySpace page

  • Music

    October 18, 2007

    Joy Division to the World

    Ian Curtis’ afterlife seems like it’s been one big after-party

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2007

    In The Hood

    If I hear Outfield’s "Your Love,” one more time I’m gonna hurl. It’s definitely this year’s answer to Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That”- the ironic, catchy yet cheesy sing-a-long pop–rock anthem of choice for deejays right now, and a fave with today’s dance floor fiends who p ... More >>

  • Music

    July 26, 2007

    Rather Ripping

    Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica, July 21

  • Music

    July 19, 2007

    Rock Picks: Bob Dylan, Martin Rev, The Saints

    For the week of July 19-26

  • LA Life

    March 8, 2007

    Sexy Beast

    GODDOLLARS goes for the jugular

  • LA Life

    December 28, 2006

    An Ugly Truth

    The year — in style? Help stop global leg warmers

  • LA Life

    July 13, 2006

    Look Hot, Stay Cool

    Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

  • LA Life

    January 26, 2006

    Give 'Em the Boot

    Life after Uggs

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    Hipsters Must Die

    10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

  • Music

    March 24, 2005

    Fear of Music

    South by Southwest 2005, as told by its survivors

  • Columns

    October 30, 2003

    Playing to Lose

    Arnold may be governor, but the world is still a ghetto

  • News

    February 21, 2002

    OBEY?

    In step with Shepard Fairey, the emperor of ubiquity

  • Eat+Drink

    July 26, 2001

    Waiters

    In step with Shepard Fairey, the emperor of ubiquity

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Day-Tripping

    Deflections in the light

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