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If Hipster Cameras Are So Popular, Why Did L.A.'s Lomography Stores Close Down?

As early as 15 years ago, if you wanted to take a picture, you'd need to bring your film into a lab and wait to see how the images developed. A semi-working knowledge of film speed helped, as did a bit of familiarity with shutter speed, aperture settings, and other variables required to produce a de ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Comics Tell the 50 First Jokes of 2013

Q: What has a hundred thumbs and loves dead moms? A: Fifty comedians crammed on a stage at the Downtown Independent Theater, that's who. For the third year in a row, 50 of L.A.'s favorite weird and edgy and off-beat comedians told their first jokes of the new year in rapid two-minute succession ... More >>

Forever 21, HSN, Urban Outfitters Clothing Came From 'Sweatshop Practices' In L.A?

If you're feeling warm and cozy about that sweater you're giving your girlfriend for the holidays, beware the following information: Federal and state authorities say that workers were underpaid at L.A. clothing manufacturers that engaged in "sweatshop practices" as they made goods for some of the ... More >>

Rick Ross, "Hold Me Back": Why This Song Sucks (There Are Zero Fat Jokes, So There)

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Rick Ross, "Hold Me Back" History: Rappers Meek Mill and Wale released a song called "Actin' Up." It was loud, boisterous and aggressively circular (the ... More >>

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 >>

The Branding of Best Coast

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

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

Also, Kitty, Slaughterhouse, James, Chairlift and others

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Spirit Hoods: The Weirdest Fashion Startup Ever

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 ...

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

Live Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

Yippee Ki Yay, Fils de Putain

Cowboy diplomacy from our man in Paris, John Travolta

Oh-Nine at Night

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Record Reviews: Badd Santa, Beanie Sigel, Regime Noir

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

Joy Division to the World

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

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 >>

Rather Ripping

Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica, July 21

Rock Picks: Bob Dylan, Martin Rev, The Saints

For the week of July 19-26

An Ugly Truth

The year — in style? Help stop global leg warmers

Look Hot, Stay Cool

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

Give 'Em the Boot

Life after Uggs

Hipsters Must Die

10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

Fear of Music

South by Southwest 2005, as told by its survivors

Playing to Lose

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

OBEY?

In step with Shepard Fairey, the emperor of ubiquity

Day-Tripping

Deflections in the light