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Evelyn Lozada Poses Nude For PETA Ad (Photo)

If you're hungry for publicity, all you have to do these days is renounce your formerly sinful ways, get naked and embrace PETA. That is, if you're a hot reality star. Such was the case for Evelyn Lozada, four-season star of VH1's Basketball Wives, who has switched teams more in love than Dennis R ... More >>

Sunday Night Sex Talks, a Storytelling Show That Does Not Allow Men in the Audience

See also: *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Apparently the hormones that doctors give you when you donate eggs make you so horny that you want to be gang raped, rotating from man to man while lying on a giant lazy susan. Or so I l ... More >>

Cooper Black: The Story Behind Louie's Typeface

An overweight balding man exits a subway station and, as he walks, up pops his name in bold, cartoonish, drop-shadowed white letters: Louie. He stands alone in the doorway of a pizza parlor inhaling a slice, his eyes searching and expressionless, watching people pass by as people watch him, an urban ... More >>

Train Kept a-Soulin'

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 >>

Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him

We were saddened by word that Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock fell into a coma last week. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old Los Angeles native (real name Seth Binzer) is now conscious, though he remains in an intensive care unit at a local hospital. We love the guy, and figured this was as goo ... More >>

Top Ten Worst Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal

​At the beginning of the year, Boston metalcore giants Killswitch Engage announced that they had parted ways with vocalist Howard Jones, and two weeks ago they announced they were bringing their first vocalist, Jesse Leach, back into the fold. At the very least, it seems a way to ensure they w ... More >>

Drummers Really Do Get Laid the Most: Phil Varone's Had Sex with 3000 Women

We'd rather know many she's had​Phil Varone, the drummer for Saigon Kick, Skid Row and Prunella Scales, is unleashing his sexy on the world with his XXX movie Phil Varone's Secret Sex Stash (sorry, we just gagged, too). In the highly NSFW teaser, alongside which appropriately features a phot ... More >>

Foo Fighters: Live Review PLUS Where to Find the 'World Exclusive' CD Edition of Record Store Day's 'Medium Rare' Covers Album!

Jena ArdellHey Dave Grohl, cut your hair so we can get a better look at you!​ Two hundred fans who pre-ordered the Foo Fighters' new album, then raced to Fingerprints record store in Long Beach on April 4th, were given wristbands to attend an intimate show inside the store last Saturday, where ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Lemmy Talks about the Decay of Good Strip Clubs in LA, Asshole Politicians, and What He's Reading Right Now ("Winnie the Pooh"--No, Really)

Gustavo TurnerAt the Rainbow: Lemmy's buddy Scottie, Lemmy's son Paul Inder, Lemmy's movie co-director Greg Olliver, lovely Rainbow bartender Kristin, some English dude, Lemmy's movie co-director Wes Orshoski​Last week, more than usual, it was Lemmy-Geddon in L.A. Starting with the icon-studde ... More >>

HOLD ON, JOHN

Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video

Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video

"When you're in that state of mind, you'll put your pee-pee in anything": GnR's Steven Adler Talks about His New Autobiography, Overcoming Addiction, Slash's Text Message Obsession, and His Unconditional Love for his "Ginger" Buddy Axl Rose (and Stryper!)

"Axl is a ginger, so he doesn't tan very well": Steven Adler, unmuzzled​No man's danced with "Mr. Brownstone" and dodged death as many times as original Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler, one of the architects of the greatest '80s hard rock album. After surviving "twenty-eight ODs, three bot ... More >>

FROM WEB TO SCREEN

The Portable Lemmy

​Any rock journalist can tell you that Motörhead frontman and honorary Angeleno (he can easily be found at the Rainbow and a certain well-known East Hollywood bikini bar) Lemmy Kilmister gives great quote. Lemmy's words of wisdom have the weight of a career that has taken The Bewarted One fr ... More >>

Rock Picks: Tinariwen, Lucy Schwartz, Brendan Benson, Free Energy, P.O.S.

Also, Randy Newman, Meshell Ndegeocello, Useless Keys and others

Lil' Wayne Documentary Sells Out, Adds Show Tonight

LA Record reports that Cinefamily has added a second showing of the Sundance-endorsed documentary The Carter: Lil' Wayne tonight at 10:30 pm. Hurry and get your tickets. The original 8 pm showing for the film's LA premiere is already sold out. The Cinefamily is at what many people still call "th ... More >>

After a Fashion

Sunny Day Real Estate Prove Their Influence at the Fonda

By Rita Neyter Before the guy-liner, shitty angular haircuts or Pete Wentz, Emo had Sunny Day Real Estate, a bunch of ordinary looking guys from Seattle with whatever haircuts, making music that was, well (what else?), emotional. But despite their understated image, the influential group has had en ... More >>

HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY AUCTIONS

Let the bidding begin

All Aboard John Mayer's Mayercraft Carrier 2: Jordin Sparks, Sara Bereilles, Gavin Rossdale, OAR, Guster (and the Mayer Himself)

Randall RobertsSpring-breaking with Mayer: A busload of women road-tripped to get on a ship with the man they love. John Mayer's going to get some action this week. Just, you know, in case you're wondering. He's come up with this plan, and it's called the Mayercraft Carrier 2, the sequel to last y ... More >>

Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#50-41)

Not to be confused with the epic, Eric Roberts, Tae Kwon thriller. 50. Benoit Pioulard-Temper (Kranky) Have you ever been in one of those nutty meditation classes, where the crackpot instructor tells you to close your eyes and imagine that you're in the middle of a forest? Don't be surprised ... More >>

Scream Queen Superstar: Jackie Beat Gets Gruesome at the Cavern Club

Any dude can throw on a dress, spew sassy one-liners, lip-sync the pop diva hit of the moment, and call themselves a queen. But real drag royalty, those who take performing to its most provocative and entertaining heights, are much fewer and further between. L.A.-based bitch goddess, Jackie Beat is ... More >>

Celebuspeak: My Neighborhood is a Hybrid, Driving the Westside and Beyond!

BY HAL SPARKS When I'm not on a stand-up tour of the country, thrilling people in the Bible Belt with my razor sharp wit and polysyllabic dissections of pop culture and socio-political shenanigans, I live in Los Angeles. I have loved here, I have lost here... I shot Dude, Where's My Car?, Spider- ... More >>

MTV Video Music Awards: Keeping Up With the Vamps

VIP = Very Irate People

Movie Reviews: The Rocker, The House Bunny, Death Race

Also, America the Beautiful, The Longshots and more

Freaky Friday

Party at Houdini's; Henry Rollins on Target; All Girl at the Echo

After 30 Years, The Runaways' Cherie Currie Buries the Hatchet with Kim Fowley

Documented in both the Rodney Bingenheimer bio-pic Mayor of the Sunset Strip and former Runaways bassist Vicky Tischler-Blue’s rock doc about the seminal LA punkettes called Edgeplay (not to mention countless print interviews over the years) the feud between the man who helped create them, Kim Fow ... More >>

City Gritty

Unfulfilling Sex; sex and the porn star; art Hopping; N.E.R.D. night

Big Media, Behemoth Media, Bewildered Media

The best of the week: DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com

Pucker Up: Best and Worst of Sex 2007

Tristan's annual roundup of toothbrush vibrators, anti-porn ribbons, and a kinky kingdom

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

X-ers and Exes

Nightranger paints the town

Power Failure

An Orwellian day at City Hall, with congrats all around for Villaraigosa’s school-takeover failure

Reality Survivors

Magical Elves

New Theater Reviews

Heaux, Heaux, Heaux!

Really Big Packages

Forget what EW says, it’s the moguls’ perks that are out of control, not the stars’

Mex 2 the Max

Failing Upward, a True Hollywood Story

Kinsley hires serial loser Joel Stein, despite conflicts of interest

Letters

Dandyland

Polaroids from Silver Lake

Viva la Revoluçion

Sound and sedition at the LAMC

Alien Nation

Cosmic Cuckoos

Julian Cope and pagans against the machine

The Dreamlife of Foreign-Film Distributors

New approaches, new audiences

Heart Beats

Kid Loco's love song

You Gotta Believe

Whitney wearies of whitebread

The Girls Can't Help It

Notes From Underground

The Red Elvises join the party