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Why Are L.A. Places So Popular on Instagram?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best City in America Just before the end of Instagram's wild year — bought by Facebook for $1 billion, publicly eviscerated by its community for new privacy policies — ... More >>

Holy Ship!! Day One: A Suprise Guest Whose Name Rhymes With Drillex

On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, aka Holy Ship!! There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.'s Hard Events. The li ... More >>

3D Film Festival Seeks to Answer: Is 3D a Fad or the Future?

While you were clicking hours away on your View-Master as a child, Christopher Crescitelli was heralding the future. "I was one of those weird kids, who, in the fifth grade, started making 3D imagery with my crayons and colored markers," he says. "People nicknamed me the 3D kid." Unfortunately, ... More >>

San Diego Fireworks FAIL: What Went Wrong?

After the fireworks fail seen around the world, the New Jersey company behind the spectacular, 4th of July dud in San Diego says it will do a make-up show if local organizers request one. August Santore, co-owner of Garden State Fireworks, told the Weekly this was the first time such a failure has ... More >>

Kardashians 'Terrorized, Tasered' Me at Disney World, Claims Serial Litigant; Judge Issues Best Order Ever

Gino Romano, a New York resident who is apparently obsessed with the Kardashians (like in a not-normal way, like a beyond reading-tabloid-dirt-when-you're-supposed-to-be-working way) filed yet another ridiculous lawsuit against the Calabasas family on June 15. Among his alleged reasons for seeking ... More >>

Breakout Kings and Beauty and the Geek Co-Creator Nick Santora on His New Novel Fifteen Digits

"Good-bye crowbar and ski mask. Hello computer and offshore account." --Nick Santora, Fifteen Digits. Fifteen Digits, Nick Santora's second novel, is one of those stories where you're rooting for the main character, Rich Mauro, to stop falling into a spiral of crime and self-destruction. And you'l ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhap ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhaps, joined the band in the first place for the pu ... More >>

50 Craziest Occupy Movements of 2011

Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>

Five Things That Could Go Wrong at Disney's Newly-Planned Avatar Land

​ Of all that is in the name of being over-commercialized and tacky, Disney is prepping to open one of several Avatar lands at its Walt Disney World theme park in Florida. The first is expected to break ground in 2013 at its Animal Kingdom portion. Here are five things that are bound to go w ... More >>

Chick-fil-A Hollywood: The Man Behind The Chicken

Guzzle & NoshJeremiah Cillpam, operator of Chick-fil-A Hollywood.​Jeremiah Cillpam's path to deep-fried success began, serendipitously enough, with a drunken water balloon toss and an act of chivalry. Nearly a decade later, the 28 year-old is one of Chick-fil-A's youngest and most successful o ... More >>

Teen Party Expo: The Multi-Billion-Dollar Coming-of-Age Industry, From Bat Mitzvahs to Quinceañeras

Star ForemanQueens of the quinceañera​ The Teen Party Expo came to town recently, and the L.A. Convention Center morphed into what the inside of a young girl's brain must look like: Hot. Bright. Crowded. Confusing. Loud. Sort of like hell, only fluorescent pink. Picture it, the giddy schizop ... More >>

Q & A with Bobby Flay, Part 2: Why Being on TV is the Easy Part

The Food NetworkBobby Flay on the set of his newest cooking show, Barbecue Addiction​In the first part of our interview with Bobby Flay, he gave us some insight into how his opinion of the L.A. restaurant scene has changed over the years, as well as how he thinks the Food Network has molded th ... More >>

America's Cocaine King Hid From Drug Cartels for 25 Years

It took a screenwriter to find him

Big Apple Takes A Bite Out Of L.A. Tourism

What's not to like?​New York City beat out Los Angeles for international visitors nearly two-to-one to take the top spot as America's destination for foreign tourists, the office of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday. The Big Apple saw 8.6 million international tourists in 2009, twi ... More >>

Blood Drops Keep Falling on My Head: Debbie McMahon's Grand Guignolers

Disney Expo Channels Peter Pan

Lord of the Fireflies: Inventor Gives Life to Circuit-Board Insects

Election '08: Postcard From The End Of The World

Rant Alert: Be warned, this is a rant. We don't give President Bush enough credit. Seriously, we have failed to give him his proper due. Here we thought his culture, philosophies (if you can call them that), politics and policies were just wrecking the country. Turns out, they were on the verge of ... More >>

Lacking Grace

John Cusack enters the Iraq weepstakes

Must See Art

Simon Evans at Jack Hanley Gallery, Ari Marcopoulos at MC

Paul Schneider and the Real Career

With breakout roles in Lars and the Real Girl and The Assassination of Jesse James, a North Carolina native braces for the Hollywood big time

Put Your Bra Back On!

How Cirque du Soleil made Vegas a family town

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

The Thrill of the Hunt

The scavengers out there

The Mouse Who Whored

Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

They Shoot News Anchors: Part II

Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

POST-Mortem, Popping Corn

Death and rebirth in downtown L.A.

Give PEACE^® a Chance

When Might Turns Right

Golly GE, why Big Media is pro-Bush

Newspaper Tigers

N.Y. Times and L.A. Times continue to wage war while Big Media gets away with murder

Radio Provocateur

Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

Keepers of the Magic Kingdom

Watch closely among Disneyland’s tourists and you might spot the Disneyana people, protecting Walt’s vision and living most of their waking lives in the happiest place on Earth

Three-Ring Chaos

You can’t wreck a disaster

Marilyn:
A Re-Examination

Street Crime

New series from Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana -- and Shaun Cassidy

Success in Excess?

Santa Monica ponders the future of its Promenade