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Kevin James Joins A Growing List of Conservatives Who Back Liberal Eric Garcetti in L.A. Mayor's Race

Former mayoral candidate Kevin James endorsed Eric Garcetti today, making him the latest conservative to side with the liberal councilman out of concern that Controller Wendy Greuel is too beholden to unions.James, a former conservative radio host, joins bloggers Michael Higby, of Mayor Sam, and Pau ... More >>

How Did the FBI Determine the Juggalos Were a Gang?

For those among you who are "down" and perhaps for those who are not, you know that much brouhaha was made by the FBI's inclusion of Juggalos -- ie fans of Insane Clown Posse -- in their 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. This, of course, put them in the same category as well-organized Mexican-he ... More >>

Book Review: Farms with a Future 10 Tips For New Farmers (And MBAs)

Dreaming of ditching city life for your own farm share? Before you sign over the cash for those rolling hills, we highly recommend you read Farms with a Future: Creating and Growing a Sustainable Farm Business by Rebecca Thistlewaite, a former vegetarian turned farmer and livestock rancher (she dubs ... More >>

One Woman's Super Annoying, Super Lazy Quest to Meet Moby

Moby will hang out with anyone. It's practically written in the Constitution. Short only perhaps, of Bill Murray, everyone has their "hanging out with Moby" story: "Oh, my sister's college roommate's best friend's cousin made out with Moby last year" or "My neighbor sent him an email once and he jus ... More >>

How Grammy Winners Are Chosen: Highly Confidential Documents Revealed

In the days of yore, you needed but a shoeshine and a smile to get a Grammy. You'd walk down to your local Grammy-grocer's and fork over a few wooden nickels, and the proprietor would even wrap your new award in butcher paper so it wouldn't get scratched on the way home. *Al Walser: Our Interview ... More >>

Skrillex Considered Having His 12/21 Party on the Moon

Every EDM DJ worth his wobbles is throwing a massive party on Friday, aka the winter solstice, aka the end of the world. The ambitious ones are doing it near Mayan ruins on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The even more ambitious ones are venturing to the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is where the Do Lab ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

Top 10 Famous Vegans, 2012 Edition

Nearly one year has gone by since our first list of Top 10 Famous Vegans caused an outright internet vegan-type revolution. Well, not really. But plenty of readers didn't shy away from outrightly hating or loving the list, so we thought we'd catalog a few more for 2012. The obligatory public figures ... More >>

10 Best Workouts in L.A. for People Who Hate Working Out

See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. *Top 10 Gyms in L.A. *10 Bars Most Likely to Get You Laid in L.A. Running is boring. Treadmills make me feel like a rat in an experiment. And tennis -- my racket is somewhere, and, do do I have t ... More >>

From The Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: Nat Goodwin Cafe, A Glittering 1913 Restaurant On A Private Santa Monica Pier

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. Adorning the cover of one of the menus in the Nat Goodwin Cafe folder at the Los Angeles Central Library is a picture of a gr ... More >>

Chateau Marmont to Lindsay Lohan: Be Out by Noon, Never Come Back

On July 31, Lindsay Lohan was given until noon the next day to gather up all her crap from Suite 33 at West Hollywood's luxurious Chateau Marmont -- the Elizabeth Taylor jewels, the Sam Magid jewels, the steaming pile of cigarette butts -- and find someplace else to crash pro-bono. A stern letter f ... More >>

Meet Mark Wallace, NASA's Interplanetary Travel Agent

"Thank you for having me!" he says at the end. "Any questions?" In a tiny, hole-in-the-wall art gallery in central L.A., a rocket scientist is wrapping up a talk titled "Getting There: Science Fiction ... and Fact." The gallery founder, wanting to add a bit of oomph to a space-related exhibit, had r ... More >>

Bon Appetit!: The Delicious Life of Julia Child: A Children's Book Celebrates the Life of Julia Child

Julia Child would have turned 100 this August, a centennial that will be celebrated by many venues across the country, including Vroman's bookstore in Pasadena. (Child was a Pasadena native.) The anniversary is also the occasion of the publication of a terrific new children's book by Jessie Hartland ... More >>

Phife Dawg Is Down With Posthumous Holograms, Likes Funyons

See Also: Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest Documentary A lazy reader of the internet would believe that since A Tribe Called Quest's 1998 breakup, Q-Tip has a platinum album and Grammy wins, while Phife Dawg has done little more than gotten a kidney transplant and eaten a bag of Funyons. Of ... More >>

Genesis Breyer P-orridge in New Documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Marriage, drastic plastic surgery, lost love

Ten Questionable Bands Everyone Listened to at My College

See also: Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List Around the time OJ was acquitted I began college at a private liberal arts school in the lower midwest, a place where students who didn't get into Northwestern came to spend their parents' money on drugs. They also filled their dorm rooms ... More >>

Javier Arrioja, Soccer Coach for the Los Angeles Misioneros, Charged With Molesting Teen Player

lamisionerosfc.com​Updated below: The sheriff says Arrioja actually molested two 14-year-old players. Originally posted February 22 at 6 p.m. A former soccer coach for the Los Angeles Misioneros, a private under-17 club team based out of Inglewood, has been accused of molesting one of his yo ... More >>

The Day The Internet Stopped

See our piece on how Anonymous attacked Hollywood here. Get ready guys. Jan. 18 might become known in the future as the day the Internet went dark. Several websites, including L.A.'s own Boing Boing, are vowing to go offline Wednesday to protest Congress' consideration of the Stop Online Piracy Ac ... More >>

L.A. Pedophile Bust Dismantles International Child Porn Ring

Harlan Ellison, Lunatic Genius, Rambles About Lusting After Sally Field, Wields a Knife, Accosts 'Assholes' at Cinefamily

Paul T. BradleyDemon with a glass temper, Harlan Ellison​ Seriously, don't fuck with Harlan Ellison -- he showed up to Cinefamily last night with a knife. Well, if you're Josh Olson, you can fuck with Harlan Ellison...but only a little bit. Why shouldn't you fuck with the man who is, by his ... More >>

West Hollywood vs. Lakeview, Chicago: Will the Real 'Boystown' Please Stand Up?

WeHo NewsCan we out-rainbow Chicago?​There's a battle of the gayborhoods going down between West Hollywood and Lakeview, and we're all invited! The territorial blog-off started when West Hollywood resident Larry Block proposed that the city officially designate the stretch of Santa Monica Bou ... More >>

Pneumonia Outbreak at the Playboy Mansion: Could It Have Festered in the Grotto?

Girls of the Grotto: Worth subsequent diarrhea?​Updated after the jump: At least one "model" (is that what they're calling 'em these days?) who worked the Febuary 3 Playboy event contracted the bug. VIDEO of her harrowing tale, and more proof it came from the grotto. Update: The infection cou ... More >>

Readers Respond to Mick Karn's Death, Plus the Bassist's Cover of David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes"

Ohconfucius via Wikimedia Commons​ Mick Karn may not have been famous, at least not in the celebrity gossip column sense of the word, but he was well-known and, more importantly, well-respected. Since the 1970s, the bassist, who sadly passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer, Karn had ... More >>

MTA To Cut Nine L.A. Bus Lines By Dec. 12

Metro board chair Don Knabe says: Buses < Subways < My Car​Updated after the jump: The Bus Riders Union says the latest bus cuts are straight-up racist. Originally posted at 11:19 a.m. As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pumps all time and city resources into three more stops (12 more minutes) onto ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Piranha 3-D, Centurion

Also, Chasing 3000, The People I've Slept With and more

UPDATED: Wavves to Play Historic L.A. Punk/New Wave Venue Madame Wong's Before it Closes for Good

"Madame" Esther Wong, founder of the former restaurant and eventual punk venue in Chinatown​UPDATE: L.A.-based noise-pop artist Wavves, a.k.a. Nathan Williams, will be playing one of Madame Wong's' final shows on Wednesday, August 3. Commenters have pointed out that the venue never officially ... More >>

Music Picks: Evelyn Evelyn, Booker T. Jones, Kaki King, Pete Rock

Also, the National, Entrance Band, Noodles, Bunbury and others

Trash Humpers: Talking Tall

Harmony Korine on his allegorical, sex-with-garbage horror flick

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Frank Fairfield: The Man Who Wasn't There

His country blues draws more from rural Appalachia than urban California

Oren Peli: Ghost Writer-Director

Paranormal Activity creator wants to be as mysterious as his surprise hit movie

In the Boardroom With Mahalo's Jason Calacanis

L.A.'s brash tech superstar

Bobby Long and Marcus Foster: Power of the Fans

Bobby Long and Marcus Foster live Last May, when Sam Bradley played to sold out crowds at LA's Hotel Cafe, the British/Canadian singer-songwriter was treated to screams from fans who traveled from across the country, a lengthy meet-and-greet session and a sneak attack from the paparazzi. All this ... More >>

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pericles Redux

 THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK PERICLES REDUXPhoto courtesy of Not Man Apart ProductionsScholars have long discussed whether Shakespeare wrote  the entirety of Pericles, Prince of Tyre or collaborated with another writer. (Given the play's convoluted elements, most commentators ... More >>

Solutions for the Freshly Freelance

The "I don't love the inside of my car that much" edition

OctoDrama: How the Octuplets Story Keeps Evolving

When we first heard about the birth of eight infants in Bellflower last January, there was no sign that the story of Nadya Suleman, now better known as OctoMom, would become a modern fable about fame and public disgust. Today pundits and late-night TV comics attribute our hunger for OctoMom news to ... More >>

Cesar Chavez Day: Is This Any Way to Run a Holiday?

I suppose, if Cesar Chavez's birthday is ever to be made into a serious holiday, some bumps are inevitable. Today, Monday, March 30, Los Angeles shut its offices and libraries. Tomorrow, Tuesday, is the state's turn, as the DMV, Superior Courts and other offices and services will be closed on what i ... More >>

Last Night: Cut Copy's Ingratiating Simplicity

Timothy NorrisFans at Cut Copy: Overjoyed, to say the least. Like The Editors and the Shitty Beatles, Cut Copy practically begged for derision the moment they named themselves. Let's be honest, these guys aren't exactly re-inventing the synthesizer, openly cribbing from New Order, Duran Duran, and ... More >>

The 11 Percent Mayor Villaraigosa Lashes Back

Blasting L.A. Weekly, he says we relied on bad facts. Aides say he misspoke

Movie Reviews: An American Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Flash of Genius

Also, Blindness, Still Life, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and more

Sissystrata: Something Straight Between Us

Also, Marc Cooper on the company Sarah Palin keeps

Gramm Cracker Crust: John McCain's Surrogate Trouble

Indy Mac implodes and Johnny Mac's exposed, as econ guru suffers from recession of the brain

Movie Reviews: Forever, My Blueberry Nights, My Brother Is an Only Child

Also The Ruins and more

Movie Reviews: Boarding Gate, Run Fat Boy Run, Priceless

Also Superhero Movie, Flawless and more

Seymour Hersh, the Optimistic Pessimist

On Bush, Iran and the challenges to journalism

Superbad's Boys To Men

Teetotaling with Jonah Hill and Michael Cera

Circular Firing Squad

While Arnold grabs the center and gets props, California’s GOP bosses rush right

How Shit Be

Freestyle riffs & ruminations on black music and pop culture at the dawn of 2007