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  • Film+TV

    May 17, 2012

    The Dictator Review

    Sacha Baron Cohen is back

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Stars Dish on Their New Film and What's Not Funny

    Tim and Eric's new movie​Watch any 11-minute episode of Adult Swim's warped, experimental sketch series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and then try to explain what Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim -- the show's stars and creative engine -- do for a living. "'Comedians' never seems the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    China Debuts $44 Bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon

    Maybe we've watched Blue Velvet too many times, but to us there's something uniquely American about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Sure, it's been widely acknowledged from Williamsburg to Echo Park as the beer du jour of the hipster masses, but really, who doesn't appreciate a blue-collar beer once in a while, ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 1, 2011

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Goodbye, Sunset 5

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    South and Vizio Create L.A.'s First (and Only) 3D Sports Bar, With an Appearance By Blake Griffin

    Paul T. BradleySouth, Powered by Vizio: This is the Sports Bar...of the Future​ In the bars of the future, will we all be sharing beers around android tablets...bespectacled with 3D glasses...eating Dippin' Dots? Santa Monica sports bar South and local electronics giant Vizio hope so (well, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Salt's Cure: Manliest Restaurant in America?

    Anne FishbeinA hunk of meat from Salt's Cure.​Sometimes, the hive mind is just wrong. Men's Health took a poll to determine the "manliest restaurants in America." With all that blather about "the wisdom of crowds" and whatnot, what did the genius readers of the magazine decide was the most man ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    August 25, 2011

    Our Idiot Brother Review

    Anne FishbeinA hunk of meat from Salt's Cure.​Sometimes, the hive mind is just wrong. Men's Health took a poll to determine the "manliest restaurants in America." With all that blather about "the wisdom of crowds" and whatnot, what did the genius readers of the magazine decide was the most man ... More >>

  • Music

    July 14, 2011

    Bonnie McKee: Pop Tart

    The singer-songwriter behind Katy's and Britney's sugarcoated hits

  • Music

    June 23, 2011

    Music to Pick Up/Download

    The singer-songwriter behind Katy's and Britney's sugarcoated hits

  • Art+Books

    June 23, 2011

    Faile Comes to Venice

    The singer-songwriter behind Katy's and Britney's sugarcoated hits

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Over The Weekend: Best Coast, Cops and the Cheesecake Factory at Make Music Pasadena

    Sam BlochBest Coast, Assembled Multitudes​ STORY BY SAM BLOCH At the dawn of the Napster age, sociologist Tia DeMora wrote eloquently of the relationship between commerce and pop music. "Consumption behavior can be understood as a kind of dance," she wrote. And in a retail environment, it's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

    Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Pigging Out: 5 Spots for Charcuterie

    Los Angeles may be known as the land of vegan baked goods and brown rice sushi, but plenty of local chefs also turn out damn fine charcuterie, the prepared meat products (proscuitto, pâtés, terrines, sausages, etc.) that are a celebration of all things animal. Most often made from pork, charcuter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Funniest Song About Hipsters. Ever.

    They all play synths​Apparently, there are hipsters in the UK (yeah, I know--shocking!). And...they're just like Silver Lake and Williamsburg hipsters! And now someone's written a funny song about them. It's very funny. Best line: "We all play synths." 'Nuff said. Check it out:

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Live in L.A.: Woodsist Festival, Thurston Moore, Sting, Justin Currie, Abandoned Pools

    Sarah McKayKurt Vile​In case your lifeline to Brooklyn is broken: Woodsist is a four-year-old record label, founded by Woods guitarist Jeremy Earl, that caters to fans who like things gloriously unvarnished, or who think the Vivian Girls are original. The label has brought a small army of lo-f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Website Wants L.A.'s 'Fake Eastside' Renamed

    franklinhills.orgSee hipsters, these cholos were here before you, and they use W.S. to delineate "west side."​It's been a peeve of ours ever since the long-defunct New Angeles magazine called its core circulation zone -- Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz -- "the new Eastside." What happened to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Hipstergasm!: Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire Working on Precious Short-Film Together

    ​MTV is reporting that popular-yet-monotonous pop group Arcade Fire and eccentric trust-fund-skater director Spike Jonze are collaborating on a secretive movie project (a "short film"). That faint sound you just heard is the controlled explosion of thousands of heads of hipsters (aka Pabstafa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Is 'Prep Rock' the New 'Yacht Rock'?

    It was but a few weeks ago that we music lovers were treated to a massive ad campaign for Vampire Weekend's Contra, featuring an allegedly mysterious picture of an uberpreppy girl in a yellow polo shirt (a Ralph Lauren Polo© shirt to be more precise) with an upturned collar. Now the indie tastemake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Cinefamily to Screen Amazing Cult Films From the Silver Lake of the Soviet Era

    The print version of the LA Weekly has a really neat article by Michael Atkinson about the awesome program of cult Czech movies that Cinefamily will be showing every Saturday this month and in March. Titles like Daisies and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders are now part of Hipster 101 syllabi from Wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    East Coast Clobbers West Coast in 2009 Pazz & Jop Music Poll

    Well, if you're keeping track at home, the so-called "west coast sound" got clobbered this year in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best music. And when we say "clobbered," we actually mean "beaten to a bloody pulp." Consider this: In the list of the top 100 albums o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Plastic Afrobeat!: Fool's Gold (with The Entrance Band and Tearist) @ The Echo, 12/17

    Legend has it that a stoned Paul McCartney was one day listening to the playback of something The Beatles had just recorded and kept cracking himself up by repeating "Plastic soul, man, plastic soul." Later, he and his band mates embraced the autoderogatory comment and, famously, titled their next r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Silverlake Scene Girl Porn or New Bishop Allen Video?: YOU Be the Judge!

    To promote "True of False," the latest single from their months-old Grrr... album, Bishop Allen did what any clever bunch of average-looking, expensively-educated beardos from Brooklyn with Calexico-style horns and a stand-up drummer would do: draft your Bobbie-Gentry-lookalike girlfriend (now wife) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Larry Tee Talks: 'L.A. Has a Better Club Scene Than New York'

    Larry Tee has floated through contemporary club history like Forrest Gump on ecstasy, seemingly everywhere you'd want to be. Growing up in Atlanta, he hung out with R.E.M. and co-wrote fellow Atlantan Ru Paul's 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)." In 1990s New York he became a DJ on the club kid ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    DNA Deep Freeze

    Why Los Angeles crime-fighters fell years behind on rape testing, and may never catch up

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    Franco-Francophonic

    Other than Fela and arguably King Sunny Ade, few afro-pop lights burned brighter than the Congo's Franco Luambo. A guitar prodigy and auto-didact who taught himself to play at age 7, Luambo amassed a sprawling discography of over 2,000 songs before dying in Belgium in 1989. Thankfully, the recen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Weiss' 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (A-L)

    Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 13, 2008

    Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential LA Restaurants

    Local culinary classics, plus some new stars on the scene

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

    Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer Chris Keating even paused to extemporaneously inform the crowd that "people call us hippies, but that's just not true. We're from Baltimore." Thi ... More >>

  • Music

    November 1, 2007

    Rock Picks: The Hives, Buck 65, Redd Kross, Yo La Tengo

    For the week of Nov. 1 - 8

  • Art+Books

    April 12, 2007

    Be Your Own Guinea Pig

    Entering Andrea Zittel’s “Critical Space”

  • Eat+Drink

    December 21, 2006

    The Royal Treatment

    Royal Claytons

  • Columns

    February 2, 2006

    Face in the Hip Crowd

    Royal Claytons

  • Art+Books

    July 28, 2005

    London Falling, Hollywood Calling

    Rupert Thomson’s Divided Kingdom and Daniel Fuchs’ L.A.

  • LA Life

    April 21, 2005

    The Milliner’s Tale

    Rupert Thomson’s Divided Kingdom and Daniel Fuchs’ L.A.

  • Columns

    March 17, 2005

    Give PEACE® a Chance

    Rupert Thomson’s Divided Kingdom and Daniel Fuchs’ L.A.

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Make New Friends

    ...but beware of Fakesters

  • Music

    February 12, 2004

    Get on It or Else

    ...but beware of Fakesters

  • Art+Books

    January 8, 2004

    Heavy Petting

    Tracy Nakayama’s sex from a woman’s perspective

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    Advice From a Diva

    Being the hostess with the mostess

  • Art+Books

    July 31, 2003

    Compound Interest

    Being the hostess with the mostess

  • Music

    June 5, 2003

    Rubble Rockers

    Being the hostess with the mostess

  • Music

    May 29, 2003

    It’s High Time

    Being the hostess with the mostess

  • Art+Books

    May 29, 2003

    Birth of a Notion

    High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

  • Music

    May 22, 2003

    Burning Questions

    High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

  • Music

    May 1, 2003

    Date With the Night

    High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

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