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Rap Genius Got $15 Million in Investor Financing. So Why Does Everyone Hate Them?

In Malibu last weekend, an ebullient crowd including rappers Mike G and Shawn Chrystopher have gathered for the birthday party of Mahbod Moghadam. Champagne is poured into red solo cups, while a volvano vaporizer circulates. Moghadam is an eccentric character who is the face of the extremely succes ... More >>

The Secret Life of Eero Saarinen, Architect of the St. Louis Arch and...the White House War Room?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Eero Saarinen's fingerprints are all over mid-century design's greatest hits, and even if you can't pronounce his name, you definitely know his ... More >>

Keep the Lights On: A Chat With Director Ira Sachs

Arguing About Rick Ross With A Man Who Might Want To Burn My House Down

See also: Cassette Tapes Are Awesome Until You Actually Have To Listen To Them The guy who sells CDs and DVDs in the corner store parking lot near my house? That guy is the tits. I mean, our relationship can only ever be that one way. I don't want to know him in any other context than The Guy Who ... More >>

Meg Gill: I Wish They All Could Be California Beers

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Meg Gill is not a Bud Light girl. The Golden Road Brewing co-founder, 27, has had to correct this assumption time and again. The good-old-boy network within the beer industry ... More >>

USC Changes 'School of Theater' to 'School of Dramatic Arts.' So What's the Difference?

What's in a name? Would that which we call the USC School of Theatre by any other name smell as sweet? Sweeter, apparently, or so it might seem from the announcement this week by the esteemed acting school that the institution will henceforth be officially known as the USC School of Dramatic Arts. ... More >>

What Street Artists Os Gêmeos Have in Common With Frida Kahlo

The concrete swaths of Sunset and Wilshire don't readily conjure images of abundant nature, lush dreamscapes and feminist activism. Yet these boulevards have certainly seen their share of otherworldly goings-on, and this month they prove to be fertile ground for two ambitious exhibitions -- Os Gême ... More >>

Steve Nalepa, the Professor of Party

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: *Low End Theory Anniversary *More Low End Theory Oral History From Those Who Helped Build It All apologies to Mr. Holland, but our opuses hav ... More >>

Golden Road Brewing Introduces Craft Beer Cans to L.A. County

Local canned craft beer will hit L.A.'s supermarket shelves for the first time later this week, and we have Tony Yanow and Meg Gill to thank for it. Gill, the president and co-founder of Golden Road Brewing in Atwater Village, knows a thing or two about canned beer. In 2007, after graduating from ... More >>

Russ Stanton Out as Top Dog at Los Angeles Times: Davan Maharaj Takes Over Editor's Job

LATStanton and Maharaj.​Updated at the bottom with a report stating that Stanton left amid threats of new cuts and the possible institution of a new pay wall at the paper. First posted at 11:49 a.m. Los Angeles Times editor and executive vice president Russ Stanton is stepping down to spark " ... More >>

Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty

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Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Caught, The Santaland Diaries, Julia

Also, Remembering the Ladies, Cyrano de Bergerac and more

Countdown To The End, Day Two: Make It A Four Loko Christmas

All I want for Christmas is red and green drank​We know you were waiting for it: your official Four Loko gift guide. Warning: Buying everyone in your family Four Loko-related items this Christmas would be an extremely strange and disturbing thing to do. But if you don't mind playing the freak ... More >>

This Is The End: R.I.P. Four Loko

eater.comGoodbye friend; we'd have a memorial, if we could remember anything about you​The last week of Loko lyfe as we knew it was an emotional roller coaster. We laughed; we cried; we bought teeny little Four Loko earrings for Mom on eBay. Here, the countdown in it's entirety: Day Seven: Be ... More >>

Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Tillman Story, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Brotherhood

Also, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, A Film Unfinished and more

The Populist: Date Night's Shawn Levy

From Yale drama to his latest film, there's more to this multiplex master than meets the eye

Queer Town: Olson/Boies Appeal to the Heart, Then the Brain

The first day of the federal trial to overturn Proposition 8 started in San Francisco yesterday, with attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, who want to end the gay marriage ban in California, first pulling on the heartstrings and then following it up with expert testimony to appeal to the brain.Ameri ... More >>

Peter Saul's Painterly Cartoon Armageddon

Th-th-that's Saul, Folks!

Barack Obama and the Company We Keep

Many blacks have a Jeremiah Wright in their past ... and are better men for it

Radio Daze

Hrishikesh Hirway channeled his existential crisis into the gentle, brooding This Too Will Pass

Down the Rabbit Hole

Spy love and betrayal in The Company, painful Hiroshima memories in White Light/Black Rain

Kara Bartelt and Michael Chung

Fresh, crisp and green

Take a Load Off, Mandrake

Culver City’s art bar

The Good Shepherd: Trust No One

De Niro’s somnolent Shepherd leads us not into temptation

A Full Life

Claire Messud on marriage to a critic, diapers and The Emperor’s Children

Blood and Hubris at the Paradise Motel

The making of Richard Montoya’s Water & Power

The Coffee Table

All things bright and beautiful

State Of Emergence

Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog

Taking on Anti-Gay America

Stonewall Democrats plot a 2006 strategy

5 List Obsessed Books

What the Knitter Said

The Day of the Jackals

Mythmaking at the Republican Convention and getting punk’d on Kudlow and Cramer

Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America

Diffrenet Muisc

In Love, Pissed

Playwright/comedian Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch

Affirming Truth

But the court in the very near future could see things differently

The Performer's Life: Diana and the Supreme Karaoke Singers

Museum Piece

The enduring virtues of Jennifer Connelly

In the Beginning

Notes From the Front

The Wall defines two Americas in Quebec

Babes in Armor

The women of Hollywood

Barney’s Sticky Adventure Beyond Death

Jousting Park

Into the quantum foam with Michael Crichton

Heart Beats

Kid Loco's love song

Nerve Action

Flaming Lips and the spark that bleeds

The Outsiders

Dilettante Press goes with its gut

Of Chimps and Men

TV makes a monkey of itself

The Naughty Boy

Cole Porter, misbehavin’