Zooey Deschanel

In Defense of New Girl (Hear Us Out...)

My 5-Year-Olds Face Off With iPhone's Siri

At the end of November, Trinidad James, a 25-year-old Trinidadian rapper living in New York, released a video for "All Gold Everything," the unsuspectingly gargantuan single found on his otherwise mostly middling mixtape, Don't Be S.A.F.E. The video was PERFECT, and flung James, then of a tepid amou ... More >>

Mar Vista Time Travel Mart Opens: A New L.A. Outpost of Dave Eggers' 826 Organization

Dino eggs are nestled inside the incubator, with the extra large cans of Mastodon Chunks arranged in a neat pyramid formation beside a display of Barbarian repellent and caveman candy (looking suspiciously similar to beef jerky). "It's been a really long last month getting everything ready," May Pe ... More >>

Ben Gibbard: Folks' Obsession With My Personal Life Is Disappointing

Amidst a divorce with Zooey Deschanel, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard soldiers on, focusing on a solo project, following baseball blogs, and jogging. Though the first single from his recently-released solo album "Teardrop Windows" has folks assuming that he's jumped back on the emo train, ... More >>

The Beer Chicks: Italian Beer, Their New Book The Naked Brewer LA Craft Beer Crawl 2012

Beer Chicks, by definition, do not sit still. Oh, they sit, on bar stools and booths and on picnic benches and lawn chairs, pint in hand, but neither of the Chicks -- Christina Perozzi, with her dark hair and penchant for dark lagers and Hallie Beaune, with her blonde bangs looking rather like Zooey ... More >>

HipSwap, Craigslist for Rich L.A. Hipsters, Will Deliver Your Used Louboutins in Pink Van With Mustache

No, that is not the tour bus for Echo Park's new ironic K-pop girl band. Somehow, it's even more perfect than that. The pink van driving around L.A. with the groovy font and the mustache -- as of this morning! -- is actually a delivery vehicle for HipSwap, the Santa Monica-based online marketplace ... More >>

Liz Meriwether: Nice Quirk if You Can Get It

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. If you haven't seen New Girl -- the Fox sitcom that premiered last September to stellar ratings -- you've probably seen the billboards all over town, featuring star Zooey Desch ... More >>

Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Call It Quits: The Year's Five Biggest Music Couples to Hit Splitsville

See also: Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012 It was a sad day in indieville yesterday as actress/singer Zooey Deschanel officially filed for divorce from Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Though the two had been rumored to be on the rocks for some time, fans held out hope that the du ... More >>

"We Bought A Zoo," Brought to You by McDonald's Listening to Ryan Gosling

M. RochlinThe McDonald's sign at Venice & Overland​It may be a signal that the infrastructure of Los Angeles is further declining. Or that the recent wild Santa Anas blew further west than initially thought. Or maybe this McDonald's sign, on the corner of Venice and Overland in Culver City, is ... More >>

Proof Bakery: 30 Sandwiches in 30 Days (Day 28)

Guzzle & NoshAssorted sandwiches from Proof Bakery.​Some sandwiches are mighty and meaty, the jocks of the sandwich world. Others are complex, subtly layered and sloppy -- the rockers. At Proof Bakery, they are dainty and petite, like fey literature-obsessed kids. They suit the restrained but ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away"

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: Our review of Katy Perry at Staples Center last night Song: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" History: "The One That Got Away" is the sixth sing ... More >>

Spork-Fed Vegan Cookbook A Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast Recipe

Amazon​Since the inception of vegan cooking company Spork Foods in 2008, and long before that, sisters Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg have been advocates of the meatless lifestyle. For their first cookbook, Spork-Fed: Super Fun and Flavorful Vegan Recipes from the Sisters of Spork Foods (St. ... More >>

[VIDEO] Goats Devour Downtown L.A.

YouTubeHide your dying grasses​One of the best things about living in Los Angeles, as opposed to that other black hole of concrete and emissions: Goats. If you don't know what we're talking about, you chose the wrong neighbors. But there's hope for you yet -- a herd of baying, devouring goatki ... More >>

Toast: Food Fashion With Chloe Sevigny, Sort Of

For today's fashion-food mash up, we present Drew Droege as a perfectly deadpan version of actress Chloë Sevigny in a series of videos aptly entitled, Chloe. This Chloe predictably name drops art luminaries, party sponsors and all manner of fashion brands and high end designers. Not very differen ... More >>

Zooey Deschanel Says She's No Westsider: Where is L.A.'s Westside, And How Come So Many People Get it Wrong?

Kim DavisThe far Westside.​Update: Zooey Deschanel's publicist reached out to us for a correction, insisting that she lives on the "east side." When we said we weren't budging unless we were given a specific neighborhood -- as what's Eastside is so often misunderstood (see below) -- she told u ... More >>

Zooey Deschanel vs. Patt Morrison: Westside Actress Disses Downtown L.A., Then Blames Times Columnist For Pointing it Out

What she meant was that downtown was "duurty."​Zooey Deschanel fought back against venerable Los Angeles Times columnist and KPCC (89.3 FM) host Patt Morrison this week after the journalist called out the actress for dissing downtown L.A. during the royal couple's visit. Deschanel's retort wa ... More >>

David Meiklejohn, Director of My Heart is an Idiot: What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted

David Meiklejohn's My Heart is an Idiot​ David Meiklejohn was an aspiring filmmaker in Austin when editor Davy Rothbart tapped him to shoot Found Magazine's national tour, which mainly consists of dramatic readings of found letters, birthday cards, and other real-life ephemera. Instead, Meikl ... More >>

Your Highness

We Cast the "L.A. Music Scene 2011" Biopic!: Which Top 10 Relevant Actors and Actresses Should Play These 10 Relevant L.A. Musicians?

10 Actors to Play Musicians in L.A.'s Music Scene

NIGHTRANGER: NIGHT NYMPHS

Music Picks: Dum Dum Girls, Tricky, Leon Russell, OFF!

Also, Peaches, Killing Joke, Albert Lee and others

Extremely NSFW: "Zooey Deschanel" Amateur Erotic Video Sold Online Not Really LA Singer/Actress/Hipster Crush Icon Zooey Deschanel (See For Yourself)

Buyer Beware: This cute indie chick who likes to touch herself on webcam, not actually Zooey Deschanel​Oh boy--it's the "Meg White from the White Stripes amateur porn tape saga" all over again... Some douchebags are trying to sell an amateur porn video purporting to depict She & Him singer, i ... More >>

Gwyneth Paltrow Sings!: Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird

​ Gwyneth Paltrow sings! (see #10). In celebration of this amazing revelation, we've compiled this handy list of Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird, starting, of course with: 1. William Shatner. Who can forget Shatner's much-parodied musical career, especially after Rhino Records' inclu ... More >>

This weekend: The Swell Season, MGMT, One Day as a Lion, Die Antwoord, Shelby Lynne

Piper FergusonThe Swell Season​Boy, girl. Boy, girl. Boy, girl. It's a bill made for date night on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl as some of music's favorite collaborative couples team up to provide a soundtrack for your wine and cheese. Of course, the Swell Season -- Glen Hansard of Irish r ... More >>

She & Him: Sentimental Hearts

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward come to the Bowl

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu

Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others

Guest Blogger: '(500) Days' Co-Writer Scott Neustadter's Five Favorite Movie Montages

Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; viewers watch the rise and fall of the pair's relationship throu ... More >>

Guest Blogger: (500) Days Co-Writer Scott Neustadter on Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense

Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and viewers watch the rise and fall of the pair's relationship t ... More >>

Give the People What They Want!: Top Ten Most Popular Youtube Music Videos of 2009

American's favorite art (according to America)​Oh sure, all the highfalutin' critics with their fancy book-learnin' are going on and on about the Dirty Pickups, the Phoenix Collective, and that one Scandinavian band (you know, the one with all the white people?) as the "Best of 2009." But what ... More >>

Film Reviews: Blood: The Last Vampire, Herb & Dorothy, I Love You Beth Cooper

Also, An Unlikely Weapon and Weather Girl

Pazz & Jop 2008: LA Shut Out of Top Ten

The critics apparently aren't feeling LA music this year; it's been twelve years since LA snagged the number one spot on the estimable Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll (for Beck's Odelay). All the city got in the top 20 of the album category this year was a #13 nod for No Age's Nouns, and She ... More >>

Top 10 Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

Rock Picks: Orphics, Roky Erickson, Madonna

Also, Linda Ronstadt, Rise Against and more

Movie Reviews: Kung Fu Panda, Mongol, Mother of Tears

Also, The Go-Getter, Trying to Get Good and more

She & Him, Vista, 4/28

She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, eager fans waiting to see She & Him perform. It soon became clear that there was some sort of delay, as 7:30 came and went and the doors rema ... More >>

Rock Picks: Siouxsie Sioux, Iron Maiden, Maceo Parker

Plus other Feb. 14-21 shows

X-ers and Exes

Nightranger paints the town

Dream Dames

And straight mates

M. Is for Mystery

M. Ward El Rey Theatre

Pop 'n' Stuff

Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

New York City's most glamorous political cabaret troupe, the Citizens Band, is marching into the Avalon this Thursday for their Los Angeles debut (a lucky few caught their act at a private party at the Roosevelt last year). The show's theme is "Masquerading in Paradise," and you can expect a fanta ... More >>

Boom-Boom

Get Lit

L.A.'s literary salons: club-hopping for bookworms

That's the Spirit

New Film Reviews

For February 17 - 23

Red-Hot Mamas

What if all the Stars Were Pretty Babies?

Best in Film: Ella Taylor

Songs of Innocence and Experience

All the Real Girls and Gerry