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  Matt and Kim Live @ Troubadour
  Brooklyn-based keyboard/drum duo Matt and Kim sold out the Troubadour Jan. 11. There was crowd surfing (!) and a parachute involved. The Underground Railroad to Candyland and the Mae Shi opened the show.
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  New Year's Eve Downtown Crawl: Bank Run, Stone Temple Pilots, Giant Maximus, Bar 107
  Timothy Norris photographs the New Year's Eve Downtown crawl: Little Radio's Bank Run, Stone Temple Pilots at Club Nokia, Giant Maximus with Moby and Mickey Avalon, and masquerading at Bar 107.
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  Sausage that Demands Beer: Wurstkuche Serves Up Bohemia on a Toasted Roll
  There may be no more universal pleasure in the world of meat than a well-made sausage plucked straight from the fire, filmed with a bubbling mantle of grease, and thrust at you when it is still so hot that you bobble it back and forth between your hands because you are afraid of scorching your...
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  Barred From Shooting Pacific Park Pier: The Photographs
  These are the photographs taken by Venice photographer Anthony Citrano that caused all the ruckus on Friday Jan. 16. Citrano was practicing his night-shooting skills at Santa Monica's Pacific Park Pier when security hassled him, demanding he cease and desist because he was on "private...
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  Gorey Glamour: Edwardian Ball @ Tower Theater
  The Edwardian Ball made its L.A. debut on Jan. 31 downtown at the Tower Theater. Described as "an elegant, turn of the century celebration of music, theatre, dance, circus arts, DJs, ballroom dance, fashion, technology, and of course, the art and stories of Edward Gorey," the ball was hosted by...
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  Metallica Thrashes Stubb's @ SXSW
  Metallica played a thrashing, hour-plus set at Stubb's Bar-B-Q on March 20 at SXSW. Read more in Patrick Range McDonald's "A Bizarro Night of Metallica and Devo" and "Metallica Sets Up Shop at Four Seasons."
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  Art Core New Year's Eve Bash @ On the Rox
  The rockers and artists behind Art Core, Congregation of the Forgotten Saints and the Metal Awards Show invaded the Sunset Strip on New Year's Eve and bashed things up at On the Rox with band Black President.
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  SXSW Games and Girls: ScreenBurn Arcade, Facebook Party, RVIP Lounge
  It wouldn't be SXSW Interactive without a sneak peak at awesome new games and the chance to party with the ladies of tech, PR and social media. L.A. Weekly hit up the ScreenBurn Arcade Hall at the convention center, Facebook party at Pangaea, and traveling karaoke cabaret on wheels, the RVIP...
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  Rare Underworld Movie Props and Costumes Up for Auction
  A sneak peak at the rare props and costumes from the Underworld vampire franchise up for auction Saturday Feb. 7 in El Segundo at the Premiere Props' warehouse. Get more details in Liz Ohanesian's Underworld Style Council blog.
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  32nd Annual Pasadena Doo Dah Parade
  Described as the "boisterous, twisted sister to Pasadena's prim and proper Rose Parade," the Doo Dah Parade celebrated 32 years of mayhem as it descended upon Old Pasadena on Jan. 18. There were giant rabbits with chainsaws, UFOs, Xenu, cows on roller skates, fabulous Furries and the belle of...
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  Kissing Girls and Then Some: Katy Perry Live @ Wiltern
  "I Kissed a Girl" and "Ur So Gay" hitmaker Katy Perry brought her "Hello Katy Tour" to the Wiltern on Jan. 31. Girls and boys of all ages packed the sold out venue to take in the show. There was even a dad or two (ahem, Duff McKagan) in the mix.
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  Jonathan Gold's 10 Best Dishes of 2008
  Hot dogs and hominy, blowfish and a fine cup of joe. Read Jonathan Gold's article, "The 10 Best Dishes of 2008".
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