Our inner 13-year-old boy cried yesterday when news broke via Rolling Stone that video game company Activision was officially pulling the plug on popular music game franchise, Guitar Hero. The game that made plastic kiddie guitars cool and launched millions of virtual rock star dreams was declared dead. Although Activision......
It's official -- dreams do come true on the Internet. This whole time we thought online shopping store Etsy.com was mostly for stay at home moms pimping handmade oven mitts or for hippies slinging animal cruelty-free soaps. Turns out we were wrong. So, so wrong. Exhibit A: Vintage Nintendo video......
In this week's cover story, "Community Watchdog Cary Brazeman Fights Villaraigosa's Crusade to Allow Development Everywhere: L.A.'s postwar zoning code on the chopping block," writer Steven Leigh Morris interviews Cary Brazeman, the former CB Richard Ellis exec turned community activist whose unincorporated watchdog group, L.A. Neighbors United, is trying to......
In this week's cover story, "Death, Money and Megaraves: Why Los Angeles politicians embrace a growing Ecstasy phenom that kills," Dennis Romero goes inside the controversial world of megaraves which are emerging as a uniquely Los Angeles phenomenon. Romero writes: Twenty years after the first American raves were organized in......
Nothing beats a good laugh over a truly ridiculous photo. You know the ones. Family portraits gone horribly awry. An epic photo bomb. Those photos you never, ever want tagged of yourself on Facebook. They're those happy mistakes that have enlivened and shaped viral Internet culture (and that make passing......
Let's get one thing straight -- The Melvins are not an oldies act. Sure, after over 20 years and 18 studio albums the drone-metal kings are still referred to as the Godfathers of Grunge but don't ever expect them to pull any Sha Na Na shit. Buzz Osborne chuckles. "Although......
L.A. Weekly's Nightranger Lina Lecaro put it best in her Sunset Strip Music Festival live review: "Whether you're 20, 40 or 60 years old, grew up in Los Angeles or hopped right off the bus a la Axl Rose in 'Welcome to the Jungle,' if you're a music fan, the......
For those of us raised in Los Angeles (not counting Silver Lake transplants who are too cool, or lazy, to drive west of Vine) partying and playing music on the Sunset Strip is a right of passage. Love it or loathe it, we all have at least one West Hollywood......
File this under one of those "only in L.A." moments: You're at a concert with your arms crossed cooly, head nodding up and down, perhaps even stomping your foot once the chorus to your favorite song kicks in. Then suddenly, the Terminator T-1000 (yeah, the liquid silver guy that kicked......
It started as just another night on the Sunset Strip in the early '80s. A 17-year-old Slash borrowed his mom's car to party at the Rainbow with Steven Adler. Fake IDs in hand, they got to the bar only to find out that it was "ladies' night." Steven got in,......
