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Stephanie Arakel shook her thang on stage with LMFAO for the better part of the year in 2009, just as they were blowing up. Only 21 years old, she quit her job, strapped on a polka dot bikini, and traveled all over the country with them. You can see her......

The Other Side, L.A.'s last gay piano bar, will shutter on Sunday after over 40 years in business. It has gone by several names and owners, but was long thought of as a place where folks could get a cheap drink while a lively songster tickled the ivories and took......

Each week as Monday night becomes Tuesday morning, KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez maintains a musical vigil over the airwaves. He mixes in everything from hip-hop to house, along with smoothly articulated descriptions of these "samples and sounds." Today, sipping Intelligentsia coffee in broad daylight at the Casbah Café near Sunset......

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When I was about five, my parents decided it was time for me to become a runner. My sister, two years my senior, had already left a legacy for me to live up to as the latest Chatsworth Chief track team legend. As a somewhat-chubby sandbox dweller, I was ill-prepared......

See also Big Pimpin': Pimp cups have real players and white kids alike dropping cash In this week's cover story, we trace the colorful history of hip hop's most interesting accessory, the pimp cup. These bedazzled chalices, popularized by Snoop Dogg and Lil Jon, are actually prayed over by a......

Minneapolis band Semisonic are quintessential one-hit wonders. Their 1998 song "Closing Time" cracked the top ten, and lives on through movies and TV, and everyone seems to know the words when it plays. The group never topped the song; never really came very close, in fact. But the act's lead......