Kelsey Whipple

Let's be real: Thanks to all the moshing, shoving, sweating and fervent, vitriolic rapping -- not to mention the sheer number of people performing -- even a regular old, run-of-the-mill Odd Future show can feel like something of a circus. But that just makes the young, acerbic collective's L.A. festival......

These days, the word "masquerade" seems to get thrown around at any event requiring even a modicum of dressing up, but when KCRW says it, it means it. The music-loving NPR affiliate's annual Masquerade Ball, now in its fifth year, combines good getups with a good cause: Every attendee will......

These days, William Shatner doesn't seem to go anywhere without doing so boldly. Through good humor and strange career choices, the former Captain James Tiberius Kirk has become a beloved household icon for even those fans who don't speak Klingon -- thanks to Emmy-winning TV roles (The Practice), fantastically hokey......

Most members of the Los Angeles Facial Society have chin hairs older than their new club, which just launched in July. Founded by two men and two women, all ardent stubble supporters, the group promotes what co-founder Michael Sparks calls "facial-hair awareness," with the goal of "unifying California's facial-hair community."......

They're taking "drop-dead" sexy to a whole new level this weekend at Lot 613. Tonight, creators of the Zombie Fashion Show and Creature Art Exhibit go to gory extremes, with hordes of fashionably decayed models walking (dead) down the runway. Fifty makeup artists will turn dozens of hot humans into...

This might be the best bonus round ever played. On Friday at the Ford, the Young Musicians Foundation and 50 members of its teen and 20-something orchestra, led by conductor Roger Kalia, will take their love of video games from the couch to the stage to perform the small-screen soundtracks......

Being "America's most popular statistician" sounds dubious, something like being "the smartest Jäger girl" or "the deepest Kardashian" -- talk about damning with faint praise. But the odds have been in Nate Silver's favor for quite some time. Although the Michigan native achieved mainstream acclaim in November 2008 by accurately......