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Fairly Odd Festival

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......
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Have a Ball

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......
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Lil Debbie On Leaving the White Girl Mob

For this week's music feature, we spent some time with 23-year-old rapper Lil Debbie. The Oakland native got her start with the Bay Area trio White Girl Mob before being kicked out in 2011 during a span of public infighting. See also: Our feature profile of Lil Debbie Since then,......
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Lil Debbie Is Ready For Her Private Jet

Lil Debbie is 30 minutes late, and she is high. This is clear because she tweets, "hella high at this L.A. Weekly interview," a few minutes after sitting down (38 retweets, 147 favorites), and because later, while telling a story, she blanks and says, "Honestly, I just smoke so much......
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Denny Crane Does the Doors

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......
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They Did the 'Stache

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."......
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The Reigning Monarchs: Call It Dad Ska

Greg Behrendt started guitar lessons at 44; the He's Just Not That Into You author and comedian, now 50, cashed in on lessons with professional guitarist Michael Eisenstein, a birthday present from his wife. For Behrendt, the road to middle-aged surf-rocker has been paved in good advice and failed experiments......
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Night of the Strutting Dead

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...
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Ode to Joysticks

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......
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He Blinded Us With Science

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......