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E Is for Excess Our video-game prowess might be limited to gobbling blue Ms. Pac-Man goblins, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t awed by the graphics of today’s game offerings. We marvel even more at just how into it gamer types are. The industry’s yearly E3 Convention downtown seems to......

Tiara Girlz Beauty is in the eye of the beholder — and as two wild pageants last weekend proved, when the beholders are rockers, the contestants are more Miss Creant than Miss Congeniality. Friday, Miss Kitty’s Parlour welcomed Kiss’Gene Simmons, who held a “Fetish Beauty Queen Pageant” for his new......

After five years in the Coachella trenches, we thought we had the thing wired, but this year the fest proved to be an entirely different beast — and, yes, it bit us in the ass. There were more off-site parties to attend (we didn’t make ’em all), longer lines for......

Queen of NoiseThe balls-out power and vampy vivaciousness of Betty Blowtorch made the group one of the L.A. rock scene’s most promising rebel rousers, but, tragically, its career was cut short when singer Bianca Butthole (a.k.a. Halstead)died in a car crash back in 2001. Director Anthony Scarpa’s Betty Blowtorch and......

Looks like grubbing is almost as popular as clubbing around Hollywood Boulevard these days; we can barely keep track of all the swanky boîtes that keep popping up. Guess the beautiful people actually do eat sometimes. Nefarious Jewelry, Flaunt magazine and Velvet Revolver hosted a private bash last Thursday at......