Lina Lecaro

Filmmaker John Roecker wants you to know that puppets can be your friends. Now where's Chucky? Chucky!!? Photos by Kevin Scanlon

Punk Puppet Apocalypse

Lina Lecaro
John Roecker recalls the first time he met his idols, X, at a bus stop on Hollywood Boulevard. “I can still close my eyes and see the bus door open and John Doe and Exene coming out of it,” says the controversial first-time filmmaker. “She was in this beautiful li’l......
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Halloween Boo-gie Nights

Lina Lecaro
Whether you’re the scary- or slutty-costume type, the dance club scene is always a source for freaky fun on All Hallow’s Eve. Herewith, our picks for haunting and flaunting it this weekend and on the big night.Fri.-Sat., Oct. 27-28 Halloweekend 2006 Two nights of techno terror and house horror begin......
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Dance Club Listings

Lina Lecaro
Opening This Week CLUB ULTRALUXX Sat., Feb. 25. DJs Lexx and Los celebrate the return of their popular electro/’80s/booty beat bash with a preview party. 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; over 21; free. At the Mountain Bar, 473 Gin Ling Way, Chinatown. www.clubultraluxx.com. KID MILLIONAIRE’S SPIDER CLUB Fri., Feb. 24. From swanky......
The Ying Yang Twins Crunk it up at Hard Rock's SD party.

Rock & a Hard Place

Lina Lecaro
Understand that you will be like those whom you surround yourself with. Your environment is stronger than you are. That was the appropos “affirmation” we got on a strip of paper inside a corn tortilla at Marcus Kuiland-Nazario’s 13th annual Pop Tarts performance lab at Highways on Saturday. The Mexican......
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Dance Club Listings

Lina Lecaro
This Week Only CONNECTING THE DOTS Sat., Feb. 18: DJ Rich Medina spins his signature hip-hoppy soul house blends, along with Blu Jemz (Turntablelab) and funky bro Garth Trinidad (KCRW’s Chocolate City). At Hangar 1018, 1018 S. Santa Fe Ave., dwntwn. RSVP e-mail: connectdots@gmail.com. Info: www.hangar1018.com. As Always AKBAR Fri.-Sat.:......
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Rawk Your Body!

Lina Lecaro
We remember club nights in the ’80s when a visionary DJ like Mike Messex or Matt Dike would rock the Grease soundtrack next to AC/DC next to Eazy-E. Finally, after all these years, that kind of organic eclecticism has truly taken hold of L.A.’s dance floors. Whether it’s due to......
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Kanye West looks down and gets down.

Gram Slam Thank You, Maam

Lina Lecaro
Anarchy in Silver Lake- The Sex Pistols Experience snarls at Zen Would (s)he lie to you? Trannie Lennox wants to be abused. Meth rock- TCM in their dressing ro...
These Boys Know How to Get Down: from left

Sex and the City

Lina Lecaro
{mosimage} Sex and the CityArt imitated the highlife last week at the premiere screening of The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down, a movie about hooking up (bootie, drugs & clubs) in Hollywood. The cuties in the film name-check Cinespace within the first five minutes, natch (it’s where the......
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Run Run Run

Lina Lecaro
WHO THEY ARE: RUN RUN RUN WHAT THEY DO: Runx3 (cute nickname!) make dreamy psych-tinged rock & roll grinds — which earned them the shoe-gazer label early in their career, despite animated live shows and obvious odes to more abrasive American rock. Says founder Xander Smith: “We try to connect......
Lethal licks- Anthrax's Scott Ian shreds with Shithead at the Dragonfly.

Motorin!

Lina Lecaro
{mosimage}MOTORIN! Just when you thought the ’80s revival was starting to chill, the musical Rock of Ages is here to reheat the hesher love. This headbangin’-to-the-oldies revue, which opened at The Vanguard on Saturday, features tunes by everyone from Pat Benatar to Whitesnake, and a cast including Tenacious D’s Kyle......