Liz Ohanesian

Veronique Chevalier and Seth Bedford; Credit: Liz Ohanesian

Scenes from An Evening of Steampunkery

Liz Ohanesian
Several years ago, LA-based performer Veronique Chevalier launched Red Velvet Vaudeville Variety Show. During its existence, the performances won acclaim for bringing together an eclectic cross-section of performers linked together through the singer's witty MC stylings. Last night's event A Red Velvet & Sepiachord Evening of Steampunkery, held at Echo......
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"Best of" Awards: Pirates Versus Steampunks at Pyrate Daze

Liz Ohanesian
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, we headed down to Long Beach on Saturday for Pyrate Daze. Held aboard the Queen Mary, Pyrate Daze is a two-day event featuring music, masquerade, merchandise and even a cannon show. With the involvement of steampunk-themed band Abney Park and local......
Pig races; Credit: Shannon Cottrell

L.A. County Fair: The Strange, The Cool and The Scary

Liz Ohanesian
Pomona is closer to the San Bernardino County line than to downtown Los Angeles, but for more than 85 years, millions of Angelenos have made the drive to check out the end-of-summer extravaganza known as the L.A. County Fair. This year, we learned that on Fridays, you can get into......
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Apoptygma Berzerk Plays Das Bunker Tonight

Liz Ohanesian
Apoptygma Berzerk "Kathy's Song" (VNV Nation Mix) Last night, Das Bunker announced via Twitter that Apoptygma Berzerk will be playing a last minute show tonight at the long running LA industrial club. Known to fans as Apop, the Norwegian band has deep roots in EBM and futurepop and tonight's show......
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New Track from Caspa, "The Takeover" feat. Dynamite MC (MP3)

Liz Ohanesian
After this morning's post about Caspa's fantastic remix of Miike Snow's song "Black & Blue," we thought readers might want to check out this track from the dubstep master. Caspa feat. Dynamite MC  var so = new SWFObject( "https://img.laweekly.com/players/vvmMiniPlayer2.swf?k=Dnl[1QcaP}&autoPlay=no", "theSWF", "91", "32", "8", "#FFFFFF" ); so.write( "player_1253234115" ); "The Takeover"......
Lenora Claire and Luke Nero at mr. BLACK; Credit: Shannon Cottrell

Mr. Black Takes Over LA

Liz Ohanesian
View more photos in Shannon Cottrell's mr. BLACK slideshow. When Luke Nero moved to Los Angeles, he brought the hippest gay club in New York City with him. But as the doors opened last night at Bardot for the first installment of the Tuesday night party mr. BLACK LA, one......
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Goth for Life? A View from the Dark Side

Liz Ohanesian
When I stumbled upon Emily Gordon's Lemondrop post "A Secret Most Dark (I Was a Teenage Goth)," I read it eagerly. While it was an amusing, slice-of-life piece, I couldn't understand why Gordon would be embarrassed by her goth past. Is it any different than having been a hippie in......
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Five Psychedelic Furs Songs That Aren't "Pretty in Pink"

Liz Ohanesian
It's another day stuck in the midst of gridlock and you're flipping radio stations because you either don't have an iPod or forgot your iPod and you're sick of every CD strewn across the front seat of the car. You stumble upon a song and think, "Hey, I remember this......