Liz Ohanesian

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Best Non-Douchey Hollywood Club

Liz Ohanesian
For those who abandoned Hollywood clubs after the bro takeover, King King is the only reason to return. This long-running Hollywood haunt is small and bare-bones compared with the posh spots that surround it, but its schedule is top-notch. Programming runs the gamut from theatrical productions — we recently caught......
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Best Radio Love Song Fix

Liz Ohanesian
When Hot 92.3 changed formats last February and cut Art Laboe from the schedule, L.A. listeners collectively lost their shit. Fortunately, 93.5 FM KDAY brought back the veteran DJ, who has been an L.A. radio fixture for decades. At 90, Laboe still provides a unique service on the FM dial......
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Best Place to Watch Rock Stars DJ

Liz Ohanesian
You'll never know who you'll see in the Monty Bar's DJ booth during Pure Trash's free Friday-night parties. Take, for example, the night that London May (Samhain) and Tommy Victor (Danzig) played the event; it didn't take long for Glenn Danzig himself to join them. Promoted by Lethal Amounts, a......
Little Jewel brings a bit of New Orleans to Chinatown.; Credit: Anne Fishbein

10 Things To Do in L.A. When You Feel Homesick

Liz Ohanesian
You love your life. You found a neighborhood that suits you, where you're surrounded by new places to explore and new people to meet. Yet sometimes you feel a sinking sense of nostalgia for the place you used to call home. Even those of us who grew up and remain......
Still from Seth Bogart's video "Club with Me" (2015); Credit: Courtesy of 356 Mission

The Leader of Hunx and His Punx Has a Wacky New Art Show

Liz Ohanesian
Seth Bogart used to be a hairdresser. He spent close to a decade working on clients in the Oakland area. Even after he moved to Los Angeles about four years ago, he traveled back to the Bay Area for occasional appointments. Eventually, he was able to put down the scissors,......
Nocturnal Wonderland in the 1990s.; Credit: Michael Tullberg

20 Years Later, Three DJs Remember the First Nocturnal Wonderland

Liz Ohanesian
In February of 1995, the first Nocturnal Wonderland hit Los Angeles, with a flyer referencing Lewis Carroll's tales of Alice and featuring "Tea Party Info Lines" to serve curious ravers across L.A. and Orange County. For Joel "Mojo" Semchuck, one of the DJs at that first Nocturnal, his memories of......