Rebecca Haithcoat

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Burning Man's New Lottery Ticketing System Provokes Outrage

See also: Burning Man 2011 Sold Out, Literally and Figuratively; Tickets Go for $5,000 on eBay Earlier this month, Burning Man's newsletter announced a new lottery system for buying tickets to the 2012 edition of the the seven-day experimental arts and music festival. It works like this: During a two-week......
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Mary J. Blige – Club Nokia – 11-17-11

See also: Our Mary J. Blige slideshow Mary J. Blige American Express Unstaged's livestream music series at Club Nokia 11/17/11 Better than ... eating ice cream after a breakup. Dressed in an aquamarine silk shirt, black leggings, lace-up knee-high boots and a fedora, Mary J. Blige belted the final chorus......
Colby Evans

Save Sessions LA

Eighteen-year-old Argento Zavala (not his real name) became homeless this summer. After an argument with his mother, he got kicked out of the house. He'd been exposed to drugs since he was in 8th grade, but he began a new daily routine: do meth to stay awake, wander the city......
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V-Nasty as She Wants to Be

See also V-Nasty on Jail, Being Pregnant At 15, and Why Oakland Is Not Where It's At. At Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles in Hollywood, V-Nasty po...
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The Rise and Stall of Pac Div

In the late aughts, the safe money was on L.A.-via-Palmdale trio Pac Div. They seemed poised to lead the burgeoning "New West" movement -- the pre-Odd Future crop of young rappers seeking to reclaim hip-hop for the Left Coast. They were the group everyone from industry suits to bloggers to......
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Curren$y, Method Man – Music Box – 11/5/11

See also: Our Curren$y and Method Man slideshow Curren$y, Method Man, Smoke DZA, Fiend, Corner Boy P Music Box 11/5/11 Better than ... hanging with Curren$y at his crib. Oh, wait. The average person would use a broken ankle as a reason to relax and take a little time off,......
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Das Racist, Danny Brown – The Roxy – 11-3-11

Das Racist, Danny Brown The Roxy 11-3-11 Aural chaos characterized Das Racist's show last night. Also, "Tricks with Microphones." The NYC trio of Himanshu Suri (Heems), Victor Vazquez (Kool A.D.) and Ashok Kondabolu (Dap) had a great earworm in 2008, "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," their three-minute social commentary,......