The day after headlining Webster Hall in New York, the Haim sisters hoist their equipment out of a black van and lug it across a sidewalk to the entrance of WNYC, which is kind of like the Big Apple's KCRW. Alana, 21, Danielle, 24, and Este, 27, in matching black......
The video titled "Thank you, I will miss you guys" is barely more than a minute long — all one shaky, handheld shot trained on the face of then–21-year-old Ben Vacas. Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a fauxhawk, a stubbly goatee and a British accent, discernible......
Boy band Allstar Weekend are Poway's answer to One Direction. The San Diego county-bred group got its start on the Disney Channel music competition Next Big Thing back in 2009. They took second place on that show, but the exposure helped the band ink a four-album deal with Hollywood Records,......
Music writers David Greenwald and Daniel Siegal want to create a site for in-depth music reporting and criticism, and they want to pay writers a fair wage to do that work. Sort of like the L.A. Weekly's music section, but they want to do it minus the kind of pageview-driving......
Dino eggs are nestled inside the incubator, with the extra large cans of Mastodon Chunks arranged in a neat pyramid formation beside a display of Barbarian repellent and caveman candy (looking suspiciously similar to beef jerky). "It's been a really long last month getting everything ready," May Pescante says from......
Read the LA Weekly cover story: East Los Angeles Hit Man Trained by Mexican Cartels. Back in 1998, shortly after he was fingered for three killings in the Los Angeles area (including that of his estranged girlfriend and the mother of 2-year-old baby) Jose Luis Saenz disappeared to Mexico. That's......
We're number one! We're number one! That's right, L.A. is ranked first in the latest ranking of U.S. cities... in terms of worst Thanksgiving getaway traffic. Data traffic provider INRIX predicted the top 10 busiest cities this holiday and, to the surprise of no one, Los Angeles tops the list......
"Thousands Of LAX Workers Set For Walkout On Thanksgiving Eve," the CBS Los Angeles headline blared. The words conjured images of empty check-in counters littered with orphan luggage tags, malfunctioning automatic ticket machines flashing "Please See Attendant," luggage conveyor belts grinding to a halt... at one of the most stressful......
See also: A Santa Monica Trailer Park -- and Its Senior Residents -- Face Off With Fancy New Development and Village Trailer Park Closure Decision Postponed. Updated at bottom with a statement from Marc Luzzatto. The Santa Monica City Council finally approved the East Village development--a mix of apartments, condominiums,......
Lots of people enjoyed themselves at Hard's Day of the Dead concert, held at Los Angeles State Historic Park on November 3, and featuring Justice, Diplo and others. Our reviewer certainly did, even giving "kudos to the promoters for reorganizing the layout" to accommodate some 35,000 people, about 10,000 more......