This weekend was our first with new president Barack Obama and Los Angeles celebrated the only way it knew how with sold out rock concerts, orgies, jam-packed art openings, film screenings and more. Sunday morning I awoke to find my apartment floor scattered with an array of party favors like Obama condoms and Chinese herb aphrodisiac supplements from the party I had attended the night before, the Eros Day X “Orgy for Obama” Inauguration Ball presented by Dr. Susan Block. And later that afternoon at my local coffee shop I counted more hangovers per capita than I had on New Year's Day. There was definitely something in the air this weekend and we all took a big whiff. Read on for what we did and who we saw…
Department of Eagles Sell Out Troubadour
New York indie rock darlings Department of Eagles played to a packed house at the Troubadour on Friday. Cave Singers opened and members of We Barbarians and Cold War Kids were spotted in the crowd. Check out more photos in the Department of Eagles slideshow and read Randall Roberts' review of the show, “Department of Eagles and Cave Singers at the Troubadour: Adorers, and Harmonies, Galore.”
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