It looks like Councilmember Jack Weiss’ plan to impose hefty fines on companies that post multi-story supergraphics” signs plastered illegally around Los Angeles
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Instead of cracking down on illegal commercial signage, the Department of Building and Safety is going after…murals?
When I think of how to describe L.A., I think
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Ah, music. It arrives from out of the mist, or from Hell below, or from passing cars bumping the beats, or from Muzak kicking Phil Collins' “In the Air
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“Ring them bells St. Catherine/ From the top of the room,
Ring them from the fortress/ For the lilies that bloom.
Oh the lines are long/ And the fighting is st
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Grand Sumo Tournament
LA Sports Arena, Sunday, June 8, 2008
Even if you know nothing about sumo wrestling (and I don't), it's incredible how quickly and deep
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The nights go nearly sleepless, but the last day of Gay Pride Week is no time to flake out. Promises are made and need to be kept, so I head over to the Abbey and He
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Prediction: N*E*R*D’s Seeing Sounds will be the soundtrack to a very sexy summer. Okay, maybe just ours. In Search Of still shakes up our decks (usually in the ca
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Regardless of what you think of their music, you've got to respect Wolf Parade. When Apologies to the Queen Mary dropped in late 2005 and every music journo p
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From military-themed beefcake bashes to mega-DJ all-nighters, there is, as always, a plethora of pumpin’ dance parties to choose from this Memorial weekend (see l
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The Big Takeover
Lina Lecaro
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Hostess Kimi celebrates a birthday with her beau at A Fish Called Rhonda.
Lina Lecaro
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Forty years ago this week, the Cannes Film Festival ground to a halt. At an impromptu press conference held on the morning of May 18, 1968 — nine days into the fe
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Off Franklin Avenue, not far from architect Stacey Hooper’s home, is a severed tree trunk used as a bench. One day, Hooper noticed that somebody had planted marig
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