Los Angeles

Should You Buy FYF Fest Tickets This Year?

My Bloody Valentine is headlining, of course you should buy FYF Fest tickets; this is a no brainer. Okay, the decision isn't necessarily that simple. Backing up: FYF Fest is a two-day festival that takes place in downtown Los Angeles, featuring a variety of indie, electronic, punk, and comedy acts. ... More >>

The "ReviewerCard" Will Allow The Ethically Challenged to Extort Local Businesses and Screw Up Crowd Sourced Reviews

A Los Angeles-based entrepreneur has introduced a "ReviewerCard" which designates a person a prolific writer of reviews on sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. The purpose of this card is simple: To extort local businesses into providing better service or face the wrath of the dreaded 1-star review. Pre ... More >>

Chicano Batman @ The Lost Leaf

Los Angeles Magazine Makes Fun of Phoenix Magazine's September "Best New Restaurants" Cover: "Is That a Fish as a Necktie or Are You Just the Worst Idea Ever?"

Hey-oh! One wouldn't think a publication like Los Angeles Magazine would have slow news days when it comes to the topic of food, but this week in its online Digest section, dedicated to "L.A.'s tastiest restaurant gossip, culinary events, and food finds," it seems it did. What to do? What else? Take ... More >>

When the Sun Goes Down, Exotic Nightlife Locales Light Up

Art in the Open

The Green Lady Killers at Hollywood Alley, 3/9/12

The Green Lady Killers Hollywood Alley Friday, March 9 The only thing hotter than two badass rock 'n' roll chicks? Why, that would be three badass rock 'n' roll chicks. I think the packed crowd at Hollywood Alley in Mesa will vouch for me on this one. Los Angeles rockers The Green Lady Killers m ... More >>

Songs To Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

So right about now you're looking that weight rack right in the eye, cursing yourself for getting fat in the first place. But not to worry. For years, musicians have been recording songs for just this kind of thing. Your New Year's Resolution is easier to achieve if you just listen to the subtle, s ... More >>

X's Exene Cervenka's Advice to Female Musicians: "Don't Get Married"

​ X set itself apart from its first-generation punk contemporaries with Exene Cervenka and John Doe's dueling vocals and a serious dose of roots and rockabilly in its sound. X has a difficult and fascinating history. Cervenka and Doe started the band as a couple, got married, divorced, wrote ... More >>

Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith on the "L.A. Sound," Warren Zevon, and The Big Pink

​Nothing is Wrong, the sophomore album from Los Angeles rock 'n' roll band Dawes, is an earnest effort. There are times you wonder if it's too earnest, to forthcoming about its mellow, sun-drenched intentions. But the album works, charming right past your cynicism, with golden-hued tracks like t ... More >>

Breakfast Noir at the 5th Avenue Cafe

​In an effort to make mom proud, Chow Bella's taking a good, hard look at the most important meal of the day in the form of Scrambled, a weekly review of local breakfast spots.If this was 1930's L.A., patrons would find a spectacle of gangsters and detectives at the 5th Avenue Café. The ... More >>

Getting Fixed

The Glitch Mob Infiltrate The Venue Scottsdale

The Glitch Mob​Los Angeles-based electro-dance musicians, The Glitch Mob, are bringing their reverberating talents to the Valley when they play The Venue Scottsdale on Tuesday, June 28. The orchestral trio made up of Justin Boreta, Ed Ma, and Joshua Mayer will be blending futuristic robotic beeps, ... More >>

Abri Van Straten Talks About the Function of Art, Being Married to Kristin Bauer, and His Upcoming Performance at Phoenix Comicon

Jasmin KuhnAbri Van Straten​If you've looked at the musical artists lined up to play at Phoenix Comicon next weekend, you may have noticed that one of these things is not like the others. That would be singer-songwriter Abri Van Straten, whose picturesque acoustic folk songs contrast starkly with ... More >>

Murs @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

Emelie Autumn @ Nile Theater

A New Times Art Critic Reconnects with Underground Comic Icon Joyce Farmer, the Person Who First Inspired Her to Be One

L.A. Primer: Abe Vigoda, Best Coast, Warpaint, and More

From Party Girl to Oscar Winner, Sofia Coppola's Journey to Somewhere

D-JR, Hemoptysis and Landmine Marathon, and More in This Week's Issue

Benjamin LeathermanD-JR partying hard while celebrating his move to L.A.​J.R. Phillips, better known as D-JR, is on the move to Los Angeles in hopes of an even brighter future as a DJ. He's been spinning his way to the top spots of many notable DJ competitions, which have been landing him some big ... More >>

Best Coast, Bad Religion, Exposé, and More in This Week's Issue

Best Coast's L.A. sound is as colorful as her L.A. home.​Bethany Cosentino, vocalist of the pop band Best Coast, says her band radiates lo-fi California warmth. Best Coast is perfecting the sounds of sunshine, and they're working with producer Bobb Bruno, king of the Los Angeles underground scene. ... More >>

It Was 113 Degrees in Los Angeles Today and People Freaked Out; How's it Feel, Wimps?

www.thrasherstallons.com​Anyone living in the city of angels got a little taste of Phoenix today, as temperatures hovered around 110 degrees for most of the day.Most people living in Los Angeles are novices when it comes to hellacious, oppressive, unfair heat. So, as you might expect, everyo ... More >>

Ask the Critic: Where Can I Buy a Bento Box?

​Summer vacation season has barely passed (for some folks, it's still high-time to hit the beach, or the mountains), but it's already back-to-school time for busy parents. One friend, mother of two precocious girls (including a fledgling Japan nerd after my own heart), asked me where she can ... More >>

Pop-Up Dining Taking Off in L.A. (Could Phoenix Be Next?)

Want to open a restaurant but can't handle the overhead? Cook in the moment with a temporary eatery. Consider what L.A. chef Ludo Lefebvre is doing with his insanely popular "pop-up restaurant" LudoBites, featured on NPR's Morning Edition today. Every couple months, he temporarily takes over an exis ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 29, 2010

Los Angeles Flip-Flops on Boycott of Arizona over SB 1070

Matthew FieldLos Angeles: Not as tough as it wants to beI'm not sure what good a "feel-good" boycott of Arizona over SB 1070 does, and that seems to be the kind of boycott the Los Angeles City Council wants.Back in May, during a peak of national outrage over Arizona's new "papers, please" immigratio ... More >>

Hit Man Trained by Mexican Cartels

Thanks a Brunch

Carly’s Bistro serves up some delicious eats

Gourmet Popcicles -- Anyone Wanna Bite?

​If I win the lottery, I swear I will start 50 new businesses for all the ideas I have. Like my gourmet paletas idea. Last year, I floated it out to the universe that somebody ought to start making gourmet Mexican popsicles, and preferably sell them out of a cool truck or something. I'd do ... More >>

Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma

​Let's cut the bullshit: May is going to be a huge month for new music. People are rightly circling the entire month on their calendars, frothing at the mouth in expectation of all of the quality releases due in the next 30 or so days.Los Angeles' DJ/producer/electronic music impresario Steven Ell ... More >>

Old Soul

Strumming towards ecstasy

Valentine's Day: Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Ashton Kutcher — Too Many Stars and Too Many Storylines

Old Soul

Secret Supper Club Finally Hits Phoenix

​By-invite-only, underground dinner parties have been all the rage in Los Angeles, Portland, New York, you name it. It's been one of the biggest trends of the year, but strangely hasn't hit the Valley until now. Better late than never, I say. A few different people in town have talked ... More >>

Skin and Bare-Bones

L.A. photog shoots models at their most vulnerable

Skin and Bare-Bones

L.A. photog shoots models at their most vulnerable

Former Ghosts

Why Don't You Start a Food Truck Business?

Food trucks have quite the buzz these days, especially the Kogi Korean BBQ-to-Go trucks in Los Angeles. Rabid fans follow the biz on Twitter and get tweets on where to find Korean shortrib tacos at any given moment. While chowing down on some of Nobuo Fukuda's badass pork belly buns at his one-off e ... More >>

DJ Dossier: Fashen

As you read this, DJ Fashen is getting ready to drop some high-energy dance cuts for club kids in our nation's capital. Then he'll spend the next few weeks bouncing around North America like some bald-headed pinball, flying between Boston, San Diego, Alberta, and even down to Florida. But some ... More >>

DJ Fashen Bids Farewell to Phoenix Starting Tonight

After close to two decades of spinning up hip-hop and dance music at practically every major spot our city has to offer (as well as working behind the mic at Power 98.3 for a number of years), DJ Fashen is departing the PHX in favor of an L.A. address. Much like Markus Schulz, and Eddie Amador be ... More >>

Christina Fernandez

Now Open: 25 Degrees at CityNorth

Craving a burger? Bored with the usual? Well you're in luck. Today's the opening day for 25 Degrees, an upscale burger joint/wine bar at the new CityNorth in north Phoenix. (The name, by the way, refers to the temperature difference between a medium-rare and well-done burger.) It's the thi ... More >>

Instant Classics

L.A. underground rap duo pumps positivity on new record

Adult Swim

SxSWers Spirit Animal, Saint Motel and Asa Random Stopping in Scottsdale Monday

Phoenix's prime place in the vast desert between Los Angeles and Austin really comes in handy this time of year, as we get tons of shows by otherwise-usually-too-hip-to-play-here acts stopping by on their way to South by Southwest. Jose Gonzolez rounded a bunch of them up for you in the paper this w ... More >>

De-Liverance

Repossession is nine-tenths of the law in fiendish rock opera

Sammi Hanratty, Local Child Actress, Stars in Doll-Based Movie

Valley child actress Sammi Hanratty lives in Scottsdale -- when she can.Busy as a bee -- but not a Mean Bee (we'll get to that in a moment) -- Hanratty travels frequently to Los Angeles for her work in the CBS show The Unit or The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Next week, according to her Web site, sh ... More >>

Phoenix Light Rail Marks First Crash With Vehicle Since Opening to Passengers

  Uh-oh. The light rail system has been operating with passengers for just four days and it's already been involved in a vehicle collision. That doesn't seem to bode well for the on-street system, which logged another minor accident earlier this month during its test phase. Whether the ... More >>

To B or Not to B

Hanging with sorta-stars on Halloween

Labor Pains

Timely play pits aliens versus alien busters