The Sunset Strip may have just celebrated its rightful place as an iconic music hub during the Sunset Strip Music Festival, but the boulevard starts rockin’ well before you get into West Hollywood. There’s Amoeba Records of course, and countless clubs and bars too. Moving westward, The Ralphs supermarket at Fuller Ave. isn’t affectionately called [...]

Not a stone’s throw from the iconic Hollywood Bowl Amphitheater, the Hollywood & Highland Center has acted as its own live music space hosting its popular weekly jazz concert series all Summer long. The series will welcome to the stage Hot 8 Brass Band TONIGHT at 7 p.m., bidding adieu to the hot and sunny [...]

Last Saturday night clothing designer Terri King celebrated the one year anniversary of her boutique, KING, on Melrose with a fabulous fete in the store and in a tented area behind it. The party brought out a darkly- dramatic, dressed-up crowd, and many were familiar faces from the entertainment world. Though the event may have [...]

Hip clips, links to love and other post/boast worthy stuff on the web from the worlds of fashion, music and pop culture for the week beginning Monday, August 27, 2012. DON’T KNOCK THE (PUNK) ROCK Director Allison Anders and her daughter Tiffany Anders annual “Don’t Knock the Rock” film festival, celebrating music-themed cinema, ends it [...]

Indoor, outdoor, shopping and bopping today and tomorrow…. Saturday, August 15 ECHO PARK RISING Hard to believe it’s been a year since the Sunset Junction Street Fair died a sad and controversial death… It was always our favorite street fest in LA. In response, Echo Park businesses created this makeshift alternative– a free, music-driven day [...]

Swap meets, flea markets, and garage sales… Hollywood has been host to all of the above, in the multitudes. In the world of “upcycled fashion,” every avenue is a potential for a trash-to-treasure find. And by every avenue, we literally mean every avenue, as these parking lot pop up shops seem to be taking over [...]

Blondes may have more fun but there’s something exotic and mysterious about dark haired beauties. The two brunettes we profile in our continuing “VaVoom” series today – Diamondback Annie and Moana Santana – are definitely unpredictable, even when they aren’t doing a full-blown burlesque routine. Both ladies are sought-after go-go dancers in Los Angeles, providing [...]

VaVOOM week continues with two of LA’s finest female performers, Selene Luna and Ming Dynatease. We’re lucky enough to have known and covered the careers of both lovely ladies for several years now and chatting with them is nearly as entertaining as watching them on stage. Here, they spill about makeup faves, music raves and [...]

We’ve never been to Burning Man, but several pals have been going for years, and from what we hear it has changed a lot since it started as a niche performance art project and gathering back in the 80′s and evolved into a bonafide festival –albeit still pretty undergound– in the 90s. Its attendance numbers [...]

He’s been in the news lately thanks to his family’s squabbles over money and custody of his kids, but most of us choose to remember Michael Jackson via commemorative works celebrating the life and music. By now, we’ve all seen the concert movie, “This is It,” and at least heard about the Cirque du Soleil [...]