Grindhouse Monday and Tuesday it's The Muthers, a combination blaxploitation and women-in-prison flick that stars Janine Bell and Rosanne Katon as a pirate duo who must rescue Bells sister from the private jail of an evil coffee plantation owner, followed by Fight for Your Life, a revenge thriller about a pacifist black minister whose family is taken hostage and tortured by a trio of convicts, until he finally snaps and wreaks his vengeance. Wednesday and......

With enough solved mysteries now to publish a best-selling novel, LAist has settled into a comfortable place solving local mysteries for our loyal readers on a week-to-week basis. Sure, it may not be nearly as snarky as The Coffee Buzz -- but hell, it's free. And in this world, that's something to talk about. This week, LAist turns our wandering (and lazy) eyes towards a potentially criminal situation that has been unknowingly going on......

Like someone hopped up on the caffeinated-equivalent of twenty-three double-espresso shots, LAist is constantly on the lookout for the trends that shape our city. Imagining ourselves as the Town Crier for Southern California consumer behavior, we've created a special edition "Trendspotter Gazette" in order to spotlight a trendy item ready for the refuse pile. That trendy item? Candles. About seven and a half years ago, candles hit the Los Angeles scene — filling the......

LAist is proud to publish the LAist Interview featuring a local and international legend who needs no introduction: Vaginal Davis. Performer, writer, DJ, hostess, artist, icon, splendid raconteur—Ms. Davis has done it all. As part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, Ms. Davis will be righteously honored as she prepares to leave our fine shores for Berlin, Germany. Be sure to check out her specially selected experimental films at the Vaginal Davis Career Retrospectacle......