If waiting until Coachella to see Portishead reunite is causing you to grind your teeth with impatience, then maybe you'll be stoked to find out that you can try and win tickets to see them play a private rehearsal for their upcoming and highly anticipated Coachella performance on April 26....

"little green leaf," by Melle Music via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr For those who thought oil spills only happened when big tankers in Alaska collided with icebergs, may I point you to the South Bay? Crews were busy Saturday cleaning up about 5,500 gallons of oil that spilled into the wetlands area around Machado Lake. The oil apparently overflowed from an oil-and-water separator at the Cooper & Brain Oil Co. field near PCH......

It's hard not to notice when Jeffree Star enters a room because he is wearing high heels, has bright pink shoulder length hair, is heavily tattooed from head to toe, and carries a large Louie Vuitton purse. And it was apparently just as difficult not to notice him when he bust onto the internet scene (and into our hearts) in 2003. Recently, and without any marketing or ads, he has been blowing doors on the......

Audrey Kitching is a model, Internet personality, and phenomenon. Next month you will see her in issues of Alternative Press, Vice magazine and Misbehave. Currently she's on tour with the Warped Tour driving in an Audrey Kitching/Buzznet.com car that’s pink and green leopard print and writing about it on her Buzznet journal. LAist was lucky enough to conduct an email interview with her as the Warped Tour takes off today in Pomona and tomorrow......

Bree McGuire, one of Buzznet's Content Editors, is surrounded by new music all day long. Buzznet was at dozens of music fests and events last year and is super tight with the emo superstars Fall Out Boy, which is why we were stoked that she agreed to tune us in to what she was tuned in to last year... 1. The Queen & I - Gym Class Heroes 2. Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah......

This weekend everyone's gonna get dressed up and rage. We're totally down with that. We're so down that we have hooked up VIP passes to the Halloween Night taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Show with special guest Meat Loaf, who will be performing from the new Bat Out of Hell III, which will be released that day. A pair of tickets will be given to the two best costumed LAist readers. Here's what you......

Buzznet President Marc Brown is one of those guys who actually uses the product that puts bread on his table -- or in his case, sake on his kotatsu. The photo-sharing guru snapped some pics of a street fair that took place yesterday at MacArthur Park near Alvarado & Wilshire. Looks like even Mayor Tony was there. Just like LAist, working Saturdays. more pics after the jump and even more on MC Brown's Buzznet......