While shooting goals through a playing field of little green toy soldiers with the afternoon rush of his dad's auto parts store buzzing around him he discussed school, playing games, fame, fortune, business ethos, and happiness. Caine gave LAist a tour of all of his arcade games...sfter completing his homework, of course. more ›

Musician-songwriter-author Mike Doughty, grew up in a dysfunctional military family in West Point, NY. In his early 20s, he joined another “family” with plenty of their own issues: the now-defunct slacker-jazz outfit, Soul Coughing. His time with the band found him with a big cult following and critical success—along with a nasty heroin and alcohol habit. more ›

Maya Beiser, described by the New Yorker as "a cello goddess," made some time to chat with us last month. She was in town to record a featured cello part for the film "Snow White and the Huntsman" (starring Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart). more ›

Twain was an outspoken critic and really funny, but has that special spark that comes from intellectual experience. Twain came before Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. He started the great tradition of being outspoken! more ›

While sitting in a bright and simple deli on Hollywood Boulevard watching various costumed characters from Grauman's Chinese Theatre wander by, LAist chatted with Leonard Manzella about his new play and his ideas about prison reform. more ›

Eighteen years after Kurt Cobain committed suicide in Seattle, former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson is releasing Letters to Kurt, a 52-chapter collection of poetry and prose dedicated to the Nirvana frontman. Set to hit bookshelves on April 8, Letters to Kurt is a candid reflection of Erlandson’s time spent as friend/unofficial caregiver for Cobain during his rapid rise to grunge rock fame, tumultuous marriage to Hole’s Courtney Love, and untimely death in 1994. more ›

Canadian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kathleen Edwards wrote her fourth album, Voyageur, in the wake of an unraveled relationship, and recorded it as a new one blossomed. These 10 songs stick with the listener as they traverse roads both familiar and less traveled. more ›

Did you know there's an award for using Twitter? We talked to Shorty Awards co-founder Greg Galant to find out his thoughts on the state of the Tweet around the globe, what the heck "Mad Men" has to do with all this, and more. more ›

Sherman Oaks resident Greg Tung just finished a year of scaring himself every day. The self-affirmed introvert challenged himself to do Fear Factor-type stunts—for fun. He's chronicled the adventures on his blog Scare Yourself Every Day (SYED). more ›

People flock to Los Angeles for many reasons, one of them being to make music. Meg Myers, a former Jehovah's Witness from the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, now calls L.A. home to her fierce vocals. We caught up with Myers to find out who the monster is in "Monster" - one of the songs from her new EP - what her favorite L.A. pastimes are and her thoughts on the Dodgers. more ›

Actor Kirk Cameron, known once for his role as the popular troublemaker Mike Seaver on "Growing Pains" and now more for his devout Christianity, says he's had to endure "hate speech" since expressing his moral opposition to homosexuality during a recent TV interview. more ›

Everyone has a friend named Andrew. No really, check your Facebook. But certain individuals have a real good friend named Andrew. A role model, hero and spokesman for all things loud. Naturally I am referring to Andrew W.K., the front man turned game show host turned motivational speaker who has over the course of the past decade provided the soundtrack for your angst ridden party days. more ›

Tracking the journey of a specially-selected 340-ton rock from Riverside to Los Angeles for its eventual installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has already reached an uncomfortable level of media hype, but this is just taking it a bit too far. more ›

We let you in on a little secret last Wednesday, and now we're digging even further into the underground phenomenon scarcely known as The Underground Rebel Bingo Club. Clad in our undercover best, we tracked down founder Freddie Fortune, also known as Freddie Sorensen, and probed his mutant form of bingo that has descended upon Los Angeles. more ›

Amid the downtown cacophony of armored truck traffic, bustling pedestrians, coffee cups clinking against saucers, and an overheard gypsy curse, LAist talked to Short Eyes director and Artistic Director for Urban Theatre Movement, Julian Acosta. more ›

We talk with Evan Ziporyn of Bang on a Can All Stars about his 25 years with BoaC, Steve Reich's 75th birthday, and his experience with West Coast musicians. They're playing Disney Hall tonight. more ›

We talked with Sarah Williams of Fruit & Flour, a one-woman pie-making enterprise run from her Echo Park kitchen. (And pssst: We just might have found the secret to her delicious crust!) more ›

Updates on Bryan Stow have come in steadily since he was beaten at Dodger Stadium earlier this year, but so far we haven't heard from Stow himself. Next Monday, NBC will change that by airing the first interview with Stow himself, in which he can be heard having a brief conversation with reporter Nancy Snyderman. more ›

How does a tattered notebook crammed with doodles and poems, a prom picture, an essay written in penciled block letters, or an unsent love letter saved in a shoebox or album shape who we are today? We talk to David Nadelberg, host and creator of the new series "The Mortified Sessions" to find out. more ›

After 20+ years, the Boston Symphony finally makes its way back to Los Angeles, for a performance this Saturday night at the Disney Hall. We got to chat with Mark Volpe, the Managing Director of the BSO on the orchestra, the program, and on the LA music scene. more ›

Leeza Gibbons is co-host of "America Now," a daily newsmagazine that will inevitably be on air in Los Angeles. We had the chance to talk to Gibbons about this new show as well as her considerable career in entertainment news reporting. more ›

The LA Food Swap was launched in March 2011, and met with great success. Its founder, food writer Emily Ho, banded together with other swap organizers around the country and worked to put together an online portal for food swappers. The Food Swap Network launched Monday. more ›

News that actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death case was being reopened sent a shockwave through the newswires last night. Wood, 43, died in the waters off Catalina after a day of boating--and drinking--with her husband, actor Robert Wagner, and their friend, actor Christopher Walken. Classified as an accident, new information could change the course of Hollywood history. more ›

What happens when a popular restaurant needs a new head chef? For some, the answer is to put in a call to Carrie McCully, a chef recruiter. Considering America's fascination with the restaurant biz, it's no surprise that what McCully does has become the focal point of a new Food Network show, "Chef Hunter." more ›

Before Conrad Murray was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of music legend Michael Jackson, he sat down for an interview with the "Today" show that TV Replay says "touched on many of the fundamental details presented at the trial." more ›

During strolls along Venice's trendy Abbot Kinney Boulevard or while visiting Post No Bills, you may have noticed a giant etching of a woman's face on the exterior wall of said gallery. After months of waiting for his jet setter pace to slacken, we finally caught up with Vhils to ask him about the process, which was captured on video, and his favorite street artists. more ›

When your duo gets mentioned in the same breath as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart, you're kind of a big deal. Katia and Marielle Labèque are no strangers to Los Angeles and have performed at every major venue in L.A. in the last 25 years. more ›