As mentioned yesterday, earlier this month was the 2nd Annual Christmas Sweater Festival took place at The Echoplex (MySpace). The fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting Doctors Without Borders, featured a stellar lineup of rising stars from the local indie scene, including Amnion (MySpace), Castledoor (MySpace), The Pity Party (MySpace), The Deadly Syndrome (MySpace), The Happy Hollows (MySpace), and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (MySpace). It notably attracted two of the most prominent local scenester photographers, Ellei "Shadowscene" Johndro (MySpace) and Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter. more ›

Recently LAist's favorite club-hopping tshirt designer / photographer Mark "The Cobra Snake" Hunter was jetsetting to Miami when lo and behold who does he see but your boy, Antonio Villaraigosa, the Mayor of Los Angeles. The Cobra Snake wrote me this haiku about it called "yo tony"yea i saw the mayor on my airplane. he was going to miami for a mayor conference he was really really nice. Money shot after the jump.... more ›

It's not that Cory Kennedy is an unlikely It girl, it's just that she's an unlikely California It girl, to some. Perhaps they prefer the ditzy blonde surfer girl, well LAist, and clearly everyone else cool, is down with the scrawny fun sixteen-year-old who always seems pleasantly wasted. more ›

He can't help it that he takes better pictures than everyone. He can't help it that pretty girls want to hang out with him and pose. You should be happy that he's bff with Kid Millionaire, and pimping out the white rapper Mickey Avalon. Would you rather that he was hanging out with Joel Madden? more ›

LAist dutifully got decked out last night in our latest hipster gear to check out the Subways at Cinespace. It happened to coincide with DJ Steve Aoki’s birthday party. What did this mean? Mayhem at the door until the doormen had the brilliant idea to only have one line instead of the Hollywood Three that seems to form all the time (one for the every-man, one for the kinda-special and one for whom no rules apply). It didn’t help that Cinespace had a private party until 11pm and only started letting people in at 11:30. But once the line started really moving you could hear a collective sigh of relief from the scenesters as they shuffled their way to the door. more ›

Readers of the LA Weekly may already be familiar with the party photographs taken by Mark Hunter AKA Mark The Cobrasnake. Mark seems to frequent all the spaces where the young like to frolic and documents their fun on his website thecobrasnake.com. Click through his site, you may see someone you know doing something they shouldn't... more ›