On Wednesday, local band (and Cobrasnake favorites) The Like (MySpace) reemerged from nearly a year-long hiatus and performed at Club 86 in Hollywood, with a half hour set consisting entirely of newer songs (with the exception of "Release Me"). In attendance were the bandmembers' families (Tony Berg, Mitchell Froom, and Pete Thomas) and friends, which combined with the choice of venue, made this show feel like an intimate "living room" performance. Afterwards, Thomas and......

Los Touristas de Whittier, Winners of the Stay Puft League's Season Finals I’ve always been a worker-outer. But lately, as I’ve spent more and more time on the cardio machines at 24 Hour Fitness, I can’t shake feeling that I’m just a hamster on a wheel in a vicious human experiment. To combat my paranoia and possibly find a mentally healthier hobby, I’ve decided to scope out what else L.A. has to offer in......

Wait, the Cobra Snake and Corey were bf/gf? We thought she was his intern and then became famous and then started dating Vincent Gallo? But you're telling me that there was more than a normal twinkle in her devious smirk? We're so confused. And apparently not as down with the Dim Mak-Cobra Snake-LAX scene as we thought we were. Which, strangely gives us street cred, we think. Regardless, we think Mark is the best......

Last Wednesday’s show at the Billy Shire Gallery in Culver City had all the elements needed for a typical Los Angeles VIP event – work by a world renowned artist (Tim Biskup), a celebrity host (JJ Abrams), sponsorship from two hip brands (Vanity Fair and Helio), and a roster of guests most people only read about in the usual arts & culture magazines (Matt Groening, Mark Ryden, Adele Mildred, and Shepard Fairey, among others). The......

+ Rumors of the new Beastie Boys cd being all-instrumental are starting to come beautifully correct - Stereogum + Hey, our favorite Wilshire Blvd. Mason Hall is up for sale - Curbed LA + They put an Effiel Tower in Japan? - The Cobra Snake + Earthlink's plans to make for a wi-fi Anaheim are being foiled by the thickness of the walls in Starbucks; only 72% reliability in the 20 spots that should......

- Bring popcorn: The MacArthur Park Task Force's first meeting is Monday at 6pm at Charles White Elementary School, 2401 Wilshire Blvd. - NBC4 - Was the Griffith Park Fire a pro-development conspiracy? - blogging.la - George Michael to star in an upcoming sitcom called "Ellie Stone" - Entertainment Wise - UCLA has done the right thing with 5,700 old pictures of Los Angeles - they're letting everyone use them - LA Observed -......

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.......

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. When Hef talks about Girls Next Door, Cory is the type that we'd like to have. As seen on TheCobraSnake.com, Cory is clearly always up for......

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? One of his interns became an overnight sensation, his tshirts are collectors items, and his website continues to knock......

Personally we don't get the hate for Mark "The Cobra Snake". Sure he gets to hang out with hot young chicks and take their pictures and go to hipster clubs and take pictures, and go to fun concerts and take pictures and get paid mo money mo money, but hi, that's his job. He's a photographer, and judging from most of the pics that we see on the Interwebs, he should be getting paid.......

As you probably know, LAist is a huge fan of Mark The Cobra Snake. And ginormous fans of Shepard Fairey. But we're super freaky fans of public transportation, in fact LAist's editor's personal blog is called the busblog (busblog.com). So when we heard that The Secret Machines were going to play at Union Station, with guest DJ Shepard Fairey, with a special display featuring the work of The Cobra Snake we nearly kicked over......

There are many great photographers in Los Angeles. LAist isn't afraid to pick favorites, and our two favorite photographers right now are The Cobra Snake and Malingering. We enjoy both of these artists because they celebrate LA fashion in a unique and sometimes hilarious way. The Cobra Snake uses fancy cameras and glamourous locations, whereas Malingering uses inexpensive equipment and photographs in very mundane places like Venice Beach and Third Street Promenade. While Cobra......

-- A prank caller gets on Wolf Blitzer's CNN air and when the caller delivers the punchline, Wolf Blitzer suddenly becomes the least cool person on earth and instant old man when he declares "All right. Well, that sounds like we've just been Howard Sterned, as they say." - NY Post -- There are so few people who want to drive MTA busses for up to $20 an hour that the Mayor is proposing......

You gotta give it up to Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. Fucker doesn't sing, he doesn't play lead guitar, he isn't even the cutest guy in the band, but somehow he has become the emo Puff Daddy. Bro's got a hot clothing line (Clandestine), he's pimping out up'n'coming artists and making them hit machines (yes that would be you Panic! at the Disco), he's on five-story-tall Gap ads, and now he's got a record......

They're dreamy they're psychedelic and they're heavy. They're Darker My Love and they've been holding court at Spaceland these Monday nights, for free, for your collective asses. Here's what we wish. You know how they have all these festivals and everything has a theme? You don't even need a festival for this, but we'd love to see one with Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Black Crowes, Wolfmother and Darker My Love, because this band just......

He has a name, but we shouldn’t really utter it. The Cobrasnake will do. It might be two words. It might be one. We're being told it's Three. The "The" is deserved. To us it’s THECOBRASNAKE with those Spanish upside down exclamation marks in front of it. The Cobrasnake is half myth, half rumor, and half genius. Legend has it that he’s a prodigy and built a camera obscura with his legos while in......

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......

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... This week, Mark brings his unique perspective to the LAist Interview: Age and Occupation: Under 21 and a photographer......