Arts & Entertainment

Female Performer of the Year winner Tori Black, accompanied by Tee Reel, at XBIZ Awards 2010 Last night, local adult publication XBIZ held their eighth annual XBIZ Awards in Hollywood. Newly relocated this year to Avalon from Boulevard 3, the celebratory industry gala presented awards in 67 categories, including Feature Movie of the Year (Adam & Eve's The 8th Day), Female Performer of the Year (Tori Black), Female Acting Performance of the Year (Kimberly...

Strawberries + booze for a good cause at the Viceroy all month. | Photo by Robbie via LAist's flickr pool. TALK Last year, Lori Gottlieb's wrote a controversial Atlantic article, "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough." Being with Mr. Alright is better than alone, she posits. In another Atlantic article, radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh concluded that marriage was overrated. The two NPR correspondents will discuss modern love and marriage...

"Dane Cook: ISolated INcident" airs commercial-free at 10pm on Comedy Central There’s a decent chance that, instead of reading this, you’re hibernating until tomorrow’s Super Bowl. And you know what? You can’t be blamed for that. Contemporary news media makes it practically impossible to focus on anything else, and that’s just the way big advertisers would like to keep it. So, you could sit in front of your TV tonight and anxiously await the...

Part of an ongoing photo series, featuring local rising stars during their soundcheck, that includes Silversun Pickups, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Movies, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Local Natives, and Avi Buffalo (Pictured - Warpaint, 4:51 PM) With advance tickets selling out two weeks ago and people lined up yesterday before noontime (and in the rain no less!) to buy the remainder, interest in last night's edition of First Fridays at the...

On Wednesday night, singer-songwriter and One Tree Hill actress Kate Voegele performed a sold-out show at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood (also on the bill that night were Josiah Leming, Terra Naomi, and Joey Degraw). Now a Los Angeles resident, Voegele noted how great her return was to the venue, not unlike Katy Perry a year ago....

It's not very often that local songstress supergroup The Living Sisters, comprised of Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark, Eleni Mandell, and The Bird and the Bee's Inara George, perform live, so it's little wonder that they drew a packed house on Tuesday night at the Bootleg Theater as part of Ferraby Lionheart's month-long residency. "Their sweet songs imbued with the cadences of doo-wop, classic country, and folk evoke a nostalgia for the pure and simple...

Tonight Wilco guitarist Nels Cline (LAist Interview) will be performing at the Mint. Georgia-bred electronic producer/musician extraordinaire Guillermo Scott Herren, otherwise known as Prefuse 73, will be headlining the Troubadour with none other than San Diego-bred DJ the Gaslamp Killer in tow. And, lastly, local indie rockers Red Cortez (LAist Review, #2, #3, #4) will be performing at the Bootleg Theater. But we strongly suggest heading over to Spaceland to catch Ann Arbor's crown jewel, a relatively diminutive post-afrobeat outfit by the name of Nomo (LAist Review, #2). LAist favorites Orgone, a proficient funk troupe that stunned us at Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle a few years back, are slated to kick things off.

Nathaniel Ayers (Photo by R.E.˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Homeless musician Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, the subject of the book and film The Soloist, has recorded his first album, and today LA Times columnist and longtime advocate of Ayers Steve Lopez tells the story of the tenuous process. Over the past couple of years Ayers would vacillate on his comfort with the project, Lopez explains, remarking "he'd back off one day,...

Life passes in a blur | Photo by okarol via LAist's flickr pool. HAITI * To Aid Partners In Health Haiti Relief, Tenacious D and friends bring together an awesome lineup of comedy and alternative rock at the Wiltern tonight to benefit Partners In Health and their Haitian earthquake relief efforts. Special guests include: Russell Brand, Aimee Mann, Maya Rudolph, Jason Segel, Ben Stiller, Tig Notaro, Frank Black, James Mercer, Bob Odenkirk and Patton...

The Adam Carolla Podcast has recently turned mobile. Last month, in Orange County, Carolla sold out multiple shows featuring his own stand-up, and chats with hilarious guests like Greg Fitzsimmons, Whitney Cummings and Aisha Tyler. The show will be on the road for the month of February... well, a few roads: The 5, The 101 and The 10. Carolla and friends will be in Orange County on Feb 3rd at the Brea Improv, and...