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The Edge and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 2006 Preservation Hall Jazz Band @ The Mint (two sets 7:45 pm & 10 pm) David Lindley John Cruz, Brandi Shearer @ Santa Monica Pier (free) Kingsizemaybe, 50 Cent Haircut, The Neighborhood Bullys @ Taix Private Stash, Nobody, Edit, Gaslamp Killer, Daddy Kev @ Echoplex Slinky, Siamese Guns, The Ish & the Abbey, Pan Am, The Material @ The Roxy Facing New York, The Outline, The...

While you were being yelled at yesterday by the lifeguard not to run by the pool, Maxine Waters was celebrating the opening of the nation's first Impeachment Center (8124 West 3rd Street), a place that has suddenly grown in interest in the wake of President Bush's recent controversial move involving Scooter Libby's conviction. Waters said that this impeachment movement, "is one of the most important efforts this country has ever seen." Indeed, some say...

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For a tv show thats been around forever, and no longer relevant (some say) thanks to the likes of Adult Swim and The Family Guy, The Simpsons still got it, as evident from the raging success of the various 7/11s that were transformed into Kwik-E-Marts. According to this Fox 11 report people were buying up as much Buzz cola, Krusty-O's, and Squishees as possible. And we also hear that Kwik-E-Mart uniforms are being sold...

The Brat, Aztlan Underground, Quetzal, One Struggle @ Self Help Graphics Die Die Die, Teenage Frames @ Silverlake Lounge Whiteboy James & the Blues Express @ Harvelle's (on the Redondo Beach Pier) Bad Dudes, Flee the Century, Ima Fucking Gymnast, Love Boat, Vomit Bomb @ The Smell The Brombies @ Viva Cantina Riders in the Sky @ Hollywood Bowl...

All fireworks in LA are illegal. Any time you drive over the speed limit, that's illegal too. Any time you drink a few more beers than you should and get behind the wheel, that's illegal. And any time you lie under oath and obstruct justice when a Special Prosecutor is trying to figure out if the Vice President of the United States authorized a leak of classified information so this administration could continue to...

LA author, blogger, and photographer Luke Ford was the first person to report that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's days of being married were over. In his post on January 29 titled Antonio Villaraigosa's Marriage Kaput, Ford brought up several telling key details that turned out to be right on the money. The mayor and his wife Corina haven't been seen together in public in about ten months (since the president of Mexico, Vicente...

Bad news: Al Gore was caught speeding at 100 mph in Laguna Nigel this morning at 2:15am. Good news: It wasn't the guy who invented the Internet, Al Gore, it was his son, Al Gore III. Bad news: The cops also found that he had an ounce of weed as well as some Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall. Good news: Now the President has a perfect person to pardon because brah didn't have a...

- Black lesbian firefighter awarded $6.2 million in lawsuit - Daily News - $100 to share an apartment in Long Beach, but theres a big catch - CurbedLA - Paris Hilton is busy working on her crotch tan - TMZ - Nicole Richie is pregnant. So does that mean she's not eating for two? - Defamer - Xtina is also pregnant, sigh - Evil Beet - Some major judgment going down in regards to...

When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced last month that he was getting a divorce from his wife of 20 years, we thought it was tacky that many in the press and local blogosphere were demanding that he reveal if the breakup was due to an affair. We at LAist didn't see how that would be relevant or necessary to disclose since a divorce is an extremely sensitive personal matter whose details should be...