Tony Pierce

Written and photographed by Joey Maloney for LAist Did you know that starfish are not really fish? In between rocking out to Ima Robot there were things to be a'learned at this month's First Friday event at the Natural History Museum. Just a bit of back story, I have heard about the First Friday events since I moved to Los Angeles just over two years ago but never made it down to the 'hood...

Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio and over 16,000 others watched Floyd Mayweather land 207 punches on East LA's own Oscar De La Hoya, earning a controversial split decision from the judges at the MGM in Las Vegas. De La Hoya and a lot of the crowd thought he wuz robbed, "I felt I won the fight," De La Hoya was quoted in the Times. "I landed the harder, crisper punches. I...

Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Emmylou Harris, The Hollow Trees, others @ Stagecoach Bright Eyes @ Disney Concert Hall Stan Ridgway (above) @ McCabe's Tony Gilkyson, Chris Laterzo & Buffalo Robe @ The Echo (5pm) To Live And Shave in L.A., This Song Is A Mess but So Am I @ Pehrspace The Tom Scott Quartet @ Catalina Bar & Grill Ego Plum & The Ebola Music Orchestra @ Safari Sam's Red Skeleton, United...

Sounds like a good time to play you Cypress Hill's "How I Could Just Kill A Man" in Spanish, aka "No Entienedes La Onda". Little known fact: The original version was the B-side of their first single, "Phuncky Feel One". Has iTunes killed the b-side? How Could i Just Kill A Side? Anyway, the quartet from South Gate, DJ Muggs, B-Real, Sen Dogg, and percussionist Eric Bobo will be lightening it up tonight in...

Dear LAist, In order to properly celebrate Cinco De Mayo, we'd like to drink real Coke. You know, the kind produced with real cane sugar and bottled in glass bottles. What mom used to serve ya. Where do you think I might be able to find a couple six packs (eight packs?) before Cinco De Mayo is over? signed, New To L.A....

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eddie Vedder, Ditty Bops (above), Woody Harrelson, others @ Henry Fonda Willie Nelson, George Strait, Lucinda Williams, many more @ Stagecoach Cypress Hill @ Vault 350 The Jerry Garcia Band @ Fais Do-Do Manic Hispanic @ Galaxy Theatre Rosanne Cash @ Disney Hall One+One (James Zabiela & Nic Fanciulli) @ Vanguard David Grier @ Boulevard Music Victor Wooten @ El Rey Suzanne Somers @ La Mirada Theater for Performance Arts...

Sea Wolf, The Bird & the Bee, The Little Ones, Dengue Fever @ The Echo MXPX @ Avalon Ima Robot @ Natural History Museum Ima Fucking Gymnast @ Pehrspace Kinky @ El Rey The Autumns, The Sugarplastic @ Spaceland Elini Mandell @ Malibu Performing Arts Center 8-Bit, Bark Bark Bark, 8-Bit Weapon @ The Scene Agnostic Front, U.S. Roughnecks, Viva Hate, Hold My Own @ Knitting Factory Mother Tongue, Maryandi, The Sixth Chamber, The...

This summer could be a bummer for LA's biggest celebrity. Paris Hilton pleaded no contest (guilty) to alcohol-related reckless driving in September and she got probation. In late February she got caught speeding down Sunset Blvd. with her lights off. It was the second time she had been stopped while driving with a suspended license. Violating such a probation as the one she agreed to was served could amount to 45 days in the...

Something miraculous happened last night at the House of Blues last night when Britney Spears made her return to an LA stage. Actually several miraculous things happened last night on the Sunset Strip that I cannot remember happening in my long history of seeing live music in LA. The first thing was, people paid hard-earned money for tickets (about $100 face value for a pair after all was said and done - more if...

We couldn't resist yesterday's noon Dodger game. It was sunny, it was pretty much a pitcher's duel, and it was sweet to hear the school kids in the left field pavilion cheering and trying to start the wave. Yes the home team won, but our little section in the field boxes behind home plate won when this Johnny Knoxville look-alike caught a foul ball and gave it to a beautiful grayhaired woman who had...