Hollywood Forever Cemetery held their 9th annual Dia de Los Muertos event on Saturday. Each year it draws larger crowds and this year was no exception, with a few jarring notes of commercialization creeping in around the edges. A Johnny Ramone T-shirt stall boasting of “exclusive merchandise?” But anyway, it […] Read more
Last night saw the opening of SPLATTER at Antebellum Gallery, an exhibition of art inspired by murder. Many attendees came in costume to hear music performances by Citizen Savant, Botoxic and Kevin Delude. The exhibit is on view until Nov. 30th. A program of events will run throughout the month […] Read more
Rick Castro is telling me he sees ghosts all the time. “As far as I’m concerned, all of Hollywood is haunted or has spiritual presence. Every square mile of old Hollywood has some kind of notoriety and infamous event from years gone by. If you allow yourself to be still you can […] Read more
Because Halloween falls on a Friday, this entire week is nothing but wall to wall parties. Denizens of the City of Angels can partake of many flavors of the holiday each night of the week from mainstream celebrations to the darkest of worlds that suddenly become vogue during this one […] Read more
Since T-shirt mogul Johnny Cupcakes moved into my neighborhood, every few months I have had to deal with shoving my daughter’s stroller through a sidewalk cramped with high-fashion bad-postured skater youth in lawn chairs waiting, literally for days, for the opportunity to buy a t-shirt. What’s the big deal, right? […] Read more
If you are ready to take your Halloween decor game to the next level, it is time to gracefully lift thy hands out of the endless bowl of candy corn and walk slowly, with spooky sophistication, into Jonathan Wright and Company on Beverly Boulevard. For most of the year, Jonathan Wright is […] Read more
On Friday, February 5, 1993, the Fox TV reality show SIGHTINGS examined what may be a landmark discovery in parapsychology: convincing evidence that ghosts exist and can actually communicate with us. Two residents of an old house in the hills of Los Angeles began receiving ghostly messages in Polaroid photographs. […] Read more
I may be impugning my jocky manhood here, but I’ve always preferred burlesque shows to strip clubs. It’s partly the difference in atmosphere. As much as I like naked ladies, I don’t really like sitting next to a bunch of horny, drunk dudes. Call me crazy. But really I think […] Read more
The Los Angeles Chapter of Thrill the World will be performing the Thriller dance at Hollywood & Highland on October 25th. This is part of a worldwide movement to get as many citizens of planet earth as possible to perform the Thriller dance all at once. This will be a […] Read more
Jonathan Sharp walked into a friend’s house recently weighed down with bags of food and started unpacking them. “This is a Moroccan stew that I made last night. And I brought a cornish game hen. I thought we could have this too since I already made it.” He had been […] Read more
