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There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the circus—animal cruelty, questionable labor practices, two-plus hours of Robert Pattinson making the super-derpy Robert Pattinson face—but there's no denying that a well-executed circus delivers a mixture of laughs and thrills like few other institutions. That's why we're choosing to take the DJ Bizzy/Filip Milenkovic-led party crew Clove Circus at their name and assume their goal is to make the L.A. nightlife scene feel more like an actual circus than ever. If you need proof, these photos from their throwdown at Lexington Social House last weekend should pretty much settle it.

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"We didn't think it would happen to us." What started as just another sleepy Sunday evening in Santa Monica turned Euro-perilous when Swedish house sensation Avicii unst-unst-unsted his way into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for his third and final show of the weekend. Avicii, AKA 23-year-old Tim Bergling, crossed over from EDM super-stardom into the mainstream with "Le7els" (some of you know may know it as the sample from that Flo Rida song). MORE>>

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"We didn't think it would happen to us." What started as just another sleepy Sunday evening in Santa Monica turned Euro-perilous when Swedish house sensation Avicii unst-unst-unsted his way into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for his third and final show of the weekend. Avicii, AKA 23-year-old Tim Bergling,  crossed over from EDM super-stardom into the mainstream with "Le7els" (some of you know may know it as the sample from that Flo Rida song). More»

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Like any destination Hollywood nightspot, the crowd at Lure can differ dramatically depending on a variety of circumstances, and that in turn can seriously affect your experience as a party goer. You certainly wouldn't want to invest your time, money and effort into a hardcore night out only to find that it was Amateur Night and the club was completely inhabited by Tapout-wearing bros from the Inland Empire Rohyphnoling every drink in sight, would you? That's why your best play is to show up on Thursday, best known to the all-local crowd as "LUREsday." Last night's go-around featured tunes from Italian DJ Alex Gaudino, and as we could tell in our time there, the locals were ready to throw down. More»

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You probably don't need us to tell you that the world of Hollywood's most exclusive clubs has very little to do with the regular, everyday, "real" world. But then again, the advent of Bootsy Bellows, the burlesque cabaret-themed club in the old Trousdale space from the one and only David Arquette, may be even more joyously detached from reality than most. How can we possibly explain the booze-soaked, marionette-twirling, bawdy-dancing insanity that passes for normal behind these walls? Well, let's point out some of the elements most removed from what anyone might call "polite society." More»

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I don't want to oversell it or anything, but it's been really freaking hot lately. Like, "sorry I was late, my car seats melted" hot. Like, "Jessica Simpson can drop some of that baby weight by just sitting in the sun all day" hot. Hot enough, in fact, that just going to a pool party might not be enough on its own to cool you off. Don't despair, though: Angelenos are innovative, and our friends shown here at the Roosevelt came up with some new, creative ways to lower body temperature. We'll explain. More»

Look, we're not exactly new to the weirdness that lurks on the edges of the nightlife scene. In fact, we vastly prefer bizarre costumes, gothy facepaint, and the occasional exposed buttcheek to the screen-printed button-downs and Axe body spray crowds that haunt the Hollywood clubs on Amateur Night. Nevertheless, we are obligated to point out when a certain party's aesthetic has gone beyond the goofy and into the downright stupefying. We're not saying we don't like the costumes that our pals at The Cobrasnake photographed at Love Bailey's Showbiz Ball, the eclectic creative director's celebration in honor of Schön! Magazine's new issue. If you want things to make any sense beyond this point, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place. More»

In 1992 or so, if Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris had all shown up to the same party, it might have created a mass pandemonium more dangerous than anything they'd ever done on film. In 2002 or so, at least the three of them that weren't governing the eighth largest economy in the world could have probably bought a gym bag full of cattle steroids on the corner of Sunset & Vine without too many people caring. But it's 2012 now, and when these aging legends stepped out together last night for the premiere of their new mega-actioner The Expendables 2 at Grauman's Chinese and afterparty at Drai's, I'd say it was a pretty big deal. And it didn't hurt that last week's Olympic hero Ryan Lochte was along for the ride, either. More»

In 1992 or so, if Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris had all shown up to the same party, it might have created a mass pandemonium more dangerous than anything they'd ever done on film. But it's 2012 now, and when these aging legends stepped out together last night for the premiere of their new mega-actioner The Expendables 2 at Grauman's Chinese and afterparty at Drai's, I'd say it was a pretty big deal. And it didn't hurt that last week's Olympic hero Ryan Lochte was along for the ride, either.MORE>>

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Were you one of those kids that loved to mix things together? I was. Why eat Cap'n Crunch straight up when you can mix in 10 other sugar bomb cereals to create a pre-diabetic nightmare blend? Why listen to an entire album of just one band when you can make a giant mixtape with all your favorites? Maybe that's what I like so much about Lucha VaVOOM, the Mexican wrestling/comedy/burlesque hybrid show that celebrated its 10th anniversary last week at the Mayan. With their signature blend of "sexo y violencia" on full display, with color commentary from world-class comedians, Lucha VaVOOM has spent the past decade giving my childhood self an entertainment mixture beyond compare. More»