If you're having one of those perfect, optimistic days that restores your faith in humanity, you might want to skip reading this. Or don't, because after the news broke late last night that the L.A. Beerathon has been shut down by the Grinches at the California Alcoholic Beverage Control, I just don't know what to believe in anymore. More»

It's a constant source of amazement to me how my love of booze can completely alter my perception of a given activity. For example, if you were to say to me, "Hey Alex, want to join a giant group of people who dress up like Santa and walk around?", I might suspect that you were trying to trick me into attending a Michele Bachmann campaign rally or something. However, if you were to pitch me the exact same event, but then add, "Oh, and we'll be drinking heavily throughout," I'd already be shopping for a Santa hat. More»

The protest that began on Saturday known as Occupy LA in solidarity with NYC's Occupy Wall Street as a demonstration against "corpratocracy" has entered day three this morning as protesters woke up from their camps on the sidewalks in front of City Hall downtown. More»

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The Summer of The Pop-Up continues! The Cookery NYC, a traveling dinner series by former Top Chef contestant Camille Becerra and Lelaine Lau, debuted its peek-a-boo pop-up dinner series, Summer Feasts, last night at an artist's loft in Chelsea. More»

Remember that wedding a month or two ago with all the funny hats? Well as it turns out, it wasn't an elaborate piece of sketch comedy from the country that brought us the hilarity of Monty Python, Ricky Gervais, and taxation without representation. Nope, Prince William and Kate Middleton are real people, and they're about to prove it to us by setting foot in our beautiful state of California from July 8-10. Of course, we've heard the vague rumblings of this for a while, and we even made a few suggestions on how they could spend their Royal Trip, but now they've officially released the details of their travel plans. And while we don't (REPEAT, DO NOT) condone stalking the Royal Couple, let's take a look at their Cali trip itinerary and see how it stacks up. More»

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Now that June gloom is finally behind us (hope I didn't jinx it!), it's starting to feel like a true L.A. summer, the best time for evening rooftop parties like last night's Bunker Hill Magazine fete. Hosted by this month's cover boy, Steve Aoki, the bash celebrated the release of the Downtown L.A. publication's July issue atop the Los Angeles Athletic Club. More»

Last week, L.A. was riddled with mass displays of public nudity, first with UCLA's Undie Run on Wednesday, and then the L.A. celebration of World Naked Bike Ride on Saturday. That's right-- a massive bike parade of naked cyclists.  More»