Nearly one year after I first dropped the word of a pending Westwood Village Barney’s Beanery back in December 2008, a “Coming Soon!” sign has finally been hung on the former Good Earth, former Straton’s spot (and about 150 feet from the Westwood C.P.K.). Year-long delays, along with unexplained sudden shutterings, are unsurprising when it comes to the fickle zoning and real estate winds in the Village. Let’s hope that a) Barney’s can take root and stick around for a while; and b) that the village idiots will stick to O’Hara’s and not ruin the vibe at Barney’s.

For some strange reason, I get a lot of Las Vegas related e-mail. I mean, like, a lot. Could have something to do with the fact I’m there just about monthly, but who knows. This offer that hit my in-box was too good to not pass on to all of you–Have your photo taken with the Lakers 2009 Championship Trophy, today through Sunday at The Mirage just $299.

Or, if $299 and a drive to Vegas is too steep for you, e-mail us a photo and we will Photoshop the trophy in your hands for only $199–a savings of $100 plus the cost of going to Vegas.

Full trophy time and location details if you insist on going to Vegas below.

»continue reading Take Your Photo with the Lakers Trophy in Vegas, $299; Losanjealous Photoshop Job, $199

Kansas City’s The Pitch has the latest on King Khan & BBQ Show’s full band arrest in St. Louis last night. The band has been released but apparently the tour manager is still in the clink. What all this may mean for their show at the Troubadour with Those Darlins on Tuesday (tickets still available) is not clear.

Photo by Dan from The Echo, July 2008. Great review as well over there.

HEADS UP

St Vincent w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ El Rey Tue 2/9/2010

Tickets on sale tomorrow, Saturday 11/14 @ 10 am.

WERE YOU AWARE?

St. Vincent will pass Lykke Li for #1 all-time number of devoted photo galleries of a female artist on Losanjealous when Sung covers this show in February.

St. Vincent, El Rey Theater, May 28, 2009
SXSW ‘09: St. Vincent @ Antone’s
St. Vincent, Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, April 6, 2009
St. Vincent & Death Vessel @ Echo, 8/4/07
Coachella 2008 Festival Photo Gallery: St. Vincent

Photo by Lindsey from May 2009.

As the Clippers continue to underachieve under Dunleavy, the idea to bring B. Scott home to run that team–moving Dunleavy to full time GM–does have a nice ring to it. Even though the Lake Show Life is campaigning for him to take Rambis’s former spot on Phil’s bench in hopes of him eventually sliding to head coach, I can’t–nor can Fanhouse–see him waiting for Phil to retire, going back to being an assistant or usurping what seems like Brian Shaw’s inevitable turn at the Laker reins.

Hollywood Spider-Man impersonator caught in legal web – LA Times

Spider-Man Entagled By Superheroes In Blue – LA Weekly

Officers Investigate Spidey-Senseless Act – NBC Los Angeles

Our favorite, though, is this oddly poetic entry:

Heroes turn villains on the boulevard of broken noses – Brisbane Times

Brisbane?

PHOTO: Mel Melcon, Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2009

Beloved yellow Los Angeles-founded casual dining eatery and home to no small number of contentious Losanjealous staff subcommittee meetings, the California Pizza Kitchen (NASDAQ:CPKI), is getting a revamped menu for fall:

Guests will now be able to order any of California Pizza Kitchen’s innovative pizzas on a new honey-wheat with whole grain crust and any of their twelve pastas on multigrain penne.

New items include (tasty emphasis mine):

»continue reading California Pizza Kitchen Launches New Menu Options

Massive photo gallery including the set list below.
»continue reading The Cribs, The Roxy, November 9, 2009

Nice piece on Fender in today’s Times Business section. A visit to the Corona manufacturing plant has all kinds of guitar nerd details. I do, however, wish that the writer would have probed them a bit more on the wide disparities between the Corona-made and Mexican-made models. If you want to kill some time, check out our Fender Jazzmaster archive which we have been told is one of the biggest online collection of shots of active artists using the popular guitar with the patented offset body.

Jazzmaster shot by Sung from Thom’s recent Orpheum Theater show.

The Vampire Weekend full front assault on small town California continues with no end in sight. Actually, the end is in sight: Bakersfield tonight at good ol’ Chencho’s (still tickets available!), the Lomita VFW Saturday and then off to Japan. But first, a free all-ages show in ‘Elsinore has been added tomorrow, Friday 11/13:

November 13
Alliance Skate
29355 Grand Ave.
Lake Elsinore, CA 92530
Set time 4:00pm

Rare early V.W. photo by Karen from their 2007 Echo show.

HEADS UP
Passion Pit @ Fox Theater Pomona Sat 12/12

Up-close-and-personal P.P. pic by Sung from SXSW ’09. That full set is here and some stuff of them from this year’s Treasure Island Festival here.

Late breaking afternoon news From CBS2.com:

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBS)―The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a robber who has been dubbed the “left-handed eyeglass bandit.”

The man has been linked to eight business robberies in South Los Angeles since Oct. 21.
»continue reading Losanjealous Newswire: “Left-Handed Eyeglass Bandit” At Large

LA Observed is posting news that The Huffington Post has sent around feelers to various Los Angeles area bloggers to pen LA-centric content for a new “HuffPost LA” column. Losanjealous did not make the cut. Maybe they haven’t really trolled our 4+ year archive and peeped the wide range of LA-centric classic posts, such as the Lincoln Blvd Cock Car, The Secret In-N-Out Menu, or The Busiest Taco Truck In Town or Mr. T Visits Neverland Ranch. Not to mention Bill DeMarco’s LA.

Roderick has the full text of their invite e-mail over there but here’s the generic core of it, the usual LA boilerplate:

»continue reading That’s OK–You Couldn’t Afford Us and We Weren’t Interested Anyway

MARCH MADNESS

Jay-Z @ Staples Center (Pre-sale on now) Fri 3/26

Pauley Pavillion set list below.
»continue reading Jay-Z, UCLA Pauley Pavilion, November 8, 2009