Suicide Girls Unveil ‘Hard Girls, Soft Light’ Book and LA Signing

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Since 2001, Suicide Girls has built a massive online community and small media empire by championing girls outside of the mainstream and showing them off to the world in skimpy outfits or often wearing nothing at all.The LA-based company’s latest release, Hard Girls, Soft Light packages images from the site into a NSFW coffee-table friendly format with girls from all over the world presented as you might see them naturally at home.

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Photo Highlights From SXSW

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If LA seemed a bit quieter last week, it’s because most bands, publicist, label reps, marketers and just about everyone else involved with the music industry was populating Austin’s bars and venues for SXSW. LosAngeles.com editor Matt Crawford was there to catch emerging bands and festival highlights, which included a surprise performance from Prince (sorry,…

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Wurstküche Brings Beer and Sausages to DTLA

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In an industrial expanse of Downtown Los Angeles, a couple of blocks from the massive American Apparel factory, lies the Los Angeles Arts District, home of popular restaurant and beer house, Wurstküche. It’s a lively area filled with street art and edgy restaurants, new-age healing centers and budding art galleries. Yet, only six years ago, the LAAD neighborhood was just another blotch of indistinguishable urbanity.

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