We continue our series of interviews with cast members of HBO's The Wire with Andre Royo. The actor born and raised in the Bronx plays Bubbles, a junkie/entrepreneur/informant who has been a central character to the show since its beginning. Royo, who recently moved to Silverlake, took time to speak to LAist about working on what he calls, "the most intelligent show on TV." This season is about the media, what did you think......

Redd Kross, Santa Monica Pier, 1982 Redd Kross @ The Echoplex The Bronx, The Mercy Killers @ Safari Sam's The Polyphonic Spree, Rooney @ Henry Fonda Yo La Tengo @ The Ivar Dropkick Murphys @ The Wiltern Jon Brion @ Largo Mezzanine Owls, The Black Kites @ The Echo Dax Riggs @ Spaceland Ferraby Lionheart, The Hundred Days @ The Bordello Low Vs Diamond, Something For Rockets @ Viper Room The Monolators, Correatown, Frankel,......

The Pogues @ The Wiltern - Tonight ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Dethklok @ UCLA - Tonight Redd Kross @ Echoplex - Tomorrow The Polyphonic Spree, Rooney @ Henry Fonda - Tomorrow Yo La Tengo @ The Ivar - Tomorrow Low Versus Diamond @ Viper Room - Tomorrow The Bronx, The Mercy Killers @ Safari Sam's - Tomorrow Rodrigo Y Gabriela @ Henry Fonda, 11/3 Yo La Tengo......

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just......

Buzzcocks, Hot Hot Heat, The O'Jays, The Bronx, Airborne Toxic Event, She Wants Revenge, Cheb I Sabbah, Millie Jackson, Thelma Jones & Arthur Adams, Rocky Dawuni, Conjunto Jardin, The Aggrolites, The Movies, Eskimohunter, others @ Sunset Junction Street Fair Beastie Boys @ The Greek Smokey Robinson @ Cerritos Center RX Bandits, The Fall of Troy @ The Troubadour Esthero, One Trick Pony @ Roxy 311 with Matisyahu, the Wailers, Pato Banton @ Verizon Bowling......

We hate him just like you do, but Barry Bonds just tied Hank Aaron's career home run record of 755. Bonds went opposite field off a hanging curve from San Diego Padres pitcher Clay Hensley. The game in currently still on at blogtime, which is 9:10pm. If you have cable or satellite and can get ESPN2, the game is tied, 2-2 in the 6th down there at Petco Park. Bonds is still in the......

Suicidal Tendencies, Gwar, The Devil Wears Prada, Goatwhore, others @ Verizon Wireless Clay Aiken @ The Greek St. Vincent, Josh Haden, Death Vessel @ The Echo The Bronx, Qui (with the Jesus Lizard's David Yow) @ The Echo, benefit, early show (5:30pm) Billy Bob Thornton @ El Rey Theatre G. Love & Special Sauce, Ozomatli @ Pacific Amphitheatre Tift Merritt @ McCabe's Radars to the Sky, Bedroom Walls, Rademacher, Death to Anders @ Spaceland......

Marlins 6, Dodgers 5 - The Dodgers could only briefly enjoy their five run inning. After erasing a 3-0 deficit with two out in the fifth, the Blue Crew eventually turned into the Blew Crew. Takashi Saito botched just his second save of the year, and Florida scored the winning run in the top of the 10th. The Dodgers loaded 'em up in the bottom half of the frame, but couldn't get anybody home. Yankees......

Prince Paul! Brand Nubian! N.O.R.E.! Grandmaster Flash! Bushwick Bill! Just Blaze! House of Pain! Juelz Santana! Kid Rock! Insane Clown Posse! Is this disparate hip-hop collective kicking off the mother of all rap tours? Nope. They’re just some of the guests who have stopped by to skewer the contestants on the most criminally ignored reality show on television. The White Rapper Show is the brainchild of those clever gents at Ego Trip. Every Monday......

The Bronx, 400 Blows, Sirhan Sirhan @ Safari Sam's Fall Out Boy @ Grove of Anaheim Blues Traveler @ Cerritos Center The Binges, Ian Screams @ The Scene Glen Phillips @ Largo Crime in Choir, Triclops, Die Princess Die, Federation X @ The Echo Yeti @ On the Rox......

It's always fascinating when old media attacks new media, and today's example takes on yours truly, LAist. In a piece about Best Of lists on websites, the New York Times leads with this oddity: "As any media consumer knows, this is the season of the list." First of all, in this, the era of YouTube and TiVo and 54 million blogs, is there really such a thing as a "media consumer"? Isn't everyone a......

The Key Club gets top billing tonight because The Bronx headlines a benefit for Wheels for Humanity, which supplies wheelchairs. Also on the bill : Chuck Ragan (ex-Hot Water Music) with members of Flogging Molly, and some rock star karaoke. Everyone will probably be there for either the ice skating or Great Northern, but The Submarines came out with a haunting CD that we played all summer long. Go downtown and ice skate from......

The Muffs @ Safari Sam's Guster @ Wiltern Del Tha Funky Homosapien, DJ Mike Relm @ Knitting Factory Mastodon, The Bronx @ Henry Fonda Starsailor, Brothemandude @ The Troubadour Atomic, Peter DiStefano, Wet Brain @ Key Club Supersystem, Zombi, Chow Nasty @ The Echo Doobie Brothers, Grand Funk Railroad @ Fairplex Pomona Dave Mason @ The Canyon Mojave 3, Brightblack Morning Light @ Roxy Chairs of Perception @ Mr. T's Bowl Handroids, Malkovich, Opus......

Fuck Yeah Fest at the Jenson Rec Center, 1161 Logan St., Echo Park, CA, (323) 413-8200. Circle Jerks, The Bronx, 400 Blows, Future Pigeon, Burning Brides, Nudity, the Willowz, Blood Meridian, Black Fag, Horses, Horse the Band, Gayrilla Biscuits, Issiea Saggua, Bad Dudes, The Po Po’s, Sex Eyes, Modwheelmood, Gosling. $20, all ages. Agent Orange @ Safari Sam's Earth, Wind, and Fire @ Verizon Supersuckers @ Viper Room Colin Hay @ Largo Tim McGraw......

Matisyahu @ The Greek The Subways @ Troubadour The Bronx @ Roxy Herbie Hancock @ Hollywood Bowl KRS-One @ House of Blues Boz Scaggs @ Wiltern Editors @ Tower Sunset ($1.03) 8pm Rhino Bucket @ Viper Room Under the Influence of Giants @ Key Club (seriously hard to lose tonight, we recommend all of these shows) photo of Matisyahu by Marc via Buzznet......

1. Thom Yorke - Eraser 2. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations 3. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers 4. Peaches - Impeach My Bush 5. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere 6. Wolfmother - Wolfmother 7. Sufjan Stevens - Avalanche - Outtakes 8. Johnny Cash - American V: Hundred Highways 9. Cut Chemist - Audience's Listening 10. Zero 7 - Garden 11. MSTRKRFT - Looks 12. Bronx - Bronx 13. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped......

John Bennett, not the US Rep from Michigan, not the acting governor of New Jersey, but the dashing troubador formerly of San Francisco, and now of Hollywood, is releasing his "here tomorrow" under the name Johnny Bennett. A little more stripped-down acoustic flavor than his previous material, Bennett's record-release party will be tonight at 9pm downstairs at the Key Club on Sunset. If you close your eyes you might think you're at an Anthony......

Do you like to be rocked to sleep, or rocked like a hurricane? Fri 6/16 - Juana Molina / Jose Gonzalez / Psapp @ El Rey ($21) – All three of these artists performed on Morning Becomes Eclectic this week. Juana Molina’s a critically acclaimed, Argentinean singer-songwriter who recently released her third album. Her music is pretty, electro-folk and she sings in breathy, Spanish. Jose Gonzalez is a Swedish singer-songwriter. The Onion compared him......

Some people get long weekends, so this one's for you, lucky ducks. If you haven't seen Dennis Hopper's show yet at the Ace Gallery on the Miracle Mile, you're missing out. One would imagine that with all the tales of drinking, drugging, and not-so-easy riding, Hopper's art would end up more psychedelic and expressionistic. Instead what you will be met with is a smooth, calculated, controlled, mild technique that at once puts you at......

Fri 5/26 - Elefant / Voxtrot / Silversun Pickups @ the Wiltern ($20) – Elefant's new album, The Black Magic Show, is out on Hollywood Records. They've got a stylish front man with lots of swagger and they should appeal to fans of the Killers and She Wants Revenge. Silversun Pickups are getting ready to release their debut full-length, Carnavas, on Dangerbird Records on July 11th. The people who’ve heard it say it’s really......

Mon 5/15 – The Bronx / Wires on Fire / Sabertooth Tiger @ Spaceland (Free) – Mondays are still free at Spaceland. This week you can see three loud, punk-inspired bands. The Bronx portray Black Flag in the new movie about Germs’ singer, Darby Crash. You can watch the trailer for that movie HERE. The Bronx and Wires on Fire will soon be on tour with Priestess and Riverboat Gamblers (they better have their......

Laist's theater pick for this weekend is John Patrick Shanley's haunting Beggars in the House of Plenty, a production of Vs. Theatre Company. Beggars is playing through Oct. 9th at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank. Shanley won the Tony and the Pulitzer for Doubt in 2005, and it's a great time to look at his earlier works. This one, in its West Coast premiere, still holds up as a theatrical masterpiece. Shanley also......

Tonight at the Knitting Factory, the Early Day Miners are performing with Chris Brokaw at 8:30 PM. Admission is $7. At The Fold at King King, tonight features Darker My Love, Eskimohunter and The Drips (members of The Bronx). Cover is $7. AFI at ArcLight presents a special screening of the Marlon Brando classic On the Waterfront at 8 PM.......

At The Echo, see legendary Angeleno Mike Watt performing with The Secondmen on their El Mar Cura Todo Tour in support of their latests album, The Secondman's Middle Stand. Doors open at 9:00 PM and tickets are $10. [18+] Doors open at 7:00 PM for The Hives' performance at The Wiltern with The Bronx and The Deadly Snakes. Tickets are $20. At the Egyptian Theatre, celebrate the films of Russ Meyer with a double......

It must be the holiday that kicked this week off to a slow start, but LAist predicts many, many diversions to come before Sunday winds down. However, since it is only Tuesday you'll have to enjoy today's entertainment before the weekend is unleashed. AFI at ArcLight presents an installment in the 3rd annual Music Documentary Series tonight at 8:00 PM. This week's film is the rockumentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, detailing the tension-fraught......