Fight Club is so passe; these days, even word lovers hold clandestine get-togethers for the sake of a good (literary) fight. Celebrating a year going strong, Write Club Los Angeles tonight hosts another unique showdown where brave souls put their writing chops to the test. Two writers get two... More >>

Tough-guy character actor Tom Sizemore's mind-boggling devotion to the fine art of self-destruction has long been legendary. With his new tell-all memoir, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There, Sizemore details his life as a meth-head so resolute that in 2006 alone he managed, while living in... More >>

Art is often as much a method of making connections — this leaf inspiring that poem inciting that song — as it is a linear blast of pure creativity. The Westside Connections Series was born in a rather canny observance of this effect. An initiative of the L.A. Chamber Orchestra,... More >>

As part of his aptly named Guts and Glory tour, TV personality, author and chef Anthony Bourdain — also known as that dude who eats crazy shit on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations — will share stories alongside chef-author Roy Choi, whose Kogi trucks made L.A. fall hard for both the... More >>

It’s been a hectic five years since Seattle chocolatier Autumn Martin founded Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery, a purveyor of organic American comfort desserts (a pleasant pleonasm if ever there were one). As if becoming pastry master at Seattle’s Canlis restaurant and head... More >>