2012 Summer Olympics

Dances With Films and a London Olympics Doc: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 24 Paul McCartney and Wings went on their Wings Over the World tour from 1975-76, conquering three continents and marking McCartney's first concert appearance since the breakup of The Beatles. The concert film of the same name premiered in 198 ... More >>

Mapping L.A., Using the World's Most Sophisticated Volkswagen Jetta

Parked at the Grove's Farmers Market is a Volkswagen Jetta that costs more than a Lamborghini -- $250,000, to be exact. The Volkswagen is one of only two such cars in Los Angeles at the moment, and one of only 50 in the world. It looks fairly normal except for the pile of high-tech equipment mounted ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, January 21 Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter THE SATELLITE Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-s ... More >>

Music Picks: FIDLAR, Muse and Lady Gaga

Seven L.A. Comics Report From the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a festival unlike any other. The 65-year-old whirlwind event lasts the entire month of August and is essentially a free-for-all: interested performers merely have to book their own venue, travel, and accommodation, then show up, self-promote like mad, and pray you ge ... More >>

Advanced Style: The California Women Designers Behind Barbie, Bikinis and the '84 Olympics

Among a healthy-sized group of reporters, photographers, and other members of the press, five fashionable female artists turned up for the media preview of "California's Designing Women, 1896-1986" at the Autry National Center last Wednesday. Even though everyone had name tags, the lady designers di ... More >>

Los Angeles Took Home 4 Times More Olympic Medals Than Any Other U.S. City

Enough with the America pride. After the closing ceremony for the London Olympics last night, in which the winning U.S. flag was carried by USC shooting victim and Olympic medalist Bryshon Nellum, we've got an intense case of L.A. pride. Los Angeles was, indisputably, the ultimate-grand-supreme win ... More >>

Leni Riefensthal's Olympia

Food News Roundup: Olympic Specials At L.A. Restaurants, Verve Coffee Roaster's Opening, Cantaloupe Pasta Salad

Zester Daily: A look into Electrolux Cube, one of London's most exclusive restaurants celebrating the Olympics. In Erika's Kitchen: The mushroom-y menu for Erika Kerekes' Trufflepalooza 2012. Food 52: The writers' group column on their favorite summer vegetables and why. L.A. Eater: An announce ... More >>

Top 5 U.K. Beers That Should be Served at the Olympics Instead of Heineken Happy International IPA Day

The summer Olympics are well underway and with the Games, the inevitable media spotlight on the host country's culture. Between the star-studded opening ceremonies and the unprecedented Cultural Olympiad, Great Britain has done its best to take advantage of the attention the Olympics brings. Except, ... More >>

Radar L.A. Returns Next Year, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September, 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Garay, Executive Director of L.A. city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and Diane Rodriguez, Director of ... More >>

Olympic Drinking: Beer, Gin Whisky

By now you're fully ensconced in the full-on drama of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, a global event featuring feats of human skill so thrilling that you're likely to have to endure a few marathon sessions yourself -- in front of the telly, that is, unspooling TiVo recordings hour after hour, devotin ... More >>

Where to Eat for the 2012 Olympics: British Pub Edition

We'll be the first to admit that, during the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, we weren't visiting our favorite dumpling house in the SGV and asking the hostess to turn on some synchronized swimming -- but this is London 2012, a culture that, for Americans at least, lends itself more comfortably to hanging ... More >>

Eats at the London 2012 Olympics

LONDON -- Game on for eating well during the Olympics, which begins today, July 27, and run through August 12. Already one of the best dining cities in the world, London has been spiffed mightily up for the Olympic games. Billions have been spent on new athletic venues; streets have been reconfigur ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Artist Dominic Wilcox's Jaffa Cake Art: The Union Jack, Nessie Others

When McVitie's, manufacturer of the immensely popular British snack called Jaffa Cakes, asked artist Dominic Wilcox to creatively use the snacks to celebrate the upcoming London Summer Olympics, he took a little inspiration from his friends. Or, more specifically, how his friends eat their Jaffa Cak ... More >>

Everything All at Once

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Battling Buddhas to a Dinner Party at MOCA

If you have family in town for the holiday this weekend, try dashing over to Patrick Painter gallery in Santa Monica to a film of battling Buddhas or to Chinatown's The Company for an overly enthusiastic paintings show. You don't have to know art to enjoy, either. 5. A New Album Release, 40 Years ... More >>

Gears of War 3: We Played It

​What do you do when you come into possession of a copy of Gears of War 3 and your taste in games is decidedly more Super Mario Brothers? You find someone with an Xbox 360 who is down to play and can, hopefully, show you the ropes. I'm not a gamer. I like what I played as a child-- arcade sta ... More >>

Sega Unleashes Sonic Generations Demo Today for Sonic the Hedgehog's 20th Anniversary

Sega​ Read more in "Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog Turns 20, Joins Nintendo's Mario for London 2012 Olympics Video Game." June 23 marks the 20th anniversary of Sega's beloved mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. Beginning today, gamers can download demos of Sonic Generations, the anniversary game, via Xbox ... More >>

Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog Turns 20, Joins Nintendo's Mario for London 2012 Olympics Video Game

Shannon CottrellSonic the Hedgehog's 20th anniversary party​Check out our E3 2011 category for more coverage from the show. See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshows, "E3 2011: Day One" and "E3 2011: Day Two." Inside the E3 booth for Sonic Generations, the 20th anniversary Sonic the He ... More >>

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