Alexandria Hotel

Their Eyes Saw Rain

10 Haunted (Maybe) Los Angeles Restaurants and Bars for Celebrating Halloween

Masked monsters -- or actors -- may be screaming and grunting for our attention at theme park-style events around town this Halloween, but there are plenty of places in Los Angeles for a trip into the city's past. Back in the days when "trunk murders" caught the public imagination and it was easy t ... More >>

Los Angeles Chefs Discuss Downtown L.A. at ALOUD

"We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go downtown ... everything's waiting for you!" When Petula Clark sang this line in 1964 -- albeit about New York -- who could have known she was she forecasting the future of downtown Los Angeles as a culinary destination? Numerous chefs have ... More >>

Occupy L.A. vs. LAPD at Downtown Art Walk: Four Officers Injured, 17 Protesters Arrested

Occupy L.A.'s plan last night was to use the popular Downtown L.A. Art Walk as a stage for their own "Chalk Walk" -- the most high-profile demonstration so far in their ongoing crusade to prove chalking is a Constitutional right. Although much chalking was accomplished (messages ranged from "arrest ... More >>

Skinheads United: All Over L.A., Nonracist, Primarily Latino Skinheads Obsess on Classic Reggae and Soul

The First 15 Minutes After the Big One

Who dies in Los Angeles, and why, when the earth quakes on the San Andreas Fault?

The Gorbals: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

blu

Night Moves and Movies: Outfest's Platinum Party

Lina LecaroChloe and Nao at Night Moves. ​Outfest concluded in a suitably outlandish way this weekend: with a sweaty, crafty and homo-sexy happening called Night Moves at the Alexandria Hotel downtown, courtesy of Platinum, the performance-based offshoot series created 10 years ago by art pion ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Drop The Lime, Mark Farina, Outfest, Suicide Girls

DROP THE LIME photo from topbillinmusic.comAnother worry this weekend: Will DJs get stuck in traffic going to gigs? ​It's unavoidable: This weekend marks the loudly and terrifyingly touted CARMAGEDDON in Los Angeles. The 405 freeway will be shut down, and chaos will ensue on surrounding freewa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Somewhere, Over the Radar

COMPLETE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE : A Case for Small Theater​The Groundings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show has a one-night only tenth anniversary performance (Wed., June 22, 8 p.m.) featuring (pending cast availability) Kristen Wiig, Kevin Nealon, Maya Rudolph, Michael Sheen, Will ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Chinese Coffee, Daddy, Love, Sex and the IRS

Also, Fatigued, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Greedy and more

THEATER REVIEWS: A CHICAGO CHRISTMAS CAROL, EXIT 10, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, OUR BEDS ARE CROWDED

Also, The Stories of Cesar Chavez, Traveling Carnival Freakshow, West Side Story and more

Tonight: Odd Future, Faith No More, Eve 6, Train, John McLaughlin, the Grouch

Brook Bobbins via Village VoiceOdd Future with Mos Def in NYC earlier this month​The headline earlier this month in the New York Times read: "Young, Gifted and Outrageous: Can Odd Future Survive Popularity?" Which is a fair question. The outrageous L.A. hip-hip crew whose unabbreviated monik ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: Maulings and Mohawks at the Movies

DANCE CLUB PICK: WIG OUT WIG ON

Nightranger: Music & Passion Were Always the Fashion

Theater Reviews: Chico's Angels: Chicas in Chains, Hello, Merrily We Roll Along

Also, Valentino Valentina, Sultan's Battery and more

Stage Raw: Hello

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on Polish punk and Glendale's classicistsNEW REVIEW GO HELLO ​ Photo by Mark Bennington You may not find logic in this quirky tale about love, marriage and the enigma of sexual attraction but you'll recognize a lot of human truth. ... More >>

Nightranger: Star Bright

Live in L.A.: LCD Soundsystem, 50 Cent, Peanut Butter Wolf, Isis, The xx, Local Natives

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem​Hope you don't feel slighted, Los Angeles. Two weekends ago on That Other Coast, LCD Soundsystem brought the house -- or, rather, Terminal 5 -- down with an eye-popping, ear-decimating, 2 1/2-hour show that wound up with "New York I Love You" and a cover of Alic ... More >>

Our Favorite Happy Hours

50 deal-driven places to get you and your wallet feeling a whole lot better

Stage Raw: TCG Conference Coming to L.A. in 2011

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE COVER STORY ON "WHY THEATER MATTERS" STAGE COVER PROFILES ON A SAMPLING OF OUR EDGIEST THEATERS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS coming March 29! Nominees RSVP now to (310) 574-7208. Public tickets available at http://laweekly.comTHEATER COMMU ... More >>

Hog Heaven at The Gorbals

It is hard to overestimate the appeal of a good hog in this town, the charismatic pull of a whole roasted animal with crisp skin and heat-singed ears, an apple jammed gaily between its teeth. During Thursday's Downtown Art Walk, a celebration of galleries and the taverns that surround them, the big ... More >>

The Gorbals Celebrates Downtown Art Walk With Another Suckling Pig Scottish Bagpipes

Ilan Hall likes pigs. So much so that he roasted a whole pig outside his downtown restaurant The Gorbals before it even opened. Tomorrow night, Hall will do it again, roasting a whole pig on a spit outside the Alexandria Hotel where the restaurant makes its home during Downtown Art Walk. Instead of ... More >>

The Gorbals: Stomp, the Restaurant

A Jewish-Glaswegian inspiration in downtown L.A.

As Pub Food Goes ... the Gorbals

... If it’s open

Q & A With Ilan Hall, Part 2: The Gorbals' Chef on Eating Bugs, Topless Servers (Not His) Why He Loves Animal

In which we continue our interview with The Gorbals' chef-owner Ilan Hall (part 1 was yesterday). Hall spends a lot of time in motion, navigating his open kitchen and the slightly cavernous space around the downtown restaurant, which is in the Alexandria Hotel, circa 1906. The Gorbals often seems in ... More >>

DRAG-HAGGING WITH THE BEST OF 'EM

Going beyond drag with Tranimals Squeaky and Fade-dra and shutterbug Austin Young

Stage Raw: All Cake, No File

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83ALL CAKE, NO FILE ​Photo by Jonathan KalanDonna Jo Thorndale's Johnny Cash tribute with live cooking, All Cake, No File, continues this weekend as part of the WTF? Festival at the Actors' Gang/Ivy Substation in ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leonard Nimoy Treks into Local Theater History

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe latest NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonLEONARD NIMOY TREKS INTO LOCAL THEATER HISTORY​Leonard Nimoy (right) in a 1953 production of Sholom Aleichem's It's Hard to Be ... More >>

Wo Können Wir Essen

Sprechen Sie hipster?

THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

BIG BRO/Lil Bro

Artist Dash Snow, Remembered

The Sculptor, Graffiti Writer and Photographer's Work Was More Than Just Art

Remembering Dash Snow, 1981-2009

By Daniel Hernandez Peres Projects, Berlin Los AngelesDetail from untitled collage, 2006The artist Dash Snow promised me an interview, over and over. Every time I ran into him during his 2007 stay in L.A., he'd say, "We still gotta talk, man." The last time he said so was at the after-party to ... More >>

Stage Raw: Groundlings Enchanted Forest

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Elephant Man at Andak Stage CompanyGROUNDLINGS ENCHANTED FOREST Groundlings Enchanted Forest is one of 11 plays being reviewed this week. Photo courtesy of The G ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Bronzeville, Dead, Therefore I Am, The Seafarer

Also, The Last Hippie: A Western Novel, Doomsday Kiss and more

Stage Raw: The Seafarer

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's I ... More >>

Today in Photographs: April 17, 1988

Crack addicts gather outside downtown's Alexandria Hotel, once the home away from home of presidents and movie stars.Photo: LA Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

Theater Reviews: Bohemian Cowboy, Tartuffe, Black Women — State of the Union

Also, American Guilt, The Taming of the Shrew and more

Alexandria Hotel Tenants to Get Payments

It looks as though the combative former tenants of the 463-room Alexandria Hotel will be compensated for their displacement. An undisclosed settlement has been announced, about a year and a half after the legal war began. When the San Diego-based Amerland Group bought the century-old building on Spr ... More >>

Lost

Theater Reviews: Woyzeck, Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got the Will

Also, Kidnapped by Craigslist, and more

Garrett Morris

Mr. Saturday Night

City Hall's E-Mail War on the Poor

Is DOJ probing the Alexandria? Or is it a ruse by the powerful to slime the powerless?

Los Angeles City Hall as Slumlord

Council members Perry and Cardenas pressured the CRA to hand Ruben Islas public money. But a federal judge called it like it was.

Surfing Sephardic

What to do in Los Angeles this week