Atwater Village

Tim Heidecker: L.A.'s Driest Wit

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. When Tim Heidecker says his wife is in school studying "criminalistics" to be a "private investigator, in law enforcement," it's hard to know whether to believe him. After all, ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>

Who is Mystery Man John Choi?

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Rock Star Fashions, Without the Douchiness

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Almost everyone has once wanted to dress like a rock star, but most people realize how absurd they look in leather pants and sequins. Wisely, then, Holly ... More >>

Old San Juan Opens Tonight in Atwater Village

The owners of Old San Juan, a new Puerto Rican restaurant in Atwater Village that opens its doors tonight, want you to put on your Salsa dancing shoes. Ramon L. Galindo and Puerto Rican-born executive chef Luis Castro hosted a special preview opening last week, although it was more like a fiesta. Th ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Renegade Delivery Man

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament This week, there's a symposium on what it's like to live at a time when real life is like sci-fi, a portrait of Jayne Mansfield's car on view and a cutout UPS ... More >>

Cognoscenti Coffee Opens Today in Culver City

After starting his Cognoscenti Coffee as a pop-up coffee cart in Burbank and Eagle Rock, then setting up shop inside Proof Bakery in Atwater Village, Yeekai Lim now has expanded into a room of his very own. Four hundred square feet of room, to be exact: Cognoscenti Coffee's new shop in Culver City ... More >>

Thank You For Coming: Now Open in Atwater Village

Back in June, when Atwater Village's Thank You For Coming was announced -- billed as L.A.'s first collaborative restaurant -- few people knew exactly what the "restaurant residency program" would resemble. It certainly was a concept not easily described on a press release. But with TYFC's first art ... More >>

Where the Chefs Eat: The Hungry Cat's David Lentz

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, David Lentz, chef and owner of The Hungry Cat, tells us his favorite spot to eat these days. Like many chefs we speak to for this series, David Lentz is pressed for time. ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

What's in the Chef's Market Cart: String Beans from Tamai Farm

What's in your cart, chef? This week, we ask Mark Hopkins, sous chef at Canelé in Atwater Village. We found him carefully packing his truck with what looked like too many crates of colorful late summer produce. "This week, I'm most excited about the green beans from Gloria [Tamai]," Hopkins told ... More >>

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Year of the Rabbit

The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magon, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Hosted by Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez, Loyola Marymount University, KCET Community Television and VARIEDADES present The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón at the Ford Amphitheatre September 28, 2012, 8 p.m., 2580 Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. The show features Quetzal, augmented by members of ... More >>

The Chef's Library: Corina Weibel Patricia Wells' Bistro Cooking

The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we talk to Corina Weibel, chef and owner at Canele in Atwater Village. "For all around cooking, I still really love my Bistro Cooking by Patricia Wells" Weibel says. "It was one of t ... More >>

Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain and Beautiful Lighting Can't Save The Exorcist, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatre, Artworks, Theatre Asylum and Lab. For shows you may have missed in June, see the complete schedule following New Theater Reviews aft ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: The Many Colors of Rhubarb

Rhubarb doesn't do well in L.A. gardens. The sleeping rhizomes that sit dormant underground in winter need many chilly days and nights in order to even think about poking above ground in spring. Freezing, chilly weather doesn't help either, as they are barely frost tolerant. Their ideal situation ... More >>

Val Kilmer's Citizen Twain and Matthew McCray's Eternal Thou

The Pub at Golden Road Brewery: Liquid Gold

When the Union Pacific blows past the Pub at Golden Road Brewing, screaming its horn and rattling the building, the new customers look up, startled, midsip: Maybe Megatron has assembled himself out of all the propane and machinery in the neighboring industrial yards. The regulars, meanwhile, simply ... More >>

Golden Road Brewing Introduces Craft Beer Cans to L.A. County

Local canned craft beer will hit L.A.'s supermarket shelves for the first time later this week, and we have Tony Yanow and Meg Gill to thank for it. Gill, the president and co-founder of Golden Road Brewing in Atwater Village, knows a thing or two about canned beer. In 2007, after graduating from ... More >>

Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 2011

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Michael Ruhlman, ColLAboration, Irregular Wine Tasting, Tonga Hut Reopening, Pig & Pints

Guzzle & NoshA pint of beer and a pig's head.​[UPDATE, 12.02.11, 4:56 p.m.: This weekend's ColLaboration Winterfest Beer Garden has been postponed due to the Windpocalypse.] In addition to the Master Food Preserver fundraiser happening on Sunday afternoon at Homegirl Cafe, there are plenty of ... More >>

Oldfield's Liquor Room: Chocolate & Cheese

Guzzle & NoshTwo cocktails from Oldfield's Liquor Room: The Oakshade (left) and Dauntless (right).​After a radical overhaul, the bar formerly known as Saints and Sinners reopened last month as Oldfield's Liquor Room. Same owners, very different atmosphere. It now feels less like a1990s-esque p ... More >>

Top 5 Halloween Treats for the Kid-At-Heart

​No matter how you slice it, Halloween brings out the sweet tooth in all of us. Sure, you can raid your kid's bag for something sweet, or grab that family-size bag of Kit Kats at Target (you feel the pull, whether you're giving out candy or not), plenty of local restaurants, bakeries and confe ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: LA Food & Wine, Taste of Mercado La Paloma, Beer Float Showdown, Sunset Beer Company, Golden Road Brewing, LQ's Cheese Cart Pop-Up

LA Food & Wine This four-day extravaganza features dozens of events including special lunches and dinners cooked by top chefs from around the country. Sang Yoon of Lukshon hosts Chris Cosentino of Incanto (San Francisco), Tom Colicchio throws a clambake, Michel Richard will discuss his book Happy ... More >>

Meg Gill's Top 5 L.A.-area Beers

Tyler KempMeg Gill skates into L.A.'s craft beer scene​ Last week, we shared a list of six essential West Coast beers hand-picked by Greg Koch, the CEO and Co-Founder of Southern California's largest craft brewery: Stone Brewing Company in Escondido. This week, we've done something similar wit ... More >>

Gallery Girls, Dr. Sketchy and L.A.'s Sexy Underground Drawing Clubs

Bryan Stow Assault Suspects Arrested: Bald Man With Neck Tattoos, Possible Female Getaway Driver in LAPD Custody, Reports Say

LAPDAn assault suspect arrested in East Hollywood today is reportedly one of these two. Witnesses say he was bald, possibly making him the one on the left.​Update: 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez is under arrest for the beating. According to KTLA, "he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon, ... More >>

Igloo Tornado: Fan Friction

Stage Raw: Juno and the Paycock

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on God of Carnage and The Merchant of Venice​Photo by Ron Sossi Writes Paul Birchall of Sean O'Casey's play at the Odyssey, "This staging of O'Casey's play artfully mixes blarney and despair in almost equal measure." Mayank Keshaviah e ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Cognoscenti Coffee's Cortado

LA Weekly Flickr pool/munchaboutCognoscenti Coffee​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer munchabout, who took the shot, of a barista making a cortado at Cognoscenti Coffee in Atwater Village, on a Canon EOS 40D. Of which particular drink, read more here. And, of cour ... More >>

Viet Noodle Bar Update: They're Just Rearranging the Furniture

A. Scattergoodspring cleaning at Viet Noodle Bar​ Despite some recent reports to the contrary, Viet Noodle Bar in Atwater Village remains open for business. Do they sometimes not answer their phone? Yes. Have their hours been a bit erratic recently? Yes. This is not because they have shuttered ... More >>

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Crack Whore Galore - Live!

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Prophets and profits

Drink This Now: Cognoscenti Coffee's On-the-Menu Cortado

T. NguyenCognoscenti Coffee's cortado, with a palmier from Proof Bakery​ Cognoscenti Coffee at Proof Bakery in Atwater Village calls a spade a spade. That is, the coffee station inside the bakery, run by Yeekai Lim, lists a generally off-menu item -- the cortado -- as a cortado. To really a ... More >>

Somewhere, Under the Rainbow

Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-Fest

Stage Raw: NET Microfest L.A.

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

Gourmet Lites: The (Sort-of) Healthy Cookie

​ We admit we're frequent victims of the coffeeshop pastry pitfall. We swing by for a quick nonfat latte but end up walking out with some chocolatey croissantpoundcakemuffin that puts our carb intake way over the edge. This is why we were particularly pleased (if not a little stunned) to dis ... More >>

A Recipe From The Chef: Corina Weibel's Salt-roasted Branzino With Parsley, Celery Salad & Caperberries

Corina Weibel has been serving this salt-roasted branzino at Canelé in Atwater Village for quite some time, as she likes to have a whole fish on her menu. The branzino are cooked at a high temperature, buried in a mound of plain kosher salt. Weibel says that she used to make a more complicated crus ... More >>

Sunset Junction's Gentrification Boast

From the Read and Weep Dept. Check out Michael McKinley's moment of malarial disconnect on the Eastsider L.A. blog, where he claims credit for Silver Lake's coincidentally going yupscale during the years of the McKinley-helmed Sunset Junction Street Fair:"When we first started, it was $200,000 house ... More >>

Juxtapalooza

The Lowbrow sickness continues to spread, from Burbank to Laguna

Earthquake: Courthouse Rock

“God has spoken!” Timothy McGhee jokingly quipped to a downtown Superior Court room when the earthquake struck at 11:40 a.m. today. McGhee, the convicted triple murderer and Atwater Village street-gang leader, was testifying on the witness stand about his role in a 2005 jail riot when his attorn ... More >>

Filthy Waters Run Black

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Voters Unguided

Happy Trails

Saddling up in the big town

The Bridges of L.A. County

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