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The Undercover Vegetarian: BierBeisl

Are you a salad fetishist? I mean a true lover of greens and dressing, not necessarily the meat-free eater that has turned salads into a meal-in-a-bowl art form, but someone who really, truly loves salad at its most basic? If so, BierBeisl has some salads you should check out. The greens are crisp, ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/7 - 1/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Among the topics? Secret burger menus, fair food, ostrich omelets and plenty of old guys in the desert." Top 5 Huell Howser Food Episodes: In Memoriam. "4. Eat a meatball sub any time someone thanks Harvey Weinstein." Tina ... More >>

BierBeisl Brings Something Different to Beverly Hills

Austrian chef Bernhard Mairinger has brilliantly old-school technique

Serious Drinking: Saying Ja to Austrian Wines

The arrival of Beirbeisl in Beverly Hills as a pristine example of Austrian cuisine -- check out Besha Rodell's review, out today -- comes as Austrian wines enter into a kind of renaissance in California, a blossoming of popularity, a flurry of import activity, and the thrilling entry of red wines t ... 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 >>

Five Dance Events to See in L.A. this Week including a Kwanzaa Fest and a Viennese New Year

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our New Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's events offer a waltz or a samba to greet the new year, a Kwanzaa celebration, Russian jazz dance and the last Nutcracker until 2013. 5. Waltzing ... More >>

Vienna Comes to Downtown

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our New Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's events offer a waltz or a samba to greet the new year, a Kwanzaa celebration, Russian jazz dance and the last Nutcracker until 2013. 5. Waltzing ... More >>

AFI Fest 2012: Who Will Win the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our New Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's events offer a waltz or a samba to greet the new year, a Kwanzaa celebration, Russian jazz dance and the last Nutcracker until 2013. 5. Waltzing ... More >>

Europe in Love: The King of Hearts Is Off Again and The Belle of Belfast

Jewish romance in Poland and Catholic romance in Ireland

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 >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: Forellenschluss Lettuce

If you go to the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market early, before the bell rings at 8:30 and the crowds fill the streets and the marine layer from the nearby Pacific burns off in the late summer sun, you'll notice some things you might miss later on. Wolfgang Puck shucking corn alone at one marke ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Precocious Parrot

This week, there's a concise, color-coordinated performance that's kind of about a bird, an art show that unfolds over the telephone and a slightly surreal stairwell in Pasadena. 5. Dangerous dreaming "Learn to Dream," written across John Baldessari's new print five times in five different colors ... More >>

The Summer of Riesling: Los Angeles Edition

This year marks the fourth annual Summer of Riesling in the U.S., a hostage program established in 2008 by "Acid Overlord" Paul Grieco of the restaurant Terroir in New York, in which white wine by-the-glass programs are hijacked by what most sommeliers and wine professional think of as the most thri ... More >>

Fort MacArthur Reenactment Combines Vikings, Nazis, Confederates and Other Armies Through Time

"Bloody hell, men!" Boom. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Boom. Three men in tan uniforms lie inert on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Their remaining comrades radio for help and cower behind their jeep, trying desperately to shoot the Germans hiding in the bushes. The canon sounds again, causin ... More >>

Gustav Klimt's Drawings at the Getty: You Think You Know Klimt But You Have No Idea

"Every line is an adventure," says Marian Bisanz-Prakken, a curator at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, and expert on everything Klimtian. The exhibition "Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line," now at the J.Paul Getty Museum in partnership with the Albertina Museum, showcases more than 100 of the Austrian s ... More >>

Top 5 Mexican Beers: What to Drink Before Tequila

Let's face it, Mexico isn't exactly a major player in the current craft beer revolution. But that doesn't mean that its long tradition of easy-drinking European-style lagers is something to be overlooked. Sure, the cerveza market is just as consolidated and macro-dominated as the United States' was ... More >>

Katie Carguilo Wins U.S. Barista Championship; Intelligentsia's Charles Babinski Places Second

Over the weekend, Katie Carguilo took the champion title at the annual U.S.B.C. event -- that would be the United States Barista Championship and not the United States Bowling Congress (though that too apparently had everyone on pins and needles this weekend). Hosted by the Specialty Coffee Associa ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! We Are the Aliens, Everyone Else Is Earthling

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Coming to you from a small room offstage in the very cozy and cool Belly Up in Aspen, Colo., t ... More >>

McDonald's Debuts the McRibster... In Austria

Is there a McRib-sized void in your arteries? In need of some cheese and bacon as well? Then book an international flight to Austria and indulge in McDonalds' newly introduced McRibster. According to Burger Business, McDonalds' sandwich creation contains "juicy pork, bacon, pepper-Jack cheese, and ... More >>

Candida, and other New Theater Reviews . . .

Aaron Morgan"Candida," produced by Crysalis Stage at The Complex​Chrysalis Stage's revival of G.B. Shaw's Candida at The Complex nabbed this week's Pick of the Week. ​ Our critics also liked On Holy Ground with Salome Jens at the MET, in Hollywood. See here for all the latest New Theater Reviews ... More >>

Restaurant Openings: BierBeisl (Austrian), Nongla (Vietnamese)

BierBeisl, a fine-dining Austrian restaurant from former Patina chef de cuisine Bernhard Mairinger, officially opens Feb. 27 in Beverly Hills. The intimate restaurant features a Stammtisch, a communal table where chefs in Austria send out special treats to regulars. BierBeisl: 9669 Santa Monica Blv ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: The Art of Living According to Joe Beef's Testicle Pizza Theory A Vienna Sausage (!) Martini Recipe

When we first flipped through The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan and Meredith Erickson, we thought it was yet another pretty but also pretty lackluster restaurant cookbook (Joe Beef is Montreal's restaurant du jour). There's even the requisite foreword by a w ... More >>

LinA In LA Picks: You Only Get to Party Like This Once in a Century

Lina Lecaro The Wolf's wax will put crowds in 11th heaven in Eagle Rock.​Is 11-11-11 a date to fear or to anticipate? Psychologists say it might bring about cases of "apophenia" (the human tendency to find meaning or patterns in randomly occurring data). We can promise this weekend -- which ki ... More >>

National Geographic's Top 10 National Dishes Guess What Americans Like To Eat

Anne FishbeinBurger Kitchen's breakfast hamburger​Food blogs aren't the only publications with endless lists or pictures of pretty things people like to eat. National Geographic, the magazine many of us fondly remember from grade school science classrooms and dentists' offices, is the latest t ... More >>

LQ Cheese Cart Moves to Domaine LA 18-Course Truffle Dinner?

Go west, young cheese cart. LQ's cheese cart is taking a trip, rolling out of its current home at Starry Kitchen in downtown L.A. to visit Hancock Park wine shop Domaine LA. The cart will have almost 40 cheeses, and the sommeliers at Domaine LA will pair up to a dozen wines with them. Expect a Saven ... More >>

The Ig Nobel Awards: Researchers Invent a Wasabi Fire Alarm

Anne Fishbeinwasabi, etc. at Kiyokawa​ The Nobel committee has been awarding their coveted prizes this week, which fact may have overshadowed the announcement of the 21st annual Ig Nobel (get it?) awards, sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research and handed out last Thursday at a Harvard ... More >>

Pastafarian Wins Right to Wear Pasta Strainer for Driver's License

Self-professed Pastafarian Niko Alm's driver's license.​Look closely at Niko Alm's driver's license. That's not a yarmulke on his head. That's a pasta strainer. After a three-year battle, the 19-year-old Austrian man, a self-professed Pastafarian, has won the right to wear a colander on his h ... More >>

DREAM Act Approved by California State Assembly: If Bill Can Make It Through Senate, Governor Jerry Brown Has Promised to Pass It

​At long last, a small victory for the softest of the pro-immigration bills. The California State Assembly approved the DREAM Act today by a landslide 46-25 vote -- legislation that would allow illegal immigrants who have, against all odds, earned their way into state universities, a chance to ... More >>

Hey Everybody, Let's Go to a Fancy Beverly Hills Hotel and Get Stinkin' Drunk!

​At long last, a small victory for the softest of the pro-immigration bills. The California State Assembly approved the DREAM Act today by a landslide 46-25 vote -- legislation that would allow illegal immigrants who have, against all odds, earned their way into state universities, a chance to ... More >>

Salute To Vienna

​At long last, a small victory for the softest of the pro-immigration bills. The California State Assembly approved the DREAM Act today by a landslide 46-25 vote -- legislation that would allow illegal immigrants who have, against all odds, earned their way into state universities, a chance to ... More >>

Events: Bock Fest Coming to LA on Jan. 15

To the delight of local hop heads, Los Angeles is finally becoming a beer town. Maybe it always has been, but in typical Angeleno style: springing up haphazardly, secreted in obscure niches, resistant to easy discovery. Good beer can always be found for those willing to put in the effort. What abo ... More >>

THE NUTCRACKER

To the delight of local hop heads, Los Angeles is finally becoming a beer town. Maybe it always has been, but in typical Angeleno style: springing up haphazardly, secreted in obscure niches, resistant to easy discovery. Good beer can always be found for those willing to put in the effort. What abo ... More >>

The Vegetable Orchestra Plays With Their Food

The Vegetable Orchestra Plays With Their Food

Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen The Joys of HSN

In yesterday's first part of our interview with Wolfgang Puck, the chef talked about his new downtown restaurant WP24 and gave us a little backstory of Ma Maison, Spago and the invention of his famous pizza. Speaking of pizza, turns out that Puck decided to detour, mid-interview and en route to the ... More >>

Happy Cinco de Mayo From Your Governor!

Happy Cinco de Mayo. From all of us, and from your sitting Governor, who just tweeted out this twitpic about an hour ago with the companion text of "Happy Cinco de Mayo!" (We are none of us that creative, either before or after whatever taxpayer-funded beverages you can make out on that table.) So g ... More >>

The 13th Step: Researchers Find That Chocolate Can Save Your Liver

Valrhona chocolate​ Your favorite 12 Step program just got a new step: chocolate. Reuters reports that Spanish researchers have found that eating chocolate after meals decreased abdominal blood pressure, which can reach dangerous levels in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. In other words, ... More >>

Can Placido Pull It Off?

With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival

WIENER BOYS

With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival

FRANK TALK ABOUT MUSIC

With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival

I Fought the Slaw: The Slaw Dogs Opens in Pasadena

Lake Avenue, as it thrusts up towards Altadena, has long been where Pasadena sequesters its fast-food restaurants, and at the heart of it, you can find nearly every drive-thru window that has ever sponsored a football broadcast. The street has also been hospitable to a few left-of-center fast-food j ... More >>

La Ronde

Lake Avenue, as it thrusts up towards Altadena, has long been where Pasadena sequesters its fast-food restaurants, and at the heart of it, you can find nearly every drive-thru window that has ever sponsored a football broadcast. The street has also been hospitable to a few left-of-center fast-food j ... More >>

Beethoven, As I Knew Him: The Music of Ludwig van Beethoven

Lake Avenue, as it thrusts up towards Altadena, has long been where Pasadena sequesters its fast-food restaurants, and at the heart of it, you can find nearly every drive-thru window that has ever sponsored a football broadcast. The street has also been hospitable to a few left-of-center fast-food j ... More >>

Dog Day Afternoon: Bites of Chicago in L.A.

A frank discussion of a family obsession

Best Last Dances

Vivo Dancesport

Breaking Into Brothels

Michele Clark on Aaron Cohen and his “night-frighting” techniques

Recovered Voices

Resurrecting the music of composers affected by the Holocaust

Miller Time in the Church of Arnold

Resurrecting the music of composers affected by the Holocaust

A Not-So-Silent Night

Resurrecting the music of composers affected by the Holocaust

Past Presence

Resurrecting the music of composers affected by the Holocaust