Avery

Rapture, Blister, Burn Is an Exuberant Take on the State of Feminism in 2013

Play captures the cultural tension between ambition and family

A SNAP Iron Chef Challenge in Santa Monica

To show how meals with fresh food can be made on a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) budget, chefs Nyesha Arrington of Wilshire Restaurant and Stefano de Lorenzo of La Botte will be facing off tomorrow, April 27, at The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica Iron Chef-style. Arrington and ... More >>

Is Ryan Gosling Parodying Masculinity?

Actor reteams with Blue Valentine director for The Place Beyond the Pines

Tavi Gevinson, 16-Year-Old Magazine Editor, Turns an L.A. Gallery Into a Teenage Bedroom

Tavi Gevinson -- blogger, fashion icon, cultural phenomenon, 16-year-old girl -- is happy to be in Los Angeles, her favorite city, at the tail end of a long, exhausting, amazing and smelly road trip across the country. Specifically, she is in Hollywood, turning Space 15 Twenty gallery into a tee ... More >>

The Bottle Room's 3rd Anniversary

Been to Whittier lately? Been to Whittier ever? Well, this is your chance if you are a beer fan. For the third anniversary of the comfy, brick-walled Bottle Room, chef/owner Tony Alcazar and his L.A. City firemen co-owners Patrick Best and Brandon Ibrahim will offer a beer list worth driving to Veg ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Can You Dig It?, Global Food Porn, Test Kitchen Burger Night, ColLAboration Winterfest, Market Basket Cocktails

Anne Fishbein/LA WeeklyRoasted beets and cheese at MB Post​Can You Dig It? Chef David LeFevre kicks off a seasonal series where he hosts a guest chef who will cook a three-course meal of shareable small plates. For the inaugural event, it's LeFevre's pal Giuseppe Tentori (Boka, GT Fish & Oyste ... More >>

ColLAboration "Winterfest" Beer Garden at the Belasco Theater

The fearsome foursome of Clay Harding (38 Degrees), Brian Lenzo (Blue Palms), Ryan Sweeney (Surly Goat and Verdugo) and Tony Yanow (Golden Road Brewing, Mohawk Bend and Tony's Darts Away), who brought us the ColLAboration pop-up beer gardens this past summer, are presenting "Winterfest" at the his ... More >>

Golden Road Brewpub Opening Jan. 15

The brewpub at Golden Road Brewing, which quietly soft-opened back in mid-December, will officially open on January 15th. The joint has 20 taps featuring housemade beers as well as heavily (but not exclusively) Californian selection of beers including Eagle Rock Brewery, Dogfish Head, Oskar Blues, F ... More >>

4 Double Black IPAs That Debuted in 2011: Or, Crossing Over to the (Very) Dark Side

In the last twelve months, the craft beer world has welcomed new flavors from a slew of emerging styles including the rye saison (Avery's Eighteen), the wheat IPA (El Segundo Brewing's Picket Fence) and the seasonal imperial pumpkin ale (Flying Dog's The Fear). But no new style was more exciting for ... More >>

Trespass Review

Avery Dean, L.A. Homicide No. 42: 22-Year-Old Man Shot Dead While Sitting in Car

Los Angeles TimesAvery "Ton Ton" Dean​By Ryan Deto A group of friends, including 22-year-old Avery Dean, piled into a car on the 11400 block of South Vermont Avenue in the early morning of February 20. Dean, known affectionately by his friends as "Ton Ton," was in the driver's seat. At 1:18 ... More >>

How To Pretend It's Fall In L.A.: 5 Local Beer Folks On Their Favorite Seasonal Beers

J. Garbee​ The 'tis the season buzz around the beer world this time of year is all about dark and malty cold weather brews -- Hibernation ales, Santa's Butt Porters and an infinite number of chocolate stouts. That fall beer thing can be hard to wrap your head around in L.A. when the sunshine s ... More >>

More Deli at Moore's Deli

Felicia FriesemaMoore's rare roast beef on ciabatta with arugula and house made aoli.​ Little Flower Candy Company owners Christine and Robert Moore have been dreaming a little bigger these days. Inspired by Robert's parents' 1947 San Francisco sandwich spot of the same name, they opened Moor ... More >>

New Santa Monica Farmers Market Food Vendors: The Selection Process Who's In, Who's Out? (Valerie Confections Is In)

J. GarbeeBreadMan Co-Owner Nick Zuvic At Saturday's Market, One Of His Last in Santa Monica​Beginning on Saturday, October 2, you'll notice some changes among the prepared food vendors at the Santa Monica Farmers' markets. A lot of changes. Earlier this year, the city offered an open recruitme ... More >>

Brace Yourself for Avery Barrel-Aged Wild Ale No. 5

Ben CalderwoodAvery Wild Ale in its own words​ Of microbrewers with nationwide reach, Avery Brewing Company is unmatched. No one so eagerly flouts mass-market expectations, experiments with wild abandon and challenges conceptions and pre-conceptions about what makes a good beer better than Ave ... More >>

BYOB at LudoBites 4.0: Who Needs Wine When There's Beer?

As anyone who reads any food blogs in Los Angeles probably knows by now, Ludovic Lefebvre is in the midst of his fourth highly popular pop-up installation, LudoBites. This time around, the sold-out event is taking place downtown at Gram & Papa's, with the extra bonus of the entire evening being BYOB ... More >>

Bringing Over There Closer to Home

The politics in FX’s new series may be polite, but the war is still hell

Alien Nation

No life lessons here

Stamps.com

Is there an easier way to send snail mail -- online?

The Softer Image

Wendy MacLeod's play of bad manners

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art