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A.O.C. Reopens Suzanne Goin's Balinese Suckling Pig

When Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, Tavern) announced late last year that they were closing their wine and small plates restaurant A.O.C. to reopen in a different location, we might normally assume a months-long transition period, while we all waited for permits and whatnot and dreamt nos ... More >>

Yung Jake, a Recent CalArts Grad, Could Be the Breakout Art Star of Sundance

Although half of Los Angeles will decamp this weekend to the snowy hillsides of Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, not everyone is going for the movies. Starry-eyed attendees relish access to the suits, the skiing and the swag, but what about the art? Shari Frilot has curated Sundance ... More >>

Tristan Prettyman: After Jason Mraz, She Straps on Some Heels

Tristan Prettyman looks out over the East Hollywood landscape from the top floor of the Capitol Records building. The San Diego county resident spent the day doing press and has a label showcase later tonight at the Troubadour. In two weeks, she leaves for a cross-country tour supporting Joshua Radi ... More >>

L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade: A Recap of the 2012 Event

L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade Stand is arguably the premier charity auction/food and wine event raising money -- a lot of money -- for pediatric cancer research. Hosted by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern) and David Lentz (The Hungry Cat), it was held for the third year in a row ... More >>

Erin Galligan, Venice Cyclist, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on the PCH

A 30-year-old bicyclist who lived in Venice and worked at Craig's restaurant in West Hollywood was killed by a hit-and-run driver late Tuesday night. Erin Galligan was riding southbound along the right side PCH around 11:15 p.m. when -- according to Santa Monica police -- she swerved into the middl ... More >>

Empires of Food: A Book, A Salon Interview, A Pretty Scary Forecast

​If you're tired of rereading your sauce-spattered copy of Eat, Pray, Love -- or if you left it at the movie theatre, or on your flight back from Bali -- you might try picking up a new book with slightly larger, or at least less personal, horizons. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Mugabe and the White African, Peepli Live, Animal Kingdom

Also, Eat, Pray, Love, Mundo Alas, Tales From Earthsea

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

South Pacific

Stage Raw: The Other Festivals

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>

There's New 'Cue on Third Street

Barbara HansenThe Smokin' Joint's jazzy logo lights up the night.​Just when you think there's nothing new in barbecue, The Smokin' Joint arrives on West 3rd Street. What you get here is "Hollywood 'cue," created by chef-owner Michael Kesler. "I've taken the best from all over the country and p ... More >>

Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

... and into the urap

Rock Picks: Fuck Buttons, Exene Cervenka, Imogen Heap, John Fogerty

Also, HEALTH, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Múm, Leon Russell and others

Busy LA Weekend: Dudamel, Yorke, Byrne, Eagle Rock Music Fest, Faithfull

Busy weekend of music ahead, one of the most action-packed of the season. We, in fact, are being pulled in about six different directions. Tonight, if you're lucky and/or connected, you may be at Thom Yorke and band's first ever show, which is at the Echoplex. Across town in Pasadena, David Byrn ... More >>

Ten Days of Dublab

Street Cred

At her new Hollywood restaurant, Susan Feniger puts the cart before the hors d’oeuvre

Sacred Sounds

Live in L.A.: 88BoaDrum at the La Brea Tar Pits, 08/08/08

"88BoaDrum" at the La Brea Tar Pits, August 8, 2008 (photos by Timothy Norris) It's tempting to leave the evening alone and let it live on in the heads of those who attended and no one else. One theory is that to sully such tribal majesty with words is to diminish its power. But my job is to capt ... More >>

Project Runway’s Season 4

Fabulousness all around: a fan’s notes

The Missing Rice Table

You can’t rijsttafel in L.A., but there is Indo Kitchen

Me Dress Pretty One Day

Shopping together in perfect (h)armonie

Holiday in Israel

Return to the Sea

Send a Salami...

The French Insurrection

Cars burn, Islam benefits

Sympathy for the Devil

Everything you thought you knew about steroids is wrong

The Lemons of Orange

A Drop in the Ocean

What Lies Beneath

Carl Hancock Rux on Asphalt, war-torn cities and the state of black literature in America

Borrowed Finery

All Tomorrow’s Parties Today

Matt Groening talks outsider music and party planning with a fellow gearhead

The List

Fizzle, Puzzle, Dazzle

Blue Canaries

A day at the LAPD’s counterterrorism camp

The Fourth World

Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

The Ticking Stopwatch

LAPD's new terrorism czar ponders al Qaeda

Doug Harvey's Favorite Non-Human Artwork

The World on a String

How the Democrats Blew It

The blame starts with Daschle and Gephardt

As the World Turns

Not your regular news

Brakes of War

Signs are on that a full-scale invasion of Iraq is off

Paradise Lost and Lost and Lost . . .

The bombing in Bali and sniper mania

Pop Tomes

Hackin’ and Coffin

QED offers gags, but not much wit; The Wooden Breeks is both fun and funereal

Star power

Music Reviews

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars