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Music Picks: California Lions, Efterklang, Lucy Rose

The Last Days of Mishima (The Restaurant, Not the Author)

If you look up Mishima on the Internet, you may discover a wide variety of things: It's the name of a city, town and village in Japan; it's the surname of one of Japan's most important authors, Yukio Mishima (see also: seppuku); it's a musical group from Barcelona; and it's even a style of pottery. ... More >>

Diana Lado Gets Paid to Simply Be Cool

As Diana Lado takes a shallow drag from the cigarette she bummed outside Palihouse in West Hollywood, I ask her why Lindsay Lohan doesn't just get her own apartment. Lohan has recently been kicked out of the Chateau Marmont, and when I met Lado at the Chateau a few days prior, she'd called the p ... More >>

How Adam Grandmaison Is Changing the Way You Look at BMX

Though he's one of the most successful men in action sports, Adam Grandmaison doesn't roll up for our interview in a BMW -- he still rolls up on his BMX bike. Now, if you even had to Google "BMX" or if it made you think of the X Games, get ready to start re-thinking. Grandmaison's working to change ... More >>

Is Riff Raff Serious?

One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are

Q & A With Joel Stein: The "Intolerable Foodie" on Organics, Foodie Culture Man Food

Readers of Joel Stein's column in Time Magazine may remember when Stein hobnobbed with the super-rich over bottles of wine valued more than $5,000 each. The night he sampled dishes in the Alinea kitchen inspired by Escoffier's 1903 cookbook. Or the time he gobbled up KFC's Double Down sandwich, made ... More >>

Rick Steves, Famed Travel Writer and Pot Advocate: 20 Questions

"I'm a travel writer, and for me, high is a place"

Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme Reviewed

The French New Wave master's new — and allegedly last — film

[Updated] Your Bäco Update: Josef Centeno's Bäco Mercat Opens Next Week

Adam MurrayA mirror reflects the interior of Josef Centeno's Bäco Mercat (in its final construction phase).​Update: 10/19, 4:29 p.m. Centeno has alerted us that Baco Mercat won't open Oct. 24, as initially planned. Instead, he says to expect an opening by the end of the month. The bäco i ... More >>

Legendary Ghostwriter D.O.C. Is Back, But Can He Save Detox?

David Yoon's Fantasy to Turn L.A. Into Paris by Making Streets Narrower

Courtesy of David YoonAbbott Kinney in Venice, narrowed​ Los Angeles is a wide, sprawling city in which five-lane roads are considered small. But what if it were suddenly made narrower? People dream of the charming streets of Paris, which barely allow two cars to pass each other yet seem a lo ... More >>

Live Review: Top Five Reasons Odd Future is L.A.'s Best Live Act

Andrea Domanick#swaggin'​ If Wu Tang, Iggy Pop and the Flaming Lips threw a birthday party, it might approximate Odd Future's swag-as-hell show Saturday night at House of Blues Sunset. Swinging stateside amidst their first European tour, the horrorcore collective took the stage in full force ... More >>

Music Picks: Talib Kweli, Pete Yorn, Lucy Schwartz

Also Rise Against, Piney Gir, Deradoorian and others

Hit-and-Run Outrage

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Wavves: All Hail King Skinny Shitster

Does frontman Nathan Williams speak for the loser in us all?

Q & A with Marcel Vigneron: Island Life, Going Molecular & Cooking with Bobby Flay

Marcel Vigneron of Bar210​Marcel Vigneron is probably still best known for season 2 of Top Chef, during which he displayed his talents for molecular gastronomy -- and for getting under the skin of his competition. After the show Vigneron, who still has his signature gravity-defying hair, moved ... More >>

Q & A With José Andrés, Part 2: Frank Bruni, The White House Garden & How to Eat at Bazaar for Under $50

In yesterday's first part of our conversation with José Andrés, the chef sat down to chat about the Spanish pantry (his, ours), and cooking with Ferrán Adriá, which is where we left off. Andrés, whose La Cienega restaurant The Bazaar opened in the SLS hotel in 2008, spends plenty of time in Los ... More >>

ElBulli to Shutter Permanently

Ferran Adrià, in the news lately announcing that he would close his restaurant for 2 years, has now announced that elBulli will close permaently. The New York Times reports that Adrià has changed those plans and will shutter the restaurant for good, perhaps turning it into a culinary academy inste ... More >>

An Interview with Techno Kingpin Juan Atkins: "L.A. is Still Behind the Curve Three or Four Years"

Cybotron's "Clear," from 1983 More than any other person, Detroit's Juan Atkins is credited with creating techno. Of course, electronic dance music, which fills clubs, warehouses and festivals each weekend, provides sounds for car commercials, movies and public radio, and fuels the technology of c ... More >>

Drink And Tweet: Twitter Taste Live, or Why You're Not Drinking Alone if You're on Twitter

What happens when you cross a wine geek with a tech geek, then turn them loose on Twitter? You get wine tasting across time zones and even continents, lots of passionate oenophiles, and happy winemakers. It's called Twitter Taste Live and it's a place where the online community can purchase, taste ... More >>

Craig Strong's New Beachfront Kitchen, Wherein the Chef Demonstrates How to Stuff a Squid A Recipe

Chef Craig Strong left the kitchen of Pasadena's The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa at the end of May--after eight years and one Michelin star--and decamped for Laguna Beach, where he became executive chef of Studio at Montage in June. (Studio's previous chef, James Boyce, left for Alabama; Strong ... More >>

Nacional's Pastime

An L.A. label pushes a wild mix of Latin sounds, from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Aterciopelados to Mexican Institute of Sound, Pinker Tones and Nortec Collective

LA People 2009: Time Bankers — Lisa Gerstein and Autumn Rooney

Novelist Per Petterson on Voice, Landscape and His "New" Novel, To Siberia

Out stealing readers

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

All Hopped Up at The New Father's Office

Sang Yoon's latest is bigger and probably better than the original. But can you get a seat?

Rock Picks: Coachella, Lynda Carter, Hot Chip

And other shows happening April 24-May 1

Slasher Flicks: Fencing

Learning the gorgeous, hunky Western martial art

In Living Color

Messiaen's Canyons,

Lee Hazlewood: A Stranger in This Land

The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

Rock Picks

For the week of July 12 – 19

The Rise of the Seventh Letter

Mad society kings

Rock Picks: The Humpers, Secretary Bird, Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow

For the week of June 21–28

Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus

Death Race 2000

Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

Endings

James Salter on his Last Night

The Bush Theocracy

Righteous homophobe Claude Allen brings his agenda to the White House

The American Nightmare

Will we be eclipsed by the European Union?

Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America

Opera’s Crude Cousin Grown Up

Stephen Sondheim, and the winding road of the American musical

Shake It Like a Camera-Phone Picture

Pan-Latin

Experiencing Disney Hall

Progress Report: Gehry in Bloom

The Man Who Would Be King

L.A. dreamer longs to sit on the throne in Equatorial Guinea

Qué Tranzas

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Rufus Wainwright poses as rock star, makes an imperfect-summer record

Jeremiah Among the Palms

The lives and dark prophecies of Mike Davis

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