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More Events: The Hungry Cat's 2-Year Anniversary, Casino Angeleno Taste of the Eastside

The Hungry Cat's Two-Year Anniversary David Lentz is celebrating the second anniversary of The Hungry Cat's Santa Monica location by offering happy hour menu and oysters at half price all day today. WHAT: The Hungry Cat's Two-Year Anniversary WHEN: Thursday, April 25 WHERE: The Hungry Cat, 100 W. C ... More >>

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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Dream Drawings to a King Kong Mash-Up

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews This week, artist Jim Shaw pops up in two places, a TV phenomenon loosely inspires an exhibition and a playwright known for breaking the fourth wall breaks it before finishing his new play. 5. Be ... More >>

Fellowship of the C.O.L.A.

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Three Rooms of Leaning Walls

This week, a geophysicist speaks at LACMA, a long-lived gallery says goodbye and Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid's fictional marriage kind of inspires an exhibition. 5. Musical mystery No instruments at all will be used at Dog Star 8: Almanacs, one in a series of music events happening at the Wulf t ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Arts & Culture Apps

Farmers Markets on July Fourth: Most Closed Santa Monica Still Open for Business

Just a quick reminder that although many Los Angeles-area farmers markets will be closed for business on Wednesday (including West L.A., Gardena, Lawndale, Altadena and Barnsdall Park), the morning Santa Monica Farmers Market will be open during its regular hours, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.,' the City's First Biennial, Is a Winner, Despite its Vastness

Following directly on the heels of Pacific Standard Time, Made in L.A. refocuses our attention on the present moment by serving as the first installment in an ongoing, biennial survey of contemporary art production in Los Angeles. It's a hugely ambitious undertaking, but at the same time, its execut ... More >>

Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.': Three Artists' Journeys to L.A.'s New Biennial

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Google Street View Disasters

This week, creatures in crocheted suits wander Barnsdall Park, a role-player tries to make a virtual battle real, and an artist digs up the dark side of Google Street View. 5. Handmade monsters When I first met artist Zac Monday, he was crocheting a cashmere scarf in a coffee shop. The scarf was so ... More >>

Roll Up! L.A.'s Magical, BYOB, Pants-Dropping, Pole-Dancing Mystery Trip Is Waiting to Take You Away

You're standing on the corner of Third and San Vicente in a silly hat on a Sunday morning, sipping a Bloody Mary from a blue Solo cup, ready for anything. You were told to bring a beach towel, a $2 bill, a vegetable and your favorite movie candy, among other things, but you have no idea why. This is ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Chile Dinner, Beer Tasting, Beer Festival Taste of the Eastside

Spicy Chile Dinner A chile-infused five course menu prepared by Monique King, winner of Food Network's Chef Hunter, includes caramelized Brussels sprouts, arctic char, pork tenderloin, lamb pibil, and tamales, plus three tequilas. WHAT: Spicy Chile Dinner WHEN: 7 p.m., May 4 WHERE: Border Grill dow ... More >>

Taste of the Eastside Returns for Round Two

Summertime has different meanings for everyone: Some think of it as a vacation from school, others associate it with BBQs and beer, and yet others take these sunny moments to explore SoCal's stunning beaches. But for the foodist, the coming months mean one thing only: food festivals. To kick off t ... More >>

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Weegee at MOCA to L.A. Art's Equivalent of The Wire

This week's picks pretty much sum up the year: L.A. boosterism, '70s nostalgia, autobiographical installation art and women artists recognized a few decades late. 5. The Original Paparazzo At MOCA, Weegee is more showman than craftsman. The photographer, who started his career as an aggressive New ... More >>

A Civics Lesson for the Arts

Urban Art in Paradise

The Return of La Cha Cha

Silverlake Wine: Best Weekly Wine Tastings

Kathy A. McDonaldNo attitude, pretension-free wine tastings blow up weekly at Silverlake Wine ​Is Silverlake Wine a religion? Consider what makes it so: Devoted followers, a weekly schedule and a straight-up welcoming-to-all philosophy of no pretension at this neighborhood wine shop that speci ... More >>

Top 5 Ways to Drink in LA on 4th of July Weekend

​ 5. Loteria 9th Anniversary It's an all-day happy hour featuring half-price margaritas, micheladas, sangria and beer at Loteria Grill in Hollywood and Studio City or a special plato botanero at the location in the Farmers Market. When: All day, July 1 Where: Loteria Grill

Art Appreciation 101

Hipsteropolis Rising: Taste of the Eastside Food Festival

Anne FishbeinAn egg sandwich from Auntie Em's​ Even though Hipsteropolis has completely arrived as a desirable part of town (at least if celebrity residents and real estate prices are any indication), it hasn't yet lost that little-brother, underdog feeling. Like UCLA football (not arrived) a ... More >>

Stage Raw: LAWEES on Monday

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESLAWEES ON MONDAY The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards take place on Monday night. Doors open at ... More >>

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD BOOK ABOUT SCREW-UPS TO RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN HUMANITY

Heal Thy Patient, Heal the Planet

Lila JavanUCLA Hospital Food Today​ Looking to hitch their food carts to the popular trend of sustainability, a growing number of Southern California medical centers have done away with canned goods and processed foods in their cafeterias and are making meals from scratch from locally sourced ... More >>

At the Tip of the Spear

Players on the fringe, making the future

PSA: Save Barnsdall Art Park Classes!

​File under "not cool." If you love the arts in LA (and if you're reading this chances are you do), you might to contact your civic leaders about the cancellation of Spring Classes at the Barnsdall Art Park in Los Feliz, one of the cities best and most accessible sources for popular art train ... More >>

Mid-Week Shopping Agenda: Fruit Trees at Barnsdall Art Park Farmers' Market

Fruit isn't at the forefront of SoCal denizens' minds as we confront the wind, rain, and relative cold. But TreePeople is always looking forward to sunnier times ahead. Today at the L.A. Medical Center Farmers' Market at Barnsdall Art Park, the local tree-peddling organization will give away 150 fr ... More >>

Market Report: New Market at Barnsdall Park

There's a new market to add to the already long list of Los Angeles farmers markets. In the heart of East Hollywood, the Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) Farmers Market at Barnsdall Park offers food lovers yet another opportunity to shop for local, California produce. For those of of you stuck on ... More >>

Lily Burk's Funeral in Los Angeles, a Calm Before the Storm

For a lot of people, the vibrantly sunny Los Angeles weekend was a time to focus on the life and death of 17-year-old Lily Burk, who was honored at a ceremony at Barnsdall Art Park. It's not often you see 500 people gathered to note the passing of a teenager who has yet to make her mark on the worl ... More >>

THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

Stage Raw: The Debate over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO THE DEBATE OVER COURTNEY O'CONNELL OF COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA ​Photo courtesy of Chalk Repertory TheatreIf we're to believe playwright Mat Smart, which is probably not a good idea, the bloody rampag ... More >>

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Brick's Picks: Angel City Jazz Festival, Sweet & Hot Music Festival, and more

Stage Raw

Please see below for comprehensive theater listings that replicate the global format found in the print edition, compiled by Derek Thomas. This new stage blog -- to be posted once a week -- is till in the works, Suggestions are welcome. A memorial service hosted by Madelaine Shaner was held at t ... More >>

Don't Swerve and Drive

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Nightranger: Frocked Up

When the lights go down

Aging Disgracefully

Trying and Quartet look at the costs and benefits of growing old

Royal Pains: King Richard II and Power

Bounced checks and balances

What the Heck Is That?

Arthur Nights, the festival you never expected

Partying Like It's 1425

Love’s Labor’s Lost at Actors’ Gang, plus Hamlet al fresco

As You Like It

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, As You Like It

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Arthur, Arthur!

Jay Babcock

Hamburger Hamlets

Dane, thy name is vanity

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Arthurfest

Live in LA

Last Chance for a Full Cincinnati*!

An Armenian Novel-in-Progress