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Localita & The Badasserie: Vegans Among Us

Have you ever tried a vegan Reuben before? It's the kind of sandwich that might encourage a scoff or smirk from the hardened carnivore, but for the past three years it's been one of the most popular items at Locali, the city's first "conscious convenience store" in Los Feliz, which carries a bevy of ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/8 - 10/12

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "So basically there's a great feeling of satisfaction when I see a full plate of salumi being served." Chad Colby's Salumi Night at Mozza Scuola Di Pizza Goes to 4 Nights a Week. "Gill added, 'in terms of popularity, it sprea ... More >>

Natural Wine: An Explanation Where to Find It

What's in a glass of wine? The answer might be surprising. Wine is basically spoiled grape juice. (Whoever first ingested it millennia ago: hat tip.) But these days wine's ingredients can also contain a laundry list of adds in's: sulfur dioxide, egg whites, oak chips, water and numerous chemical ad ... More >>

Lil B's "Classical" Album: Our Classical Music Critic Reviews It

[Editor's note: Oddball Berkeley rapper Lil B suddenly released a classical music album under his "The Basedgod" moniker last week, called Choices and Flowers. Since no one in rap really knows what to make of it, we assigned West Coast Sound classical music critic Christian Hertzog to review it.] ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Green Garlic Baby Goats

Two things immediately signal spring at the Hollywood Farmers Market: Julian Pearce of Soledad Goats begins trotting out the newest -- sometimes only days old -- baby goats in a blatantly crafty emotional sales tactic (and it works beautifully), and the potent scent of soft and vulnerable green garl ... More >>

Jackie Kashian: The Dork Forest

Electric Guest on Their Danger Mouse-Produced Debut

While recording Electric Guest's debut album Mondo, which comes out in April, singer Asa Taccone took several weeks off to recover from a bout of shingles. The condition had been brought on by the stress of finally recording his passion project, which included sifting through over 100 song ideas ama ... More >>

Betye Saar: Assemblage of Anger

Jackie Kashian's Dork Forest

With Marc Maron

Year Zero

America's Oldest Brewpub Comes to Hollywood Where To Drink Yourself Silly

Blue Palms Brewhouse​ Berkeley's legendary Triple Rock Brewery and Alehouse, the oldest original brewpub in the United States and one of the best, comes to the Blue Palms Brewhouse in Hollywood all day this Friday. You will be able to meet Rodger Davis, head brewer at Triple Rock, and also Br ... More >>

Music Picks: Talib Kweli, Pete Yorn, Lucy Schwartz

Also Rise Against, Piney Gir, Deradoorian and others

Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Story

Cookbook Review: Heart of the Artichoke by David Tanis His Spiced Red Wine Poached Pear Recipe

​Ah, the mind of a chef. A cluttered mess of rapid-fire thoughts hovering between the immediate future (table six needs three salmons - now!) and distant dreams (taking six months off to write a cookbook). Well, unless you happen to be David Tanis, author of the just-released The Heart of the ... More >>

TSA-Proof your Underwear So Your Private Parts Don't Show Up on the Big Screen

Los Angeles TimesLet's keep our privates private.​ If you're a frequent traveler, here's one holiday gift you'll want to unwrap before Christmas Day approaches - underwear that works double-time to shield your genitals from radiation and conceal them from pesky airline screeners. The novelty ... More >>

Los Angeles Takes A Wimpy 162nd Place In National Violent-Crime Rankings

LAPDUnlike the St. Louis PD, the LAPD gets to just chill with dogs​We like to think it's pretty rough out here on the streets of Los Angeles. It seems like every hour we hear about another murder or robbery at gunpoint. So why, in this year's annual CQ Press crime rankings, does the City of A ... More >>

Reuters/Ipsos Poll: California Voters Don't Dig Big Oil-funded Proposition 23

Ecolocalizer.com"No on 23" rally in Berkeley.​A new Reuters/Ipsos Poll shows that Big Oil-funded Proposition 23, the November ballot measure that seeks to suspend California's global climate change law, is heading for almost certain defeat, with 49 percent of those polled opposing the initiat ... More >>

Alan Rich, 1924-2010: Dean of American Music Critics

​It wasn't just by dint of his incredibly long career in music that Alan Rich deserved the title Dean of American Music Critics. When he passed away on April 23 at the age of 86, he left behind a cultural legacy that owed as much to his enormous depth of experience as to his razorlike gift for ... More >>

Go Ask Alice (To Sign Your Book): Alice Waters In Town for A Book Signing

AmazonAlice Waters' latest book​If you're weary of hauling your Prius (or maybe your bicycle) all the way up the 5 to Berkeley to pay homage to Alice Waters, next Saturday you'll have a much shorter commute. Waters will be in town to sign copies of her new book In the Green Kitchen: Techniques ... More >>

Robert Mallary at the Box

Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

... and into the urap

Thyme Cafe And Market Opens Tomorrow Morning in Santa Monica

A. Scattergoodchairs at Thyme Cafe​Thyme Cafe and Market is opening tomorrrow morning on Ocean Park in Santa Monica. The lofty space, which has been under construction for the last year, is also the new home of Thyme Catering, founded by caterer and 3rd generation Angeleno Maire Byrne, whose g ... More >>

Potshots Over Los Angeles Pot Shops

A year late, the City Council tries to uninvite its unvetted marijuana collectives

Ask Mr. Gold: Battle Burrito -- L.A. vs. S.F.

Anne FishbeinCounter Intuitive: Burrito classics at Al & Bea's Dear Mr. Gold: I have a friend in town from Berkeley who loves burritos. What do you suggest? I'm thinking of ignoring her habit and forcing her to go to for mole at La Tia instead, but she seems set in her ways. --Erica, Los Angeles ... More >>

Saturday Night in LA: Phosporescent, Von Bondies, Dan Auerbach, Lyrics Born,

Saturday night in LA and you're looking for music? Here are four good ideas: Phosphorescent, Viva Voce at the Regent Theatre Chris Martins writes: Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck may be a city slicker by day, but once the sun sinks under the prairie, the cowboy comes out. Houck was raised in Alab ... More >>

Sweet Smell of Secession: Another Move to Split California

To hear Bill Maze tell it, L.A. County takes all the money generated by the rest of hard-working California and squanders it on stuff like "public services and education." Not only that, says the termed-out Assemblyman, but you've got places up north like San Francisco and Marin County that always v ... More >>

L.A.'s Five Most Powerful Cult Leaders

What I Ate on My Summer Vacation

Bobcat Bites to Morning Glory

Brick's Picks: Zane Musa, Sexteto Roberto Rodriguez

Goodbye to pianist Tigran Hamasyan, hello to new Anita O'Day doc

Force Majeure

Spectral Delivery

The Iceberg Cometh

Inside ICM’s “Project Beta”

Blood and Hubris at the Paradise Motel

The making of Richard Montoya’s Water & Power

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of 1984, Not a Genuine Black Man and On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning

Berkeley to Go

Lady Goapele, the decaf soy latte of R&B

Wrenda Hasbro’s Sweet Salvation

Twice Fifteen

Lover Come Back

Dark Elegies

Similar voices: Uitti, Griffiths

Rich Dog, Poor Man

Fixin' to Be Reborn

Letters

From Planting to Plating

How the Santa Monica Farmers Market transformed the restaurant landscape

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

The best of Sitegeist

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

The Myth of Solid Ground

On The Science, Pseudoscience and Lunatic Logic of Earthquake Prediction

For the Record

The life and premature death of Mary’s Danish

Good Lucques

Fine — if pricy — dining on Melrose

Activists Turned Elected Officials

Moving Violations

Art cars don't kill people. They just annoy them.

Gambling on Disaster

E Design’s roll of the ice