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10 Best All-Day Happy Hours in Los Angeles

By Sarah Bennett and Erika Bolden When we went looking for all-day happy hours, geographic diversity was a priority. But striking patterns emerged -- namely, the bars most likely to discount booze beyond the typical late-afternoon hours were located mostly in 9-5 work destinations. In fact, from Sa ... More >>

A Wayne's World Reunion and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, April 19 Get an inside look at the process of making a film at the Los Angeles Theatre Foundation's Movies About Making Movies Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theatre this weekend, starting with a double fea ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From a Boy Band Terrorist to Frances McDormand Doing Performance Art

See also: *Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a panel of architects and a performance at a science fiction conference imagine a high-tech future L.A. and an artist uses Pig Latin to title th ... More >>

Top 5 Places to Eat in L.A. if You Couldn't Make it to SXSW

While everyone from musicians and comedians to tech bloggers, indie filmmakers and anyone with frequent flier miles was traipsing around Austin last week for the annual South By Southwest, there's a good chance you were stuck at home, avoiding all social media. Otherwise, you would have been inundat ... More >>

A Robot Ate a Pig Carcass (Among Other Weird Happenings) in Downtown L.A. Last Weekend

If you really want to see a festival that deals with the extremities of the future, any retirement home will do. The 2nd Extreme Future Festival, which took place over two days at the L.A. Center Studios this past weekend, focused on arts and technology produced by "radical voices of the new evolut ... More >>

Farmers Field NFL Stadium Approved Unanimously by L.A. Council Despite Developer's Hope to Sell

L.A.'s new, stadium dreams are another step closer to reality despite a move to sell by the developer that caught many by surprise. The City Council unanimously approved the stadium plans today. In the midst of $1.5 billion plans to build Farmers Field next to its LA Live entertainment complex and ... More >>

'Farmers Field' Plans Pushed Forward by L.A. City Council, Despite AEG Sale

See also: "Farmers Field or Blade Runner Stadium?" and "Farmers Field's Fanciful Green Promise." There was never a doubt in anyone's mind that the L.A. City Council, completely obsessed with the idea of integrating an NFL stadium into the L.A. Live complex downtown, would approve the Anshcutz Enter ... More >>

The Other Director Named Paul Anderson

52: House Wonton Soup at China Café

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 52: House Wonton Soup at China Café. In a city so stocked with brilliant Chinese food, it might to seem a bit strange to point out a '20s-era lunch counter hi ... More >>

We're All Going to Die: How to Pack For the Most Intense Burning Man Yet

Illustrations by Jena Ardell See also: *Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man *Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names Unlike some festivals, you can't just casually roll up to Burning Man with only a bottle of Jack and a spirit hoodie. Prepping for a week in the desert is onl ... More >>

Total Recall Is a Retread of Blade Runner, Brazil, Minority Report...Oh, and Total Recall

By Chris Packham Total Recall, directed by Len Wiseman, aspires to be less stupid than its 1990 predecessor and kind of succeeds for the first third of the film. If you subtract all the metaphysical illusion-versus-reality nonsense, Philip K. Dick's Walter Mitty story "We Can Remember It for You W ... More >>

Hollywood Community Plan Passed by L.A. City Council: Welcome to Skyscraper Hell

As expected, the L.A. City Council gave its final unanimous approval this afternoon to a new zoning code that will allow for the Manhattanization/Blade Runner-ization of Hollywood. Opposition to the plan has been long and loud. Hollywood preservationists are hoarse from screaming at city leaders, w ... More >>

The Bitch Is Back

WonderCon's Big Hollywood Movie Panels: Did Fans Fall for the Prometheus Hype?

Last weekend was WonderCon, the large, three-day pop culture convention organized by the same people who bring us San Diego Comic-Con every year. Normally, WonderCon takes place in San Francisco. Due to remodeling at their hometown convention center, however, this year's event moved to Anaheim. It ... More >>

VIDEO: Hundreds of Fitness Dorks Turn Out for Massive 'Zumba' Flash Mob at L.A. Live

What appeared to be hundreds, if not thousands, of Zumba® fans in their finest Latin-flavored workout getups crowded the Nokia Plaza yesterday afternoon, forming the most chaotic mob at L.A. Live since the Lakers riots. If you haven't heard of Zumba yet, here's what you're missing: It describes it ... More >>

K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on the Korean Boy and Girl Groups That Get Major Play in Koreatown

Story by Tiffanie Lee K-pop has become a worldwide phenomenon, and one of its great hubs is Los Angeles. Walk into any Koreatown club, dive, noraebang (karaoke bar) or, hell, even a bakery, and you'll hear the genre's famous slick jams and infectious dance beats. Importing elements of American R&B ... More >>

Sean Lennon Brings Akira and Other Favorites to Los Angeles Animation Festival

Sean Lennon is best known in music circles. The 36-year-old son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono has released three solo albums, as well as two full-lengths with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl under the name The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (GOASTT). He played with Cibo Matto, collaborated extensively wi ... More >>

Marriott Hotels to Be Erected Across From L.A. Live -- and Subsidized by Taxpayers

The new Courtyard and Residence Inns (right) will sit directly across from two more Marriott hotels.​A double Marriott hotel project that will occupy the lot across from L.A. Live just got a huge boost from you, the Los Angeles taxpayer. You have the L.A. City Council -- and downtown Councilw ... More >>

Future Fugly: Wilshire Grand Development at 7th & Figueroa, Downtown

Feast your eyes on the future. By 2015, the bustling, glowing corner of 7th & Figueroa downtown will have replaced the just-shuttered Wilshire Grand hotel with this concoction of stores, ads and vague glowing glass volumes.

Metropolis II at LACMA: Will a Sculpture Made of 1,100 Hot Wheels Predict L.A.'s Future?

Alissa WalkerCould this be L.A.'s transportation future?​ Where once art originated from the front seat of a freewheeling Los Angeles vehicle -- Ed Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip photography series, Dennis Hopper's Double Standard photograph of a gas station -- our kill-me-now tr ... More >>

Hollywood Community Plan, aka Skyscraper Hell, Approved by L.A. Planning Commission at Dodgy Meeting

Illustration by Jack BalingitForty stories? That's nothin'!​Hollywood is about to become a sea of skyscrapers. And our only consolation prize is a goddamned cat park. Opponents to L.A.'s new "Hollywood Community Plan" never stood a chance. As if it wasn't off-putting enough that today's Plann ... More >>

Loscon 38: Robots, Filking and a Look at the Work of Philip K. Dick

Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, a small conference room in the basement of the LAX Marriott filled to the brim. The science fiction fans attending this year's Loscon crowded together in tightly packed seats for a discussion of the life and work of Philip K. Dick led by noted authors T ... More >>

If You Can Make It Here, You'll Want To Move To New York

Top 5 Halloween Candy Urban Legends

T. NguyenWhat evil lurks in this year's bag of Halloween candy?​Trick-or-treating is a time-honored, once-a-year tradition when, just for this one night, children are ask for, and receive, candy from strangers. Reliance on the kindness of strangers, only goes so far. Every Halloween, parents Q ... More >>

50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America

Timothy Norris​John Lennon once said of Los Angeles, "That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco." Pretty rough stuff from a supposedly nice guy. Clearly, the Eggman (or was he the Walrus?) missed the endless taco stands, the pupusas, the pho, the don ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without the Movie

Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty

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Blade Runner Stadium

Drive Review

Ryan Gosling at the wheel in the glossy, retro heist-gone-bad bloodbath

A Field of Billboards for Farmers Field

Top 10 Artworks Inspired by Cult Movies From the 'Crazy 4 Cult' Book and Art Show, Including Fight Club, TRON and Back to the Future

​Sometimes life imitates art. Or maybe it goes the other way around. But at Gallery 1988, art imitates art at the annual "Crazy 4 Cult" exhibit, a conglomeration of pieces inspired by some of the most celebrated cult films in history. The show, which opens again on July 8, has featured art ri ... More >>

Measuring Terrence Malick

Patton Oswalt: Geekdom's Pundit

Kristeen Young, live at the Hotel Cafe, 5/16

Falling James​The St. Louis singer-provocateur Kristeen Young put on quite the fascinating one-woman show at the Hotel Café, defying the boundaries of technology, the laws of gravity and the mood swings of a fussy soundman. She was decked out in a style that was truly all her own, with a witc ... More >>

An Experimental Video Smorgasbord

REDCAT's Artist Theater Program

Hearts Aflame: An Evening of Love Letters, From 11th-Century Missives to 21st-Century E-mails

Bruce Dern, Udo Kier, M. Emmet Walsh

The stars of Cinefamily's "That Guy!" series divulge their secrets

Trent Reznor Confirms Collaboration with Rage Against The Machine Track Is "Out There" and Discusses Collaborations with Tool's Maynard James Keenan and Soundtrack Work

Trent Reznor Says Rage Against The Machine Collaboration "Out There"

Tron: Legacy Review

Tron returns, as a 3-D, CGI'd, blissed-out empty head trip

Rock & Rule Blu-Ray Release: Debbie Harry and Cheap Trick vs. Cartoon Guitar Mutants (and Lou Reed!)

​ How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>

16 Awesome Costumed Couples at LACMA's Muse Ball (And Some Who Should Have Been Couples, But Sadly, Were Not)

Are you sick of Halloween yet? Me neither! It should be Halloween everyday. (And here at the LA Weekly's Style Council, it often feels like it is.) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's annual Muse Costume Ball is one of the best places to people-watch. This year, couples stole the show. Here are t ... More >>

Nightranger: Star Bright

Cool Costumes, Props and Memorabilia from 'Resident Evil: Afterlife,' 'Inglourious Basterds,' 'Return of the Jedi' and More up for Auction

Saturday morning at 11 a.m., Premiere Props will be hosting a massive prop and costume auction that will be broadcast live on its site. The centerpiece of the auction is the collection of items from Resident Evil: Afterlife, including what Dan Levine of Premiere described as "hero props," items that ... More >>

Tokyo Style Billboards For Downtown L.A. Proposed

​Los Angeles is one of the world's great neon cities, but the Korean and American developers of a new high rise proposed for downtown want to take it up a notch. According to Curbed LA, the owners of the Wilshire Grand hotel -- proposed site of a 65-story building -- want to create a sign dist ... More >>

Top 5 Classic Sci-Fi Characters That Would Have Looked Even Cooler with Mustaches

Lando pimped the 'stache even in a galaxy far, far away​We're nearing the end of Mustache May and as people across the web compare facial hair, we couldn't help but wonder if some of our favorite, classic sci-fi characters would look even cooler with a little (or a lot) of fuzz above the lip. ... More >>

Annakim Violette: American Girl

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Writing the Trains: Graffiti on Freight Cars

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Koreatown: Glitter Babies Vs. Thugs

Stylish throngs with dough pour into the area. So do muggers and killers