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Shrikanth Narayanan: USC's People Reader

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. People who spend lots of time around Shrikanth "Shri" Narayanan may not hear him ask "What are you thinking?" too often. That's not because he doesn't care but because he might ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See This Week, Including Balanchine's "Rubies"

This week's dance events include Los Angeles Ballet with Balanchine Festival Red, visitors from Canada, and a last chance to meet Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre at the Oasis. See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Thing ... More >>

My Band Wants to Book a Tour: How Do We Do It?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, February 1 Vieux Farka Touré, Fool's Gold ROYCE HALL Music critics often describe Vieux Farka Touré as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," but the Malian guitarist doesn't really sound much like Jimi Hendrix. Instead, Touré has a distinctively exotic style that's more similar to the music of hi ... More >>

The Best L.A. Metal Concerts to See in December

Sun, Dec 9 Gravehill, Behold! The Monolith Cheetah's On December 9th the spiked leather armband crowd and the bearded denim vest crowd will gather together...at a go-go club. Orange County's Gravehill plays to the former with uncompromising, blackened thrash metal with a bludgeoning focus on brutali ... More >>

[Updated] Mexican Mangoes Recalled Due to Salmonella Romaine Recalled Due to Listeria

Updated: Aug. 31, 3:17 p.m.: Mango distributor Splendid Foods has expanded their recall to as many as 1 million mangoes that may carry Salmonella bacteria, UPI reports. The FDA says the mangoes are likely to blame for a multistate cluster of salmonella, as well as cases in Canada. Splendid said the ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

See also: Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer Friday, August 17 Charli XCX TROUBADOUR This young London lass arrives in L.A. fresh from opening a string of Midwestern arena shows for Coldplay, which has to rank among the least appropriate bookings ever: On You're the O ... More >>

Music Picks: Alison Krauss, Flying Lotus, My Morning Jacket

Also, Jaga Jazzist, Kid Cudi, Baths and others

The NAFTA Dinner Series Comes to Los Angeles

currentlysavvy!/flickrcarne en su sugo ​ Innovative Portland-based publishing model Publication Studio is putting out a new novel by its founder, Matthew Stadler. A murder mystery set in the mountain city of Guanajuato, Mexico, the plot of Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha unfolds at sumptuous dinn ... More >>

Blame Alaska: Rare California 'Arctic Blast' Comes From the North

Stop getting your snow all up in our happy place, Palin​We knew California wasn't to blame for this dreadful, borderline-blasphemous cold spell! As usual, we have the northerners to thank for our unhappiness: This crazy-cold polar storm is whistling like an ambush of icicles straight down from ... More >>

SoCal Snowboarder Crashes, Dies At Mountain High Resort

Mountain HighAnother boarder gets out of the trees​Updated after jump: Coroner confirms that boarder was not wearing a helmet, and more details, including the exact slope where he died. Originally posted Dec. 28 at 12:20 p.m. Yesterday evening at 6 p.m., just after the sun went down at the M ... More >>

The Second Monday In October In Canada: It's Thanksgiving, Eh

Margy RochlinFarmer's Market in Vancouver's West End​ We have often studied the notation on our Day-At-A-Time calendars -- Thanksgiving (Canada) -- and wondered what the festival entails. As it turns out, it's a national holiday that lands on the second Monday of October and mirrors our nation ... More >>

Best Coast Extends Headlining Tour, Offers Free 'Boyfriend' MP3

Best Coast Extends Headlining Tour, Offers Free 'Boyfriend' MP3

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- The invention of the pub library: Gyopar, a Communist-era pub outside Budapest. [Reuters] -- Tarte Tatin bakery, coming soon to Beverly Hills. [Grub Street] -- If you're still hungry after watching Mad Men's season premier last night: a recipe for Chicken Kiev. [Eatocracy] -- Why mini cows ... More >>

Mark Ruwedel: "Now it is Dark" at Gallery Luisotti

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

Top Chef Canada Coming Soon

​ If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement bring the hit reality ... More >>

The Supper Liberation Front: Your Secret Che Guevara Dinner Club

Supper Liberation Front​One of the many advantages of living and dining in Los Angeles is that you can wear shorts to your favorite Michelin-starred restaurant. Now not only can you walk into Spago in flip-flops, but you have someplace where your Che Guevara T-shirt will be seriously appropria ... More >>

Nosaj Thing Remixes The xx, Plots 'Magical Properties Tour' with Daedelus and Jogger [MP3]

We've been preaching the gospel of Nosaj Thing, Jogger and Daedelus individually and as a pack for a long time now, and now the fearsome LA three is converging around a mission: to make a half-circle around the continent. Beginning (where else?) in Palm Springs, the three acts, all part of Daedel ... More >>

Consider the Oysterette

Bivalvular (and other) pleasures on Ocean Avenue

Possible Jasmine Fiore and Ryan Jenkins Cars Found

Buena Park Police are reportedly examining a car, found in the parking lot of the West Hollywood Trader Joe's, as possibly belonging to murdered model Jasmine Fiore. Fiore was strangled late last Friday night and her teeth extracted and fingers cut off, before her corpse was stuffed into a suitcase ... More >>

Jasmine Fiore: Crime Time Celebrity

​​​One week after her murder, Jasmine Fiore's immobile face continues to gaze from monitors at Web surfers and TV viewers. We, in turn, are transfixed by the made-up mask, with its doll-like eyes and the head coiffed in a swirl of bright blond hair. The grislier the details of Fiore's death, ... More >>

Os Mutantes to Launch U.S. Tour in Los Angeles

Legendary Brazilian tropicalia group Os Mutantes, whose work in the late 1960s fused Brazilian samba rhythms with Beatle-esque baroque pop, will perform at the Echoplex on August 28. The band, who recently signed to the LA-based Anti- imprint, are getting ready to release their first studio album in ... More >>

The Henry Clay People to Convene A "Mustache Circus" Featuring Fol Chen, Flying Tourbollin Orchestra

Timothy Norris Last Thursday we got a note from Andy Siara, he of the Henry Clay People, to inform us of an upcoming HCP show at the Echo and Echoplex that has the potential to be a great event: A Mustache Circus, slated for Friday, August 14. Says Siara: We're callin it the "Rock n Roll Mustache ... More >>

Kisses Unbecuming

Leonard Cohen to Gig at the Nokia a Week Before Coachella

Leonard Cohen just announced an extended spring tour, and will hit the Nokia Theater on Friday, April 10 -- a week prior to his Coachella appearance. Which is great for those of us who were a little worried about seeing one of our favorite songwriters surrounded by a bunch of drunken/tripping/coke ... More >>

Welcome to the Dollhouse: From Tumbleweed, a Rolling Home That Gathers No Moss

From Tumbleweed, a rolling home that gathers no moss

A New Firefighting Tool? A Canadian Company Joins the Battle to Fight Wildfires in California. President Bush Takes a Peek at the Giant of the Sky

British Columbia resident Wayne Coulson says he has the tool that will save hundreds of homes threatened by California fires annually. It is called the Martin Mars water bomber. Owned by the Canadian company, Coulson Flying Tankers, the 162,000-pound Martin Mars can drop 7,200 gallons of water and ... More >>

Trout Stanley

Theater Reviews: Personality Crisis, No Exit, Klub

Also, Coffee Will Make You Black, and more

Did Subway Cheaters Put Egg On L.A.'s Face?

MTA is dismantling the honor system, jacking up construction costs and lying about why

Accident at Sea

Unicorns become Islands

Fairy Lust

Go Vertical, Young Green

How apartment living is good for the environment

Ready To Rumble

The Northern California seismic threat to the Southland

A Kilo Full of Kryptonite

Big Joe Bralic thought he was Superman. Then the Canadian tried to do a drug deal in L.A.

Pullout Poster!

JOHN PICONE, Action Figure

Turn On, Meet God, Get Straight

An African root bark may offer clues to addiction — if only it were legal to study

Abstinence Is for Quitters

But Germany’s “drug-consumption rooms” keep addicts safe until they’re ready to kick — or not

Go Canada!

Should American homosexual couples head north to elope?

A Doctor in the House

The asylum case of a Pakistani physician that no one wants to touch

Those Little-Town Blues Are Melting Away

Legendary Snowboarder Dies in Avalanche

Peripheral Visions

The edge of L.A. in three dimensions

Ecocide

Letters

North by Northwest

Sledgehammers to the Streets

The zine scene