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Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Cowboys to Art Sleuths

See also: *L.A. Art History Lessons on Twitter, in Emoji Form *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, an array of icons -- cowboys, the president, an unforgettable AIDS activist -- appear in art on view and three performers laugh all afternoon at LACMA. 5. Art det ... More >>

Black Hogg Down

Chef Eric Park is packing in diners in Silver Lake, but he's not ready for prime time

Where Chefs Eat: The Hardcover Version Where Michael Voltaggio Goes for "Stoner Sushi"

Where Chefs Eat, a new book from Phaidon, is a compilation of the eateries worldwide where 400 chefs like to dine (David Chang, Rene Redzepi Eric Ripert, Daniel Boulud, Anita Lo, Fergus Henderson, among them) what they order, and when they like to go (very early, or very late, most likely). Sound fa ... More >>

Porn's Anti-Condom Camp Should Give Back Fabian Thylmann's Cash, AIDS Group Says

The folks who brought you mandatory condoms in porn wants the industry to give back cash it took from an adult-content kingpin arrested recently on suspicion of tax fraud. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation says the No On Measure B campaign took $220,000 total from the mostly online juggernaut known as ... More >>

Fabian Thylmann, Porn King Opposing Condoms In L.A. Adult Video, Arrested

Updated at the bottom with reaction from the pro-condom camp. First posted at 9:07 a.m. The co-founder a company that backed the porn industry's fight against mandatory condoms in L.A. county was arrested in Brussels on suspicion of tax evasion, according to reports. The German publication Die Wel ... More >>

Slutwave, Tumblr Rap, Rape Gaze: Obscure Musical Genres Explained

Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop In our music feature this week, Jason Roche ... More >>

Q & A with Andre Guerrero: Food Neighborhoods, Closet Pastry Chefs Ramen Dreams

Andre Guerrero can't imagine living anywhere other than Los Angeles. Save for his earliest years in the Philippines and a couple spent in San Francisco when his family initially moved to the United States, Guerrero has essentially been a lifelong L.A. resident. Over the course of a 30-plus-year ca ... More >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Wes Lieberher's 'Beer Belly Brussels'

Between serving up his "Death by Duck" grilled cheese sandwich at this weekend's Grilled Cheese Invitational, preparing for a championship-defending rematch at this summer's Korean BBQ festival, and engineering weekly creations like pizza cheesesteaks and fried house-cured pickles at "New Order Mond ... More >>

Link 'N' Hops: For Better or Wurst

Even if you'd never been inside Atwater Village's newest sausage-and-beer pub before, passing through Link 'N' Hops' reclaimed wood door frame might cause a few rumblings of deja vú. The dark wood, dim lighting, and vaulted ceilings might remind immediately of Würstkuche, which is probably the i ... More >>

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

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

Valentine's Day Chocolates Food Fight: Godiva vs. See's

S. BonarMr. Bear keeps Godiva's 15-piece assortment in a red satin box (left) away from See's traditional red heart with assorted chocolates.​This week's pre-Valentine's Day Food Fight pits a cute little mom-and-son candy shop against a sophisticated European chocolatier. This well-matched bou ... More >>

What Happens When You Look at One Painting for an Hour?

Seven years ago, artist Nuttaphol Ma spent three hours staring at a painting he hated. He was working at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and was assigned to stand guard over a particularly vulnerable work. "It was full of things you'd find at Michael's -- lots of glitter, beads, junk," says Ma, whose ... More >>

Beachwood SourFest 2011: The Sweetness of Sour Beer

Martin SvabBeachwood SourFest Beer Wall​ Tuesday, September 6. 11:00 a.m. A line of beer geeks waits outside for Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach to open their doors at 11:30 in the morning for SourFest 2011. The line up of sour beers for the six-day festival that has Eric Salazar from New Belgi ... More >>

Rambo: First Film

With Flooding With Love for the Kid, Zachary Oberzan takes DIY to new levels

Q & A With Michael Cimarusti, Part 2: The Michelin, Bluefin Tuna & Why You Should Learn How To Cook Fish

ProvidenceChef Michael Cimarusti​Providence chef-owner Michael Cimarusti has been even busier than usual lately, between trips to the Bocuse d'Or and to Japan. Read the first part of our interview for his take on those excursions. The chef also teaches the occasional cooking classes on, you gu ... More >>

35 Shots of Rum: Silent Treatment

Family drama, without all the screaming, in Claire Denis' latest

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Wings, Polish Food and Lebanese Tartar

Another week, another episode of No Reservations. Bourdain, inspired partially by HBO's critically acclaimed series "The Wire", (a fact that seemed to concern some locals), set out on a Rust Belt episode, highlighting the local fare of Buffalo, Baltimore and Detroit. Baltimore "lake trout", which i ... More >>

Agnès Varda From Zero to 80

A filmmaker’s life, as a beautiful waking dream

Beastly: The Elephant Man Rises From the Dead

Jeanne Dielman: Chantal Akerman's Domestic Mystique

David Thomson: Notes On Canons, Pantheons and a Century of Cinema

An exclusive excerpt from “Have You Seen ... ?” A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films

The B-Sides: Blu Interview

Contrary to popular belief, Blu did not take his name from the Eiffel 65 song popular in the late 90s. Q: So where exactly in LA did you grow up? A: I was born at St. Andrews and 54th, at my grandparent’s crib, that’s where I was living last year and it’s the first place I ever stayed. But ... More >>

Double Impact

The Wizard of REDCAT: Mark Murphy presents ...

The performance curator, with the likes of UCLA Live's David Sefton, makes all the world his stage

La Grande Orange

Swank suburban style

Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts

Art to live for

Fraîche Idea

Sprouting flavor from a winter staple

The Butterfly Effect

Islam, cartoons and the ongoing battle

The Rocky Files

Who hired ex-CIA agents to snoop around the city attorney?

Empire of the Senses

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon’s dynamite painter

Ask Mr. Gold

The American Nightmare

Will we be eclipsed by the European Union?

Spatial Non-Delivery

Around the World in 80 Way

Hurtling Lars Von Trier’s Five Obstructions

Kitchen Stories

Listening to Chantal Akerman

Past Perfection

Berkeley, Berlin, Berlioz

Nagano on the move

Dial EM for Mussels

As the World Turns

Not your regular news

Germany’s Trial Balloon

Anti-Semitism for political gain and profit

Under the Lava Lamp

Letters

Troubleshooters

Painters Paint

Down for the Good Life

A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

Down the Tubes

U.S. balks at European rule that manufacturers recycle toxic computers

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

Tales of an Island

Letter from Hong Kong

Survival Songs

The Kinks revisited