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5 Great Old School Burger Stands in Los Angeles

There's something special about the walk-up burger stand, that post-WWII staple of American eating that has slowly started to fade from view. There are still zillions of madre-and-padre burger operations around Los Angeles, pressing beef into ageless cast iron griddles, but many of them have opted f ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Events: Tacos & Beer 5K, Vegan Beer Festival, Gluten-Free Festival Cinco de Mayo Block Party

Tacos & Beer 5K Tacos & Beer 5K will be taking place in Long Beach, sponsored by Exitos 93.9 FM MC Raq-c and MC Nachin, Bud Light Lime, TeQava, and East Los Angeles Tacos. Participants who finish the race will receive a taco and a beer in addition to a finisher medal, goodie bag, and t-shirt. Food t ... More >>

We Hang Out With Some Crazy Marines Drinking Their Asses Off at Coachella

Coachella can be brutal: Dry desert heat, sand storms, endurance tests. It's hard for folks to survive with their health intact. That is, unless you're in the Marine Corps. Jimmy English and Tidas Friday (not their real names) repair tanks and other military vehicles. They recently returned from a ... More >>

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

Budweiser Allegedly Watered Down Beer 5 California Craft Alternatives

Anheuser-Busch InBev is being sued by consumers in Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey with companion suits coming from Ohio and Colorado, Bloomberg reports. The complaint filed in Philadelphia alleges that the alcohol content in a variety of Anheuser-Busch products is overstated, which would vi ... More >>

Ladyface Ale Companie Celebrates 3 Years as a Top L.A. Brewery

Though Ladyface Ale Companie will be celebrating its third anniversary this week, it was this time eight years ago -- during San Francisco Beer Week 2005 -- that salt-and-pepper-haired Cyrena Nouzille first thought about opening up a microbrewery in the unlikely L.A. suburb of Agoura Hills. Back t ... More >>

Happy National Lager Day A Beer Venn Diagram

Today is National Lager Day, a grassroots holiday started as a way to celebrate the many faces of the world's most produced type of beer. But what the hell is a lager anyway? Is it an ale? Is it a style of beer? Is it a corporate marketing term expertly concocted to roll off the tongue so perfectly ... More >>

Cast Your "Beer Votes" at Barney's Beanery Tomorrow Night

It's that time of year again. Months of handshaking and politicking are about to coalesce into a single sweeping turn of the cogs of democracy. Yes, we are referring to Barney's Beanery's quadrennial "Beer Vote," which allows customers to vote for the candidate of their choice by choosing the beer t ... More >>

The Stave Wine and Beer Bar Opens Tonight: Where Everybody in Long Beach Knows Your Name

"What's this going to be?" a passerby yells into the cavernous, under-construction site at the corner of Broadway and Downtown Long Beach's Promenade. "Not a chain, I hope." Two weeks before the doors roll up and any Pilsner is poured, Natalie van Waardenburg and Garry Muir are walking through The ... More >>

Budweiser Magnum Soon to be the Costliest Beer in India

Last week Anheuser-Busch InBev announced that the new Budweiser Magnum will become the highest priced super-premium beer in India, Economic Times reports. The strong, American-style lager will debut in a 650 ml bottle (22 oz. bomber) for 150 rupees. Is that a wildly high price? While 150 Rs comes in ... More >>

Meg Gill: I Wish They All Could Be California Beers

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Meg Gill is not a Bud Light girl. The Golden Road Brewing co-founder, 27, has had to correct this assumption time and again. The good-old-boy network within the beer industry ... More >>

Gambling: New Combat Vets Plagued by Troubling Addiction

[Updated Again] Q & A With Sam of the Los Angeles Beerathon: Manifest Destiny, Avoiding the Frat-Boy Demographic How Drinking Beer Is Like Climbing a Mountain

Update: (Friday, 1:51 p.m.) A few hours ago, the CABC released a statement stating that the real reason for the cancellation (which they claim was Beerathon LLC's decision, not theirs) was that Beerathon does not have a license to sell alcohol. Never mind that all alcohol will be served not by the c ... More >>

Fidlar on Hangovers, House Parties, and How They Came up With Their Name

See also our feature story: Fidlar Are Drunk, Reckless and Proud of It Our print feature story this week focuses on Fidlar, Highland Park-based garage punks who are creating major industry buzz without seeming to give a fuck. Over the course of a beer-drenched BBQ at their home-recording studio, ... More >>

10 Best Beer Bars In Los Angeles

With craft beer L.A.'s current unyielding obsession, it seems crazier than a 55% ABV beer that four short years ago that we were celebrating, along with dozens of tube sock-clad homebrew club sorts, the first local bars to land coveted cask-conditioned ales on tap. My how that fedora-topped draft be ... More >>

Neptune's Net: When You're in a Bad-ass Seafood Mood

N. Galutenclam chowder at Neptune's Net​When the weather gets cool, the surf gets big and the traffic on PCH dies down, Malibu once again belongs to us, free of the tourist hordes in their rented Aveos. And so we crank down the top, crank up the Suicidal Tendencies and bomb up the coast to Nep ... More >>

UNTAPPD: New Beer App Makes Drinking (Virtually) Social

​A little late for last year's check-in app rage, but just in time for the third annual LA Beer Week comes another new Android and iPhone app for beer geeks and casual macro-enjoyers alike. UNTAPPD started out last year as a web app that allowed users to share their current beer choices with ... More >>

The Death Letters and Cameras - Culture Collide Festival - October 8, 2011

See also: *Culture Collide Festival Preview: Let's Get International *Culture Collide Festival review: Liam Finn, Rainbow Arabia, Guineafowl, The Awkwards perform on October 6, 2011 The Death Letters and Cameras 321 Lounge at TAIX October 8, 2011 Better than...that high school house party where yo ... More >>

Frogtown Artwalk: Bill Lagattuta, 48 Hours Correspondent-Turned-Artist, Leads a Motley Crew of Artisans Along L.A. River

Bill Lagattuta: The Arrow Project.​ The weekend on the L.A. River, in brief: kayaking in the Sepulveda Basin, cigarette breaks and joints on the bike path in Elysian Valley. At the sixth annual Frogtown Artwalk, held along a dimly stretch of warehouses and mixed-use buildings on Blake Avenue ... More >>

Make This Now: Beer Popsicles

B. MesirowA four pack of Beersicles​ School is back in session, college and pro football is upon us, and in some places that means fall is right around the corner. Cooler weather, heartier food, sweaters (though we hear sweater vests are out this season), and a decreased need for cold beer. ... More >>

Q & A With Amavi's Jean-Francois Pellet: On Wine Life, Tequila (Why Not?) Coors Light

pepperbridge.comPellet And Friends At Pepperbridge, with Champagne​When Washington winemakers like Jean-François Pellet of Pepper Bridge and Amavi Cellars swoop into town, there is usually one thing on the tasting agenda: Serious wine talk. About their own wines, of course. But during our rec ... More >>

Wirtshaus: A Sneak Peek Into LA's Newest German Restaurant

Los Angeles has seen a spate of German-themed bars and restaurants open in the past few years (Wurstkuche, Biergarten, Steingarten, the upcoming Currywurst), but very few of them (Berlin Currywurst is a notable exception) are actually run by Germans. Set to officially opening this Friday (July 29th ... More >>

Phusion Projects Interview: Four Loko Creators Admit It Tastes Like Crap, Deny All Else

No amount of ice can freeze out the taste of fermented Windex​Finally, the wise men speak! Jeff Wright, Jaisen Freeman and Chris Hunter -- that notorious trio behind the cultural phenomenon turned public enemy that was caffeinated alcopop "killer" Four Loko -- defend their product in a March ... More >>

The Man Who Drank Only Beer, Part 1: Interview with a Part-Time Monk

J. Wilson from Diary of a Part-Time Monk​Millions of people the world over are giving up something for Lent, but few are doing it as publicly or as interestingly as J. Wilson, who's consuming nothing but beer for the 46 days leading up to Easter. The 38-year-old Iowa native, who lives eight mi ... More >>

Roy Choi's "Modern Picnic"

A-Frame captures Asian-American flavor

Craftmas- Handmade Gifts For Boozers, Tokers (And Home-Makers) This Weekend

Betty Oatmeal's smokin' Willie shirt design. ​You're gonna be hearing about a crapload of Craft fairs in the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, but there's one this weekend that you really don't want to miss, and we're not just saying that because *full disclosure* we'll be signing our cr ... More >>

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Top 10 Men With Salad Names

Recently, we brought you Top 10 Men With Meat Names, culled from an online collection of men who share their names with different kinds of animal flesh. It got us thinking, though -- what about all those gentlemen with vegetables for last names? Where was that amusing website designed exclusively f ... More >>

Do Not Adjust Your iPod

Sleigh Bells, the band everyone's talking about, is meant to sound messed up. Roll with it

Dale's Pale Ale: Coming To A Convenience Store Near You The Theory of Relativity As It Applies to Canned Beer

J. Garbee​If you frequent L.A.'s better beer hangouts - The Yard, West Fourth and Jane, and The Surly Goat among them - you've probably had, or seen, a can or two of Dale's Pale Ale, America's "first hand-canned beer" (the brewery's words, not ours) from Oskar Blues in Colorado. But when you' ... More >>

Wavves: All Hail King Skinny Shitster

Does frontman Nathan Williams speak for the loser in us all?

Our Favorite Happy Hours

50 deal-driven places to get you and your wallet feeling a whole lot better

Stinkers Bar to Re-Open as Thirsty Crow A Look at Their Bourbon Menu

1933 GroupThirsty Crow's Scotch menu​By now you probably already know that Stinkers bar in Silver Lake will re-open on April 23 as Thirsty Crow, a thematic shift that moves the venue from Ironic Truck Stop Chic to Grampy's Neighborhood Bourbon Bar. Named after one of Aesop's Fables -- in whic ... More >>

BREAKING: PiL Opening 2010 US Tour in LA

Butterface: UK Dairy Spokesperson (and PiL Frontman) John Lydon​Public Image LTD (PiL), the post-punk art-rock project John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) created as a much smarter but less catchy followup to the gamechanging Sex Pistols, will now begin its upcoming US tour not at Coachella, as had ... More >>

The Naked Pint Released Today! Plus a Conversation With Local Beer Experts/Authors Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune

Beer-- it's for everybody.​Today marks the release of The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, from authors Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune. Perozzi, also known as The Beer Chick, was named "Best Beer Sommelier" by LA Magazine and is currently regarded as one of the top beer e ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Nightlife

Learn to Make Mozarella Get Paid for It; No Guarantees It Will Be as Good As Mozza's

Full Sail BrewingHow Handy Are You with Hops?​Are you itching to open the next hot Los Angeles brewery but don't know hops from barley? Pining for the mozzarella balls from Mozza 2Go but don't want to venture so far from your La-Z-Boy? Learn to make beer and cheese yourself on a paid vacation ... More >>

Part Time Punks Festival: A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Love is All, Daytime Television Tear a Hole in History

A Certain Ratio's Jeremy Kerr: still dark and menacing Old men acting weird. That’s one way to look at it, and if I were one of the four pre-teen boys in the band Daytime Television, whose versions of the Buzzcocks’ “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays,” "Part Time Punks" and “Teenage Kicks” ... More >>

Billboard Liberation: MSK and D-30

A little billboard liberation going on (on a blank one, I should add - thanks heavens no one upset the marketing plans of Hancock or Bud Light). On Sunset neat Malo and Further. All photos by Mark Mauer.

The Super Bowl Crew Not So Ready for Their Close-Up

James Brown, Boomer Esiason, etc. � all looked like they�d slathered skin-toned frosting on their mugs just before air. Makeup people, I feel for you in this new crisp-resolution world.

Holiday Smackdown, Y'all

King of Beers

Sam Samaniego and his 700 bottles of beer on the wall

Monkeys, Monsters and Dead Flies

Ask Mr. Gold

Before Bling

Hip-hop�s storied past

When Might Turns Right

Golly GE, why Big Media is pro-Bush

In Service to the Patron Saint of Cirrhosis

Total War

Replace the DMZ with the DFZ (Duty-Free Zone)

Changing Lanes

The Very Nice Piece of Shit