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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 >>

10 Best Dishes in L.A. for Homesick New Yorkers

It's easy to start nodding off when people drag out the old "New York vs. Los Angeles" debate; it's a tired one, and largely a comparison of Big Apples to orange groves, anyway. But after Bon Appetit listed its 20 most important restaurants in America and New York outshone L.A. by a factor of six, i ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: "Do You Want to be Comforted, or do You Want to be Thrilled?"

It was a battle of the coasts in last night's Top Chef Masters finale, pitting New York's Kerry Heffernan against San Francisco's golden boy Chris Cosentino. But it wasn't just that. It was also a battle of culinary ideologies, considering these two chefs' approach to food couldn't be more differen ... More >>

Peter Bart-Bill O'Reilly Gay Marriage Prank Hits Inboxes Today

Someone's trying to punk ex-Variety editor Peter Bart and Fox News bloodhound Bill O'Reilly with a fake email invitation to their pre-gay-wedding coming out parties. LOL? Bart was certainly no force for diversity at L.A.-based showbiz publication Variety, but we never understood him to be a gay bas ... More >>

Olive Garden Meets Zankou Chicken: Houses That Wish They Were Restaurants

Michael HernandezThe Olive Garden Meets Zankou Chicken Meets KB Homes​ What better place to find inspiration for residential architecture than restaurants? That's just what these proud homeowners did to their L.A. area abodes. Above, the Olive Garden meets Zankou Chicken in this homage to pan ... More >>

Hall Pass: Old Stools

Farrellys' latest comedy finds them in midlife crisis

First Bite: Lobster Rolls on The Lobsta Truck

"You're eating what off a truck?" a friend asked when I told him I would be sampling the wares at The Lobsta Truck (@lobstatruck). There's nothing like seafood -- tricky to source, expensive and prone to spoilage -- to fortify or chip way at one's prejudices about food trucks. If there's an ident ... More >>

California's 2010 Embrace of Green Tech

In killing Proposition 23, residents choose to pay more for energy, use less

A Matter of Impressions

The Frank and Jamie McCourt Divorce — and the Dodgers' Future — May Well Come Down to Indentations From Signatures

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

Treat Her Right: Mother's Day Dining Options

Flickr user Bakerella​ Mother's Day in Los Angeles always brings the gift of good May weather, and the perennial foolproof option of a Sunday farmers' market visit followed by a home cooked meal. But here are a few other suggestions on how to treat a deserving lady right, since chances are th ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Wooster Group's "North Atlantic"

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSECHO CHAMBERS Resonances from The Wooster Group's North Atlantic​Ground Control to Major Tom Photo by Paula Court If you drive through the San Gabriel Mountains, where radio reception is already dodgy, set ... More >>

Vampire Weekend at the Fonda: More Songs About Language and Taxis

In the schoolyard world of rock & roll, it's easy to see why Vampire Weekend gets picked on. Looking so meek, so intellectual, so teacher's pet, the band -- from suburban New York, no less -- looks the very antithesis of rebellion. They're more like an after-school study group than the most buzzed- ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Creation, Sherlock Holmes

Also, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, Night Two: Vampire Weekend, White Rabbits, Slightly Stoopid, Muse and More

KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Christmas this year featured some of our favorite bands from the 90s, the decade in which we learned to play guitar just so we could jam the songs in some crappy all-ages venue. Revisiting Alice In Chains, Sublime and 311 reminded us why we liked them in the first pl ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

The Very Best -- Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit -- Deliver a Party at the Echoplex

Sometimes it's best to just come out and say it fast and honestly: You missed a great party last night at the Echoplex. Well, not all of you. A few hundred souls showed up to see the Very Best, Rainbow Arabia and Bersa Discos bring the rhythm. The headliner, from London, consists of production duo R ... More >>

He’s Out of Our Life ... Not

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#20-11) (Sponsored By Teen Wolf Too)

Some might say this was the finest work Jason Bateman would ever do. 20. Al Green-Lay It Down (Blue Note) What more did you want from Al Green? Did you want him to wear Levar Burton sunglasses and use auto-tune? Did you want him to do a ladies only tour? Did you want him to employ interplanet ... More >>

Children of the Candy Corn

Marina Del Rey doesn't normally see many Latinos on its streets after sundown, when gardeners, cooks and house cleaners finish their work and head home – sometimes to crummy apartments in central L.A.'s Pico Union neighborhoods. Halloween night was different, though, as about 50 children from Pic ... More >>

Stage Raw: Spring Awakening

Stage Raw: Confessions of a Subterranean Playwright

Stage Raw: To Ser With Love

Stage Raw: Playboy of the Western World

Stage Raw: The Sequence

Sea Change

Theater Reviews: Joe's Garage, Sea Change, Fatboy

Also, Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and more

Live in L.A.: Lykke Li at the Hotel Cafe, August 25

Coachella Day One: The Raconteurs Stomp the Bejeesus Out of Vampire Weekend

Coachella, Day One It was hard to watch, honestly. There was blood all over the place. The security guys kept pulling Jack White off of Vampire Weekend lead singer Ezra Koenig, but White kept coming, veins popping, eyes way gone and spiraling, guitar sound set to “pummel,” prowling on the main ... More >>

Record Reviews: The Mars Volta, Radar Brothers

Also: Vampire Weekend, Crystal Antlers

Vampire Weekend, Amoeba, 2/4

Vampire Weekend Amoeba Records, Feb. 4 It's packed. You maybe thought of coming down yourself, but if you did, you were way back in one of the clearance bin aisles, staring at row after row of mid-90s Sony alt-rock comps and Jane Child CDs. And that's if you arrived at six. Otherwise you're outsid ... More >>

2007’s Best Untethered (Unprotected) MP3s

Singles streaming steady

Rock Picks

For the week of July 12 � 19

The Boras Factor

Is super agent Scott Boras destroying the game of baseball? And what does he want now?

Kara Bartelt and Michael Chung

Fresh, crisp and green

Swine Song

Greg Kotis, on his agri-eco farce, Pig Farm

Santa Monica or Saigon?

A tale of two brothers

Theater Reviews

Salaciousness and Surf in the C.C.

The Yoke of Men�s Opinions

Gaby Boom: Rainbow Sprites

A Voice by Any Other Name . . .

The Small Plate

How the little things make a meal

Home Is Other People

Demons, past and present

The DeWayne Project

The best of Sitegeist

The DeWayne Project

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Hollywood, Straight Up

The craps-shooting cop, the hungarian brawl and other stories from Steve Boardner's bar

Mockin' Bird

Patti Page comes out swinging