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Triple the Fun With Linklater's Before Films and the Back to the Future Trio: Your Weekly To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 17 In 1995, audiences met Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) in Before Sunrise, the story of a chance meeting on a train that turns into a night of conversation and roaming around Vienna. With only a short time together until Jesse' ... More >>

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 >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Snowfall in Chinatown

See also: *10 L.A. Art Spaces That Change Our Idea of What an Art Space Is *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying This week, a Eurasian collective tells uncanny histories, artists take on maintenance work and a sculptor builds an uncomfortably large minimalis ... More >>

Two Plays About Big Ideas

Cassiopeia and Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ruminate on Heaven and Earth

The Undercover Vegetarian: BierBeisl

Are you a salad fetishist? I mean a true lover of greens and dressing, not necessarily the meat-free eater that has turned salads into a meal-in-a-bowl art form, but someone who really, truly loves salad at its most basic? If so, BierBeisl has some salads you should check out. The greens are crisp, ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/7 - 1/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Among the topics? Secret burger menus, fair food, ostrich omelets and plenty of old guys in the desert." Top 5 Huell Howser Food Episodes: In Memoriam. "4. Eat a meatball sub any time someone thanks Harvey Weinstein." Tina ... More >>

BierBeisl Brings Something Different to Beverly Hills

Austrian chef Bernhard Mairinger has brilliantly old-school technique

Serious Drinking: Saying Ja to Austrian Wines

The arrival of Beirbeisl in Beverly Hills as a pristine example of Austrian cuisine -- check out Besha Rodell's review, out today -- comes as Austrian wines enter into a kind of renaissance in California, a blossoming of popularity, a flurry of import activity, and the thrilling entry of red wines t ... More >>

Vienna Comes to Downtown

Cheese-Making May Date Back 7,500 Years

Aged cheeses are delicious, although 7,500 years old might be a bit much. But that's how old the practice of cheese-making may be -- much older than previously thought -- according to an article in the journal Nature. Scientists have reportedly discovered 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that have ... More >>

Europe in Love: The King of Hearts Is Off Again and The Belle of Belfast

Jewish romance in Poland and Catholic romance in Ireland

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Randy Blythe, Ahead of His Manslaughter Trial, Talks About Losing a Child Himself

Randy Blythe, lead singer of Richmond, Virginia-based heavy metal band Lamb of God, spent most of the summer in prison in the Czech Republic. It happened due to a strange series of events culminating in late June, when he arrived in Prague to play a show. There, he was arrested by Czech police for t ... More >>

The 5 Things You Need Know About This Week's Review of Ink

This week's restaurant review is of ink., Michael Voltaggio's Melrose Avenue restaurant that was recently named the best new restaurant in the country by GQ magazine. We'd love it if you, you know, READ THE REVIEW, but if you're too LAZY OR WHATEVER, here's a few things you should know about the res ... More >>

Top 5 Mexican Beers: What to Drink Before Tequila

Let's face it, Mexico isn't exactly a major player in the current craft beer revolution. But that doesn't mean that its long tradition of easy-drinking European-style lagers is something to be overlooked. Sure, the cerveza market is just as consolidated and macro-dominated as the United States' was ... More >>

World Cup of Baking Winners Announced in Paris

No culinary fragrance can compete with that of freshly baked bread. You can be comforted, exalted, seduced, relieved, or stimulated by nutty yeast tones gently wafting toward you. Or maybe you're just hungry. The Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, or World Baking Cup, is an event that will make every ... More >>

McDonald's Debuts the McRibster... In Austria

Is there a McRib-sized void in your arteries? In need of some cheese and bacon as well? Then book an international flight to Austria and indulge in McDonalds' newly introduced McRibster. According to Burger Business, McDonalds' sandwich creation contains "juicy pork, bacon, pepper-Jack cheese, and ... More >>

Alina Szapocznikow at the Hammer Museum: Sexy Sculptures of a Forgotten Polish Genius

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Music by Babies

Two exhibitions with Chinatown in the title top this week's list, and both are remakes. One further twists Roman Polanski's already twisted classic film about where incest meets corporate corruption. The other is a sequel to an exhibition that never actually happened.

Restaurant Openings: BierBeisl (Austrian), Nongla (Vietnamese)

BierBeisl, a fine-dining Austrian restaurant from former Patina chef de cuisine Bernhard Mairinger, officially opens Feb. 27 in Beverly Hills. The intimate restaurant features a Stammtisch, a communal table where chefs in Austria send out special treats to regulars. BierBeisl: 9669 Santa Monica Blv ... More >>

I'm Fucked Up, You're Fucked Up

Cookbook Of The Week: The Art of Living According to Joe Beef's Testicle Pizza Theory A Vienna Sausage (!) Martini Recipe

When we first flipped through The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan and Meredith Erickson, we thought it was yet another pretty but also pretty lackluster restaurant cookbook (Joe Beef is Montreal's restaurant du jour). There's even the requisite foreword by a w ... More >>

National Geographic's Top 10 National Dishes Guess What Americans Like To Eat

Anne FishbeinBurger Kitchen's breakfast hamburger​Food blogs aren't the only publications with endless lists or pictures of pretty things people like to eat. National Geographic, the magazine many of us fondly remember from grade school science classrooms and dentists' offices, is the latest t ... More >>

LQ Cheese Cart Moves to Domaine LA 18-Course Truffle Dinner?

Go west, young cheese cart. LQ's cheese cart is taking a trip, rolling out of its current home at Starry Kitchen in downtown L.A. to visit Hancock Park wine shop Domaine LA. The cart will have almost 40 cheeses, and the sommeliers at Domaine LA will pair up to a dozen wines with them. Expect a Saven ... More >>

Hungary Destroys Genetically Modified Corn Crops

Flickr/stevendepolo​ Hungary has destroyed almost 1,000 acres of corn found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, which are illegal in the country, International Business Times reports. The corn was plowed under so that pollen would not contaminate other crops. The action came ... More >>

Cannes 2011: The Winners

​ CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.

Hey Everybody, Let's Go to a Fancy Beverly Hills Hotel and Get Stinkin' Drunk!

Jonathan Gold Judges Cochon 555's Traveling Pork and Wine Bacchanalia

OCTOPI HAVE BALLS?

Salute To Vienna

Events: Bock Fest Coming to LA on Jan. 15

To the delight of local hop heads, Los Angeles is finally becoming a beer town. Maybe it always has been, but in typical Angeleno style: springing up haphazardly, secreted in obscure niches, resistant to easy discovery. Good beer can always be found for those willing to put in the effort. What abo ... More >>

THE NUTCRACKER

The Vegetable Orchestra Plays With Their Food

The Vegetable Orchestra Plays With Their Food

BEST EXCUSE TO SAY "ABSINTHE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER"


Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

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 >>

Squid Ink Special: Army Brand Chopped Pork Pattie Loaf

We happened into Karpaty Meat Shop, a Russian market on Santa Monica Boulevard, and found it to be a rather charming and inexpensive place to do some interesting shopping. They have organic fruits and vegetables, and as the name implies, a good selection of raw meat. On the other end of the deli are ... More >>

WHO'S YOUR GOLEM?

Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen The Joys of HSN

In yesterday's first part of our interview with Wolfgang Puck, the chef talked about his new downtown restaurant WP24 and gave us a little backstory of Ma Maison, Spago and the invention of his famous pizza. Speaking of pizza, turns out that Puck decided to detour, mid-interview and en route to the ... More >>

Live in LA: Greg Laswell, Ruby Friedman Orchestra, more

Joseph Llanes​People love Greg Laswell, and it's not just the music supervisors who've funneled his ballads of heartache into shows such as "Grey's Anatomy," "90210" and "The Hills." The 36-year-old singer-songwriter's deft ability to turn melancholy inside out served him well on his 2006 brea ... More >>

The 13th Step: Researchers Find That Chocolate Can Save Your Liver

Valrhona chocolate​ Your favorite 12 Step program just got a new step: chocolate. Reuters reports that Spanish researchers have found that eating chocolate after meals decreased abdominal blood pressure, which can reach dangerous levels in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. In other words, ... More >>

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The Wages of Greed

Beethoven, As I Knew Him: The Music of Ludwig van Beethoven

Dog Day Afternoon: Bites of Chicago in L.A.

A frank discussion of a family obsession

A Not-So-Silent Night

The Big Chill

Hot summer in the Slovenian lake country