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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Renegade Delivery Man

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament This week, there's a symposium on what it's like to live at a time when real life is like sci-fi, a portrait of Jayne Mansfield's car on view and a cutout UPS ... More >>

Lucky Peach's The Essential Guide to Dim Sum

There is, as always, a bunch of fun articles in the most recent issue of Lucky Peach (theme: Chinatown), with the most handy being Carolyn J. Phillips's succinct guide to dim sum that doubles as a CliffsNotes version of a typical dim sum menu. But maybe you don't want to conspicuously reference Luck ... More >>

What Is the Los Angeles Warehouse Scene?

No one denies that Los Angeles knows how to party, but dance music fans who aren't interested in bouncers and bottle service or sharing a stadium with a herd of teenagers have had to look harder for their fix. The 20 Greatest EDM DJs What's the Difference Between the EDM Scene and the Beat Scene? ... More >>

5 Ways to Help Feed People This Holiday Season

There are so many worthy ways to give back this time of year. You can attend a fundraising event, donate food or write a check to help the less fortunate. All of which are needed and appreciated by the charities that depend on your generosity. But in case you need some inspiration, we came up with ... More >>

Tripped-out religious rites

An L.A. Evening With Mark Bittman: A Free Lecture

Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman will be coming to town on Nov. 14 to give a free lecture titled "Behind the Scenes of What We Eat" at Chinatown's California Endowment Center for Healthy Communities. Bittman, who penned the best-selling cookbook How to Cook Everything, wil ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Terrorist in the Museum

This week, an artist deconstructs the pom-pom, two holes get cut in gallery walls and an exhibition suggests the wrong man took the blame for murder 83 years ago. 5. Wallflower whirlpool Jen Stark cut a hole the shape of a water lily into the northernmost wall of Martha Otero gallery, then built u ... More >>

How a Shabby Hollywood Intersection Became a Hot New Art District

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Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/21 - 5/25

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If, however, you have neither a backyard nor a grill, you can participate in another great American tradition of finding someone else do the work for you." BBQ Flowchart: Where You Can Be Up to the Grill in Meat. "Noodle m ... More >>

Gravity might not exist

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Trombone Collective

This week, artist and sunglasses designer Alex Israel debuts the talk show he shot in the Pacific Design Center, trombonists perform in a downtown art space, and fringe physicists reinvent gravity. 5. They're a collective, not a choir The trombone is purportedly the brass instrument with a range cl ... More >>

A Plea for Pulque, Mexico's Lost Beverage

Lately the thought of pulque, a fermented beverage of Mexico made from sap of the maguey cactus, has been haunting my dreams. It wasn't too long ago that a friend introduced me to a vendor selling jugs filled with pulque for a few dollars a pop at one of those Eastside street fairs that crop up on ... More >>

Jumping through hoops

Top 10 Best Karaoke Bars in L.A.: #5 - #1

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top 10 Best Karaoke Bars in L.A.: #10-6 5. Max Karaoke Studio For some of us, karaoke is all about either watching or being drink-sodden disasters -- specifically the kind poorly belting out ballads to a hooting crowd ... More >>

How Much Do You Really Love L.A.?

Light and space mash-up

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Longest Film Ever Made

Courtesy 1301PE GalleryA still from Modern Times, Forever, which might be the longest film ever made​ Pacific Standard Time's performance-art festival continues through this weekend, but there are a few great exhibitions to see as well. One in Chinatown is almost therapeutic, while another, o ... More >>

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Weegee at MOCA to L.A. Art's Equivalent of The Wire

This week's picks pretty much sum up the year: L.A. boosterism, '70s nostalgia, autobiographical installation art and women artists recognized a few decades late. 5. The Original Paparazzo At MOCA, Weegee is more showman than craftsman. The photographer, who started his career as an aggressive New ... More >>

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5 Artsy Things to Do This Week: From MOCA's Controversial Gala to Christmas in Chinatown

Courtesy Cirrus GalleryDoug Edge's Pure Air Hope Chest, made of cast resin in 1971​ Like summer group shows, holiday group shows are hit-and-miss. But two good ones are up right now, one in Inglewood and one downtown, and both mix barely heard-of artists with those who have been around. 5. M ... More >>

LinA In LA Party Picks: Sexy Elves and a 40 of Olde English Malt Liquor

Don't shop til' you drop, bop til' you drop! European electronic dance dynamos, a hip-hop master (DJ Quik) and wax-wielding women (in hottie holiday garb!) round out the dance offerings for the first week of December. Fri., Dec. 2 Departure's got another global groover to get you grinding, Tiefsch ... More >>

Victorian L.A. With a Modern Soundtrack

LinA In LA Party Picks: Set Your Watches For Pacific Standard Time

East Village West; see Sat.​Get ready for a host of arty parties in the coming days, as Pacific Standard Time and Fashion Week events take over town. There's also a sure-to-be ferocious fun tribute night pitting two '80s faves against each other on the dance floor, as well as two pop-in worthy ... More >>

San Simon's Revenge: Carlos Offended the Underworld God, So Now He's Ducking the Cops (VIDEO)

Sam Slovick​Carlos is cocooning. The sound resonating inside the pupal casing of his mind is the dull thud of shock. He's been here before, when he was a kid. Now 19, the handsome, young, undocumented Mexican-American is dodging bullets and beat cops again, trying to find a moment's rest while ... More >>

Why Doesn't Los Angeles Have a Little Italy? Meet the Patriarch of Eastside Market

Susan ParkThe Angiuli Family: Anthony, Rocco, Vito and Johnny​ Actually, Los Angeles did have a Little Italy for over a century. It started in the 1800's on Olvera Street and North Main, when Los Angeles was a Mexican puebla. By the turn of the 20th century, Los Angeles's Little Italy had expa ... More >>

Human Resources Re-Opens Performance Art Space with Daniela Sea, Staring Contests, Shoe on a Rope and Ryan Heffington's Disco Boys

Carol ChehAsher Hartman's play The All Stars of Nonviolet Communication​ Saturday night was the grand re-opening of Human Resources, an eclectic collective of artists, musicians and aficionados who organize one of the few spaces in L.A. dedicated to showcasing performative art practices (they ... More >>

LinA in LA: Top DJ & Dance Club Picks for this Weekend (& Beyond)

Louie Vega​She can deny it all she wants, but anyone with eyes and ears can see Lady Gaga does rip off -eh, find heavy inspiration from- Madonna, musically and stylistically. Madonna ripped off '70's disco divas, NYC club kids, and gay nightlife looks and moves (Vogue?). The club kids ripped o ... More >>

Los Angeles, a Major Global City Owned And Run by Outsiders?

Mark Luethi / LA Weekly Flickr poolLooking in.​Is this worldly town -- America's gateway to Asia, the second-largest media market in America, the Latino capital of the United States -- really owned and controlled by outsiders? It's a question posed by local expert and author D.J. Waldie at Zo ... More >>

Porn on L.A. Library Public Terminals Gets Serious Debate in City Hall

merrick_monroeNot an L.A. library branch (but could be).​Ah, L.A. City Hall, always tackling the Big Issue. Like cat declawing and an Arizona business boycott that has no teeth. And now the accidental, over-the-shoulder viewing of internet porn at public libraries is a matter of serious inqu ... More >>

Eat This Now: Rice Puffs at Queen's Bakery

T. NguyenA rice puff at Queen's Bakery ​ Queen's Bakery in Chinatown sits innocuously between a Sam Woo and Wing Wa Hing Gifts and Arts Co. (this is a one-stop shop: you can get everything from paper lanterns to fresh herbs here). The bakery is small, modest, and Pepto-Bismol pink. In fact, ... More >>

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L.A. Marathon Changes 'Stadium To The Sea' Route To Include Chinatown, Little Tokyo

Ghost TheoryBack in the day, hardcore L.A. Marathoners took to the 6th Street Bridge​The ever-glammer L.A. Marathon just keeps on picking up new tourist-friendly detours. Last year, it snubbed the downtown-centric route it had modified only slightly over many years, instead directing runners t ... More >>

The New York Times: Los Angeles on $100 a day

chotda/Flickrmorning glory salad at Jitlada​ People choose to travel in ways that reflect their values. We know a well-heeled dentist who refuses to pay for a hotel in Los Angeles because his daughter has a comfortable couch. We know threadbare food fanatics who splurge on Korean barbecue b ... More >>

This weekend: HARD Haunted Mansion, Ninja Tune 20th Anniversary, KCRW Masquerade, Of Montreal, Stone Temple Pilots

Perou.co.ukUnderworld​Whether you're all about the costumes or just in it for the tunes, Halloween weekend offers some massive show-going choices ... starting with, well, something very close to a massive. HARD Haunted Mansion, with an eclectic electro lineup including Bloody Beetroots, Busy ... More >>

Pho Tacos?

Yep, pho tacos at Xoia in Echo Park

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