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Patti Smith Talks About Her Greatest Success

By Jessica Baran Profoundly influential, incantatory songstress, poet, artist and writer Patti Smith may be best known as the Godmother of Punk. Her groundbreaking album Horses, released in 1975, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Born in Chicago, she was raised in Sout ... More >>

Los Angeles Has America's Most Polluted Air?

L.A is the capital of many things. Few of them are good things. At least not lately, it seems. A day after it was announced that Los Angeles is America's traffic-congestion Mecca once again (breaking news, that), we bring you the American Lung Association's annual "Most Polluted Cities" list:

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, December 17 The Moonbeams HEMINGWAY'S LOUNGE The Moonbeams' upcoming single might be titled "Life's a Circus," but the song is more mournful and foreboding than cheery or escapist. Lead singer Beck Black howls her bloody imprecations with a solemn, sullen intensity as drummer Adam Alt and g ... More >>

38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat. As sort of shameful as it is to admit, I drove to all the way Cerritos this weekend just ... More >>

L.A.'s His Lady

Kids Are Eating Detergent Like Candy (It Is Not)

Listen up, kids. Tide is not candy. It's used to clean your clothes. It does not taste good. Proctor & Gamble said Friday that it will be changing the design of its Tide Pods tubs after at least one child was hospitalized for swallowing its colorfully packaged detergent, Reuters reports. The compa ... More >>

Who Put Random Pianos All Over L.A.?

On a sunny but breezy Saturday, 10-year-old Diego Grijalva of Gabriella Charter School in Echo Park found himself at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, seated at a piano designed by local artist Evan Skrederstu. Diego, who has played on his school's piano, was intrigued by the street piano and playing a simpl ... More >>

Report: Los Angeles Now Has More Bed Bugs Than New York

Looks like we might have to stop making fun of New York Shitty for its bed-bug problem. According to a new report from giant pest-control company Orkin -- based on the number of treatments it conducted in each major U.S. city last year -- L.A. experienced somewhat of an embarrassing bed-bug renaiss ... More >>

Foxy Shazam: Manicured Moustaches and Humping a Guitarist's Head

Foxy Shazam​Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. Foxy Shazam is damn near feral onstage. The Urban Nomad chats with the dynamic cats, lead singer Eric Sean Nally, and piano slayer S ... More >>

Porn Addiction: The Global Industry Based in Los Angeles is a Growing Problem For ... Women?

Merrick Monroe.Women account for one out of three porn site visitors.​When you think about the audience for the multi-billion-dollar, LA.-based porn industry, you usually think men. That would be a good instinct, but not entirely correct. In fact there's some evidence that women are a big sli ... More >>

Food & Wine Best New Chef 2011, The People's Edition: Ricardo Zarate Wins Pacific Region

​ The results are in for Food & Wine magazine's "The People's Best New Chefs" awards, and Ricardo Zarate has won for the Pacific region. Congratulations, chef. Hope you're back from Peru for the party. Jamie Bissonnette of Coppa in Boston is the overall winner. Zarate and the other finalists ... More >>

LACMA, Getty Embrace Gay Sadomasochism, Throw Down on Kinky Robert Mapplethorpe Archive Worth Over $30 Million

Live AuctioneersFrom Robert Mapplethorpe's 39-photo "X, Y and Z Portfolios," now in the clutches of LACMA and the Getty​Robert Mapplethorpe's work -- mostly black and white, mostly from the grittiest cultural back-alleys of the 1970s and '80s -- is either high art or expensive pornography, dep ... More >>

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

Ween!​ "L.A. proved too much for the man," sang Gladys Knight, "So he's leavin' the life he's come to know, He said he's goin' back to find [Ooh, said the Pips] what's left of his world, The world he left behind, Not so long ago." Well, "the man" was kind of a wuss, right? You don't have to t ... More >>

Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

Cookbook Review: Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen A Roast Fingerling-Artichoke Recipe

​It's inevitable that many chef-scribed cookbooks start to taste the same after a while, even with all their unique cooking styles and flourishes. They're just not the sort of how-to-cook-everything cookbooks that can hold your attention over multiple weeknights. And so no matter how great the ... More >>

Downtown Surprise

At the intersection of Bratwurst and Dunkelweizen

Ask Mr. Gold: Downtown Surprise, or At the intersection of Bratwurst and Dunkelweizen

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I'm hoping you can recommend a place to hold a surprise party. I'm finding this a bit hard to accomplish - I live in Ohio and I don't know L.A. that well. I'm considering Bottega Louie and Church & State. There will be about 20 of us and ... More >>

L.A. Is In The Top 10....For Bedbug Infestation.

​Proving once again that the Weekly is your place for bedbug news. According to exterminator Terminix, Los Angeles ranked No. 10 in bedbug infestation nationwide, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. At least we're not New York, which leads the country in bedbugs. Bedbugs are small, delightfu ... More >>

Best Coast Extends Headlining Tour, Offers Free 'Boyfriend' MP3

Best Coast Extends Headlining Tour, Offers Free 'Boyfriend' MP3

Sporting Arena Concessions: Home To Health Violations

Sporting arenas feed massive quantities of patrons, with the majority of the business taking place during specific, key moments of the game. A glut of health violations, when you think about it realistically, is in no way out of the realm of possibility. Employees are paid minimal wages, and operate ... More >>

After-Hours Bandit Hit 14 7-Elevens In San Fernando Valley

LAPDHe comes out after 3 a.m. Maybe he's a raver.​Los Angeles police this week were searching for a prolific, after-hours bandit who has robbed 14 San Fernando Valley 7-Elevens and one area AM/PM convenience store since early May. All the robberies happened between 3 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. The bi ... More >>

Qui/Jesus Lizard Frontman David Yow to Debut Art in Echo Park Exhibition

Qui/Jesus Lizard Frontman David Yow to Debut Art in Echo Park Exhibition

Heimlich Maneuvered

A gala at Cindy Landon's honoring a top scientist discredited by his son gets a venue change

Top 10 Reasons L.A. Is America's Craziest City

angelynepink.com​The Daily Beast on Friday posted its list of America's craziest cities. It ranked the nation's largest metropolises based on psychiatrists per capita, stress, eccentricity and drinking levels. Los Angeles came in at a measly 27. Number one? Cincinnati. San Francisco was second ... More >>

Manny Ramirez's Grand Slam Silences Critics

With his first swing of a bat last night Manny Ramirez laid to rest the loitering demons of doubt and recrimination that have followed his emergence from suspension. On July 3 he took the field against San Diego after a 50-game hiatus for having used an illegal performance enhancing substance. Catca ... More >>

Looking for a Hot 3-Way: Chili, Cincinnati-style at Chili John's

Part 1: Thoughts on Music Now. (The festival that is. You'll have to wait for my multi-volume treatise on the state of music today.)

The rise of classically informed indie music, one awesome photograph of MC 62 Foot Jesus, and my thoughts on "conflict of interest" in music criticism today. ALSO, a member of Grizzly Bear getting crunk in a Cincinnati, OH parking lot. It's kind of like US Weekly for obscure people.

RFID: Tag, We're It!

As the technology spreads, who will protect our freedom from information

¡Ask a Mexican! Catholic Distastes

Dear Mexican: I’m sad that there aren’t more Mexicans here in the Detroit area.

Mush Is Good Music

Mysto Laurel Canyon indie label scores again with Tree Colored See

Lion’s Den

Facing down pediatric cancer in a Cincinnati hospital

Lion's Den

Facing down pediatric cancer in a Cincinnati hospital

Fireball Ministry

Local bands, man

Interpol, Boom Bip, Antony and the Johnsons, CocoRosie

Last Chance for a Full Cincinnati*!

Leaving Bush Behind

Companies make peace with Kyoto Protocol

6 Reasons Why November 2 Wasn't a Total Gay Political Nightmare

Collector’s Items

The Fuzz and the Fury

The Bettor’s Bible

Sweating out Sundays with the Gold Sheet Guys

Object Lessons

Angie Schworer’s smart take on a dumb blond

Coffee Break

A view from Ramallah

Traditions: The New Year's Eve Riot You Didn't Hear About

No Secrets

Two courts reject ashcroft's anti- terror strategy

An Electrical Storm

The Back Story

A Week 6 reading list

Down for the Good Life

A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

The Sitting Cathode-Ray Tube Blues

Boys to Man

A tale of two worlds, from Cincinnati to the Round Table