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Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Round 2

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Every 25 years or so, L ... More >>

A Cookbook Gift Pairing: The 2012 Meat Salumi Edition

In the first installment of our cookbook and gift pairings, we focused on The Art of Fermentation. We move on to the notable protein-themed cookbooks released this year, with a little something to go along with your latest Great Meat Cookbook gift endeavors. Because if you bought it on Amazon for ... More >>

Suicide Silence Singer Mitch Lucker Is Dead From a Motorcycle Accident

Mitch Lucker, vocalist for revered Riverside extreme metal band Suicide Silence, died early this morning from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash in Huntington Beach last night. He was 28 years old. See also: The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums According to the Orange County ... More >>

Mexicans Are Asian (And Other Shockers About the First Americans)

This particular author loves to see the look on the faces of some pan-Pacific immigrants when he tells them Asians and Mexicans are brothers and sisters from way back; we're practically related. (It's a look of repulsion, shock and denial, followed by vomiting). Of course, all humans are brothers a ... More >>

City Council Unanimously Passes Occupy L.A. Resolution -- Protesters Struggle to Distance Themselves From Democrats, Unions

Los Angeles TimesCity Council President Eric Garcetti shows his support.​Just now, the L.A. City Council unanimously approved a joint resolution to officially "support" the Occupy L.A. demonstration and "demand accountability and results from the banks we invest taxpayer dollars in." (Full tex ... More >>

Top 10 California Pale Ales

Jake OgleThe Classic American Pale Ale​ American Pale Ales, arguably the most popular beer style for craft brewers, tend to range between 5-6 % alcohol by volume (abv). That makes them what some beer geeks call "sessionable," meaning you can enjoy quite a few of them in a single sitting witho ... More >>

Healing "female genital derangement": 12 deeply crazy discoveries at The Last Bookstore's warehouse sale

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Here's some news sure to hearten the laid-off crew of Two and a Half Men. According to local boy Dr. Frank McCoy's ... More >>

Even the Rain

DUI Checkpoints Scheduled This Weekend In Los Angeles

Fa la la la la, la la la jail.​Tis the season for good tidings, joy and DUIs. The LAPD has been on a mission to catch drunk drivers and illegals motorists without drivers licenses (whose cars can be taken and sold for the benefit of the cash-strapped city) so look out. On that note we have y ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/16-8/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Also, all of Takosher's food, including the brisket, which is slow-cooked for six to eight hours, must be prepared on the truck rather than in a prep kitchen." Takosher: Nation's First Kosher Truck Dishes Up Brisket & Latke ... More >>

Tats and Prawns

Xino by the bay

First Bite: Tats and Prawns, Xino by the Bay

Christie BishopJonagold apple, minus first bite​The top-level Dining Deck of the new Santa Monica Place mall seems almost custom-designed to make native Angelenos grumpy. The redesign scooped out all that was pleasant about the old mall, one of Frank Gehry's breakthrough projects, with all the ... More >>

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Top 10 Wine Splits: The Thank You Gift That Keeps on Sipping

wine.comGift Baskets Are So Last Year​Ladies and gentlemen, a polite reminder. The quintessential dinner party dilemma is not whether to risk veering from Mapquest directions, but what to take as a host/hostess gift. If you regularly arrive at the door without a small token of thanks, such as ... More >>

Anarchists Unite

How Does That Work?

THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

The Debate Over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska

Stage Raw: The Debate over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO THE DEBATE OVER COURTNEY O'CONNELL OF COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA ​Photo courtesy of Chalk Repertory TheatreIf we're to believe playwright Mat Smart, which is probably not a good idea, the bloody rampag ... More >>

Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin's Big Scoop

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedHELL'S KITCHEN ABLAZE by Tommy Carter is being reviewed this weekend Check back here Monday afternoon for the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS seen over the weekend ... More >>

Os Mutantes to Launch U.S. Tour in Los Angeles

Legendary Brazilian tropicalia group Os Mutantes, whose work in the late 1960s fused Brazilian samba rhythms with Beatle-esque baroque pop, will perform at the Echoplex on August 28. The band, who recently signed to the LA-based Anti- imprint, are getting ready to release their first studio album in ... More >>

Stage Raw: Molotov Cocktail Flung in the Cold

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

UPDATE: Serial rapist from L.A. killed in Ohio

Who is the "Los Angeles Rapist" killed in Ohio about two hours ago? My phone rang in the newsroom minutes ago, and it was "Mitch" at TV station WSYX, the ABC/Fox affiliate in Columbus, letting us know that a black serial rapist suspect had been killed by police in a huge drama that shut down the int ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

The Last Roundup Kevin Kachikian, the final defendant in the Anthony Pellicano RICO trial to be sentenced, is scheduled in federal court Monday morning. See story here later today.Mini-Madoff Fallout A $10 million contribution to the ailing Children's Museum may turn out to be a financial mirage, th ... More >>

Best of L.A. Weekly: Why Los Angeles Is Losing the Smog Battle

Originally published October 17, 1980

Queer Town: The Catholic Power Play to Ban Gay Marriage

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, has been keeping somewhat of a low-profile in the battle over same sex marriage in California, but he can't keep his name out of the headlines any longer. One of the most powerful and influential Catholic priests in ... More >>

Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy For So Many?

The charge of the unknown

Barbarians at the Wall

Border crossings, gang colors ... are Scots the Mexicans of England?

Ernie Krivda at Catalina Tonight

By Brick Wahl Ya gotta love my buddy Dean, he's a nut. And inspired, brilliant, funny, knows everything and everybody Sicilian motormouth of a musician from New York City with a heart the size of Indiana. A place he probably hates. So Dean begins emailing and calling me at work on Monday morning (n ... More >>

Sibelius Unfound

Esa-Pekka Salonen wraps up “Sibelius Unbound”

Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Curse of the Fuku

Daring Young Men

Have Fun, F*ck Sh*t Up

Youth is not wasted on teen punks Be Your Own Pet

Gut Reactions

How the contents of a termite’s stomach may revolutionize your car

Where Did We Go Wrong?

Democrats add up the votes, and go a little crazy

Reading Voters

Tagging along on Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote

The First Time

The First Time

Coming Back to Earth

The shuttle disaster and the Quiet American within

Orgasm for Beginners

Will Jam 4 Food

Improvising an alternative music scene

Winona Forever

Small Place, Big Hurt

Jamaica in Life and Debt

Mexing America

L.A./TJ bands vault the Pocho Wall

Indelible

Philip Roth’s Stain

Letters

In Search of Lost Tortas

Is Chroni's the place?

Reds

Post-communism with knife and fork

Count the Days

Eugen Weber's Apocalypses and Juan Goytisolo's The Marx Family Saga

Let's Hear It for Ockeghem

Body and Soul

Life before serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and boner pills