Coney Island

Jaime Robledo, the Poor Man's Julie Taymor

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews Inside East Hollywood's Sacred Fools Theatre on a recent Sunday afternoon, actor Donal Thoms-Cappello is capering through a bizarre step of percussive, deliberate foot stomps, which alternate with clanking sound effects. "No," a voice from the gloom interrupt ... More >>

Elayne Boosler: Laughs for Lassie

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "Doesn't she look like Audrey Hepburn?" asks Elayne Boosler of Jazzy, a visiting pit bull–Weimaraner mix. Boosler does an impression of Jazzy as Hepburn, playing off the w ... More >>

Hopped Up

New York City Does Noir Too!? LACMA Brings You the Best of It

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage This month, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's film series "The Naked City: New York Noir and Neorealism" is highlighting the infusion of street photog ... More >>

Coney Island Christmas

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

Mario Alberto's Laurel Hardware Now Open in West Hollywood Brunch Starts Tomorrow

Towards the end of its 62-year run in West Hollywood, Laurel Hardware was known for its personal service, old-fashioned charm, and loyal community patrons. When it closed in 2008, the city welcomed it into the Pop-Up Art program, and a vacant Laurel Hardware hosted Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's "A G ... More >>

Venice Zipline: You Could be Screaming Over The Beach This Summer

Venice is once step closer to getting a temporay zipline for summer. Area L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl announced that the council unanimously approved a motion to draft a proposal for the California Coast Commission's okay. Why does Venice need a zipline? Aren't bikinis, waves and a skatepar ... More >>

Turner Classic Movies Film Festival 2012

Our picks for the must-sees

Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord

Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others

Weegee Strips Hollywood Naked

Courtesy of MOCALiz Taylor, ca. 1950​ "Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees." So said crime photographer and full-time self promoter Arther Fellig, who was also known as Weegee. He was New Yorker to the the core, having grown up in the bitter poverty of the Depression-era Lower Eas ... More >>

Whole Lotta Lens

D Generation - The Troubadour - September 24, 2011

Lina LecaroSinger Jesse Malin finds his way to the bar ​D Generation at The Troubadour September 24, 2011 Better than... shows where the lead singer doesn't leave the stage, head to the bar, and throw back some tequila. Though they sweat and bleed New York, D Generation has an L.A. fan ba ... More >>

Top 5 Food Events This Weekend: TOTNLA, Ramen, Wine, Hot Dogs & Roasted Meats

Ramen Bull Kicking off its Popchef series, Breadbar's consulting Chef Noriyuki Sugie debuts Ramen Bull, a menu of five beef-centric ramen dishes: short rib ramen ($11); oxtail ramen ($15), beef tongue ramen ($12); spicy ramen ($14); and corn beef ramen ($13). Available Monday through Saturday, 5 t ... More >>

Body Politics: Two new works by Barbara Hammer at REDCAT

Drunk History: On the Bowery

Lionel Rogosin's tumbler-shot of Walker Evans blues

Esaan: A New Place to Eat Thai Food Downtown

B. HansenPad Thai salad at Esaan​ If you're standing at the bus stop at 5th and Hope in downtown L.A. and you suddenly get the impression you're in Thailand, not waiting for the 720 to Santa Monica, you're not delusional. Someone has just opened the door to Esaan, a Taste of Thai, allow ... More >>

Happy Hour: Sheddy's Public Parlor (Will the Real Jim Sheddy Please Stand Up?)

Flickr user benleto​The Place: Sheddy's Public Parlor, 361 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles; 323-651-1442. The Hours: daily 5-8 p.m. and all Monday. The Deals: $4.25 draught beers; $2 off wines by the glass and American beer bottles; $10 carafes of sangria; deals on "beer and wine license friend ... More >>

The 2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Report: Chestnut Wins, Kobayashi Eats a Sandwich in Jail

Nathan's Hot Dogs​ Top sporting events over the weekend according to ESPN? The World Cup quarterfinals, some baseball, the LeBron watch, and--right up there on the actual ESPN iPhone Top Events page--the Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Just when a competitive eating conte ... More >>

Billy’s: A Deli Grows in Glendale

Or maybe it was there all along

Photo Gallery: A Deli Grows In Glendale, Or Maybe Billy's Was There All Along

Need a visual aid for your print edition? This week Jonathan Gold writes about Billy's Deli in Glendale ("like an apparition, an old-line deli plunked down among parking structures and vacant storefronts, a place you expect to find in Skokie or out on Coney Island Avenue, but not a bagel's toss from ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Cold Souls: Paul Giamatti’s Unbearable Weightness of Being

Actor brings the funny, but his new film lacks something deeper

IT'S A LONG WAY TO PURGATORY

Joey Chestnut Wins Hot Dog Eating Contest Again & The Debut of the Chew View Cam

America the Beautiful. Home of hot dogs, competitive eating and as of last weekend, the "chew view" camera.

Nine Questions for Tim Walker, aka Captain Shady, Organizer and Founder of L.A.'s Grilled Cheese Invitational -- This Year, There Will Be Parking

The throngs who attended last year's Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational at Griffith Park returned home with a few gripes about parking problems, bad signage, elbow-throwing crowds, no booze and the desire to fill their tummies with a few more gooey, cheesy samples. (They also hailed the first-place ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: Amelia Toro's Butterfly & Bird Girls

For spring, Amelia Toro is doing flowing dresses with butterfly prints and clean, white ankle-length dresses that look like night gowns. Her models walked the catwalk with birds in little cages and birds in their hair. Femininity is back in a big way. Toro did sweet, candy-striped jackets with black ... More >>

Fab the Ripper: Every Hot Dog Has Its Day

Danger dogs, Chicago dogs, Oki dogs . . . but oh, that Jersey dog

Topsy the Elephant

Fiction: New Voices

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

The Black Widow's Lunch

Meat on a Stick

Canal Kings

The Distant Present

Norman Klein spanks and hugs L.A.

After the Lights Go Down

What's up at AFI Fest 2004

Brown Dirt Cowboys

Meet Esteban Hills and crew, your gardeners

Late Night

Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and Barbecue

East Comes West

Good Chemistry, Stale Formula

Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock in Two Weeks Notice

News From Up North

What the City of Smog can learn from the City of Light

Wiener Take All

Ballad of a Tin Man

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s daughter inherits the family business

Goodbye, Tomata du Plenty

Shafted!

A Where’s Where of dead meat on a stick

It Boy

My Favorite Things

Part 1: Bread, and things that go better with bread. Some things, anyway.

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

The Chords

Woody Guthrie's hitherto unsung anthems