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Comrade Kim Goes Flying Is the First Fiction Film Shot in North Korea and Co-Produced with the West. How Did It Happen?

By Doug Cummings Comrade Kim Goes Flying is one of the most unique and entertaining features at this year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The first fiction feature shot in North Korea and co-produced by both Western and North Korean companies, it sidesteps current political tensions to o ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia - L.A. State Historic Park - 3/8/13

Swedish House Mafia L.A. State Historic Park 3/8/13 Better than: Just...anything. Most other things. Anyone who thought that chilly temperates and some rain might deter the rave kids from raving full throttle at the Swedish House Mafia show last night underestimates the heartiness of rave kids an ... More >>

Alma Review: This Downtown Restaurant May Be the One You've Been Waiting For

Los Angeles Club Kids: Where Are They Now?

On the west coast, the club kids popped up around 1991, the local counterparts of the New York City Party Monster types, attending the types of underground raves your parents explicitly forbade. It wasn't all about drugs, but there were certainly plenty: ketamine, acid, cocaine, ecstasy, and more, s ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including The Little Mermaid, But Not the Disney Kind

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. 5. She Swims! She Walks! She Dances! Those who know The Little Mermaid mainly from the Disney film may want to touch base with the Hans Christian Andersen ... More >>

Something's Fishy in Costa Mesa

Shepard Fairey Street Art Mural Defaced on La Brea -- and This Goes on Globally

Everyone is a critic. Even taggers. Shepard Fairey, a widely known street artist who often garners mixed reviews, has been panned with graffiti spray-painted over a fifty-foot wall piece on 2nd Street and La Brea Boulevard. At the scene, a property manager was noticeably disturbed by the tagging ov ... More >>

Q & A With Bill Owens: The American Distilling Institute Founder's Cross-Country Road Trip, Industry Trends His Favorite Spirit Stops

If you want to know what's really going on in the craft distilling industry, 74-year-old Bill Owens, president of the Hayward-based American Distilling Institute, is your (always chatty) man. He also happens to be quite an accomplished photojournalist, a skill that he says doesn't always work in h ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Rick Steves, Famed Travel Writer and Pot Advocate: 20 Questions

"I'm a travel writer, and for me, high is a place"

Spain's Elena Arzak Named World's Best Female Chef

Preparatory to naming the World's 50 Best Restaurants, the folks at S. Pellegrino, Acqua Panna and Restaurant magazine and, it seems, Veuve Clicquot, last year established a shiny new award: The World's Best Female Chef. This year's winner has just been named. The 2012 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Fe ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Baco Mercat

Music Picks: Overdoz, The Cure, Lucinda Williams

Also, K. Flay, The Civil Wars, Bob Mould tribute

Jonathan Gold Reviews Le Comptoir

Chef Gary Menes' latest appears, for a bit, at downtown's Tiara

Shepard Fairey Sticker-Bombs L.A. Department of City Planning

Los Angeles City Planning - Code Studies via Facebook"Shepard Fairey sticker bombs City Hall," writes the department.​Update: LA Weekly speaks with the recipient of the package, who is positively tickled. Interview at the bottom. Uh-oh -- the fight between muralists and the L.A political mach ... More >>

Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 2: The Best Thing He Ate at Noma, Plus Foraging in the Castle Yards

Photo by Shauna Miller​In Part 1 of our interview with chef Sean Ehland, we learned his thoughts on the ever-present culinary school debate, as well as how he pestered his way into a stage at Noma via the restaurant's reservations email. In Part 2, we learn what working in such a sophisticated ... More >>

Iceage at The Echo 7/24/11

Andrea Domanick​ Iceage The Echo 7/24/11 Better than...whatever you were doing between 12:15 and 12:35 last night. When it comes to live acts, Copenhagen's Iceage is a bullet train of band: powerful, direct and gone in the blink of an eye. They're even punctual--the punk quartet's L.A. debu ... More >>

Daniel Johnston's Perfect Day: "Either a Girl Comes Over, Or I Write a Good Song"

Peter JuhlDaniel Johnston in Copenhagen, April 2010​Interview by Drew Fortune A day before I get Daniel Johnston on the phone from his home in the small town of Waller, TX, I'm on the line with his 90-year-old father and manager Bill Johnston, arranging an interview time. Speaking with a worl ... More >>

Op-Ed: Against Communal Tables

Warner Bros.the great hall at Hogwarts​ These days, every pretentious newly opened Los Angeles boîte seems determined to prove how casual and unpretentious it is with the de rigueur decorative accent of the day: a communal table. When Los Angeles had only a handful of communal tables, they ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Paradis (Day 21)

Paradis had already made inroads in Montrose, when the shop opened a new outpost in April on the Hollywood/Los Feliz border. These are, so far, the only two, U.S. franchises of a popular Danish gelato chain with over 30 shops in its native land.

Q & A with Najat Kaanache: Apprentice to the World's Best Chefs

Najat Kaanache in Alinea's Kitchen​ Spanish-born Najat Kaanache, 32, is a woman on a mission to learn from the best chefs in the world. In just two years, Kaanache has apprenticed with chefs Grant Achatz at Alinea in Chicago, Thomas Keller at French Laundry in Yountville, and René Redzepi at ... More >>

Stage Raw: Nightmare Alley

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARONIGHTMARE ALLEY ​The Geffen Playhouse gives Jonathan Brielle's new musical, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel, a lavish production (which opened to the press ... More >>

Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu

Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others

What Do Anarchists Read? Scenes from the Anarchist Book Fair

Ivan Fernandez​ The storm system that battered Los Angeles broke in time to allow hundreds of activists, anarchists and other like-minded, politically-fringe Angelenos to convene in Barnsdall Park for the Second Annual Anarchist Book Fair. Those in attendance were treated to an art gallery of ... More >>

Les Moonves Begs Villaraigosa: Let CBS Keep its Digital Billboards

In a weird twist, powerful CBS president Les Moonves is asking Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to oppose a possible vote by the Los Angeles City Council that Moonves sees as a threat to 101 digital billboards flashing ads all over L.A. -- close to 20 of which are bringing in revenue to CBS O ... More >>

Poor Les Moonves: Garcetti admits L.A.'s Clear Channel/CBS digital billboard deal was a mistake

City councilman Eric Garcetti admitted today that the City Council's disastrous 2006 billboard settlement deal, hammered out by former City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo with Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor, was a "mistake." "I take responsibility for voting on the settlements," said Garcetti during a C ... More >>

Construction Report: Tender Greens Hollywood To Open Next Month

Fans of Tender Greens who live in Hollywood soon won't have to drive over to Culver City or West Hollywood or San Diego--or anywhere else, for that matter--for their eco-friendly salads and plates of grilled Niman Ranch flatiron steak. Tender Greens is opening their fourth--and largest--location at ... More >>

Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman

To hell and back with Antichrist's Cannes-winning star

LA People 2009: Traveling Man — Tootie Heath

Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008

No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more

The Last Shadow Puppets: Of Arctic Monkeys and Rascals

Britain's the Last Shadow Puppets: Morricone-lite soundtracks for today's hipsters

Rock Picks: HorrorPops, Steve Earle, Ace Frehley

And other March 20-27 music shows

Welcome Hunters: the Body Eclectic

Among the avant-garde fashion gatherers

The God of Sperm

In an industry veiled in secrecy, a powerful L.A. sperm peddler shapes the nation’s rules on disease, genetics — and accidental incest

The Boss of It All: Man or Machine

Lars von Trier wonders who’s the boss

Kara Bartelt and Michael Chung

Fresh, crisp and green

Beautiful Dreamers

Mew wake up America

Eight Seconds at a Time

Music Picks

For the week of March 10 - 16

The Greatest Story Never Read

An Oxford don’s rather thorough guide to the universe

Pancakes With Czajkowski

Deadly Diversions

White Elephant Sale

The 56th Cannes Film Festival goes hunting for America

Fish Fry 2002

The Intangibles

Caffè With Danish

Dogme No. 12:Italian for Beginners

Midnight Sun

Pearl Jam’s book of changes

Breaking The Silence

Resurrecting the Silent Movie Theatre

Head Trip

The Kingdom II, more weirdness from Lars Von Trier