Costa Rica

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Omar Gonzalez: The Galaxy Defender

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.Jan. 7, 2012: Los Angeles Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez was in an airport bathroom in Belek, Turkey, injecting himself with a blood thinner. He'd arrived in Belek two days before ... More >>

3.4 Earthquake Is Beverly Hills' Second in Week

See also: "8.6 Quake Possible in Southern California? Caltech Suggests New 'Mega-Earthquake'." As the Westside lay its collective head to rest last night after a terribly lackluster VMA ceremony, we finally got the jolt we'd been waiting for -- in the form of a 3.5 3.4 magnitude earthquake directly ... More >>

Book Review: Take Away, A Food Photographer's Story

On these hot, muggy nights when your ambient kitchen temperature rivals that of your oven, we highly recommend whipping up a batch of ice cream for dinner (protein, calcium, fiber if you add fruit). It's also the perfect excuse settle in with a fantastic photography-driven food book like Take Away b ... More >>

40oz. to Freedom Is 20 Years Old: We Reminisce and Speak With Sublime's New Incarnation

Twenty years ago this month, Sublime released their first album: 40oz. to Freedom. At that point drummer Floyd "Bud" Gaugh, bassist Eric Wilson, and singer-songwriter Bradley Nowell were just three guys from Long Beach. No record deal, no tour, no nothing. They sold records at shows and out of the b ... More >>

Govind Armstrong: The Kid in the Kitchen

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The debut of Post & Beam, chef Govind Armstrong's Baldwin Hills restaurant -- which he had the chutzpah to open on New Year's Eve, of all nights -- was billed as a homecoming. ... More >>

'Bachelor' Producers Who Met on Set Are Getting Married (and Chris Harrison's Officiating)

This is too perfect. According to Glamour Magazine's wedding blog, two producers who met and courted each other while filming ABC's hit romance series The Bachelor (and The Bachelorette) are getting married in California this summer. And Chris Harrison, career goob behind the tearful interviews and ... More >>

World Cup of Baking Winners Announced in Paris

No culinary fragrance can compete with that of freshly baked bread. You can be comforted, exalted, seduced, relieved, or stimulated by nutty yeast tones gently wafting toward you. Or maybe you're just hungry. The Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, or World Baking Cup, is an event that will make every ... More >>

Black Friday: How the Feds Shut Down Online Poker

$2.5 billion industry cut off, taking livelihoods with it

Why Drive to Vegas? Mayra's Wedding Chapel is Right Here in East Hollywood

Here comes the bride, all dressed in cream satin, with a sparkly brooch on her hip. "They've been together for a very, very long time. Like, two years?" says Yesenia Villanueva, 22, the bride's classmate in nursing school.Driving north on Normandie Avenue, just before the road crests and the Gri ... More >>

Act of Valor Review

Medical Marijuana Ban in L.A.? City Officials Botched Regulation, Now Want Prohibition

Medical weed ban heads to City Council

Erin Cooney's Project Collects 300 One-Minute Videos, All Taken During the Same Minute, at 8 a.m. PST on Nov. 13, 2010

A day begins at a research outpost in snowy Alaska. The scientist on duty steps out into the darkness, gazes longingly at her warm cabin, then wonders why her sled dogs aren't barking. Elsewhere in the world, at that precise instant, a child tries to distract her father, a jazz musician, from h ... More >>

Q & A With Govind Armstrong: Post & Beam, His New L.A. Restaurant, Why 8oz. Closed Coming Home

Vanessa Stumpchef Govind Armstrong​ Govind Armstrong has a long history in this town, dating back to when he worked as a 13 year-old apprentice for Wolfgang Puck in Spago's kitchen. Armstrong, who is still maybe younger than you are, went from Spago to City to Campanile, with time spent time i ... More >>

Music Picks: Breakestra, Slang Chickens, the Muffs, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Also Meth Leppard, Tennis With Lord Huron, Kid Infinity and others

Top 10 U.S. Customs Seizures Of 2010, Including $9 Million Train-Load Of Pot In California

U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionDamn leafhopping aliens resorted to pineapple transit in August​Jumping at another chance to flex some red-white-and-blue muscle this New Year -- and surely aware of the Internet's obsession with Top 10 lists -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials rel ... More >>

Guns, Gasoline & Shark Fins: Gordon Ramsay Risks Life for Television Show

MirrorGordon Ramsay​ If anybody thinks that being a TV chef is easier than actually working behind the stoves, Gordon Ramsay, of all people, can now report otherwise. The English chef, still a faint presence here at Gordon Ramsay at the London, West Hollywood and the host of many reality telev ... More >>

The Latest Buzz: The Birth of Coffee at the Craft and Folk Art Museum

Photo: Daniel Lorenzetti from The Birth of Coffee. All rights reserved.Woman from San Juan Atitlan​With support from Gaviña Gourmet Coffee and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, The Birth of Coffee exhibit at the Craft and Folk Art Museum takes us from the coffee industr ... More >>

Q & A With John Sedlar, Part 2: Binge Eating in Tijuana, Horse Latitudes The New Restaurant

In the first part of our interview with John Sedlar, the chef considered the relative absence of Latino chefs in this town, as well as the nature of his new menu (well, menus; there are three) at Rivera. In part two, Sedlar -- who is from Santa Fe, New Mexico; Rivera is both a family name and the ch ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big

Enormous Tiny Art Show to Invade Silver Lake Walls

When painter Ned Evans travels to Costa Rica, he doesn't simply include requisite surf equipment. In his carry-on painting supplies take priority. Once landed, he's known for sequestering himself from his companions for time with the brush. Ned Evans, 0309, gouache and postcard collage on paper, 7" ... More >>

A Roundup of 2010 Restaurant Openings and Closures

Since our Restaurant Roll Call in January, there have been several food truck launches and restaurant openings. Unfortunately, some eateries didn't make it long past the New Year. As we welcome the newbies, we also bid farewell to those who simply couldn't keep afloat (and in one case was shut down ... More >>

Roxana Jullapat Named Pastry Chef at Ammo

Ammo, the 10 year-old Hollywood restaurant, has been going through a renaissance lately. In December they got a new chef, Daniel Mattern, a veteran of Campanile, Lucques and AOC. And a few weeks ago Roxana Jullapat was named pastry chef. Jullapat has a pretty serious resume too, having worked at Cam ... More >>

Street Cred

At her new Hollywood restaurant, Susan Feniger puts the cart before the hors d’oeuvre

Don't Mix Tequila With Irish Stout

Angel Orozco of Cafecito Orgánico: Early Arrival to the Coffee Party

Angel OrozcoSome are born into their calling, and some take time to find it. For Angel Orozco it's a little bit of both. As a native of Guatemala who immigrated to the San Gabriel Valley with his family in 1982, Orozco fully discovered coffee during graduate school at ... More >>

Lost in Blagoland: Disgraced Guv Headed to L.A.

The corruption suspect formerly known as the Governor of Illinois was told by a judge Monday to forget about traveling to Costa Rica to tape the NBC reality TV show, I'm Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! Clearly U.S. District Judge James Zagel worried that Rod Blagojevich, once on foreign soil, ma ... More >>

The Weekly's World News: The Paper Looks to Central America and Comes of Age

The Weekly looks toward Central America and comes of ageBy Marc Cooper

Dorian Wood: Beautiful Losing

Bolka combines baroque flourish and naked emotion

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Griffith Park $50 Million, Catalina Zero

Denuded by fire, the island’s long-suffering and unique ecosystem could be reborn — for a price

Mahony's Tainted Legacy

Many priests’ sex crimes will stay secret, but now some victims can rest

Echo Park Cuban Music Festival

Salsa, cigars, and chicharrones

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Ayuko Babu

In the Land of the Brother Leader

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