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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

Americans are Commonly Dying Under Age 50: Blame Stupid Choices, Too Much Driving and Sitting, and Poverty, Study Says

Everyone wants to live forever. But a study from USC and the National Academies suggests that if you'd like to see 51, it's time a lot of people stopped acting stupid. Americans spend more on health care than anyone, but are less healthy, birth to death, than residents in other developed countries. ... More >>

Q & A With Haven Brewing's Dave Larsen: L.A. Beer Week, New Zealand Hops Stone's First Local Collaboration

The fourth annual Los Angeles Beer Week might have officially ended with Sunday's festival at Union Station, but there's still one more special LABW brew that has yet to be released. Too bad it's not even ready to drink yet. That's because early in the morning on Thursday, Sept. 20 -- while many e ... More >>

5 Condiments to Spice Up Your July 4th Holiday

The Fourth of July is the perfect egalitarian holiday. Everyone is invited, and you don't have to bring a gift, dress up or sing any particular songs. It happens in summer when the weather is beautiful, there's nothing religious about it, you're not compelled to be with family to celebrate unless yo ... More >>

Norwegian Cakes and Cookies: Sverre Saetre's Norwegian Pastry Book A Recipe for Wreath Cake Tart

Scandinavian cuisine is newly hip, thanks to René Redzepi and Noma in Denmark. Now Norway is getting into the act with something that just might steal Redzepi's show: glorious, buttery pastries and rich, creamy desserts. The contender is Norway's star pastry chef Sverre Saetre, whose book on moder ... More >>

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

L.A. Weekly Critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2011

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

Van Dyke Parks Re-Emerges With A Set Of Singles, Each Covered By Works Of Art

Illustration by Art Spiegelman​Story by Erik Himmelsbach Van Dyke Parks lives on the fringes of the city, up the hill in the northeasternmost nook of Pasadena. He's comfortable there; it's a geographic mirror of his own five-decade career as a culty wingman whose fingerprints are conspicuous ... More >>

Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 1: From Culinary High Schooler to Noma Stagier

Photo by Shauna Miller​It seems some chefs just can't sit still these days. As Jonathan Gold mused in A Movable Beast, it's no longer essential that chefs simply keep to their kitchen. We have chefs who pop up, chefs who make guest appearances, chefs who get in trucks and roam the streets. Now ... 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 >>

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.

Incumbent Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees Desperate, Reform Candidate Slate Emerges

One republican's reaction to the mailers shown below after the jump.​As a reform slate of candidates emerges in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees race, incumbents are pulling their hair out amid an L.A. Times expose uncovering fraud and misuse of horrifyingl ... More >>

The Red Chapel Review

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

Today in "Man Bites Dog" News: Simon Cowell Calls Rage Against The Machine Fans "Stupid" and "Cynical"

Young, strapping, sweaty Morello action​Rolling Stone reports that The Nighwatchman himself, Tom Morello, has endorsed his UK fans' attempt to make Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" (their incendiary 1992 single) the number one song in the country for Christmas week. A little b ... More >>

Obama: "Ich Bin Nicht Ein Berliner"

Live, from the front

Energy Drunk: One Man's Monster Bender

How one man drank a Vin Diesel movie ... and just kept drinking

Light and (Social) Space

Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin and James Turrell bring us closer to illumination — and to ourselves

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

War by any Other Name Sounds Just as Sweet

Take that pearl

Sunset Rising

With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

Prodigy Schmodigy

Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

Hamburger Hamlets

Dane, thy name is vanity

Leaving Home

In defense of secession

Of Mice and Gorillaz

Panoramic producer Danger Mouse orchestrated some of 2005’s most memorable moments. He’s just warming up

The French Insurrection

Cars burn, Islam benefits

How to Build a Sweater

Mojo A Go-Go

L.A. garage mods the Mojo Filters got soul, feet down below their knees

TV at the Movies

Brave new series Weeds and Slings & Arrows break into Showtime and Sundance lineups

Pizza

Leaving Home

In defense of secession

Lifetime of a Sorrowing Giant

Letters

From Mediocre to Monster

John O’Keefe’s brilliant new play finds the pulse of our times

Law and Disorder

The roughing-up of a handcuffed 16-year-old in Inglewood

A Few Things You Should Know About the World Cup

Flower Power

A Distaste for Trash

If Not Now, Wha’?

Contraptions and gizmos

Our Other Top 10's

Manohla Dargis' Hit List

Head Trip

The Kingdom II, more weirdness from Lars Von Trier

Music Reviews