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The Barrymore, A New Throw-Back in Vegas: Cheap Wine! Foie Gras!

You will not see it advertised in blinking lights or on a billboard above the Strip. There will be no chef's face atop a cab. You will not wade through a casino and climb escalators of cologne and miniskirts to find it. It feels like a secret -- and it's one of the best new bang-for-buck meals in to ... More >>

The Creepiest, Goriest, Most Terrifying Heavy Metal Album Covers

Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Helloween Better Th ... More >>

Pop Quiz: What's Your Picnic Style?

Picnics are one of those civic birthrights that redeems living with traffic snarls on the 405 and celebrity divorces superseding the one minute of world event coverage on the evening news. The very bones of the tradition forged by myriad outdoor spaces, summer events, and consistently genial weather ... More >>

The Corner Door: 5 Simple Rules for Opening a Gastropub

Sometimes it's helpful to imagine that there is a unspoken checklist for every stylish small-plates joint opening in Los Angeles these days -- a collection of requirements floating in the subconscious of every restaurateur looking to start what constitutes a "gastropub" these days: 1. There must be ... More >>

Shooting at Southern California Edison Takes Multiple Victims; Baldwin Park Schools on Lockdown

The SoCal Edison office where the shooting occurred -- part of the San Gabriel Valley Corporate Campus​A shooting at the Irwindale branch of Southern California Edison -- located at 4900 Rivergrade Road -- has taken multiple victims, KTLA reports. And the San Gabriel Valley Tribune identifies ... More >>

Matthew Brandt's Electric Photographs in "Two Ships Passing" at M B: Don't Touch or You'll Get Shocked

I first encountered Matthew Brandt's work when he was still a graduate student at UCLA. During the 2007 open studios, he had his portrait series tacked up on the wall -- photographic images of people he knew, made using the old-timey method of salted paper prints, and incorporating the subject's bod ... More >>

Diorama Panorama: Zoe Beloff Gets Inside Your Brain with 3D Movies and Models in 'The Somnambulists'

Zoe BeloffThe Somnambulists​ Using early media like 19th century stereopticon slides, found footage and her own original 3D films, Zoe Beloff is a scavenger who makes quirky, multidimensional pieces of multimedia. She describes herself as a "medium" who speaks through artifacts of the past to ... More >>

The Royal Wedding Crass Commercialism: Commemorative Plates, Throne Up Bags Pieminister Pies

PieministerKate and Wills pie​ The British do so many things better than us: Table manners, diction, the drug-addled teens-gone-wild television series, Skins. One thing we can beat them at hands down? Pop culture exploitation. Here, something as minor as Charlie Sheen losing his mind happens a ... More >>

R.I.P Singer and Songwriter Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow​Phoebe Snow, singer of the 1970s hit "Poetry Man," died Tuesday in Edison, NJ. She was 60 years old. After being discovered at New York City's The Bitter End in 1972, the singer rose to fame with her Grammy-nominated 1974 self-titled album. She had suffered a brain hemorrhage in ... More >>

The Beat's the Thing

High West: The Spirit Of The Rye, Rye West Their Newest Double Rye Release

J. GarbeeThe Regional Whiskey Face Off Continues ​If you follow the spirits circuit, specifically those of the barrel-aged corn and rye persuasion, High West Distillery in Park City, Utah, has probably been on your radar for a while. If not, you'll hear about this young craft distillery soon i ... More >>

20 Band Names From the State of the Union Address

20 Band Names From the State of the Union Address

Now Open: Big Bar at Alcove in Los Feliz

J. Ritz​ Cruise by Alcove Café & Bakery on Hillhurst north of Franklin in Los Feliz just about anytime, day or night, and you'll see people sitting on the exceedingly pleasant patio poking at salads, sandwiches, desserts, and other café foods and beverages. Now both passersby and Alcove cust ... More >>

What's Your Dirtiest Jason Bentley Sexual Fantasy?

Jason Bentley: sexxxy voice, sexxxy look (wait, isn't that "Blue Steel"?!?!?!)​We were talking to an acquaintance (female, late 30s, educated, divorced) and she was telling us that one of the main reasons she listens to NPR every morning has to do with... well, the tingly feelings she gets fro ... More >>

Test Kitchen: Never-Ending Experiment

Invented anew every night

Happy Hour: Lazy Ox Canteen in Little Tokyo

Caroline on CrackPork chicharróns on skewers.​ The Place: Lazy Ox Canteen, 241 S San Pedro Street, Little Tokyo; (213) 626-5299. The Hours: Weekdays 5-7pm The Deals: $4 select beer and glasses of red or white wine, sangria; $5 small plates.

L.A. Bloggers Judge Top Chef Masters A Viewing Party at The Edison

Top Chef MastersMake room for some food bloggers at Judges' Table​ L.A. chefs like Mark Peel, Susan Feniger and Ludovic Lefebvre aren't the only locals showing up on Top Chef Masters this season. Wednesday night, the judges' table will get a little bit bigger with L.A. food bloggers Bill Espa ... More >>

Our Favorite Happy Hours

50 deal-driven places to get you and your wallet feeling a whole lot better

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/15 - 2/19

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I'd never seen a microwaved tlayuda before, and I hope never to see one again." Ask Mr. Gold: A Mole Here, A Mole There. "Wear your buffet pants."

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: More Haiti Fundraisers Around Town

TiGeorges'​Chefs and restaurant employees around the city are generously donating their time to raise money for Haiti. Here is a list of places you can donate while you dine. The Edison will donate all door proceeds this week to the Haiti relief fund. On Friday, Jan. 22th from 5pm-8pm, the b ... More >>

Oh-Nine at Night

Fangs Out

Last Night in Images: Drink:Eat:Play's Speakeasy at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel

Perhaps as to be expected, Drink:Eat:Play's Speakeasy party provided a night of sophistication reminiscent of an era long past -- specifically that of Sophmore year in college. An hour into the event, which offered unlimited tastings of over 100 different kinds of bourbon, rum, and whiskey, plus co ... More >>

Top 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: A Loaf of Bread, A Pound of Cheese...

Not just your plain-Jane American cheese on toast anymore, the grilled cheese sandwich is both comfort food and cultural icon. Proving that you can do an awful lot with a few slices of bread and a hunk of cheese. From a lavish raisin bread with shortribs and tallegio to a simple aged Cheddar and tom ... More >>

Beloved Vinyl Vendor Music Man Murray To Close

MSNBC is reporting that after 47 years of service, famed Mid-City used vinyl vendor Music Man Murray will be closing up shop in the next few months. It's a tragedy that will surely be greeted by a strange and fevered chaos, considering that the article also points out that "everything must go, from ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Notes of Summer

LA People 2009: The New Vaudevillians — Lucent Dossier

Best known for its Coachella water spectaculars, the circus troupe founded by Dream Rockwell reaches to the past and the future for its fantasy performances

Digital Joyride: Ken Jacobs Gives ’em the Old Razzle Dazzle

2001: A Space Odyssey @ The Edison Downtown

The darkly gilded depths of the Edison – resembling as it does something like inside of the Nautilus, or maybe the League of Extraordinary Gentleman's rec-room – might at first seem an odd atmosphere for as pristinely, intensely cinematic a movie experience as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet despite ... More >>

Lucent Dossier Turns Acrobatics into Erotics

Last Night: Lucent Dossier Seduces the Absinthe Fairy, Turns Acrobatics into Erotics

Last night, September 17, marked the decadent premiere of Lucent Dossier’s Wednesday night residency at the Edison Bar. Deep in the dungeonesque belly of the first private power plant in downtown Los Angeles, the Vaudeville circus pranced around with feather headdresses and lace lingerie, dangling ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Savina Yannatou, Janis Mann, Tony Bennett and more

Getting found in the music

Downtown L.A. Film Fest: The Good, The Bad, and The Booze

This past Sunday marked the finale of the first Downtown LA Film Festival, closing five days of spectacular centerpieces, freely flowing booze, and the occasional glitch. As a coherent festival to be enjoyed as one large mega-event, it was hampered by the distances between venues (too far too walk, ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Running Hot and Cold

Jazz in L.A., May 2-8

2007: Outta Sight

Falling, spinning, shining stars and the year's most stellar parties

We’re a Happy Family

And Sweet Tarts in the pink

Mood Indigo

Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night

Rock Out

Split Over Atoms

Who will pay for San Onofre’s rehab?

The New Energy Governor

Arnold needs to get cracking on the state’s looming crisis

Letters

California Dreamin’

Running Riordan: A modest proposal

Universal Lifeline

The power of Hollywood keeps lights on

Darkness at Noon

Everything Gray Davis touches seems to short out

This Is Our Music

The Napster museum of cultural heritage

Future Shmutz

Natural gas dwindles, alternative energy pulls back

Lights Out for SoCal Edison

Our pseudonymous insider says corporate culture was comatose

Power to the People

Why David Freeman is smarter than Dick Riordan

A Light Matter

Why exactly Californians are getting screwed by power companies

Power Play

South Gate is already one of the most polluted cities in California. Does it really need a massive new electric plant?