Game of Thrones

Identical Twins Who Play Harp Duets

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Martin Schoeller's new show "Identical: Portraits of Twins" at ACE gallery in Beverly Hills is interesting enough on its own, but the opening this past Saturday was an unusual and memorable experience that, q ... More >>

5 Awesome Free Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Fans of a good laugh, Tom Sizemore and the realm of the fantastic need not break their wallets this week. Check out these free offerings that make even the dullest weekday interesting, f ... More >>

A Different Kind of Fantasy League

Hollywood Blacksmith Recreates Classic Pop-Culture Weapons in a New Web Series

Walking onto the set of the new web series Man at Arms, released today, it soon becomes clear that the Sword and the Stone, Tony Swatton's shop of goods, is every (convention-going) boy's dream. There are Roman soldiers, scantily clad female mannequins in leather and metal costumes, and very familia ... More >>

Winter is Brewing: Game of Thrones Brewery Ommegang to Release Beer

First True Blood got it's own drink, now comes news that HBO's newest action-packed hit Game of Thrones will be getting its own signature beverage, with some help from New York-based craft beermaker Brewery Ommegang. According to The New York Times, the first beer will called the "Iron Throne Blon ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Cookie Advent Calendar, Christmas Hot Dogs A Gluten-Free Holiday Menu

Saveur: The 2012 cookie advent calendar. Ruth Reichl: Gift Guide, Day 18. Or, the Corkcicle. Eater LA: La Brea Bakery moving up the street in January. Serious Eats: Christmas-themed hot dogs. LA Observed: One Adam 12: Code 7 at Henry's Tacos. Food52: A Gluten-Free Holiday Menu. Bon Appetit: ... More >>

Jon Hamm and Adam Scott Host Sandy Benefit, With Performances by Aziz Ansari, Sarah Silverman and More

See also: *Dick Jokes for Jesus at Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week "Ladies, please prepare your vaginas," announced actor/comedian Aziz Ansari Monday night at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, introducing masters of ... More >>

The Best Metal Concerts to See in L.A. This Month

Fri, Oct 5 Gypsyhawk The Viper Room Pasadena's Gypsyhawk deftly blend metallic guitars and fantasy/science-obsessed lyrics with a rock and roll boogie swagger. On the group's new album Revelry & Resilience, the raspy shouts of bassist/vocalist Eric Harris and the blistering yet warm solos of guitar ... More >>

Veep-Inspired Cocktail: A Recipe for the Emmys

HBO is hosting its 10th annual Luxury Lounge in honor of the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on Sept. 21-22 to ply the stars of its hit shows, plus all of the Emmy nominees and presenters who care to show, with gifts (handbags, jewelry, clothes, makeup, baby strollers ... More >>

Brody Stevens and Garfunkel & Oates on Their New Series for HBO Go

See also: *Brody Stevens Speaks Out About his Infamous Twitter Meltdown For three LA comedians looking to expanding their reach, HBO GO is offering a platform through its new batch of original programs, designated HBO Digitals. Available only to HBO subscribers, HBO GO launched early last year and ... More >>

5 SoCal Artists Who Succeeded on Fiver.com, Selling Their Art (and Alter Egos) $5 at a Time

Fiverr artist Professor Hans Von Puppet created this video above, to introduce this article. Can you dance a jig in spandex while playing the accordion, craft words in water out of tiny boats, or speak the Dothraki language from Game of Thrones fluently? Then call up Mom and give her a big I-told-y ... More >>

Drip.FM Is HBO for Music Nerds

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] It's hard to pinpoint the date when the music industry stopped speaking like a shell-shocked trench poet, but the sky quietly quit falling. Last year, album sal ... More >>

Game of Thrones Official Cookbook Debuts A Recipe for Medieval Applecakes

This Sunday marks the finale of the second season of Game of Thrones, in which fans will finally find out if Daenerys gets her dragons back from the weirdo magician dude(s) and whether Jon Snow does, in fact, know anything. If you're planning to lay out an epic feast worthy of a Valyerian prince an ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/29 - 6/1

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If you want more of this salsa, it'll be an extra quarter. This would be but a small price to pay for a fleeting moment of bliss." Top 6 Tacos in the San Fernando Valley. "It's unknown whether the spray jelly can also be u ... More >>

Solar Eclipse, California-Style: 5 Best Photos, Videos of Sunday's 'Ring of Fire'

Where were you between the hours of 5:24 p.m. and 7:42 p.m. yesterday? If your answer is "catching up on back-episodes of Game of Thrones, you heathen" -- joke's on you, brother. You just missed a real-life fantasy apocalypse: a stunning solar ring over the mountaintops/bay views of Los Angeles, th ... More >>

14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention

It's that time of year where it seems like there's at least one big fan convention going on every weekend somewhere in the country. Whether you're planning on heading to New Jersey for The Steampunk World's Fair later this month or counting down for San Diego Comic-Con in July, there are a few esse ... More >>

5 Podcasts for Food Lovers

If you're already a podcast listener then you most likely know and love KCRW's Good Food and The Splendid Table, two of the best shows on the radio, ready for uploading at any time. In terms of food coverage, there's also NPR, Martha Stewart, and the list goes on. Those shows are great because they' ... More >>

Q & A With Lou Amdur: On Selling His Wine Bar, Software Insomnia Drunks in the Parking Lot

When Squid Ink was born back in 2009, Lou Amdur, the owner of the wine bar, LOU was one of the first experts we turned to. No matter the question -- be it of terroir, or amphorae or why wine geeks use puzzling descriptors -- he never made us feel dumb for asking it. His answers took us near (Wine Ex ... More >>

Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question

Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered. Or is it? That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This t ... More >>

"Game of Thrones"-Inspired Fire & Ice Cocktail: A Recipe for the Golden Globes

HBO is hosting its 10th annual Luxury Lounge at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on January 13-14 to ply the stars of its hit shows, plus all of the Golden Globes nominees who deign to show up, with gifts, services and booze. Basil Hayden's Bourbon, one of the event's sponsors, asked hot L.A. mixol ... More >>

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Hush Puppy Food Fight: Penguin Fish & Chips vs. Charlie's Fish & Chips

Hush puppies aren't the reason you bought the fried fish platter, but they're maybe what you enjoy most. Once you irrigate your breaded whiting pieces with liberal splashes of hot sauce and tuck them between a few porous slices of tartar-laden bread, these humble balls of fryer-blasted cornmeal dou ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con 2011: The Walking Dead is Back, With A Vengeance

Nicole CamposJon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies and Andrew Lincoln​ At last year's San Diego Comic-Con, The Walking Dead hadn't yet debuted on AMC. Of huge interest to comics fans and zombie aficionados, filmmaker (and now showrunner) Frank Darabont's epic based on Robert Kirkman's acclaimed Im ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More

Shannon CottrellYoshiki and Stan Lee will appear together at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21​We're two weeks away from San Diego Comic-Con and now the panel schedule for Thursday, July 21 is online. You know what that means. It's time to start preparing. Check out the full schedule on SDCC's w ... More >>

Sean Bean, 'Lord of the Rings' Star, Stabbed With Shard of Glass in Totally J.R. Tolken-Worthy Bar Brawl

IMDBReady to rage​We're about to OD on stupid celebrity news today, but this one's too amazing to pass up -- a perfect "Game of Thrones" stabbing, involving one of Hollywood's biggest badasses, come true at some low-brow London pub. The Playboy Mansion is even involved (sort of)! So late Sund ... More >>

Royal Wedding Is Amazing, Gorgeous, Stunning, Stylish, Dreamy, Bloody Delightful, Say Critics

Getty Images​'Twas the holy matrimony heard round the world: The great Prince William wed his favorite muggle, an impossibly lacy Kate Middleton, through the wee hours (PDT) last night. As soon as Kate stepped out of the queen's Rolls Royce, Hollywood's toughest and snarkiest critics were redu ... More >>

Winter Is Coming & So Are The Cheesesteaks: On Game of Thrones, George RR Martin Food Quests

(c) http://www.westeros.org/2006 WorldCon, Glasgow, Scotland, with haggis in the foreground.​ Until we read Laura Miller's April 11th New Yorker piece on fantasy, horror and sci-fi writer George RR Martin, we didn't know much about HBO's new Game of Thrones, except that it's an American medie ... More >>