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Adrian Younge: New Soul Legend

The composer and producer reimagines old-school hip-hop

Water Enhancers Make Water Better: By Reminding You What it Shouldn't Taste Like

The lounge. The smell of chalky beans in a microwaved burrito. Cold Chinese leftovers. A squashed tuna sandwich. Most of your co-workers wash their food down with water from the cooler or a diet Coke. However, one guy pulls a plastic vial from his pocket and waves it over his cup of water. Red ... More >>

The Perils of Dating a Dominatrix

This piece is part of our series on the L.A. dominatrix industry. See also: *How a Dominatrix Does Her Taxes *Inside the L.A. Dominatrix Industry Smack. Slap slap slap. Thwack. Professional dominatrix Mistress Tetra pauses her spanking to press her breasts into the bare bottom of a woman clad onl ... More >>

Fort MacArthur Reenactment Combines Vikings, Nazis, Confederates and Other Armies Through Time

"Bloody hell, men!" Boom. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Boom. Three men in tan uniforms lie inert on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Their remaining comrades radio for help and cower behind their jeep, trying desperately to shoot the Germans hiding in the bushes. The canon sounds again, causin ... More >>

Steve Nash's Secret Diet NBA Eating Habits

Yesterday came the news that the Lakers had landed future Hall of Fame point guard (and all-around amiable Canadian dude) Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for a boatload of future draft picks. Despite being 38 years old (the fifth oldest active player in the NBA), Nash last year had on ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Sustainable Seafood, Noma Alums The World's Most Expensive Vegetable

The Salt: "Buying Sustainable Fish Is Getting Easier, But It's Still Hard" The Los Angeles Times: Jonathan Gold recalls looking for a quart of milk in his Koreatown neighborhood on May 1, 1992. He revisits the area 20 years after the riots. Grub Street: Noma alums coming to a restaurant near you.. ... More >>

Lingerie Bowl Dominated by Los Angeles Temptation for Third Year: PHOTOS

While you were enjoying halftime festivities with Madonna yesterday the perv pay-per-view nation was tuning in to the real competition: Lingerie Bowl IX. Are you ready for some freak ball? Turns out, L.A., you are indeed:

Joe Bodolai: SNL, 'Wayne's World' Writer Found Dead in Hollywood Hotel; Suicide Likely

Ah, the sad life of the writer. And just think, this guy was successful: What does that say about the rest of us? Joe Bodolai, an onetime member of Saturday Night Live's famed writers' table and the reported author of the first draft of the hit movie Wayne's World was found dead in Hollywood Monday ... More >>

Drink Your Veggies: Farm-Fresh Cocktails

A ArmstrongMichael's Mix​4 out of 5 doctors agree*: One should eat at least nine servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Most everyone else* agrees: That seems ambitious. Let us toast to the health of our local publicans, the men and women who scour the weekly farmers markets to source fr ... More >>

Coconut Water Lawsuit: Do Nutritional Claims Hold Water?

T. NguyenThe only thing that may be truthful in Vita Coco's ad is the part about bikinis being optional.​ Drink Vita Coco or O.N.E. Coconut Water because of its health benefits? Use either liquid as a cure for a nasty hangover? Shocked to learn that, according to a recent study, neither brand ... More >>

Top 5 Drinks in Need of Reclassification

HeadCRasher/flickrBeer, not food. ​ We've long claimed beers to be part of a balanced diet -- like slices of whole wheat crammed into cans. In late July however, Russia sobered us up with a devastating reclassification of our beloved brew: Beer, by the new standard, is amazingly no longer c ... More >>

Lousy School Lunches

Ferran Adrià Partners with PepsiCo: Your Nitrogen Tank, My Convenience Food

El BulliCan you find the vending machine in this flow chart?​ Ferran Adrià does like to play with products. And the El Bulli chef has a history of innovation and unlikely pairings. But Pepsi? Recently PepsiCo announced a partnership with Adrià, to work on procedures and techniques for new sn ... More >>

Kids Don't Need Sports or Energy Drinks: OMG, You Can Actually Drink Water

Flickr/96dpia glass of water​ If you've ever spent much time at a kids' soccer game -- much less a middle school basketball jam session at Staples Center sponsored by Gatorade -- you'd think that kids required sports drinks as much as adults training for triathalons or the NBA finals (go Mavs! ... More >>

Mega-Billboards Get Slapped by the City of L.A. in Legal Action That Could be Worth Millions

This billboard is legal. We just like it.​Updated after the jump with the billboard company saying it has cooperated with the city and is "outraged" by this suit. City prosecutors slapped a advertising company and 19 landlords with a lawsuit today for allegedly putting up illegal supergraphic ... More >>

College Bar Report: The Lab Gastropub

Henan J.Beef sliders​ The Place: The Lab Gastropub, 3500 S. Figueroa Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90007; (213) 743-1843. The Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; Noon-10 p.m. Sat.-Sun. The Digs: The Lab is a college bar unlike any we have encountered. Apparently, there's a "science" theme at this ... More >>

Jean Maxime Perramon -- Big-Time Hollywood Animator, 'Bionic Six' Artist -- Killed on Shoulder of 101 Freeway in Thousand Oaks

Pepper Films Inc​Updated after the jump: Jean's friends and neighbors provide more details about his life and death. Jean Perramon pulled over to the side of the 101 North at about 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, stepping out of his Ferrari momentarily to check its tire for a piece of metal he though ... More >>

How to Take Ecstasy: L.A. County Health Officials Teach You How

Raver down at Electric Daisy Carnival in 2008.​One of the more bizarre aspects of officials sanctioning raves at the publicly owned L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena is that Los Angeles County health authorities have actually embarked on a campaign to teach young people how to take ecstasy safely ... More >>

Minnesota Vikings' Everson Griffen Tased, Arrested By LAPD Following Crotch-Grab and Foot Chase Near His Alma Mater, USC

Everson Griffen in his USC days.​NFL players are amazing athletes. They run through workout routines that would make the average mortal cry uncle after three minutes. So bravo to the LAPD for catching up to Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen, a former USC star who police allege r ... More >>

A Sports Field Evaporates

The Continuing Adventures of Squeak E. Clean

The star-studded N.A.S.A. project by L.A.'s best-connected producer gets a remix

What's Method Man's Cheap Wine of Choice? Why Did Tom Waits Want to Hang Out with Kool Keith? Which Rapper Moonlights As Lingerie Designer?: N.A.S.A.'s DJ Squeak E. Clean Tells It All

N.A.S.A. reloaded: Squeak E. Clean (front) and collaborator DJ Zegon ​On this week's print edition of the LA Weekly, Drew Tewksbury interviews DJ Squeak E. Clean, aka Sam Spiegel, aka Spike Jonze's brother, aka the man behind the star-studded N.A.S.A. project. Spiegel's N.A.S.A. concept album ... More >>

SPIN & TONIC

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/29-4/2

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Wednesday is Offal Good at Palate, a 21-gun salute to innards - last week saw cardiac night, with chicken-heart fattoush, lamb-heart shwarma, and beef-heart kebabs with prawns and romesco sauce, three courses for $25." ... More >>

Laker Star Kobe Bryant Sues Japanese City Over Naming Rights To High-End Beef

With the race for the top seed in the Western Conference all but wrapped up, it appears that Kobe Bryant has set his sights on a new opponent: the entire Japanese city of Kobe. Kobe Bryant was actually named after the expensive and highly sought after Japanese beef when his father, whose nickname i ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Coffee may enhance inebriation. [Fox] -- For the fourth day of Christmas at Meadowood the Food Dudes gave us meat. [EaterSF] -- Tootsie Rolls, Frooties, and Dots go Kosher (Why this made the Crime ... More >>

Beth Ditto: Big in Europe

She's the greatest female Arkansan punk singer ever to host a British talk show. And it doesn't stop there

Top 10 Free Samples: Where to Eat in L.A. Without Worrying About Things Like, Say...Money

User Lucyrk in LA, from the LA Weekly Flickr pool.Wanna try a tomato?​You don't have to go full freegan to eat without a wallet. Times are hard, but that's no reason to deprive your stomach of tasty treats. Here are our Top 10 spots for free edible samples in Los Angeles: 10. Trader Joe's For ... More >>

Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Lou Says, "Asti La Vista, Baby"

Anne FishbeinWine Guy in his natural habitat This week, we approached our favorite wine guy, Lou Amdur of Lou, with a fizzy question: What's the difference between Asti Spumante and Moscato d'Asti? ... And was that a groan I heard, Lou, when I mentioned Asti Spumante? But first: Apropos of nothi ... More >>

Movie Reviews: City of Ember, Quarantine, Rocknrolla

Also, Breakfast with Scot, The Little Red Truck, Quarantine and more

Desire in the Desert

Tristan goes to a unique BDSM event

Small Child, Cute, Ages Normally

Lost in Tijuana

A mother’s search for a son, born in East L.A. but deported by County Sheriffs

The Crisco Kid

Brian Friedman wants you to fill 'er up with veggie oil

Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council’s New Year’s Eve party mixes

Brown Dirt Cowboys

Meet Esteban Hills and crew, your gardeners

Kids Rock

The bands that are saving L.A.’s music scene

Firing Arnold

Signal Hill

New fiction by Alan Rifkin

Boogie Afternoons

A seminal moment in Malibu

Wrestling With Demons

Mario Duane Gardner, 1968 - ­2002

I'm Just a Three-Striking Old Softie

Taming the Wild Trickle

A Gray-Water Adventure on the Mighty L.A.