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Britt and Amanda Brown Do it For Love, and a Little Money

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you lacked directions to Britt and Amanda Brown's house in the Highland Park hills, you probably could guess the address. Look for the tea green and p ... More >>

LudoBites, The Cookbook: Pre-Order Now A Recipe For Ludo's Foie Gras Miso Soup

For all of you who constantly check Los Angeles chef Ludo Lefebvre's Twitter feed and LudoBites website for updates on his latest pop-up, who surf the Sundance Channel and drive by Gram & Papa's to check for rooster paraphernalia, who DM the chef and his wife offers of babysitting, soon you can thum ... More >>

Amanda Brown: Raw Foodist, Colossal In Kiev

Britt BrownAmanda Brown​See also: LA Vampires perform at Dem Passwords, 8/3/11 At Cafe Gratitude on Larchmont Boulevard, the menu items aren't labeled as soups or burgers or salads or whatever; instead, they're hippie affirmations, like "I Am Liberated" or "I Am Honoring." When the waitress d ... More >>

Best Above-Average Joe

You are the punk-rock lion Christ of Human Resources: 3 motivational business books based on deeply stupid metaphors

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. For years the most popular method of getting through the workday for America's busines ... More >>

Mongols and Hells Angels Invade Hiptown

Echo Park and Los Feliz see influx of violent, clashing criminal biker groups

Feline Fun and School Girl Rock at Royal T's Emily the Strange Masquerade

Lina Lecaro Kittens come out for Emily the Strange​ According to her creators, Emily the Strange has become "an internationally known icon for individualism, empowerment and do-it-yourself style," but for many, particularly teen girls, she just looks really cool and dark and different, how ma ... More >>

Nightranger: Once Bitten, Twice Buy

Bourdain at UCLA Tonight: No Tickets? Stake Out the Westwood In-N-Out

Amazon​As Anthony Bourdain fans have known for months now, the No Reservations guy is in town to give a talk at UCLA tonight. Bourdain has also been making the rounds, talking to Pat Morisson on KPCC this afternoon, during which time he heaped praise on local institutions In-N-Out, Philippe' ... More >>

Nightranger on (Slutty) Summer Reads

Our social calendar has been packed with book signings and their after-bashes recently, some wilder than any club night. Two books in particular are rockin' our reading radar, and not just because both have the word "slut" in their titles. It was the same eve as the Cobrasnake hullabaloo, so we miss ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Coming to Royce Hall: Yes, Reservations

The Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain, the hazard pay episode​ Tired of getting your Anthony Bourdain fix via the Travel Channel, your demi-glace-stained pages of Kitchen Confidential (or Bone in the Throat, circa 1995), or even, gasp, from the untangled threads of @ruthbourdain? The chef-author ... More >>

GUY TALK

Henry Bay’s America: An Excerpt From The Enthusiast

Last Night: Guillermo Del Toro Descends on Meltdown to Sign Novel The Strain

Even amongst the Hollyweird crowd, staying up past the witching hour on a Monday night for a book signing at Meltdown Comics takes dedication. Then again, one has to take into account context, or in this case subject: writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, who is promoting his first foray into noveliz ... More >>

I Am a Diary

Excerpts from Christopher Isherwood's journal

Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth

Baring our canines

Our Favorite Undernourished Books of the Year

Unsung heroes

Best Books of 2007

But don't take our word for it. The National Book Critics Circle launched its inaugural Best Recommended List, compiled by polling its members, former book prize winners and finalists. (The NBCC's excellent blog is here: bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/ ) Here are the lists they came up with, along ... More >>

It Can't Happen Here (Again)

Saul Friedlander receives a peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair

the Translator

Marie DuVaure, Vroman’s Bookstore

Sex in the Age of Irony

Whip-smart women in a call girl’s Belle de Jour and Shelley Jackson’s Half Life

Get Lit

L.A.'s literary salons: club-hopping for bookworms

3 List-Obsessed Books

3 List-Obsessed Books

The Gathering Storm

Judith Regan, the world’s most successful publisher, heads for the coast

The Revolutionary: Ludovic Lefebvre at Bastide

Joe Pytka's restaurant under Lefebvre has all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a Michelin-starred French restaurant, and then some

Behind the Blue Door

Legs McNeil gatecrashes the Other Hollywood

Man vs. Mongrel

Love, lust and the dog fighter

Man vs. Mongrel

Love, lust and the dog fighter

Maestro Gatti Takes the Fifth

Revenge against the ’70s (and other hostile decades)

Top 5 List-Obsessed Books of 2003

The Revelators

Martin Scorsese’s blue Christmas

Grim Fairy Tales

Disaster, death and evil little children

Prime Obsession

Will the greatest problem in mathematics ever be resolved?

The 10 Most Influential Books of the Past Year

The Untold Story

How corporate takeovers make the media less curious

Barnstorming

Michael Moore touches down

Grand Delusion

The Spurt

The Year in Music

Our Favorite Books of the Year

The Coffee Table

Dictators, Skyscrapers and Not-So-Nice Genes

New works from Marc Cooper, Richard Rayner, Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan

Mystery Man

Denis Johnson and The Name of the World

On the Road Again

Fred Rochlin has some stories to tell

Why You?

Writing about race

Fulfillment

A Publishing Memoir

How To Snort an Airplane

The raunch and roll of rock autobiography

Visions From Madanapalle