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It's Negroni Week in Los Angeles Drink up for a Charitable Cause

It began with a simple email to a few Los Angeles bartenders. "Hey you all, anyone interested in bringing Negroni Week to L.A.?" Within an hour, barkeeps citywide were hopping on board, linking in fellow bartenders, and making plans for their own personal negroni variations. If you hang out in ba ... More >>

Is The Varnish the Best Bar in the World? Spirited Bar Awards Finalists Announced

Hot on the heels of last year's Best American Cocktail Bar award at Tales of the Cocktail, The Varnish is this year a finalist for World's Best Cocktail Bar, along with 9 other finalists. Eric Alperin, who leads the crew at The Varnish, is also up for American Bartender of the Year. Other L.A. fin ... More >>

Meet Emanuel Pleitez

He's the Most Amazing Person Who Won't Win the March 5 Los Angeles Mayoral Primary

L.A. Bartenders Get Artsy at Sadie

Ever wonder what L.A.'s most creative bartenders like to do on their days off? That's exactly the idea behind Art Beyond the Glass, a fundraiser that features a variety of art, music, DJs, live performances and, of course, lots of cocktails for a cause at Sadie in Hollywood. Created by Providence ... More >>

CSU Hunger Strike: Northridge Students Won't Eat Until Admin Freezes Tuition, Cuts Own Pay

They've been warning administrators since last Friday that they'd do it, and the moment of truth has arrived: Four brave students from Cal State Northridge began their hunger strike against rising tuition yesterday, along with eight more CSU students scattered across five other campuses within the ... More >>

Taking Physics Class 
with Professor GZA

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Our review of Wu-Tang Clan's January 21, 2012 show at Club Nokia The Wu-Tang Clan once said if we picked up their double album, Wu-Tang Foreve ... More >>

Glass of Red Wine a Day Could Keep Breast Cancer Away, Says New Cedars-Sinai Research

RadarOnlineDoctor's orders.​Does drinking wine affect a girl's odds for breast cancer? Battle of the studies! Just a couple months ago, Harvard University released some buzz-killing stats showing that "women who drink just four small glasses of wine a week increase their risk of developing br ... More >>

'L.A. Is the Future' of the Tech Revolution, Says NYC Media Guru

Kerry TribeWelcome to the future, New York.​The Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard is running a nice 2011-ending series on what the next year will look like for journalism, by an esteemed fleet of think-piecers who've braved this rocky field for the last few. You've got plenty of your usual far ... More >>

Joan Nathan Speaking on the Food of the Jews of France This Weekend

​If you get tired of picking up branches this weekend, or listening to your San Gabriel Valley friends who are still complaining about having to do so, you might head over to downtown's Central Library to listen to Joan Nathan instead. The cookbook author (10 books and counting) will be speaki ... More >>

Intelligentsia's Slow Bar or: An Experiment in Coffee and Customer Service

T. NguyenAn affogato at Intelligentsia's slow bar.​ Google allows its engineers to devote 20% of their full-time jobs to "work on what they're really passionate about." Similarly, Harvard & Stone has a "R&D bar" for visiting mixologists to beta test drinks. The closest thing to a coffee shop ... More >>

The Warlocks and The Icarus Line - The Mint - 9/10/11

Lina Lecaro ​The Warlocks, The Icarus Line The Mint 9-10-11 Better than: That Lou Reed/Metallica project... maybe. After a brief hiatus, The Warlocks have been conjuring music magic in L.A. again. The local psych band toured Europe last year and "got burned out," according to leader Bobby H ... More >>

Music Picks: Alison Krauss, Flying Lotus, My Morning Jacket

Also, Jaga Jazzist, Kid Cudi, Baths and others

Henri Ford: Doctor Sans Frontieres

Q & A With Eric Ripert, Part 2: Celebrity Chefs, Spago's Spies The Identity of Ruth Bourdain

A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont​ In the first part of our interview with Eric Ripert, the French chef who is chef-partner at New York City's Le Bernardin, the author of four cookbooks, the host of his own PBS show, Friend Of Tony, and (lest we forget) recipient of French's Leg ... More >>

61-Year-Old L.A. Woman Dies At Hands Of Beverly Hills And Encino 'Plastic Surgeon' Ehab Mohamed

Beverly Hills Advanced LaserDr. Ehab Mohamed​Updated after the jump: Did Dr. Mohamed try to perform a hernia repair on himself? Originally posted at 10 a.m. It's a "Nip/Tuck" episode come horrifyingly to life: Los Angeles gynecologist turned plastic surgeon Dr. Ehab Mohamed operated on 61-yea ... More >>

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench: Swing Time

Busby Berkeley meets Breathless in a new indie musical

Mexican Macro-economics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

Inside Job: Greed, Interrupted

Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger-pointing, Charles Ferguson's latest will make you seethe

Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser On Food Trucks And How To Regulate Them

​Edward Glaeser, the Harvard economist who is an expert on what makes some cities thrive while others flounder, has a good piece in the Boston Globe about food trucks and how they should be regulated. Here's the great lede, one that L.A. residents can understand: Economists like myself often ... More >>

Apple Schedules Special Press Conference To Address Problems With iPhone 4

Gizmodo​Apple scheduled a press conference Friday to address a growing roar of discontent with its iPhone 4, which this week was found by Consumer Reports to have serious issues with reception. The San Jose Mercury News called the last-minute conference "unprecedented" for the normally quali ... More >>

Remembering Alan Rich, Dean of American Music Critics

Alan Rich, 1924-2010: Dean of American Music Critics

​It wasn't just by dint of his incredibly long career in music that Alan Rich deserved the title Dean of American Music Critics. When he passed away on April 23 at the age of 86, he left behind a cultural legacy that owed as much to his enormous depth of experience as to his razorlike gift for ... More >>

Obama 'Joker' Poster: It's All About Race

Ted Soqui​Was it something I said?Early last week I posted a brief blog noting the appearance of those "Obama Socialism" posters, in which the president's face is made up to resemble Heath Ledger's Joker character from The Dark Knight. That Batman-film derived image had been Photoshopped by Firas ... More >>

Barackula: The Vampire Musical

When Barack Obama was in college, he fought vampires. At least according to the musical starring and directed by Justin Sherman. It's a little bit Harry Potter, a little bit Buffy, a lot bit that Dracula puppet show rock opera in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (but with real actors, not puppets). Here i ... More >>

Uh oh, Obama asks Antonio Villaraigosa for Economic Advice

By Tibby Rothman Many Southern Californians were mystified by this news from the Wall Street Journal and NBC's Firstread blog: The often stumbling Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose city budget deficit has hit a historic high and who has based his economic plan in Los Angeles almost entirely on a s ... More >>

Monthly Crowd Gathers to Stargaze at Griffith Observatory

Celestial close-ups courtesy of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society

Who's Your Mermaid?

What to do in L.A. this week

All That's Left

All not OK at Corral Canyon

Baby Pigs and Mouseholes

Remembering Helen Hill

Theater Reviews

The Boomerang Kid, It's Just Sex, and this week's pick, Palace of the End

Eli Roth: The Torturer Talks

Chatting with Hostel Part II writer-director

All Over the Map

From politics to pop culture, a Mexican American Prince Who’s Who

Stone, Warm, Sober

From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the ’60s and today

Crosstown Rivals

When USC and UCLA put on their academic game faces, nothing less than the future of the city is at stake

Rocky, Did You Bump Your Head?

Film Reviews

Including this week's picks, Jackass Number Two and The Science of Sleep

We Rule, You Don’t!

Lovin’ L.A., angrily

What Did the Last Easter Islander Say as He Chopped Down the Last Tree?

The best-selling author of Guns, Germs and Steel asks whimsical questions with grave answers. In his latest book, he turns his attention to the collapse of civilization.

Pose and Mean It

Biz as Usual

Aces and Addicts

Modern gambling in America and the rise of the machines

Manic Monday

Raging against the Establishment

Jan Gable: Power Source

Paradise Lost

March Madness

I might support this war if . . .

I Could Be a Voice for the Other L.A.

Web exclusive: the L.A. Weekly’s interview with Antonio Villaraigosa, candidate for the 14th Los Angeles City Council District

Blinded With Really Big Science

Talking to L.A.'s burning men of comedy

Sky High

Gregory Corso, 1930–2001

Portrait of the Activist as a Young Man

The passionate life and tragic death of Terence Freitas