Havana

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including 'The Happiness Show'

See also: *Asshole Festival 2013: Artists Yell at the Assholes of Los Angeles From a Street Corner in Chinatown *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a designer explains happiness in West Hollywood, a fact-blurring foreign correspondent's office opens in Highland ... More >>

From Danny Boyle to The Big Bang Theory: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 8 As the first official LGBTQ student organization in any evangelical graduate theological school, OneTable at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena hopes to facilitate conversation between Christians and the gay community through its ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

From Highland Park to Venice Beach, Our New Columnist Finds That the Cocktail Moment Has Become a Movement

Cuba at the Getty! Cuba at Track 16! Cuba at Kopeikin! What's With All These Cuba Exhibits?

Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Virginia Beahan, American, born 1946. Post-Revolutionary "Hombre Nuevo" (New Man), Las Tunas, 2004 Chromogenic print Sheet: 86.4 x 104.1 cm (34 x 41 in.) Wilson Centre for Photography​ The Getty Center, Track 16, and Kopeikin Gallery are all presenting conc ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

Page Two (Jan. 7-13, 2011)

Your Weekly L.A. music digest

Nightranger: Music & Passion Were Always the Fashion

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/27-10/1

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguet ... More >>

The Sugar King of Havana and The Coke Machine: Two New Non-Fiction Titles To Curb Your Afternoon Vending Machine Runs

​Violence, greed, political turmoil and money in quantities reminiscent of another era that is selectively passed out in wads, rolls and tombstones. You're either watching Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese's new HBO series Boardwalk Empire, or getting your late night thrills from the pages of ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Havanarama

Brick's Picks: Bunny Bop

Hopping around with the Playboy Jazz Festival, the L.A. Jazz Quartet and Kim Richmond's Concert Jazz Orchestra

Like Day and Night: Lechon at Chichen Itza and Havana Mania

D. GonzalezChichen Itza Restaurant's Sunday lechon stand​ There are no alarm clocks in our home in Merida. There is no need as it is located in one of the most enviable spots in the neighborhood, around the corner from the baker. The air wakes me up in Merida. We get a special treat on Sunday, ... More >>

Bagels and Bongos! (Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project)

[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>

The Long Road to Havana

Drink Like Fitzgerald & Hemingway (Metaphorically, Please, Not Literally): A Classic Daiquiri Recipe

Photo credit: Deborah StollClassic Daiquiri​One of the great things about classic cocktails is the vast and varied stories surrounding their inventions, each more colorful than the next and none a terribly exact thing. (Maybe comes with the territory.) The daiquiri is a cocktail with a fixed ... More >>

Afghan Star: Kabul Meets American Idol

British Director Havana Marking's Feature Doc on Singing for Fame in a Wartorn Country

Movie Reviews: American Cowslip, Deadgirl, In the Loop, Orphan

Also, Afghan Star, Shrink, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg and more.

1100 to Havana: Direct Flights from L.A. to Cuba Resume

What a difference a president makes. Only one year ago Angelenos who wished to travel to Cuba, but who did not have family there, or were not journalists, had their work and time cut out for them. First, they had to take a bus from downtown L.A. to Tijuana, scramble off and back on through a hasty c ... More >>

Summertime Jazz

Brick's Picks: Big Band Fiesta Draws Latin Lovers

Plus, Matt Slocum, Ernie Watts, Wolfgang Schalk and other jazz highlights

Havana Comes to Hollywood

Brick's Picks: Otmaro Ruiz, Katia Moraes, Daby Touré and more

Jazz in L.A., August 1-7

Klezmer With Hot Sauce

Theater Reviews

Heads, Invasion! The Musical, The Complications of Purchasing a Poodle Pillow and more

Film Reviews: 300, East of Havana

Also this week's pick, Into Great Silence

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Theater Reviews

Film Reviews

For the week of April 28 - May 4

School of the Holy Beast

Maria Bustillos

Dreaming in Chinese

Cristina Garcia on culture-bending, poetry and her new novel, Monkey Hunting

Savage Justice

An indictment of Fidel Castro

Green Eggs and Pan

The Latin Implosion

Ann Louise Bardach’s Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana

Shark Jumping in America

Cuban Rebel Guy

Errol Flynn settles for a walk-on in Fidel Castro’s 1959 drama

Troubleshooters

Cuba Now

Notes on the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana

Cuba Now

Notes on the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana

Cubop Kick

Bongo King Jack Costanzo

The Short Story

New and old fiction from Francesca Lia Block, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ronald Alexander and Theodore Sturgeon

Homing Instincts

A Cuban odyssey

Cubanismo, L.A.-Style

Cuban Love Song

Wim Wenders' polyrhythmic vision

The Old Man and the Marlin

Hoops and Hoods

They shoot, they score

Korda at Couturier Gallery & Jose A. Figueroa at Jan Kesner

Out and In

Where to go after the Music Center

Survival, Revivalle

Mutants, campers, martyrs . . .