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How to Combine Art, Food and Wine at LACMA

Finding art in food is a familiar pasttime these days -- just check out all those Instagram galleries. But when it comes to locating food in art, it takes a little more training. This is where art historian Maite Gomez-Réjon's Cur-ATE course series at LACMA might be useful -- and fun. Gomez-Réjon ... More >>

Our Diary of the Getty's L.A. Architecture Project: SCI-Arc's Gala and a Concert at Jackie Treehorn's House

This is the second installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, covering the Modern architecture extravaganza that's blanketing the city. Go here for the first installment: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture. Who would have guessed that with just the right amount of ... More >>

A Dizi-ing Talent

Kiss Has a New Book That's Three Feet Tall and Costs Over $4000

Yesterday afternoon, before a crowd of media types and clean-cut Sunset Strip'd hard rockers at the Viper Room, Kiss debuted their new book, Kiss Monster. It is huge -- 3 feet x 2.5 feet, and nearly 50 pounds. The thing costs $4250. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer fielde ... More >>

Amtrak's Ancestors: The Huntington's Exhibit on the History of the Transcontinental Railroad

Long before studios, hippies, method actors and reality-show wannabes headed out west, the Pacific Coast was a destination for farmers, miners, prospectors and other wagon-wheeling homesteaders who were looking for a new way of life. Two years after California struck gold in 1848, it became a part o ... More >>

The Huntington's Japanese Garden Reopens With a New Teahouse

The Huntington Library's circa 1911 Japanese Garden reopened Wednesday after a nearly $7 million renovation, including the addition of a historic ceremonial teahouse built in Kyoto. The teahouse first arrived in the L.A. area in 1964, when it was installed at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple; In 2010 th ... More >>

The Huntington's Orange Marmalade The Citrus (Recipe) Quarantine

The Huntington Library may be best known for its botanical gardens and art collection, but in the museum's kitchen, the citrus trees on the property are the main draw for the onsite chefs, who make some pretty fantastic marmalade from the fruit. If you're a Huntington regular, you probably already ... More >>

Tomatomania!: Lecture and Plant Sale

Even during a warm winter, most of us spend part of the season dreaming of luscious summer fruits and vegetables, especially tomatoes. Yes, the vine-ripe variety are still a way off, but it is finally time to start planting and Tomatomania, the spectacular annual touring tomato seedling plant sale i ... More >>

Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 5 Iconic Works of California Design on Sale Sunday

Courtesy of Los Angeles Modern AuctionsRichard Neutra's VDL House in Silver Lake, photographed by Julius Shulman in 1966. A print of this image, and some of the furniture photographed, are up for auction this weekend. Life in sepia remains unavailable.​In the material world, the past is never ... More >>

'How Los Angeles Invented the World' with Wim Wenders, William Friedkin and Others: Is L.A. in a Cultural Adolescence?

If the movie people, radio hosts, ex-journalists, academics and cultural gadflies who convened at the Getty Center on Saturday for "How Los Angeles Invented the World" -- a daylong symposium organized by Zócalo Public Square for Pacific Standard Time -- are to be believed, then Los Angeles, long re ... More >>

'Blue Sky Metropolis' at the Huntington Library Shows How Aerospace Shaped L.A., From Surfing to Marilyn Monroe

Nasa photoNASA pilot Bill Dana watches a Boeing NB-52B carrier aircraft fly overhead after a successful test flight of the Northrop HL-10 lifting body at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1969. Fellow pilot John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lifting body.​ At a new exhibition at ... More >>

Piano S&M

John Frame: The Huntington's Unintentional Steampunk Exhibit

Photo by John Frame, courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens​ When people ask John Frame what his work is about, the curators of "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" write in the show's catalog, "he feels that the real answer sh ... More >>

Cheerio, Magna Carta: Nine Important Historical Documents in L.A Right Now

Magna Carta​ A document can make a big difference, as the Birthers are currently proving in all the wrong ways. The Magna Carta -- a document whose Madonna-level status requires you to drop the "the" and refer to it simply as "Magna Carta" -- reframed the relationship between royalty and us re ... More >>

Bone Bungling at Old Cemetery

Native Americans get short shrift as LA Plaza downtown opens under a cloud

How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

HOORAY FOR ISHERWOOD

Music Picks: Jail Weddings, Summer Darling, Roky Erickson, Jonathan Richman

Also, Bajofondo, Massive Attack, Minus the Bear and others

Kitchen Chinese: Author Ann Mah in Town for A Book Reading

Ann MahKitchen Chinese​If the Chinese New Year festivities this past weekend left you with an appetite not only for more dim sum but for some fictional discussion of it, you might want to head to Book Soup this Wednesday, February 17th, where author Ann Mah will be reading from her debut novel ... More >>

VIVA BUENOS AIRES!

Eat What Thomas Jefferson Just Ate: Huntington Library Lecture and Cooking Class

Thomas Jefferson, after Charles Willson Peale. Source: The Huntington Library​Thomas Jefferson is well known for his penchant for wine (he planted one of the first American vineyards at Monticello). But did you know he was also a reverent consumer of beer, English muffins, and ice cream? Museu ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

He-e-e-r-re's Eddie! Ed McMahon, the sidekick's sidekick, who for 30 years suffered and shone as Johnny Carson's foil, straight man and MC, has died of undisclosed causes at the age of 86. L.A. TimesSheriff Stops DNA Search Blaming budget woes, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca has halted his department' ... More >>

Corpse Flower Update: Bloom "Any Day Now"

Huntington Botanical Gardens Stinky at Noon Today"Stinky," a malodorous Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the Corpse Flower, reached a height of six feet, one-quarter inch at noon today. This was a four-and-a-half-inch growth over the last 24 hours and means the Sumatra-native will be blooming v ... More >>

Fleur de Mal: Corpse Flower About to Pop

Huntington Library & Botanical GardensA smell is about to hang over the Huntington Library's Botanical Gardens, but it's not going to be one like victory. Rather, it's none other than Amorphophallus titanum -- better known as the "corpse flower." This particular specimen is known as Son of Stink ... More >>

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PolterZeitgeist: Bob Rauschenberg Haunts the Huntington

(In a good way)

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

Sunset Serenade

Summer Festival at the Huntington

Rock Picks: The Humpers, Secretary Bird, Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow

For the week of June 21–28

Rock Picks: The Police, Sage Francis, Radio Birdman and more

For the week of June 14 - 21

Death by Parking

Why Paula Holt said “Enough”

Southwest Chamber Music at the Huntington

#1 Combo

A full serving of Rauschenberg, with a side of Youngblood and Hundley

I’m Dreaming of a Kitsch Christmas

On Native Ground

Gardening in the asphalt jungle

Newtonianism for L.A.

It’s not about the apple.

Stripping Lessons

Ranking the Museums

Discovering the Jolly Nightmare

The lost world of Charles Altamont Doyle

A Stretch for Garcetti

L.A.'s Ethics Commission gets an insider

Ukie and Me Against the World

Ian Whitcomb’s lotus land

Experiencing Martin Amis

At the Chateau Marmont, in Beverly Hills, on television and in his new memoir

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

Letters

Jeremiah Among the Palms

The lives and dark prophecies of Mike Davis

Leisure alternatives for those who covet the indirect ray