Japanese American National Museum

10 Best Eats in Little Tokyo: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

L.A.'s Little Tokyo is home to at least 100 eateries -- Japanese and non-Japanese, old and new, traditional and innovative. And it is just about 0.13 square miles in size -- dense, compact, and easily explored on foot. (Roughly bounded between 4th, Alameda, Temple, and Los Angeles streets.) That mea ... More >>

Top 3 Weekend Food Events: Common Grains Rice Festival, Homemade Food Info Meeting Edible Plant Hike

Common Grains' New Year Japanese Rice Festival Common Grains is teaming up with the Japanese American National Museum for a free day of Japanese premium rice tasting, demonstrations and onigiri-making contest, hosted by Japanese food writer and home cooking teacher Sonoko Sakai. WHAT: Common Grain ... More >>

Giant Robot Biennale 3: The Famed Asian Pop Culture Magazine Is Gone, But Its Art Still Lives, at Japanese American Museum

Inside Giant Robot Biennale 3 at Little Tokyo's Japanese American National Museum, there are rows of glass cases filled with toys. This is the Remix Project. Eighty-five artists from seven different countries, a mix of both newcomers and established custom toy artists, contributed to the effort. Bla ... More >>

Saturday Event: Walk and Eat in Little Tokyo

Visit Little Tokyo, and -- even if you're a rabid manga fan or karaoke maniac -- your trip will likely involve food. Perhaps yakisoba, fried noodles topped with bright red ginger. Or okonomiyaki, a pancake cooked with a variety of savory ingredients. (The name literally means "what you want.") A ... More >>

Top 3 Weekend Food Events: Oshogatsu Festival, Wine Camp Dead Celebrity Cookbook Signing

Oshogatsu Festival As part of JANM's Oshogatsu New Year's Festival, the museum will host an onigiri-making contest from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. See who can shape a lifeless mound of rice into the most appealing and elegant form. At 2:30 and 4 p.m. Kodama Taiko will lead a mochitsuki, the traditional rice ... More >>

Kind of a Dragon

The Classical Music Concerts We're Most Looking Forward to in 2012

5. Cage 2012 Southwest Chamber Music, Japanese American National Museum, March 3-4 Hey L.A., where's the love for your native son, John Cage? It's the 100th anniversary of his birth next year, and the only party in town is being thrown by Southwest Chamber Music. The opening Cage 2012 concert sho ... More >>

Carmen Trutanich A No-Show At District Attorney's Debate, As Six Prosecutors Spar For The Top Job

Carmen Trutanich: Uninvited?​The race for L.A. County District Attorney has been a quiet affair up to this point. The leading fundraiser, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, hasn't even officially declared. Meanwhile, the declared candidates -- half a dozen prosecutors -- are mostly unknown to the gen ... More >>

Julia Roberts on the Side of a Muffler Shop and Five Art Events to See This Week

Courtesy Francois Ghebaly GalleryNate Loman's "Illegally Beautiful Julia Roberts" wall painting on the side of a former La Cienega muffler shop​ More exhibitions are closing right now than opening, as fall museum headliners have all launched and galleries are installing November shows. The bes ... 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 >>

JANM/Chado Intro 5 Generational Teas: The Solution To The Bitter Generation?

JANMPick Your Generation​The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has released a new line of "generation" teas to correspond with the five generations of Japanese Americans -- Issei (first generation), Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei and Gosei (fifth generation). They could have been yet another run ... More >>

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Where's Antonio? Flying to D.C., Hanging with His Cousin...Again

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flew out of town again this week, and attended another swearing-in ceremony for his cousin, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez. This time around, the mayor didn't blow a good chunk of his workday glad-handing in Sacramento.L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraig ... More >>

Artist Studio Tour: Nomad Los Angeles

When we asked artist Kiyoshi Nakazawa for a tour of his studio, he invited us to Nomad Los Angeles. Locals might recognize the Dodger Stadium-adjacent space as a gallery and home for occasional special events (we stopped by Nomad for Wierd Fest last month), but it's also a fully-functioning, multi- ... More >>

Full of Craft

Albert Reyes' Haunted Art Maze

I met artist Albert Reyes while standing in line to enter Giant Robot Biennale 2 at the Japanese American National Museum, where he has an installation. We began chatting and, after running into him again later on in the evening, I asked to interview him for LA Weekly. He said yes and added that I s ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: (Far) Eastern Swing

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U.S. Senator Inouye Puts Villaraigosa, MTA on Notice

U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii has sent a letter to the MTA regarding a pet project of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, "strongly" urging the transportation agency to "be responsive to the concerns and ideas of both residents and businesses located in Little Tokyo." Local community acti ... More >>

Artist Shizu Saldamando Brings LA Style to Texas' Girl in a Coma

Shizu Saldamando There is a lot about San Antonio-based Girl in a Coma that will appeal to Angelenos: the faint hint of '50s nostalgia in the track "El Monte"; the way Nina Diaz's voice floats across songs like a huskier Hope Sandoval; the fact that the trio is named after a Smiths' song and toured ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Puscifer at Club Nokia, Denis Leary at Nokia Theatre, Electric Cherry Blossom in Little Tokyo, The Masses Office Party

This weekend was definitely one you could call a perfect beach weekend, though that didn't keep us from heading indoors for more entertainment and nights that went much later than we'd planned. We counted curse words with Denis Leary, boogied with Puscifer, partied at Electric Cherry Blossom and cra ... More >>

Shocking Bloom: American Dreams Filtered through Eastern Themes at Electric Cherry Blossom

Liz OhanesianNylon Pink live at Electric Cherry Blossom. Back in 2004, Stephanie Yanez sang "Ningyo Hime" from the popular anime series Chobits as part of a karaoke contest at Southern California's mega-convention Anime Expo. The performance won her the title AX Idol and a collection of one hundred ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ivanov

IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>

Stage Raw: Cocks of the Walk

COCKS OF THE WALK The same people who brought us Naked Boys Singing are at it again -- this time showing considerable more restraint with a musical revue subtly named Hangin' Out -- described as "a celebration of the human body . . . exploring different aspects of nudity in song and dance." Now ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Little Dog Laughed

>NEW REVIEW THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED As Gertrude Stein once put it (but not about this play), "It's almost about something, and then it's just not." Douglas Carter Beane's comedy brings with it the New York cast that put the play on the map, and secured Julie White a Tony for her role as a Holly ... More >>

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Taiko en Español

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The World Festival of Sacred Music -- the Americas

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World Festival of Sacred Music — The Americas