Jeff Miller

Q & A With David Miscimarra: The Hollywood Pies Owner Talks Deep Pizza What to Expect at Their New Dine-in Location, Now Open

If you drive by the new Hollywood Pies dine-in location, which officially soft opened this past weekend in West Los Angeles, you just might miss it. Taking up a humble 26-seat residence that fittingly used to house former pizza dive Pizza Mania, the location now sports a modest square sign of their ... More >>

6 Tasty Cold-Cut Subs Under $5 (Take That Subway!)

When I was growing up, there was a little mom-and-pop supermarket in my town called Rainbow Market (over Thanksgiving I learned it had been recently replaced by a Wal-Mart, so it goes). As the main grocery in a small suburban town, it was the hub of most food shopping, and before any dedicated sandw ... More >>

Completely Useless New California Law Says You Can Use Siri to Text While Driving

In a time-wasting attempt to earn back an ioda of public approval, California Governor Jerry Brown just OKed a new law that (sort of, not really) allows texting while driving. The law, proposed by L.A.-area Assemblyman Jeff Miller, says that you can now send and receive texts on the road -- as long ... More >>

Rocket Video, Hollywood's Storehouse for Cult Movies, To Close

RocketHollywood.com​Film lovers, brace yourselves. A prolonged period of mourning is in order, as legendary Rocket Video closes its doors at the end of the month. The independent video rental store has been a fixture in Hollywood for over thirty years, due to its trove of hard-to-find classic ... More >>

Nightranger: It's a Mad, Mad World

Pot and Food: How Prop 19 Could Affect the Restaurant Business

N. GalutenA marijuana dispensary in a former Kentucky Fried Chicken​ UPDATE: Since Proposition 19's defeat on Tuesday, we checked in with Animal chef Jon Shook to get his take. Shook told us, "I personally feel like if we couldn't pass gay marriage, and we were able to pass Prop 19, then we ar ... More >>

Cold Noodle Competition Tonight at Starry Kitchen

N. GalutenCold soba noodles from Ichimiann in Torrance​ A series of small cooking competitions featuring well known L.A. chefs is already underway, all in the name of promoting dineLA's upcoming Restaurant Week. The first round of "quickfire challenges" began on Wednesday, September 22nd, wit ... More >>

L.A. Vendy Awards This Saturday

Vendy AwardsVendys come to L.A. this Saturday​ For the past five years in New York City, The Vendy Awards have celebrated the best street food that city has to offer. This Saturday, for the first time, they're coming to Los Angeles. This year's proceedings will take place at MacArthur Park, w ... More >>

Spaceland Is the Place

The influential mecca of the "Silver Lake scene" turns 15

Last Word on SXSW: Drew Tewksbury's Top 3 Picks (LA Band, Coming Soon, Wild Card)

Last Word on SXSW: Drew Tewksbury's Top 3 Picks (LA Band, Coming Soon, Wild Card)

Over the Weekend: L.A. Takes on Austin

Last week, L.A.'s music (and music journalist) community headed to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. The annual music event brought together up-and-comers with rock veterans for days and nights of concerts. Check out what our team saw over the weekend. Courtney Love Is Back Erin Broadley​ ... More >>

SXSW Roundup: KCRW Jason Bentley on Bad Mixes, Bad Bands and the Best Booze/iPhone Battery Ratio

Jeff MillerJason Bentley playing the Virgin Freehouse, SXSW 2010​KCRW's music director Jason Bentley is one of the patron saints of bands at South By Southwest. Countless bands playing the fest got their start from DJs at the station, and Bentley himself has championed dozens of them on his da ... More >>

Last Word on SXSW: Jeff Miller's Top 3 Picks (LA band, Coming Soon, Wild Card)

[Ed's note: SXSW coverage all over has been as chaotic and overwhelming as the event itself. If you don't have time to read all the pieces and wanna know what our writers thought the pick of the litter was, here's our reporters' highly personal (the way we like it) must-hear digest. First up, Thrill ... More >>

SXSW Review: Courtney Love's Hole!

One of the most-anticipated gigs at this year's South By Southwest was the return (in name, if not in band members) of Courtney Love's group Hole, although it seemed as if the motives for the buzz weren't entirely musical. Before the show, at the Spin magazine party at the laid-back outdoor amphith ... More >>

Halloween in LA: The Recap

Patrick Range McDonald​Now that the costume stress and sugar rush are history, take some time to check out LA Weekly's Halloween party coverage.

Over the Weekend: Grimm Fairytale Ball, Hard Haunted Mansion, Halloween in WeHo and More

Halloween in Los Angeles can be overwhelming, so many parties to attend, so many elaborate costumes to catch our eyes. While the costume party madness began for us over a week before the big day, the festivities didn't kick into full gear until Thursday night. Keep reading to find out what we did. ... More >>

Phish at Coachella, Day 3: First-Ever All-Acoustic Set, Not All Mind-Blowing

Read Jeff Miller's overview of the first evening of Phish's three-night stint at the Coachella grounds, and read his recap of day two. Jeff MillerHugs and drugs​Sometimes, being a Phish fan is kind of like being a parent: your kid presents you with a completely ridiculous challenge ("Mom, mo ... More >>

Phish at Coachella, Day 2: For Halloween, The Band Covers Exile on Main Street (with Sharon Jones)

By Jeff Miller Read Jeff Miller's overview of the first evening of Phish's three-night stint at the Coachella grounds here. Halloween's a holiday that Phish built their reputation for unpredictability on - since 1994, when a show by the band's fallen on October 31st, they've celebrated by donning ... More >>

Phish at Coachella, Night One: An Expansive Introduction

By Jeff Miller For me, watching a Phish festival on the same field that hosts Coachella each year's like introducing your college friends to your high school friends for the first time: you love them both equally, but there's always something kind of...off about that first introduction. Though they ... More >>

No Days of the Condor: Will Tejon Ranch Doom the Birds?

The Tejon Ranch is 270,000 acres of golden grassland and brooding oaks that were once part of an Army Fort before falling into the hands of the L.A. Times' Chandler family a century ago. For decades the land, which stretches from the Antelope Valley to the Tehachapis, has glowed pristinely on either ... More >>

Eminem and Jay-Z to Play at Wiltern Tonight for DJ Hero Launch (UPDATED)

Hot Monday night in LA: Eminem and Jay-Z are doing a surprise show at the Wiltern tonight to promote their new relationship with DJ Hero, the hugely anticipated (and contentious) new game from Activision's Hero franchise. Below is an exclusive look at DJ Hero: The two rap superstars recently si ... More >>

Phish: An LA Fan's Defense in the Wake of the Hampton, Virginia Reunion Shows

By Jeff Miller Growing up in LA's rock scene means spending your formative years building hipster credibility; writing about music in LA, as I've been doing for the last decade or so, often means working to maintain it. So there's a certain implicit shame when I admit a couple things about myself ... More >>

Last Night: Airborne Toxic Event Return to LA

Timothy NorrisAirborne Toxic Event backstage at their show at the Wiltern in the fall By Jeff Miller Awkward homecomings can be harrowing for anyone, but for the Airborne Toxic Event -- whose spiral to rock stardom on the heels of their fantastic, ubiquitous, Arcade-Fire-biting single "Sometime Ar ... More >>

Henry Clay People Debut New Line-Up at Spaceland

The Henry Clay People Spaceland, Saturday, January 10th (all photos by Timothy Norris) The third of five new songs that the reconfigured Henry Clay People debuted at Spaceland starts with the lyric, "It was the end of an empire," a frighteningly zeitgeist-seizing sentiment made all the more poign ... More >>

Smashing Pumpkins at the Gibson, Night One

Night one of the Smashing Pumpkins at the Gibson (Text by Jeff Miller, photos by Timothy Norris. Click on images for entire Smashing Pumpkins slideshow.)As the Smashing Pumpkins took the stage to a surprisingly funky new song called "Everybody Come Clap" for their first proper L.A. show since reunit ... More >>

Live in L.A.: The Hold Steady, Avalon Hollywood, July 30

The Hold Steady, Avalon Hollywood, July 30, 2008 Photos and text by Jeff Miller Though they're less than a decade into their career, the Brooklyn-via-Minnessota five-piece The Hold Steady is already a nostalgia act; in fact, it's arguable that they were a nostalgia act from their very beginning. ... More >>

Live in LA: Beck's Surprise Show at the Echo, June 9

Beck at the Echo, June 9. Photos and text by Jeff Miller At this point, it's a foregone conclusion: when a Beck tour's on the horizon, he'll invariably test out his band at some small club on the Eastside, braying through new material and old-school classics while taking his lucky (but pretendin ... More >>

The Wire's Lance Reddick: He Might Have Been Bubbles

Lieutenant Cedric Daniels meets his fans