Kevin Scanlon

TiGeorges' Chicken Closing the End of January

After weathering enough misfortunes to make Job's afternoon look like a walk in the park (the 2010 Haitian earthquake, his own restaurant fire), George Laguerre is closing his downtown Haitian restaurant. TiGeorges' Chicken will be open through this month, but will close its doors on Jan. 31. As D ... More >>

10 Best Seafood Tacos in Los Angeles

It used to be, a dozen years ago or so, that there weren't that many spots in town where you could find a decent seafood taco, much less a great one. Fast forward to 2012, and fish and shrimp tacos have gone through something of an evolution. There are plenty of fish in the sea now; you can barely ... More >>

Innocence of Muslims: Gadfly John Walsh Warned Us of June 30 Hollywood Screening

City Hall gadfly John Walsh, no stranger to controversy, warned the L.A. City Council about the possibility the local film that would become Innocence of Muslims was "alarming." The locally produced, anti-Muslim film, or rather a YouTube trailer for it, is being blamed for a rash of anti-American v ... More >>

For Courage Campaign Video Project, Dustin Lance Black Explains What Real Life Stories He's Looking For

Kevin ScanlonDustin Lance Black​Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and Courage Campaign recently kicked off a major video project, asking LGBTers across the nation to share their real life stories via a one- to two-minute videotape. "You change hearts and minds best by telling sto ... More >>

Ricardo Zarate: King of Ceviche

Kevin ScanlonRicardo Zarate​ Ricardo Zarate's path has been a little more circuitous even than most chefs', a peripatetic lot in general. His life in the kitchen began in his native Lima, Peru, where as a teenager he cooked banquets for hundreds and learned from a friend's mother how to make s ... More >>

Misa Chien and Jenn Green: Hot Asian Sandwich

Kevin ScanlonMisa Chien and Jenn Green ​ How much of the Nom Nom Truck's success is attributable to its owners being two gorgeous, brainy young Asian girls inside a food truck, and how much to the food? "I don't want there to be a misconception that the truck is about two girls on a truck," co ... More >>

Top 10 LA Weekly News Stories Of 2010: Sex, Drugs, One Absurdly Long Tongue And The 'Attempted Lynching' That Shook Los Angeles

Swam2dayWe get it: You like your news with a side of sexy​How better to determine the Top 10 news items of the year in our wonderfully fucked-up, always aggravating but certainly never boring City of Angels than by raw click count? The following stories may not be the most important of the y ... More >>

Tim Donnelly, Tea Party Republican, Introduces Arizona-Style Immigration Law

Photo by Kevin ScanlonTim Donnelly​Making good on a campaign promise, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly introduced an Arizona-style immigration law in the California Legislature yesterday.Donnelly's bill would make it a crime to shelter an illegal immigrant, require employers to use E-Verify, and make it a ... More >>

Jackie Lacey Could Be L.A.'s First Non-White, Non-Male District Attorney

​Had D.A. Steve Cooley been elected attorney general, the odds-on favorite to replace him would have been his third-ranking administrator, Jacquelyn P. Lacey.Lacey, 53, was considered most likely to get Cooley's support for the appointment. She's also a Democrat and an African-American, which woul ... More >>

Steve Cooley Wants To Have A Big Role In Picking His Successor

Photo by Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley​At a press conference in his office this afternoon, Steve Cooley all but ruled out running for a fourth term as district attorney.But Cooley, fresh off a narrow defeat to Kamala Harris in the race for attorney general, plans to have a big role in choosing his suc ... More >>

(Video) Tea Party Candidate Tim Donnelly Vows To Annihilate The Enemies Of Freedom

Photo by Kevin ScanlonTim Donnelly​Speaking at a recent Tea Party rally in Barstow, Tim Donnelly said he is "going to Sacramento to start the war.""I am not going to there to make bad backroom deals," Donnelly said. "I am not going there to reach across the aisle and make friends. I am going ther ... More >>

Kamala Harris Hits D.A. Steve Cooley Over Gladwin Gill Contributions In Attorney General Race

Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley​Fresh off the only scheduled debate in the attorney general's race, San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris has released an ad attacking Republican rival Steve Cooley for accepting laundered campaign contributions from a convicted felon.The ad cites this L.A. Weekly story from A ... More >>

Hollywood PR Guru Howard Bragman Signs JetBlue's Steven Slater

Kevin ScanlonHollywood PR guru Howard Bragman​Hollywood PR guru Howard Bragman has announced today that he's representing JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, the Thousand Oaks resident who made national headlines last week for telling off passengers at the end of a flight. Bragman writes ... More >>

Chrysta Wilson: Bodacious Bundts

Kevin ScanlonChrysta Wilson​ Watching in awe as her Southern aunt baked cakes and confections, an 8-year-old Chrysta Wilson wanted to use the oven like a "big girl." When her mother and aunt gave her an Easy-Bake Oven that year, Wilson began her love affair with desserts. These days, the owne ... More >>

Erin McKenna: Hot for Oven

Kevin ScanlonErin McKenna, with cupcakes​ Eighties rock music blares on the video as blonde bombshell Erin McKenna, 34, strolls into her small New York City bakery, BabyCakes, in black knee-high boots, a short, pinstriped dress and an apron. Tucked under her arm is a newly released cookbook sl ... More >>

Dahlia Narvaez: Butterscotch and Serendipity

Kevin ScanlonDahlia Narvaez, with dessert​Walk into Mozza, through any of the various doors that lead into the complex, either the one for the pizzeria, the osteria or Mozza2Go, and there will come an inevitable moment when either you or someone else gasps over the budino. It is a butterscotch ... More >>

Yosi Sergant Loses NEA Post

Kevin ScanlonOusted: NEA's Yosi Sergant​Probably no one was more surprised by the news of Yosi Sergant's pending resignation from his National Endowment for the Arts post than fright-wing commentator Glenn Beck. Last week the Fox News personality went after Sergant, the NEA's director of communica ... More >>

L.A. Weekly News Editor Responds to L.A. Times Hit Piece

AAN Honors: LA Weekly Wins Four AltWeekly Press Awards

LA Weekly led the awards among major circulation weekly newspapers again this year, grabbing four first-place honors from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at its 14th annual AltWeekly Awards in Tucson.The four winners were Art Director Darrick Rainey for his haunting design of a cover sto ... More >>

Accused killer, lady LAPD cop Stephanie Lazarus, in court -- new photos

The arraignment today in downtown Los Angeles for Stephanie Lazarus has been delayed until July 6, even as her alleged victim's family flew to Los Angeles to meet with police investigators and state their case to the media. Sherri Rasmussen's father Nels has been extremely upset over the way LAPD de ... More >>

Nerdy Like Me: The Secret Mini Driver's Club

Kevin Scanlon"You ready to leave?" Anne asked from just outside my office door. "Yeah, let me just finish this," I said, typing as fast as I could, my fingers and brain in a familiar creative race. "If we don't leave right now, we're both going to be late," she said. I glanced at the clock: 3:15p ... More >>

Henry Rollins Jumps from Indie 103.1 (Online) to KCRW for Radio Show

photo by Kevin Scanlon This is exciting: Henry Rollins will relocate his great show Harmony in My Head to KCRW, where, starting Saturday, March 7, he will spin weekly from 6-8 pm. Most LA listeners know that, until last month, Rollins was a DJ on Indie 103.1 FM.

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Standup guy

Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved

L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life

Undercover Empire: Endovanera's Front St. in Echo Park

David Hershberger and Mitch Moseley, the dynamic duo behind one of L.A.'s hottest menswear lines, have a new store by the Echoplex for their own and their friends' designs

Jesse Camp

He had his MTV

Uwe Boll Goes Postal

Notorious German director spars with his critics, makes an intentional comedy

Stacey Hooper

All the world's a tree trunk

Pat Kingsley

Flack like me

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim

Dyspeptic duo

Sam Cherry

Bukowski's Buddy

John Walsh, Chris Shabel and Miki Jackson

Hollywood gadflies

Lela Lee

Angry awakening

Larry Bowa

The third eye

Juan Devis

Webmaster

Josh White

Documenter

Jonathan Wells

The champion

Jennifer Phillips

Siren call

Jennifer Egan

Jen art

Glenn Bray

Visionary quester

David Hinnebusch

The outsider

Danny DeVito

Inside the Blood Factory

Elsa Longhauser

Collector of ideas

Andre Hyland

Silver Lake situationist

Lia Halloran

Sk8ter grrl

Jellyfish's Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Id

Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life

Kitty Litter

Giant Drag is the real poop

All of Me

Heather Raffo’s one-woman show takes her out to Iraq, and into herself

Bird of a Feather

Getting to know Miranda July

Four Moore Years

Bush’s nemesis gives it the old college try