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Jose Tanaka: The Flamenco Guitarist

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. José Tanaka was born in Kyoto, Japan. But his parents were so dedicated to flamenco music that they named him José, to make sure he'd always be tied to the tradit ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: sbe Chef Danny Elmaleh an Artichoke Flatbread Recipe

When creating new dishes for sbe restaurants Cleo and Mercato di Vetro, Danny Elmaleh leads a team of four in search of something that gives what he calls a pop of flavor. This can come from anywhere: an herb, a certain spice, or one in the range of vinegars they are experimenting with. It's an ingr ... More >>

Demitasse Expands to Santa Monica

This just in -- one of our favorite coffeehouses, Demitasse, is expanding to Santa Monica. The new location will be at 1149 Third Street, just north of Wilshire. An opening date has not yet been set.

Best New Food Studies Books: Coffee Life in Japan And Curried Cultures

Looking to up your dinner table conversation? Coffee Life in Japan and Curried Cultures, both published by the University of California Press under their California Studies in Food and Culture branch (and edited by Darra Goldstein), supply plenty of digestif fodder. Curried Cultures is co-edited b ... More >>

10 Best Sweet Treats in Los Angeles

As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, last week. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of spas and hikes and cocktails and grottos (yes, grottos), so many that you might get lost -- so many that we thought we'd pull out ... More >>

At the LACMA Collectors Committee, Art Acquisitions Become a Battle Royale

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/9 - 7/13

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Surely at some point the law of entropy will prevail and L.A. will see more phở joints that focus less on bad puns and pale broths and more on simple, strong bowls of phở." 10 Best Pho Restaurants in Los Angeles. "Usuall ... More >>

Drink This Now: Kyoto-Style Iced Coffee at Cafe Demitasse

In terms of cool food-science-nerd equipment, Cafe Demitasse wins. The Kyoto-style iced coffee setup is a beauty to behold, all glass and metal and orbs and tubes. Cold water drips slowly through the apparatus, extracting a wholly different flavor from the coffee. It takes 14 hours to make three lit ... 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 >>

"She Gets a Free Abortion": The Five Dopiest Political Punk Songs

See also: *The Top Five L.A. Punk Albums of 2011 *Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul: The Five Most Baffling Political Pairings The Iowa caucuses are being held today, which means that Republican primary season is about to kick into high gear. Spoiler alert: The candidates all suck. But you knew tha ... More >>

Blowfish: FDA Approves Hangover Cure (No It's Not Fugu)

Conveniently in time for this weekend's New Year's Eve festivities, the FDA has finally approved a hangover cure: a pill called Blowfish. Designed by Brenna Haysom, a Manhattan-based Harvard Business School grad, and developed by Rally Labs LLC, the pill is a combination of aspirin and caffeine and ... More >>

Read This Now: Lucky Peach Issue 2

​If your tonkotsu-stained pages of the first issue of Lucky Peach are no longer functioning reasonably well and you're tired of ramen (okay, right), you can get over to your nearest applicable bookstore (or Momofuku restaurant or Whole Foods) and buy a copy of the new food-as-lit magazine. T ... More >>

Comme Ca: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Portola Coffee Lab and "The Best Fresh-Roasted Coffee in the World"

T. NguyenPortola's Show No Mercy espresso​ Portola Coffee Lab is not one to shy away from hyperbole. Take, for example, its unabashed declaration that it has "the best fresh-roasted coffee in the world". Or the title of a recent post on its blog: "Our Coffee Roaster is Saving the Planet." C ... More >>

Very Small Bar Report: The Harbor Room

mrhungry/flickr​The Place: The Harbor Room, 195 Culver Boulevard, Playa Del Rey; 310-821-6550 The Hours: 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Daily. The Digs: Shaped like a ragged wedge of cheese hacked carelessly from its wheel, this endearing heap is a collection of acute angeles, its profile from the outside ... More >>

Music Picks: NKOTBSB, Mixed Message, Earthless

Also, Catwalk, Holly Miranda, Darwin Dees, and others

Top 10 Restaurants in Buildings Designed by Significant Los Angeles Architects

J. RitzThe eastern portion of Morgan, Walls & Clements' Chapman Market on 6th Street.​ We'd love to linger over a classic breakfast combo and endless cups of coffee at John Lautner's 1949 Googie Coffee Shop, since it was the actual place whose name defined a genre. And then enjoy the cannello ... More >>

California's $43 Billion Bullet Train Will Go To ... Bakersfield?

A bullet train, German-style.​The Weekly's Jill Stewart noted this week that California's planned high-speed rail line's "route to nowhere" now has a route to ... somewhere -- but not here, or San Francisco, or San Diego, or pretty much anywhere a vast majority of California's population resid ... More >>

Five Things L.A. Has That San Francisco Does Not (After Five Weeks)

Anne FishbeinSoot Bull Jeep​ Five weeks ago, we packed our belongings into an orange-and-white truck and moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. We'd spent eight years in the Bay Area, a period of time marked by bowls of lime-sluiced birria at Mexican diners in the Mission, curly fried sausa ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Nagisa Oshima at LACMA: Radical Who Left His Will on Film

LAFF Honors Recently Deceased Moviemaking Greats

Gone but not forgotten

Something in the Air

In the horror films of Larry Fessenden, what you can’t see will kill you

Letters: Aggravating a Tragedy

Our readers write

Gajin Fujita

Native-san

L.A. Simonized

Kerry Simon, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chef, comes west

Things to Do Before You Get Pregnant

Take folic acid. Buy a new house. Get your mercury tested.

Rock & Pop Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006 Country listings follow.

Give It Up for the Geisha

The exquisitely phony charms of the Asian bourgeoisie — Hollywood style

Think Globally, Act Santa Monically

One city’s attempt to cool down global warming

Arnold’s Toughest Role

Can the one-time Governator return from the dead?

All Eyes On New Orleans

A look at what the rest of the world is saying

Leaving Bush Behind

Companies make peace with Kyoto Protocol

Lost in the Smog

Environmentalists say the energy industry helped write Clear Skies. Yeah? So what else is new?

Vita Violenta

3 Stylish Performance Moments, Plus an Intervention

Speak, Memory

Letters

Lost, Indeed

A note on the perils of pastiche film scoring

Running With Dennis

When war goes well, what else can a peace candidate do but hit up his L.A. fans for money?

Waiting for the World

Back to the future with the World Federalists

A Year Later

Only fear and loathing remain

Blazing Chips

Top 6 Science Blunders of the Bush Administration

— so far

Blind Vengeance

Booster Shots

Then and now

You Call This Hot?

Fires and floods and smog, oh my!

Auto Immune

How I got off my car and stayed off

Spare 1 Bdrm. Fully Furnished.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.

Lethal Beauty

Oshima, in the realm of the Taboo