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Lower East Side

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Caffe Vita Opening in Los Feliz in June

    Los Feliz has a good handful of coffee shops, including Bru Artisan Coffee Tea, Cafecito Organico and Gelato Bar; come this summer, the neighborhood will add one more place to get caffeinated: Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company. The Seattle-based roastery and coffee shop tells us that they expec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Christening of a Cadillac

    Everything's social this week -- jokes with friends spur a pop-up shop, a four-course meal becomes an exhibition and a group of artists tries to figure out why time can terrify. 5. Dinner-party graveyard In late March, Jason Kraus invited 12 people to dinner. Everyone had to commit to come seven ni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    The Chaotic Travels of the Theater Company Poor Dog Group

    Click on the image to make it bigger Zipping from Malibu to Manhattan, spending a month in Europe, regrouping and conferring with like-minded colleagues in a state-of-the-art "pleasure dome" -- it sounds more like the itinerary of a high-powered executive with a hefty expense account than a contemp ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 22, 2012

    4:44 Last Day on Earth Review

    Abel Ferrara's apocalypse

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Weegee Strips Hollywood Naked

    Courtesy of MOCALiz Taylor, ca. 1950​ "Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees." So said crime photographer and full-time self promoter Arther Fellig, who was also known as Weegee. He was New Yorker to the the core, having grown up in the bitter poverty of the Depression-era Lower Eas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Blu Interview: We Chop It Up With ​L.A.'s Patron Saint of Lyricism

    Blu ​Blu soundlessly materializes in Silverlake's La Mill coffee boutique. The rapper's aura is so serene it forms a barrier against the sounds of jittery fingertips flitting across keyboards and conversations that seem to be in fast forward. I think of a line from "Down to Earth," a song from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Stage Raw: LA Weekly Fringe Award Winner

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning Opera​The Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, created by Mark Nicols and Erik Davis, and being performed at Syrup Loft downtown, is among the productions being revie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    More Fun at The Misfit: $12 Bottomless Mimosas

    Dan CoxYour mimosa awaits at The Misfit​ Like any great metropolis, L.A. is full of differing perspectives. First, there are the die-hard Angelenos for whom Los Angeles is the greatest city in America. Then there are those East Coast transplants who mope around town looking like refugees from ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 23, 2011

    Faile Comes to Venice

    Dan CoxYour mimosa awaits at The Misfit​ Like any great metropolis, L.A. is full of differing perspectives. First, there are the die-hard Angelenos for whom Los Angeles is the greatest city in America. Then there are those East Coast transplants who mope around town looking like refugees from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Stage Raw: Krunk-Fu Battle Battle

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS   Stage FEATURE on William Leavitt's Spectral Analysis Courtesy of East West PlayersKrunk-Fu Battle Battle​Though Mayank Keshaviah found thin patches in the new musical Krunk-Fu Battle Battle (book by Qui Nguyen, lyrics by Beau Sia and vocal ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    April 7, 2011

    Street Art at MOCA

    How Jeffrey Deitch convinced an outlaw art movement to show itself for the landmark retrospective “Art in the Streets”

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Jo Babcock Makes Pinhole Cameras with a Band-Aid Tin, Lucky Strike Pack and Mailbox (Pics)

    Tucked beneath a veil of vines at the quaint Duncan Miller Gallery, photographer Jo Babcock's 22-piece first ever solo exhibition is more than just your average picture show. Under the framed photographs neatly hanging across the cream colored walls lie typewriters, ancient coffee machines, a letter ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Love Sucks

    Tucked beneath a veil of vines at the quaint Duncan Miller Gallery, photographer Jo Babcock's 22-piece first ever solo exhibition is more than just your average picture show. Under the framed photographs neatly hanging across the cream colored walls lie typewriters, ancient coffee machines, a letter ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 3, 2011

    Theater Reviews: In Mother Words, The Fix-Up Show, Love Sucks

    Also The Adventures of Pinocchio, Cabaret Idol and more

  • Eat+Drink

    March 3, 2011

    L.A.'s Best Cocktails

    Our 55 favorites and where to find them

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Stage Raw: A Star is Hatched

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESA STAR IS HATCHED​Meet Gertrude Stein (right), and her girlfriend, Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude and Alice were rescued from extermination at an an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

    COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Top Ten Musician Restaurant Franchises (In Honor of Flavor Flav's New Fried Chicken Joint in Iowa--Yes, Iowa)

    Don't Believe the Hype! 10 Musician's Restaurants Less Strange Than Flava Flav's Chicken Joint

  • Film+TV

    January 20, 2011

    Drunk History: On the Bowery

    Lionel Rogosin's tumbler-shot of Walker Evans blues

  • Stage

    January 13, 2011

    John Lithgow's Stories by Heart and Hair

    Solo show, musical resolutely look backward

  • Music

    November 18, 2010

    Music Picks: Tift Merritt, Clinic, Microscopic Septet

    Also, J. Cole, the Crazy Squeeze, Wild Flag and others

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Rock & Rule Blu-Ray Release: Debbie Harry and Cheap Trick vs. Cartoon Guitar Mutants (and Lou Reed!)

    ​ How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 5, 2010

    RENT GOES HOLLYWOOD

    ​ How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Help Xeno and Oaklander Make a Music Video

    A few weeks ago we reviewed the Xeno and Oaklander show at the Echo for Part Time Punks. The minimal electronics band is on top of their game, riding a solid critical wave and building a hardcore fanbase among the discerning (ok, picky as all getout) fans of the "cold wave" genre. And now they need ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    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 >>

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    Antonio Ballatore: The Lady Gaga of Interior Design

    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 >>

  • Art+Books

    April 15, 2010

    Been There. Done What?!

    Jillian Lauren opens up about her life as a teenage harem girl in Brunei

  • Film+TV

    April 15, 2010

    Critical Mass

    LACMA's three-weekend series spotlights the disparate passions of late, great film critic Manny Farber

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 11, 2010

    The Gorbals: Stomp, the Restaurant

    A Jewish-Glaswegian inspiration in downtown L.A.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Have Your Vegan Cake And Eat It Too: Babycakes Open In Downtown Los Angeles

    What would Henry Huntington think of the newest tenant to occupy one of the storefronts in his Pacific Electric Building? Manhattan-based Babycakes opened shop on the 6th Street side of the 1905 landmark this past Sunday near Cole's. The menu of vegan and food allergy-sensitive baked treats are hard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Last Night: Strip Dreidel, Christmas Eve Heebonism and Jewjitsu in Palm Springs: Heeb Mag's

    Jeremy PelleyThe Ace Hotel in Palm Springs honors the tribe on Christmas Eve​Being Jewish on Christmas sucks. The only places open are Chinese restaurants and movie theaters. Every house but yours is beautifully ablaze in lights and big French windows filled with families in ill-fitting itchy ... More >>

  • Music

    November 19, 2009

    Rock Picks: THE JOE KROWN TRIO, THE FIERY FURNACES, THE LILYS, MR. GNOME

    Also, Simian Mobile Disco, Wolfmother, El Perro del Mar and others

  • Film+TV

    November 5, 2009

    Hellfire and Camp Nation: Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures

    Also, Simian Mobile Disco, Wolfmother, El Perro del Mar and others

  • Calendar

    September 3, 2009

    WHO REMEMBERS THE MUDD CLUB? OH YEAH, YOU'RE ALL DEAD

    Also, Simian Mobile Disco, Wolfmother, El Perro del Mar and others

  • LA Life

    July 23, 2009

    Artist Dash Snow, Remembered

    The Sculptor, Graffiti Writer and Photographer's Work Was More Than Just Art

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Something Probably SHOULD be Fishy with American Girl Rebecca Rubin's Bagel

    Leave it to parents with eagle eyes to ask the right questions. Take the case of Josh Friedland of The Food Section and American Girl's newest historical character, Jewish Lower East Side-denizen Rebecca Rubin. Photo credit: American Girl, detail by Josh Friedland of The Food SectionWhat, no schme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Remembering Dash Snow, 1981-2009

    By Daniel Hernandez Peres Projects, Berlin Los AngelesDetail from untitled collage, 2006The artist Dash Snow promised me an interview, over and over. Every time I ran into him during his 2007 stay in L.A., he'd say, "We still gotta talk, man." The last time he said so was at the after-party to ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    LA People 2009: Point Break Live!'s Punk Theater Impresario — Thomas Blake

    Gunning for the stars: "If the audience doesn't get accosted then they feel like they got slighted"

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    MY DEALER TOOK A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY HABIT

    Gunning for the stars: "If the audience doesn't get accosted then they feel like they got slighted"

  • Eat+Drink

    March 5, 2009

    The New Cocktailians

    The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Stage Raw: Film

    FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2009

    Minsky's

    FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 18, 2008

    The Tomashefsky Project

    FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    November 13, 2008

    Film Reviews: Antarctica, The First Basket

    Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more

  • Calendar

    August 14, 2008

    Speaking in Tongues

    Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    The Farewell Performances

    Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more

  • News

    September 28, 2006

    Citizen Beck

    Coming to terms with our native son

  • Music

    October 14, 2004

    Sleepwalker

    Elliott Smith’s unhappy dream life

  • More >>
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