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April 5, 2013
Best L.A. Novel Ever: Day of the Locust vs. What Makes Sammy Run?, Round 2
L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups The category in this br ... More >>
Calendar
November 15, 2012
Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy Taylor Negron
Taylor Negron
Stage
November 8, 2012
Behaving Badly: Bad Apples, Empanada for a Dream and Slice, Reviewed
Taylor Negron
Blogs
November 1, 2012
Comic Seth Front: Using Deli Foods To Explore Jewish American History One Nosh At A Time
While many comics get their material from headlines, L.A. comedian Seth Front draws his inspiration from another source: deli menus. For the past two years, Front has crisscrossed the country giving talks on the culinary history of American Jews of Eastern European descent, using delicatessen foods ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2012
Yael Aflalo's Reformation Allows Fashionistas to Go Green by Making Vintage Cool
More stories from our 2012 Fashion Issue on dressing ethically: *West Hollywood's New Fur Ban *Does L.A. Still Have Sweatshops? *Yael Aflalo's Reformation Makes Vintage Cool *Santa Monica's Main Street, a Green Fashion Hub *Three L.A. Designers Who Do Eco-Fashion Right When Yael Aflalo founded her ... More >>
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 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 BattleThough 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
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 HATCHEDMeet Gertrude Stein (right), and her girlfriend, Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude and Alice were rescued from extermination at an an ... 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 >>
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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
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 EveBeing 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
Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide
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
Calendar
February 12, 2009
Minsky's
The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time
Calendar
December 18, 2008
The Tomashefsky Project
The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time
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
Eat+Drink
January 15, 2004
Two Guys Walk Into a Bar . . .
Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more
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