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Mad Men

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2013

    American Men Don't Pay For Sex As Often As You Think

    Men are whore-mongering pervs. But only in their secret lives. That has been the rap on American guys, at least since the postwar days when the infamous Kinsey report discovered that more than two-thirds of men had paid for prostitutes in their lifetimes. New research published in Southern Califor ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 28, 2013

    Matthew Weiner Explains Betty Draper, Mad Men's "Melancholy Dame"

    Men are whore-mongering pervs. But only in their secret lives. That has been the rap on American guys, at least since the postwar days when the infamous Kinsey report discovered that more than two-thirds of men had paid for prostitutes in their lifetimes. New research published in Southern Califor ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    February 7, 2013

    Steven Soderbergh and Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns Talk Side Effects, Collaboration and Big Pharma's Dominance

    Men are whore-mongering pervs. But only in their secret lives. That has been the rap on American guys, at least since the postwar days when the infamous Kinsey report discovered that more than two-thirds of men had paid for prostitutes in their lifetimes. New research published in Southern Califor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/5- 11/9

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "For many years, American chardonnay has been a wine category that cognoscenti love to hate, a wine whose ubiquity, confected stylings and bloat have more or less condemned it to a reputation for mediocrity, a wading pool of a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2012

    From Lena Dunham to Matthew Weiner, TV's Best Writers Gathered in a Room Last Night. Here's What They Said

    See also: Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question See also: Boys Who Like Girls: Three Theories on Why Men Are Into This Show See also: Two and a Half Men vs. Mad Men at PaleyFest: Is it Better to Have Ratings or Emmys? Lena Dunham had a Hannah Horvath moment before e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2012

    Sexual Attraction Lowers Women's Level of Disgust

    Why are disgusting things like sweat and body odor not so bad during sex? Well, the answer is, nobody knows exactly why, but researchers recently did reveal this possibility: Women do let down their guards during sex when it comes to stuff that would normally turn them off. Yeah, that mythical o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2012

    California Democratic Drunks Make a Scene at DNC in Charlotte

    Props to our California delegates who made drunken fools of themselves in Charlotte even before the Democratic National Convention started there today. While Mitt Romney's prom had Clint Eastwood lecturing an empty chair in Tampa last week, the Golden State's own Dems were prepping for Obama's seco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2012

    Meet L.A. County's Classy New Condom

    A panel of judges including Perez Hilton has picked a winner in the official Los Angeles County Department of Public Health condom design contest (which, uh, happened): The stark and simple design features an image of a black bowtie, accompanied by the words "Suit Up" in Mad Men-ish font. Classy! M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2012

    Things We Wish Existed: Ben & Jerry's (Fan-Made) Breaking Bad Ice Cream

    Be still, our twitching hearts. Walter White's signature ice cream flavor doesn't exist just yet. But the good news is that the Ben & Jerry's execs in Vermont have a full two and a half weeks before the season five premiere to make this candy-speckled creation a reality. We can dream, can't we?

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2012

    Tam O'Shanter's Celebrates 90th Anniversary

    Making it to your 90th birthday is no small feat. Atwater Village's Tam O'Shanter Inn, the oldest family-owned restaurant in Los Angeles, has amassed a history as intricate and detailed as the Robert Burns poem it was named after, stretching from its founding in 1922, to its popularity amongst celeb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2012

    Lily Tomlin on Apps, Zuckerberg, and Her Mad Men Past

    Who said, "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." If you answered "Lily Tomlin," you win a trip to Beverly Hills for the Paley Center retrospective "She's Making Media: Lily Tomlin." When she first gained fame in the late '60s on Laugh-In (look it up, kids), ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 31, 2012

    Pictures of Lily

    Who said, "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." If you answered "Lily Tomlin," you win a trip to Beverly Hills for the Paley Center retrospective "She's Making Media: Lily Tomlin." When she first gained fame in the late '60s on Laugh-In (look it up, kids), ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Cooking Drinking: Three New High Alcohol Cookbooks

    Booze-themed cookbooks have never been terribly high on our everyday shopping lists, but there are those weekend moments when The Food of Morocco isn't quite what we're craving. Okay, that's not really true. We'd be content with Paula Wolfert's harissa any day of the week. But we're all for occasion ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Eat This Now: Coolhaus' Fried Chicken and Waffle Ice Cream

    Fried chicken and waffle ice cream? Yeah, that just happened. Actually, it's been happening for a couple months now, as Culver City's Coolhaus has been rolling out their new most popular flavor; a sweet-savory combo that is already gaining something of a cult following -- as much as an ice cream ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    The Chewing: A Very Funny Video from New York Magazine

    If you've been watching The Killing -- you know, that impossibly dark and rain-sodden police procedural on AMC that airs before Mad Men -- you'll know that there has been a price to pay for following the show into its second season. We've had to put up with the WTF moment of the first season's absur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    10 Best Reasons to Visit Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley (Besides Coachella)

    The Coachella Valley was once known as a fantastic spot for a getaway from L.A., especially during its high season in winter, when it features almost-certain sunshine and better temperatures. In recent years, Coachella has become synonymous with just one thing: Coachella. But this year, the music f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Magic City on Starz = Mad Men More Sex A Hint of The Sopranos

    Perhaps we shouldn't have worn jeans to the premiere of Starz' Magic City, their latest original series set to hit the airwaves April 6. Some event-goers who gathered for the screening at the Director's Guild (and later flowed into the Chateau Marmont after party) had on much more appropriately glam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    L.A. Storm Leaves Thousands Without Power, Interrupts 'Mad Men' Premiere

    The weekend rain- and windstorm that tore through Los Angeles County left over 8,000 residents without power last night -- about half SoCal Edison customers and half L.A. DWP. And according to City News Service, thousands are still in the dark this morning, mainly in the Mid-Wilshire area. In resp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    10 Things We Didn't Know About Mad Men's Jessica Paré (Megan Draper) Until Now

    Jessica Paré is having the best day ever. After last night's season 5 premiere of Mad Men, the utter marvelousness of her character Megan Draper became the only thing anyone could talk about, mostly due to a hot, twisted floor sex scene with hubby Don, and a coquettish rendition of '60s hit "Zou B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Two and a Half Men vs. Mad Men at PaleyFest: Is it Better to Have Ratings or Emmys?

    Sometimes on the red carpet, you overhear things. Such was the case on Monday night during the arrivals for PaleyFest's Two and Half Men event, for which the show's stars (sans the glaringly absent Ashton Kutcher, who participated only in the panel) along with its creators walked the red carpet, pra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    PaleyFest Television Panel Bingo

    By Jeremy Blachman, Zachary Pincus-Roth and Brian Guillian The Paley Center for Media's PaleyFest, which begins tonight at the Saban Theatre, always seems exciting, with its parade of panels featuring cast and creators of your favorite shows, from Mad Men to Two and a Half Men to Modern Family. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Shag's 'Animal Kingdom': Where Furries, Anime and 1970s Halloween Costumes Collide

    "When [Mad Men] first started, all of my friends, everyone who knows me, said, 'You've got to watch it. You'll love the costumes and the sets,'" says Josh Agle, the artist best known as Shag. Agle, though, wasn't necessarily interested in checking out the mid-20th-century costumes and interiors tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question

    Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered. Or is it? That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This t ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 19, 2012

    L.A. Observed Preview

    Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2012

    Your Shows of Shows

    Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Eat and Drink Like Don Draper, Cook Like Betty

    Carin Baer/AMCJanuary Jones as Betty Draper on Mad Men, serving gazpacho.​For even the most diehard fans, it's often difficult to pinpoint exactly why we love Mad Men, perhaps because what sets the show apart is its subtlety. If you've seen even a handful of episodes you know that, like a trul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Dedication To My Sex: Why Lloyd and His String of P-Bombs Pissed Me Off

    If only iTunes had a return policy, or at least the ability to exchange for store credit. I'd gladly swap the original version of Lloyd's "Dedication to My Ex" for the cleaned-up radio edit, because frankly I feel like I got tricked. I heard the song for the first time in the car, and for much the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Drink Like a Mad Man, Sleep Like a Mad Man

    Flickr/Muy YumThink twice about that nightcap.​ If you watch Mad Men too much and make a habit of drinking a Scotch or two before going to bed, Don Draper-style, you might want to consider warm milk instead. And your drinking habits in general. Scientific American gives us at least one reaso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    It's All Fun Until Someone Gets Totally Fucking Murdered: Kids, Violence, Music Videos & the Fate of the World

    Playing cowboys and jihadis in the video for Is Tropical's "The Greeks"​Last week, while discussing the recent uptick in apocalypse-themed videos, we spent a couple sentences discussing the angry, Mad Max-style children that stand to inherit our post-doomsday world, at least as represented in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Mad Men Opening Credit Redesign: Christina Hendricks is Our Jessica Rabbit

    Paul Rogers​A Mad Men intro as effervescent as champers? Well, it doesn't suit Don Draper's drowning in Old Fashioneds, Betty's kept suburban housewife boredom, and the cultural malaise that's really the root of the entire show, but what better way to highlight that than by contradicting it? ... More >>

  • Music

    April 21, 2011

    Elenco: The Blue Note of Bossa Nova

    Paul Rogers​A Mad Men intro as effervescent as champers? Well, it doesn't suit Don Draper's drowning in Old Fashioneds, Betty's kept suburban housewife boredom, and the cultural malaise that's really the root of the entire show, but what better way to highlight that than by contradicting it? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Tabasco Reports, Tips Reflect Breast Size Mad Men Cocktails

    -- Matt Armendariz reports from Avery Island and the center of the Tabasco universe. [Matt Bites] -- The larger the breasts, the bigger the gratuity. (This is not a surprise, is it?) [LA Observed] -- America's Weirdest Restaurants. [CNBC] -- Ricardo Zarate fights hunger in his native Peru via ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2011

    Outta Site

    -- Matt Armendariz reports from Avery Island and the center of the Tabasco universe. [Matt Bites] -- The larger the breasts, the bigger the gratuity. (This is not a surprise, is it?) [LA Observed] -- America's Weirdest Restaurants. [CNBC] -- Ricardo Zarate fights hunger in his native Peru via ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Talking with Diana Kennedy, the Mad Men Cookbook How to Make Bacon Roses

    -- Bricia Lopez interviews Diana Kennedy at Loteria Grill. [LA>FWD] -- Making bacon roses. [My Last Bite] -- David Lebovitz on the art of food blogging. ("If you are writing for search engines, you are cheating readers.") [David Lebovitz] -- How to survive eating everything at In-N-Out. [Grub ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Unscreened

    -- Bricia Lopez interviews Diana Kennedy at Loteria Grill. [LA>FWD] -- Making bacon roses. [My Last Bite] -- David Lebovitz on the art of food blogging. ("If you are writing for search engines, you are cheating readers.") [David Lebovitz] -- How to survive eating everything at In-N-Out. [Grub ... More >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2010

    Creep Show, Peep Show

    Heavy Metal Parking Lot, photography at Hotel de Ville Eyewear and the Paul Smith anniversary party, plus saying goodbye to some of our fave haunts

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    L.A. Advertisers And Anti-Billboard Activists Pissed Over City Council's Bright Idea To Slap Billboards With A 12 Percent Tax

    PHOTO BY TED SOQUI​The Weekly has long had an eye on sketchy billboard deals throughout Los Angeles. In 2008, we reported that 4,000 of the city's 11,000 billboards were illegal, built without permits or earthquake regulations. Then came the Westside "Mad Men," fat-cat entrepreneurs who were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Live Review: Jukebox The Ghost, Hooray For Earth, and AB & The Sea at the Echo

    Jessica DustonAB & The Sea​ Last night the pop came in three varieties at the Echo: traditional, experimental, and extra sweet. It was almost like being in Galco's, something for everyone. The first band up was AB & The Sea, who were dressed up prim and proper with collared shirts and cardiga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Shoddy Downtown L.A. Mall May Be Getting Target

    ​Los Angeles Downtown News reports a Target store may be moving in to the 7 Fig mall, which, despite the pretentious name, has been struggling of late. Downtown residents, who rejoiced when the area became a bit more livable with the opening of a Ralph's grocery store in 2007, can now look f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Online Emmy Searches Leading To Malicious Websites

    ​And the winner is ... not you. At least not if you searched online for Emmy victors and came up with a computer virus instead. Security virus firm Symantec warned on Monday that as much as 57 percent of certain Emmy-related search results online will lead users to malicious sites that will at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

    -- The invention of the pub library: Gyopar, a Communist-era pub outside Budapest. [Reuters] -- Tarte Tatin bakery, coming soon to Beverly Hills. [Grub Street] -- If you're still hungry after watching Mad Men's season premier last night: a recipe for Chicken Kiev. [Eatocracy] -- Why mini cows ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2010

    WHO'S STARRY NOW?

    -- The invention of the pub library: Gyopar, a Communist-era pub outside Budapest. [Reuters] -- Tarte Tatin bakery, coming soon to Beverly Hills. [Grub Street] -- If you're still hungry after watching Mad Men's season premier last night: a recipe for Chicken Kiev. [Eatocracy] -- Why mini cows ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2010

    JON HAMM DIGS MEN IN DRAG

    -- The invention of the pub library: Gyopar, a Communist-era pub outside Budapest. [Reuters] -- Tarte Tatin bakery, coming soon to Beverly Hills. [Grub Street] -- If you're still hungry after watching Mad Men's season premier last night: a recipe for Chicken Kiev. [Eatocracy] -- Why mini cows ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2010

    The LA WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS

    -- The invention of the pub library: Gyopar, a Communist-era pub outside Budapest. [Reuters] -- Tarte Tatin bakery, coming soon to Beverly Hills. [Grub Street] -- If you're still hungry after watching Mad Men's season premier last night: a recipe for Chicken Kiev. [Eatocracy] -- Why mini cows ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

    -- The invention of the pub library: Gyopar, a Communist-era pub outside Budapest. [Reuters] -- Tarte Tatin bakery, coming soon to Beverly Hills. [Grub Street] -- If you're still hungry after watching Mad Men's season premier last night: a recipe for Chicken Kiev. [Eatocracy] -- Why mini cows ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    December 24, 2009

    Nostalgia With a Twist: The Tar Pit, Mark Peel’s Latest

    -- The invention of the pub library: Gyopar, a Communist-era pub outside Budapest. [Reuters] -- Tarte Tatin bakery, coming soon to Beverly Hills. [Grub Street] -- If you're still hungry after watching Mad Men's season premier last night: a recipe for Chicken Kiev. [Eatocracy] -- Why mini cows ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Apocalypse Then: "Mad Men" Scores With Some Vintage Skeeter Davis

    Last Sunday, the carefully realistic timeline of cult TV show Mad Men reached that fateful date, November 22nd, 1963 (SPOILER ALERT: JFK gets shot, dies!). ...and they don't feel fine​ Fans of the show who are also music nuts have learned to wait for the closing titles, where Matt Wiener and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2009

    Farragut North

    Last Sunday, the carefully realistic timeline of cult TV show Mad Men reached that fateful date, November 22nd, 1963 (SPOILER ALERT: JFK gets shot, dies!). ...and they don't feel fine​ Fans of the show who are also music nuts have learned to wait for the closing titles, where Matt Wiener and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2009

    Your Placenta or Mine?

    Last Sunday, the carefully realistic timeline of cult TV show Mad Men reached that fateful date, November 22nd, 1963 (SPOILER ALERT: JFK gets shot, dies!). ...and they don't feel fine​ Fans of the show who are also music nuts have learned to wait for the closing titles, where Matt Wiener and ... More >>

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