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May 16, 2012
Tar Pit Migration: A Pop-up Tavern at Campanile
When the Tar Pit, Mark Peel's swank watering hole on La Brea Avenue, closed in early March (the victim of a rent dispute), the restaurant's booths, banquettes, bar and barstools, as well as kitchen contents and a trove of glamorous props, all went into storage, awaiting a relaunch. No word yet on wh ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 20, 2012
The Licorice Jelly Beans Fit for Pharoahs: Your Mad Men Ad Here
In homage to this Sunday's debut of Season 5 of Mad Men on AMC, Squid Ink presents this imaginary brainstorming session among the advertising staff of Sterling Cooper Draper Price. Roger Sterling: OK everyone. We have an important new account: Teenee Beanee Luxor Licorice Jelly Beans. What've you g ... More >>
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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 >>
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March 8, 2012
Cookbook Review: What Exactly Is A Mormon Cookbook? We're Still Not Sure
What exactly is a Mormon cookbook? Yeah, we wondered, too. And so we requested a copy of The Essential Mormon Cookbook by Julie Badger Jensen from the Deseret Book Company, a publisher in Salt Lake City (the book was originally published in 2004; the Kindle edition was just released earlier this yea ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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
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January 19, 2012
Your Shows of Shows
Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles
Blogs
December 28, 2011
Cocktail Book Of The Week: The PDT Cocktail Book A Classic Champagne Cocktail Recipe
With New Year's Eve looming, we're forgoing our usual cookbook of the week in favor of the libation version. Not just any cocktail book, but The PDT Cocktail Book by Jim Meehan and illustrator Chris Gall, the only beverage book that made it into our Best of 2011 "cookbook" list. Yeah, we're already ... More >>
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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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July 21, 2011
Mad Men Opening Credit Redesign: Christina Hendricks is Our Jessica Rabbit
Paul RogersA 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 RogersA 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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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January 11, 2011
(VIDEO) One Journalist Meets His Creepy-Real 'L.A. Noire' Video Game Counterpart
Game InformerAh, to play (and star in) video games for moneyHey -- we wanna do that! Video-game blogger Dan Ryckert, over at Game Informer, is making us feel like we definitely picked the wrong beat of this career with some detailed escapades into the realm of virtual reality. Ryckert scored ... 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
Film+TV
October 28, 2010
Marilyn in Fragments
Reappraising a sex symbol, with help from her own writings
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 SOQUIThe 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 >>
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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 >>
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September 29, 2010
Carmen Trutanich, L.A. City Attorney, Wins Billboard Crackdown Ruling From U.S. Judge Audrey Collins: They Ain't Free Speech
Don't stand here during a quakeReason to cheer the departure of Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo: Carmen Trutanich, his replacement, won another courtroom victory against the 11,000 billboards slathered all over sad-sack L.A -- up to 4,000 of them illegally installed without an eart ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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August 9, 2010
Los Angeles Is One of the Worst Places To Live, According to Web Site For Geezers
Los Angeles is ranked the 6th worst place to live in the country, according to a study by AOL's Wallet Pop. The website compiled a list of the top 10 worst cities to live in the country and using factors such as unemployment rate, pollution, crime, health data and other factors that would ma ... More >>
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July 27, 2010
AMC's 'The Walking Dead' Signs, Seals, Delivers On Hype At Comic-Con 2010
With Emmy-winning powerhouses Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC is at the forefront of cable TV drama. What fans and geeks have hoped for, this year's Comic-Con audience can attest to, and the rest of the world is about to find out is that the network is poised to break all-new ground in October ... 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 >>
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July 13, 2010
Patina Caters the Emmy Awards Governor's Ball: 180 Cooks, 4,416 Bottles of Wine, 3000 Lbs. of Chickpeas An Elaborate Brownie Recipe
Patina Restaurant GroupChocolate decadence Going to 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Governor's Ball? Well, even if you're not either, about 3,500 elaborately overdressed people will be. This year's Emmy Awards will be held August 29th, and following the event, Joachim Splichal's Patina Restaurant ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Busty "Mad Men" Star in Broken Bells' Crazy Sci-Fi Video
The Guardian premiered it in the UK yesterday, but today Entertainment Weekly has finally unveiled here the high-budget sci-fi video for Broken Bells' "The Ghost Inside," starring Mad Men's Christina Hendricks. It's very sci-fi, a little Philip K. Dick, and sort of funny in that Gnarls Barkl ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
Happy Hour: The Tar Pit in Mid-City West
Caroline on CrackThe Tar Pit's happy hour cocktail, Tennessee Trilogy. The Place: The Tar Pit, 609 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. (323) 965-1300. The Hours: Daily 5-6:30pm The Deals: $6 cocktails and wine by the glass, $2.50-$5 snacks.
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May 27, 2010
WHO'S STARRY NOW?
Caroline on CrackThe Tar Pit's happy hour cocktail, Tennessee Trilogy. The Place: The Tar Pit, 609 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. (323) 965-1300. The Hours: Daily 5-6:30pm The Deals: $6 cocktails and wine by the glass, $2.50-$5 snacks.
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April 29, 2010
JON HAMM DIGS MEN IN DRAG
Caroline on CrackThe Tar Pit's happy hour cocktail, Tennessee Trilogy. The Place: The Tar Pit, 609 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. (323) 965-1300. The Hours: Daily 5-6:30pm The Deals: $6 cocktails and wine by the glass, $2.50-$5 snacks.
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March 25, 2010
The LA WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS
Caroline on CrackThe Tar Pit's happy hour cocktail, Tennessee Trilogy. The Place: The Tar Pit, 609 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. (323) 965-1300. The Hours: Daily 5-6:30pm The Deals: $6 cocktails and wine by the glass, $2.50-$5 snacks.
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February 18, 2010
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Caroline on CrackThe Tar Pit's happy hour cocktail, Tennessee Trilogy. The Place: The Tar Pit, 609 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. (323) 965-1300. The Hours: Daily 5-6:30pm The Deals: $6 cocktails and wine by the glass, $2.50-$5 snacks.
Eat+Drink
December 24, 2009
Nostalgia With a Twist: The Tar Pit, Mark Peel’s Latest
Caroline on CrackThe Tar Pit's happy hour cocktail, Tennessee Trilogy. The Place: The Tar Pit, 609 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. (323) 965-1300. The Hours: Daily 5-6:30pm The Deals: $6 cocktails and wine by the glass, $2.50-$5 snacks.
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 >>
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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 >>
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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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