Mao Tse-tung

Q & A With John Huang of Mao's Restaurant: Hunan Cuisine, Electrical Engineering, Fish Heads The Expansion of Chinese Food In L.A.

John Huang is the owner and manager of newly-opened Mao's Restaurant. Named after Chairman Mao Zedong -- who, yes, Huang holds in high-esteem -- the eatery boasts a variety of spicy dishes that pay homage to Mao's hometown in the province of Hunan. Mao's Restaurant opened in early October after Hu ... More >>

How Chinese Animation Reveals the Country's Turbulent History

71: Hunan-Style Preserved Pork with Tofu at Hunan Chilli King

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 71: Hunan-Style Preserved Pork with Tofu at Hunan Chilli King. Walking up to San Gabriel's Hunan Chili, located in a nondescript section of strip mall along Va ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Sharon Tate Impersonators

Resurrection is a theme this week. Artist Scott Benzel brings back Sharon Tate as a faux Maoist and Rob Sullivan revives local ghosts. 5. Nuclear wasteland art When nuclear plants and uranium mills close, the leftover radioactive waste has to go somewhere. Scattered across the rural west are Uraniu ... More >>

The Phil's Gospel According to the Other Mary Is Hot

Poor Mary Magdalene. All she wants is a little sleep, but the junkie in the jail cell next to hers is screaming in agony from withdrawal. As Mary tries to understand the addict's pain, a chorus sings "Howl ye, howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand." Confused? Welcome to The Gospel According to ... More >>

Taiwanese Surf Rock Puppetry?! Yes, Please.

Concord, in Cypress Park, is not your typical performance venue. Lining the hallway as you enter the space are wooden shelves covered in colanders, plates, pots, peanut butter, dried beans, hot sauce and the like, sorted and labeled: "Joshua" "Collective" "Marco" etc. Long fluorescent bulbs hang fr ... More >>

Matthew Brandt's Electric Photographs in "Two Ships Passing" at M B: Don't Touch or You'll Get Shocked

I first encountered Matthew Brandt's work when he was still a graduate student at UCLA. During the 2007 open studios, he had his portrait series tacked up on the wall -- photographic images of people he knew, made using the old-timey method of salted paper prints, and incorporating the subject's bod ... More >>

Should China Buy The Dodgers?

Baseball promotes Mao Zedong Thought​In the 1970s, the Chinese government issued a pamphlet declaring that baseball would "help build the (Communist) party" by promoting "the diligent study of Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought."Since then, the Chinese haven't progressed very far on the fiel ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Lucky Noodle King: Many Spicy Returns

A Sichuan staple resurfaces

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it's too late

The Dunny Thing

An obsession at the intersection of gambling and shopping

Arms Merchants of South Central

Did the rich and intrigue-filled Botach family get a pass from Henry Waxman?

Fugly Furniture & Home Decor: The Moggit Girls Hate Your Eel Coffee Table

​ Joy Zaczyk and Janet Villeneuve are probably thinking what you're thinking whenever you see a fancy-schmancy design item that is too precious for its own good. They are the bloggers behind Moggit. They are unafraid to call out "fugly" furniture when they see it. Snarky is their full-time job ... More >>

New York Film Festival: Window on the World

New home, old mission for 47th annual event

Boxing, Sex and Madness: Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties That Bind

In Tyson documentary, boxer tells it in his own words

The Chumby Diaries: A Partial-Attention Love-Hate Story

Is the ambient widget device a friend who will share corn-bread recipes and glimpses at its panda cam, or a foe who will steal your passwords?

Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato

How Mark Mothersbaugh, an Agent of De-Evolution, wormed his way into America’s subconscious

Film Chinois and Gulliver’s Travels: Now, Voyagers

Tales of men adrift in metaphor

All Too Hunan

Dong Ting Chun brings the heat

De Tocqueville, Part Deux

Bernard-Henri Lévy on American sex, American religion and American Vertigo

Unchain Your Heart

Bookstores for the independent-minded book lover

Separate, Unequal — and Turned Away

What it’s like to be a Palestinian looking for a house in Jerusalem

As the World Burns

The national idea as soap opera

Anger Management

The Growing Pains of Liberal Talk Radio

Lars Attacks!

Von Trier in Trollywood

The Gang of Four Invades Orange County

Chen Yi speaks for Chinese music reborn

Brat Brawl

Disney and Comcast fortunate sons need therapy more than this takeover

There’s a Riot Goin’ On

Weird War’s spit bombs from the front lines

The Monkey Wrench Guerrillas

Is ELF ready to wage a more violent war for the environment?

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

The protests in San Francisco proved that the peacenik universe is expanding

Sex & Beauty, Art & Kitsch

The exquisite mayhem of Benedikt Taschen

Warhol-by-Numbers

Laughing in the Dark

The education of Edward Albee

Letters

Road Rage

The King of Compton

Mayor Omar Bradley and his reign of chaos

Things Past

Back to Bataan

A brief history of one of the thousands of DIY singles released in 1979

Between the Lines

Filling in the rap gap

Burning Man

Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

The Go Club

Getting lost in the game