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Rubus Ursinus: A Guide to the Elusive Pacific Blackberry

The AFI Films You Need to See

Our critics' recommendations for the best of the fest

Gourmet Product Awards Winners Announced

Courtesy of Malibu Pies.​Chipotle chile peanut butter, blueberry licorice and coconut hibiscus tea were among the winners at the first Gourmet Product Awards. The competition honors the best new gourmet products in 43 finely divided categories including condiments, confections, dairy, oils, ba ... More >>

Luís J. Rodríguez's It Calls You Back: Famed L.A. Writer Pens Sequel to his Memoir on Gangs, Drugs and Violence

Like the late Chicano literary pioneer Raúl Salinas, the street-bred vernacular poet and political firebrand who adopted me as a teenager and helped steer me away from the streets and toward books, Luís J. Rodríguez has made a life-time of mentoring inner-city youth. Using his own escape from a v ... More >>

Top 5 Hottest L.A. Lady DJs in 2010!

​I wish I could entitle this post "Hottest Female Vinyl DJs in LA", if only to imply that there is a post on beat DJs to come. While it's not uncommon these days to see ladies (wo)man the 1s and 2s using a mix of vinyl and Serrato, watching a dame go crazy on Ableton is fewer and farther betwe ... More >>

Theater Reviews: From Hoboken to Hollywood: A Journey Through the Great American Songbook

Also, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, When Garbo Talks!, Wicked Lit and more

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

All the World's a Cage

Aristides Vargas' La Razon Blindada and Joseph Fisher's A Wolf Inside the Fence

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Medea, A Wolf Inside the Fence, Topdog/Underdog

Also, Becoming Norman, Speak of Me As I Am and more

A Wolf Inside the Fence

Also, Becoming Norman, Speak of Me As I Am and more

Stage Raw: A Wolf Inside the Fence

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO A WOLF INSIDE THE FENCE ​Photo courtesy of Open Fist Theatre Company "You can't lose your way in a history class. You can only go backwards," says Linus McBride (Arthur Hanket), a history teacher who seems to be losin ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: They Got Soul: Blackeyed Soul Club and Hungry Beat

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO A WOLF INSIDE THE FENCE ​Photo courtesy of Open Fist Theatre Company "You can't lose your way in a history class. You can only go backwards," says Linus McBride (Arthur Hanket), a history teacher who seems to be losin ... More >>

Suge Knight Arrested On Suspicion Of Assault With A Deadly Weapon

​Rap mogul Marion "Suge'' Knight was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and for a warrant for driving on a suspended license, Los Angeles police said. The 45-year-old founder of Death Row Records was pulled over in a white Cadillac Escalade pickup on Crenshaw ... More >>

Kataki, The Narrow World, Stage Door, Exiles

Also, Stomp, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Sweeney Todd and more

Stage Raw: Stage Door

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingNEW REVIEW GO STAGE DOOR ​Photo by Kelsey Edwards In 1936, when Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's comedy and homage to The Theater (that would be Broadway) showed the div ... More >>

Holiday Cookie Recipes: Brown Butter Date-Walnut Rolls from Amelia Saltsman via Marion Cunningham

Random HouseMarion Cunningham ​To help you find the just the right cookie for your holiday baking spree, we're calling up chefs around town for their favorites. Over the next few weeks you'll find recipes for buttery sugar and chewy molasses cookies -- even vegan snickerdoodles, if you must (w ... More >>

Ten Days of Dublab

Random HouseMarion Cunningham ​To help you find the just the right cookie for your holiday baking spree, we're calling up chefs around town for their favorites. Over the next few weeks you'll find recipes for buttery sugar and chewy molasses cookies -- even vegan snickerdoodles, if you must (w ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold ... About Dutch Babies

Marion Cunningham's Hot and High and Mighty German Pancakes

Ask Mr. Gold About ... Dutch Babies. Marion Cunningham's Hot and High and Mighty German Pancakes

What Jonathan Gold ate for breakfast this weekend -- a hot Dutch baby with powdered sugar and a squeeze of Meyer lemonDear Mr. Gold,          When I was growing up in the Midwest, I was very fond of what they used to call German pancakes or Dutch babies, puffy pancakes, as big as Mylar ballo ... More >>

All Killer, No Filler: Larry Tee, Full Frontal, Hungry Beat

What Jonathan Gold ate for breakfast this weekend -- a hot Dutch baby with powdered sugar and a squeeze of Meyer lemonDear Mr. Gold,          When I was growing up in the Midwest, I was very fond of what they used to call German pancakes or Dutch babies, puffy pancakes, as big as Mylar ballo ... More >>

Project Runway’s Season 4

Fabulousness all around: a fan’s notes

2 Days in Paris: After Sunrise

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next

Off With Her Manolo Blahniks!

Sofia Coppola’s fashionably slight Marie Antoinette

Moment of Truce

After a five-year war, Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound reunite for love, profits and West Coast pride. Ben Quiñones catches the buzz.

Jailhouse Hope

Community leaders and the sheriff talk peace and the riots’ cause

Avenues of Death

How Highland Park’s Latino gang targets African-Americans

Who’ll Stop the Reign?

The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

Upsetting the Record Straight

The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

Singled Out: Everybody has a Mother

The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

The New Mall

The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

Another Lost Rampart Case

Officers get benefit of doubt when Perez is the accuser

Hard Times for Net News

Officers get benefit of doubt when Perez is the accuser

Still D.R.E.

Officers get benefit of doubt when Perez is the accuser

Babbitt, Run

The dark side of normalcy

Dancing to Fireworks

French director Léos Carax

Fallen Angels, Resurrected

Shohei Imamura's rowdy humanism

Psycho Killer

Gus Van Sant’s imitation of art

40 Bucks and a Dream

The lives of a Hollywood motel