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Japanese Flower Arranging: Live Onstage!

See also: *Takashi Murakami's New Culver City Show *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week The North American Sogetsu Seminar is like the Olympics of flower arranging (though, of course, only for North America). Held once every four years in a different North ... More >>

Downtown Los Angeles To Get New High Rise -- Yet Another Marriott-Related Hotel

The local economy isn't exactly rockin.' But you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at downtown's skyline, which is starting to resemble an instant city in China. The latest high rise planned for downtown Los Angeles will break ground early next year and take the form of a Renaissance Hotel, devel ... More >>

Pitbull and Lil Jon Lead a Zumba Class! (Yikes)

Pitbull and Lil Jon Convention Center 2/15/2013 Better than...the fitness DJ in your spin class. Hip-hop and fitness might not seem immediately compatible, and Pitbull and Lil Jon aren't quite LL chiseled. But that didn't stop them from performing before 3000 freaking Zumba fitness buffs at the C ... More >>

Writers Guild Awards 2013: Behind the Scenes

Last night, men and women who are more used to working at home in their pajamas donned black tie attire for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live -- and it seemed like a surprisingly number of media didn't really care. (Except us, of course.) With a red carpet th ... More >>

Massage Girl Steals iPad, Laptop From Guy In Burbank Hotel Room When He Turns His Back

After a guy got his iPad Mini and MacBook Pro laptop stolen by a massage girl he called to his hotel room, Burbank police are warning folks to use only reputable masseuses. Um. Yeah. We have out doubts that the "victim" was searching for a real legit muscle-stroker at 4 o'clock in the morning. (Or ... More >>

Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

Why I'm Fine With the 'Hipster Flip' Phenomenon

As the lease was set to expire on the Pasadena condo we're currently renting, I, my husband and our young spawn were in the market for a home to buy. Spring selling season is upon us and we wanted to buy while the market is still crapped out. Plus, having just closed escrow on our old place back in ... More >>

California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" Contest Wants Your Recipes

Do you have a good idea for a terrific strawberry dish that doesn't involve turning on the oven? We're gonna assume the answer's yes. Lucky you, because the 2012 California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" recipe contest is now up and running. The competition is open to anyone who has a strawberry recip ... More >>

Tim Leiweke's Green NFL Stadium

EIR says fans would forsake cars

James Beard Awards 2012: Semifinalists Announced

Los Angeles chefs made a strong showing among the semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Local nominees for the Best Chef, Pacific award include Josef Centeno (Lazy Ox Canteen), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), David Feau (The Royce at the Langham), Matt Molina (M ... More >>

Doctor Who Fans Refurbish TARDIS Console From 1996 Movie for Gallifrey One Convention

Shannon CottrellPaul J. Salamoff and his TARDIS Console​For more photos see our slideshow, Doctor Who Convention @ The Marriott Los Angeles Airport Paul J. Salamoff is a former special effects artist from Burbank who now works as a writer and producer. He's also the owner of the TARDIS consol ... More >>

Marriott Hotels to Be Erected Across From L.A. Live -- and Subsidized by Taxpayers

The new Courtyard and Residence Inns (right) will sit directly across from two more Marriott hotels.​A double Marriott hotel project that will occupy the lot across from L.A. Live just got a huge boost from you, the Los Angeles taxpayer. You have the L.A. City Council -- and downtown Councilw ... More >>

Extreme Futurist Festival: TED Conference for the Counterculture

Liz OhanesianMichael Anissimov and Rachel Haywire of Extreme Futurist Festival​Dr. Kim Solez is on a mission. The renal pathologist and University of Alberta professor is currently working to make the lectures from his course "Technology and the Future of Medicine" available to the general pub ... More >>

Occupy L.A: Top 5 Would-be City Giveaways That Might Inspire Occupiers to Give up The Lawn

Leave it to L.A. leaders to make a half-assed offer to Occupy L.A. in an attempt to extract demonstrators from the City Hall lawn. The city said occupiers could take over the old old B. Dalton Bookstore space in the nearby, subterranean L.A. Mall if they gave the lawn a permanent break. Occupiers pr ... More >>

A Chinese Food Tour Winds up at WP24

B. HansenSara Johannes with Chinese celery​ If you want to shop with the chefs, one place you can go is the 99 Ranch Market on Garvey Avenue in Monterey Park. There, you might run into Sara C. Johannes, chef de cuisine of WP24 by Wolfgang Puck. This is where she picks up the makings of the eli ... More >>

Michele Bachmann, Tea Party Presidential Hopeful, Coming to Hostile Territory This Summer: Los Angeles

Bachmann is heading to L.A.​Nutcase Congresswoman and right-wing Quixote presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann will come to the land of sunshine, sin and sexual liberation (that's here) Sept. 16 for the California Republican Party Fall Convention downtown (which is actually happening in summer ... More >>

Ezri Namvar Is the New Bernie Madoff and the Most Reviled Man in Town

(And he speaks for the first time)

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Saturday, July 23 Schedule: Steampunk, Adventure Time, The Last Airbender, Robert Kirkman and More

Shannon CottrellSteampunk at San Diego Comic-Con 2010​More in "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More." and "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Friday, July 22 Schedule: Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, Chris Elliott, Wil Wheaton, ... More >>

Huge Subsidy for Stadium Architect

Villaraigosa quietly plans to hand Gensler $1 million meant for the poor

"Hell's Kitchen" Winner Nona Sivley Starts Today at LA Market

Elina Shatkin"Hell's Kitchen" Season 8 winner Nona Sivley short after her win.​"Hell's Kitchen" Season 8 winner Nona Sivley steps behind the stoves today to start her new gig as chef de cuisine at LA Market, the in-house restaurant/bar at LA Live's JW Marriott. She'll be working with Kerry Sim ... More >>

dineLA Restaurant Week Returns

Anne Fishbeinbaby artichokes with buffalo mozzarella, watercress and goji berries at Fig​ If you're one of the few noble people who's actually kept your New Year's resolution, get ready to face a major hurdle. In just a few weeks, dineLA's Restaurant Week returns for its sixth season, serving ... More >>

Three Visions For Proposed NFL Stadium In Downtown L.A. Unleashed Today

GenslerAn architect's rendering of a downtown NFL stadium​By Dennis Romero and Gene Maddaus Updated with sketches and remarks from the unveiling at 6:05 p.m. As the owners of Staples Center were poised to unleash three architectural firms' distinct visions of what a proposed downtown stadium mig ... More >>

Woodland Hills Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair: Food Trucks, Photography & More

Flickr/Rios-EnriquezLake Street Creamery, one of the food trucks at this weekend's Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair​ L.A. is chalk full of holiday events this weekend -- from downtown's Artisanal L.A. to Bond Appetit: James Bond, Foodie event -- and now the Valley is getting into the mix. On Saturda ... More >>

DineLA Restaurant Week Returns: Dinner A Hotel Room

Do you get depressed when summer comes to a close? When week-long vacations are over, school goes back in session and Summer Fridays are suddenly another nine months away? How about some temporary relief in the form of an L.A. "staycation," courtesy of DineLA Restaurant Week. During the weeks of O ... More >>

BREAKING: Slipknot Bassist Paul Dedrick Gray, Dead at 38

​[This news item has now been confirmed. More as story develops] From Des Moines, Iowa's KCCI: URBANDALE, Iowa -- Urbandale police said a man was found dead in a hotel room in Urbandale on Monday morning. Police identified the man as Paul Dedrick Gray, 38. They said he was found at 10:50 a.m ... More >>

America's Cocaine King Hid From Drug Cartels for 25 Years

It took a screenwriter to find him

L.A. Administrative Officer Miguel Santana Charged With Suspicion Of DUI

​We called it a bizarre twist of fate, and that it remains: Los Angeles city administrative officer Miguel Santana was charged Monday by the District Attorney's office with suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after he was stopped last month following a roast for the District At ... More >>

City Budget Honcho Miguel Santana Arrested On Suspicion Of DUI

​City administrative officer Miguel Santana, the point man in the city's efforts to pare down its $212 million deficit, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Thursday night. In a bizarre twist of fate, the man whose office might have to prosecute him, District Attorney Steve ... More >>

L.A. Could Be Looking At 'Two-Year Jobless Recovery'

Los Angeles, home to a near 14 percent unemployment rate, could be in the midst of "a two-year, jobless recovery," Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Larry Frank told Reuters. That's some hard medicine to swallow, but the city has received about $44 million in federal stimulus funds intended to train workers ... More >>

Marriott Boycotted Over Porn

The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand ... More >>

Los Angeles Corporate Welfare: Ritz-Carlton and AEG

Rich entities siphon taxpayer money while real communities struggle

Movie Theater Bites the Dust

BlogDowntown's Ed Fuentes confirms that the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex will close October 25, mostly due to the expected competition from a new Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 located near Staples Center. The Laemmle Grande was a diamond in the rough for local filmgoers because its bills, while favoring multipl ... More >>

Roger and Me: Chris Erskine Profiles Dodger Peanut Ace

RogerOwensPeanutMan.com​In today's L.A. Times sports section, writer Chris Erskine has an unapologetically affectionate profile of Dodger Stadium institution Roger Owens, the peripatetic peanut bag vendor known for his wicked, behind-the-back tosses of his wares to distant fans. (It's normally the ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Festivals of Nations

Over the Weekend: New Year's Eve Giant Maximus, Stone Temple Pilots, Bank Run, Art Core, Haunted Vogue Theater and Anime Convention

Goodbye 2008 and hello 2009. It's funny how a five-second countdown can turn into a five-day party just to ring in the new year. You'd think one late night would do it, but then again, this is Los Angeles and moderation has never been in vogue. Let's put it this way, I doubt I'm the only one that ha ... More >>

The Latest Republican Cover-Up: The Presidency of George W. Bush

Ready to hit the reset button: At the GOP convention, plenty of Mac and cheese, no W

Broadway Crowd Pleasers: August: Osage County, Gypsy, November, Top Girls

Great White Way getaways

Nashville Star Search

Hollywood style

All-Star Lineups

Some play it spicy, others sweet and hot

Guess Who’s Coming to Iftar

A meal to remember with Hezbollah

Alito the Hun

A few reasons to push the filibuster button

Resoluter Than Kerry

Why Democrats shouldn’t panic — yet

The Abruti Ploy

Fuckless in Las Vegas

The Accidental Witness

Puzzling run-ins with NBC and the FBI

Change in the Weather

Off the sequence

The Science of Making Belmont Safe

Shoot the Messenger

ACLU lawsuit says LAPD targeted reporters

Bob’s Big Boy

Playa Vista To Spend Summer in Court

Legal gauntlet begins with hearing next week