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More Food Events: Chopped Viewing, Taco Night A Vegan Texas BBQ Class

Chopped Viewing with Brandon Boudet Chef Brandon Boudet of Little Dom's, Dominick's, Tom Bergin's Tavern, and 101 Coffee Shop participated as a contestant on the high-intensity Food Network show Chopped. Tonight is his viewing party at Tom Bergin's Tavern. The pub will be extending its normal happy ... More >>

We Hang Out With Kiss at Their New Restaurant in Torrance

Kiss co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are partners in a restaurant called Rock & Brews, which on Wednesday will open its third location, on PCH in Torrance. "Often this idea of themed restaurants means that it's an excuse for crap food," self-described "foodie" Stanley tells us on-site, as ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Friday, April 20 The Call THE TROUBADOUR The Call couldn't have imagined its rousing song "Let the Day Begin" would be the rally cry for not one (Al Gore) but two (Tom Vilsack) presidential campaigns. The Northern California group, who came into their own in the 1980s, haven't had a release since 2 ... More >>

Radar L.A. Returns Next Year, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September, 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Garay, Executive Director of L.A. city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and Diane Rodriguez, Director of ... More >>

Sam Choy Launches Pineapple Express Truck This Week

It's been a while since we've gotten revved up over a mobile eatery, but when Sam Choy, a James Beard Award winner and the so-called "father of modern Hawaiian cuisine," decides to open a food truck, it's time to bust out your hula shirt. The Pineapple Express truck will serve breakfast, lunch, an ... More >>

James Franco's MOCA Show Opening Night: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There'

"There's just a lot of dicks in there. A lot of porno," the painter Ty Williams says, shaking his head. "But I get it, though. I understand the prevalence of penises." We're standing in the alleyway behind JF Chen, a collectible furniture showroom and exhibit space, at the opening party for "Rebel ... More >>

Rock & Brews: Gene Simmons, Craft Beers Big Televisions

We're good with Russell, Bill and Richard but as far as Simmonses are concerned, Gene has got to go. With a tongue like an unfurling red carpet and a mouth as wide and bilious as a landfill, the bassist once known as Chaim Weitz has carved out a sizeable entertainment business empire. And now, the ... More >>

Three Year Swim Club

Figure 8, Boom, The Treatment, and more new reviews . . .

​Phinneas Kiyomura's discerning family drama, Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE, is this week's Pick of the Week. ​Our critics were in good spirits this week, with good notices for Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's relationship drama, Boom, presented by Alive Theatre, in residence at the Long Beach Playhouse; Ka ... More >>

'FORT' Exhibit by cARTel at Angel City Brewing Brings Childhood Fort-Building Fantasies to Life

Stephanie CarrieInside Darcy French-Myerson's fort​ A three-foot-wide dome of soft red fabric engulfs you. Kelp, still wet with sea water, dangles around the single light bulb hung to illuminate your palace. You pulse back and forth in your miniature rocking chair, breathing in brine and liste ... More >>

Greg Koch's 6 Essential West Coast Beers

boggleabout.blogspot.comGreg Koch preaches to the craft beer choir​ Recently we asked Greg Koch, the evangelistic demagogue behind Stone Brewing Company -- the largest craft brewery in Southern California -- to share his top five essential West Coast beers. But, in true Stone Greg fashion, Koc ... More >>

LA Craft Beer Crawl 2011 [Photo Gallery]

Guzzle & NoshDanielle pours a beer float at Cana as parto of the 2011 LA Craft Beer Crawl.​Congratulations if you made it to all seven bars at Saturday's LA Craft Beer Crawl. Either you have an iron will or an iron stomach. The crowds were thick and the beers, from populist IPAs to obscurist a ... More >>

The 2nd L.A. Vegan Beer Fest: More Fun Without Alice Cooper

el daybeh/flickrThe taps scene from the last fest.​ We wonder how former Roxy regular Alice Cooper would feel about the vegan festival set to take place at the club next weekend. Remember that Cooper, for all the guillotines and gory lyrics, a relatively sweet-tempered rock personality, once ... More >>

Marijuana Fundraiser Called 'Joints For Japan' Aims to Send Weed Proceeds To Quake, Tsunami Victims

Compassionate Pain Management.Maui, apparently.​In that last few weeks we've seen people run for Japan, sell clothes for Japan, and dance for Japan. But this is a first (and L.A. area dispensaries, why the hell were you beaten to this punch?): A Colorado pot shop that advertises "WOWIE, WE'V ... More >>

L-A-U-R-E-A-T-E!

James Lee: Discovery Channel Standoff Suspect Has Southern California Roots

James Lee's mug shot.​Updated at 3:05 p.m. with authorities saying the suspect is dead. The man suspected of taking three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside of Washington, D.C. has a Southern California connection: He lost a job in his hometown of San Diego before going fu ... More >>

Brand-Name Bud? Gold Rush To Patent Marijuana Strains Gets Snuffed By U.S. Patent Office

Brand-name bud?​A gold rush to obtain federal patents on strains of marijuana such as Acapulco Gold, Maui Wowie and even straight-up "Chronic" was snuffed out last week by the federal patent office, according to a report in Monday's Wall Street Journal. The move came following inquiries by th ... More >>

East L.A. Meets Napa at Union Station a Gazpacho Recipe

Barbara HansenMary Carmen Salas of La Parrilla at East L.A. Meets Napa​All the Mexican food you could ever dream of eating will be yours for the taking at AltaMed's 5th annual East L.A. Meets Napa benefit July 9. That evening, Union Station's huge courtyard will be jammed with tables where lo ... More >>

Chego: Outside Inside

Kogi's Roy Choi goes all strip mall on us

LA People 2009: Death Becomes Her — Gillian Shure

The queen of Hollywood splatterfests talks eviscerations and paper products

The Never Before Revealed Script for Busta Rhymes' "Arab Money" Video (With Deleted Scenes)

EXT. THE ARABIAN DESERT-DAY BUSTA RHYMES and jovial sidekick, SPLIFF STARR, stroll through a barren wasteland: famished, high and disoriented. Busta:Where are we, Spliff? Spliff Starr: Yemen. Busta Rhymes: Don't yeah man, me...I pay you for two things: carrying drugs and geographic know-how. ... More >>

Brooks Melchior

Play-by-playboy

The Dragons: Diggin' in the Sand

Ninja Tune records uncovers a psychedelic-pop album with a curiously circuitous back story

Beautiful Boys

¡Ask a Mexican!

Does the logo stay or go?

I Found Salvation in Maui

No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festival...and I got up on the first try! Nor am I talking about communing with the gods at Haleakala, aka House of the Sun, the summit of this volcanic is ... More >>

Teetering King Arnold

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 17 - 23

Rock & Pop Listings

For Feb 17 - 23

Rock & Pop Listings

For February 10 - 16

Rock & Dance Club Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Rock and Pop Listings

Clubs Other Rock & Pop Events

Teetering King Arnold

All In With the Bad Boy of Poker

He’s the tantrum-throwing card shark who’s taking the Texas Hold ’Em craze from Vegas to your cell phone. A no-limits weekend with Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Saving Arnold

The inside story of the governor’s anointing of a lesbian Democrat

The Path of a Flower

Surf’s Way Up

Riding Giants puts the history of big-wave riding on the big screen

Radio Provocateur

Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

Keep on Trucking

Cool Times

Hanging with the actor kids at the Oakwood Apartments

Blood and Cuts

Now (after the election) they tell us about the billions of looming reductions

Repotted Palms

Hinterlander goes Hawaiian

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Is Anybody Listening?

The beautiful chaos of Kill Radio

Slush

Edited by Kateri Butler

Live at 5

Hawaiian Aye

Bruddah's island soul

Sampling L.A.'s newest restaurants

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam. . .

Hawaiian musubi in Monterey Park