Milan

St. Petersburg's Anti-Gay Attacks On Gaga, Madonna Could End L.A. Sister City Status

The ACLU wants L.A. City Hall to cut its ties with St. Pertersburg, Russia, an official sister city. Why? The Russian metropolis hasn't exactly been gay-friendly. After passing a law last year making pro-gay "propagandizing" around youth a crime, St. Pertersburg targeted Lady Gaga with an investiga ... More >>

The Chef's Library: Brandon Boudet and In Bocca A Dinner at Little Dom's Based On The Cookbooks

The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we talk to Brandon Boudet, chef of Dominick's and Little Dom's. There's all kinds of things that can spark an eBay addiction -- for chef Brandon Boudet it was the siren song of vintag ... More >>

On End-Of-The-World Day, Dog Whisperer Cesar Milan Wants 'Lights Out For Newtown'

On the day some believe the world will come to an end, some of the lights will go out. Literally. "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Milan has decided that Friday (Dec. 21) is a good day to encourage the world to turn out the holiday lights in honor of ...

18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi. You may be able to eat chef Nobu Matsuhisa's stunning Peruvian-influenced Japanese cuisine at one of hi ... More >>

Sapore dei Mobili: Tiny Furniture You Can Eat

Milan-based designers Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira explain their Sapore dei Mobili (Taste of Furniture), a waffle pan that turns out tiny edible furniture, as a "reflection about the velocity of the contemporary furniture industry and how the consumers are unable to digest the huge amount of new ... More >>

Constantinos Sioutas, USC Professor, Helps Save Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper From Decay

​Italian officials who wanted to find out how they were doing in their quest to save Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper from five centuries of decay knew just where to turn: USC professor Constantinos Sioutas. An expert on the huge effects of tiny particles in the air, Sioutas coauthored thi ... More >>

Last Supper Painting Protected From Smog With Help of USC Prof (But he Couldn't Save it From Pepper Spray Meme)

On this Thanksgiving week the good folks at USC are doing their part to save Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper" from the ills of modern-day air pollution. (Unfortunately, they couldn't save it from the visual pollution of the above UC Davis-pepper-spray-cop meme).

Why Is It So Hard to Find a Decent Risotto?

​ Dear Mr. Gold: Where can I have a good risotto? Half of the time I've had it in L.A., it has been sticky and overcooked. --Lorenzo Rossi, via Facebook

L.A. Traffic a Breeze Compared to 10 Other Global Cities, Including Beijing, Moscow and Milan

It's time to jam.​Traffic in L.A. is about as fun as a trip to the dentist's office, and yes, we usually rank at the top when it comes to American metropolises with the worst "gridlock." But on a global scale, we're actually a walk in the park. At least according to IBM's latest "Global Commu ... More >>

Yoshua Okón Restages Guatemalan Civil War in a Home Depot Parking Lot

Courtesy of kaufmann repetto, Milan​ This week in our print edition, Catherine Wagley writes about a bizarre video art project from Mexico City-based artist Yoshua Okón, in which he restaged the Guatemalan civil war using former soldiers from the war who are now day laborers in L.A. He filmed ... More >>

Simone Legno of tokidoki: Italian-Japanese Fusion

Show Cave Kisses L.A. Goodbye With Denzel Washington-Inspired Girl-On-Girl Art Show 'Licker License'

photo by Douglas McCarthyShow Cave curator Hazel Hill McCarthy III displays the tongue shaped glow-in-the-dark "Licker License" hard drives​ After five years and three locations around Los Angeles, notorious Show Cave night gallery closes with a gleefully gynocentric event entitled "Licker Lic ... More >>

Here Comes the Sun (and the First Course): The Solar Kitchen

First Day in Milan from LapinKultaSolarKitchenRestaurant on Vimeo. What does a solar kitchen have in common with the pop-up restaurant, the foraging party, and the neighborhood butcher shop? They're all artistic statements, necessities and practicalities born of economic and environmental circumsta ... More >>

Maya Mercer

Obikà Mozzarella Bar Opening in Century City & Second L.A. Location Coming Soon

Obikà Mozzarella Bar, originally a European and Asian brand with 13 stores in Rome, Milan, Tokyo, London and most recently New York, is opening its first California location in Century City's Westfield Shopping Center on September 15. Obikà, on the second floor of the mall between the food court a ... More >>

The Star of Luca Guadagnino's film I Am Love? A Russian Fish Soup Called Ukha

Ukha: From Russia With Love​ In I Am Love, Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino's operatic family melodrama, a popular Russian fish soup called ukha (pronounced ooh-kah) is more than set dressing on the wealthy Recchi family dinner table, it's a plot point that means something completely differen ... More >>

Modernist House for Chickens: Frederik Roije's "Breed and Retreat"

From the department of "are you kidding me??" comes this multi-level mid-century design influenced home for chickens. I saw it on the highbrow design blog Dezeen, which states: "Dutch designer Frederik Roijé will present a home for chickens called Breed and Retreat in Milan next month." Something a ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: BOXeight's Fashion Show As Performance Art (Skingraft, Gold Spun, Funktional, Isabel Lu)

​ BOXeight was back for their second season of "fashion installations" this weekend. What that means is models getting dressed and having makeup and hair done in front of the audience, photographers shooting and photo-editing on site, stylists primping and pinning and touching-up in plain view ... More >>

Until the Light Takes Us Will Bring You into the Darkness Tonight

Here's a movie that'll kill your Christmas spirit, though if you're a black metal fan, you ​wouldn't have any to begin with. After screening as part of last year's AFI Fest, the theatrical release of N.Y. filmmakers/musicians Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's Norwegian black metal documentary Unt ... More >>

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Wheels of Fortune: Italian Bank Accepts Parmesan as Collateral

Photo credit: abbyladybugWheels of Parmesan cheese​With the economy questionable and no one exactly sure when the markets will rebound, it's a good time to invest in solid, verifiable assets. Banks in Italy take an even more pragmatic approach, accepting as collateral for loans something not o ... More >>

Speranza Restaurant in Silver Lake: Casual Dining The Eternal Question of Fresh Pasta or Dried?

Speranza is a little known Silver Lake treasure named not for Oscar Wilde's scribbler mother (whose pen name was Esperanza), but for a Milan restaurant loved by Jens Hommert, the German-born architect who, along with his Vietnamese partner Hieu Dam, owns the place. Speranza passes for a no-account d ... More >>

Il Cinema Ritrovato: A Festival in Search of Lost Film Classics

Fake Hair and Forgotten Films, Under an Italian Moon.

Fashion Week Diary: Out of the Smashbox, More Rough Edges, Less Bitchiness

A smaller, friendlier show for recessionary times

Fashion Week Diary, Day 3: The Battalion, Maxine Dillon, Sjobeck, and an Abundance of Dresses Cute & Slutty

Sjobeck's dresses, Inspired by the designer's grandfather. For real. Day 3. The final day of Boxeight shows. It's nice to see the two bohemian Taiwanese sisters who design The Battalion line are back and bohemian as ever. They showed at GenArt last year. This season, their theme is "The New World" ... More >>

Jane's Addiction to Release $75 Limited Edition Box Set, Reissue Classic Albums on $25 Vinyl

If nothing else, Jane's Addiction sure know how to stretch out the publicity surrounding their impending return. It seems like every few weeks for the past half year the band does something, releases something, announces something, denies something or collaborates on something. There are the secre ... More >>

Tom Tykwer Zings The International

Run, Naomi, run

Top 10 Latin Music Albums of 2008

By Julienne Gage Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing, it's growing more diverse. More and more unique musical styles are being gobbled ... More >>

Night Out: Man's Spiritual Journey Begins With Prada

Of man scents and caviar

Puppy for Obama? The Ultimate Presidential Accessory

There's been much to-do about Obama's future dog. Screw the economic crisis. This dog's got to be hypo-allergenic, because Malia is allergic. It's got to be from a shelter, preferably. The American Kennel Club has weighed in, suggesting poodles and Portugese water dogs. The Dog Whisperer Cesar Milan ... More >>

Arranged Marriage: Mixing It Up With Flowers and Art

Theater Reviews: Closer, Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Also, The Violet Hour, Mr. Marmalade

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Welcome Hunters: the Body Eclectic

Among the avant-garde fashion gatherers

Terroni: That's Italian!

Recalling the Old Country, quirks and all

Valentino for the Rest of Us

Piero Selvaggio’s V-vinbar, a ­relaxed way to enjoy L.A.’s most famous wine cellar

Small Child, Cute, Ages Normally

Rock Picks

For the week of November 10–16

Cruel Hypnosis

Los Super Elegantes at Safari Sam’s, August 12

Thoroughly Modern Wilson

The latest from the Culver City school of foodbarcafe

Lunch in This Town

Midday’s guilty pleasures

It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World

Selling tomorrow in The Futurist

Theater Reviews

Spirited Away

Tom Jacobson’s brilliant new play takes us to church

Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione, Mix Fix

Thoroughly Modern Living

From It Happened in Boston?

Romeo and Genesi

Phantoms of the Opera

Do U Know Us?

Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation