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Inside the World of L.A. Geocaching, a Scavenger Hunt Taking Place All Around You

In La La Land, the home of movie magic, we're used to our surroundings being not quite what they seem. But did you know, at this very moment, you are surrounded by thousands of tiny containers of various shapes and sizes, camouflaged in bushes, hidden in fake electrical boxes, attached by magnet to ... More >>

Action Bronson: I Can't See Myself Wearing a Skirt or a Wig

One of hip-hop's do-no-wrong stories of 2012, Albanian Queens-native Action Bronson put out Blue Chips for free and followed it up with Rare Chandeliers last year. He signed to Vice Records and made countless critics' year-end lists flowing unpretentiously on typical rap fare (girls, chronic, hooker ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

Audrey Napoleon Performs Like She Has Sex

Audrey Napoleon is a lot to look at: all ink black precision-cut hair, pale skin, black cat eyeliner, four inch gold heels and perfectly applied red lipstick. Sitting in front of a wall of windows a dozen floors above Hollywood on an overcast Friday morning, she's a perfectly assembled goth dream gi ... More >>

Deathmatch: Verdi vs. Wagner

Verdi vs. Wagner​[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] Ladies and gentlemen, it's the main event of 19th-century opera! I ... More >>

How & Nosm, German Graffiti Wonder Twins, Paint the L.A. Weekly Building

Shannon Cottrell​For more photos check out our slideshow, How Nosm Paint the LA Weekly Building The L.A. Weekly celebrated Valentines day 2012 like no one else could, with a new red, black and white façade painted by artists Raoul and Davide Perre, known as How & Nosm. In October, during ... More >>

Neo-Realism at UCLA

... and the birth of the docu-fiction aesthetic

Abercrombie & Fitch Asks The Situation to Stop Wearing its Clothes (Sure, if it Stops Selling Faux SoCal Surfwear)

Not WASPy enough for Abercrombie.​Does anyone find it a little ironic that Abercrombie & Fitch is putting the 10-foot poll to Jersey Shore's The Situation? Sure, The Situation is the epitome of spiky-haired sleeze, almost to the point of self-parody. And we wouldn't blame almost any clothier ... More >>

Cookbook Review: At Elizabeth David's Table Is Where You Want To Be Tonight

​If your vision of a culinary history cookbook is something dusty, stodgy and covered in unappetizing yellow paper stains, you need a copy of the recently released American version of At Elizabeth David's Table. The compendium of recipes and prose from arguably the best food writer of the 20 ... More >>

Now Open: Mother Dough Pizza in Los Feliz

J. Ritz​ When a pizza restaurant runs out of dough during a busy night, it's a bummer for hungry customers who show up expecting to eat. For the restaurant, there could be worse problems. To anyone else, the irony is kind of amusing, given that the business's name itself contains said pizza co ... More >>

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

Spain's Rock Star Chefs Descend on L.A., Part 3

So what did Juan Mari Arzak, Ferran Adrià and José Andrés love eating while they were in Los Angeles? Umami Burger and Kogi. Maybe other things too, but we didn't have a chance to find out. Near the end of the talk, they took questions from the audience. After the mundane, the meaningless and ... More >>

Dirt Nasty: Famous for Being (Almost) Famous

A strangely successful indie white comedy rapper conceived by former model/MTV veejay Simon Rex, who early on did porn to pay the bills? Welcome to L.A.!

L.A. Westside Subway Extension Debate

​CityWatch is refreshing for its willingness to allow advocates on each side of an issue to really air it out and allow readers to make up their own minds. Case in point, a debate over the Westside subway extension, which began last week with a Richard Lee Abrams attack on the subway, ominou ... More >>

Broader Than Broadway

Our Way or the Autostrade

At Terroni, it's no substitutions, Southern Italian-style

Theater Reviews: The Mystery Plays, The Arsonists, There Is Truth, Love Is Real

Also, Richard & Felix: Twilight in Venice, The Drawer Boy and more

Can Placido Pull It Off?

With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival

Turkey Dinners Around Town: A Thanksgiving Round-Up

While Thanksgiving should be a time of celebration and unrepentant gluttony, if you're the one stuck in the kitchen burning your fingers and mopping bread crumbs and eggs off the floor, maybe you'd be happier just going out or ordering in. From a $10 holiday tasting menu at Akasha to a $68 buffet a ... More >>

Africans at UCLA: Pieter-Dirk Uys and Charlize Theron

South Africa’s Dame Edna brings Elections and Erections to Glorya Kaufman Hall

Stage Raw: Pieter-Dirk Uys and Charlize Theron at UCLA

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonPIETER-DIRK UYS AND CHARLIZE THERON AT UCLA​One of Uys' belles, giving a "blow job" to the ashes of her late Nazi husband. Photo b ... More >>

Stage Raw: It Worked For Me -- L.A. Opera's 'The Elixir of Love'

​Robert Millard​Finally, someone got it right. For the past year and a half, I've seen operatic and balletic love stories featuring mature performers in roles that suggest, if not emphasize, relative youth: The Giselles and the Juliets, for instance, or the hot and lusty Carmen's Don Jose, pla ... More >>

Squid Ink (Shore Leave)

Notes on Eating and Drinking in L.A.

THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Gomorrah's Matteo Garrone on the Making of his Modern Mafia Epic

From Naples with bullets

The Never-ending Exploration

Justin Beal likes his art open-ended

Globavore or Locavore

Two nights at Grace, close to home and from afar

Youth Gone Wild

The MisShapes: style revolutionaries or hipster hair/skinny jeans/80’s revisionists simply in the right place at the right time? I’m not sure. But, I will say this- the striking, early-twentysomething NYC club promoter/ DJ trio’s new book documenting the wild looks that made their club so fabu ... More >>

Radio Waves

And we're honored

Film Reviews

Including G.I. Jesus, Smokin' Aces and Verdict on Auschwitz

They Formed a Band!

ART BRUT at the Troubadour, March 19

In the Realm of the Senses

Ettore Sottsass at play

Taking on the Armory

L.A. dealers create their own New York show

Oh, You Brut!

In a world of blog hysteria and terminal hipsterism, Art Brut kick ass, take names and get naked. (About time.)

Let's Put on a Banned Show!

GuerriLA Theater gets out of the house

The Architect of Space and Time

Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Los Angeles

Catnip for your Inner Otaku

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.’s Fashion Week

Leaves

Beyond Urban Rustic

At his new La Terza, Gino Angelini is giving every other Italian chef in town something to be nervous about

The Alficionado

A man and his (other) car

Girl Talk

Americans are Broad

Keen Eddie, The Amazing Race 4 and The Real World

The Voicing of Australia

Claire Messud on Peter Carey

Kama Sutra Journalism

Total World Domination

Euro Paean

Well, not exactly

Monsters

The beta version

Voice Lessons

The lives of the great singers