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10 Best Eats on Third Street: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

In a city where nobody walks, here's a street that imminently walkable. While our low stucco architecture bears no resemblance to the brownstones of New York City, Third Street -- between La Cienega and Fairfax -- has become a Manhattan-esque mish-mash of bars, restaurants, cafes, dry cleaners, bout ... More >>

Farid Zadi's Couscousfest Returns: Oktoberfest North African Stoner Food

Oktoberfest doesn't just mean sausage and sauerkraut -- at least not when Farid Zadi busts out his tagine this weekend. On Sept. 22 and 23, the French-Algerian chef and owner of the recently opened Spanish Fly Gastropub in Koreatown brings back his Couscousfest for a third year. Larger in scope than ... More >>

Avicii Performs in Santa Monica Tonight: Here's Our Interview

Tim Bergling, known to the DJ world as Avicii, just celebrated his birthday last week. At barely 23, the Swedish DJ/remixer/producer ranks No. 6 on the latest installment of DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJ list -- which pretty much means he's living large and has his pick of any neon furry booted rave grou ... More >>

Tar and Roses, Andrew Kirschner's Santa Monica Hot Spot, Has the Zeitgeist Nailed

At Mezze, Chef Micah Wexler Nails a Menu of Creative, Middle Eastern-Inspired Dishes

Book Review: Take Away, A Food Photographer's Story

On these hot, muggy nights when your ambient kitchen temperature rivals that of your oven, we highly recommend whipping up a batch of ice cream for dinner (protein, calcium, fiber if you add fruit). It's also the perfect excuse settle in with a fantastic photography-driven food book like Take Away b ... More >>

The 5 Things You Need to Know About This Week's Review of Mezze

This week, Mezze is the subject of my review. While I hope you'll take the time to read the full review, I offer this Mezze-review-for-dummies blog post. Food: Middle Eastern influenced New American, with a focus on small plates, but also a few fantastic entrees and a selection of flatbreads. From ... More >>

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Series at American Cinematheque

2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition

Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>

Cookbook of the Week: Poulet, When All You Want Is An Honest Chicken A One Pot Coconut Chicken Recipe

amazon​Holiday goose, turkey, duck. All great, but in another week or two, and we'll be happy to get back to that tried-and-true weeknight chicken. Good thing in Poulet: More than 50 Remarkable Meals that Exalt the Honest Chicken there is plenty of interesting poultry recipe fodder for anyone ... More >>

Couscous Festival 2011: Start Your Couscouseries

It's time to get out your couscouserie again. Or rather, time to let Farid Zadi get out his. Zadi and his wife and business partner Susan Park are hosting their second annual Couscous Festival, Sunday October 23 from noon to 6 p.m. Last year's festival, you may recall, took place in Pasadena, comple ... More >>

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

DJ Quik: Trials and Tribulations of a West Coast Legend

NASA Sting: Riverside Woman Tries to Sell 'Moon Rock' to Feds for $1.7M

Los Angeles Times​What dork in his right mind would offer $1.7 million for a big drab hunk of moon, you ask? Turns out the feds will -- but a Riverside woman found out the hard way, via cutty deal at a desolate Lake Elsinore diner, that they're not so much good for their money. The undercover ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Italian Cooking At Home

​The recently released Italian Cooking At Home is part of the growing At Home With the Culinary Institute of America series. The problem with any series, be it a crime novel or a cookbook, is they either continue to successfully shed light on a single subject with in-depth looks at those sfogl ... More >>

69 Things for Music Lovers to Do In L.A. on Valentine's Day

Timothy Norris​ Don't sacrifice your Monday night music excursions into our fair city of Los Angeles, just to be a slave to the grueling whip of commercialized love. You can have your cake and eat it too, especially if that cake comes with a plethora of "ingredients" that help you get your ro ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL!

Gallic Pride: French Cuisine Named to UNESCO World Heritage List

Flickr user arthurohm​ At long last there is validation for those of us who find the beauty of a multi-course French meal (avec wine pairings bien sûr) on par with the Great Barrier Reef or the Walled City of Baku. UNESCO, the UN cultural organization, which designates cultural and natural s ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Meat By James Peterson His Rolled Skirt Steak With Prosciutto And Sage Recipe

​When you start counting your James Beard Awards in round numbers (about a half dozen?), you've long since earned the right for concise cookbook titles. James Peterson's latest, Meat: A Kitchen Education is a primer on how to properly cook bipeds and quadrupeds, albeit those most commonly cons ... More >>

Top 4 October Cooking Classes: Fall Flavors Are Closer Than You Think

RachellebSur La Table's Cooking Classroom​ Cooler temps, shorter days and the reemergence of our favorite TV line-up means fall has officially arrived. But that chill in the air isn't just the weather; it's the shiver of food folk everywhere as they gear up to get reacquainted with comfort fo ... More >>

Mission of Niger

Etran Finatawa offer a nomadic blues for modern times

Sanaa Hamri: Through an L.A. Lens

Q & A with Najat Kaanache: Apprentice to the World's Best Chefs

Najat Kaanache in Alinea's Kitchen​ Spanish-born Najat Kaanache, 32, is a woman on a mission to learn from the best chefs in the world. In just two years, Kaanache has apprenticed with chefs Grant Achatz at Alinea in Chicago, Thomas Keller at French Laundry in Yountville, and René Redzepi at ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Lazy Ox Canteen, Where's Baco?

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the Lazy Ox Canteen in Little Tokyo. ("What does a bäco have in common with Motörhead? The umlaut, dude, the umlaut.'') Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, "Lazy Ox Canteen ... More >>

The Last Days of Disco

A new book provides an inside look at the drug-fueled hedonism at Casablanca Records

Los Angeles City Hall's Funny Michael Jackson Figures

Is the "millions" spent by memorial-goers on food and rooms mathematically impossible?

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

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

Samuel L. Jackson Interviewed: Discusses Hip Hop and Comics For the Premiere of Afro Samurai

21 years ago, Samuel L. Jackson snagged a bit part as Leeds in Spike Lee's School Daze. Since then, the prolific Tennessean has appeared in roughly 70 films -- some of them good (Kill Bill, Do the Right Thing, Hard 8,), some not so good (S.W.A.T, Amos and Andrew, Deep Blue Sea), and some that can ... More >>

Kenneth Anger Is a Rolling Stone

Zachary Lazar’s ’60s hash, Sway

Fashion Week Diary: The Pre-Pre Show

Every October for the past several years, Fashion Week in Los Angeles begins with the Gen Art show. Actually, it begins properly in September with people going on diets and many frantic emails between fashion reporters, stylists, buyers, and publicists, with a deluge of invitations in the mail, and ... More >>

Hello Mommy Africa: A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rock

Here's eight records. Now go start a riot

Sundance Highs and Lows

Moving mountains, growing wings

Ordinary Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come

Babel: Speaking in Tongues

A foreign film for people who don’t see foreign films

The Glamour Collections

Carole Lombard, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich

Conspiracy Theories

Male in the Maghreb

Morocco A Go-Go

Private Parties

What the Knitter Said

Dinner At Eight

Music To Party Like a Duckfucker

Watching Big Brother

Volunteers monitor round two of Ashcroft’s “special registration” program

The Internationalist

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

Akashic Offering

Ira Cohen, human being

Selling the Sun

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival at 10

Almost Infamous

There and back with Punkin Pie

Frida, Friduca, Mami

My Chilean Jewish Mother

The Art of the Shoeshine