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Heather Taylor: Culver City Gallerist and Lifestyle Maven

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. To gallery owner, blogger, fashionista, lifestyle maven and all-around It girl Heather Taylor, life consists of "little moments of making things pretty." Sitting barefoot and cr ... More >>

Lil Poopy Is the Next Mozart

We seem to be awfully excessively protective of 9-year-olds recently. The Onion ate a shit ton of crow. And barely hours later another brilliant 9-year-old became the center of an unnecessary moral panic. We are, of course, talking about hip-hop phenomenon Lil Poopy. The pint-sized rapper Luie Riv ... More >>

The Shrine Used to Host the Oscars. Now it Hosts Steve Aoki Parties

The Shrine Auditorium, once home to the Academy Awards, hosted countless landmark concerts in its prime, but now is less in the spotlight than its rival up Figueroa -- LA Live. Still, the Shrine has found a second life as a hub for L.A,'s rave scene. See also: *Jack White at The Shrine, 8/10/12 *St ... More >>

Cookbook of the Week: Andrew Weil's True Food His Phoenix Via L.A. Umami Sauce Recipe

Full disclosure: we didn't expect to do much more than a quick flip through of Andrew Weil's just-released True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure cookbook. Something about those eponymous vitamin packs and the "Spontaneous Happiness" (for a fee) plugs on his website had taken their sales pi ... More >>

French Montana Tells Us How to Win the Ass-Shaking Competition He's Hosting Tonight

See also: Popping That Ass: The Ladies Who Won Diplo's Contest Tonight rapper French Montana is hosting a party at a strip club, L.A.'s King of Diamonds Sin City. More specifically, it's a "'Pop That' Event," during which dancers will compete by twerking to Montana's wildly catchy summer anthem "Po ... More >>

10 Great Cookbooks for Summer

Sure, you may have a dozen newly opened gastropubs within Yelp distance from where you live. Or food trucks. Or, arguably best of all, neighborhood taquerias. But in summer, when L.A. farmers markets are loaded with gorgeous produce, sometimes it's more fun to cook your own dinner. Just to prove you ... More >>

Cooking Drinking: Three New High Alcohol Cookbooks

Booze-themed cookbooks have never been terribly high on our everyday shopping lists, but there are those weekend moments when The Food of Morocco isn't quite what we're craving. Okay, that's not really true. We'd be content with Paula Wolfert's harissa any day of the week. But we're all for occasion ... More >>

James Beard 2012 Award Winners

The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Can You Dig It?, Global Food Porn, Test Kitchen Burger Night, ColLAboration Winterfest, Market Basket Cocktails

Anne Fishbein/LA WeeklyRoasted beets and cheese at MB Post​Can You Dig It? Chef David LeFevre kicks off a seasonal series where he hosts a guest chef who will cook a three-course meal of shareable small plates. For the inaugural event, it's LeFevre's pal Giuseppe Tentori (Boka, GT Fish & Oyste ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Bi-Rite Market's Eat Good Food Is Really Good

amazon​If your New Year's resolution list includes something along the lines of eating more good food -- home cooked, farmers market-inspired, healthier or whatever your definition -- you're going to want to add Bi-Rite Market's Eat Good Food cookbook to your Amazon wish-list. If for no other ... More >>

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Little Boots - Bardot - 11-21-11

Little Boots Bardot 11-21-11 Better than...studying on a school night. Over two years have passed since Victoria Hesketh, AKA Little Boots, released her debut album Hands. The electro pop work was popular in England, earning her a top 5 position in the UK album charts and winning the BBC's Best S ... More >>

Lucques: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Q & A With Aidan Demarest: Neat, Kate Mantilini, Guest Bartending The Bottom Line

Caroline on CrackAidan Demarest with his award-winning Mai Tai at the Spare Room.​ Barman Aidan Demarest has managed some of the best cocktail bars in town, opening up downtown's whiskey bar Seven Grand and the Hollywood Roosevelt's bowling alley/lounge Spare Room, while also introducing a uni ... More >>

Robuchon's $18 Algerian Egg Roll Two Easy Recipes

Chong B. OoiRobuchon's Langoustine Wrapped in Brick Pastry​ Paula Wolfert introduced North African pastry leaves to Americans using the Moroccan name for them: warka. Over the years we've received a lot of emails from people who had trouble finding warka pastry leaves in the U.S. However, most ... More >>

The Other Nirvana

Eat and Drink Well for Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve 2011

So, it's time to plan New Year's Eve if you haven't already. Avoid the amateur's night problem by putting your 2011 celebration in the hands of restaurant pros who will handle the fine food and drink part. And save you clean-up troubles. Merriment, cheer, reflecting on the past year (which may or ma ... More >>

Live Review: Pains of Being Pure at Heart at The Echoplex

Andrew HansonPains of Being Pure At Heart​ Friday night Pains of Being Pure at Heart played to a full house at the Echoplex. Riding the wave of hype generated from last year's self-titled debut, these guys have managed to shake off their nerves and put together a charming set. They are no lon ... More >>

JUST DESSERTS

Celebrating Centeno at the Lazy Ox Canteen

Staff Meals Today: From Duck Fried Rice to the Mysterious Urasawa

If you're lucky, your job buys you dinner. If you're really lucky, that doesn't just mean P.F. Chang's or Daily Grill. We talked to ten more top restaurants around L.A. and tried to find out what they're feeding their staff tonight. Picasa user KeithChefs eat too.​

The Cryovacked Kitchen: Lazy Ox Canteen To Open Next Thursday

Lazy Ox Canteen​Lazy Ox Canteen, the much-anticipated Little Toyko restaurant from Josef Centeno and Michael Cardenas, will open for dinner next Thursday night. It will be a soft opening, with a formal opening party scheduled once things get going, probably the following weekend. Last night ... More >>

Like a Rainbow in Curved Air: An Interview with Terry Riley

Legendary composer-performer Terry Riley is the creator of such groundbreaking "Minimalist" works as In C, A Rainbow In Curved Air, Poppy Nogood and, with the Kronos Quartet, decidedly un-Minimalist works as Cadenza on the Night Plain and Salome Dances for Peace. He'll perform solo and in collabora ... More >>

Dog Days of Summer: Seeking Sausage Satori

Along the hot-dog trail, stops at Jeff's Gourmet, Brats Brothers, the Infield and Yaki's

Discovery Channel

I ended my last post by discussing the work of film festival juries, and as it happens, this year in Toronto I find myself serving on one—not one of the festival's official juries, but rather the film critics' jury organized independently by FIPRESCI, a membership organization consisting of critic ... More >>

Northern Light

A new Mandarin dynasty at Earthen Restaurant

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Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

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The French Insurrection

Cars burn, Islam benefits

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou

Beatnik Renaissance Man

Stitching together the multiple visions of Brion Gysin

Diamonds in the Rough

Hell Hath No Fury

Exorcist: The Beginning, a story of Hollywood possession

Office Space

All in the Family

Sin of the Seventh Ray

Tonally Correct

Difficulties in Translation

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Popovers and Panties

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Up Above the World

Remembering Paul Bowles

Opera Elsewhere

Good Lucques

Fine — if pricy — dining on Melrose

The Cuisine That Came In From the Cold

So where do you send a nostalgic CIA agent for a taste of the old days?

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