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Deafheaven Is the Black Sheep of Black Metal

The metal community are a passionate bunch. Step out of line, and you'll get the horns. Just ask Deafheaven. The San Francisco natives turned heads with their 2011 debut LP Roads to Judah (released on Deathwish Inc), but not everyone was thrilled. Take, for example, YouTube member MorbidDaniel's com ... More >>

6 Movies to See This Week, Including Wet Hot American Summer in a Cemetery

Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.: Thursday, Aug. 16 6. Last January at Sundance, a movie starring Frank Langella (who played Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon and, more importantly, the scheming owner of the Knicks in Eddie) as a man who becomes friends with a robot made qui ... More >>

Top Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance Music

*World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five *Ask a Teen Raver *Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs *Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz *Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Electronic dance music (you know, EDM) is the hottest ... More >>

Neat Bar's Tequila and Sangrita

Glendale's Neat Bar, a bare-bones watering hole located in the shadow of the Verdugo Mountains, serves what could be best described as the anti-cocktail. Sure, the bar's well-lit back wall is filled with an impressive selection of spirits -- the variety of single-malt scotches alone is enough to mak ... More >>

Music Picks: Robben Ford, Hard L.A., Adams Conducts Adams, the Polyphonic Spree

Also, Mindless Self Indulgence, the Pierces, Heartless Bastards, Darasuum and others

Club Moscow Seven Year Anniversary Party: Mr. Downstairs, Standing Shadows, and Roey Rider

Lina Lecaro Moscow Girls.​Club Moscow, the popular 18 live music and dance night marked seven years strong last night at Boardner's. Even after all this time, the place is still packed with the hippest haircuts and happiest faces at a Hollywood club. The bands are pretty much always good he ... More >>

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 >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

LAX on High Alert Following Monday's Terrorist Bomb Blast at Moscow Airport

LAX was on high alert.​LAX police were on "high alert" Tuesday following Monday's terrorist blast at a Moscow airport that killed 35. It doesn't sound like there's a specific threat involved; rather, this seems to be a precaution. Authorities at the airport were at "stepped up high levels of ... More >>

From Russia, With Fuzz

Meet Moscow's L.A.-Inspired Beat Scene

Stage Raw: Lobby Hero

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's FavoriteBREUER ON THE VOLGA ​View from the Volga River -- Russia's answer to the Mighty Mississippi -- the longest waterway in Europe, stretching from the Valdai Hills, between Moscow and St. Petersburg, to the Caspian Sea. The city of S ... More >>

Russian Circus Act Cruel to Fish, People as Well

Charlie Brewer/FlickrFish at Sydney Market​ Restaurants can be circus acts. You know the type: massive, splashy, loud, with iffy, over-priced food and, more often than not, some off-putting, over-wrought theme. Still, even Ninja New York can't hold a candle to a real circus act, especially o ... More >>

Taste of a Magazine: Condé Nast-themed Restaurants

Novikov GroupMoscow's Vogue Café​ Condé Nast is continuing to do odd food-related things with its magazines, following the Gourmet-as-iPad-app plan by making its rags available to license for themed restaurants in Asia, South America and the Middle East. It's a business practice the company ... More >>

Your Latest Dietary Law Kitchen Gadget: An Instant Pork Tester

Flickr/agtwo​ At last, a portable kitchen gadget for anyone trying to keep halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian, or any combination of the above. Scientists in Kazakhstan have come up with an instant pork tester. The plastic-stick test, which changes color rather like a pregnancy test, detects fo ... More >>

Top 10 Cocktails Inspired by Los Angeles A Mulholland Drive Cocktail Recipe

The Beachcomber CafeThe Beachcomber's Surfrider Cocktail​ New York has the Manhattan, Moscow the Moscow Mule. Even Long Island has a cocktail named after it. But what is Los Angeles' signature cocktail? Something to immortalize the City of Angels in drink? Fortunately, local bars, whether insp ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

The Moscow Mule: A Cocktail That's Still Kicking

FlickrGreer Garson drank hers in a "glass of alarmingly huge proportions."​The Moscow Mule is a delightfully refreshing cocktail with a Hollywood pedigree. In 1941, shortly before Pearl Harbor, John G. Martin of Heublein, an East Coast spirits distributor, and Jack Morgan, owner of the Cock N ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Delhi-6, Fired Up, Madea Goes to Jail

Also, Chain Link, Moscow, Belgium and more

Beat Feast

Blow Up L.A. Turns Two

Party is off the Wallpaper

Chekhov and Gogol in Moscow, 2008

Classical gas

OUTFIT OF THE WEEK

As you can probably imagine, we see a lot of "hot" and "not" fashion out there while patrolling LA's clubs and hubs every week, but sometimes it's all about context... The funky lame ensemble and multi- colored hair here wouldn't have caught our eye at Cinespace Tuesday or Club Moscow or any night a ... More >>

Letter From Moscow: Eminent Domain, Russian Style

Letter From Moscow: U.S. Dollar Follies

The idea of America, and her currency, being slightly torn and defaced in the eyes of the world stabs at me.

Up All Night: Euphoria Revisited

The Legendary Times of Bulgakov

Moscow on the Mall

Anna's post-exam blues melt away on ice

Bang! Anniversary

A Death in Moscow

Nightranger

Man-Machines of Loving Grace

Kraftwerk return!

Snake Bites

Rocket From Russia

Time-traveling with an American in Moscow

Snake Bites

Snakebites

Scaredy-Cats

Death in Moscow

A documentary on the hijacking of a Russian theater

Pushkin Comes to Shove

The Gang's All Here

Tree Hugger

The Cherry Orchard at A Noise Within

As the World Turns

Not your regular news

My Mescalito Trip

Victor Pelevin on Carlos Castaneda

Rising After the Fall

Uncommon Theater at Common Ground

ASK Theater Project’s Seventh Annual Festival

Lost in Yonkers

Gus Hall, 1910-2000

Just Flu in from Moscow

(And, boy, are my lungs tired)

Meanings of Kosovo

The consequences of the war

Moscow stares into the abyss

The Shock of the Old

Penelope Fitzgerald and the Art of Surprise

Prize Packages