Mother's Day

On Mother's Day, Cops Say Father Killed 6-Month-Old Whittier Girl

On Mother's Day L.A. sheriff's officials announced that a 21-year-old Whittier father was arrested on suspicion of murdering his 6-month-old baby girl. The suspect, Eduardo Orozco, was arrested over the weekend after the baby "suffered blunt force injuries," according to a sheriff's statement:

4 Great Bars & Restaurants For Moms Who Don't Do Afternoon Tea

For all that our mothers do for us, we've designated just one day each year for them, which often amounts to a three-hour tea or brunch set that probably appeals more to the stereotype of mothers than anything else. It's easy to overlook the new normal of mother figures in a post-women's lib era tha ... More >>

Kirk Franklin Talks About His New "Gospel Brunch"

Raspy-voiced choir director Kirk Franklin got around his limited vocal ability by channeling ideas through other singers, and repackaging gospel music with mainstream sensibilities. During the '90s the Ft. Worth songwriter put his hype man ad libs on rousing praise anthem hits like "Stomp" and "Revo ... More >>

Ludo Lefebvre, Evan Kleiman and 11 More L.A Chefs Share Food Lessons Learned from Mom Grandma

While planning that super sweet gesture for mom this Mother's Day -- remember, it's coming up on Sunday -- think back to all the valuable nuggets she taught you over the years. Chances are a lot of them have to do with food, right? That's certainly the case for many chefs, some of whom might have wo ... More >>

Forget Brunch

Czech and Mexican Film Fests: Your Weekly To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 10 The second annual touring Czech That Film Festival makes a pit stop at Los Angeles, bringing seven films over five days between today and June 3. Starting off the festival is writer-director Zdenek Jiráský with his first feature, Flower B ... More >>

22 Mother's Day Food Drink Specials (Bottomless Mimosas! Cupcakes! Tiaras!!)

Mother's Day is this coming Sunday, and if you haven't gotten that one figured out yet, maybe it's time to start planning. Depending on your age and demographic, a crayoned card could work, or maybe your kid's card and a stiff drink. If you want something a bit more professional, turn the page for a ... More >>

You Know You Want an iPhone Flask: 4 Awesome Booze Oddities You Can Buy Online

A couple of weeks back, we scoured the internet to find food oddities for you to lust over and/or buy. Today, we're back with a whole new crop of fun stuff, this time to help you imbibe. It's a little early in the week to fall down the rabbit hole of internet lists and consumerism, but hey, what the ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, April 26 Medeski Martin & Wood ROYCE HALL More than 20 years ago, keyboardist John Medeski, bassist Chris Wood and drummer Billy Martin formed a trio that quickly became one of the most successful in contemporary jazz. A 1995 performance with Phish established them as a jam band, and subseq ... More >>

Music Picks: Shuggie Otis, The Rolling Stones, Juvenile

Admission Review: Tina Fey's Great, But the Film Doesn't Have the Marks

The Hierarchy of Valentine's Day Needs

Abraham Maslow's theory that we are motivated by five primary needs (survival, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization, where "the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need") is something we played with last week in relation to breakfast ... More >>

Damian Frausto, El Sereno Dad, Murdered in Possible Road-Rage Shooting on Mother's Day

The timing of 41-year-old Damian Frausto's cold-blooded murder on Mother's Day could not have been more tragic. He was reportedly parking his car at his home around 7:25 p.m., his wife Katrina in the passenger's seat and his 5-year-old daughter in the back, when an unknown suspect walked up to his ... More >>

Ken McRoyal, Idaho Football Player, Fatally Shot at Brewery Lofts Party

"A momma lost her son today," University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey said on Mother's Day. He was referring to returning senior Ken McRoyal, a Carson High School graduate who was gunned down outside a party at The Brewery Artist Lofts northeast of downtown yesterday. According to reports McR ... More >>

A Diamond Jubilee Year: The Queen In Cupcakes, A Lamprey Pie Dilemma A Recipe For Her "Chocolate Perfection" Pie

After Mother's Day, it seems only fitting that we celebrate the Queen Mother. More so in a Diamond Jubilee year, as Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating her 60th year on the British throne next month (the British monarchy is the exception to the typical 75-year diamond anniversary rule). You are p ... More >>

Skid Row's Growing Homeless Population Treated to Free Mother's Day Makeovers (PHOTOS)

Mother's Day is the best day of the year -- besides maybe Thanksgiving -- for the homeless ladies of L.A.'s notorious Skid Row. Local charities are practically fighting over the chance to hand out free makeovers to this growing population of bedraggled womanfolk: Red Eye, Inc. booked the Row for ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/7 - 5/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I was never trying to make a statement about vegetarianism at Ubuntu, I was just trying to showcase the best ingredients I had available." Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Prefabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post- ... More >>

Mother's Day Flowchart: Where to Take Your Mom for Brunch

Mother's Day is on Sunday, which, depending on your relationship with dear Mom, is the best day of the year, or just another day to hear, yet again, about all the pain you caused during childbirth and the ensuing 18 years thereafter. In either case, there are many, many restaurants and eateries ce ... More >>

Flicks Are for Kids

10 Last Minute Mother's Day Gift Ideas: A Mom Beverage Pairing

Mother's Day is on Sunday. Yes, this Sunday. No need to get into a Google-ing gift search frenzy, as we have already compiled a handy last-minute Mother's Day gift list. Only here, you won't find the typical clichés like roses or chocolate, but gifts mom can drink. Heaven knows she deserves a stron ... More >>

Gary The Knife Guy: Knife Customer Honesty, What It's Like To Be Married To A Knife Guy The Best Knife For Mom

In the handful of years that Gary Silverstein of Gary's Knife Sharpening has been in the steel refining business, he has built up a cadre of loyal Wüsthof and Korin devotees, including us, who make pilgrimages across town to the various farmers markets wherever he makes appearances. When you drop ... More >>

Angel of Peace: Homies Unidos and the Art of Handgun Alchemy

Sam SlovickErick Moreno, aka Sen, left, with Melinda Isordia, Juan Cenizales, Alex Sanchez and Albert Sanchez​"I could be kicking it in my projects right now," says Albert Sanchez, intermittently making eye contact and shoe-gazing on the patio at La Fonderie, a bronze and steel foundry on Glen ... More >>

Father's Day Essentials: Wood And Wine

lafollettewines.comFather's Day Wine Barrel Love​Talk about getting shortchanged on Father's Day (which is this Sunday, by the way). Moms get flowers, showered with gifts and treated to lavish meals (Mother's Day is the busiest restaurant day of the year). Dads get more collect calls than any ... More >>

Stage Raw: Year Zero

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Jez Butterworth's Jersusalem, on BroadwayMichael LamontYear Zero​Productions that garnered high praise this week are David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, about Americans in Cambodia, which Mayank Keshaviah describes ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Lemon Bars

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettylemons lemon bars​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer averagebetty. It's a gorgeous shot posted as a Mother's Day tribute to her mother. Or rather, her mother's lemon bar recipe. Also cool because it's the peak of lemon season at ... More >>

Eric Greenspan Pops Up at Tart, For Brunch

Anne FishbeinChef Eric Greenspan.​If you haven't had enough of brunch after Mother's Day, grilled cheese maestro and Foundry chef/owner Eric Greenspan will be throwing a pop-up brunch at Tart, May 13th-15th. The fancily renovated in-house restaurant of the Farmers Daughter motel will play home ... More >>

A Recipe for Pâte Sucrée Mother's Day Kitchen SOS

Patricia EscusaFrench Fruit Tart Prepared by Patrica Escusa, Test Kitchen Assistant​ Every year, during elementary school, we made something for Mother's Day as a class project. If your mother really did you love you, she probably still has a stash of butterfly and heart shaped cards as reminders ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

Five Artsy Things To Do This Weekend, Including Pop Sequentialism, Facebook-Inspired Art and First Fridays at NHM

"For the Birds" at Audubon Center at Debs Park​ Five picks for arts events and exhibits opening this weekend, from LA Weekly's Calendar section: 1. "Peter Shire: Hokkaido Story Revisited: Late Spring" and "POP-SEQUENTIALISM: Great Comic Book Art of the Modern Age" at La Luz de Jesus "At the d ... More >>

Plastic Surgeons: Fake Boobs Make a Good Mother's Day Gift

Happy Mother's Day?​Instead of a lush bouquet of flowers, coupons to mow the lawn, or yet another greeting card, why not get your mother what she really wants for Mother's Day? What is it? A tummy tuck and fake tits, apparently.

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

I. Cugini in Santa Monica To Close This Summer

​Santa Monica seafood restaurant i. Cugini, open for over 20 years on Ocean Avenue, announced plans to close this summer, by June 19th. "It was a very difficult decision for us to make," says Sam King, CEO of King's Seafood Company, in a press release. "We truly enjoyed operating i. Cugini ove ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons to Stay Home and Cook on Valentine's Day

​Saint Valentine's Day is coming up, a holiday meant to commemorate your love through the purchase of mass produced greeting cards, written by someone who probably hates her job. It is also a very big night in the restaurant business, with most restaurants in the country being forced to contri ... More >>

Q & A With Eric Ripert, Part 2: Celebrity Chefs, Spago's Spies The Identity of Ruth Bourdain

A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont​ In the first part of our interview with Eric Ripert, the French chef who is chef-partner at New York City's Le Bernardin, the author of four cookbooks, the host of his own PBS show, Friend Of Tony, and (lest we forget) recipient of French's Leg ... More >>

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Chris Behre Is Mr. Fix-It at Gonpachi

Barbara HansenGonpachi chef Chris Behre​Last September, Chris Behre slipped quietly into Gonpachi in Beverly Hills as executive chef. There wasn't any fanfare, and Behre deliberately kept a low profile, because he had to see if he could repair what was then an ailing business. It was a big jo ... More >>

La Casita's Latino Goodie Baskets

Barbara HansenLa Casita Mexicana chef-owners Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu​ A tisket, a tasket, what's in that basket? Obleas, glorias, chiclosos, alegrias, pepitorias, ates, cajeta, piloncillo, tamarindo, canela and much, much more. Even if you don't know what these are, you can e ... More >>

Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Tell Mom You Like Pot On Mother's Day

​As you shop for a warm, cuddly card for Mama this week, a pro-marijuana group wants you to consider sending her a special message on Mother's Day: Pot is good. That's right, the Women's Marijuana Movement is asking people to remind mom that pot "is no different than alcohol -- except that it ... More >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Ari Rosenson's Five Essential Grilling Tips

Anne FishbeinCut's porterhouse for 2 with beef marrow​While the side dishes at Cut are fantastic, meat is obviously the thing at Wolfgang Puck's deluxe steakhouse. But because having a stellar slab of beef expertly prepared by Cut's professionals and served in the cool modernist splendor of ... More >>

Live in L.A. This Weekend: Drive-By Truckers, Peter Gabriel, Les Savy Fav, First Fridays

Drive-By Truckers​You may not have noticed if you don't live in a neighborhood where "y'all" is the prevalent pronoun -- and no, that's not pejorative -- but the Drive-By Truckers have a new album out. "The Big To-Do" is just that, out-sized riffs, growling vocals and sweat-stained rhythms sup ... More >>

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