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10 Essential Beat Generation Landmarks in Los Angeles

When most people envision the Beat Generation, they probably start with a vision of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, stumbling into a bar in New York City, rambling on about Nebraska and staring into the electric religion of the American plains. Or perhaps people think of Lawrence Ferl ... More >>

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the d ... More >>

MENSA Member Chino XL Is One of the Sharpest Rappers in the Game

A 38-year-old Jersey-born rap veteran who is a verified member of MENSA, Chino XL has called L.A. his home for a decade and a half. Chino's has built a loyal following since his 1996 debut Here to Save You All from stacking oft-referential multisyllabic rhymes ("travelin' through my abdomen/unraveli ... More >>

Music Picks: Dublab Anniversary, Ladyhawke, Flying Lotus

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time 10. White Rabbits Why do bands need a second drummer? In recent years everyone from Local Natives to Bon Iver to fucking Radiohead has thrown a second kit out there, or at least a floor to ... More >>

Beef Jerky Bloody Mary Straws, A Brunch Game Changer?

Celery is expected, bacon is everywhere, and those foie gras garnishes are off the legal table. Just when we need a little creative Bloody Mary garnish inspiration, we get Benny's Bloody Mary Beef Straws. Iowa restaurant veteran and beef straw inventor Ben Hirko says he got the idea after a custom ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - SXSW - 3/15/12

By Craig Hlavaty Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing "Bruce". The keynote and the show went hand in hand. If ... More >>

Jon Jost Series at L.A. Filmforum & Cinefamily

African American Men Have 7 Fewer Years to Live Than Whites

Sure, history has turned a corner for African Americans. There's that one president. (And he might just get reelected if gas stays below $8 a gallon). There's multimillionaire Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry. And basketball sensation Jeremy Lin. Wait. He's what now? Oh, you get the picture. But UCLA ... More >>

Taco Bell Implicated in 10-State Salmonella Outbreak

When there was a multistate outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis in October, the Centers for Disease Control would identify the culprit only as "Mexican-style, fast-food Restaurant Chain A." Turns out, that's longhand for Taco Bell. At the time, the CDC refused to name the restaurant chain, saying the ... More >>

The Dance Hall Is Back

Joseph Mahon's Burger Parlor: His Permanent Fullerton Burger Pop-up

A. ScattergoodJoseph Mahon in the Bastide kitchen​ The trajectory of a fine dining chef these days is circuitous -- see: Ludo Lefebvre -- more often than not encompassing pit-stops, pop-ups, food trucks, food festivals, fried chicken epiphanies, grilled cheese sandwich trophies, then back to b ... More >>

Q & A with Eric Greenspan, Part 2: Culinary School or Not Culinary School, Etc.

Photo by Felicia Friesema.​In Part 1 of our interview with Eric Greenspan, we discovered that The Foundry on Melrose is somehow a tight ship and a wild ride at the same time. The chef waxed poetic (and, well, dropped a lot of f-bombs) as he discussed the challenges of owning a restaurant, the ... More >>

Purim With a Shiksa Kosher Cosmo & Poppy Seed Cake Recipes

from Wonder Bread & ham to hummus and challah​Purim is just around the corner, beginning Saturday, March 19th, and some of us are already daydreaming about hamentashen; kreplach; sufganiyot; and other bizarre-sounding foods. Tori Avey, also known as Shiksa in the Kitchen, is loosening her belt ... More >>

Proposition 8: Thirteen Out-of-State Attorney Generals Don't Want California Gays to Get Married, Join George Wallace in History Books

Prop. 8 supporter and Alabama Attorney General Troy King​With the appeal hearing for the Proposition 8 lawsuit set for Monday, December 6, we thought it would be a good time to look into the out-of-state attorney generals who stuck their noses into California's business and filed a friendly b ... More >>

Starbucks Tells Baristas to Slow Down, Make Drinks Two At a Time

Flickr/(e)spry​ When it comes to our morning coffee, in a perfect world we'd all wake up late, stroll to our neighborhood coffee shop and linger for an hour or two over a perfectly-brewed cappuccino, espresso, or caffè latte. But in reality, our rushed schedules barely leave us enough time t ... More >>

Red State Blue State Smackdown: Red States to Sue California Over Global Warming Law

​The attorneys general of Alabama, Nebraska, Texas and North Dakota will sue California over its Global Warming Solutions Act, known as AB32, which requires 80 percent carbon emission reductions by 2050, California Watch reports. First, though, the potential litigants are awaiting the results ... More >>

West Los Angeles Skate Park 'Made By Skaters For Skaters'

Steve La​Alec Beck, the 23-year-old co-creator of the Stoner Recreation Center's new skate plaza, hopes the skate park becomes a safe haven for board-riders looking for a place to meet outside of public spaces that usually don't welcome them. A recent visit to the granite playground demonstrat ... More >>

From the Roots: Jakob Dylan's Little Big Album

Little Boxes

For a new generation of audio devices, less — way less — is more

Happy Birthday, Harry Culver: A Menu Traces the Culver City Founder's Life

The Culver Hotel​Harry Culver's birthday was January 22, and the celebrations will continue throughout February. Only Harry won't be there. The founder of Culver City, Culver was born in 1880 and died in Hollywood August 17, 1946. For several years he kept an office in the Culver Hotel. And s ... More >>

L.A. Country Club Pays Ultra Low Property Tax Rate; Faces Possible Review

​The Los Angeles Country Club, protected under Prop. 13 limits and loopholes, pays an ultra-low rate of about $200,000 a year in property taxes based on 313 acres of prime Westside property that could be worth nearly $20 billion or even more if it were developed, according to the Garment & Cit ... More >>

Up in the Air: Open Skies

Juno director's latest steers clear of the predictable route

My Antonia

Theater Reviews: American Tales, In on It

Also, My Antonia, Herpes Tonight!, and more

The Beginning of a No Age: Nouns

Simply put, the best punk album of the 21st century

Flesh and Bone

Playing with Kobe at mighty Cut

9 Reasons UCLA Will Beat USC in 2006

Memoir and Mystery

Bernard Cooper’s Bill From My Father

The Living City

Los Angeles From Bud to Bloom

Every Now and Then He Falls Apart

Seeing Bright Eyes in the big picture

A Vision of Our Own

Four ideas for the left to redefine itself

What’s Not the Matter With Colorado?

Tracking a blue uprising in a red state

No New Taxes

Except on students

Another View of Elliott Smith

LAPD detectives seek advice on singer’s cause of death

The Final Moments of Elliott Smith’s Life

Autopsy reveals details of argument with girlfriend

Collateral Damage

Where’s Arnold? His campaign — and the media — stumbles over Proposition 187

Stay in Character

Tonally Correct

Pharm Phresh

Frankenfoods II

Heroes Dream

Bruce Springsteen in the city of ruins

The Million-Dollar March

A tribute to greed, power and excess

Pushing the Envelopes

Behemoths Assembled

The Last Bad Idea

Market theory demanded deregulation — but the market argued otherwise

New York, New York

Actoids, lockdowns and double rainbows

Work: Part 3

L. Ron Speaks!

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in

Welcome to the Terra Dome

Rock is dead, long live vampires