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Moby Dick in L.A.: Searching for the White Whale with Colin Hanks, Mark Z. Danielewski and, Yes, Moby

Mark Twain said a classic book is a work that everyone wants to have read but no one actually reads. For many Angelenos, Herman Melville's Moby Dick is just such a classic. It's a book set in New England at a time when whaling was an enterprise and tattoos were terrifying. Melville's world is a star ... More >>

Top 20 Hardcore Albums in History: Complete List

By 1980, the writing was on the wall: Punk rock might have been making headlines, but it wasn't moving units. The industry responded with the skinny tie bands, retroactively labeled New Wave, a safer, more accessible take on the back-to-basics energy of punk. The street reacted by buzzing its collec ... More >>

Rapture, Blister, Burn Is an Exuberant Take on the State of Feminism in 2013

Play captures the cultural tension between ambition and family

Top 20 Hardcore Albums in History: 10-1

By 1980, the writing was on the wall: Punk rock might have been making headlines, but it wasn't moving units. The industry responded with the skinny tie bands, retroactively labeled New Wave, a safer, more accessible take on the back-to-basics energy of punk. The street reacted by buzzing its collec ... More >>

Connie and Ted's Review: Michael Cimarusti's WeHo Seafood Shack Is a Success

Philly Cheesesteak Pop-Up at Freddy Smalls

Slowly but surely Los Angeles is gaining the type of regional comfort food we've heard transplants reminisce about -- whether it's Central Texan-style barbecue, slow-cooked roast beef sandwiches sliced to order or New England seafood. This week Freddy Smalls' chef Charlie Parker is bringing a taste ... More >>

Fishing With Dynamite Review: New Manhattan Beach Hotspot's Food Is Hit or Miss

Is There Any Such Thing as Australian Cuisine?

This week, I reviewed Outback Steakhouse, and one of the main takeaways of the piece is that the food served at Outback is in no way Australian. This prompted an email from Jason Kessler (the same Jason Kessler who writes the Nitpicker column for Bon Appetit that prompted our recent post on touchy-f ... More >>

Connie & Ted's: Michael Cimarusti's Seafood Restaurant to Open in June

If you've spent any time dining at Providence, Michael Cimarusti's Melrose Avenue seafood palace, you'll know how much the chef and co-owner of the place loves his fish. Since it opened in 2005, the restaurant has earned accolade after accolade, including Best Restaurant, 2012 in these pages. But fo ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Deathmatch: Aerosmith vs. New York Dolls

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two things that have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] In the 1970s, two bands took the bluesy swagger of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds t ... More >>

Boston Marathon Explosions Injure Several Runners; Race Called Off

Many updates at the bottom: Three are now reported dead; L.A. authorities are on heightened alert. First posted at 12:23 p.m. See also: L.A. Witness In Boston: 'We Were Caught Between 2 Explosions.' About a half-dozen people were injured in two mid-race explosions at the Boston Marathon today, acc ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Monday, March 25 Corima, Upsalon Acrux PEHRSPACE There are, in fact, thriving musical styles that have blessedly little to do with the latest pop trends. Roughly intersecting prog-rock and art-jazz is a thing called Zeuhl Music, a very heavy, propulsive sonic form whose roaring rhythm sections and ... More >>

Music Picks: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, and Anthrax

littlefork Review: If You're Craving New England in Los Angeles, Jason Travi's Restaurant Is the Place To Be

It's also a great place to get a drink in Hollywood

The Definitive Guide to the Music of The Big Lebowski

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. The Dude's identity is strongly informed by music. As a former Metallica roadie and free love-era denizen still trying ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero vs. John Rechy's City of Night, Round 1

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Two stream-of-consciou ... More >>

The 13 Best Things to Do For Halloween in L.A.

See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *10 Oddball L.A. Museums Worth Seeing By Tanja M. Laden One of the best things about living in Southern California is the idea that Halloween is a month-long celebration that a ... More >>

Why Do So Many Good L.A. Novels Have Bad Movie Adaptations?

Your 4th of July Dining Deal Round-Up: Cobbler, Korean BBQ Sliders Beer Pong

Beer Belly's Backyard Boogie: The Filipino grillmasters at the The Park's Finest are joining forces with Beer Belly to host their 2nd annual "Backyard Boogie," an afternoon stocked with plenty of BBQ and beer. From 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., you can enjoy smoky pulled pork, hot links, coconut beef, bibingka ... More >>

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Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and Bill Murray

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward (Edward Norton), absconding with a couple of bed ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

The Spidey Project -- a low-rent musical parody of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and more new reviews

​Celebration Theatre's intimate-theater rendition of the musical, The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's novel, ​ is this week's Pick of the Week. Warm reactions also for a revival of Patrick Marber's Closer, presented by Ghost Players at the Avery Shreiber Theatre; for Malibu Stage's renditi ... More >>

The Hungry Cat Celebrates Its 7th Birthday Tonight: With Oysters, Natch

David Lentz's The Hungry Cat opened seven years ago, a little ode to New England seafood shacks located in what might be the antithesis of a breezy seaside town: in a tiny courtyard off of Vine between the smoggy nightmares that are Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, kitty corner from a now-defunct Bo ... More >>

How Aloha Can You Go?

Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes: New Book Explains Hawaii and How the U.S. Became an Empire

Writer/radio commentator Sarah Vowell comes to town to sit down with Jeff Garlin and talk about her latest book, a funny and lively history of America's acquisition of Hawaii. Here's our Q&A:

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Chowder Chowdown, Citrus Saver, Roasted Pig, All-Night Happy Hour, Foodie Chat

Chowder Chowdown Ten days. Six chowders. No rules. Celebrate National Soup Month at Gladstone's annual chowder fest. In addition to traditional New England and Manhattan chowders, chef Dean Grill has created four nouveau chowders including roasted corn and chicken, kale and andouille, butternut squa ... More >>

Top 5 Local Farmer-Made Jams and Preserves

Felicia Friesema​Farmers markets and the vendors who populate them with table bending piles of bumper crops and hard-to-find seasonal produce rarely sell every last item before it's time to collapse the pop up tents and head home. Portlandian pickle jokes aside, what do farmers do with all th ... More >>

L.A. Pedophile Bust Dismantles International Child Porn Ring

Top 10 Cult Stars of 2011

Shannon CottrellWhere's Andrew W.K. on this list?​I had the chance to interview quite a few people this year. Some were famous. Others weren't. However, most of this year's interviewees had a few things in common. They all created something, be it an event or a piece of art, that is memorable. ... More >>

Baby Doll, Forgotten, On Holy Ground and other new reviews . . .

Joel DaavidTony Gatto and Lulu Brud, in Tennessee Williams "Baby Doll" at the Lillian​Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. ​ Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo performance abou ... More >>

Hungry Cat: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Jerker, Have You Seen Alice?, The Romance of Magno Rubio, and more new stage reviews . . .

​Michelle Hilyard and Darrett Sanders in Have You Seen Alice: Photo by Jonathan Klein ​Jacqueline Wright's play, Have You Seen Alice? at Theatre of NOTE is this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also recommend Jerker at the Celebration Theatre and The Romance of Magno Rubio For all the lates ... More >>

Gourmet Product Awards Winners Announced

Courtesy of Malibu Pies.​Chipotle chile peanut butter, blueberry licorice and coconut hibiscus tea were among the winners at the first Gourmet Product Awards. The competition honors the best new gourmet products in 43 finely divided categories including condiments, confections, dairy, oils, ba ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

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 your content comes ... 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 >>

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 >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Elvira Live

Mistress of the Dark comes to Cinefamily

Consider the Oysterette

Bivalvular (and other) pleasures on Ocean Avenue

Hail the Conquering Chicken

Hainan (Chicken) Rice in Alhambra

Where to Eat Now

Where to Eat Now

Ask Mr. Gold: Manhattan Clam Chowder

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants - Part 2

From The Hungry Cat to Providence

The Life Aquatic

Braise Be: Jar

Subs 'n' Such

We did it all for loaves