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Top of the Lake Review: Peggy Olson Goes to Hell, in Jane Campion's TV Series

Balance: A 2013 Conference, an Achievement in California Wine (and a Calder Mobile)

For the past three years, a small group of California chardonnay and pinot noir producers has gathered for a conference and tasting called In Pursuit of Balance. In past years it's been staged in San Francisco and New York; in 2013, for the first time, they brought their wines and their message to L ... More >>

10 Great Restaurants for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is almost here and you are going to need some reservations if you want to wine and dine your honey in style. So maybe stop procrastinating. Last year, we gave you a list of the most romantic restaurants in L.A. You could choose from one of those or go with something different. Turn ... More >>

Touche Amore's Southeast Asia Tour Diary: "Little Regard for Our Personal Well-Being"

Full of emotion and earnestness, Touche Amore's 2009 full-length debut ...To The Beat Of A Dead Horse was a walloping punch to the gut of the hardcore scene. Their 2011 follow-up Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me kept the jabs coming. The Los Angeles group's popularity has grown in large p ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, September 24 Lavender Diamond THE ECHO Lavender Diamond are back, and they come in peace, as usual, and also with synthesizers, which is a bit more unusual. The heartbroke piano-folk they made on their one-and-a-half beautiful albums about five years ago is still there on the new Incorrupti ... More >>

Get Out The Vote: Prop 37, California's GMO Labeling Initiative, Could Mean Change For The Entire Country

So hey, did you hear? There's an election coming up! And while we all know it's important to vote in the presidential election, in California there's another reason to vote: Proposition 37. A few weeks back at a panel on food policy in Washington D.C., which was part of the Association of Food Jour ... More >>

L&E Oyster Bar in Silver Lake Is a Neighborhood Restaurant Most Neighborhoods Can Only Dream of

Top 5 U.K. Beers That Should be Served at the Olympics Instead of Heineken Happy International IPA Day

The summer Olympics are well underway and with the Games, the inevitable media spotlight on the host country's culture. Between the star-studded opening ceremonies and the unprecedented Cultural Olympiad, Great Britain has done its best to take advantage of the attention the Olympics brings. Except, ... More >>

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Froodles: What People Are Eating in Antarctica

What exactly is a Froodle? Well, the next time you're at the farmers market, bemoaning the certainty that those colossal summer peaches will never arrive, take a moment to think about what (cold) scientists are eating at this very moment at McMurdo, the largest research station in Antarctica. In t ... More >>

Gotye - El Rey Theatre - 2/2/12

Timothy NorrisGotye​Gotye El Rey Theatre 2/02/12 Better than ... watching the music video for "Someone That I Used To Know" over and over. "Somebody I Used To Know" is the kind of song you can never get out of your head. It might have something to do with the fact that if you sign on to Fa ... More >>

Meg Gill's Top 5 L.A.-area Beers

Tyler KempMeg Gill skates into L.A.'s craft beer scene​ Last week, we shared a list of six essential West Coast beers hand-picked by Greg Koch, the CEO and Co-Founder of Southern California's largest craft brewery: Stone Brewing Company in Escondido. This week, we've done something similar wit ... More >>

Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!

​ Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>

Stage Raw: LAWEES on Monday

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESLAWEES ON MONDAY The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards take place on Monday night. Doors open at ... More >>

Japan 8.9: Tsunami Watch For SoCal

​Update: A National Weather Service tsunami warning for the L.A. coast has been downgraded to a tsunami advisory. After the jump: Boats damaged in Catalina. Could it happen in L.A.? See that story here. The National Weather Service issued a tsunami watch for the Southern California coast thi ... More >>

States May Slash Subsidies For Hollywood

Jersey ShoreIn New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie is thinking about paring back film and TV tax credits​The New York Times reports that as states tighten their belts, some governors are thinking about reducing Hollywood subsidies.That's bad for Hollywood, the industry, but maybe not so bad for Hollyw ... More >>

Stage Raw: Responses to the New Year Theater Quiz!

NEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on John Lithgow's Stories by Heart, and HairCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS are coming, cool your jets.​Vince Melocchi's new play, Julia, at Pacific Resident Theatre,  has bee extended until the end of time. When time does finally end, yo ... More >>

Tonight: RRIICCEE, Midnight Juggernauts, the Naked and Famous, Unsane, 400 Blows, Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, Kitten

Vincent Gallo​Tonight's musical headliner at the El Rey Theatre has no albums, no mp3s, no songs on the Internet, scant YouTube presence, and not even any merch, unless you count guitar picks from a 2007 tour, and those are sold out. No, with the experimental rock ensemble RRIICCEE, you get o ... More >>

Food, Wine and Bocce Ball: The Pasadena Wine Festival

Pasadena Wine Festival​Despite its name, the second annual Pasadena Wine Festival isn't just about vino. The outdoor food fête at the 127-acre Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens promises visitors a banquet for the senses with a caravan of food trucks, live entertainment, and law ... More >>

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

CSPI Releases Its Annual List Of The Fattiest Foods In America

KFCThis did not make the list​Some restaurants, it seems, are trying their best to kill you as quickly as possible. While we knew that most dishes at places like The Cheesecake Factory and Outback Steakhouse were incredibly unhealthy, we still didn't know which ones were the absolute worst of ... More >>

Movie Reviews: A Woman in Berlin, A Perfect Getaway, Paper Heart

Also, Fragments, 12 in a Box and more

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

Pussy & Pooch: Extreme Dog Culture Unleashes New Nightlife

By Adam Gropman Photo by Sonia Paulino. Click image for entire slideshow. As a dyed-in-the-wool cat person, I'm a bit of an undercover double-agent at this swanky, Downtown dog party. Sharp, creative urbanites, dressed from crisp casual all the way to downright glamorous, serenely mill about or s ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Jesus Christ Superstar, Don Juan

Also, Daughters of Heaven, The Smartest Man in the World

Top 10 Dishes of 2007

Hummus replaced foie gras, Southern Thai was hot and cheese shredded

Globavore or Locavore

Two nights at Grace, close to home and from afar

Dances With Films

Wrap It Up, I'll Take It

Last-minute hostess gift ideas

Glittering Hunks of Trash

Grindhouse welcomes you to the democracy of cinephilia

Hoopla Gets Serious, Then Decidedly Not So

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Big Deal – No, Really

365 Days/365 Plays sweeps the country

Power to the Hamsters!

8 New Very Alternative Energy Ideas

The Path of a Flower

House of Glass

Best Dishes of 2004

Maria Had a Little Lamb

The Short List: Two Great New Books

Islomane No More

'You’ve Got Ringworm'

Cuba Calling

Super Gyration

Rock and Indeed Roll

Whistling Tunes

Neil Finn escapes from a crowded house

Unreal

The creepy Fantasyland of Survivor, Temptation Island and The Mole

Faith Healer

Richard Vetere’s play about an atheist who dies and goes . . . somewhere

Fishing for Compliments

La Serenata revisited

Babes in Armor

Tia, Cleo and Bruce

Weapons of Mass Distraction

U.S. arms dealing leads Project Censored’s list of the Top 10 underreported stories of 1997

Amphibious Assault

Thai frog legs in Hollywood