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  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Edward Sharpe and 
the Magnetic Zeros Return With New Music and a Show 
at The Greek

    For the past five years, Los Angeles indie-rock heroes Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have spread their catchy indie folk to the masses, even landing their single "Home" in an NFL commercial. Having toured extensively in support of their 2009 breakthrough debut, Up From Below, the Zeros are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    What's In Season at the Farmers Market: The Many Colors of Rhubarb

    Rhubarb doesn't do well in L.A. gardens. The sleeping rhizomes that sit dormant underground in winter need many chilly days and nights in order to even think about poking above ground in spring. Freezing, chilly weather doesn't help either, as they are barely frost tolerant. Their ideal situation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    The Classical Music Concerts We're Most Looking Forward to in 2012

    5. Cage 2012 Southwest Chamber Music, Japanese American National Museum, March 3-4 Hey L.A., where's the love for your native son, John Cage? It's the 100th anniversary of his birth next year, and the only party in town is being thrown by Southwest Chamber Music. The opening Cage 2012 concert sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    5 Local Farmers Who are Doing it Right

    Felicia FriesemaThe Hollywood market earlier this year.​After reading Beth Barrett's piece about farmers markets this week, it might be tempting to hang up the locavore hat and head out for an angsty and cathartic mouthful at the local McDonald's. We're envisioning an army of market goers as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Large California Chanterelles

    Felicia FriesemaCantharellus californicus from Tutti Frutti Farms​Our early season rainstorms have yielded two predictable outcomes: angsty tweets from farmers market vendors trying desperately to keep self, customers and produce dry, and a splendid sprouting of mud puppies, a.k.a. California ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Art With Dude Appeal: Rock Carvings On Grimes Canyon Road

    L.J. Williamson​ "Best Art I Saw All Week" is a new feature of the blog in which one of our contributors writes about one particular L.A. artwork he or she saw in a museum, in a gallery, on the streets or anywhere else. If you see a work that you like, feel free to submit your own a post by up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Local Eggs Iowa Egg Recall Anniversary

    Felicia FriesemaKendor Farms free range eggs at the Hollywood market.​ Eggs? Yes, eggs. This week is National Farmers Market Week, and while the bulk of what you see piled high on tables at your local market is more flora than fauna, here and there you'll likely see neatly stacked cartons of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Good Food Jobs A Few Local Opportunities

    abrowncoat/flickrOjai Olive Oil: Your food job?​ Thanks to Michael Pollan, the mainstreaming of farm-to-table activism, and co-ops, many college students graduate with the hope of working with food -- in the ever-expanding field if not a field itself. While ten years ago, they'd have been a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Outstanding in the Field Announces Its 2011 Touring Schedule

    Outstanding in the Field​ Outstanding in the Field, that Magical Mystery Tour of underground suppers, has announced its 2011 schedule. As usual, the dates are heavy on visits to West Coast farms. In case you don't know much about this roving feast, allow us: a merry band of activists, artist ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 16, 2010

    Movie Review: Easy A

    Outstanding in the Field​ Outstanding in the Field, that Magical Mystery Tour of underground suppers, has announced its 2011 schedule. As usual, the dates are heavy on visits to West Coast farms. In case you don't know much about this roving feast, allow us: a merry band of activists, artist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    'Excessive Heat Watch' Issued For L.A. This Week: Record Temps Expected

    ​An "excessive heat watch" has been issued by the National Weather Service for much of Los Angeles Tuesday and Wednesday, with "dangerous heat possible" and even record temperatures for the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Santa Monica Mountains. A high-pressure system is ... More >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2010

    Free the Robots, Dr. John. Alex Cuba and Merle Haggard

    Also, Bestial Mouths, The Dreaming, Echo Lush and Elevaters

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    When Zappa Met Schoenberg: An Interview with Ojai Festival Programmer George Benjamin

    This Sexy Katy Perry Bikini Photo wants you to read a great interview about the Ojai Festival of contemporary music!​The 64th Ojai Music Festival takes place June 10-13. A four-day series of concerts, symposia and auxiliary events set amid the tranquil oaks of Ojai Valley (also known as Califo ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    Schoenberg and Zappa in Shangri-La

    Ojai Festival curator George Benjamin on programming for adventurous ears

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Your Server's Other Job: Tobias Jelenik Talks The Nickel Diner, Point Break Live, Carnie Sideshows and Buddhist Monks

    H Magazine​Tobias Jelenik is a server at The Nickel, plays Bodhi in Point Break Live (the Patrick Swayze role for those of you who don't know) and has a striking new collage-like column in H Magazine. Squid Ink met up with Tobias in the converted laundromat he calls home. While juicing carro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Watch the Bizarro Kenny G Version (and Video) of Beck's "Sexx Laws"

    Sexx Laws​Remember Beck's incredible video for the incredible Midnight Vultures tune, "Sexx Laws"? Directed by Mr. Hansen himself, the goofy surrealist short features DayGlo footballers sacking a group of well-meaning Ojai New Age-ists, resulting in Jack Black getting smacked with a slab of dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Today in Photographs: September 15, 1948

    ​Navy Seabees take a break with other firefighters after a 10-hour shift, as a 50-mile front of flames rages out of control in and around Ojai.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Celebrate 30 Years of L.A. Farmers' Markets at City Hall This Thursday

    These days it seems like no matter where you live in Southern California, there's a farmers' market or two nearby offering fresh, locally grown fruits and veggies. Yet while farmers' markets in Los Angeles have a long history, (Third and Fairfax passed the 75 year mark earlier this summer) the Garde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Stage Raw: Closer Than Ever

    The latest NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on two plays set beyond the end of the word: Henry Murray's Treefall and Eugene Ionesco's The ChairsCLOSER THAN EVER ​is Lodestone Theatre Company's musical revue, opening this weekend, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    The Succulent Cat: Holly Vesecky's Foliage-Covered Feline Makes Brides Happy and Chia Pets Jealous

    Holly Vesecky is a floral stylist and sculptor based here in Los Angeles. In the time that I've known her, she's done volcanos covered in flowers, a geodesic dome covered in flowers, and a re-creation of a Sam Francis painting in LACMA in flowers. Quite by accident, I saw this cat covered in succu ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 7, 2009

    Hearts of Darkness: The 2009 Pacific Playwrights Festival

    Holly Vesecky is a floral stylist and sculptor based here in Los Angeles. In the time that I've known her, she's done volcanos covered in flowers, a geodesic dome covered in flowers, and a re-creation of a Sam Francis painting in LACMA in flowers. Quite by accident, I saw this cat covered in succu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 7, 2008

    Sets and the City

    Holly Vesecky is a floral stylist and sculptor based here in Los Angeles. In the time that I've known her, she's done volcanos covered in flowers, a geodesic dome covered in flowers, and a re-creation of a Sam Francis painting in LACMA in flowers. Quite by accident, I saw this cat covered in succu ... More >>

  • Music

    June 19, 2008

    Chutzpah Under the Sycamores: Ojai Music Festival

    Steve Reich is honored this year. Chaplin's music? Not so much

  • Stage

    July 26, 2007

    Once More Into the Bowl

    Leonard Slatkin and Christopher O’Riley at the Hollywood Bowl

  • Stage

    June 21, 2007

    Ojai: Survival and Revival

    The return of "the wondrously indescribable festival-like-none-other"

  • Stage

    August 17, 2006

    Who Says We're Not in Kansas Anymore?

    Scribes in Ojai, and Kander and Ebb’s final musical, Curtains. plus a preview of Theatre Unlimited's Static

  • Stage

    August 10, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    Including this week's pick, The 2006 Ojai Playwrights Conference

  • Stage

    August 10, 2006

    Weekend Theater

    A preview of the 2006 Ojai Playwrights Conference, and reviews of Little Women and Water and Power

  • Stage

    June 22, 2006

    Ojai at 60

    Osvaldo Golijov and György Ligeti

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    An Annual Alphabet

    Osvaldo Golijov and György Ligeti

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    An Annual Alphabet

    Osvaldo Golijov and György Ligeti

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Big Bird’s Slippery Slope

    Can the condor survive more oil?

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2005

    Movable Cleveland

    Can the condor survive more oil?

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2005
  • News

    December 9, 2004

    The Malloy Brothers Conspiracy

    They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

  • Columns

    October 28, 2004

    Tehran Nights

    They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

  • Stage

    June 19, 2003

    The Control Freak Decontrolled

    They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

  • Stage

    June 12, 2003

    Seniority

    They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

  • Stage

    May 29, 2003

    In Between

    They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

  • Film+TV

    April 17, 2003

    Beatrice and Hubert

    And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

  • Stage

    March 13, 2003

    Composer From Hell

    And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

  • Music

    January 2, 2003

    The Year In Music

    And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

  • Stage

    June 13, 2002

    Terminations and Renewals

    And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

  • Stage

    April 4, 2002

    88 Times Infinity

    And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

  • Stage

    June 21, 2001

    Piercing the Gloom

    And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

  • LA Life

    August 3, 2000

    Child Abandonment

    Two mothers on the loose in Ojai

  • Stage

    June 22, 2000

    Shipshape

    Two mothers on the loose in Ojai

  • Stage

    June 17, 1999

    Finnish Touches

    Two mothers on the loose in Ojai

  • Stage

    June 18, 1998

    A Fluctuating Sameness

    Two mothers on the loose in Ojai

  • Stage

    June 11, 1998

    For the Birds

    Two mothers on the loose in Ojai

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