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10 Best Sweet Treats in Los Angeles

As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, last week. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of spas and hikes and cocktails and grottos (yes, grottos), so many that you might get lost -- so many that we thought we'd pull out ... More >>

The Secret Life of Eero Saarinen, Architect of the St. Louis Arch and...the White House War Room?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Eero Saarinen's fingerprints are all over mid-century design's greatest hits, and even if you can't pronounce his name, you definitely know his ... More >>

The 7 Most Disgusting L.A. Beaches

See also: "Dirty Beaches? Not in L.A. (Well, for the Most Part)" Were you chin-deep in scary ocean bacteria all summer long, without ever realizing it? Now, thanks to local environmental org Heal the Bay, your blissful summertime ignorance shall be briskly swiped clean by the hard facts of fall! E ... More >>

Maison Giraud in the Pacific Palisades Is an Homage to Classic French Cuisine — for Better, and Sometimes for Worse

Did the State Department of Public Health Cook Up a Farmers Market Soup Controversy?

Did the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) cook up a soup controversy this week, when it warned consumers not to eat any soups sold at Los Angeles farmers markets from two different (and unrelated) companies? The health department says the soups, from One Gun Ranch and Organic Soup Kitche ... More >>

Peter Wallerstein: This Sea Lion Walks Into a Sandbar ...

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. An anxious crowd quickly encircled the sea lion. Lying prone on El Porto beach, it was foaming at the mouth, with red bulging eyes. "Do something," a fat man in a too-tight Lak ... More >>

Venice's Own 'Skid Rose' Homeless Camp at 3rd Slowly Being Flushed by City Officials

Ever since the LAPD started enforcing a strict curfew along the Venice boardwalk, the homeless hangout on 3rd street (located a few blocks inland) has blossomed into a bona fied bum party. The stretch of 3rd where they sleep, between Sunset and Rose, is mostly populated by businesses and warehouses ... More >>

Surviving Doors Members Speak on Jim Morrison's Substance Abuse

See also: *L.A. Woman Was the Doors' Bluesy Masterpiece, and Jim Morrison's Kiss-Off to L.A. *Surviving Members of the Doors Discuss L.A. Woman, Track by Track In December we scrambled from the Pacific Palisades to Ojai, interviewing the major players behind The Doors' opus L.A. Woman. The sessions ... 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 >>

War Over Marina Del Rey Remake

A broke county government seeks dramatic growth of seaside district

Maison Giraud Opening Very Soon

Anne FishbeinAlain Giraud (left) in the kitchen at Anisette Brasserie.​If you caught this weekend's episode of Good Food on KCRW, you'll know that Laura Avery who does the Market Report for the show ran into chef Alain Giraud -- "with his signature sweater and shopping bag" -- at the Santa Mon ... More >>

Incarcerate This at the Ice House: Social Justice Can Be Hilarious

D. VerdinComics telling the truth, Ruth: (l. to r.) Kenji, Martin Rizo, Flaco Martinez, Reggie Brown and Jimmy Ouyang​ As the wholesome racial equality message emanated from the new movie The Help over the weekend, a group of stand-ups acutely debunked such propaganda Saturday at Pasadena's Ic ... More >>

Fire and Police Unions Will Protest Fire Chief's Plan: Will Budget Decisions Run on Fear or Facts? VIDEO

Fire Chief Millage Peaks actually has a backbone​RonKayeLA reports that Friday morning United Firefighters Los Angeles City union leader Pat McOsker will lead a "massive outpooring" of firefighters to the City Council meeting. T.V. cameras are likely to follow. It's budget talk time and McOs ... More >>

Banksy's 'Elephant' Tank Artwork in L.A. Was Home to a Man Named Tachowa Covington

Ted SoquiBanksy's 'Elephant.'​You can live in art (architect R.M. Schindler's work is often an object of desire in L.A.) if you have the means. But for an otherwise homeless guy named Tachowa Covington, artful shelter came to him for free. And then it was taken away. Turns out that Banksy-t ... More >>

Maison Giraud Update: Alain Giraud's New Restaurant Set to Open in May

Anisette BrasserieAlain Giraud​ After months -- and months -- of anticipation, fans of Alain Giraud (Bastide, Anisette Brasserie) will now be able to do more than stalk the French chef at area farmers markets, catered events, and Test Kitchen pop-ups. Giraud's new restaurant, Maison Giraud, wi ... More >>

Ten Great New Year's Brunches (for the Hungover and the Smugly Sober)

Cecconi'sCecconi's breakfast pizzette​ If the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year, then the day after New Year's Eve is the biggest hangover day of the year. And hangovers must be fed - and well. But since many restaurants shutter their doors on New Year's Day, and b ... More >>

Harvey Karp, M.D.: Happy Baby Daddy

Q & A With Rustic Canyon Chef Evan Funke: Quitting Massage Therapy & Firefighting for Cooking Learning the Ropes at Spago

A. ScattergoodRustic Canyon executive chef Evan Funke​ Evan Funke, executive chef at Rustic Canyon, is as locally sourced as much of the food he puts on his plates. The chef is third generation California, went to culinary school in Pasadena, and came up through the ranks of Wolfgang Puck's k ... More >>

Richard Thompson: the Fairport Convention Founder Who Defined the British Folk-Rock Movement of the 1960s

A New Box Set Captures a Master at Work.

Lux Interior Rising: R.I.P., 1946-2009

An eyewitness account of the late Cramps singer’s Astral Ascension ceremony

Lux Interior's Astral Ascension: Jonny Whiteside's Report from the Ceremony

Minister Brahmachari Dale explained their hope-filled transitional view of death, read from the Bhagavad-Gita, recited the 23rd Psalm, and exhorted attendees to concentrate on sending messages of love to Lux's spirit -- and damn, kiddies, it felt like he was right there in the room (when Ivy was arr ... More >>

Queer Town: President Barack Obama and the Gays

Almost a year ago to the day, I stood in the large kitchen of an elegant mansion in the Pacific Palisades at a political fund raiser, waiting to the shake hand of our future president, Barack Obama. When he approached, I said hello and immediately told him I was gay. I then asked Obama to include ga ... More >>

L.A's Hidden Housing Disaster

Massive rebuilding and the ownership bubble quietly wiped out 13,713 cheap rentals

Queer Town: Obama's Gay Moment

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama undoubtedly thrilled, and probably somewhat shocked, gays and lesbians last night when he spoke this line during his nomination speech in Denver: “I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian br ... More >>

Palisades Rathouse: Rats even ate the furniture

By Max Taves “The furniture had been tunneled through.” So says Gary James, whose business model for his company Atticbusters is really simple: When the piles of dead rodents following extermination by poisoning are so bad nobody wants to clean them up, he steps in. For the last seven years, ... More >>

Confessions of an Aspiring Kept Man: Is That a Cucumber in Your Shopping Cart?

It's not easy trying to be cougar bait

Update: Judge Says, "Well Rec-u-u-u-se Me!"

A 50-word fax sent from Judge Alex Kozinski this morning has effectively ended the current obscenity trial of U.S v. Isaacs.

Kara Bartelt and Michael Chung

Fresh, crisp and green

All Over the Map

From politics to pop culture, a Mexican American Prince Who�s Who

Soulless Converts

L.A. tries to deal with the rush on condos

A Methane-charged Lawsuit

Playa foes urge a judge to rule permits invalid for massive development

Hammered by Auditors

L.A. building department riddled by lax inspections and broken rules

When Night Was Falling

My evening with Johnny Mercer

Winners and Losers

Scenes from Election Night

Our Endorsements

Yet More Lists

Thinking Outside the Big Box

L.A.�s new law to rein in Wal-Mart isn�t sweeping, but it may be smart

Local Boy Makes Good

How Ronald Reagan, a hometown embarrassment, became a world-class embarrassment

Letters

Barbarian at the Gate

An Arnold candidacy pumps up the political game for Hollywood

Can You Hear Them Now?

Unlikely activists shoot down Palisades cell-phone tower

Curb Your SUV

Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

A Letter from Jerusalem If You Cannot Breathe, Raise Your Hand

Letters

A Scary Abundance of Water

Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

Vengeance Is Theirs

World Festival of Sacred Music — The Americas

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars

Letters

...Your May 15-21 Naked Hollywood article by Charles Fleming ["It's the Jews"] was irresponsible journalism at its worst...

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