Paris (France)

GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach

Barefoot at the Louvre

Blaak Heat Shujaa: Desert Rockers

Paris is considered one of the most romantic cities in the world. But guitarist/vocalist Thomas Bellier and bassist Antoine Morel-Vulliez -- co-founders of psych-rock outfit Blaak Heat Shujaa -- had no problems high-tailing it out of there for Los Angeles in 2010. "Paris is the most fucking borin ... More >>

Le Grand Fooding Crush: From Paris to Los Angeles

There is a fine distinction between gourmet and gourmand in French, according to Anna Polonsky, the U.S. Associate Director of Le Fooding. "The whole idea of Le Fooding is to speak with people who like food but are not necessarily foodies. Gourmet is more foodie in a geeky way, whereas gourmand is j ... More >>

4 Places to Go for Bottomless Mimosas

For those who see brunch as an extension of weekend festivities, there is the bottomless mimosa, a drink that is kept refilled until you either call it quits or brunch hours end. It's typically made of equal parts sparkling wine (more often Champagne) and chilled orange juice (preferably fresh-squee ... More >>

UCLA Spotlights Director Jean Rouch, Whose Portraits of African Slums and Lion Killers Are Still Relevant Today

Instagram's Most-Popular Photo Locations? Los Angeles Dominates

Last month we told you about how Southern California locations dominated the year-end list of top Facebook location check-ins. Along comes Instragram with its own year-end list of "most popular locations" for photos uploaded to the social-networking service. Once again ...

Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Big Enough

2 Days in New York Review: Julie Delpy Directs Herself and Chris Rock

Julie Delpy brings the Paris gang to the city, along with Chris Rock

Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

The Big Red Restoration

World Cup of Baking Winners Announced in Paris

No culinary fragrance can compete with that of freshly baked bread. You can be comforted, exalted, seduced, relieved, or stimulated by nutty yeast tones gently wafting toward you. Or maybe you're just hungry. The Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, or World Baking Cup, is an event that will make every ... More >>

Sean Lennon Brings Akira and Other Favorites to Los Angeles Animation Festival

Sean Lennon is best known in music circles. The 36-year-old son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono has released three solo albums, as well as two full-lengths with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl under the name The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (GOASTT). He played with Cibo Matto, collaborated extensively wi ... More >>

Bushmeat Smuggled Into U.S. Poses Virus Threat

Flickr/freedom-studiosLeave the wildlife eating to the wildlife.​Eating monkey meat is a really bad idea -- that's the bottom line. According to BBC News, scientists have documented potentially dangerous viruses entering the U.S. through illegally imported "bushmeat" (African wild animal meat) ... More >>

Chestnuts: Now in Season How to Roast Them Yourself

L.A. doesn't have that romantic tradition of street vendors serving up roasted and salted chestnuts in a simple paper cone when autumn sets in. You have to go to New York or France for that. They're in season though, so if you want to taste them hot from the fire in Southern California, you can make ... More >>

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

What makes Eddie run?

Planes, Trains, Citroëns French Fries: Air France to Fuel Planes with Cooking Oil

Flickr/ldrose​ If you needed another reason to book an Air France flight to Paris, you can now do so in the name of environmentalism. Well, at least if you ignore the carbon footprint part. According to Mother Nature Network, Air France-KLM has announced that this fall it will start fueling pl ... More >>

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

Ou Est Le Cassoulet a L.A.?

Or, for a good bean stew, call ...

Ask Mr. Gold: Ou Est Le Cassoulet À L.A.?

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: My wife had a great cassoulet in Paris several years ago. Is there a place in Southern California that has a real French cassoulet? I know this is the time of year they make it. --Jim Nakano, Glendora Dear Mr. Nakano: The Donut Man! It g ... More >>

OUTSIDE THE LAW

Getting Past the Pain: Feuilleté Chocolate at Paris Baguette

D. GonzalezFeuilleté Chocolate at Paris Baguette Cafe​ There are ways to grab someone's attention. "Chocolate. " See how well that works. Okay, now try, "Chocolate and flaky pastry." Even better right? It is this phenomenon that has made pain au chocolat one of the most well-known French ... More >>

Live Review: John Cale Performs "Paris 1919" at Royce Hall

John Cale​John Cale's album before Paris 1919 was called The Academy in Peril. Last night, at UCLA's Royce Hall, the academy was never in real peril. Sure, there were a couple of moments (see below), when the academy was under a vague risk of being slighted soiled, of being smeared a little w ... More >>

The Edible Schoolyard, Paris Edition: Champs-Elysees Transformed Into Farmers Market

Daily Mail​ If you were lucky enough to be in Paris yesterday and today, we hope you meandered over to the Champs-Elysees to check out one of the most beautiful ad hoc farmers markets you're ever likely to see. To celebrate a 2-day French public holiday, the street before the Arc de Triomphe w ... More >>

Liberty, Equality, LudoBites

Ludovic Lefebvre’s french revolution, 4.0

Q & A With Dorie Greenspan: Her New Book, the Pierre Hermé Fan Club Why Baking Is More Fun Than Gerontology

Alan RichardsonDorie Greenspan​Dorie Greenspan is one of those people who, in a perfect world, would live in the house next door. She would advise you about pie crust over coffee on the front porch. You would leave a plate of anonymous cookies on her front step, knowing how ridiculous it was t ... More >>

Crepe Truck Wars: Crepe'n Around vs. La Galette Creperie

They say Paris is gorgeous in spring. But if you can't make it all the way to France, two new crepe trucks are doing their best to bring a bit of Paris to Los Angeles. The real question: is this town big enough for two crepe trucks? Crepe'n Around (Twitter: @crepenaround), launched by sisters Eile ... More >>

Yippee Ki Yay, Fils de Putain

Cowboy diplomacy from our man in Paris, John Travolta

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

Blood Drops Keep Falling on My Head: Debbie McMahon's Grand Guignolers

ENCHANTREUSE

ALL DANCING, ALL COMPOSING

Rock Picks: Rain Machine, Pearl Jam, Wallpaper, Bon Iver, Dodos

Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others

Movie Reviews: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Jennifer's Body, Love Happens

Also, Crude, You the Living and more

Matias Aguayo Wows The Standard Crowd, Talks Street Parties and New Album

Liz OhanesianMatias Aguayo​ Matias Aguayo will change the way you think about dance music. On the roof of The Standard in Downtown for last night's Culprit party, he was at once a DJ, producer and, most importantly, a performer. He mixed together tracks, the occasional club hit sandwiched in b ... More >>

L.A. Unemployment Headed Upwards

George Segal Sculpture & LAPL Photo ​​Just when you thought the L.A. Economic Development Corp. had delivered all the bad news we needed to hear about the local economy, now the Chamber of Commerce is weighing in with yet another buzzkill. A study produced for the chamber by Beacon Economics ... More >>

FACE IT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PARIS ANYTIME SOON

Silk Purse: AT CHURCH & STATE, CHEF WALTER MANZKE TRANSFORMS A PIG’S EAR

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

A Proper Brasserie: Alain Giraud's Anisette

So old, it's new

Body of Work

SASSAS once again creates an Exquisite Corpse

Let the Sunshine In

Last Thursday morning in Paris, the lineup was announced for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The announcement was made by Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux during a press conference held in a gilded and mirrored salon of the Hotel de Crillon, located on the Place de la Co ... More >>

Bottle Opener

750ml uncorks in South Pasadena

Morocco A Go-Go

An Oyster in Paris

Marc Moreland 1958-2002

Our Daily Pain

Talking Paris Hotel-Room Blues

Thoughts on Montmartre, Jim Morrison and olives au citron