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Pop-Up: Cordero Negro ART from the Ashes

Sandra Cordero has been presenting food with art in Los Angeles since her days at Royal/T. She moved from New York City to help open the now-closed art gallery café, eventually stepping away from the front as general manager to helm the kitchen as chef. This Thursday, April 25, through Saturday, Ap ... More >>

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

10 Best French Macarons in Los Angeles

French macarons are glorious confections, little sandwiches of buttercream or ganache filling pressed between two meringue disks. (They are not to be confused with macaroons, which are coconut, and most definitely do not resemble tiny round pastry sandwiches.) When well-made, macarons are delicate c ... More >>

5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including the Return of the Joffrey Ballet

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance shows include the start of a 9-month Stravinsky Festival. 5. Who's Joffrey Now? The Joffrey Ballet may call Chicago home now, but it con ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun vs. Carolyn See's Golden Days , 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 Any true rambler knows ... More >>

5 Overlooked L.A. Dining Trends of 2012 (That Will Change the Way You Eat in 2013)

Every year dining trends come and go -- on the suface 2012 might not have looked like the most eventful year, aside from the foie gras ban and some high-profile restaurant closures. But like the Santa Ana's, the winds of change are forever blowing in L.A., and the seeds of what will likely arrive in ... More >>

5 Essential Back-To-School Food Titles

Summer tomatoes are at their prime, the first fall apples have arrived. Where else but L.A. can you continue to cook your way through the best summer cookbooks by day while starting on those fall reading lists at night? These are the sort of nightcap-worthy books to pull out when you don't quite f ... More >>

L.A. Metro Trains to Run Until 2 a.m. on Weekends

Haaaaaaallelujah. Metro's big announcement today is better than all its 2012 ribbon-cuttings combined: The transportation authority's official blog reports (with three exclamation points!!!) that, beginning in late July, "all Metro Rail lines will run until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. Tha ... More >>

Exclusive: Unearthed Photos of the Beatles in the Mid-'60s

In 1964, U.K. photographer Harry Benson was headed to Africa on assignment for the Daily Express when he got a call from his editor, saying the plans had changed. He was now going to Paris to photograph the Beatles. Benson was less than thrilled. "I thought of myself as a serious journalist," he say ... More >>

Spain's Elena Arzak Named World's Best Female Chef

Preparatory to naming the World's 50 Best Restaurants, the folks at S. Pellegrino, Acqua Panna and Restaurant magazine and, it seems, Veuve Clicquot, last year established a shiny new award: The World's Best Female Chef. This year's winner has just been named. The 2012 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Fe ... More >>

2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition

Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>

Vaginal Davis, Performance Artist, on Why Her 'Pussy Is Still in Los Angeles' Though She 'Lives in Berlin'

Vaginal Davis, the one-of-a-kind genderqueer performance artist/writer (Cholita, Bricktops, Fertile LaToya Jackson Magazine, much, much more) returns from her adopted home of Berlin for My Pussy Is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin) at the old Bullocks Wilshire. Still jetlagged, she update ... More >>

Paul Koudounaris' "Empire of Death"

How an art historian became fixated on ossuaries

L.A. Traffic a Breeze Compared to 10 Other Global Cities, Including Beijing, Moscow and Milan

It's time to jam.​Traffic in L.A. is about as fun as a trip to the dentist's office, and yes, we usually rank at the top when it comes to American metropolises with the worst "gridlock." But on a global scale, we're actually a walk in the park. At least according to IBM's latest "Global Commu ... More >>

David Yoon's Fantasy to Turn L.A. Into Paris by Making Streets Narrower

Courtesy of David YoonAbbott Kinney in Venice, narrowed​ Los Angeles is a wide, sprawling city in which five-lane roads are considered small. But what if it were suddenly made narrower? People dream of the charming streets of Paris, which barely allow two cars to pass each other yet seem a lo ... More >>

Paul Thek at the Hammer Museum and the History of Meat Art

Cannes Wrap: Melancholia's Battle With The Tree of Life Overwhelms the Festival

Farid Zadi: The Couscous Coach

Kevin ScanlonFarid Zadi​ Farid Zadi likes to tell the story of how, when he was 14, he got a job as a dishwasher at a local castle to make some extra money. That would be a real castle, not one where the waitstaff dress like courtesans to bring you faux-medieval chicken legs while you watch fa ... More >>

Farid Zadi: The Couscous Coach

Hadewijch: Like a Prayer?

Religious devotion, harsh and unyielding

Osteria La Buca Gets New Chef, New Menu

​In addition to a streamlined new look, Melrose-and-Western neighborhood favorite Osteria La Buca is getting a streamlined menu courtesy of new executive chef Jason Neroni, an Orange County native known for his cooking at Brooklyn's Porchetta and Manhattan's 10 Downing Food & Wine. (He's also ... More >>

Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS Le Bernardin's Numbers

A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont​ Eric Ripert was in town a few weeks ago on a book tour for his fourth and most recent cookbook, Avec Eric, a sort-of companion book to his Emmy award-winning PBS show of the same name. We met Ripert at the Chateau Marmont, his customary hang-ou ... More >>

THE ILLUSIONIST

Notes From a Bunker in New York City

A Free Man of Color, Notes From Underground and two Pinter one-acts

Q & A With Ray Garcia, Part 2: What Dogs Order At The Peninsula, Real Restaurant Cooking Helping Kids With Heirloom Tomato (And Marijuana) Issues

J. GarbeeSeared Tuna Nicoise With Quail Eggs​We left off yesterday's chat with Ray Garcia, Executive Chef at Fig in Santa Monica, with dog food. "It was probably seared ground sirloin, some of the best beef in the country, and the dog didn't like the temperature or something like that," says G ... More >>

Pictures at a Revolution

Globalism, addiction and the American Cinematheque's Olivier Assayas mini-retrospective

Your Walter Manzke Update: 4 Days at Test Kitchen, El Bulli, Chicago, Etc.

A. ScattergoodSanta Barbara prawn with brown butter, lemon and capers​ As you will know if you read Jonathan Gold's most recent review, the Test Kitchen has been up and running for a few weeks now, featuring a rotating group of chefs like guest performers in a how-do-you-get-reservations-for- ... More >>

Take Two: Creole by Babette de Rozières, Now In Paperback Her Coconut Jam Recipe

​In the cookbook world, there are the $22.95-and-under whimsical buys, and then there are the long term investment cookbooks. Books like Babette de Rozières' Creole, that don't simply offer recipes, but a glimpse into the mind of a chef and a comprehensive overview of a cuisine. Books with in ... More >>

Maison Akira: Tour de Fusion

A blast from our Franco-Japanese past

Ask Mr. Gold: Tour de Fusion, or Maison Akira, a Blast From our Franco-Japanese Past

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Are there still restaurants serving French-Japanese food in Los Angeles, along the lines of the defunct Grill Lyon, C'est Fan Fan or Cafe Blanc. Besides the Chayas, of course. And I know about Chinois. --Kevin Dear Kevin: It wasn't so l ... More >>

Ernst Lubitsch: Sweet Smell of Excess

Escape the New Depression doldrums with LACMA's tribute to the past master of classy Hollywood comedy

Like a Rainbow in Curved Air: An Interview with Terry Riley

Legendary composer-performer Terry Riley is the creator of such groundbreaking "Minimalist" works as In C, A Rainbow In Curved Air, Poppy Nogood and, with the Kronos Quartet, decidedly un-Minimalist works as Cadenza on the Night Plain and Salome Dances for Peace. He'll perform solo and in collabora ... More >>

Back to (Cooking) School: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles Gets More Students An Anti-Griddle

In questionable economic times, people tend to hit the bars, go to movies--and go back to school. In the Food Network Era, when food is not only a daily necessity but a commodity, popular entertainment, the subject of reality television, and even a venue for celebrity, we thought we'd check in and s ... More >>

Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman

To hell and back with Antichrist's Cannes-winning star

L.A. Billionaire Eli Broad Lands in ArtReview Top Ten

Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad has a knack for getting ranked.The Broad FoundationEli and Edythe Broad​Whether it's as one of the richest men in the world, one of the richest men in L.A., one of the of this country's most influential and generous philanthropists, or, in this case, one of the mo ... More >>

Form and Emotion: The Art and Life of Alain Resnais, at LACMA

Five decades of French director’s work featured in monthlong retrospective

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Treefall and The Chairs: Beyond World’s End

Postapocalyptic plays by Henry Murray and Eugene Ionesco

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Lofty Ideals: Bistro Ambitions at Steven Arroyo's Church & State

A new art-world restaurant on downtown's Industrial Street

Transcendent, Transitory Tapas

Ludovic Lefebvre’s temporary contemporary

99 Essential - List Only

L’Étranger in a Strange Land

Michel Houellebecq’s Weekend in L.A.

The Revolutionary: Ludovic Lefebvre at Bastide

Joe Pytka's restaurant under Lefebvre has all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a Michelin-starred French restaurant, and then some

Don't Call It a Comeback

Beacon, a new kind of hybrid

The Big Cheese

Happyland

Dangerous Liaison

Uncanny

For the love of soup

Monsieur Naturel

R. Crumb in France