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Jerry Hopkins: Jim Morrison's Biographer Finds a Strange Kind of Bliss in Bangkok

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Celestial Bowling Party in Eagle Rock

This week, an alien-inspired concert/party happens at an iconic bowling alley, and two artists make intricate renderings of mystery plants. 5. The art star with the bloody head In Happy Song for You, the short film made by artists Stanya Kahn and Llyn Foulkes in 2011, Foulkes appears with blood dri ... More >>

10 Best Breakfasts in the West San Fernando Valley: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

The phrase "breakfast in the west San Fernando Valley" may not have quite the same ring to it as, say, "springtime in Paris." But if you're bleary-eyed, hung-over or just plain hungry, the suburbs can provide some great meals to start your day. Whether it's a classic dish like eggs and hash browns, ... More >>

The Tamale Curator: John Sedlar Keeps Cooking

Since John Sedlar closed Playa early last month, he has hardly been taking time off. He's been busy running Rivera, planting Playa's rooftop garden -- which will stay as the restaurant changes names and concepts and chefs -- and planning an upcoming trip to Paris. He's also been working on his long ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including 'The Happiness Show'

See also: *Asshole Festival 2013: Artists Yell at the Assholes of Los Angeles From a Street Corner in Chinatown *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a designer explains happiness in West Hollywood, a fact-blurring foreign correspondent's office opens in Highland ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Battling Curators to Banana Splits

This week, there's a game show-style showdown in Santa Monica, a print fair at LACMA and a film that tours through facets of pre-invasion Baghdad showing in Eagle Rock. 5. Justin Bieber's leftovers Art Is Shit Editions, a fairly young, L.A.-based art publishing company that produces objects as well ... More >>

Laura Escude Is Oz Behind the Curtain

The music programmer makes blockbuster tours pop

Cookbook Review: How to Boil an Egg A Lemon Ricotta Pancake Recipe By Way Of London & Paris

In this new year of chef cookbooks and kitchen resolutions, sometimes you simply want to fine tune the basics: the perfect pork chop, the creamiest ice cream, How to Boil an Egg. In her latest book, Rose Carrarini, owner of Paris' Rose Bakery, reminds us just how much of a culinary chameleon the egg ... 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 >>

L.A. Art World Competes in a...Tennis Tournament?

This past Saturday, despite the threat and eventual onslaught of late-autumn rain, about 100 art-world players (tennis and otherwise) gathered at the posh and uber-private Los Angeles Tennis Club for the FRAME (French Regional American Museum Exchange) benefit tennis tournament, in an inspired partn ... More >>

Q & A with Anthony Bourdain: The End of No Reservations, CNN Throwing a Drink in Alan Richman's Face

See also: Anthony Bourdain: 5 Unexpected Lessons He Taught Us Last Night. See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately. Anthony Bourdain has a lightness to his voice. It's jovial, almost, which is unnerving. "This is the longest I'v ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

Crafted, the $8 Million Crafts Market That Will Be the Biggest in the U.S., Opens in San Pedro

Collapsible Christmas trees, Barbie dolls and iPads -- a tidal wave of goods mass-produced overseas hits the Port of Los Angeles every day. Moving this bounty from ship to shore is the lifeblood of San Pedro. It may seem odd then, that the latest attraction at the port is a humungous marketplace of ... More >>

Summer Reading List: New Food Beverage Books For The Family

The upside of June gloom: It's the perfect excuse to check a few titles off the kids' summer reading list and to get started on your own. After all, the sunburns and 100 degree days will be waiting in July and August. Here are some of our favorite recently released food and drink book recommendati ... More >>

Turner Classic Movies Film Festival 2012

Our picks for the must-sees

Coming This Summer: Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in The Company of Cats

Anticipation in the nonfiction food book world depends on your taste in dining companions, past and present: Julia Child, Yottam Ottolenghi, Diana Kennedy, perhaps. And this summer, it will also depend on how you feel about cats. Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in The Company of Cats by Patricia ... More >>

The Can-Canada

Top 10 Street Art and Graffiti Stories of 2011

Shannon CottrellJR in L.A.​Yes, year-end lists. Not even street art is exempt. But hey, 2011 was a banner year for the Los Angeles street art and graffiti communities, as they enjoyed plenty of worldwide attention. LA Weekly put together the ten L.A.-related street art and graffiti stories th ... More >>

Winemaker Q & A With Joel Peterson: On His First Thanksgiving Wine, Atomic Bombs Alice Waters

Joel PetersonThe Young Wine Fiend, Peterson, And His Mom (Center), 1955​Joel Peterson, founder of Ravenswood Winery, isn't exactly the sort of winemaker to veer off the conversation track into lilting conversations about the similarities between playing the bagpipes and making wine. Rather, Pe ... More >>

Rum Society: Connoisseurship Made Accessible

On the last Tuesday of every month, downtown's Caña Rum Bar hosts Rum Society, a members-only tasting event that features a rum expert, a rum company representative, and access to some of the finest small-batch rums in the world. September's event featured two plantation rums from Cognac Ferrand, a ... More >>

Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

Halfway through, and it's clear: Cannes 2011 has issues

Cannes 2011: Good Movies, Where Are You?

​ CANNES, France. The air is sweet, the food is fine, the company agreeable, but the movies so far... oy vey. With one exception: Inspired by the true story of a Tijuana beauty queen who got mixed up with the local narco gangsters, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala is a ferociously paced crime thri ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Hyacinth Macaw, Locked and Loaded, Gigi

Also The Sonneteer, Wrinkles and more

Stage Raw: The Sonneteer

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ANNOUNCING THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE SONNETEER ​Photo by Katie Pomerantz Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation Italian-A ... More >>

HI-LESLIE, HI-LESIE, HI-LO, HI-LO

Q & A With Joan Nathan, Part 2: Kosher Wines, "Newish Jewish" How Tom Colicchio (Literally) Saved Her Life

Joan Nathan​In the first part of our conversation with Joan Nathan, we drove around the hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, (via speakerphone) of this award-winning cookbook writer and authority on all things Jewish cuisine, as she explained who loves matzo in France (apparently everybody), ... More >>

Q & A With Joan Nathan: Her New Book, Jewdar The Secret French Matzo Society

​Tonight's sundown is the sixth night of Chanukah. To celebrate this occasion, we check in with Joan Nathan, award-winning author of ten cookbooks about Jewish cuisine, the latest being Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France (Knopf). It's part cookbook, part inve ... More >>

Q & A With Ming Tsai, Part 2: "Confusion" Cuisine, The Importance of Cookbook Pictures Why We Need To Go To Grandmother's House

A. ScattergoodMing Tsai poolside at The Standard in Hollywood​ In the first part of our interview with cookbook author and longtime television cooking show host Ming Tsai -- yes, he has a restaurant too, if you're anywhere near Wellesley, Mass. -- the chef talked about the evolution of food T ... More >>

The Gospel at Saratov

Lee Breuer on the Volga

La Petite Crêperie Opens for Dinner

Barbara Hansenthe crepe maker at work​ La Petite Crêperie in Mar Vista has just started serving dinner. The new dinner menu has crêpes that aren't on the daytime menu and appetizers such as seared foie gras and salmon tartare. This tiny place, which opened June 2nd, is as French as you can ... More >>

A Dorie Greenspan Update: The New Book's Out More Cookies For The Holidays

​A few months ago we did a Q & A with Dorie Greenspan, cookbook author, foodblogger, pop-up cookie baker, Friend of Pierre, and generally nice person, on the occasion of her new book, Around My French Table, which was slated to come out this October. Imagine our surprise when -- unlike many ... More >>

Top 10: Fictional TV Food Establishments

Even though The French Chef premiered in 1963, the rest of American TV land wasn't exactly keeping up with Julia in that decade. Nor would it catch up in the food department any time soon. But that's fine, because restaurants on television don't focus on the food. Until the non-fictional TV world ge ... More >>

Q & A With Joël Robuchon: "Los Angeles Is Somewhere That I am Extremely Interested In"

Joël-Robuchon.comJoël Robuchon​If you truly love food, Joël Robuchon is a man who likely needs no introduction. His restaurants span the globe, with locations in Paris, Monaco, Londres, Las Vegas, New York, Tokyo, Nagoya, Hong Kong, Macao and Taipei. In 1989, the prestigious French restaura ... More >>

Q & A With Remi Lauvand, Part 2: French Cafeteria Food, Getting to New York Cooking Backwards

Fran CollinCafe Pierre chef Remi Lauvand​Yesterday in the first part of our interview with Café Pierre's Rémi Lauvand, the chef talked to us about how he got to the Manhattan Beach restaurant from, ultimately, his native France. It was a journey that took him from New York to Santa Barbara a ... More >>

Eric Rohmer's Talking Pictures

Remembering the idiosyncratiic New Wave director, 1920-2010

Ariel Pink Signs To 4AD, Readies Euro Tour

Ariel goes Juggalo?​Local freak-folk ambassadors Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti only just returned from touring Europe, and they're looking to head back across the pond on Friday. Consider this trip a victory lap, however, as the psychedelic five-piece has just been announced as the latest sign ... More >>

What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?

A decade after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Generation Y's anointed auteur tries for a comeback with Fantastic Mr. Fox

Dark Surprise: Claud Beltran Gets all Noir on Us

Irving Penn's Portraits at the Getty: Tip Your Waiter, Circa 1950

Photo credit: J. Paul Getty MuseumYour waiter, circa 1950​In the era of celebrity cooks and Top Chef, it's often the rest of the people who work in the restaurant and food industry who get forgotten. When was the last time the Food Network gave a show to a waiter or a fishmonger? Between 195 ... More >>

Somers Town: Truth in Advertising

Shane Meadows’ latest gets at the heart of working-class London

Fashion Week Diary, Day 3: The Battalion, Maxine Dillon, Sjobeck, and an Abundance of Dresses Cute & Slutty

Sjobeck's dresses, Inspired by the designer's grandfather. For real. Day 3. The final day of Boxeight shows. It's nice to see the two bohemian Taiwanese sisters who design The Battalion line are back and bohemian as ever. They showed at GenArt last year. This season, their theme is "The New World" ... More >>

The Parisian Room: Alain Giraud's Anisette Brasserie

A glass of Sancerre, a half-dozen oysters, and a French chef who's found home

The Escape Artist: John Banville on Georges Simenon

SXSW Day 4-Pitchfork Party Gets a 6.4, Due to Highly Derivative Partying

A Pitchfork party without Sparks? That's like Eliot Spitzer without whores: fatigued, thirsty and miserable. And rest assured, Sparks flowed like the River Ganges, even going as far to sponsor the bash, which wasn't really as bad as it was boring. A bunch of people sitting in bleachers trying t ... More >>

I Can has Cheezburger?

Comme Ça - finally, a brasserie Made for L.A.

Ask Mr. Gold

The Cheney Connection

Tracing the Halliburton money trail to Nigeria

Paris Trance: Searching for the Authentic at Monsieur Marcel

Angelic Angélique

The Reluctant Café

Picholine makes up in quality what it lacks in tables