Petersen Automotive Museum

Plate, LA Weekly's Food and Wine Event, 2013: Your Visual Aid

For all of you who filled the Petersen Automotive Museum yesterday for Plate, our fifth annual food and wine event, thanks very much for coming. And of, course, to all the chefs and food and wine professionals who brought you your plates of cochinita pibil tacos, salmon sushi, happily incendiary cur ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Cocktail Competition, USC Fair Food Fest, L.A. Weekly's Plate Lucques Cassoulet Night

Cocktail Competition Who can make the tastiest red-colored cocktail? In a benefit for Go Red for Women, an American Heart Association initiative, bartenders from Marina del Rey restaurants Café del Rey, Hal's Bar and Grill, Chart House, James Beach and Tony P's will compete to create the best vodka ... More >>

Go Pork Yourself

Los Angeles Chefs Get Behind Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti

It's common practice for politicians to call on their powerful friends to help raise money. Hollywood has long been involved in politics, and wealthy socialites and campaign fundraiser parties need one another to thrive and survive. But it's new for us to see prominent chefs in the city get involved ... More >>

Plate: LA Weekly's 5th Annual Food and Wine Event on March 3

For all of you who drive by the Petersen Automotive Museum, not to check out the cars but to reminisce about all the gluttony that has gone on there in previous years, it's time to mark your calendars. Once again, the car palace will be the site of LA Weekly's annual food and wine event, formerly kn ... More >>

The History of the World Is Free, But Parking Is $8

Adam Carolla Chats About Cars and the Astonishing Popularity of His Podcast: 'We Have Essentially Become McDonald's'

Former Loveline and The Man Show host Adam Carolla loves cars, comedy, and talking about cars and comedy. His daily The Adam Carolla Show podcast has even received a Guinness World Record for the single most-downloaded episode ever, at 59,574,843, and in his spare time he also co-hosts Adam Carolla' ... More >>

Gas Leak

Biggie Smalls' Mom Wants Grand Jury on Murder

Who Says All New Yorkers Are Arrogant Pricks?

The Gold Standard

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Margarita Dinner, Union des Grands Crus, Meat 101, Soba Workshop, Art Soup Night, DineLA

Margarita Dinner This four-course dinner from executive chef Alex Moreno features a different margarita (made with Don Julio tequila) to complement each dish. The menu includes lobster ceviche, braised pork belly with an artichoke sunchoke ragout and arroz con leche. WHEN: 7 p.m., Thu. Jan. 19 WHER ... More >>

The Gold Standard 2012: Save The Date, Start Fasting

Anne Fishbeinglasses at the 2011 Gold Standard​It's that time of year again. No, not movie award time -- note to foodists: you may want to bring a bag of macarons to The Artist, just to keep yourself awake -- but time to gear up for the 2012 Gold Standard, that glorious event in which Jonathan ... More >>

Cop's Book Says Sean Combs, Suge Knight Ordered Tupac and Biggie Killings

Top detective on rap murders says LAPD pulled the plug despite confessions

LACMA's 'Living In a Modern Way' Evokes Star Trek and Other Revelations of 'Insane' Free Museum Day

Sam BlochResnick Pavilion, LACMA​This Sunday, the folks behind Pacific Standard Time leaned in close and said those three words we love to hear: free museum day! More than twenty-five Southern California art museums offered free admission yesterday. The heavy hitters and their lucky friends ... More >>

Biggie Smalls Murder Confession: Voletta Wallace's Attorney Still Has Questions

​A couple weeks ago, ex-LAPD detective Greg Kading says he handed Voletta Wallace, mother of Biggie Smalls, a copy of his new book, Murder Rap, in which Kading reveals never-before-seen evidence implicating Suge Knight in the death of her son. After giving her the book, Kading claims that Wallace ... More >>

Gilbert 'Magú,' Luján, Chicano Art Icon: An Appreciation

Gil Ortiz​ Gilbert "Magú" Luján used to laugh when described as a Chicano art icon, but he is more than deserving of the title. His irreverent, playful work across a broad spectrum of media that included cardboard, metal, ceramic tile and organic material, among others, fused a distinct visu ... More >>

[Updated] The Gold Standard 2011: So Much Food, So Little Time

​ Update: The Weekly just announced a special presale for this year's Gold Standard tickets, starting today. Save $10 on both regular and VIP tickets. Enter promo code GOLD 11 when purchasing online or calling 1-888-878-9651. Discount available only until 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 20. The ... More >>

Antonio Ballatore: The Lady Gaga of Interior Design

Into the Abyss

Another week in the life of Jonathan Gold's belly

There Will Be Belly: The 2nd Annual Gold Standard Food and Wine Event

If you happened to be looking for Octavio Becerra, Ludo Lefebvre, Leo Bulgarini or Susan Feniger yesterday, they were all at the Petersen Automotive Museum, and no, they weren't ogling over the Hot Wheels Hall of Fame. Ludo was busy churning cornichon sorbet out of his Pacojet to adorn cups of cold ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Club Wear

Anything for the Kids: Johnny Rockets Open at the Petersen Automotive Museum

Photo credit: Jessica RitzThe pedestrian-only accessible Johnny Rockets at the Petersen Auto Museum.​Although it's a thoroughly fascinating place, the Petersen Automotive Museum is the kind of institution where only car junkies or families with small children are likely to return. For those in ... More >>

GO LA: Fringe Artists, Porno Films and Lisa Lampanelli

Plus some high-brow stuff to do, February 27-March 5

"This Was Someone's Daughter:" Paleontologists Find Huge Boneyard

The announcement of a huge prehistoric ossuary discovered near La Brea Tar Pits is one of those stories that delights through a balance of incongruous details. The fact that the bones were located under the old May Co. parking lot lent a vague irony to the announcement -- who knew that beneath the l ... More >>

Among the Size-0 Crowd at Fashion Week

Painful stilettos, accreting around Mandy Moore, and more

Fashion Week Diary: Gen Art, Girls in Pink, Boys in Pink, Man in Shroud of Flannel

The other night was more Gen Art. Again at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Eight new designers showed collections, six womenswear (Nanushka, Quail, Peonie, Wayf, Laeken, Maxine Dillon) and two menswear (Wayne Hadly, KZO). My favorites were KZO and Laeken. This is KZO. It's designed by a bashful y ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: The Pre-Pre Show

Every October for the past several years, Fashion Week in Los Angeles begins with the Gen Art show. Actually, it begins properly in September with people going on diets and many frantic emails between fashion reporters, stylists, buyers, and publicists, with a deluge of invitations in the mail, and ... More >>

Death Makes a Holiday

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Auto Motives

How car-seat upholstery became Kim White’s bag

Chili Con Carney's

On the hot dog express

The Secret of His Success

Why does a billionaire think Steve Barr is worth $10.5 million?

Dutch Auction

Lowbrow relics on the block; RIP, Fausto Vitello

That Burning Man Feeling, Chitty Chitty, Mariachis and Tut’s Guts

Bart Wars

Stuff

The sculptures of Lynn Aldrich, the paintings of Dennis Hollingsworth and the puppets of Anaphoria

Hot Wheels

In Search of a Home

Children’s Museum’s plan for edge of Griffith Park has few fans

Letters

Marilyn Martinez’s article on Superintendent McKinley Nash ["Big Stick on Campus," June 19–25] is one-sided, full of inaccuracies, and reflects flawed investigation by your reporter...