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Hinoki and the Bird Review: The Sweet Smell of Success

David Myers' new Century City restaurant is a triumph of the senses

The Adobo Road Cookbook: A New Filipino Cookbook A Recipe for Red Wine and Short Ribs Adobo

If you're missing The Manila Machine, a jaunty orange truck that once roamed L.A. dispensing Filipino food, there's good news. You can still have the truck's top sellers, including sticky glazed carabao wings, lumpia, a spicy sizzling pork dish called sisig, and pork belly and pineapple adobo. The ... More >>

Asian Immigrants Number Nearly 1.6 Million in L.A., More Than in New York

When president Obama said at the debate last night that "talent" from around the world wants to come to the United States, he wasn't kidding. And they all want to come to L.A. The U.S. Census this week announced that Los Angeles has more foreign-born Asians than any other city in America:

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 >>

[Updated] Campanile La Brea Bakery Store Closing: Walter Manzke's Republique Opening in the Space

Campanile and the La Brea Bakery shop are closing. The restaurant and bakery, which are in adjoining locations separated by a courtyard on La Brea Avenue and were both opened by then-married chefs Mark Peel and Nancy Silverton in 1989, will close at the end of November, the Los Angeles Times reports ... More >>

2NE1 - Nokia Theatre - August 24, 2012

2NE1 Nokia Theatre 08-24-12 See also: K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on the Korean Boy and Girl Groups That Get Major Play in Koreatown 2NE1's first international tour brought the K-pop girl group to Nokia Theatre on Friday. The show felt like a stellar girls night out, and you could tell they w ... More >>

Bourne Legacy Review: Sequel Suffers From Damonlessness

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Afflicted With a Rare Disease Called HIBM, Daniel and Bobby Darvish Have Devoted Their Lives to Finding a Cure

Gary Menes: The Son Also Braises

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. "Being a cook was out of the question," Gary Menes says of his childhood aspirations. The reason: his father. And why do you suppose Menes' father wanted him to become somethin ... More >>

Twilight L.A., 1992, Back in Town 20 Years After Swaths of the City Burned, and More New Reviews.

Alan Aymie's autobiographical saga of his travails within LAUSD, A Child Left Behind, is this week's Pick. Other New Reviews also include Bill Raden's "GO" review of Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, honoring the 20th anniversary of our most recent riots. Smith is not performing in th ... More >>

Bollywood in L.A.: Naz 8 Cinema Manager Raj Singh on His Journey From Kashmir to Artesia

Creatives is a new recurring column about creative people in L.A. following their passions. Growing up in Kashmir, Raj Singh loved going to the theater. "In Kashmir, I was watching two movies in a day," Singh recalls. "Here, I have no time to see movies." Movies, instead, are Singh's job. As gener ... More >>

Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances: The Controversial Origin Story of The Dougie

Editor's Note: Writer Jessica A. Koslow is a USC master's student writing her thesis on krumping. Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances explores some of the most popular street dances in our city. The Dougie Background: Supermodel Kate Upton does the Dougie. Michelle Obama does the Dougie. Even Justin B ... More >>

The Manila Machine: Filipino Food Truck Rolls Out

Marvin GapultosManila Machine​ The democratization of food, if you can call the evolution of the food truck such a thing, continues. And this time, instead of a rogue chef taking the wheel, it's a pair of food bloggers. Noting the relative absence of Filipino food in Los Angeles in general, an ... More >>

Adam Carolla Tells Filipinos to "Get A Life," Slams Pacquiao

Ex-Loveline host and soon-to-be marked man Adam Carolla mouths off about boxer Manny Pacquiao, especially about the boxer's refusal to give blood for drug testing immediately before fights (for the record, Pacquiao has agreed to drug testing immediately after fights). Carolla also makes godawful d ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Harry Culver: A Menu Traces the Culver City Founder's Life

The Culver Hotel​Harry Culver's birthday was January 22, and the celebrations will continue throughout February. Only Harry won't be there. The founder of Culver City, Culver was born in 1880 and died in Hollywood August 17, 1946. For several years he kept an office in the Culver Hotel. And s ... More >>

Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation

Tetro director talks film (it's over), critics (they can be lazy), and marriage (it's tough to be his wife)

Bench Drama: Lawyers Seek News of $35 Million Managed by Judge Manny Real

U.S. District Judge Manny Real, whose appointment to the federal bench dates back to 1966, when Lyndon Johnson put him there, is the focus of a Carol J. Williams piece in today's L.A. Times. The 85-year-old Real is the cranky yet often cryptic jurist in Room 8 of the Roybal Federal Building who's su ... More >>

Seen Behind the Scene: On the Set with Mary Ellen Mark

Brando and other legends immortalized in photographer's new book

Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party and SCR's New Play Fest

It's a small world after all

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Primary colors

The Fil-Am Invasion

Embedded with the hip-hop movement that’s taking over Hollywood

God Shed His Grace On Thee

Gilgamesh, Orestes, and America under fire

Missing the Ex-Factor

AFI remembers the past, neglects the present

Film Reviews

Including Jesus Camp and American Hardcore

The Buckskin Stops Here

Lewis and Clark's excellent adventure

Immigrant Women Speak About Leaving the Church

All Eyes On New Orleans

A look at what the rest of the world is saying

Losing Our Shirts

An unhappy New Year looms for American apparel makers

Reverend Starbucks

GOP Action Heroes

Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush twins

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The leftist case for patriotism

The Pickup

Heat

The O.C., Camille Paglia, Thomas Hardy, Pocket Pool

Then and Now

Iraq through the lens of Vietnam

Quiet Americans

British writer J.G. Farrell and America's missing novels of Empire

The Terror Watch

A chronology of events leading up to 9/11

Among the Wretched

Geoff Dyer on Ryszard Kapuscinski

Urban Naturalist: The $5.5 Billion Bird

Let’s Roll!

A hot-war president for a cold-war nation

The Quality of Mercy

Revisiting Kon Ichikawa

What They Want

War and Power

Is Osama bin Laden a terrorist or soldier, and does it matter?

Lessons From Israel

My So-Called Rotten Life

Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

Fathers, Sons and Holy Ghosts

August Wilson and David Henry Hwang survey the family

From Spaetzle to Saimintosoda

The world on a string

Canada Steals the Show

Working-class jobs in film and television are hijacked north

Shadows and Fights

Images from the ring