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9 Great Latkes in Los Angeles

Sure, there's fun to be had cooking your own deep fried holiday foods. But sustaining this ritual for a celebration that spans eight nights? Not so appealing. Most households tend to max out at one, maybe two, latke frying sessions, since ventilation methods can only be so effective. And besides, no ... More >>

Wake in Fright, the Lost Grind House Movie That Left Martin Scorsese Speechless

As director Ted Kotcheff told Senses of Cinema magazine, when Aussie grind house creeper Wake in Fright premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, "There was an American seated in one of the rows immediately behind me, and he kept saying: 'Wow! This is great!'" That American turned out to be Mar ... More >>

From The Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: Nat Goodwin Cafe, A Glittering 1913 Restaurant On A Private Santa Monica Pier

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. Adorning the cover of one of the menus in the Nat Goodwin Cafe folder at the Los Angeles Central Library is a picture of a gr ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? vs. Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, Round 1

L.A. Weekly is attempting to determine 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. Check out the complete set of brackets here: Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament. In 1920, Los Angeles was still som ... More >>

Ten Questionable Bands Everyone Listened to at My College

See also: Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List Around the time OJ was acquitted I began college at a private liberal arts school in the lower midwest, a place where students who didn't get into Northwestern came to spend their parents' money on drugs. They also filled their dorm rooms ... More >>

"Niggas in Paris": We Can Now Tell You With Much Greater Accuracy How Many Times Jay-Z And Kanye Will Play It At Staples Center

Sayre Berman​See also: "Niggas in Paris": Jay-Z and Kanye Will Perform It 13 Times When They're Here. Seriously. On November 29 we published a post containing the results of our "Niggas In Paris" linear regression. During the encores of their current Watch The Throne tour, Jay-Z and Kanye Wes ... More >>

Henri Ford: Doctor Sans Frontieres

Music Picks: Roseanne Cash, Theophilus London, Acid Mothers Temple

Also, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Raphael Saadiq, Wu Man and others

Theater Reviews: Caught, The Santaland Diaries, Julia

Also, Remembering the Ladies, Cyrano de Bergerac and more

[Updated] Joseph Mahon and David Haskell Pop Up at Biergarten

A. ScattergoodJoseph Mahon at Bastide​ Update: With Joseh Mahon, until recently the executive chef at Bastide, popping up at Biergarten with David Haskell next week (see the original post, published December 7th, on the next page), it seemed a good time to check in again with the chef. Of the ... More >>

Former 'Baywatch' Beauty Donna D'Errico Says TSA Agents Singled Her Out For Body Scan At LAX (You Know, Because Her Body Is So Friggin' Scannable)

PlayboyD'Errico, in the days when security wasn't so tight.​You're an underpaid TSA security guard. Nobody likes you. Not even your own mother. How do you fill those eight hours a day? Picking out hot chicks MILFs for the notorious full-body x-ray scan, of course. At least that's (sort of) th ... More >>

Steven Slater: The JetBlue Flight Attendant Goes From Hero To Possible Zero In 24 Hours

Hero or zero?​Only Thursday we were marveling at the speed at which a Thousand Oaks flight attendant named Steven Slater became a national hero for giving the verbal finger to an allegedly abusive passenger aboard a JetBlue flight. Just as fast, however, his story of take-this-job-and-shove-it ... More >>

Opus: Once More, With Feeling

Ensemble, life and death in Michael Hollinger's 2006 play

Jet Blue's Steven Slater, Who Allegedly Told Off Entire Flight Before Dramatic Exit, A Homegrown Hero

FacebookSteven Slater.​The wise philosopher Ferris Bueller once said, "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." We blinked and Thousand Oaks flight attendant Steven Slater became a national hero for his major, take-this-job-and-shove-it move t ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

James Beard​This morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady march toward legalization nationwide

Queer Town: Prop. 8 Judge Wants Your Immediate Comments on Televised Trial

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is now seeking public comments about whether or not to televise the Proposition 8 federal trial in San Francisco. Anyone from any state in the country can write to the court, including both supporters and opponents of California's same sex marriage ban.Patrick Range ... More >>

Gone With the Woodwind

Bartender Angelo Cammarata Retires: Mixologists Have Nothing on This Guy

ABCNews.comAngelo Cammarata behind the bar​Angelo Cammarata, the longest-serving bartender on record, is retiring after 77 years of cocktail shaking. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the bartender has sold his family business, in part due to health complications suffered by one of his ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Casi Divas, Post Grad, Shorts

Also, Earth Days, Gotta Dance and more

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Kaleidoscopic Surgery

Meet the Musicians: Tobacco, Graveface, the Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, Iffernaut and (of course) Father Hummingbird.

Birth of a Zombie Nation: The Undead in the Movies

From Bela Lugosi's zombie love slave to George Romero's Living Undead through the soulless corporate workers of more recent films

Movie Reviews: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Dragonball: Evolution, Hannah Montana: The Movie

Also, The Escapist, Forbidden Lies and more

Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#50-41)

Not to be confused with the epic, Eric Roberts, Tae Kwon thriller. 50. Benoit Pioulard-Temper (Kranky) Have you ever been in one of those nutty meditation classes, where the crackpot instructor tells you to close your eyes and imagine that you're in the middle of a forest? Don't be surprised ... More >>

Record Reviews: Coldplay, Modey Lemon

Meat Loaf

Do you love me?

Diary of the Dead: George Romero's Back

Reality bites

How the Dems Could Blow It Again

Born to lose

Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dream

Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival

Brick's Picks: Big Band Blowout

Jazz picks around L.A.

Rock Picks

For the week of April 19–27

Bubble-Grunge Pops Again

The return of the Lemonheads

Bong Hits, Bluegrass, Pervy Puppets, and Tom Petty As Hipster

Because They Have No Words

This week's theater pick. Also reviews of Fences and This is Our Youth

Music Picks

For the week of June 22 - 29

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Grammy Diary - Updated

The Third L.A. Weekly-Hosted Roundtable on New Play Development

Wrecking Ball Blues

August Wilson’s Radio Golf

Terminal Viscosity

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I smell poo

Fight Club

Kerry Speaks!

Why this election is far from over

Pick Up the Torch

The Hives in the land of true rock & roll

Back to the Bass

Lewd Mechanics: Stage Highlights

Letters

Letters

Family Picnic

Fathers, Sons and Holy Ghosts

August Wilson and David Henry Hwang survey the family

The Arroyo Special

The Blue Line is a damned good idea — that costs too damned much