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The Tasting Kitchen: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Music Picks: Foxygen, Tomahawk and Nick Cave

Los Angeles Is A Boss-Dating Capital

The firm PayScale, which calculates market salaries for employees and employers, didn't rank L.A. as a top city in America for finding love at work. Nor did we make the list of top towns even for finding a workplace fling. Los Angeles is not known for coworkers who are "on the prowl." Bummer. But, ... More >>

Hipster Heaven

Cortez might seem like a parody of current food trends -- if only it weren't so good

New Beer Books: Beer Awesomness The Beer Tasting Tool Kit For Summer Beer Fun

Summer beer books are a lot like summer movies. Fun, if not always a Utopias sort of memorable moment. But if you have ever done, or maybe still do, crazy things like keg stands when the summer days (and subtitles) get longer, the just-released Beer Awesomeness: A Champion's Guide to Party Skills, A ... More >>

Natural Wine: An Explanation Where to Find It

What's in a glass of wine? The answer might be surprising. Wine is basically spoiled grape juice. (Whoever first ingested it millennia ago: hat tip.) But these days wine's ingredients can also contain a laundry list of adds in's: sulfur dioxide, egg whites, oak chips, water and numerous chemical ad ... More >>

Choking Game is The Rage With Teens

As many as one out of ten teens (11 percent, actually) have participated in the "choking game," cutting off air to get high or, in Rob Schneider's case, accentuate organism. The alarming stat from a West Coast study was published this week for the May issue of the journal Pediatrics. Researchers l ... More >>

Food & Wine Picks 2012 Best New Chefs: Congratulations Bryant Ng of The Spice Table

Last night Food & Wine editor Dana Cowin announced the winners of that magazine's 24th annual Best New Chefs in America award. You know the drill: ten chefs from around the country are picked, awarded, featured in the July issue and fĂȘted at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic this summer. So, drumroll p ... More >>

Portlandia the Tour: Nerdy Fan Love at the Echoplex

The top groupies in the audience for Portlandia the Tour have been a gay couple from Napa that attended the Los Angeles show last night dressed in matching "Put a Bird on It" t-shirts. They've been to every show on the tour so far. Portlandia actors/creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are ap ... More >>

10 Best Coffee Shops in Los Angeles

T. NguyenCoffee Commissary​It used to be that you just needed one hand to count all the truly outstanding coffee shops in Los Angeles. Now, thanks to a recent surge of brave coffee geeks-turned-entrepreneurs, you need both hands to tick off all the stellar shops in the city, and maybe that is ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Carmen Trutanich's War on Art Murals

Can a bumbling L.A. City Council revive the local street art form?

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Fosselman's (Day 3)

What's there left to say about Fosselman's? The quaint Alhambra ice cream shop has been written up everywhere and routinely makes local and international "best of" list. Deservedly so. Foseelman's is a 92-year-old throwback to a decade -- make that a century -- when every suburban strip mall from ... More >>

Mini Sneak Peek Of L.A.'s Best Coffee App: 4 Coffee Bars

T. NguyenEspresso Cielo in Santa Monica​ If you read our interview with Mark Lamberton earlier today, you'd know that the London-based younger brother of Blue Crow Media's Derek Lamberton was recently dispatched to Los Angeles to swig untold cups of coffee as research for their upcoming L.A.'s ... More >>

Candy Cane Joe-Joe's Are Back!

More than miniature twinkling lights or The Little Drummer Boy blaring from every boutique, the surest sign the Christmas season has arrived is the return of Candy Cane Joe-Joe's -- or, as they're known on the street, Christmas Crack. Thanks in part to their seasonal nature, these ersatz Oreos ha ... More >>

Live Review: Parson Red Heads' Farewell Show at The Echo

Rachel CarrParson Red Heads​ All good things must come to an end. Last night local favorites Parson Red Heads played their second farewell show at the Echo. After five years of playing in Los Angeles, the Red Heads are moving back to their hometown of Portland, OR. Attendees of the show were ... More >>

Tonight: Menomena, The Chapin Sisters, Primus, Jennifer Knapp, Buddy Guy, Mark Kozelek, Brandi Emma

Alicia RoseMenomena​Danny Seim of experimental rockers Menomena jokes that the three-plus-year wait for his bands's fourth album owes to two years of touring, a substantial period making the new music and some time spent "arguing over it." So, Seims says, "in the wake of brutal disagreements ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

Flore Vegan Cuisine​ According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive V ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

​According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy ... More >>

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

Adam Cooper: The Mayor's Twitterer

The YaoMing Lips, Phoenix Sunn 0)))'s and Bon Iverson: #IndieRockBasketBall Rocks & Finger Rolls Twitter

The YaoMing Lips, Phoenix Sunn 0)))'s, and Bon Iverson: #IndieRockBasketBall

2010 IACP Award Winners Announced

​The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- which comes up first on a Google search, proving maybe that cops can SEO better than writers -- has announced their 2010 cookbook award winners. The ho ... More >>

Kogi's Roy Choi is First Food Truck Chef Named "Best New Chef" by Food & Wine

Anne FishbeinChef Roy (far right) and the crew​ Roy Choi, more intimately known as Papi to his Kogi BBQ co-workers, is the first food truck chef to be named "Best New Chef" by Food & Wine. The 22nd annual award, announced yesterday by Food & Wine Editor in Chief Dana Cowin, highlights ten ris ... More >>

2009: The Year in Obsessions

L.A. Weekly’s music editor lists the 10 records he couldn’t get out of his head

The polluter of Paradise Cove

Multimillionaire Steven Dahlberg let sewage into the Pacific for years. His modest fine: $54,000

Os Mutantes to Launch U.S. Tour in Los Angeles

Legendary Brazilian tropicalia group Os Mutantes, whose work in the late 1960s fused Brazilian samba rhythms with Beatle-esque baroque pop, will perform at the Echoplex on August 28. The band, who recently signed to the LA-based Anti- imprint, are getting ready to release their first studio album in ... More >>

The Henry Clay People to Convene A "Mustache Circus" Featuring Fol Chen, Flying Tourbollin Orchestra

Timothy Norris Last Thursday we got a note from Andy Siara, he of the Henry Clay People, to inform us of an upcoming HCP show at the Echo and Echoplex that has the potential to be a great event: A Mustache Circus, slated for Friday, August 14. Says Siara: We're callin it the "Rock n Roll Mustache ... More >>

Top 10 Indie Rock Albums of 2008

By Michael Roberts In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They'r ... More >>

SXSW Day 3: Pissed Jeans, Valet, White Rabbits, Thurston Moore, and an impregnated brain

Last night. Last night? Umm, last night ... What the heck did I do last night? Wait. Where the hell am I? In a hotel room, okay ... yeah ... good. At least I'm safe. Okay, now, what the hell did I do again? Jeez. Think. Flashes is all I got, and one grainy image on my cell phone. A half a taco on m ... More >>

Untraceable: You Kill Me

Following lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe

Action taken in solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Letters: Not Such Fine Lines

Our readers write

Last Night: The Klaxons at the El Rey

The Klaxons El Rey Theatre, July 10, 2007 By Sandy Kanphantha It's almost like any other night at the El Rey. Lines are stretched along the side of the building. Giddy and shivering cold concert attendees waiting to get inside. But last night, Klaxons brought the heat in L.A. at the sold out show ... More >>

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Serious Fireworks

The Hobohemians

On the rails with the new freedom riders

Out of the Dark

Fight Club’s Chuck Palahniuk and the world of Choke

A to G

As the world turns Blackalicious

Clouds Over Sunset

Street fair may have outgrown its community roots

Life in the 31st Century

Matt Groening: Past, present, Futurama