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Now Open: AltaEats, Chef Paul Ragan's New Altadena (Sort Of) Restaurant

Naming a neighborhood restaurant after its own neighborhood, or what's perceived to be its neighborhood, can be dicey business in greater Los Angeles. Take AltaEats, located on North Allen Avenue near New York, for example. Chef and co-owner Paul Ragan notes that the restaurant he recently opened ... More >>

Americans are Commonly Dying Under Age 50: Blame Stupid Choices, Too Much Driving and Sitting, and Poverty, Study Says

Everyone wants to live forever. But a study from USC and the National Academies suggests that if you'd like to see 51, it's time a lot of people stopped acting stupid. Americans spend more on health care than anyone, but are less healthy, birth to death, than residents in other developed countries. ... More >>

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

The Stave Wine and Beer Bar Opens Tonight: Where Everybody in Long Beach Knows Your Name

"What's this going to be?" a passerby yells into the cavernous, under-construction site at the corner of Broadway and Downtown Long Beach's Promenade. "Not a chain, I hope." Two weeks before the doors roll up and any Pilsner is poured, Natalie van Waardenburg and Garry Muir are walking through The ... More >>

Music Picks: The Dickies, Rufus Wainwright, Jack DeJohnette

Also, Calle 13, Andre Nickatina

Judy Holliday, a Gay Mormon Boy, and More New Theater Reviews

Jessica Abrams comedy about Hollywood, The Laughing Cow traffics in stereotypes but is nonetheless so delightful, says reviewer Rebecca Haithcoat, it grabs this week's Pick of the Week. Here are all the latest New Theater Reviews, or you can find them after the jump. Also, check out this week's st ... More >>

Music Picks: Esperanza Spalding, Elbow, Toro Y Moi, Blink-182

Also, Glen Campbell, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lanie Lane and others

Port Cooking Lesson With The Pragers: What To Do With That Boxed Cake Mix, A Port Glazed Ham Recipe Port Tasting In L.A. Tomorrow

flickr user bakingobsessionsWhite Port Boxed Cake Mix = Port Pound Cake ​There's that window somewhere between early November and mid-February when it feels perfectly acceptable, maybe even wise, to pour yourself an after-dinner drink. Say, Port, or one of its American cousins like the Port- ... More >>

Al Green: Q&A

Now Open: Nonna's Empanadas on Third Street

A. Scattergoodempanadas at Nonna's Empanadas​ If you need something to munch on during the Argentina soccer games -- or your kid's soccer games, for that matter -- you might consider empanadas, those nicely portable filled pastries, especially now that you have a new empanada outlet from which ... More >>

Top 10 Places To Watch the FIFA World Cup

​Tomorrow begins the the most widely watched sporting event in the world, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And for the next month, from June to July 11th, even Laker mania will take a back seat to soccer. The World Cup, held for the first time in Africa, showcases 32 countries. And while you can of co ... More >>

In Hollywood: Mercantile Now Open (and District to Come) From George Abou-Daoud and Chef Kris Morningstar

Restaurateur George Abou-Daoud can't seem to get enough dining action with his already hopping Los Angeles-based eateries, the Bowery, Mission Cantina and Delancey. "I love being around food," says Abou-Daoud, shrugging. Next Monday Abou-Daoud and chef Kris Morningstar (Blue Velvet, A.O.C), will off ... More >>

Rock Picks: Rain Machine, Pearl Jam, Wallpaper, Bon Iver, Dodos

Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others

Lila Downs: Mixtec Blessing

Oaxaca singer weaves rancheras, cumbias, boleros and other Mexican and Latin styles with the energy of rock and the swing of jazz

A Tale of Two Movies

When things go miraculously right — or horribly wrong

Nicole's Gourmet Opens Their Warehouse for 1-Day Sale: Bring a Truck for Those Parmesan Wheels

Damien Newton - LA StreetsblogNicole's Cafe and Market in South Pasadena​So if you're Michael Cimarusti (Providence), Josiah Citrin (Melisse), or Mark Peel (Campanile), where do you pick up that giant wheel of 24-month Parmigiano Reggiano, that mess of dried morels, or those imported specialit ... More >>

Dreaming in Film: At Cannes and Its Renegade Festivals

Where the best movies aren't necessarily the ones in the competition

Uneasy Riders: Christian Petzold’s Postindustrialist Road Movies

Jerichow, the German director's latest, opens in L.A. this weekend

LA People 2009: The New Vaudevillians — Lucent Dossier

Best known for its Coachella water spectaculars, the circus troupe founded by Dream Rockwell reaches to the past and the future for its fantasy performances

Killsonic: A 24-Piece L.A. Big Band's "Cloud of Noise"

Roving musicians fill city's Metro tunnels with sound

Theater Reviews: Divorce! The Musical, Grand Motel, The Jazz Age

Also, Call Me Mister Fry, Blues for Central Avenue and more

Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the elimination of the L.A. Weekly's Theater Editor position. What a privilege: to read all that, to have served ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

Rock Picks: Part Time Punks Festival, The Breeders, Rodney Crowell

Also, Uh Huh Her, James Intveld, Miranda Lee Richards and more

Special Iberian Edicion

Spanish blood, Portuguese tongue

Youth Without Youth: Those Were the Days

Coppola romanticizes his source material in this not entirely terrible offering

The World According to Hutz

Sufism, Chernobyl, Little Richard madness and other adventures in cultural fusion with Gogol Bordello’s mastermind

Rock Picks: Lee ''Scratch'' Perry, The Swell Season, Maximo Park and More

For the week of July 26 – August 2

Rock Picks: Bob Dylan, Martin Rev, The Saints

For the week of July 19-26

Love & Frustration

At 25, Outfest is older, but not necessarily wiser

Not Showing at a Theater Near You

A cinephile goes looking for the films that got away

Letters

Blindfold test with Charlie Haden, 1991

The Year in Film

It's Over!

The World Cup's Hollywood ending

The Labyrinth of Fútbol

For Mexicans, losing to the U.S. is more than a defeat

Games Without Frontiers

The World Cup, week one

A Few Things You Should Know About the World Cup

Reading Between the Lines

Nicholas Shakespeare on S.P.B. Mais

Smut Factory

The corruption of the American television critic

In the Mood for Wong Kar-wai

The year’s best films

The Observer in the Tall Black Hat

Fernando Pessoa and his many faces

Demonios en la calle Broadway

Milagros, exorcismos, anticatolicismo: cómo irse a la ruina en la Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios por Joseph Treviño

Demons on Broadway

Miracles. Exorcism. Catholic-bashing. Going for broke in the Universal Church.

The Learning Tree

Danilo Perez’s new-world Latin jazz

The Narcissist

Natacha Merritt and her Digital Diaries

Treks For Techs

Finding a corner of the cyberuniverse

Cinema Tech

Thom Mount and the Los Angeles Film School

Roots of Terror

The terrible price of independence in East Timor

Squinting at the Future

Playa Vista is the Westside's housing of tomorrow