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Five Dance Shows to See This Week, Including Balanchine's "Rubies"

This week's dance events include Los Angeles Ballet with Balanchine Festival Red, visitors from Canada, and a last chance to meet Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre at the Oasis. See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Thing ... More >>

Someone's in the Kitchen with Dine L.A.

Black Ice and Frozen Bird Baths in Stunned Los Angeles -- Could Recode Cold Snap Bring Snow?

Commuters whose cars piled up in Beverly Glen Canyon today had no idea the dark smear on the road wasn't sprinkler water -- it was black ice, not seen in decades by most Los Angeles urbanites. Residents of the San Fernando Valley were baffled today to see birds pecking at water in birdbaths -- unti ... More >>

Eat This Now: Vegan Pho at Happy Veggie

Sure, the staff at your local Vietnamese restaurant might say they can make a veganized pho, but do you trust that a server at a restaurant who serves meat understands what it means not to eat beef, chicken or beef-chicken broth? Then, do you trust that the chef will understand? The answer, if you a ... More >>

Jackson Galaxy, the 'Cat Whisperer' of Animal Planet's My Cat From Hell

Forty-six-year-old Jackson Galaxy and his beloved Velouria look like a pair of furry lovebirds as he wakes her for a mid-Sunday morning kiss. "Oh delicious," Galaxy says as he holds his life partner of nearly 20 years, nuzzling her face. "Your breath is terrible." Unlike a lot of ladies, Velouria ... More >>

Star Wars Light Saber Relay Heads From Santa Monica to Comic-Con San Diego This Summer

Legions of nerds will head to San Diego Comic-Con this summer not in their Scions, scooters or Priuses, as usual, but on-foot, with Star Wars lightsabers in hand. In probably the most physical activity geeks have ever embarked upon, the Course of the Force lightsaber relay will take these human cal ... More >>

Dance to the Future

Naja's 4th Annual IPA Festival

Once a year, Naja's Place -- situated on the waterfront of King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach for over 30 years -- dedicates over half of their 88 taps to a hophead's dream line up of India Pale Ales. From Thursday, May 3, when they open at 2:00 p.m. to Thursday, May 10, when they close at 1:00 a. ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/26 - 3/30

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Yes, pork lovers of the world, as of today, for just under $3,000, J&D's can send you off to your eternal sleep in a bacon coffin." Lighten Up Your Funeral With a Bacon Casket. "We foodists have a sense of humor, right?" ... More >>

A Nutcracker To Call Our Own

A Nutcracker To Call Our Own

5 Best Ice Cream Shops in Los Angeles

5.1. Rite Aid (everywhere): Their ice cream isn't chic and artisanal, but it's cheap, ubiquitous and features their standout flavor, Chocolate Malted Krunch. Milky, creamy and slightly tart, it's flecked with soft shavings of dark chocolate that melt on your tongue while crisp, malted mini-bombs e ... More >>

LA Beer Week 2011: Opening Night Kicks Off at Naja's

We love the fact that LA Beer Week is actually two weeks. From the kick off party at Naja's Place on tonight, October 10, through the closing beer festival at Union Station on Sunday October 23, this is an L.A. beer lover's dream month. Each and every day, multiple bars will be hosting "Event Nigh ... More >>

Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others

30 Scoops in 30 Days: The Aftermath

​ It's summer. You want to eat ice cream. Here's a map to help you do it. From Altadena to Artesia, from Santa Clarita to Redondo Beach, from Echo Park to Venice, it's a roundup of all the places we visited on our 30 Scoops in 30 Days quest, plus a few other hot ice cream spots. And it's just ... More >>

$1 Million Rooftop Takeover Robbery of ATM Delivery Company Run by Cops (We Kid You Not)

Heat.​A brass-balls takeover robbery of an ATM-cash delivery company netted as much as $1 million for bad guys in South El Monte last night, authorities said. Sheriff's officials said the crew entered through the roof Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told the Weekly the company is Commonwea ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Delicieuse (Day 15)

Delicieuse is plastered with charts and signs extolling the virtues of goat's milk, but we don't seek out ice cream for its curative powers. Nor do we trek to Redondo Beach for Delicieuse's goat's milk ice cream. We come for the incredible sorbets.

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

Finding an Authentic Fake Restaurant in L.A.

Charles B. Hensley, SoCal Inventor of Zicam, Arrested For Allegedly Selling Fake Bird Flu Remedy

​The SoCal inventor of zinc-based Zicam cold treatment has been charged with importing and distributing an unapproved treatment for bird flu, the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced today. Charles B. Hensley was due in federal court downtown today to face the music. (What, the Zicam cash ... More >>

Nobody Messes With Giselle

Jonathan Gold Reviews Pacific Fish Center

The New York Times: Los Angeles on $100 a day

chotda/Flickrmorning glory salad at Jitlada​ People choose to travel in ways that reflect their values. We know a well-heeled dentist who refuses to pay for a hotel in Los Angeles because his daughter has a comfortable couch. We know threadbare food fanatics who splurge on Korean barbecue b ... More >>

IF YOU'RE LUCKY, YOU MIGHT GET SOME TAIL, IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE MEAN*

*That's lobster tail, pervert.

Congratulations: Your "Michael Jackson Fondling Macaulay Caulkin" Tattoo is Now Protected by the First Amendment!

This is now constitutionally kosher!​Is it illegal to walk into a crowded theater with a tramp stamp that says "FIRE"? That might still be unclear, but today the LA Times reports that a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that "tattoos and the art of tattooing are ... More >>

This Weekend: Sunset Junction and Other Functions (Like Service With Rev. Al Green)

Al Green​You've perhaps debated the lineup, read Nightranger's survival guide, gotten the reasoned perspective from Falling James, seen a certain local blog's mixtape and even tried to gauge the hippie traffic patterns. You either have the compunction for Sunset Junction, or you don't. Fact ... More >>

Petros: Stuck in the Middle With You

And I'm wondering what it is we should do

Ask Mr Gold: Stuck in the Middle With You

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I should probably be sent to therapy for attempting this in the first place, but I'm going on a first date with someone from Orange County. Since I pack a passport when I have to go east of the 405, obviously there is no way ... More >>

Autism In L.A. Clustered Around Affluent Areas, Study Finds

UC Davis​Researchers at UC Davis have been studying geographic patterns that correlate to autism perhaps in hopes of coming up with an environmental link. On that front, they came up blank. But the school's recent findings are interesting nonetheless: For the greater Los Angeles region, the ac ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Happy Hour

We Want Healthy School Lunches: Peaceful Protest in Potluck Form

Brooke BurtonHelping kids to eat fresh food​Every day more than 30 million public school children in America, from both rich and poor communities, are served food made from ingredients that cost less than a dollar. That's based on a breakdown of the USDA's reimbursement budget to the National Scho ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Say ... More >>

Nibbles and Bits Around Town: Lucques Lunches, Villa Blanca's White Lights, BabyCakes Joins Downtown Crowd, Next to French Dips

Villa Blanca: Knew you'd be a vision in whiteSunday Supper at Lucques is a standing weekly event that brings new surprises to help chase away the Sunday-night blues. Now the restaurant eases the weekday doldrums with a prix-fixe lunch. A two-course lunch is $25; three courses is $30. From now throu ... More >>

Los Angeles Ballet: The Nutcracker

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Happiness is a bowl of coconut broth and noodles

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