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4 Great Bars for Barrel-Aged Cocktails Your Barrel-Aging Primer

With the flurry of trends in the cocktail world, you'd be hard-pressed to guess which will have staying power. Take barrel-aging. Yes, it's super cool to get your nightly cocktail from a barrel with provenance, but is it really relevant anymore? With barrels now available to the home bar geek, di ... More >>

Where the Chefs Eat: Ink's Michael Voltaggio

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite spots for everyday or cheap dining options. This week, Michael Voltaggio, chef at West Hollywood's ink and ink.sac, tells us his favorite spots in L.A. "I was in Ensenada recently," says Michael Vol ... More >>

Bikram Choudhury Battles for Control of the Hot Yoga Tradition He Invented

Meet Your Food Blogger: Billy Vasquez of The 99 Cent Chef

Billy Vasquezthe 99 Cent Chef​Where does Billy Vasquez, the 99 Cent Chef, find inspiration for his blog? At L.A.'s ubiquitous 99 Cents Only Stores, of course. His blog reports on the current food items (some vary from day to day) as well as other under-a-dollar bargains at local markets. Us ... More >>

Riding Dirty With Rothkos: Jay-Z And Kayne West's Luxury Referenced Decoded

​Rapping about the finer things is a big part of what hip-hop's about these days. But what happens when you have no idea what the hell's being boasted about? That's the case on Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West's self-described "luxury rap" album. It's clear that they're bragging about ... More >>

Ann Carrasco-Zanini: Beverly Hills Sees First Homicide of Year: Suspect, Victim Likely Knew Each Other, Cops Say

​Updated at the bottom: A 54-year-old "boyfriend" has been charged. First posted at 11:55 a.m. Thursday. Beverly Hills has about one cop for every Rolls Royce, so its crime rate is about as low as America's collective self-esteem. For some reason, however, the city has been on a roll when it ... More >>

Teodorin Obiang, African Heir, Sees His Malibu Mansion & Michael Jackson Glove Targeted by U.S. Department of Justice

Google MapsObiang has been kicking back at his Malibu spread for half a decade with no peep from neighbors.​Teodorin Obiang has lived a charmed 40-some years: Born into Equatorial Guinea's royal family, Obiang's "job" as the small, oil-rich country's Minister of Agriculture and Forestry allow ... More >>

Cutting-Room Floor Outtakes From Rick Ross' Amazing GQ Profile

​Miami rapper Rick Ross is the subject of a lengthy and fucking amazing profile in Gentleman's Quarterly that makes the same point that Deeper Than Rap and Teflon Don did: Rick Ross is the greatest rapper alive. That's not the same thing as being the best rapper alive -- in fact, you get the i ... More >>

Bottega Louie: Best Old L.A.-style Dining Experience

Jeff KirshbaumExposed and humming, the open kitchen at Bottega Louie​ The service doesn't just hop at Bottega Louie. It skips, jumps and pirouettes as a platoon of nattily dressed servers, runners, ballet-slippered hostesses and suited managers race across the marble floors. The energetic staf ... More >>

Wanna Own a Legendary Record Label? Black Jazz Puts Itself Up for Sale

​Story by Brett Koshkin Neither John Coltrane nor Herbie Hancock ever recorded for the Bay Area-based Black Jazz label that flourished in the '70s West Coast jazz scene. Far from being a commercial powerhouse, the label concentrated on an epicurean selection of then-fresh faced soul-jazz musi ... More >>

Shaquille O'Neal Sex Tape? Former Staffer Claims He Had It, Was Kidnapped by L.A. Gang on Search-and-Destroy Mission

Shaq.​This gets pretty complicated, so sit tight. But we will say: It involves Shaquille O'Neal allegedly having a sex tape he made with multiple women while married to Shaunie (though she could probably care less now), and allegedly having ties with a South L.A. gang called the Main Street Ma ... More >>

Bijan Pakzad, Designer and Billboard King, Remembered

Juan Soliz/NewscomBijan Pakzad​Iranian fashion and fragrance designer Bijan Pakzad -- who died April 16 of a stroke in Beverly Hills -- was, we are told, "the most expensive menswear designer in the world." Those who packed Royce Hall at UCLA to memorialize him in the warmth of springtime w ... More >>

Alonzo Ester: Nightclub Owner Fatally Shot in Rolls-Royce in Baldwin Hills

Google MapsBaldwin Hills.​Update: The victim and his club are identified, at the bottom of the next page. A sixtysomething nightclub owner was fatally shot in his Rolls-Royce outside a home in tony Baldwin Hills early today, police said. Los Angeles police tell the Weekly the 2:30 a.m. attac ... More >>

Royal Wedding Is Amazing, Gorgeous, Stunning, Stylish, Dreamy, Bloody Delightful, Say Critics

Getty Images​'Twas the holy matrimony heard round the world: The great Prince William wed his favorite muggle, an impossibly lacy Kate Middleton, through the wee hours (PDT) last night. As soon as Kate stepped out of the queen's Rolls Royce, Hollywood's toughest and snarkiest critics were redu ... More >>

Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: The Complete Schedule

officialroyalwedding2011.orgStrategically flashing the sapphire.​The Royal Wedding is here! The Royal Wedding is here! Well, not quite. April 29 is the big day, as you're well aware. But the next best thing is here: The complete schedule of the Royal Wedding, down to the last rose petal and g ... More >>

Pensions Gone Wild: Retired Vernon City Official Bruce Malkenhorst Sr. Takes Home $520,000 a Year in Public Retirement

HatMA Rolls Royce pension came out of one gritty SoCal city.​Pensions and retirement benefits are in the hot seat these days, even in union-friendly L.A. City Hall, where Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a beneficiary of labor's support, has asked for concessions to help with L.A.'s looming $400 mi ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

Death, Money and Megaraves

Why Los Angeles politicians embrace a growing Ecstasy phenom that kills

In Search Of: Chad Brown on Rare Country From Prison, Johnny Paycheck and the Phillipines

courtesy chad brown​ Chad Brown is an L.A.-based DJ and the singer/guitarist in CB Brand, and he may well know more about country music than anyone you're likely to encounter in this city. He is a true historian who recalls the backstories of each record in immense detail--from how he found i ... More >>

Valet Killed: West Hollywood Club Shooting Caught On Video

​A valet at a West Hollywood nightclub was fatally shot early Monday after two groups of party-goers got into a fracas. The man was apparently not the target of the gunman. KNX 1070 Newsradio reports that two other people were wounded in the attack. The shooting outside Guys & Dolls in the 87 ... More >>

Torture, Lies and Louis XIII Cognac

A tale of falling home prices

Anna Karina Speaks (and dances and sings)

​ Talking to David Ehrenstein in today's edition of the Weekly, 60s icon Anna Karina reminisces about her life and work as the wife/muse of French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard (a restored print of one of their greatest collaborations, Pierrot le Fou, screens next week as part of the City ... More >>

Q & A With José Andrés: His TV Show, What Should Be In Your Pantry & Cooking with Ferrán Adriá

José Andrés' beautiful fun-house of a hotel restaurant, The Bazaar, has been open for about a year and a half now, where the Spanish chef has been serving up cotton candy foie gras, little tin cans of King crab and raspberries, and olive oil pancakes to a crowd variously composed of hotel guests, ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Nightlife

On the Road to Burma

Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats

Michael Jackson’s Julien’s Auction Canceled

12 Consumer Products That Should Not Have Exploded But Did: Recall-a-rama

In honor of April Fools, I give you a dozen consumer products (and one nuclear battleship) that should not have exploded but unfortunately did. Or, in the case of the ship, could. These are all true. (Except for the last one.) As usual, the joke is on the hapless consumer. 1. Electrolux Vacuum Cle ... More >>

The Remnants of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch to Be Auctioned at Beverly Hilton in April

photos courtesy of Julien's AuctionsThe airbrushed hood of Michael Jackson's Neverland golf cart Parents: avert your childrens' gaze for a second, because we've got some bad news: DREAMS DIE. Even the biggest, grandest, the most luxurious palaces sometimes collapse into a pile of rubble and despair ... More >>

Don't Miss This Show: Oliver Wang on Q-Tip, the Cool Kids (MP3), the Knux and Pacific Division at H.O.B.

Saturday, November 15 Q-Tip, The Cool Kids at House of Blues It has been nine years since Q-Tip's last album yet strangely, it hasn't seemed so long. That says much about the enduring power of Q-Tip's old band, A Tribe Called Quest - guaranteed to be in heavy rotation on iPod playlists for any hi ... More >>

Tom Petty's Los Angeles

Clubland Empire

Parc, Shereen Arazm’s latest Hollywood hot spot

Movin' On Up

Our city gets vertical with a crop of new high-rise condos

Murder On the Last Turn

Mickey Thompson was a renowned race-car driver and promoter. Mike Goodwin was the brash, egocentric creator of motocross. They became business partners. Then all hell broke loose.

The Streets, Actually

The U.K.’s notorious grime boy on his tour mate Lady Sov, doing crack with a pop star, and his cocky new LP

Better Mileage On Ice

Why refrigerators are more efficient than cars

Really Big Packages

Forget what EW says, it’s the moguls’ perks that are out of control, not the stars’

The Defense Rests – Not in Peace

The legacy of Johnnie Cochran as a rich, famous, undeniably effective and occasionally self-serving black professional will live on

If the Glove Fits . . .

Johnnie L. Cochran, 1937–2005

Hollywood Satiricon

Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

Sound Methods and Weird Channels

How producer and Masters of Reality main man Chris Goss got his groove

Driven

In Hollywood, your car is who you are

What a Difference a Digit Makes

The No. 1 rule of American politics

Body Work

Bikram Choudhury wants to restore the chassis of the Western world

Mapping Andy

Creary Steps Down

An embattled medical entrepreneur leaves county service

Taxi Driver

Fares to Remember