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Machneyuda Chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon Bring Israeli Cuisine Center Stage in L.A.

Check out Anne Fishbein's photo gallery of Assaf Granit and Uri Navon's Israeli dinner. On their first trip to Los Angeles, Israeli chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon wasted no time in getting to know some of this town's culinary habits. They shopped at the Santa Monica Farmers Market, partnered with ... More >>

10 Best Eats on Third Street: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

In a city where nobody walks, here's a street that imminently walkable. While our low stucco architecture bears no resemblance to the brownstones of New York City, Third Street -- between La Cienega and Fairfax -- has become a Manhattan-esque mish-mash of bars, restaurants, cafes, dry cleaners, bout ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Nominees

See past recipients: *2012 *2011 (winners) *2011 (nominees) *2010 (winners) *2010 (nominees) *2009 (winners) *2009 (nominees) *2008 (winners) *2008 (nominees) Start looking for your postapocalyptic-chic attire. The 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, celebrating the best work on our smaller sta ... More >>

Roger Mahony Calls Out José Gomez For Previous Silence On Priest Sex Abuse

A day after retired Cardinal and L.A. Archbishop Emeritus Roger Mahony was stripped of his official church duties by his successor, José Gomez, Mahony fired off a letter to the current archbishop defending his actions in the L.A. Archdiocese sex-abuse scandal. Documents released by the church as p ... More >>

JP Munro at International Art Objects and Gustave Moreau at the Hammer Museum

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Mondo Kim's Video Was Shipped from New York to Sicily. Then Things Got Really Strange.

Life of Pie: L.A. Celebrates Its Pizza Moment

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. On a Wednesday evening, 10 students sit along the counter at the Scuola di Pizza, the, yes, "School of Pizza" at L.A.'s premier pizza joint, Mozza. I'd like to say we're a varied lot, but that wouldn't be true -- we're uniformly w ... More >>

To Rome With Love Review

40oz. to Freedom Is 20 Years Old: We Reminisce and Speak With Sublime's New Incarnation

Twenty years ago this month, Sublime released their first album: 40oz. to Freedom. At that point drummer Floyd "Bud" Gaugh, bassist Eric Wilson, and singer-songwriter Bradley Nowell were just three guys from Long Beach. No record deal, no tour, no nothing. They sold records at shows and out of the b ... More >>

Jack White - Mayan Theater - April 30, 2012

Jack White Mayan Theater 4-30-12 Better than...sex. What do you call it when Axl Rose, Rod Stewart, Gary Oldman and Conan O'Brien converge in downtown Los Angeles on a Monday night? A Jack White show. From the minute he and his all-female backing band The Peacocks hit the stage at 10 last night ... More >>

Guy Gerber Is an Israeli DJ Who Made a Surprisingly Good Album With Diddy

Guy Gerber is an electronic music artist who can frustrate the short-attention-span masses used to the nonstop aural pop shots of top festival DJs such as David Guetta, Afrojack and Deadmau5. His sound is ethereal and groovy, sublime and cinematic, optimistic and airy. The Israeli artist's work has ... More >>

Gay Hist-Orgy! Part 1 & 2, by Ian MacKinnon

Sinead O'Connor's Most Memorable Moments

Sinead O'Connor is still making headlines, 20 years into her career. Having battled everything from the Catholic Church to drug addiction, the Irish icon remains beloved and despised. Though nothing compares to her pop stardom of the early '90s (har har), we're nonetheless psyched for her shows at t ... More >>

Top 10 Plays We Want to See in 2012

The venerable "best bets for the new year" critic's post always carries with it the uncertain odor of the racetrack tout. Even the seeming sure things -- the NYC-anointed, blue-chip transfers of Broadway hits -- are too often diminished by dispiriting changes in the cast or production design that ca ... More >>

Jonathan Gold's Angeli Caffe Eulogy

Evan Kleiman's beloved Melrose Avenue trattoria closes after 27 years

Elizabeth Taylor, Auctioned: 6 Best Items Up For Sale This Month, Via Christie's and Profiles in History

The $50,000 to $75,000 presale estimate of Elizabeth Taylor's dressing room trailer -- used on the set of Cleopatra and set to be auctioned at Profiles in History's upcoming "Icons of Hollywood" auction of memorabilia Dec. 15-17 -- seems low to M.G. Lord, author of the new book The Accidental Femini ... More >>

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

UCLA's comprehensive retrospective of alternative African-American filmmaking is the crown cinematic jewel of Pacific Standard Time

Is The Mozza Cookbook All Hype? Or Really That Good?

amazon.com​In our past cookbook reviews, when we have found a cookbook particularly compelling, we tend use words like "noteworthy," "fantastic" and yes, "compelling." But when Nancy Silverton's The Mozza Cookbook (with sous chef Matt Molina and writer Carolynn Carreño), which hits shelves t ... More >>

Clint Carney's 'A Waring Tribe' Show at Congregation Gallery Will Worry Your Mother

Clint Carney stands in front of his latest collection.​Los Angeles artist Clint Carney has spread himself pretty thin over the years but somehow continues to create elaborate and rich final products, securing a place as one of the leading artists in a quickly growing world of dark art. Though ... More >>

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

What makes Eddie run?

Viva Vino LA: Italian Wines Flood Los Angeles

Lisa MattsonChianti, Italy's Castello de Volpaia is one of 130 wineries pouring at Viva Vino LA​There's much more to Italian wine than Pinot Grigio. The number one U.S. import is only one of the 3,000 kinds of grape varieties that grow on the Italian peninsula. Learn about the many others this ... More >>

Tom Jacobson's The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) and House of the Rising Son

Q & A With John Pankow: Showtime's "Episodes," Illicit Guanciale and A Proper English Fry-Up

Eleanore PankowJohn Pankow​ You may remember John Pankow from his role as Paul Reiser's everpresent cousin Ira Buchman on the nineties' sit-com "Mad About You" or perhaps you've been watching him steal scenes as Merc Lapidus, the power-obsessed, manipulative and wholly oblivious television ne ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Sweet Winter Brussels Sprouts

Felicia FriesemaBrussels sprouts on the stalk at the South Central Farmers Cooperative booth at the Hollywood market.​ It was the vegetable so many kids loved to hate. Too bad, as it was mostly because parents were overcooking it into a sulphur-smelling, dull green blob of goo. Yum. Thankfull ... More >>

Morrissey: "Los Angeles is a Police State"

This charming man feels trapped in LA​Last week Morrissey gave an interview to British newspaper The Guardian, where he mused on several topics and was a bit of a dick to the interviewer, poet and Morrisseyfan Simon Armitage. Morrissey caused an international stir with his musings on Chinese ... More >>

Antonioni Ennui Emerges

Early Le Amiche prefigures the Italian master's '60s peak by a decade

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

Exclusive Toys and Prints: What You'll Find Inside Comic-Con's Exhibit Hall

Wednesday night, we tried to work our way through the exhibit hall at the San Diego Convention Center. But Preview Night for Comic-Con isn't terribly different from most other nights at the mega-convention. It's crowded, loud and every few seconds you're bound to see something else that grabs your ... More >>

Global Touch

The world according to David Mitchell

Free the Robots, Dr. John. Alex Cuba and Merle Haggard

Also, Bestial Mouths, The Dreaming, Echo Lush and Elevaters

Theater Reviews: Backstreet: The Musical, The Good Woman of Setzuan, South Pacific and Hamlet

Also, Madacascar, I Made Out With Him Anyway and Three Truths

Stage Raw: Tag-Team Press Coverage Planned for Hollywood Fringe

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE​The Good Woman of Setzuan at Open Fist Theatre is among the productions slated to be reviewed this weekend. Check back late Monday for all reviews seen over the weekend. Press here ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

Cardinal Mahony Blasts Arizona's 'Dreadful' Immigration Law

Is Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles, getting in a few last swings before he's forced into retirement in the spring of 2011?Cardinal Roger Mahony​Mahony wrote a blistering post on his blog Sunday morning, saying that the "Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrog ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Women Without Men, The Square, After.Life, Phyllis and Harold

Also, La Mission, Godspeed, Mid-August Lunch and more

Little Boxes

For a new generation of audio devices, less — way less — is more

Where to Eat ... PIZZA Now

Casa Bianca, Zelo, Mozza, Bollini and more

Restaurants for Wine Lovers

Gone With the Wind

Santa Anas at night, surfers’ delight. Santa Anas in the morning, homeowners take warning.

Fade to Black

If HBO doesn’t wise up, it could get whacked

Where to Eat Now

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

West Hollywood and Vicinity

The Blind Leading the Mauled

White tigers, white men and white mischief

North Cañon Drive

Off the beaten path in Beverly Hills

An Irishman in Malibu

Novelist Brian Moore has left behind his homeland and dodged celebrity in favor of an independend-minded and highly successful literary life.