Rube Goldberg

Two Bit Circus, a Startup That's Bringing the Carnival Midway Game Into the 21st Century

The Five Best Music Videos Shot in Echo Park

Ever heard of Echo Park? It's great there! The neighborhood's eponymous lake just re-opened, and there's tons of great bands milling about in the area as well. As such, plenty of cool music videos have been shot in the vicinity, ranging from budgets that could be described as "small," "no," and "bi ... More >>

Los Angeles Mayoral Election Map: Bodacious Digital Tool Reveals how Every Neighborhood has Voted Since 2001

Who did your neighbor vote for in the last four L.A. mayoral elections? Would you love a crystal ball to tell you if Wendy Greuel or Eric Garcetti becomes L.A. mayor on May 21, 2013? Now you can figure it out -- well, almost. Ben Welsh and Thomas Lauder of the Los Angeles Times Data Desk created ... More >>

Sweet! Hollywood Sweets for my Suite at the Loews Hotel

The holidays are the ideal -- and perfectly acceptable -- time for kids of all ages to chow down on chocolate, crunch candy and basically indulge your sweet teeth. At the new Sweet! Hollywood candy emporium at Hollywood & Highland, which soft-opened in November, you can literally do this; there's a ... More >>

Breakfast in Los Angeles: Top 10 Spots

Sweet, savory and in between

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/17-1/20

Flickr/Lauren Manning​In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Ike-san was never a flashy sushi chef, but he was beloved for his skill at the early-morning fish markets, and his ability to less cut fish than to coax it into its ideal form." Sushi Kimagure Ike: ... More >>

30 Minutes or Less Review

Final Destination 5 Review

This weekend: OK Go, Weezer, Bonobo, Pretty Lights, Lucero, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

Day 19OK Go​Almost anything goes in the Theater of OK Go. The art-pop quartet's headlining tour, which concludes Saturday in Los Angeles, has included (according to various online reports): Enough confetti to drown an arena full of Flaming Lips fans; the guys decked out in primary colors; a 3 ... More >>

Get Cracking: Squid Ink Helps Out Hiro Sone and Lissa Doumani At 28th American Food & Wine Festival

Celia SoudryTerra's onsen tamago​ In Japanese, tamago means eggs and onsen are hot springs. In the tourist town of Beppu - Japan's bubbling geothermal version of Yellowstone Park - onsen tamago is often prepared by sticking eggs in steaming mineral pools and letting them cook so slowly that ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE Interview: OK Go's Tim Nordwind on Why the Band Left EMI

View more photos of OK Go's LACMA Muse video release party in "CuriousJosh: Burnal Equinox, X Fundraiser, OK Go." Last Wednesday, OK Go announced both their departure from EMI and the creation of their own label, Paracadute. Given that this move comes only two months after the release of their lat ... More >>

OK Go Says 'Okay... No' to EMI

OK Go it alone.​Call 'em OK Go For Dolo. The formerly Chicago-based band, now relocated to Los Angeles, who rose to fame on the strength of its superb, Gondry-esque DIY music videos has just announced that it's splitting from EMI. OK Go has founded its own label, Paracadutes. Fittingly, that's ... More >>

Once Bitten, Twice Fried: Best French Fries in Los Angeles, Part 2

Because we can't get too much of a good thing, here's the second installment of our quest for the city's most outstanding fries. This list (organized alphabetically) includes the pure, the gently garnished, and the heavily adorned in a world that's a vast, exciting terrain of Kennebec vs. Russet, pe ... More >>

Rock Picks: Grizzly Bear, Michigan and Smiley, Meshell Ndegeocello, Aztlan Underground

Also, Ghostface Killah, Pi, Brother Ali and others

Extract's Working Stiffs

Mike Judge sides with management in new workplace comedy

Accidental Suicide? New Involuntary-Manslaughter Option in Phil Spector Murder Retrial

The final arguments: Shifting sand dunes, or rock-solid mountains?

Phil Spector: The Burden of Truth

Like Woodrow Wilson, Doron Weinberg had 14 points he wanted to share with his audience. These had nothing to do with the status of Alsace-Lorraine, however, but with the emotional state of Lana Clarkson, the House of Blues VIP hostess who took a one-way ride to music producer Phil Spector's mansion ... More >>

TV REVIEW: NBC's Crusoe: Thank God, It's Friday

The islands in my mind

Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielberg

Harrison's daredevil archeologist returns, 19 years after Last Crusade

Movie Reviews: Bee Movie, Darfur Now, Primo Levi's Journey

Also Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

People Who Need People

What to do in LA this week

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Borat

Film Reviews

Jigsaw Puzzle

How Tobin Bell prepares . . . to scare the crap out of you

TV at the Movies

Brave new series Weeds and Slings & Arrows break into Showtime and Sundance lineups

Love and Death

Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers

Buckyballs and Screaming Cells

The amazing miniature world of UCLA chemist Jim Gimzewski

One-Trick Party

In war and peace, Republicans replenish the rich

Sleepless in Montmartre

Amélie —love her or else

Jokes, Not Jizz

Jerry Zucker’s Rat Race

Worlds Apart

Realities, virtual and otherwise

About Time

Bitchen video art at the Hammer

Watt Now, Jerry?

The 'Era of Limits' returns

If Not Now, Wha’?

Contraptions and gizmos

All the World’s a Farm

Chicken Run and other delights from abroad

The Undead

Bruce Sterling resuscitates machines from obsolescence

Caretakers Take Charge

75,000 workers (in 75,000 work sites!) form a union

Irregular Guy

Tim Hawkinson at play

You've Got Hate Mail

A critic wonders where it all went wrong

City of Stages

Hope among the ghosts