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Connie & Ted's: Michael Cimarusti's Seafood Restaurant to Open in June

If you've spent any time dining at Providence, Michael Cimarusti's Melrose Avenue seafood palace, you'll know how much the chef and co-owner of the place loves his fish. Since it opened in 2005, the restaurant has earned accolade after accolade, including Best Restaurant, 2012 in these pages. But fo ... More >>

Budweiser Allegedly Watered Down Beer 5 California Craft Alternatives

Anheuser-Busch InBev is being sued by consumers in Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey with companion suits coming from Ohio and Colorado, Bloomberg reports. The complaint filed in Philadelphia alleges that the alcohol content in a variety of Anheuser-Busch products is overstated, which would vi ... More >>

4 Los Angeles Brewery Kickstarter Campaigns: Invest in Your Beer Future

It's been a whirlwind start to 2013 for Los Angeles beer. The scene celebrated it's unofficial third birthday with the near-simultaneous anniversaries of Ladyface, Eagle Rock and Strand brewing companies and El Segundo Brewing Company released its first round of production bottles, which are now spr ... More >>

Q & A with Sam Adams Founder Jim Koch: Loan Program for Food & Beverage Business, Advice on Opening a Brewery Beer in a Can

It's a familiar story in the beer world: well-educated guy leaves stable or lucrative job to make his homebrewing hobby a profession. Jim Koch's history set the precedent for that narrative. Koch, who comes from a long line of brewers, founded The Boston Beer Company in 1984 with two friends he met ... More >>

Happy National Lager Day A Beer Venn Diagram

Today is National Lager Day, a grassroots holiday started as a way to celebrate the many faces of the world's most produced type of beer. But what the hell is a lager anyway? Is it an ale? Is it a style of beer? Is it a corporate marketing term expertly concocted to roll off the tongue so perfectly ... More >>

The Thirsty Season: Beer Chicks The Question of Summer Beer

The idea was to meet the Beer Chicks for a pint. The topic was summer beer. The Beer Chicks are beer experts with twice the volubility -- because there are two of them, and because they've forgotten more about beer than I'll ever remember and are eager, very eager, to share. I wanted to know if th ... More >>

Twin Shadow - Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery - 6/6/12

Twin Shadow The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery 6/6/12 Better than... a John Hughes marathon hosted by Morrissey. By the time Twin Shadow's George Lewis Jr. was ready to take the stage last night, the crowd was adequately sauced on Sam Adams and Amstel Light and red wine in clear plas ... More >>

Top 5 Mexican Beers: What to Drink Before Tequila

Let's face it, Mexico isn't exactly a major player in the current craft beer revolution. But that doesn't mean that its long tradition of easy-drinking European-style lagers is something to be overlooked. Sure, the cerveza market is just as consolidated and macro-dominated as the United States' was ... More >>

Beachwood SourFest 2011: The Sweetness of Sour Beer

Martin SvabBeachwood SourFest Beer Wall​ Tuesday, September 6. 11:00 a.m. A line of beer geeks waits outside for Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach to open their doors at 11:30 in the morning for SourFest 2011. The line up of sour beers for the six-day festival that has Eric Salazar from New Belgi ... More >>

Q & A With Adam Carolla: His Sledgehammer Wine, Jimmy Kimmel's Pizza Oven, "Mangria" Where to Eat Pie

​ It only took him 35 years, but Adam Carolla finally learned to stop worrying and love wine. Well, at least the part about loving wine is true. The Manny Pacquaio-bashing, Antonio Villaraigosa-hating comedian, budding podcast entrepreneur and notorious complainer recently declared Sledgehamm ... More >>

Our Favorite Happy Hours

50 deal-driven places to get you and your wallet feeling a whole lot better

Utopias: Is This $150 Beer Worth the Cash? LA Beer Gurus Taste And Tell A Westy 12 In The House!

If you sprang for a bottle of Utopias, the coveted 27% alcohol Sam Adams cognac-like, non-carbonated beer, when it was released in November, count yourself lucky. The 2009 release is already going for nearly twice that amount on EBay. Still wondering whether a $150 $300 bottle of beer is really wort ... More >>

2009 Film Poll: A Whole World of Hurt

Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama tops our annual critics' survey

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/30 - 12/04

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "There's a lightness to them in just about every aspect--the shade of brown, the breading and the weight, as if a particularly large one could keep you buoyant after a boating disaster.'" Squid Ink Food Fight: Falafel O ... More >>

Sam Adams' Utopias: What to Get the Boss When You're Not Footing the Entire Bill

Sam AdamsWarning: Not Intended for Chicken Wings​'Tis the season of office gift pools, when your boss' darling minion starts blasting emails with a "suggested" donation to get the big cheese something invariably tacky. Should you care to remain employed, you can't exactly refuse to participate ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Last Call for Pier Pale Ale: Manhattan Beach Brewing to Toss Craft Brew Tanks Overboard

Photo credit: Jenn GarbeeAfter eighteen years of churning out Manhattan Beach Blondes and Rat Beach Reds, brewpub Manhattan Beach Brewing will soon be retiring its fermentation tanks. On September 8, the pub will close for a month-long renovation that will include eliminating the six brewing tanks c ... More >>

Left, Right and Center

Sifting through the LA Weekly mailbag over the weekend, I couldn't help but take perverse amusement at a number of virulent missives written in response to my review of An American Carol, the independently produced and distributed right-wing propaganda movie that opened on Friday and ended the week ... More >>

2007 Film Poll: If It Bleeds, It Leads

Dark and violent movies top the year’s best. What are we — at war or something?

The Critics Speak

The First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll