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Downtown Arts District: 6 Things That Will Change the Neighborhood's Future

This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts District *How the Arts District Got Its Name *5 Best Places to Eat in the Downtown Arts District The ... More >>

Adventures in Veganism: The Spot in Hermosa Beach

The menu at Hermosa Beach vegetarian restaurant The Spot Natural Food Restaurant indicates that the place serves desserts, but unless you're the reincarnation of Andre the Giant, you'll never know for sure. Because only the former Eighth Wonder of the World would be able to complete the Tamale Combo ... More >>

Melvin Walker: L.A. Marijuana Dispensary Operator, 11 Others, Arrested By Feds

The federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in Southern California continued today as the U.S. Attorney's Office announced the arrests of 12 people associated with a chain of pot shops. John Melvin Walker operated 9 dispensaries in L.A. and Orange counties, feds say, and he topped the l ... More >>

There Will Be Mud

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Week #3 of Hendrix-Obsession

KCRW Broadcast #181 for Saturday, September 22, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Being a Local, Temporarily Fanatics! I hope yo enjoyed last week's show. Tonight, we get into week #3 of our visit with Mr. Hendrix. Tonight we listen to the Electric Ladyland album, somewhat reconstructed f ... More >>

Rollins Announces "Capitalism" Tour, Will Hit Each State Capital

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday.] Henry Rollins doesn't keep his political opinions quiet; in a column last fall about the Occupy protesters he recounted how senator Rand Paul "made a fool of himself trying to compare them ... More >>

'Sons of Anarchy' Producer Pisses off L.A. Street Artists by Painting Over New Downtown Mural

Someone just painted over a mural that went up at Willow and Santa Fe in downtown Los Angeles only one-and-a-half months ago. It was painted by street artists Zes, Push and UGLAR on the side of a building adjacent to the graffiti-themed LALA Gallery, apparently in celebration of the gallery's openi ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: St. Louis Blues

KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>

Q & A with Chef Ludo and Krissy Lefebvre: Ludo Bites America, and It's Delicious

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff.​If you're one of the many who scorned OpenTable (or maybe just your slow connection?) last week for not letting you snag one of the coveted spots at LudoBites 007, take heart. There's a smidge of a consolation prize we can all enjoy in the form of Ludo Bites America ... More >>

First Look Inside Playa: John Sedlar's New Restaurant Opening This Friday

Nick ArnoffPlaya's Strawberry Dessert​ Playa, the second Latin restaurant from Rivera chef John Sedlar, opens this Friday, February 11 in the Beverly Boulevard space formerly home to Neal Fraser's Grace. Turn the page for details, including Sedlar's new menu items, Julian Cox's inspiration be ... More >>

ART TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

Tonight: Eastern Conference Champions, Karnivool, Vanaprasta, Everest, Lemon Sun, Family of the Year, Ruby Tigers

Eastern Conference Champions​Eastern Conference Champions have operated comfortably under the radar since co-founders Josh Ostrander and Greg Lyons forsook their native Philadelphia for Los Angeles three years ago. That was about the time ECC divorced its label, Suretone, which had released t ... More >>

September Chile Roasts at the Santa Monica Farmers Market

Bill JohnsonMarket managers Ted Galvan and Laura Avery roasting peppers​It's the season of chile roasts, even if you don't live in New Mexico, and if you didn't make it to any of the Hatch chile roasts at Bristol Farms, you can head on over to the Santa Monica farmers market, where they're hav ... More >>

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

Earth Day Round Up, Part 2

With Earth Day just around the corner, Squid Ink is sending out another reminder about the L.A. restaurants paying homage to Mother Nature tomorrow. And what better way to celebrate than with hand-crafted organic cocktails with happy hour prices. If you're not big on boozing, there is also discount ... More >>

Roswell Alien Amber Ale: The Truth is Out There (Just Cross State Lines)

​Funny things happen when you cross a couple of state lines. The temperature drops, the Scoville Index climbs, and if you're lucky, an alien beer arrives table side (and no, this isn't another X-Files sequel). Welcome to New Mexico. Rich Weber of New Mexico's Sierra Blanca Brewing Company fi ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

James Beard​This morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>

Coke's Freestyle Soda Machine Printers: One Step Closer to "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

​ Any of you guys try the new Coca Cola "Freestyle" machines yet? These are the super futuristic touchscreen soda machines that give you 100 flavors of Coke products that are made by a printer. Yes, a printer. I don't understand it. I had to read the description several times. Frankly, it scar ... More >>

This week in openings: Old Places in New Spaces, Plus Some New Faces: Barbrix, La Grande Orange, Bottle Rock

Barbrix As the week draws to a close and weekend plans start to coalesce, here are some spankin' new restaurants where the paint is barely dry, the dishes have been used only a few times, the stainless kitchen equipment still lustrous, and the wood varnish fresh. Barbrix is already in good company ... More >>

Today in Photographs: March 4, 1941

  Santa Fe Railroad Bridge collapses into the L.A. River during a late winter storm. No injuries occurred because damage to the bridge was discovered in time. Eastern trains were re-routed through Fullerton.Photo: LA Public Library Collection

Best Ticket to Train Heaven: Travel Town Museum

What I Ate on My Summer Vacation

Bobcat Bites to Morning Glory

Hustle and Flow

Destination burlesque; nobodies, wait here; birthday cake and jam

Piero Golia

Dreamer, realist

La Grande Orange

Swank suburban style

Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match.

The Iceman cometh

ˇAsk a Mexican! Spanish as a First Language

"What is it with Mexican gardeners? They lop off trees into coat racks, and shear off irises and lilies. It’s all slash and mow and blow."

Road Trip: Day 2 (still in Sedona)

I spent the better part of the afternoon looking for an unpeopled swimming hole. Four hours, three U-turns and two bottles of Smart Water later, I'm still in my car. I drag my red-faced, sun-soaked, soggy self into Enlightenment, a tiny book store on the side of Highway 179. I ask the middle-a ... More >>

Sebelia's Fashion Fight Club

And black's back again

Best Way to Reap What Others Sow

Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants

I wasn't at Banksy's Barely Legal opening party last night, but I did bump in to OBEY artist Shepard Fairey later on at La Cita downtown, and he told me all about it. He said that it was 'amazing' (not an unexpected response from Fairey, who believes Banksy to be one of the most important ... More >>

Here's Mud in My Eye

I just returned from a trip to New Mexico with my mother. It was the first extended vacation we ever took together (by that I mean just the two of us; that's not counting family trips in the station wagon, etc.), and we had a ball. In one action packed week we hit Taos, Ojo Caliente, Santa Fe and Al ... More >>

The Muses on the Tube

Ask Mr. Gold

Happy Trails

Saddling up in the big town

Platform

Who's Moving In?

Apartment residents speak up

New To the List

Green With Envy

Revelations

The best photography books of 2003

Fast Forward

Composer From Hell

Opera on High

Open Doors

SCI-Arc rediscovers itself — and the city — downtown

Get Pretty

Dave Hickey’s fantasy art team in Santa Fe

Multiple Exposures

“Snapshot” at the Hammer, and beyond

Global Warming

The internationalist aesthetic, from Santa Fe

The Arroyo Special

The Blue Line is a damned good idea — that costs too damned much

Recalling Happy Squalor

Travel then and now