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The Beach Ball: Reggae Fest - Santa Monica Pier - 9/22/13

The Beach Ball: Reggae Fest Santa Monica Pier 9/22/2013 This past weekend marked the inaugural Beach Ball Soul Revue and Reggae Fest, held at Santa Monica Pier and hosted by L.A. radio station KCRW, Rum & Humble and Spaceland Presents. We weren't able to make it out for the Soul Revue on Saturday, ... More >>

Hanni El Khatib - Santa Monica Pier - August 8, 2013

Hanni El Khatib at Twilight Concert Series Santa Monica Pier 8/8/2013 Last night marked another of the free concerts at the Santa Monica Pier as part of the Twilight Concert Series, presented by MySpace on Thursdays this summer. We headed out to see Innovative Leisure singer-songwriter Hanni El Kha ... More >>

Top 3 Food and Drink Events: Summer Bar Hop, Wine Tasting Wine Festival

First Saturday of Summer Bar Hop Bar hop at six bars in West Hollywood for charity; part of the proceeds will support the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation. A ticket buys a wristband, which qualifies the wearer for food and drink deals at the Belmont, Cabo Cantina, the Den, Fatty's, the Parlor an ... More >>

Why Are L.A.'s Parks So Lacking in Good Food?

What began as a public-private partnership bidding process to find a food vendor for a beloved urban park launched a massively successful mid-market burger chain. Granted, any business gets a leg up when an already successful restaurateur such as Danny Meyer is at the helm. Shake Shack now has loc ... More >>

Shoot Santa Monica Pier's Ferris Wheel Via Amazing Video

How would you like to glide along the beach like a seagull and then fly through the top of the Ferris wheel at the end of the Santa Monica Pier. This is probably as close as you'll get. Videographer Robert Macintosh, known for previous "fly through" escapades, brings you his latest beach fantasy ( ... More >>

Why Are L.A. Places So Popular on Instagram?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best City in America Just before the end of Instagram's wild year — bought by Facebook for $1 billion, publicly eviscerated by its community for new privacy policies — ... More >>

Instagram's Most-Popular Photo Locations? Los Angeles Dominates

Last month we told you about how Southern California locations dominated the year-end list of top Facebook location check-ins. Along comes Instragram with its own year-end list of "most popular locations" for photos uploaded to the social-networking service. Once again ...

From China to Pompeii: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see this week: Friday, Oct. 12 Dying to take that long-overdue visit to the Getty Villa? The museum's outdoor film series, presented in conjunction with its exhibition "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection," might just be the great ... More >>

Dirty Beaches? Not in L.A. (Well, For the Most Part)

It was one of the cleanest summers ever, people. And we're not just talking about the temporary porn-industry shutdown as a result of a syphilis scare. No, the water off the coast was cleaning up its act, too, according to Heal the Bay's annual End of Summer Beach Report Card:

Jamie Oliver to Produce Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S TV Show

Well, Jamie Oliver is back filming in L.A., and this time he's not hanging around school cafeterias. Instead, he's serving as the executive producer on a new show on BBC America called Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S., which premieres with two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The show will pit tw ... More >>

Matthew Broderick's Ferris Bueller Superbowl Ad Tours L.A. in Midlife-Crisis Minivan

Thank you, Honda, for bringing to life Hollywood's wildest fantasy this Superbowl season: Ferris Bueller, our favorite high-school hooligan, playing hooky in our own backyard. Sure, we get a tired, squarish, middle-aged version of Bueller, who has morphed into a very mortal Matthew Broderick, the a ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs

Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race: An Old Sport Rises Again

​ It's a chilly, gloomy morning at the Santa Monica Pier, and today's crop of tourists, zippered into hoodies and sweatshirts, aren't going to get any of the California sunshine they came for. But on the sand, throngs are shirtless or in wet suits, eager to jump into the cool ocean water. Whi ... More >>

NWA Reunion Today at the Santa Monica Pier: Here Are All the Details

​ Everyone has been asking us all the details about the NWA reunion show that's supposed to happen today at the Santa Monica Pier. Here's what we know:

Tonight: Nite Jewel, Dr. John, Wang Chung, Greg Laswell, Kisses, Seneca Hawk

Nite Jewel​Ramona Gonzalez may be growing up, but the music she is making as Nite Jewel isn't growing out. On her new EP, Am I Real?, made in collaboration with Cole Greif-Neill, follows up last year's debut album Good Evening with more spare, spacey explorations of electro-funk and disco-pop ... More >>

Soda Jerks Open on the Santa Monica Pier: Life Is Uncertain, So Eat Dessert First

A. ScattergoodSoda Jerks ice cream sundae​ If your idea of blissful summertime fun is riding the retro carousel at the Santa Monica Pier, watching the pelicans and (maybe) blowing an insane amount of money on the rides and games -- if this isn't your idea of fun, it's probably your kid's -- th ... More >>

Tonight: Antibalas, La Roux, Ben Lee, Fitz & the Tantrums, the Heavy, KT Tunstall

Antibalas​Brooklyn-based ensemble Antibalas has been living an enviable double life, for the past two years doing duty at the backing band for the hit musical Fela! (which earned 11 Tony nominations) and, not that rave reviews would go to their head, squeezing in some NYC club dates to keep th ... More >>

HUNG- Hang The DJs Herculean Memorial Weekend Happening

In our upcoming Nightranger column (out Thursday) we joined the mainstream masses in a major way (the American Idol finale at Nokia Theatre, a Sex and the City 2 party at Arclight and Jack Johnson on the Santa Monica Pier) but for Memorial Weekend it was all about a homier locale (as in "what up, ho ... More >>

26 MILES TO THE SEA

Theater Reviews: Kooza, Chesapeake, Private Eyes

Also, Stray, Wonder of the World, and more

Stage Raw: Wonder of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsNEW REVIEW GO WONDER OF THE WORLD ​Photo by Ed KriegerContemporary American farce has a hero in playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who skews old-fashioned two-dimensional absurdity by surreptitiou ... More >>

Santa Monica Pier: Party Like It Was 9/9/09

The last time Angelenos had something to celebrate on September 9, '09 was one hundred years ago today when the Santa Monica Municipal Pier first opened to the public. Ever since its beginning, the 1,600-foot-long concrete pier has been popular with tourists, fishermen, and hungry locals. To celebr ... More >>

JOAN BAEZ SINGS OUT FOR IRAN

Old memories and new causes are saluted at her Santa Monica Pier performance.

THE NANCI GRIFFITH SHOW

Day of the Child on Santa Monica Pier

By Daniel Heimpel In the world of foster kids, victories are few and often small. But this week, Santa Monica Pier was transformed, with more than 1,500 volunteers lined up in a blustery wind to meet the children with whom they'd spend the day. The 10th Annual Day of the Child, put on by Children ... More >>

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

Also, Veruca Salt, Mike Einziger, Kings X and Junior Brown

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

Rock Picks: 88BoaDrum, Projekt Revolution, Juana Molina

Also, Flosstradamus, Bigelf, The Crystelles

Hard Music Fest, Awakening, Wet and Glow

A big night for dance-music devotees

A Hawai'ian Fourth of July

Jazzed? But Not Motivated?

The week in fun, June 27-July 3

Life in the Last Lane

From Zero to 80 in 24 hours

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

Rock Picks

For the week of August 17 - 23

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Go Fourth and Boomify!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

How Do You Say 'Pee-Your-Pants-Funny' in Spanish?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

They Walk Among Us

The January, 1994 L.A. Weekly article on the Heaven's Gate group, then called "The Total Overcomers"

SOLA Contemporary Dance Festival 2006

Best Soap Star

Rockin’ in the Free World

Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

Home Is Where the Flat Iron Steak Is

Larchmont Grill

I'm in the Moog for Tiki

Free Beer Alert!!! Free Beer Alert!!!

You Say Lemur, I Say Tapir

Mods & Rockers, Goatherds and a Sober George Carlin

Out and About Food

Tasteful summer adventures that redefine Saturday afternoons at the ballpark

Hooked

40 Years of Fishing Off the Santa Monica Pier

1983 Timeline