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The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 29 Fol Chen BOOTLEG THEATER Fol Chen is one of the most creative bands in the local electro-pop underground, conjuring unusual sounds that flutter, mutate, shimmer and trail sparks just as colorfully as the flying fish and luminous butterflies in Oz the Great and Powerful. While the m ... More >>

Now Open: M.A.K.E. Out in Santa Monica

M.A.K.E. Out, a new juice and snack bar, is opening today as an extension of Matthew Kenney's raw foods restaurant M.A.K.E. at Santa Monica Place's The Market. With items ranging between $2 and $12, the menu is composed of a seasonal selection of fresh juices and smoothies made from ingredients foun ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Romanesco Broccoli Why You Should Buy It This Weekend

During his Nobel Prize banquet, Richard Feynman credited his imagination for continuously dumping him into unknown universes where "nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty [were] revealed." He often found this "true majesty" in fractals -- self-similar patterns often studied by Feynman and his f ... More >>

10 Best New Year's Eve Events in Los Angeles 2013

Who says that 13 should be an unlucky number? Help ensure the coming year starts off on the right foot with these celebration suggestions, from comedy clubs to Prohibition-style speakeasys.

The 5 Things You Need To Know About Superba Snack Bar

This week's restaurant review examines Superba Snack Bar in Venice. Here are a few details from the review, plus some extra info on the service and logistics of the Rose Ave. restaurant. Vibe: One of Superba's great strengths is the atmosphere they've managed to create, fitting right into the neigh ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Lena Dunham's Dad's Drawings

This week's list includes a show about incarceration, Lena Dunham's dad and art for gamers. 5. Behind bars Artist Jennifer Moon was incarcerated for nine months, though nothing in her current exhibition at Commonwealth and Council tells us why -- except to say she was "a common criminal," not a "po ... More >>

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros - Berkeley Street Studio - 4/5/12

What: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Where: Berkeley Street Studios When: 4/5/12 Better than... Watching that adorable man and his daughter cover "Home" on YouTube for the millionth time. Under the cover of great secrecy, in a tiny studio in Berkeley Street in Santa Monica, Edward Sharpe and ... More >>

Tonight at Farmshop: Colman Andrews Italian Food

This evening, a hometown hero returns to Santa Monica. We write of celebrated cookbook author and restaurant reviewer Colman Andrews. Offspring of a radio soap scribe and an actress, former student at Loyola Marymount, City College, and UCLA respectively, Andrews is a co-founder of Saveur magazine ... More >>

Kinde's Crimes

Farmer's Field's Fanciful Green Promise

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: LA BBQ Festival, Cevapcici Festival, Dinner in the Exploding City, Trevor Project Benefit, Vietti Wine Dinner

Guzzle & NoshA pile of sausages at the 2009 LA BBQ Festival.​3rd Annual LA BBQ Festival Admission covers all you can eat from nine of the nation's top pitmasters including LC's (Kansas City), Bourbon Q (Kentucky), Hitching Post (Santa Maria) and Memphis Championship Barbecue (Las Vegas). 24 be ... More >>

U.S. Veterans Affairs Sued for Leasing Giant Parcel in West L.A. to Enterprise Rent-a-Car, UCLA Baseball Team -- Not Homeless Vets

veteranstoday.com"Locked Out of West LA VA"​You can often hear West L.A. residents, and those on the nearby Santa Monica border, whining about the rampant homeless-veteran population in their area (which is trying desperately to gentrify -- to polish itself into the next Brentwood or Beverly H ... More >>

dineLA Restaurant Week Returns

Anne Fishbeinbaby artichokes with buffalo mozzarella, watercress and goji berries at Fig​ If you're one of the few noble people who's actually kept your New Year's resolution, get ready to face a major hurdle. In just a few weeks, dineLA's Restaurant Week returns for its sixth season, serving ... More >>

Los Angeles County Introduces Its First Green Library

SGVN Keith BirminghamThe Sorensen Library goes green​ Eco-friendly LA County dedicated its first full-fledged green library in Whittier today. About 40 percent of the newly constructed Sorensen Library is made with recycled materials and features sun-absorbing roofing material, absorbable pa ... More >>

V.A. Homeless Housing Facility In West L.A. To Be Completed In 2012

foreversouls via Flickr​ The Department of Veteran Affairs plans to renovate a building at its West Los Angeles campus that will house homeless veterans, with completion scheduled for 2012, according to a statement from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's office. The housing structure, dubbed Bui ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Burrito On the Rocks, Salt

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Great Mexican food and yummy, salty margaritas: I find, in L.A., it is very hard to reconcile these two seemingly well-matched priorities. Either the food stinks and the drinks rock, or vice versa. Tons of great Mexican restaurants conten ... More >>

Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival

Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others

Gourmet Lites: The (Sort-of) Healthy Cookie

​ We admit we're frequent victims of the coffeeshop pastry pitfall. We swing by for a quick nonfat latte but end up walking out with some chocolatey croissantpoundcakemuffin that puts our carb intake way over the edge. This is why we were particularly pleased (if not a little stunned) to dis ... More >>

Lunch in the Time of Pax Ottomanica

How to shuck an oyster​ Is this an ALOUD panel discussion of a preoccupation with ancient civilizations as expressed through modern cuisine, or a lunch at Melisse? French chef Brigitte Caland is hosting a series of lunches inspired by literary and historical texts, which just might make all ot ... More >>

Autism In L.A. Clustered Around Affluent Areas, Study Finds

UC Davis​Researchers at UC Davis have been studying geographic patterns that correlate to autism perhaps in hopes of coming up with an environmental link. On that front, they came up blank. But the school's recent findings are interesting nonetheless: For the greater Los Angeles region, the ac ... More >>

Where To Spend New Year's Eve: In A Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name. At Least For One Night.

Logline for the proposed horror film, "Where To Spend New Year's Eve": Thousands of hallow-eyed would-be-revelers, in a desperate search for a party, comb the streets in their finest digs, racing against the stroke of midnight. This year, instead of staying home like a curmudgeon, or running aroun ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

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Stage Raw: Molotov Cocktail Flung in the Cold

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Seafarer

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's I ... More >>

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Thriller on Broadway: Who Wants Werewolves When You Can Have Filipino Prison Dancers?

As we were rolling awake this morning, the radio catching us up on the day's news, a report came on NPR about a new musical that the Nederlander company is producing for Broadway. The producers, who made a bundle off its Mama Mia juggernaut, bought the rights to adapt Michael Jackson's Thriller on ... More >>

Drago Centro: Celestino's Grand Gesture, Downtown's Big Opening

The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Voters' Guide to Controversial Political Measures: Links to all Coverage Here

*Proposition 6: The Most Implosive By Max Taves October 30, 2008 A tiny, unnoticed clause could allow the use of much looser hearsay in trials. *Questions Still Surround Oliver Stone's W. By Nikki Finke October 30, 2008 Winner or loser? Origina ... More >>

Robbie Conal and the Art of Character Assassination

Guerrilla pop

Best Film School as Incendiary Device: Inner-City Filmmakers

E-Harmony: Daedelus' Love to Make Music To

L.A.-based producer-composer's new LP recalls the bliss of rave culture

Jazzed? But Not Motivated?

The week in fun, June 27-July 3

Fighting About How to Fight Global Warming

Also, readers keep a weather eye out

Scott Ritter and The Mission (Accomplished)

Empire and its discontents

Paddleboat Economics

City Hall doles out riches, but stiffs the families who won back MacArthur Park

Best Wake-Up Call

Urth Caffé’s Japanese Tea Latte

Raw Power

Best Belly Fillers for the Ascension

Letters: Not Such Fine Lines

Our readers write

Conscious Dreams

Jacaranda: Music at the Edge of Santa Monica

Lunch in This Town

Midday’s guilty pleasures

An Annual Alphabet

Patriotic Gore

When the world explodes

The Doctor is In

Rolling with people-powered Howard Dean from the highs and lows of spring to the triumphs of summer

Letters

Quaking Over Belmont

News of fatal fault revealed only after school bond passed

Grave New Worlds

When misogynists and robots take over

Out of Africa

She Conchs to Stupor

Honduran seafood chowder on West Adams