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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Snowfall in Chinatown

See also: *10 L.A. Art Spaces That Change Our Idea of What an Art Space Is *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying This week, a Eurasian collective tells uncanny histories, artists take on maintenance work and a sculptor builds an uncomfortably large minimalis ... More >>

Gish Bac Gets Oaxacan Food Just Right

Maria Ramos and David Padilla's Mid-City restaurant nails the details -- and the goat

From The Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: Spago

As the first in our series exploring the LAPL's menu collection, we're looking at a very early Spago menu. The Beverly Hills restaurant reopens this week after a renovation and reinvention that has taken a little less than three months. The library dates the menu "early 80's" but gives no exact da ... More >>

The 5 Things You Need Know About This Week's Review of Tar and Roses

This week, the restaurant review is a consideration of chef Andrew Kirschner's very popular Santa Monica restaurant, Tar & Roses. We urge you to read the full review, but for a quicker bite, here's the diet version: Food: Creative, produce-inspired small plates. From the review: "Andrew Kirschner h ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Dragonfruit

Dragonfruit is so aptly named. The baseball-sized fruit is covered in long, lime green fleshy scales that ripple out from a dark red core. Open one up and you stain your hands magenta from the nearly fluorescent flesh dotted with tiny black seeds. Asia has long grown dragonfruit -- also known as ... More >>

Embarrassment of Riches

Comments: Aliens Among Us

Chef Joe Miller, Surfas a CSA Box

LA Weekly Flickr pool/WishingOnAsTar!raviloli at Joe's​In a way, fresh produce and the school cafeteria meatloaf have something in common: a sense of mystery. At least, if you get your produce from a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Farmers send subscribers samples of whatever's ... More >>

James Beard Awards 2012: Semifinalists Announced

Los Angeles chefs made a strong showing among the semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Local nominees for the Best Chef, Pacific award include Josef Centeno (Lazy Ox Canteen), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), David Feau (The Royce at the Langham), Matt Molina (M ... More >>

10 Best Sports Bars in Los Angeles

Now that musicians and nerds are the cool kids and jocks are the villains, liking sports has become distinctly uncool. So where are reasonable people of average coolness supposed to go to share their now-lame passion for twentysomething physical freaks throwing or kicking roundish objects for millio ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the World's Sexiest Performance Artist

From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury design, this week's list feels particularly well-rounded. (Also check out our preview of Pacific Standard Time's Performance and Public Art Festival, which begins this week). 5. Italy in Westwood Galleria del Depo ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Seedless Kishu Mandarin

Jeanne Davis owns a small orchard out in Fallbrook (formerly known as Coyote Growers) where she grows a variety of citrus trees. But none that garners the attention that her grove of 85 Seedless Kishu mandarin trees does. She started offering the small, walnut-sized fruit about four years ago, at ... More >>

What Leap Year Means To Farmers Your 2012 Holiday Table Implications

Unless you happen to man a soda stand at Disneyland, the side effects of 2012 being a leap year probably aren't tops on your back-to-work frustration list (For the Mickey Mouse lollipop obsessed: The theme park is staying open 24 hours on February 29). And for many farmers who sell their produce at ... More >>

Women Beat Their Men? L.A. Guys' Group Mad at Verizon Ads Says That's The Flip-Side of The Story

Verizon​Quick question: In a hetersexual relationship, who's more likely to use violence -- the man or the woman? Research seems to show that both are equally as likely to be the victims of domestic violence, though it appears women are more likely to get hurt and men are less likely to repo ... More >>

South and Vizio Create L.A.'s First (and Only) 3D Sports Bar, With an Appearance By Blake Griffin

Paul T. BradleySouth, Powered by Vizio: This is the Sports Bar...of the Future​ In the bars of the future, will we all be sharing beers around android tablets...bespectacled with 3D glasses...eating Dippin' Dots? Santa Monica sports bar South and local electronics giant Vizio hope so (well, ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Honey Rich Apriums and Champagne Coral Cherries

Felicia FriesemaHoney Rich aprium from Burkart Organics at the Hollywood Market​ You still have to wait a bit for those classic apricots, the Blenheims, to come into season (think mid-June). In the meantime, if you're a some-is-better-than-none kind of person, you may happily settle for the a ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. Weekly Awards Report

THEATER NEW REVIEWS WILL BE POSTED BY 8 P.M.Stage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy NorrisMONDAY NIGHT AT THE EL REY​Ash Panda rocks the house. Photo by Timo ... More >>

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

Expo Line Will Have A Bridge Over Sepulveda Blvd., Union Labor

Expo Phase 2​The second phase of the Expo light-rail line took a big leap forward today, as the Expo Construction Authority awarded a $541 million contract to Skanska/Rados.The authority also voted to approve a bridge over Sepulveda Boulevard, which could go some way toward mollifying homeowners w ... More >>

Oscar Night Marred by Big Sinkhole on Highland Avenue in Hollywood

oceanUPJustin Bieber and Selena Gomez at the Vanity Fair party Sunday.​Update: The water-main break was fixed and traffic was reopened in time for the morning rush -- about 6 a.m. -- the DWP reports. The eyes of the world are on L.A. Sunday night and we give them ... ... a giant sinkhole. Y ... More >>

Top 10 Places to Celebrate National Pie Day

Guzzle & NoshA few ways to celebrate National Pie Day.​You don't have to be Adam Carolla to prefer pie to cake. (He tells a story about loving pie so much, that he once entered a pie-eating contest at North Hollywood High and, with his hands behind his back, nibbled and licked at the side of t ... More >>

Forage Restaurant to Pop-up at Westside Art Fair

Photo by Anne FishbeinPolenta lasagna at Forage​Until now, westsiders have had to migrate east in order to Forage - at the restaurant that bears the moniker, anyway. However, this Silver Lake staple for seasonal, locally-sourced food will be taking up temporary residence in Santa Monica as a p ... More >>

This Ain't No Fruitcake: Five (Plus One) Great Holiday Breads

L. BallaStollen from Rockenwagner Bakery​ Johnny Carson used to joke there was only one of these in the world, and it was passed from family to family. Others see how far they can fling it every Christmas day. Fruitcake has long been the red-headed stepchild of holiday confections. But it does ... More >>

Tonight: Shadow Shadow Shade, M.I.A., the Morning Benders, Miike Snow, Mark Ronson

Jason O'DellShadow Shadow Shade​When Shadow Shadow Shade burst onto the L.A. scene about two years ago -- then known as Afternoons -- you'd have thought there wasn't an arena big enough to hold them. An early song, "Say Yes," hit the radio, and Shepard Fairey designed a poster for it. The sev ... More >>

Tonight: Arcade Fire, the Black Lips, Casiokids, Lissie, Dave Alvin, the Ruby Friedman Orchestra

Arcade Fire​Not much we can say here is going to change your mind about Arcade Fire. You're either a believer, or not. You've either dropped some paycheck/worked an angle/called in a favor to get a ticket to one of the next two nights' sold-out shows, or not. (Or, you'll wait for Coachella, w ... More >>

Get A Wake Up Call Before You Get A Parking Ticket In Los Angeles

​You woke up late only to find a $60 parking ticket under your wiper because you failed to move your wheels for a street sweeper that has yet to come? A group of USC students has started a company that will text you reminders to move your car on sweeping days for $20 a year. "Along with three ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Make Music Pasadena (with Matt & Kim, Natalia Lafourcade, Warpaint), Opening Night at the Bowl, Freestyle Fellowship, Jamie Lidell, Erykah Badu, Billy Joe Shaver

Warpaint​Pasadena is used to its parades, but on Saturday its denizens will be traipsing around Old Town to get an earful of music rather than an eyeful of rose pedals. What's impressive about the annual Make Music Pasadena is how many constituencies the festival is serving over one day. With ... More >>

Claire Peeps: The Lifesaver

Terror Suspect Arrested In New York; L.A. Authorities Beef Up Studio Patrols

​As federal authorities announced late Monday that a suspect in Saturday night's attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square was arrested, Los Angeles-area authorities said they have beefed up patrols of area movie studios as a precaution. It's not clear if the terror attempt targeted th ... More >>

Get Ready For World Nutella Day & Our Top 10 List of Nutella Restaurant Dishes

Tomorrow, drumroll please, is World Nutella Day. Okay, this is one of those holidays (Arbor Day, National Cream Puff Day) that may seem arbitrary and slightly ridiculous at first, when in fact it is a serious vindication for some of us. In 2007, two American ex-pat writers living in Italy, Sara Ros ... More >>

Top Cheeses To Start Eating in 2010: The LA Cheese Pros Weigh In On Their Wheels

The Spanish greats at The Cheese Store of Silver Lake​Another year, another chance to take a new bite out of life. For motivated foodies looking for the latest and greatest edibles to sink their teeth into, this approach translates literally. The food lover is ready already to start planning t ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Nibbler, Polyester the Musical, The Ghost Building

Theater Reviews: Treefall, One Woman, Two Lives, The Miser

Also, A Hatful of Rain, Franz Schubert: His Letters and Music and more

Pizza 2 Go, Literally: Riva to Ditch Pizza for Small Plates Menu

The line at Mozza is about to get longer. On July 22, the wood-burning pizza oven at 8-month-old It's National Doughnut Day, Do Your Part! Where to Get Fried Freebies, Gourmet Glazes and More

Shannon CottrellLA-based band The Keyishe are down with doughnuts.Although National Doughnut Day officially began in 1938 as a means for The Salvation Army to raise money for those struggling during the depression, the organization's connection to the fried confection began on the French battlefield ... More >>

Michel Richard Abandons LA Consulting Gig -- Citrus at Social Hollywood Will Go to Anisette's Alain Giraud

Citrus at Social Hollywood is experiencing a change-over. Again. This time it's the restaurant's big name chef Michel Richard's decision to permanently commit to D.C., with Alain Giraud taking over consulting kitchen duties at the lavish Jeffrey Chodorow-owned business, reports the Daily Dish. Richa ... More >>

Expo Line Crossings Decided

By a 4-1 vote the state Public Utilities Commission approved one proposal, while denying another, for two street-crossings along the Expo Line, whose trains will eventually travel a rail corridor connecting downtown L.A. to Santa Monica. An L.A.Times report notes that in October a PUC judge had reco ... More >>

The Long March to the Mormon Temple

It was a little before ten o'clock on Wednesday evening, the day after Proposition 8 appeared to be approved by the voters of California, when Levi Jackman Foster arrived at the Los Angeles Mormon Temple in Westwood. He was 22-years-old, gay, and angry. Foster, a handsome blond with short hair and a ... More >>

Problems in Paradise

On the campaign trail with the three who would represent the ultimate NIMBY district

Letters

In Living Color

The Buck Starts Here

Why two private investors are gambling on the theater

Fox in the Hen House

A progressive for L.A.’s redevelopment agency

Angelic Angélique

Letters

Sin Season

It’s Low Tide for Crime on the Beach

The Rodents Are Coming

RAT Conference, 1999

L.A.Transcendental

Bodywork for the new millennium

Haggis, Guinness and a Couple of Plays

Excerpts from the Edinburgh Festival