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Waffle Chix in Westwood Village Closes: Replaced by ShopHouse Food Truck Coming Soon

Since May 20th, Bruins have had to search elsewhere for deep-fried chicken and waffles. Family-owned Southern diner Waffle Chix, which opened in 2011 in Westwood Village, adjacent to Five Guys and Le Pain Quotidien, posted signage telling fans, "We are expanding our footprint around Los Angeles. Get ... More >>

The Undercover Vegetarian: Rustic Canyon

Chef Jeremy Fox once presided over the most celebrated vegetarian menu in the country at Ubuntu in Napa. So now that he's taken the helm at Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica, it is no surprise that it's quite easy to eat incredibly well without meat at his current endeavor. On the current menu, more t ... More >>

Top 10 Miracle Mile Bars

Miracle Mile is pretty much smack dab in the middle of Los Angeles. It got its name for its improbable rise from a dirt farm road to a mid-century shopping destination, one of the most desirable areas in L.A. in the 1950's. That distinction diminished as other neighborhoods developed "downtowns" of ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Photos in a Red Line Metro Station

This week's list includes a feisty auctioneer, art in a Metro station and a real-life Romeo and Juliet. 5. The last auction Robert Berman has been running Santa Monica Auctions for going on three decades and has had the C2 building at Bergamot Station for nineteen years. At the end of the month, th ... More >>

'Leatherface' Actor Andrew Bryniarski Arrested for Hoarding Pomeranians in Santa Monica RV

We've seen a lot of shady shit go down in the legendary RV community of Venice Beach. But Santa Monica -- its cleaner, more stuck-up neighbor to the north -- has taken pains to ensure that mobile-home dwellers steer clear of its residential areas. Still, one veteran Hollywood anti-hero allegedly g ... More >>

Tar and Roses, Andrew Kirschner's Santa Monica Hot Spot, Has the Zeitgeist Nailed

Santa Monica's Main Street Is a Green Fashion Hub, but Stores Are Fighting for Survival

More stories from our 2012 Fashion Issue on dressing ethically: *West Hollywood's New Fur Ban *Does L.A. Still Have Sweatshops? *Yael Aflalo's Reformation Makes Vintage Cool *Santa Monica's Main Street, a Green Fashion Hub *Three L.A. Designers Who Do Eco-Fashion Right The trees lining Santa Monica ... More >>

Yael Aflalo's Reformation Allows Fashionistas to Go Green by Making Vintage Cool

More stories from our 2012 Fashion Issue on dressing ethically: *West Hollywood's New Fur Ban *Does L.A. Still Have Sweatshops? *Yael Aflalo's Reformation Makes Vintage Cool *Santa Monica's Main Street, a Green Fashion Hub *Three L.A. Designers Who Do Eco-Fashion Right When Yael Aflalo founded her ... More >>

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Rock Hudson, Robert Bresson and all-night avant-garde

New Jazz Bakery In Jeopardy; West Side Jazz Scene Hurting

Tom MeekThe Ron Jones Orchestra at the Jazz Bakery, 2008​The Jazz Bakery, L.A.'s major jazz non-profit organization, is in turmoil because of the pending shutdown of the Culver City Redevelopment Agency. Jazz Bakery president Ruth Price had been working with the agency to reopen Jazz Bakery's ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/9-1/13

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You probably should get a "garlic knot," which here is a hollow sphere of pizza dough, tied at the top with string and stuffed with a handful of baked garlic cloves -- it's the new-new thing, the f ... More >>

L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free

BAM!!! Beer, Art & Music Festival in Santa Monica This Sunday

Brewing craft beer is an art. That's why the name changed from microbrew to craft brew. The Second Annual BAM Fest (Beer, Art & Music Festival) will be held in Santa Monica on this Sunday, October 9, from 1-6 p.m. BAM celebrates the trifecta of locally produced art, music and, most importantly ... More >>

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

Santa Monica Farmers Market Q & A: Laura Avery Talks 30 Years of SMFM

City of Santa MonicaSanta Monica Farmers Market Manager Laura Avery.​ You probably know that this week is the 30th anniversary celebration of the Santa Monica Farmers Market, scheduled to be feted with the week-long Good Food Festival & Conference, gallery shows, and of course, food. The Sant ... More >>

Santa Monica College on Lockdown Following Report of Man With a Gun

SMC.​Update: A campus police official tells the Weekly, "All clear -- we are off lock-down." Also, at bottom, how a frightened young woman set the whole thing off. First posted at 12:07 p.m. Santa Monica College was on lock-down early this afternoon after there was a report of a gunman on cam ... More >>

May at L.A. Farmers Markets: Your Virtual Grocery List

A. ScattergoodMcGrath Family Farm's pea tendrils​ It's May at Los Angeles farmers markets, bringing the season's first cherries and sweet corn, Bloomsdale spinach -- which Alex Weiser of Weiser Family Farms is growing longer this year up in Tehachapi; something he does when he's not shooting ... More >>

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L.A. Theater in 2010

Thanks for the memories

TV Chef Juan Carlos Cruz Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Attempting To Hire Homeless To Kill Wife

Chef Death?​Despite his earlier claims of innocence, it looks like onetime Food Network chef Juan Carlos Cruz did in fact attempt to whip-up a major course of death for his wife. He was known on Food as the Calorie Commando. But prosecutors said he was a would-be culinary killer. On Monday Cr ... More >>

Tonight: The Soft Pack, Kurt Vile, Nosaj Thing, Dean Wareham, Tim Kasher, KT Tunstall, Sonny & the Sunsets, Sabrosa Purr

The Soft Pack​During their year of touring dangerously, San Diego-bred, L.A.-based quartet the Soft Pack have succeeded in getting everyone to forget their old band name ... you know ... the one that people misunderstood ... and they tired of answering questions about ... what was that name, a ... More >>

Santa Monica's Jerry Rubin Says 'Dunk The Tea Baggers'

Ted Soqui​This week we told you how the Tea Party invaded the Westside in that bastion of working-class rage, Beverly Hills. Well now it looks like our favorite living liberal named Jerry Rubin is fighting back this weekend. That's right, Jerry Peace Activist Rubin (his legal name) welcomes y ... More >>

Eli Broad, In Total Non-Surprise, Will Put His Museum Downtown

​Billionaire developer, philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad is putting his modern art museum downtown, finally eliminating Santa Monica from the running, though the Santa Monica thing was seen by most knowledgeable people as a negotiating ploy and not a serious consideration. To be su ... More >>

Spielberg, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise Asked To Give Up Private Jets

Winograd.​Congressional candidate Marcy Winograd has formally asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a handful of mega-stars to stop flying via private jet in and out of Santa Monica Airport because of the pollution the planes cause for neighbors in the neighboring, L.A. city community of Mar Vi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/3 - 10/9

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It's impossible to turn a 350-pound pupusa. So I invented the pupusorno.'" World's Largest Pupusa: Why? Why not! "Why the pig? Why the man on stilts? Why the hell not." The Gorbals To Reopen, Possibly Next Tues ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Meyer Lemons: What to Buy Now At the Farmers Market

Amy ScattergoodMeyer lemons at Garcia Farm's stall​A Meyer lemon is something that you might take for granted living in Southern California, the way you can overlook the ocean's permanent composition of place and the (usually) stunning weather. You should not. Leticia Garcia, of Garcia Organic ... More >>

Umami Burger Expands to Los Feliz and Fred Segal Santa Monica

Umami Burger has helped spread word of the so-called "fifth taste," and now it's time for its own second and third locations. After all, the La Brea streamlined burger joint has been as packed as an ambitiously-built burger since it opened in February. Photo credit: Umami BurgerUmami: coming to a n ... More >>

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

Farm to Cell Phone to Table: Alex Weiser's i-Field

The path from farm to table is sometimes a convoluted one, with hours logged in the fields and on the highways to farmers markets. At Weiser Family Farms in Tehachapi, this path is also virtual. You can now follow your Ru ... More >>

Musicals Currently Playing in L.A.

Stage Raw: Economic Downturn Hits CTG

Gigi Otalvaro--Hormillosa performs next weekend at Highways' Fringes -- Margins -- Borders performance festival. See item below. Photo by Heather CarducciIT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE DOWNTURN HIT THE NON-PROFITS The press office at the Mark Taper Forum announced yesterday that the the ... More >>

Election '08: The Pros and Cons of California's Ballot Measures

By Daniel Heimpel, Max Taves and Jill Stewart Statewide Measures Proposition 1A $10 billion bond. High Speed Passenger Train Bond Act. Total price tag with interest: About $19 million. Proposition 1 would give the state the right to sell $10 billion in bonds to build an 800-mile high-speed tr ... More >>

Best Yogi Rock: Vinnie Marino

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Best Shop to Get Bratty In

Best City Staircase to Heaven

Spinal Column

Out With the Old

Cashing in your clothes? What to bring, what to leave and what to expect . . .

Emotional Truth & Brother Leader

How Green Is Your Library

Cash in Your Chips

Ask Mr. Gold

Sex and the Steak House

The Now Garde

10 L.A. Designers

Endorsements (Continued)

The Weekly’s recommendations in the November general election

Aging to Perfection

A Guide to Our Advertisers Part Two

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Sticking It Where The Sun Shines

Santa Monica's gift to the world