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10 Best All-Day Happy Hours in Los Angeles

By Sarah Bennett and Erika Bolden When we went looking for all-day happy hours, geographic diversity was a priority. But striking patterns emerged -- namely, the bars most likely to discount booze beyond the typical late-afternoon hours were located mostly in 9-5 work destinations. In fact, from Sa ... More >>

December Restaurant Openings & Closings The Last Matzo Ball at Junior's

It's Saturday afternoon and there's a line forming out the door of Junior's Deli on Westwood Boulevard. Toddlers fumble around the deli case, seniors clutch their canes while patiently waiting for a table. New York accents float through the air. The scene would make any restaurant owner proud. But i ... More >>

Bay Cities Italian Deli & Bakery: Bread, Nutella A Guy in a Shrek Costume

There are myriad reasons to stop by Bay Cities Italian Deli & Bakery in Santa Monica. The freshly baked bread, often still warm. The jars of Nutella. The Godmother sandwich. The rows and rows of pastas and olive oils and wines and tins of this and that. But it's even more worthwhile than usual -- an ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint in Hollywood Tonight; Drunk Driver Crackdown Across L.A.

The dog days of summer are here, the 4th of July is way back in the rear view, and the season is winding down. But, for whatever reason, authorities across L.A. county are turning up the heat on drunk drivers with a "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign August 17 to September 3. Not only that ... More >>

Foie Gras-loving Chefs Fight Ban With Last-ditch Petition

When the ban on foie gras takes effect on July 1, Californians with a taste for foie will be reduced to copping the creamy tan stuff in little, perfect slugs squeezed into wax paper packets like opium. They'll slip from hand-to-hand on public transportation. Liver-laden trucks will trundle from ne ... More >>

9 Best Macaroni & Cheese Dishes in Los Angeles

What makes a great mac & cheese is perhaps more intensely subjective than pizza crust preferences. Is it thick creamy cheese sauce or a layer of cheesy crust? Some say it requires a generous topping of seasoned breadcrumbs, while others are staunchly anti-crumb. Instead of answer or impose, we thoug ... More >>

10 Best New Year's Eve Events in Los Angeles

Flickr/ Bayasaa​ New Year's is upon us soon, and with that, the angsty debate about what to do in order to make it the most epic night of both the last and the new year begins (no pressure attached, of course). In order to take some of the stress out of planning the big party, here are LA Wee ... More >>

Where To Eat Out on Christmas in Los Angeles: 5 Categories, 25 Ways to Eat Out on the Holiday

J. RitzHoliday tree cheer at the Hungry Cat Hollywood.​ With all due respect to hearty home-cooked Christmas meals centered around major hunks of proteins, tamales and starchy vegetables, it's not all that difficult to find interesting ways to eat out on December 25th in Los Angeles. Alright, ... More >>

Santa Monica Boulevard Shooting Near East Hollywood Elementary School Sends Victim to Hospital

Google MapsSanta Monica and Normandie, looking north toward Little Armenia.​A man on a bicycle shot someone in broad daylight across the street from an elementary school at Santa Monica Boulevard and Normandie Avenue in East Hollywood today, police tell the Weekly. The attack was reported at ... More >>

Good Food Festival: Celebrate the Santa Monica Farmers Market 30th Anniversary

A. ScattergoodLong-stemmed strawberries.​ We all know someone who, when they shop at a farmers market and see the season's first batch of tomatoes/figs/strawberries, they lose all sense of self control and start celebrating amongst the stalls. Imagine this person -- and let's face it, it's pro ... More >>

Good Food Jobs A Few Local Opportunities

abrowncoat/flickrOjai Olive Oil: Your food job?​ Thanks to Michael Pollan, the mainstreaming of farm-to-table activism, and co-ops, many college students graduate with the hope of working with food -- in the ever-expanding field if not a field itself. While ten years ago, they'd have been a ... More >>

Dressing for an Earthquake

Put on your red vest for the big one

Japan 8.9: Tsunami Watch For SoCal

​Update: A National Weather Service tsunami warning for the L.A. coast has been downgraded to a tsunami advisory. After the jump: Boats damaged in Catalina. Could it happen in L.A.? See that story here. The National Weather Service issued a tsunami watch for the Southern California coast thi ... More >>

30 Burgers in 30 Days: Fun with Buns at Rounds Premium Burgers (Day 4)

Sitting at the windowside counter at Rounds Premium Burgers in West Hollywood, watching drunk and soon-to-be-drunk clubgoers flit from bar to bar, we couldn't stop thinking about buns. Specifically, brioche buns, the de facto frame for every upscale burger, often lending them an unearned gravitas. ... More >>

Mainstream Cancer Center in Burbank Gets in Touch With Inner Hippie, Offers Patients Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs

Eastern medicine: Now to be practiced at big scary cancer facilities with normal sign fonts​Looks like the big boys in cancer treatment are finally realizing patients would rather get an exotic massage from their hot young attendings than a scratchy blanket and a bedpan. The Roy and Patricia ... More >>

Golden Mean Vegan Café's Vanilla Coconut Cake: Great Vegan Cake Doesn't Have to be a Contradiction in Terms

A. Trachta​We're just as pro-nutrition as the next food enthusiast. Quinoa is our side of choice these days over mashed potatoes. We can't live without kale in our salads, and slip flaxseed into our morning antioxidant smoothies as often as possible. But when we want to eat cake, we want to ea ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it’s too late

Ask Mr. Gold: Hunting Pheasant, or Celestino Drago's Your Man for the Fancy Fowl

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Where do you suggest we go for a meal of pheasant? In the Los Angeles area, please. --The Melczers Dear Mr. and Mrs. Melczer: It's odd -- several decades ago, pheasant was the ultimate in luxury meats, probably because of its connotatio ... More >>

Tonight: Murder ballads, Lights, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Giant Drag

Frank Fairfield​File under Halloween-appropriate shows that you don't have to dress up for: Murder ballads -- those creepy little tomes to our dark side -- will be the fare tonight at the Echoplex for a group of artists assembled by the people behind the New Los Angeles Folk Festival. And why ... More >>

Best Sausage and Biscuits: Snug Harbor Santa Monica

B. CalderwoodSnug Harbor Biscuits, Gravy Not Optional​There's something satisfying about diving into a plate of sausage biscuits -- surely an entire day's worth of calories judging by the sheer number of biscuits alone -- first thing in the morning. Even more so on a Saturday morning at Snug ... More >>

Thundercats Ho!!!!! New Video of SA-RA Creative Partners Featuring Bass Virtuoso Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner

Thundercats Ho!! New Live Video of SA-RA Creative Partners Featuring Bass Virtuoso Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner

Le Pain Quotidien's Uncommon Good

Ben CalderwoodLe Pain's warm welcome​ The Santa Monica PQ is an excellent place to collect an espresso and brioche after shopping the nearby Wednesday and Saturday farmers markets. (If you glimpse the special overfilled pâte à choux--resembling Pac-Man with a mouth jammed full of pastry crea ... More >>

Intel Founder And Computer Pioneer Max Palevsky Dies In Beverly Hills

University of ChicagoMax Palevsky, right.​Computer pioneer Max Palevsky logged off for good this week at the age of 85, with his assistant telling the New York Times he died of heart failure at his Beverly Hills home. The founder of chip-maker Intel was a major political backer of former Los A ... More >>

Deal Likely For Broad Museum Downtown

Andy Warhol's 'Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can,' Possibly Worth $12 Million, Is In Broad's Collection.​A deal has likely been struck for Eli Broad's much-sought museum to be located at the very Grand Avenue project the billionaire has been touting for years, according to the Beverly Hills Couri ... More >>

The Supper Liberation Front: Your Secret Che Guevara Dinner Club

Supper Liberation Front​One of the many advantages of living and dining in Los Angeles is that you can wear shorts to your favorite Michelin-starred restaurant. Now not only can you walk into Spago in flip-flops, but you have someplace where your Che Guevara T-shirt will be seriously appropria ... More >>

West Coast Rappers Dominate XXL's Freshman Class

Break out the champagne, Cali, your rappers are set to run the game once again. New York's XXL magazine today revealed the cover of its third annual "Freshmen Class" cover -- spotlighting the publication's top 10 emcee up-and-comers for the new year -- and artists born or based here on the West Coas ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Holiday in Blue

Market Report: New Market at Barnsdall Park

There's a new market to add to the already long list of Los Angeles farmers markets. In the heart of East Hollywood, the Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) Farmers Market at Barnsdall Park offers food lovers yet another opportunity to shop for local, California produce. For those of of you stuck on ... More >>

Death of L.A. Newsstands

Times are so bad, longtime stands are becoming cigarette shops. Cough!

Advertising Now: Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

When death of your industry becomes default small talk in the conference lobby and every media related conversation devolves into something along the lines of "how do we save the Los Angeles Times?" you know things are not boding well. Perhaps this is why media buyers (the typically underpaid twenty ... More >>

Flagging Interest: Renée Petropoulos at Rosamund Felsen Gallery

Stars and stripes and plaids

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the elimination of the L.A. Weekly's Theater Editor position. What a privilege: to read all that, to have served ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Eat the Runt, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Cute With Chris

Miss Witherspoon, The Bourgeois Gentilhomme and more

Dogtown Days: Memory of a Skateboarding Youth

Gallery Roundup: Liebowitz, Beshty, Hoshino, Bon

Leviathans, vessels and bees

Blah & Pemex on Sunset & Highland

On the spot where the old French Cottage used to stand - which you can see here - there was a nice clean brick wall just crying out for some tagging. Pemex, Arek and Blah filled the bill with color coordinated pink and yellow. These pieces will be gone before you know it. Another gre ... More >>

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