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Music Picks: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, and Anthrax

Pliny The Younger Coming To Town: 6 Locations Confirmed

Mark your calendars or gird your loins, the top-rated American craft beer arrives to select locations in L.A. as early as this weekend. Pliny the Younger, a triple IPA, has been topping best-of lists since Russian River Brewing Co. initially released it in 2005 and continues its reign this year on R ... More >>

Volunteers Wanted at the Santa Monica Farmers Markets

If you've always wanted to be a part of a local farmers market, here's your chance. Hang out with farmers, learn about where your food comes from, stalk local chefs FAR more efficiently, shop early for your Santa Rosa plums and breakfast radishes and ridiculously cool melons while the marine layer r ... More >>

Best Beer in America Results: Hoppy Beers Continue to Reign California Brewers Clean Up

The results are in for the tenth annual "Best Beers in America" poll from Zymurgy Magazine, craftbeer.com reports. A Colorado-based publication of the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), Zymurgy has long-asked its readers to vote for their favorite commercially available beers. This year's polli ... More >>

Kaboom! Brings Back Peanuts: Interview with Artist Matt Whitlock and Writer Shane Houghton

Liz OhanesianMatt Whitlock and Shane Houghton at Meltdown Comics​When artist Matt Whitlock was seven, he wrote a letter to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz with one request. He wanted to help draw the cartoonist's famed strip. "I got a form letter back with some Xeroxed drawings," Whitlock rec ... More >>

5 Local Farmers Who are Doing it Right

Felicia FriesemaThe Hollywood market earlier this year.​After reading Beth Barrett's piece about farmers markets this week, it might be tempting to hang up the locavore hat and head out for an angsty and cathartic mouthful at the local McDonald's. We're envisioning an army of market goers as ... More >>

Top 5 Beers from L.A. Beer Week 2011

Far Bar2011 L.A. Beer Week ​ L.A. Beer Week was a 14-day nonstop party that required four days of recovery. But what a blast. Dozens of events at beer bars across Los Angeles were packed with beer fans, new and old alike. After some reflection, we made our picks for the five best beers we tast ... More >>

Pork Wine Pairing: Black Pig's Heritage Bacon Is Good, But Have You Tried The Pinot?

biteclubeats.comStewart and Estes After Their Big Cochon Win​Heritage bacon. Could life get better? It can, particularly if chefs John Stewart and Duskie Estes -- and a really great back story -- are involved. The couple is best known as the chef-proprietors behind Sonoma County's Zazu Restaur ... More >>

Best Craft Beer Bar in Greater Los Angeles: Beachwood BBQ and Brewing

Twenty-four guest beers rotate. Julian Shrago brews 12 excellent in-house beers and charges less for these beers because there's no shipping. Beachwood BBQ recently hosted its annual Sourfest with a list so extensive that some beer geeks took vacation days so as not to miss any gems. Owner/chef ... More >>

The Top 5 IPAs in the World

Here is the Cliffs Notes version of the three sweetest letters in craft brewing: IPA. The Brits, loving themselves some pale ale, would load up a big, slow ship full of the country's favorite liquid, and send it off to that not-so-tiny colony known as India. Problem was, the beer would go bad by ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Saturday, July 23 Schedule: Steampunk, Adventure Time, The Last Airbender, Robert Kirkman and More

Shannon CottrellSteampunk at San Diego Comic-Con 2010​More in "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More." and "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Friday, July 22 Schedule: Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, Chris Elliott, Wil Wheaton, ... More >>

Host A Farmer: More Things To Do During Carmageddon

A. ScattergoodSanta Monica farmers market​ As you doubtless know, next weekend is Carmageddon, or the 2-day shutdown of the 405. Unlike many of us, the farmers who normally come to the Santa Monica farmers markets on the weekends will not be spending that time at home making Marcella Hazan's B ... More >>

Beachwood BBQ and Brewing Opens in Long Beach

Southern BBQ and Craft Beer at Beachwood​ Beachwood BBQ of Seal Beach, rated as one of the Top 5 Beer Bars in America by Beer Advocate magazine, is opening a second location on the Promenade in downtown Long Beach on Tuesday, July 5. Beachwood BBQ and Brewing is easily one of the most anticip ... More >>

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

Exclusive! Urban Nomad Interviews Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips

Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The Urban Nomad walks in space with the Flaming Lips this weekend at Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa. We interview frontman Wayne Coyne, a master showm ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: First Plums Plum Conserve Recipe

Felicia FriesemaPlums at J&J Farms at the Hollywood market​ Central valley rains are wreaking havoc on the summer stone fruit crops, already a couple of weeks late to the party thanks to cooler weather. Drenched cherry orchards, many of them looking at one of the best seasons on record, have h ... More >>

Best Brewery in the Southland: The Bruery

The Bruery Sets the Local Standard for Excellence​ California is king when it comes to American craft beer. Maybe Oregon would argue, but they would lose. In the Golden State of craft brew heaven, Nor Cal and San Diego County have long reigned supreme. That era is over. The best brewery bet ... More >>

Happy Hour: Fig In Santa Monica, Half Off Everything (Yes, Everything)

J. GarbeeSeared Tuna Nicoise Salad At Fig​The Place: Fig, 119 Broadway, Santa Monica; (310) 395-6037. The Hours: Tuesday through Thursday, 5-6 p.m. The Deals: Half off everything on the menu, including drinks What did we think? Turn the page to find out...

[Updated] The Pursuit of Hoppiness: Pliny the Younger (IPA Beer) Day is Here

koadmunkee​Update: We told you you'd have to keep monitoring the tap list yourselves, but we caved and decided to give you a hand. Here's the list of confirmed Pliny the Younger appearances as it stands right now: Verdugo Bar, Wednesday, February 16 at 6 p.m.; Hops and Barley (in Temecula), S ... More >>

Mysteriously Disappeared L.A. Folkie Jim Sullivan Is Tonight's Topic On Coast To Coast AM

​ There is no small amount of irony in the fact that the man who penned an album of lost psych-rock explorations titled U.F.O. disappeared under mysterious circumstances just a few years after the record's release. Vanishing into thin air outside of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, in 1975, Jim Sulliv ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Best Evening Farmers Market: South Pasadena

A. ScattergoodSouth Pasadena farmers market​ Sure, there are farmers markets with more high profile chefs trailing carts and, often, camera crews (Santa Monica Wednesdays); there are markets with stalls featuring more Asian or Hispanic produce (Torrance); or markets scheduled early enough and ... More >>

Photo Gallery: What's In Season At The Farmers Market

Summer may not be technically over, but now that Labor Day has come and gone and schools are back in session, it kind of feels like it. Early September, however, can be one of the hottest times in Southern California, especially in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. Not so good for us, but no ... More >>

Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate: Starting With Foodie, Part 2

Flickr/WordRidden​ A few months ago we went off on the Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate, a post that generated a lot of feedback, for which we are grateful. It also, as you might expect, generated a lot of other words that are happily vilified by many of us who spend far more time, sadly, writing ... More >>

Photo Gallery: What's In Season Mid-July At The Farmers Market

A. ScattergoodSee Canyon Blenheim apricots​ The Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market is, on some days more than others, a microcosm of the Los Angeles food scene, or at least a certain quadrant of it. This morning, relentlessly sunny and with temperatures creeping towards the 80s and then the ... More >>

Gubernatorial Candidate Wants To Create 'Pedophile Island' To Banish Sex Offenders

Douglas Hughes.​With shades of the 135-candidate gubernatorial (recall) election of 2003 (which featured a porn star, Gary Coleman and Angelyne), the race for California governor this year is not without its characters. Chief among them is Douglas Hughes. One of the Orange County Republican's ... More >>

An Easter Beer Hunt: Get Your Redemption, Supplication and Judgement Day

Suggesting wines to pair with that ham we know you are brining right this minute for Easter brunch can be a real bear pig, in part because there are so many varieties -- sugar glazed or savory, dry or wet cured, and prepared in a seemingly infinite variety of ways. Fortunately, fat salt = the ... More >>

Top 10 Christmas Dining Options If You're Going Out This Year, For Whatever Reason

Because your mother-in-law is critical of your cooking. Because your mother-in-law always burns the roast. Because you've been finding Pepperidge Farm bread crumbs scattered about your kitchen since Thanksgiving. Because this year you just don't have time. For whatever reason you're not cooking or ... More >>

LA People 2009: Spin Artist — Tommy Hollenstein

Because your mother-in-law is critical of your cooking. Because your mother-in-law always burns the roast. Because you've been finding Pepperidge Farm bread crumbs scattered about your kitchen since Thanksgiving. Because this year you just don't have time. For whatever reason you're not cooking or ... More >>

Augor, Nekst on Western

This wall was a jumble of tags and terrible stuff until Augor and Nekst got a hold of it. So hey - it looks like L.A. graffiti is now a national story, and pretty much every commenter on the LA Times website wants every street artist locked up or shot. Read it here: http://www.latimes.com/new ... More >>

Bukowski's Ruin?

Claim that the author was a Nazi sympathizer delays effort to save his bungalow

Come On Feel the Rage

Rage Against the Machine and Lemonheads at Coachella

Best Gelato Snafu, a.k.a. the Neo-Neapolitan

Rage Against the Machine and Lemonheads at Coachella

The Sex Murder Files

A serial killer may be stalking L.A.’s prostitutes

A Day of Power

Can Congress pick up the vibe of the movement?

Running Man

Can Congress pick up the vibe of the movement?

The Ideal Elegist

Alan Furst’s slow, sensual thriller

Roger’s Nest

So what keeps this cardinal from flying away?

Finding Fante

An encounter with one of L.A.'s literary ghosts

Body Work

Bikram Choudhury wants to restore the chassis of the Western world

Behind the Robes

Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

The Preservationist

Chip Kidd speaks

Final Cut

Barbershop noir from the Coens

Letters

Barbershop noir from the Coens

Julie London

1926–2000

TGIF at the Bowl

1926–2000

Gone North

Tom Waits, upcountry