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How Artist Hector Zamora Built a House on Top of Shopping Carts

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, July 29 System of a Down HOLLYWOOD BOWL The Monty Python of heavy metal, System of a Down's irreverent and sometimes downright Dadaist take on its chosen medium achieves an unlikely yet enduring resonance thanks to s ... More >>

The Offline Glass: Turn Your Smartphone Into a Beer Coaster

We all know the scene -- you're sitting at the bar with a friend when they whip out their smartphone to respond to a text. The phone migrates from isolation in your friend's pants pocket to its perch on the bar next to his beer. From that point it's just a few conversational lulls before your colloc ... More >>

You've Probably Never Heard of the Fascinating Brazilian Director Nelson Pereira dos Santos. UCLA Is Trying to Change That

LACMA's Reinstallation of Its Latin American Art Galleries, Explained

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Born in Mexico City, Ilona Katzew came to L.A. 13 years ago to assume a role at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as an associate curator of Latin American art. At the time, Latin American art was a component of a larger museum department that al ... More >>

UCLA's Science and Food Series: The 2013 Season

If you were among the lucky few who spent many an evening sitting in a UCLA lecture hall last spring, listening raptly as Dave Chang or Rene Redzepi talked about all the crazy stuff they do in their food labs, then it's time to grab your calendar and email the university again. This year, Professor ... More >>

The World's 50 Best Restaurants List: Noma, Again (And Again)

Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus S. Pellegrino has just announced their list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the third consecutive year, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at the number one spot. (Congratulations to Rene Redzep ... More >>

What Street Artists Os Gêmeos Have in Common With Frida Kahlo

The concrete swaths of Sunset and Wilshire don't readily conjure images of abundant nature, lush dreamscapes and feminist activism. Yet these boulevards have certainly seen their share of otherworldly goings-on, and this month they prove to be fertile ground for two ambitious exhibitions -- Os Gême ... More >>

3748 Baldwin Avenue, El Monte: The Sad Gray Box

Wendy Gilmartin​ This poor excuse for a building has no balconies, no overhangs, no awnings, no shrubs, no front windows, no shade, no hue, no nothing but a big square box of fugly.

Culture Collide Festival Preview: Let's Get International

See also: *Culture Collide Festival review: Liam Finn, Rainbow Arabia, Guineafowl, The Awkwards perform on October 6, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: The Death Letters and Cameras perform on October 8, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: Chad VanGaalen & Gang Gang Dance perform on October ... More >>

Ai Weiwei at LACMA

The trickster and his beasts

Don't Call It a Comeback: Red Hot Rio 2's Paul Heck

​Since the late 1980s the Red Hot Organization has released over a dozen music compilations to help raise funds for AIDS research with help from artists as varied as George Michael, Wu-Tang Clan, Nirvana and Alice Coltrane. This year the Organization will be releasing Red Hot Rio 2 - a star- ... More >>

Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

Halfway through, and it's clear: Cannes 2011 has issues

Morgan Spurlock's The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Reviewed

Brick's Picks: Full-Frontal Jazz

Charles Manson Cell Phone Prison Call On Tape; Big Killers, Mexican Mafia And 8,675 Criminals Use Smuggled Cells In California Prisons

Charles Manson on the line.​Charles Manson had a smuggled cell phone in prison. CBS has truly creepy audio of Manson singing in a sicko call to the outside world. The Weekly explained the ugly game by legislators Mark Leno and Tom Ammiano, who head public safety committees in Sacramento -- and ... More >>

Live Review: The Blank Tapes at Spaceland

Vivian Martinez​ Friday night The Blank Tapes' Matt Adams returned to L.A. to play Spaceland for probably the millionth time, this time with "combating teams" of the Bay Area and Orange County musicians he played with on his recent tour of Brazil and a fantastic mustache that enveloped his en ... More >>

Cell Phones Flooding to Mexican Mafia Prisoners

Schwarzenegger vs. Legislature pissing match means no crackdown

WTF: Did Franz Ferdinand Rip-Off L.A. Band Foot Village?!

Foot Village, a "drum-n-shout" ensemble.​Can't say we saw this one coming. It's just come to West Coast Sound's attention that Factóide!, a blog in Brazil, is asking this searing question of Scottish indie-rock megastars Franz Ferdinand: "It would be an inspiration in the soil, Foot Village ... More >>

Q&A: DJ Will Saul Loves That Good Ole' 'Futuristic Melody'

Will Saul is a relatively new name to Los Angeles, but the British dance music artist has tapped a fresh sound that has made him at "it" DJ in global clubland in the last year. The spinner's sound is described in his bio as "deep dubdiscohousetechno with flashes of soul and irresistible melodies tha ... More >>

Best LA Radio Shows: Required Listening for Traffic-Clogged LA

​In this week's Best of LA issue of LA Weekly, writer Wendy Gilmartin gives proper love to two radio shows on KXLU: Part Time Punks' Michael Stock snagged Best Afternoon DJ, and Melissa McAllister was honored with the award Best Reason to Turn on Your Radio in the A.M. Both great shows, and ... More >>

Meet your Food Blogger: Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA

Bill Esparza is a professional saxophonist, and the mouth and mind behind food blog Street Gourmet LA. He also teaches a class called Affordable Ethnic Dining at the Burbank Adult School, an eating-intensive class that takes students out into the streets of Los Angeles to diversify their palates and ... More >>

FRINGE BENEFITS AND OTHER ODDLY REWARDING CHOICES

Kurt Elling, Frank Marocco, Bob Sheppard

And the Plate Goes to... Restaurant Design Award Winners 2009

The AIA/LA Restaurant Design Awards were handed out Friday evening at Dwell on Design ... More >>

A Los Angeles “Ban” That Really Invites Billboards?

Critics assail a “Swiss cheese” vision that allows massive sign proliferation

Rirkrit Tiravanija and his 'Palm Pavilion'

The palm trees are laid out everywhere, in rows and clumps, in corners, and all over the structure that from a distance -- with its metal surfaces and elevated floor -- evokes the broken tropical landscapes of war and dislocation. Buenos Aires-born New York-based Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija l ... More >>

Samba Summer

Abandon 405!

What to do in L.A., July 11-17

Movie Reviews: Kung Fu Panda, Mongol, Mother of Tears

Also, The Go-Getter, Trying to Get Good and more

Brick's Picks: Blues Cruise

From the South Bay to the West Valley, jazz abounds

Film Reviews: The Last Winter, The Jane Austen Book Club

Also Resident Evil: Exintction, Over the GW, Sea of Dreams, Sydney White and more

Where to Eat Now

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Kid Stuff

Practical jokes and comics: the season’s best art books

AFI Fest, A to Y

Magic Beans

Jaguar Express

Go Duck Yourself

There’s just something about the crackly skin and the dark juicy meat that has us craving duck now and again...

The Maude Squad

Our tribute to Harold’s gal, the ultimate granny-chic icon

Short Cuts

Home Is Where the Concierge Is

The return of the residential hotel

Have a Cow

Studio City

Police and Thieves

Fernando Meirelles on the dead-end denizens of Rio’s favelas

Rebellion in the Backlands

Protest coverage, Brazil's elections and Bush's scary policy paper

Pure Pleasure

. . . But first a little pain

Shadow Summit

The show of support along the U.S.-Mexico border

Smashup!

Let's Get Dead

Music for the modern zombie

Out of Africa