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How to Be an L.A. Cinephile

With so many indie films and repertory screenings, how do the city's movie buffs manage it all?

High Surf For Los Angeles Coast With 15 Foot Waves Possible

Whomever said surfers were boys (and girls) of summer was dead wrong. This isn't the Gidget era (and even then people were getting a lot of their kicks in the cold months). Southern California waters are a winter wonderland this time of year: 'Tis the season for big, glassy west and northwest swell ... More >>

FiftyFifty's Bourbon Barrel-Aged Eclipse 2012 Released In L.A. Today

It feels weird to gush about the rarity of FiftyFifty Brewing Company's bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout Eclipse series when gift boxes of Westvletren 12 landed in the United States for the first time yesterday (and at most places, sold out within an hour). Nonetheless, the annual bottle release ... More >>

Beachwood BBQ and Brewing Bottles First Beer: Tovarish Imperial Stout Brewed With Portola Coffee

This time last year, Long Beach's Beachwood Brewing released its first imperial stout -- a hefty chocolate-covered drink made with a custom coffee blend from third-wave roasters Portola Coffee Lab in Costa Mesa. The 11.9% ABV Tovarish Imperial Stout sold so quickly during its first few days on dra ... More >>

SoCal's Own Chris Kluwe Fights for Marriage Equality -- And Against Bigotry in the NFL

Walking across the Macalester College campus, Chris Kluwe passes unnoticed. As usual, the 30-year-old Vikings punter is dressed down: a pair of brown flip-flops, black basketball shorts, and a baggy zip-up sweatshirt. A backward World of Warcraft hat pins back his shaggy brown surfer haircut, a give ... More >>

Full Metal Jousting: Will Riding Horses While Stabbing People Ever be Cool?

"Why are cowboys cooler than knights?" Gary Kuchan asks himself, cradling the plastic pint of beer he's just picked up at a Honda Center concession stand. "Knights got their fair share of tail, don't get me wrong, but not like a cowboy." Over ten thousand spectators clad in Wranglers and Stetsons l ... More >>

Top Hops: Best 5 New Craft Beer Bars of 2011

Over the past few years, sales of mass-produced beer (Bud, Miller, Coors and the like) are down along with housing, investments and other barometers of economic growth. Guess what is not down? Craft breweries. Craft beer bars. Craft beer sales. According to the Brewers Association, which represents ... More >>

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Repeal Day 2011 Los Angeles: Drink Specials Cocktail Recipes

A drinker would do well to remember Repeal Day, December 5, 1933. It's when Americans got back their right to party. After 13 dark years of Prohibition, the 18th Amendment was repealed saying good-bye to bootlegging and bathtub gin by making it legal to once again imbibe. Imagine how thirsty for the ... More >>

Scott Dekraai, Accused Seal Beach Mass Killer, Gives Creepy Smile in Booking Photo

Tweeted by Chip Yost of KTLA NewsScott Dekraai.​With shades of Jared Laughner, the man accused of the worst mass killing Orange County history gave authorities a creepy, shit-eating grin for one of his booking photos. Suspect Scott Dekraai's mugshot is eerie and certainly nightmarish for any ... More >>

Seal Beach Beauty Salon Massacre: Eight Killed, One Wounded

Chris Carlson/AP​Updated at the bottom: The suspect has been identified in reports. First posted at 3:29 p.m. A man opened fire at a beauty salon on Seal Beach this afternoon, killing eight six and wounding one three others, authorities said. Police first received calls of shots fired about ... More >>

Beachwood SourFest 2011: The Sweetness of Sour Beer

Martin SvabBeachwood SourFest Beer Wall​ Tuesday, September 6. 11:00 a.m. A line of beer geeks waits outside for Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach to open their doors at 11:30 in the morning for SourFest 2011. The line up of sour beers for the six-day festival that has Eric Salazar from New Belgi ... 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 >>

10 Cinco de Mayo Alternatives to the Margarita 2 Cocktail Recipes

Espolón TequilaThe Varnish's Bebida de Puebla ​ Sometimes you just want a quiet place and a well-done cocktail to celebrate the Mexicans' victory over the French in the 1862 Battle of Puebla. Thankfully the cocktail-savvy need not fret, as the following L.A. bars have alternatives for those s ... More >>

John Hines, Long Beach Fire Captain, Arrested for Drunk Hit-and-Run After Plowing Into Seal Beach Bicyclist

KTLAFire captain and alleged hit-and-runner John Hines​A Long Beach fire captain found himself on the other side of the bars this month after an alleged DUI hit-and-run in the wee hours of April Fool's Day. KTLA reports that Seal Beach witnesses saw John Hines zooming down Westminster Avenue ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Abound in L.A. This Weekend: Where Not to Drive Drunk

The coppers come out on Friday (and Saturday) night​Updated with a few more stops from around the county. OK, technically you shouldn't be driving drunk anywhere (bad!), as we learned for the umpteenth time from a Long Beach fire captain who nearly killed a cyclist in Seal Beach last week, bu ... More >>

LA Ale Club's Chili Cook-Off: Pints For Prostates

LA Ale ClubSpradley (left) and 38 Degrees' Co-Owner Brian Sugita At Last Year's Event​Got a killer chili recipe? Of course you do. Get your ingredients ready for the 2nd annual L.A. Ale Club Chili Cook-off on April 2nd at 38 Degrees Ale House. Organized by L.A. Ale Club founder Chris Spradley, ... More >>

Hit-and-Run Outrage

'Girls Gone Wild' Distributor Ryan Bowman Gets Off With 'Hit and Run' After Killing 21-Year-Old Lauren Freeman on Sunset Strip

Bowman's victim, 21-year-old Lauren Freeman​Updated after the jump: Bowman is sentenced to a year in Seal Beach prison, with one day off for work per week. By all accounts, Lauren Ann Freeman was being a responsible 21-year-old on the night of November 10: After attending a concert at the Rox ... More >>

SoCal Tsunami Watchers, Surfers Let Down By Anticlimactic Size of Waves

Venice311"Massive crowd at pier. Surfers and boats in water. LAPD copter telling people to move to no avail."​Hordes of curious rubberneckers rushed the Southern California coast this morning after 8 a.m. to witness their very own close-to-home aftermath of the 8.9 Japan catastrophe. (And what ... More >>

69 Things for Music Lovers to Do In L.A. on Valentine's Day

Timothy Norris​ Don't sacrifice your Monday night music excursions into our fair city of Los Angeles, just to be a slave to the grueling whip of commercialized love. You can have your cake and eat it too, especially if that cake comes with a plethora of "ingredients" that help you get your ro ... More >>

Drink This Now: Earl Grey Martinez at 320 Main in Seal Beach A Cocktail Recipe

Caroline on Crack320 Main's Earl Grey Martinez.​ Back in 2009, bartender Audrey Saunders introduced tea-infused cocktails to Los Angeles at Tar Pit on La Brea Avenue, where she partnered with Mark Peel (Campanile) on an extensive drinks menu. Saunders is long gone from Tar Pit, but tea-infused ... More >>

Seal Beach Police Department: lawsuit alleges evidence planting and corruption

​The City of Seal Beach has a couple of bad cops on its police force and refuses to do anything about it. That is, if you believe a lawsuit recently filed in federal court by a pair of brothers who claim that two police officers planted evidence and lied in court in an attempt to convict them of ... More >>

Surprise: Rest Of The Shoo-Ins Win* California State Senate, Assembly And Congressional Districts In Election 2010, Banding Together For Mass Extermination Of Opponents

In a startling upset, Gerrymandering Congressman Howard Berman wins again​*OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in. But -- thanks to sleazy incumbent fixing of elections in California by the Berman brothers -- the new crop of California Senators, Assemblymen and Congressm ... More >>

Q & A With Fig's Ray Garcia: On FBI Dreams, Revolutionary Sushi Cooking For Dogs

J. GarbeeRay Garcia​Ray Garcia, Executive Chef at Fig in Santa Monica, is perhaps the only 32-year-old chef who can say he has worked for Thomas Keller, Douglas Keane, and a picky canine in the same year (more on that later, but yes, a customer at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, where Garcia was ... More >>

Music Picks: Ooh La La Fest, Pavement, Beach House

Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others

Two Communities Want To Secede From Los Angeles And Go To ... (Gulp) Orange County

​We might just have a war on our hands. Yes -- the north against the south. It turns out two small communities on the southern edge of Los Angeles County want to secede to Orange County. According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram (via LAist), " ... the 194-unit Imperial Estates neighborhood ... More >>

Dating Game serial killer suspect Alcala cross-examines himself over his hair

​ Could the trial of alleged "Dating Game" serial killer Rodney Alcala possibly get any stranger? Yep, it can. Alcala, who is representing himself as he faces the possible death penalty in an Orange County court, took the stand Tuesday and began asking questions of himself, in third-person, ab ... More >>

Would You Like Some OG Bebop With Your Pasta?: The Legendary James Moody @ Spaghettini

​This Thursday, January 28, jazz lovers should head out to Spaghettini Italian Grill and Jazz Club in Seal Beach for a very special treat: James Moody, the legendary bopper, Dizzy Gillespie associate, and composer of the immortal "Moody's Mood for Love" will be appearing with the Grammy Jazz E ... More >>

Today In WTF: L.A. Tornado Warning Issued (UPDATED

​A tornado warning for south central Los Angeles County has been canceled Tuesday afternoon, but another was issued for southeastern Orange County, southwester Riverside County and northwestern San Diego County. This as the second of three successive winter storms hit the Southland Tuesday. T ... More >>

New Vinyl Column, Inches, Debuts: New Wax from Mika Miko, Xasthur, Castledoor, Rx Bandits, Shafiq Husayn (MP3)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (one populate ... More >>

L.A. Architecture: What We Lost in 2007

In a tear-down city, bulldozers and redesigners reigned

Better Than Phone Tax

Villaraigosa makes a Lazarus play to keep alive a pricey, illegal tax on residents

Rock Picks

For the week of March 22-29

Sandow's Inferno

Out of L.A. and into the fire

With Plenty of Water

Pool Man

Neck-Deep in the living waters

Letters

The South

From Downtown to Long Beach Harbor

Children of the Grave

From Black Sabbath to modern heavy metal: The dark at the end of the tunnel

Letters

Letters

Bump, Set, Spike

South Bay Volleyball with the Best of ’em

Shore Wars

Will Long Beach bring back its breakers?

Heathen

Chocolate-flavored sex-drugs and more!