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Jose Tanaka: The Flamenco Guitarist

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. José Tanaka was born in Kyoto, Japan. But his parents were so dedicated to flamenco music that they named him José, to make sure he'd always be tied to the tradit ... More >>

Roll Over Rossini

How to Design an L.A. Opera Production

L.A. Opera's current production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (aka Cinderella) has no glass slippers, no coach that turns into a pumpkin, no evil stepmother and absolutely no bippity boppity boo. But it is a fun visual feast, a comic opera in cartoon colors, thanks largely to the work of set and cost ... More >>

Q & A With USC Professor Sarah Portnoy: On Latino Food in L.A

We all eat for pleasure. Some of us also eat in pursuit of academic knowledge. "Food studies" is a burgeoning field where scholars consider food a potent tool for illuminating a vast range of topics and issues. Among L.A. colleges and universities, you'll find classes on "Animal Ethics," "Restaurant ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including The Little Mermaid, But Not the Disney Kind

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. 5. She Swims! She Walks! She Dances! Those who know The Little Mermaid mainly from the Disney film may want to touch base with the Hans Christian Andersen ... More >>

Serious Drinking: My Sherry Amor

As a wine, as a beverage, even, fino sherry seems like it comes from a place that time forgot. The lightest and driest of all sherries, it's as if that strange, inimitable beverage from a hot corner of Spain has been created miles from any other wine or spirit, bred in isolation until it bears no re ... More >>

98: Chichen Itza's Cochinita Pibil

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 98: Chichen Itza's Cochinita Pibil. You know the drill. Wind your way down the 110, past the concrete universe of downtown L.A., LA Live and USC, and into the ... 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 >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Gilberto Cetina's Tikin-Xic

A. ScattergoodTikin-Xic at Chichen Itza​ If you read our interview with Chichen Itza chef-owner Gilberto Cetina, you will have been reminded that the chef, besides running one of L.A.'s favorite restaurants and writing a soon-to-be-published cookbook on Yucatecan cuisine, makes a mean bottle o ... More >>

Jane Anderson's The Escort and Dolores Ribakoff's Fetish

Hit-and-Run Outrage

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Seville Oranges A Marmalade Recipe

Felicia FriesemaSeville oranges from Walker Farms (Pasadena and Glendale markets).​ In land where the orange (think Washington navel and Valencia) is the stuff of legend, responsible for transforming swaths of California ranchos into tidy blossom-scented groves, it's a bit puzzling to wander ... More >>

CARTOONS!

Cookbook Review: The Blue Chair Jam, Where Marmalade Meets Etrog

flickr user slowpokesfBlue Chair Not Included​There are chocolate people, and there are fruit people. Rachel Saunders is clearly a fruit-obsessed sort, as evident by her hefty new book, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook. How many more great books on marmalade and such do we really need? One more, ap ... More >>

Best Simulacrum of a Simulacrum (1938): Lawry's the Prime Rib

Flickr/inuyakimeat cart at Lawry's​ Like any good back lot, greater Los Angeles may be most like itself where it resembles anywhere else, from the Pasadena backstreets that have spent a century standing in for suburban Connecticut, to the jungly corners of Griffith Park, to the Spanish villas ... More >>

Now Open: Big Bar at Alcove in Los Feliz

J. Ritz​ Cruise by Alcove Café & Bakery on Hillhurst north of Franklin in Los Feliz just about anytime, day or night, and you'll see people sitting on the exceedingly pleasant patio poking at salads, sandwiches, desserts, and other café foods and beverages. Now both passersby and Alcove cust ... More >>

Tinga: New-Wave Tacos

The latest in a refreshing trend

Best Marmalade: E. Waldo Ward, When You Run Out Of That Homemade Summer Supply

www.waldoward.com​Edwin Waldo Ward, Sr. was on a marmalade mission when he opened his namesake Sierra Madre canning and preserving company in 1917. The former New York-based luxury food salesman planted local Navel orange trees on his 30-acre property when he moved to California; he later impo ... More >>

Luis Sevilla, L.A. Homicide No. 174: Man Stabbed to Death inside Hotel Room in Wilmington

​A 36-year-old man was stabbed to death inside a hotel room in Wilmington August 10. According to police reports, Luis Sevilla was stabbed several times in the chest by his 28-year-old wife Angelina after the couple got into an argument at around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday. After Sevilla was stabbed w ... More >>

Classical Cartoons

Like Day and Night: Lechon at Chichen Itza and Havana Mania

D. GonzalezChichen Itza Restaurant's Sunday lechon stand​ There are no alarm clocks in our home in Merida. There is no need as it is located in one of the most enviable spots in the neighborhood, around the corner from the baker. The air wakes me up in Merida. We get a special treat on Sunday, ... More >>

Oh, Those Riotous Comedies

The Marriage of Figaro and The Playboy of the Western World

L.A. Opera’s $14 Million Imbroglio

Superstar Plácido Domingo pushes the company closer to worldwide acclaim — and financial collapse

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Root Vegetables, Citrus, More Persimmons

In other parts of the country -- the parts with blustery, wintery, freezing weather -- the farmers markets are depressingly closed this time of year. Not so in LA, thanks to dozens of micro-climates that produce year-round artichokes (Suncoast Farms in Lompoc), asparagus (also Suncoast, plus a few ... More >>

Peanut Butter Wolf's Got Shows (In Different Area Codes): Nine Gigs, Nine SoCal Codes, All 90s Music

Following on the heels of his two previous marathon DJ gigs (eight gigs in a row last year, seven the year before), Peanut Butter Wolf has announced a nine-night tour of the nine area codes stretching from Los Angeles, Orange County to the Inland Empire. Each night the resident Stones Throw DJ will ... More >>

The Limits of Control: The Man, the Myth

Wandering Spain with Jim Jarmusch's lone wolf

Landmark Wining and Dining Downtown from Patina

Joachim Splichal's Patina Group presents prix-fixe dinners on its Tuesday-night Tasting Menu series at its Disney-Hall-adjacent flagship throughout the spring and summer. Tonight's California Wines dinner at Patina -- five courses with wine pairings -- costs $150 per diner (including wine, exclusiv ... More >>

The Don's Early Might

Dirty business afoot

Music Picks

For the week of May 25 - 31

Theater and Comedy Listings

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Theater Listings

For February 10 -16, 2006

Theater Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Theater Listings

The Muses on the Tube

How Am I Not Myself

Welcome to AFI Fest 2005 — all of them

Letter From Spain

Coming to terms with life after Atocha

A Cut Above

Dim Future, Bright Past

Summer Calendar

Many Threads

Protest: Rat Trap

Carmen Redux

Matthew Bourne tries to have his beefcake and eat it too

The Grandeur That Was (Or Might Have Been) Egypt

Tactical Embarrassment

The subversive cyber actions of ®™ark

That Was the Millennium That Was

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars

Finnish Touches