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Black Market Liquor Bar: Embittering Ventura Boulevard

You make reasonable assumptions about what you're going to drink depending on where you are. You don't go to Manhattan Beach to drink scotch, any more than you would Ensenada; you expect something more beachy there, in a tropical, caipirinha-colada vein perhaps. In Silver Lake you may be able to ord ... More >>

The 10 Best Bars in Silver Lake

As we were told by a mouthbreathing, knuckle-dragging jerk at one of the very bars described within, Silver Lake grew up a long time ago. So that's why we feel no need to treat it like some pegged-pants screw-up who only chugs cheap pilsner. In fact, some of the bars in the following list of Silver ... More >>

The 5 Things You Need Know About This Week's Review of L&E Oyster Bar

This week I review L&E Oyster Bar in Silver Lake. Here are a few outtakes from the review to whet your appetite: Food: The star of the show here is the oysters, from all over the Northeast, West Coast, and as far away as New Zealand. But there's also simple grilled fish, refreshing salads, and a fa ... More >>

Los Globos After-Hours Club Stabbing in Silver Lake Sees Victim in Critical Condition

A lot of nightlife denizens have welcomed the reinvigorated nightspot Los Globos to the scene: Despite being a metropolis with global import, L.A. is not the city that doesn't sleep. We sleep. And Los Globos became one of a handful of spots where you can actually dance into the wee hours. But its ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Los Globos Under Fire: Residents Complain of Noise, Urination, and Public Sex

See also: Los Globos Gets A Hip New Reinvention Less than a year after Sunset Junction went down in flames, Silver Lake's music scene is again the subject of civic tension, as its neighborhood council has threatened to bring down the Los Globos nightclub. Owner Steven Edelson purchased the venue ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Oysters, Foodie Pick-up Lines Why We Infantilize Our Food

Flickr/julesjulesjules moysters​Tasting Table: Slurping oysters at L&E Oyster Bar, newly opened in Silver Lake. ecosalon: 50 pick-up lines for foodies. ("I can last as long as a Le Creuset.") Daily Dish: 5 Questions for Tim Goodell. Zester Daily: The Infantilization of American Taste, or wh ... More >>

Opening and Closing in Your 'Hood: An October Restaurant Roundup

Guzzle & NoshR.I.P Gastrobus, Welcome Gastronomico​Attaining overnight success in the restaurant business is largely an urban myth (unless you're backed by a corporate restaurant group with tons of money to spend on marketing). Even a few empty seats in your new eatery can make you sweat. Whil ... More >>

Strip Clubs And Indie Rock: A Match Made In Heaven?

Ben WesthoffJenny Lin​Strip clubs have long been important hip-hop testing grounds in the south. Artists try to bribe DJs to put their songs on, the logic being that lapdance tracks get seared into dudes' brains. Plus, in places like Atlanta, influential music industry folk tend to hang out th ... More >>

Burrito King to Become Mixto Comida Latina

Guzzle & Nosh​The longstanding Burriton King outpost at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Alvarado Street has been bought by the owners of Silver Lake pizza joint Tomato Pie, and is set to become Mixto Comida Latina, according to The Eastsider LA. Gone is the yellow and orange paint, replace ... More >>

Sorry L.A. Hookah Hipster: That Pipe is Dirty, and Could be Bad for Your Health

Stay back, Charlie Sheen: It's hook-ah.​Hookahs are everywhere in L.A., second only, perhaps, to the city's ubiquitous pot shops. (Maybe people are practicing). There's Ali Mama Cafe in Silver Lake and Up In Smoke Hookah Lounge in Sherman Oaks. They're not hard to find. One of the allures o ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Clifton's Cafeteria Being Taken Over by The Edison's Andrew Meieran. [blogdowntown] -- Fall Is for Food (Event) Lovers. [Chow Balla] -- Glenn Beck mocks Michelle Obama's healthy food drive at Right ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Slutty the Clown

Cafecito Orgánico: A Second Location Affogatos

A. Scattergoodcafecito at Cafecito Orgánico​ The Silver Lake coffeeshop Cafecito Orgánico, which opened in early March, has been doing so well that owners Angel Orozco and Mitch Hale are opening a second location, in the City College Cafe spot on Hyperion. The second Cafecito is set to open ... More >>

Hey Hipster Hater! Here's the Only 2010 Sunset Junction Street Fair Survival Guide You Need

Lina Lecaro Don't try this at home... or on the streets of Silver Lake. ​It's here people, the big Summer weekend event you sooo don't care about and keep telling everyone you're not attending because: a) "Silver Lake is full of hipsters!" b) "It's too expensive." (Never mind that you regul ... More >>

Best Spice Shop: The Spice Station

J. Ritz​If you happen to be cooking your way through the tomes of Madhur Jaffrey, Claudia Roden, Paula Wolfert, and other authors who mine the depths of specific cuisines, you know the ups and downs of assembling ingredients. Some days it's a joy to stop at three different shops to find the sp ... More >>

Benefit Set For Funeral Of 15-Year-Old Who Died After Attending 'EDC' Rave

EDC​Friends of the 15-year-old girl who died after attending a rave in Exposition Park last weekend planned two bake sales, including one Friday, to help pay for her funeral, a family fried told the Weekly. Sasha Rodriquez died on Tuesday after she attended the two-day Electric Daisy Carnival ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Miles Davis gets a beer named after him. [Huffington Post Food] -- Forage restaurant in Silver Lake resumes foraging. [Eater LA] -- Sotheby's hosts a Vegetable Auction. [The Art of Farming] - ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Marion Nestle's overview of the White House Obesity Report. [The Atlantic Food Channel] -- People dropping cakes: the video. [The Amateur Gourmet via Daily Dish] -- The cheesesteak pretzel. Stop t ... More >>

Silver Lake Music Scene Gets Its Own "Melrose Place"-meets-"Flashdance"

​We do our best to be supportive of L.A. artists. We really do. As we've said more than once, we like to like things. But then LAist does a completely po-faced writeup of the trailer for a new "indie" movie called Sunset Junction: A Personal Musical and we just can't help our snarky selves. ... More >>

Dublab Takes Over Fridays at Hyperion Tavern

Frosty's pineapple shake.​Seems it was only a week ago that we were lamenting the end of the Friday-night Calling All Kids weekly at Silver Lake's Hyperion Tavern. The free event was run by Anticon Records label manager Shaun Koplow and Dublab/Alpha Pup dude Matthewdavid. It also featured so ... More >>

GnR's Duff McKagan Confirms 'Association' with Jane's Addiction, Also Visits Silver Lake and Feels Validated by Hipsters

"Yes, you ARE my monkey!": Self-confessed "dork" McKagan​In case you didn't know, former Guns n Roses' bassist Duff McKagan has a sorta regular column that runs in our sibling publication the Seattle Weekly. Yesterday McKagan granted an interview to his editor there explaining why he had been ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: A Hangover Cure?

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer R.E.~, who took this shot of a slow pour of latte art at Silver Lake's newly opened Cafécito Organico. What you may need to be drinking after last night's St. Patrick's Day festivities. If you're still drinking green beer, you c ... More >>

Tea Party Alternative Will Have Coming Out Saturday

​The Tea Party has made national waves with its reassertion of conservative, angry-white-people ideals (because, if anyone has gotten the short end of the stick in the last hundred years of civilization, it's white conservatives -- poor things). Well, here come the liberals (chaotic, disorgani ... More >>

MOVE OVER, JAMES CAMERON

Food & Drinks: Huckleberry, The Smokin' Joint & LA Mill All Get Liquor Licenses

There's a full moon, the economy is still in the tank, it's Monday. And worst of all, there are no more Olympic hockey games and medal ceremonies to watch on NBC, only Jerry Seinfeld giving marital advice. All very good reasons why you may need a drink with your next meal. Or two or three, if you're ... More >>

Dangerbird Special: INCHES reviews Darker My Love, Silversun Pickups, Sea Wolf, Eulogies (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Nothing but Treats

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 >>

Territory BBQ Records to Host Backyard Record Swap THIS Saturday

This just in: On Saturday, the near-perfect entity that is Silver Lake's Territory BBQ Records will be hosting a "Backyard Record Swap and Sale" from noon 'til 6 p.m. Other dealers will be bringing in vinyl to supplement the Territory stash, which specializes primarily in used/reissued psych, and ... More >>

Sunset Junction's Gentrification Boast

From the Read and Weep Dept. Check out Michael McKinley's moment of malarial disconnect on the Eastsider L.A. blog, where he claims credit for Silver Lake's coincidentally going yupscale during the years of the McKinley-helmed Sunset Junction Street Fair:"When we first started, it was $200,000 house ... More >>

Sunset Junction Street Fair: Hurdles (Mostly) Cleared, the Annual Party Moves Forward

​ After several years of tension between the Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance, Silver Lake residents and business owners came to a head in recent months, it looked as though the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair was about to head a dead end. But the tide is changing in the community and ... More >>

Sin Carne: Looking for Mexican Vegetarian Cooking

Finding the little-known Mexican herbs and vegetables at La Casita Mexicana in Bell

LA People 2009: The Walker — Marc Abrams

Resignation Day

RECESSIONISTA ALERT: Sample sales, bazaars and shopping events this weekend.

Shopper's guilt. It's more distressing than ever in light of the current economy. With people losing their jobs left and right, those of us lucky enough to be okay (for now anyway), can't help but feel a li'l bit bad when we drop dough on stuff, especially frivolities like clothes, bags or shoes. In ... More >>

WORN OUT- Love (Mis) Matches

Not sure if these two are a couple or not, but how cute are the color-coordinated layers here? Her plaid shirt and green tank perfectly complement his shirt with green striped vest. Speaking of which, let's talk about the mustard/puke green men's vintage shirt for a moment shall we? It's a hipster ... More >>

Neil Hanburger? I hate that guy!

Flyers of the Week: Dirty Sailor / Sunset Junction

This flyer is just a thing of beauty. MJ's has been hopping lately. Thumping bass bleeds through the walls, and I catch glimpses of glistening shirtless man-flesh dancing on a tiny stage as I walk to Trader Joe's for bread and cat food like the 80 year-old lady that I am. Still, I thought it was j ... More >>

Tell 'Em Why You Mad: The Guide to Hipster Haberdashery

If home is where you hang your hat then Silver Lake is rapidly turning into the world's largest hat rack. Over the past 12 months, it has become de rigueur in hipster courting rituals for male hipsters (homo habilus hipstericus) to trot out increasingly ridiculous pieces of vintage head-ware in an ... More >>

A Modest Paradise

Best reincarnated park

Citizen Beck

Coming to terms with our native son

Citizen Beck

Coming to terms with our native son

We’re Goin’ Down in Flames

Snakes on a Plane

Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 1

A call for a new generation of Latino arts leaders

Joust in Time

A late debate in Silver Lake over affordable housing that breaks the rules

Introduction

The Westside of the Eastside

La Luz de Jesus, Pink and Circle Elephant Art

The Future Looks Bright

Twenty years of forward thinking

Nightlife