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Wilshire Boulevard Temple Launches a Unique Project to Bridge Religion and Art

10 Best Eats in Monterey Park: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

The first U.S. city with an Asian population majority, Monterey Park has been referred to as "the Chinese Beverly Hills" and "the first suburban Chinatown." When it comes to doing a food crawl, it will obviously skew heavily to Chinese cuisine. Indeed, a top 10 could consist solely of Chinese resta ... More >>

Fake Guy Fieri American Bar Kitchen Online Menu Accused of Fakery

Yesterday, a New York programmer launched a mock online menu of Guy Fieri American Bar Kitchen, complete with spoof appetizers, entrees and sides. Quite a few sites found Bryan Mytko's roast funny, albeit with the occasional voice of protest. Since this initial wave, Gawker has picked up on a tip ... More >>

The Deep Throat Sex Scandal Celebrates a Famous First Amendment Victory But Ignores the Bigger Issue

8 Great Places to Drink on New Year's Eve

In the great tradition of the midnight countdown, L.A. has no shortage of ways to celebrate the end of the year, especially if you're looking to indulge heartily in beer, cocktails or a glass of bubbly. We've complied a list of some of the best options for those looking to get in their final drinks ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero vs. John Rechy's City of Night, Round 1

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Two stream-of-consciou ... More >>

Brandon Woodard, Would-Be Rapper From L.A., Murdured In Daylight 'Hit' In NYC

A 31-year-old aspiring rapper from L.A. was fatally shot in broad daylight in a touristy area of Midtown Manhattan yesterday. Accounts indicate it was a professional-style hit. Brandon Woodard, a Loyola Marymount University grad and perennial law school student with a possible arrest record was des ... More >>

10 Political Things to Do in L.A. Before (and After) the Election

This year's election has the public voting for everyone from Roseanne Barr to Hello Kitty, with Mitt Romney's Binders of Women the projected costume-winner for Halloween. While the 2012 presidential election is the biggest reason people are hitting the polls, we all know that local campaigns can be ... More >>

Ask a Failed Musician: What Defines Success In This Weird Industry?

[Welcome to Ask a Failed Musician, in which writer Daniel Hopkins helps struggling musicians make sense of their careers and offers some advice. Whether or not it will work, who knows? It obviously didn't work for him. But then again, he was on Kimmel once, so there's that.] See also: Advice to Eve ... More >>

L.A. Phil's Gala, From Dudamel to Dancing to Classical Legend John Adams: Our Review

Less than a week after the L.A. Dance Project made its debut in Walt Disney Concert Hall, dance returned there Thursday night, this time at the invitation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its annual gala. Do two events make a trend? I believe three's the magic number needed to declare something ... More >>

Lil Wayne Isn't the Only Musician Who Hates New York

See also: Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV "I don't like New York," Lil Wayne said earlier this month, following a show he did in the city. His comments came out of his frustration for being arrested and jailed there, he explained. Still, New York State Senator Malcolm Smith promptly h ... More >>

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: A New Documentary About the Artist's Chess Game With the Chinese Government

New Project Hopes to Turn Building FaƧades Into Virtual Murals You Can See on Your iPhone

Los Angeles isn't known as a city with great public spaces. It's a city that traditionally has been beholden to private interests, back-room development deals and, of course, the car. Not coincidentally, it's also a city that has been hostile to street art, until it recently began conflating murals ... More >>

Rolling Stone Restaurant: Beer and Loathing in the Hollywood and Highland Center

Away from street performers dressed as sort of sexy cops and cardboard Transformers, the new Rolling Stone Restaurant faces the California Pizza Kitchen on the upper floors of the Hollywood and Highland Center. In front of the restaurant, tourists mosey around, mouths open, cameras out, photographin ... More >>

NYC Thinks L.A. Wants to Be 'Manhattanized'

NYC wannabe?​Well! This is insulting. And so very in line with New York media's ridiculous attempts to pin down Los Angeles after spending one night in a downtown hotel with a notepad and a smog mask. TIME Magazine runs a big out-of-touch feature today on the alleged "Manhattanization" of dow ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden: Los Angeles Police Vigilant Despite Death of World's Most Reviled Terrorist

Gone.​Updated after the jump with a pat on the back from the LAFD. The LAPD is keeping its guard up despite President Obama's world-shaking announcement that terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan. Assistant Commanding Officer Blake Chow, the department's counterterrorism comm ... More >>

Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl: Judy Tenuta

Nurse In Iconic Times Square Kiss Photograph Dies

​Edith Shain, who claimed to be the white-clad nurse in the famous V-J Day photo died Sunday at the age of 91 in her Los Angeles home, according reports. The iconic photograph, which shows a nurse being dipped and kissed by a soldier, was snapped by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstadt ... More >>

Census Kick Starts In Los Angeles; New York Gets Bigger Census Rig

U.S. CensusA trailer in full bloom.​As the 2010 U.S. Census head count kicked off in Los Angeles this week, we were disappointed to learn that New York hosted a bigger traveling rig than what L.A. is getting. First New York claims it sees twice as many international tourists as the City of Ang ... More >>

Supergraphics Be Banned: City Attorney Scores Another One Against Billboard Blight

If you're frustrated by the city's inability to control those Times Square/Vegas Strip-like digital billboards and towering, slab-sided "supergraphic" ads, there's a crusader on your side, and he actually works for us -- unlike those other city politicians who seem to work for developers, media comp ... More >>

Movie Reviews: All About Steve, Loren Cass, Ink, Walt & El Grupo

Also, Sandstorm, No Impact Man, Gamer and more

Rock Picks: Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Vice Squad

Also, Beyonce, the Datsuns, the Veils, the Germs and others

Field of Wet Dreams: New Hands-Free Massager

Forget Sleeper's orgasmatron or Barbarella's Excessive Machine. Among the many dispatches from all corners of the world to hit L.A. Daily's copy desk is RealTouch's announcement of a very real gizmo for men that allows pleasure seekers to seek no further than their own laps -- and laptops. The devic ... More >>

Paper Tigers: How Padded Are Theater Seats?

A play-by-play of filling L.A.'s stage venues

Will Scat-Porn Trial Bring Down Powerful Judge Alex Kozinski?

Shock and art

Asha Bhosle: Queen of Bollywood

75-year-old has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Black-Eyed Peas and Michael Stipe

Will Smith: The Stuff of Legend

Infectious

Film Reviews: Delta Farce, Hollywood Dreams, Fay Grim and more

Also reviews of Even Money, In Search of Mozart and Paris Je T’aime

New Year’s Evenings

Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

Who Let the Mother #!%@ing Snakes Out?

Things get hissterical when pheromon-stoked sidewinders get crossways with Sam Jackson

Dirty Deeds

Bad cops and brass-knuckle politics in two tales of urban dystopia

The Gorilla Inside Me

Preparations for the return to Skull Island

Hollywood to Newsosaurs:Drop Dead

As Daily Demos turn gray, Hollywood ad dollars go away

Back to Basics

Hard-boiled Hostage is bracing pulp fiction.

World vs. GOP

War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

3 the Hard Way

Beastie Boys cl-clunk it out

Pretty Baby

Sister acts, guy fantasies

Life, Literature and the ER

Life, Literature and the ER

Bunkum Hill

Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

Dangerous Visionary

Samuel R. Delany

Heir of the Dogma

Group 101 goes global

Or Watch It on TV

Tick, Tick . . . Kablooey!

15 Minutes and Company Man

No Public Displays

Council to protesters: Demonstrate, if you must, at home

It Boy

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

Shadows and Fights

Images from the ring

Resurfacing

How to avoid looking like yourself

Bad Girl

The incredibly strange films of Doris Wishman