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Will California Officials Derail West Hollywood's Plans to Tear Down Great Hall-Long Hall?

It's been ongoing saga for a while now, and West Hollywood City Council's plans to demolish the WPA-era Great Hall-Long Hall buildings in Plummer Park may be derailed -- one way or another. It brings back memories of when the West Hollywood City Council pushed hard to mess with the old Tara mansio ... More >>

Musicals and Chilean Political Advertising: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Friday, Jan. 25 Inspired by true events, No gives a behind-the-scenes look at the political advertising during the 1988 Chilean national plebiscite. The film flawlessly incorporates the real " ... More >>

From The Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: A Birthday Celebration at The Deauville Beach Club in Santa Monica, 1939

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. In the 1920's, the Santa Monica beachfront looked very different than it does today. For one, there were multiple piers in the ... More >>

Someone's in the Kitchen with Dine L.A.

5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Organized Improvisation in Venice

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Best Comedy Shows to See in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance highlights include major figures in improvisational dance. 5. Organized Improvisation a ... More >>

Five Dance Events to See in L.A. this Week including a Kwanzaa Fest and a Viennese New Year

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our New Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's events offer a waltz or a samba to greet the new year, a Kwanzaa celebration, Russian jazz dance and the last Nutcracker until 2013. 5. Waltzing ... More >>

The Nerdiest Holiday Display in Los Angeles

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Nothing says happy holidays to a nerd like a shelf full of vintage action figures in Santa caps. That's the sight that greets customers outside Curry House in West Los Angeles, drawing ... More >>

5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Nutcracker With Audience Participation

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Best Comedy Shows to See in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's list includes flamenco, new choreography and, of course, more Nutcrackers. 5. The fury of flame ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See This Week, Including Los Angeles Ballet's Tip Top Nutcracker

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Best Comedy Shows to See in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This weeks list includes a couple Nutcrackers and some local choreographers. 5. The Nutcrackers are coming! Th ... More >>

Wolfgang Gartner: "I'm One of the Few People That Has Any Integrity Left In the DJ Industry"

Wolfgang Gartner eschews onstage gimmicks typical of electronic music concerts. Ahead of his performance at the Palladium on Saturday, he talked to us about not throwing cake or champagne at his audiences, about stalker fans in small towns, and about his obsession with day spas. See also: EDC 2012: ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Political Fundraisers For Everyone

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week This week's list includes lots of last-minute political fundraisers (read: not cheap, but you get to feel good about yourself). 5. Fundraiser for Alan Grayson With Sarah Silverman, Ri ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week

See also: *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Another great week for live comedy, including Florence Henderson and a comedy smackdown. 5. Garfunkel and Oates The wickedly funny and adorable d ... More >>

10 Best Ways to Get in Shape in L.A.

See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Top 10 Gyms in L.A. *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. You see the flab. You want the flab gone. You want it gone now. There's no New Year's resolution. There's no wedding dress to fit into. It's just getting in shape time. Becau ... More >>

Seven Paintings, A Story in Performance

Google's Los Angeles Map Gets 3D, 'Flyover' Imagery For Smartphones: VIDEO

Google just unveiled 3D maps that let you virtually fly over Los Angeles and Long Beach. The cool visuals, however, aren't available for iPhone and iPad users yet; they're only good for Google's own Android system for now. According to the company, L.A. and Long Beach are among 15 American cities ... More >>

Naked Bike Ride Be Damned! Cyclists to Take 'Historic' Mapping Tour of South L.A. on Sunday

Whatever, hipsters. You can have your flirty World Naked Bike Ride through Silver Lake and Echo Park this Saturday. (Including, via the official event page, a pre-party stocked with "body art" and "liquid courage." Really.) But the group of cycling organizations behind "Ride South L.A." -- a mappi ... More >>

Birding in L.A.: 7 Reasons to Do It, and How to Get Started

Bird-watching. A word that is synonymous with you don't really know because you've already lost interest just thinking about it for one second. Lucky for you this post isn't about bird-watching; it's about birding. I said MOTHERFUCKIN' BIRDING YOU GUYS! Sorry. I got a little overzealous trying to ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Strawberry Festival, Mark Gold Seafood Demo, EggFest, Chocolate Lecture, Beer and Brunch Bike Ride, Hudson Block Party Smog City Beer Dinner

California Strawberry Festival Strawberry shortcake? Boring. How about strawberry pizza, nachos or kabobs, along with strawberry beer? More than 40 food booths will offer strawberry-centric items at the California Strawberry Festival. Also expect concerts, contests, amusement park attractions and a ... More >>

Expo Line Design: The L.A. Weekly Review

A forecast of insultingly high gas prices, paired with a buoyant burst of car-free optimism (including an ambitious bike-share program just announced by the city), make the timing perfect for L.A.'s newest rail line to debut. Starting April 28, the Expo Line will travel the eight miles from downtown ... More >>

Saturday Event: Walk and Eat in Little Tokyo

Visit Little Tokyo, and -- even if you're a rabid manga fan or karaoke maniac -- your trip will likely involve food. Perhaps yakisoba, fried noodles topped with bright red ginger. Or okonomiyaki, a pancake cooked with a variety of savory ingredients. (The name literally means "what you want.") A ... More >>

Christmas Monster

Snow in Los Angeles Region Sends Riders to Mountain High Over Weekend

​Updated at the bottom: Following Mountain High's early opening Saturday, Bear Mountain Resort will open Wednesday, and Snow Summit Mountain Resort will kick in on Thursday. First posted at 12:45 p.m. Friday. Wait, you ask, summer's over? Yeah, look at the calendar. It passed more than 30 day ... More >>

Moby Does Photography in Destroyed, His New Book and Culver City Exhibit Featuring Photos From Stage of His Cheering Fans

Courtesy of MobyThousands of fans raging to Moby's music.​ Picture this. You are sitting in a windowless, grey room. It's empty, apart from a chair and an old leather sofa. You hear a knock at the door; someone's there to fetch you. Five minutes later, you're standing in front of a cheering cr ... More >>

Forget All Your Troubles, Forget All Your Cares and Bike Downtown

5 Reasons Why Carmageddon Failed to Materialize on the Westside

Ted SoquiCarma-what-now?​So Carmageddon turned out to be a bust. No 100-year traffic jam. No car-to-car shootings. Not even a report of roadkill. In fact, unless you were under a Prius all weekend, you know that the 405 closure ended early -- at about noon Sunday -- instead of abutting the Mo ... More >>

Brian Matayoshi of Torrance Killed in Yellowstone Bear Attack: Animal, Given Reprieve, Was Said to be Protecting Her Cubs

The site of the Yellowstone bear attack.​A mama grizzly bear that was looking after her cubs in Yellowstone National Park was startled by a husband-and-wife pair of L.A.-area hikers and mauled the man to death this week. The Torrance victim was ID'd today as 57-year-old Brian Matayoshi of Tor ... More >>

Hooray for Culver City

Bike Zeal

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Mazatlan, Mexico Is Too Street for L.A. Disney Cruise Line (VIDEO)

bebebloom via IgoUgoMazatlan: Not as tourist-friendly as meets the eye?​OK, we admit, Mexico's kind of scary, what with all the drugs and guns and freaky brown people running around. But is Mazatlan -- one of the only luxury-cruise stops that actually feels a tad bit like a real city, as oppos ... More >>

Wanna Be A Sushi Chef? Enter Ocean & Vine's "How You Roll" Sushi Creation Contest

Christie Bishop​ Always dreamed of being a sushi chef? Or, at the very least, do you think you have a recipe for a killer sushi roll? If so, get out your at-home sushi kits, wasabi powder, ginger root, nori and whatever else you put into your sushi masterpiece and get to work, because you've ... More >>

WHO'S STARRY NOW?

Pave to Save Whittier Narrows?

A tense battle over erecting a "hands-on" museum and more parking on a shrinking band of green

JUST SOUTH OF UPPY . . .

Hanukkah Tour

Win A Trip To The Beach: Ix Tapa Cantina Opens Tomorrow & Gives Away A Free Trip to Ixtapa

Need a vacation after your vacation? Sure, we have our own beaches, but a Mexican coastal resort town sounds pretty good right about now. You can win a free trip to this lovely Ixtapa beach, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, courtesy of the owners of the newly-opened Ix tapa Cantina in Pasadena. The ... More >>

FYF Fest 2009: An Interview with F*cked Up

In an effort to better familiarize our readership on the upcoming FYF Fest, which occurs this Saturday at the LA State Historic Park downtown, West Coast Sound sent a brief questionnaire to a few bands scheduled to appear. What follows is the response of Pink Eyes, the amazing lead singer for Toront ... More >>

Nobunny at FYF Fest: The West Coast Sound Interview

​In an effort to better familiarize our readership on the upcoming FYF Fest, which occurs next Saturday at the LA State Historic Park downtown, West Coast Sound sent a brief questionnaire to a few bands scheduled to appear. First on the list, for obvious reasons, is Nobunny. Who, or what, is N ... More >>

Loews Santa Monica Celebrates California Wine Month with Half Price Bottles

Loews Santa MonicaNot a bad place to drink half priced wines.​Like drinking wine by the beach? How about when the bottles are half price? September is California Wine Month, and to celebrate, the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel is offering "Uncorked for Half Price." All month, guests eating at ... More >>

Foundation Seeks to Operate Will Rogers Ranch

In a sign of how quickly the economic crisis is loosening California's grip on its natural resources and historical heritage, the Will Rogers Ranch Foundation is, according to the L.A. Times, seeking to take control of the operation of Pacific Palisade's Will Rogers State Historical Park. The park i ... More >>

WHEEL ART

THAT'S LAVA B-S

GOD BLESS OUR PARKS

Things to do in line while you wait to buy Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Inherent Vice, while Skylight books stays open late

Agnès Varda From Zero to 80

A filmmaker’s life, as a beautiful waking dream

L.A. STORIES WANTED -- THIS MEANS YOU!

Everything Bad Starts in Culver City. Everything.

Art Seen

Legendary Snowboarder Dies in Avalanche

Fucking Frogs