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On Doug Aitken's Art Train, You Agree to Be Filmed, And Happy Hour Starts at 5:01

"I'm not cutting, just getting a photo," said a tall man in a white button-down shirt with iPhone poised, sliding between me and my view of No Age last Thursday night. The duo was playing at Union Station, in the courtyard, leaning over a drum set and sound boards and looking lost in the process, li ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, September 23 Little Boots TROUBADOUR With her sophomore LP, Nocturnes, Brit electro-popper Little Boots (Victoria Hesketh to 'er mates) has yet to recapture the critical acclaim for and commercial success of her 2009 ... More >>

L.A. Beer Week Events: Rare Beers, Guest Beers Brewers

L.A. Beer Week runs Thursday, Sept. 19 through Sunday, Sept. 29. It's a time to celebrate beer -- favorite local breweries and nationwide friends -- to visit the hard-working bars and bartenders that serve us, and to make new friends with other pint-bearers. There is an incredible array of events th ... More >>

What Happens When You Read Poetry on the L.A. Metro?

At Union Station on the Gold Line platform this past Saturday, the commuters and sojourners of the Los Angeles weekend are greeted by the unfamiliar sound of...poets. A group of men and women -- all ages and ethnicities -- are reading lines in Spanish and English, blaring out their tropes into the a ... More >>

Top 3 Events: East L.A. Meets Napa, Bordeaux Tasting + Bourbon Dinner

East L.A. Meets Napa It's the eighth annual East L.A. Meets Napa & Beyond at Union Station, wherein 30 restaurants and 30 wineries marry Mexican food, California wines and tequila. The event will benefit AltaMed, a health care and social organization that provides such services as youth programs, su ... More >>

6 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dancing Down the Side of a Building at UCLA

This week's dance events include a site specific performance on the Red Line and several events considering Trisha Brown's 50-year career. 6. Dance on the roof A month-long celebration of New York choreographer Trisha Brown crests this weekend with two different performances at UCLA's Royce Hall ... More >>

Train Gets A New Pop Music-Inspired Wine Label

Taking the train to some fabulous coastal getaway sounds so fantastically retro, a high speed getaway to a 1950s-era bungalow -- at least least until you get to those $100-a-pop Union Station ticket prices. Cheap summer train trip option #2: Pick up a few bottles of the band Train's recently release ... More >>

10 California Summer Wine Events

Summer is a wine-drinking marathon in California, and up and down the coast, each weekend brings pleasant opportunities to imbibe outside. The diversity of events reflects the state's varied wine-growing regions. Those on hotel grounds come with a room night package -- a smart way to go. Because i ... More >>

Dodgers Sale On Track Despite MLB Concerns; Fans Avoiding Parking Lots in Record Numbers

The Dodgers sale is still on track to close on April 30, as a bankruptcy judge approved the sale agreement today despite last-minute objections from Major League Baseball.According to the tandem of @EricFisherSBJ and @BillShaikin, who were both tweeting the proceedings in Delaware, the attorney for ... More >>

Boycott The Lots: The Dodger Fan's Guide To Avoiding Frank McCourt

​Thousands of Dodger fans boycotted the team last year out of disgust with Frank McCourt. Now that McCourt has sold the team for $2 billion to an investor group led by Magic Johnson, those fans are celebrating.But there's a rat in the punchbowl: Frank McCourt will partner with Johnson's group to o ... More >>

No Pants Metro Ride 2012 in L.A. on Sunday: To Celebrate, Some Bomb Pics From Last Year

It's that time of year again, when freak winter heat waves start hitting L.A. and pants start dropping on the Red Line. Say what? This Sunday marks the 11th annual No Pants Metro Ride, that liberating holiday celebrated on public-transit systems around the country. But for the sake of some city-pri ... More >>

Is the TSA on a Terror Kick at L.A.'s Union Station?

Not any more than it has been for the last four or five years, says Nico Melendez, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spokesman for Los Angeles. And not any more than at any of L.A.'s other stations -- Metro, Greyhound, etc. He says the CBS LA piece today on increased TSA presence at ... More >>

L.A. Bomb Squad Detains Man Named 'Bang' in Union Station, Detonates His Backpack

The Red Line: of brutal stabbings and suspicious packages.​The L.A. County Sheriff's Department took no chances yesterday afternoon, upon receiving word from passengers exiting a Red Line subway car at Union Station that somebody may have left a "package" behind. (Tattletales.) "Deputies evac ... More >>

Dia de los Muertos: 10 Ways to Eat & Drink on Day of the Dead

Flickr user: current events The first of November means a nasty Halloween hangover for some; for others, it's the beginning of All Saints' Day. Stock up bunches of golden marigolds, which we've spotted at flower shops and at farmers' markets this week. Here are 10 ways to eat and drink your way ... More >>

The Phenomenal Finish to 2011 L.A. Beer Week: Kern River Brewing Company at Far Bar L.A.B.W. Closing Festival at Union Station

Cambria GriffithOfficial 2011 L.A. Beer Week Souvenir Glass​ The spectacular closing weekend of the 2011 L.A. Beer Week features Far Bar hosting gold-medal winning Kern River Brewing Saturday, followed by the L.A. Beer Week Closing Festival featuring over 70 brewers at historic Union Station o ... More >>

405 Closure Got You Down? Check Out the Five Craziest Design Ideas for Saving Our Transportation System

Courtesy Van Alen Institute.​ Without harping too much on that inconvenient thing happening on a big road somewhere in West L.A. this weekend, let us begin this modest post by agreeing that transit in L.A., in California, and in the vast majority of the US, could stand a few more efficient alt ... More >>

Feds Raid L.A. Union Station for Illegals, Tweeters Claim; 'Union Station' Starts Trending on Twitter

​[Update: Erick Huerta, who says he was one of the first to Tweet about the feds at Union Station on Friday morning, says he saw three men from the Department of Homeland Security -- one in full Transportation Security Officer uniform, another in "dress pants and a polo shirt with a 'Homeland ... More >>

AltaMed Focuses on Food of Michoacán a Recipe for Chilled Avocado Soup

B. HansenLotería Grill's green mole taco​ AltaMed's sixth annual East LA Meets Napa wine and food tasting July 8 at Union Station will focus on a single Mexican state, Michoacán. Last fall, UNESCO named Mexican cuisine an intangible cultural heritage of humanity (France is the only other ... More >>

More Fun With Food Trucks: Truckit Fest at Union Station

Flickr/ScrunchlefaceUnion Station​ If you're really good at coordinating your food events, there's another great one this weekend, in addition to, of course, the Gold Standard. The Truckit Fest (@truckitfest) is this Sunday at Union Station. The food truck festival is the first of what will be ... More >>

Wheel Food

Is the Essential Character of L.A.'s Landmark Union Station in Some Kind of Danger?

Union Station in downtown Los Angeles​Nothing is certain yet, but we can already see a major brouhaha brewing over the future plans for Union Station if it's sold to the California High-Speed Rail Authority and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The much-beloved Union Station is actu ... More >>

Before You Make Your Own Turkey for Thanksgiving, Roast One for the Homeless

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff ​ If you're just now looking into volunteer opportunities for Thanksgiving Day, we hate to break it to you: You might be too late. Many volunteer lists are already full, especially for those photo-op moments of scooping out corn niblets and ladling gravy for a sea of ... More >>

The New York Times: Los Angeles on $100 a day

chotda/Flickrmorning glory salad at Jitlada​ People choose to travel in ways that reflect their values. We know a well-heeled dentist who refuses to pay for a hotel in Los Angeles because his daughter has a comfortable couch. We know threadbare food fanatics who splurge on Korean barbecue b ... More >>

Get Out Your Prohibition-era Outfit: Jonathan Gold's Speakeasy Cocktail Party is Saturday Night

ZocaloMr. Gold and company talking shop in 2009 at Union Station​ Time to get out the flapper dresses, the Prohibition-era whatsits, the hipper-than-thou suspenders and cloche hats and sparkly bits, and head on down to Union Station (please God, take the Metro) this Saturday night for Jonathan ... More >>

East L.A. Meets Napa at Union Station a Gazpacho Recipe

Barbara HansenMary Carmen Salas of La Parrilla at East L.A. Meets Napa​All the Mexican food you could ever dream of eating will be yours for the taking at AltaMed's 5th annual East L.A. Meets Napa benefit July 9. That evening, Union Station's huge courtyard will be jammed with tables where lo ... More >>

Riled Over California's High-Speed Rail

It sounded like such a good idea. But the highly disruptive routes anger many

Do-Gooder Dining Agenda: AltaMed at Union Station, Concern Block Party, Dine Out for the Cure, Saban Extravaganza at Fox

With Sacramento still in its maddening political deadlock, some friendly intra-Golden State showing off feels quite refreshing in contrast.

Today in Photographs: May 26, 1946

Shore Leave: Sailors kill time at Union Station during the big rail strike of 1946.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Zero for Conduct L.A. Unified School District officials are calling for legislation to make it easier to fire incompetent, tenured teachers. State Senator Gloria Romero, formerly opposed to the idea, now seems to be on board somewhat. L.A. TimesNo Cash Flow The Palmdale Water District's cash reserve ... More >>

Killsonic: A 24-Piece L.A. Big Band's "Cloud of Noise"

Roving musicians fill city's Metro tunnels with sound

Union Station Makes Photographer Erase Pictures

The Photo Police have struck again! According to Discarted (via L.A. Observed) a photog known as ShutterBuda was merrily snapping pictures inside L.A.'s highly photogenic Union Station when two Amtrak employees and an irate traveler ("I'm an ex-Guarian Angel!") told ShutterBuda to shut it down -- an ... More >>

Killsonic Marching Gang to Play... The Red Line Today?

This afternoon (as in Saturday, January 31), East L.A.'s latin/jazz/gypsy/punk mega-band the Killsonic Marching Gang will storm the underground, quite literally. Twenty-plus musicians with 20-plus instruments plan to invade the Metro Red Line, playing a series of 20-minute sets at subway stops be ... More >>

WORN OUT: 2008's Crimes of Fashion

2008 was pretty fierce fashion-wise. That's the conclusion we came up with after perusing through the hundreds of photos we snapped while crawling about the club scene for Nightranger. Of course, amid the hot to trot, there were definitely some nots, and this week, Worn Out takes a look at the unfor ... More >>

Rider on the Storm: The Best and Worst of L.A. Buses, Subways and Light Rail

Scenic journeys to hell, on wheels

Antonio’s 2010 Dance

I’d never tell Mayor V the real reason I jump at the chance to ride the rails with him. I want to be there when the Big One brings the Red Line to a halt, stranding the mayor and me hundreds of feet underground for days. Under those conditions, I’ll offer him a bottle of water from my emergency ... More >>

LAPD Motor Pool, Under the 101

Recently I found myself wandering outside the back of Union Station and beyond the Denny's that sits under the Hollywood freeway. There'ss some prime, free downtown parking there by the way, but you'll want to lock up your car extra tight. Under the highway there are literally dozens of LAPD s ... More >>

Tabloid Takeover: L.A. Fashion Week's Celebrity Overdose

Is there a designer in the house?

Best Escape From L.A.

The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner

Who Killed Dick Watson?

The 28th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Roast Halloweenies

Shooting Down Trains

LAX director is no big fan of the Green Line

Absolutely Nothing About St. Patrick's Day

Know Your Streets!

Walking tours reveal L.A.’s many secrets

Let Her Eat Cake

Expert Advice: Places and Spaces

When home just isn’t big enough

Downtown

From the Narrows to South L.A.

Brave New City

At the end of the evening, it’s Antonio alone

Work: Part 3

Meat and Potatoes by the Bowlful