Venice (California)

Five People Making L.A. a Better Place

This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing. But some of the people in this year's issue aren't just interesting -- they're downright inspiring! Check out all of our 2013 People Issue profiles From Dr. Coley King, who's working to treat Venice's homeless community, ... More >>

4 Great Juice Shops in Los Angeles

There's a growing number of juice joints in Los Angeles, emphasizing the benefits of drinking to your health -- quite literally. Fresh juices have become so de rigueur these days that it's not uncommon to hear 'juice' used as a casual verb among Angelenos. And whereas we're not likely to ask anyone ... More >>

A Diary of the Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture

"The San Andreas is not Los Angeles' only fault," cracked architectural historian Thomas Hines at the kickoff to Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.. Hines didn't really mean it -- he was quoting a joke that people from, say, San Francisco might make -- but the quip hit just ... More >>

Easter Sunday Food Drink Specials

For those who celebrate the holiday, Easter Sunday is a time to gather loved ones for brunch and, maybe, an afternoon egg hunt. If you're planning to host a celebration at home, there are purveyors and markets like Lindy & Grundy who offer a range of resources from traditional smoked hams and legs o ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: A Mini Strawberry Primer

The buzz from the official arrival of spring this week was summarily squashed when a sage market-goer clucked her teeth at a friend and said, "please, I've been eating spring for two weeks. Have you seen Zimmerman's asparagus?" She had a point. Seasonal eating around here has a slightly differen ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Giant Purple Artichokes from Suncoast Farms

Lompoc is an agricultural Brigadoon, a place of eternal springtime where it's never too cold or too hot, and where a rich, loamy soil mixes with sand from the coastline's protected dunes to create a near perfect spongey and fertile substrate for the valley's lucky farmers. It makes perfect, deliciou ... More >>

10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *25 Alternative L.A. Art Spaces to Check Out Now *10 Places in L.A. to Draw Nude Models With something like 400 modern and contemporary art galleries in L.A., and aesthetic taste being so subjective, picking just ten of the city's "best" galleries i ... More >>

The Miracle That Is 
A Charlie Brown Christmas

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you look outside while reading this, the odds are that it's sunny and mild. You might see green and red lights and tinseled pine trees glowing through ... More >>

10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012

This year felt like a year of growing pains for art in Los Angeles. Maybe that's because 2012 started as Pacific Standard Time -- that regionwide, Getty-funded series of exhibitions on SoCal art history -- wound down and the art community shifted attention from past to present. Maybe it's because th ... More >>

Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: The Complete List

When it comes to discussion of the top metal scenes, Los Angeles never gets its due. Maybe it's because we're not known for being pioneers of a single subgenre (Bay Area thrash and Florida death metal for example), but there's still no doubt that the city has been vital in the evolution of metal. ... More >>

Santa Monica's Main Street Is a Green Fashion Hub, but Stores Are Fighting for Survival

More stories from our 2012 Fashion Issue on dressing ethically: *West Hollywood's New Fur Ban *Does L.A. Still Have Sweatshops? *Yael Aflalo's Reformation Makes Vintage Cool *Santa Monica's Main Street, a Green Fashion Hub *Three L.A. Designers Who Do Eco-Fashion Right The trees lining Santa Monica ... More >>

A Boardwalk Vendor Who Sells Stories, by Request

While the Hammer Museum debuted the Venice Beach Biennial as part of the museum's "Made in L.A." exhibit this past weekend, Chicago-based Franki Elliot jostled for a spot on the Venice Boardwalk in order to collect material for her own project, Typewriter Stories. Saturday afternoon, the 20-someth ... More >>

Your 4th of July Dining Deal Round-Up: Cobbler, Korean BBQ Sliders Beer Pong

Beer Belly's Backyard Boogie: The Filipino grillmasters at the The Park's Finest are joining forces with Beer Belly to host their 2nd annual "Backyard Boogie," an afternoon stocked with plenty of BBQ and beer. From 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., you can enjoy smoky pulled pork, hot links, coconut beef, bibingka ... More >>

Redondo Beach May Ban Smoking on Pier: So Where Can You Still Smoke Along the L.A. County Coast?

Little by little, various government entities within L.A. County are forcing cigarette smokers off public property and quarantining them into their own nasty tobacco dens. The Department of Beaches and Harbors banned smoking on any beach within the county years ago. But the piers, because they're o ... More >>

Bon Appétit Introduces L.A. 'Grub Crawl' Tour

Bon Appétit magazine has come up with the foodie answer to the weekend music festival: a monster 3-day tour of restaurants, bars, and music venues they're calling the "Grub Crawl." It's debuting in three cities this summer: Brooklyn (natch), New Orleans, and, to our pleasant surprise, Los Angeles. ... More >>

KCRW and DineLA Create Dinner Date: Food, Music Love (Theoretically)

Looking for dates in all the wrong places? How about discovering that the right place combines your love of political discourse, eclectic music, and a quirky look at the culinary world. Radio station KCRW is putting forth its inner yenta with Dinner Date. For awhile now a group of us at KCRW has ... More >>

Watch This Now: The Tasting Kitchen's Casey Lane Discusses 'Working Ripe'

When we here at Squid Ink use the term "working ripe" it usually refers to those times when we head into the office after a particularly moist gym workout, but for Casey Lane, head chef at Venice's Tasting Kitchen (as well as the upcoming Parish and Itri), the term has another meaning altogether. I ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan's Venice Stalker Says He Was Only Trying to Tell Her to 'Drop the Marilyn Monroe Image'

Leave it to veteran Westside paparazzo Tony Vera (you know, the guy who Mike Tyson punched in the head at LAX, then lived to tell the tale) to pick Lindsay Lohan's stalker out of the Venice Boardwalk crowd. Getting him to talk was another story.

10 Best Coffee Shops in Los Angeles

T. NguyenCoffee Commissary​It used to be that you just needed one hand to count all the truly outstanding coffee shops in Los Angeles. Now, thanks to a recent surge of brave coffee geeks-turned-entrepreneurs, you need both hands to tick off all the stellar shops in the city, and maybe that is ... More >>

Agit Popaganda

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

The Great Wall of L.A., Legendary L.A. River Mural, Restored to Former Glory

Sam BlochThe Great Wall of L.A.'s collaborative spirit of muralmaking on display at its restoration ceremony Saturday. Video cameras were everywhere.​ Ernestine Jimenez is gazing over a chain link fence at a painting of a pachuco in his underwear. It's a depiction of the Zoot Suit Riots of 194 ... More >>

C.A.V.E. Gallery's New Show is 'Street Art Saved My Life,' But How Exactly Does that Happen?

Courtesy of C.A.V.E. GalleryGerman street art duo Various & Gould's self-portrait, Street Art Saved OUR Lives​ Now that MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibition has finally shut its doors, where can you go for your next fix? C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice has the answer: this Friday, it opened "Str ... More >>

Drunk Driving Checkpoints in Venice, Hollywood Tonight, Silver Lake Tomorrow

daytondui.comDon't do this dance.​Some critics have pointed out that LAPD DUI checkpoints are few and far between on the Westside. They've even argued that the department targets immigrant-filled neighborhoods where license-free drivers will automatically get their cars, later sold by the city ... More >>

Venice Bar Report: Roosterfish

Katherine Sheehan​ The Place: Roosterfish, 1302 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice; 310-392-2123. The Hours: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Daily. The Digs: A 2009 LA Weekly Best of Award entitled "Best Escape From West Hollywood" put it well: "Sometimes it's good, even necessary, to take a break from the glam ... More >>

Los Angeles CRA Creates Blight

Lindsay Lohan Bikini Film Teased Even as She's Confined to Her Home [Video]

Lohan.​Lindsay Lohan has been handed four months of home confinement for walking out of a jewelry store with a six-figure necklace. But you'll still get to see her. Apparently she put an art film (by Richard Phillips and Taylor Steele) in the can before her latest sentencing. The video piece ... More >>

Demand Media, eHow Factory in Santa Monica, Already Worth $1.9 Billion: Retarded Web Searches Prevail

It's no Gehry, but Demand Media's oceanfront headquarters do just fine​In an unassuming mid-rise office building on the Santa Monica cliffs (1299 Ocean Avenue, to be exact), the nation's most profitable "journalistic" machine is hard at work -- churning out those short, un-researched half-answ ... More >>

The Big Chill: Fro-Yo Field Not So Cold for Yogurtland & Menchie's

Cathy Chaplin/GastronomyBlog​ While fro-yo pioneer Pinkberry has experienced a chill in the Los Angeles market over the past year or so (the West Hollywood, Venice, Hollywood and Los Feliz locations have all closed), two of its imitators are making inroads: Yogurtland and Menchie's. Yogurtla ... More >>

Skateboard-Tailor

Skateboard-Tailor

Kid-Friendly Tacos

On four wheels, no later than 7 p.m.

Gourmandise School of Sweets and Savories to Put Down Roots in Santa Monica

kimberlykv/FlickrLearn to make perfect pie crust and much more at Gourmandise.​Since its inception in 2006, Gourmandise Desserts has been a nomadic classroom, bouncing between kitchens at Surfas Restaurant Supply in Culver City and St. Joseph Center's Culinary department in Venice, teaching am ... More >>

Huntington Beach Swallows Sunset Beach; So What Will Become Of The Smaller City's Pot Shops?

​Surf City USA just got more waves this week as the Huntington Beach City Council voted 5-2 to annex the small, neighboring ocean-side community of Sunset Beach. While residents in the Sunset Beach Community Association didn't want to become a part of the larger city, Huntington Beach officia ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Announces A 'Bike Summit' Following His Own Bicycle Crash

YouTube​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently reached out to the bicycle community via YouTube and announced -- more than a week after he broke an elbow in a bike accident on Venice Boulevard -- that he would help organize a summit about the future of pedal power in L.A.. 'We're go ... More >>

Wuthering Heights

Lin-Manuel Miranda's rap-salsa-calypso musical sashays into the Pantages

L.A. Called Nation's Most Bohemian City

​Writer Richard Florida over the weekend posted at the Atlantic about the North America's most bohemian cities. Pointing to this study (PDF), he notes the Los Angeles is number one. Huh? We slack as hard as the next city. But we're more bohemian than San Francisco? Seattle? Toronto? Guess so. ... More >>

Mark Mack: Easy Builder

The 2010 Donut Summit: Your Entry Fee Is A Dozen Donuts

Flickr/robjtakDonut Man's Strawberry Donut​It's no news that our city is a paradise for donut junkies. With stores on almost every corner cooking up ring shaped dough, it's hard to keep up with which kitchens have the best glazed donut or apple fritters. The people at Metblogs will bring us on ... More >>

Robbery Suspect Fatally Shot By Police On The Westside

Google Maps​A Culver City police officer fatally shot a robbery suspect near Venice Boulveard and Motor Avenue in the Westside Los Angeles community of Palms, just outside Culver City, authorities said. Officers on Sunday were responding to a noontime robbery call at a nearby Radio Shack when ... More >>

The Supper Liberation Front: Your Secret Che Guevara Dinner Club

Supper Liberation Front​One of the many advantages of living and dining in Los Angeles is that you can wear shorts to your favorite Michelin-starred restaurant. Now not only can you walk into Spago in flip-flops, but you have someplace where your Che Guevara T-shirt will be seriously appropria ... More >>

MADLIBERATION

MADLIBERATION

Madlib To Kick Off Album-A-Month Series At Good Hurt Thursday [MP3]

(stonesthrow.com)​It's no secret that L.A.'s best-kept secret, hip-hop producer extraordinaire Madlib, is a prolific dude. During the aughts, he helmed upwards of 20 albums operating under numerous pseudonyms -- Quasimoto, DJ Rels, Yesterday's New Quintet -- and released a handful of classics ... More >>

Oregon Style: The Tasting Kitchen

Communal, unorthodox and somewhat Italian

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No.'s 290, 291, 292: Pregnant Woman's Alleged Killer Set to be Arraigned December 17

The 22-year-old felon who allegedly raped and fatally stabbed a pregnant woman in Venice is set to be arraigned December 17. Eun Kang​ Boneetio Washington of Culver City allegedly sexually assaulted and stabbed to death Eun Kang, a 39-year-old Korean woman, in her apartment in the 1600 bloc ... More >>

Your Month in Review: October Restaurant Openings

It seems that nearly as many restaurants opened as reopened in the city of Los Angeles last month. Some restaurants got makeovers, some changed hands, and others took risks. Take the pork-themed Flying Pig Truck that set out on the streets of Los Angeles in the midst of the Swine Flu scare. On the t ... More >>

The 1921A's 'Drunkyard Percussion'

A band of McCabe's workers conjures American urban noise out of guitars, kitchen utensils, pie pans

How to Get Divorced by 30

A beginner’s guide to ending your starter marriage

Counter Intelligence

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