Few artists ask visitors to contribute to their work, but Los Angeles-based artist Fritz Haeg thrives off the idea. His complex project, entitled Domestic Integrities Part A03, beckons visitors to become a part of an artistic undertaking -- the continued production of a traveling rug. Starting to ... More >>
Few artists ask visitors to contribute to their work, but Los Angeles-based artist Fritz Haeg thrives off the idea. His complex project, entitled Domestic Integrities Part A03, beckons visitors to become a part of an artistic undertaking -- the continued production of a traveling rug. Starting to ... More >>
See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament This week, there's a symposium on what it's like to live at a time when real life is like sci-fi, a portrait of Jayne Mansfield's car on view and a cutout UPS ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Jewish romance in Poland and Catholic romance in Ireland
John Tejada's place does not look like the home of an internationally renowned techno producer. Tucked away on a quiet street in a Mayberry-like corner of Van Nuys, where lawn signs from the neighborhood council warn you to "Watch for Kids!", the cozy mid-century ranch house feels far removed from t ... More >>
This week, there's a concise, color-coordinated performance that's kind of about a bird, an art show that unfolds over the telephone and a slightly surreal stairwell in Pasadena. 5. Dangerous dreaming "Learn to Dream," written across John Baldessari's new print five times in five different colors ... More >>
"Bloody hell, men!" Boom. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Boom. Three men in tan uniforms lie inert on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Their remaining comrades radio for help and cower behind their jeep, trying desperately to shoot the Germans hiding in the bushes. The canon sounds again, causin ... More >>
"Every line is an adventure," says Marian Bisanz-Prakken, a curator at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, and expert on everything Klimtian. The exhibition "Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line," now at the J.Paul Getty Museum in partnership with the Albertina Museum, showcases more than 100 of the Austrian s ... More >>
"Every line is an adventure," says Marian Bisanz-Prakken, a curator at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, and expert on everything Klimtian. The exhibition "Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line," now at the J.Paul Getty Museum in partnership with the Albertina Museum, showcases more than 100 of the Austrian s ... More >>
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Andreas Mitisek is sitting in the Long Beach Opera's modest church-rental office near the southern terminus of the 710 freeway, days after wrapping the first performances of th ... More >>
Let's face it, Mexico isn't exactly a major player in the current craft beer revolution. But that doesn't mean that its long tradition of easy-drinking European-style lagers is something to be overlooked. Sure, the cerveza market is just as consolidated and macro-dominated as the United States' was ... More >>
Over the weekend, Katie Carguilo took the champion title at the annual U.S.B.C. event -- that would be the United States Barista Championship and not the United States Bowling Congress (though that too apparently had everyone on pins and needles this weekend). Hosted by the Specialty Coffee Associa ... More >>
Aaron Morgan"Candida," produced by Crysalis Stage at The Complex​Chrysalis Stage's revival of G.B. Shaw's Candida at The Complex nabbed this week's Pick of the Week. ​ Our critics also liked On Holy Ground with Salome Jens at the MET, in Hollywood. See here for all the latest New Theater Reviews ... More >>
When we first flipped through The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan and Meredith Erickson, we thought it was yet another pretty but also pretty lackluster restaurant cookbook (Joe Beef is Montreal's restaurant du jour). There's even the requisite foreword by a w ... More >>
Self-professed Pastafarian Niko Alm's driver's license.Look closely at Niko Alm's driver's license. That's not a yarmulke on his head. That's a pasta strainer. After a three-year battle, the 19-year-old Austrian man, a self-professed Pastafarian, has won the right to wear a colander on his h ... More >>
Self-professed Pastafarian Niko Alm's driver's license.Look closely at Niko Alm's driver's license. That's not a yarmulke on his head. That's a pasta strainer. After a three-year battle, the 19-year-old Austrian man, a self-professed Pastafarian, has won the right to wear a colander on his h ... More >>
Self-professed Pastafarian Niko Alm's driver's license.Look closely at Niko Alm's driver's license. That's not a yarmulke on his head. That's a pasta strainer. After a three-year battle, the 19-year-old Austrian man, a self-professed Pastafarian, has won the right to wear a colander on his h ... More >>
Self-professed Pastafarian Niko Alm's driver's license.Look closely at Niko Alm's driver's license. That's not a yarmulke on his head. That's a pasta strainer. After a three-year battle, the 19-year-old Austrian man, a self-professed Pastafarian, has won the right to wear a colander on his h ... More >>
East European lunatics and Glendale's staid classicists
A playground for the mind
In yesterday's first part of our interview with Wolfgang Puck, the chef talked about his new downtown restaurant WP24 and gave us a little backstory of Ma Maison, Spago and the invention of his famous pizza. Speaking of pizza, turns out that Puck decided to detour, mid-interview and en route to the ... More >>
In yesterday's first part of our interview with Wolfgang Puck, the chef talked about his new downtown restaurant WP24 and gave us a little backstory of Ma Maison, Spago and the invention of his famous pizza. Speaking of pizza, turns out that Puck decided to detour, mid-interview and en route to the ... More >>
Valrhona chocolate Your favorite 12 Step program just got a new step: chocolate. Reuters reports that Spanish researchers have found that eating chocolate after meals decreased abdominal blood pressure, which can reach dangerous levels in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. In other words, ... More >>
With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival
With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival
With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival
With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival
Lake Avenue, as it thrusts up towards Altadena, has long been where Pasadena sequesters its fast-food restaurants, and at the heart of it, you can find nearly every drive-thru window that has ever sponsored a football broadcast. The street has also been hospitable to a few left-of-center fast-food j ... More >>
The Big Game appoacheth. With Super Bowl XLIV right around the corner, millions of Americans will break out potato chips, Chex mex, Hot Dogs, and hamburgers and, of course, build a giant junk food football stadium. Okay, this may not be standard operating procedure for most gridiron fanatics gather ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama tops our annual critics' survey
Or maybe it was there all along
Or maybe it was there all along
Where does the shopping end and the eating begin or vice versa?
Where does the shopping end and the eating begin or vice versa?
A frank discussion of a family obsession
The best classical events of 2007
Michele Clark on Aaron Cohen and his “night-frighting” techniques
Michele Clark on Aaron Cohen and his “night-frighting” techniques
Michele Clark on Aaron Cohen and his “night-frighting” techniques
Michele Clark on Aaron Cohen and his “night-frighting” techniques
Michele Clark on Aaron Cohen and his “night-frighting” techniques
Michele Clark on Aaron Cohen and his “night-frighting” techniques
A Where’s Where of dead meat on a stick
At least Frank Stronach isn't bulldozing Santa Anita for condos
With a longish pit stop in the great state of Texas
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