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Hurrah for the James Beard Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards Winners!

The James Beard Book Broadcast and Journalism awards were held this past Saturday night, and a whole new crop of book authors, TV and radio folks and food journalists were honored with what is still considered the food world's greatest honor -- a James Beard medal. You can see the full list of win ... More >>

Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology: Village Voice Media's First eBook

Every week writers for L.A. Weekly and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing--a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Crime An ... More >>

The End of the World As We Know It

Lisa Mezzacappa Does Not Make Dinner Party Music

Myles Boisen​Upright bassist Lisa Mezzacappa has been building a steady reputation in northern California for the last decade. Her nimble basslines and arresting compositions have brought her beyond the Bay Area, where she lives, including a rare tour through Los Angeles. Her band the Bait & S ... More >>

Lost Boys

New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds. Neither government officials n ... More >>

[Updated] Ruth Bourdain's Identity: The Village Voice's Robert Sietsema?

Update: This just in from Robert Sietsema himself via secret hyper-encrypted internal Village Voice Media email (that's a joke). "Not me, but it's been fun having people think it is. I'm on my way to tour a rice plantation in South Carolina." Sorry, everybody. Some mysteries are better left mysterio ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/3-10/7

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'Not me, but it's been fun having people think it is. I'm on my way to tour a rice plantation in South Carolina.'" [Updated] Ruth Bourdain's Identity: The Village Voice's Robert Sietsema? "It was ten meringue whites on top o ... More >>

Underage Sex Trafficking: Don't Get Your Facts From Ashton Kutcher

True. But they also get their facts straight.​No one, save for sickos, thinks underage sex trafficking is a good thing. But contrary to what you might've heard from Ashton Kutcher's latest media blitz, there are not 100,000 to 300,000 children in America becoming prostitutes every year. How ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor, R.I.P.

​ Elizabeth Taylor died last night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 79. We don't even know where to begin eulogizing the woman, and we'll have more to say soon, but we'll start by recommending Michael Musto's obit in our sister paper Village Voice.

Wu-Tang Clan Headline Village Voice Media's SXSW Party

Nate "Igor" SmithNot to be confused with the Wu-Tang Clan.​Last night Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf, Wild Flag, Fishbone, Trae Tha Truth, Marz Lovejoy, Rocky Business, Trouble Andrew, Ume, Times New Viking and DJ Erykah Badu all provided music for the Village Voice Media/Frank 151 SXSW Showdown at th ... More >>

Alexia Tsotsis, LA Weekly Alum, Too Snarky for Moviefone/AOL/Huffington: High Five!

FacebookAlexia Tsotsis, scheming up snark like it's her job​So this is what happens when the snark training at Village Voice Media leads to a responsible career at an uncool corporation. It's just as we thought! One receives stern, pent-up (but rose-smelling) letters from the mother ship, advi ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf and Many Others to Play SXSW Party, Courtesy of the Village Voice and Frank151

Wu-Tang: Forever bridging the gap between hip-hop and indie​ We've just received word from our sister publication the Village Voice in NYC that they have something pretty special planned for the upcoming SXSW music and media conference in Austin, Texas. The 2011 Village Voice SXSW party, cosp ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

Where Are #Wikileaks Media Friends? (Updated)

By Michael Lacey Executive Editor, Village Voice Media Updated: "WikiLeaks Betrayed by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard---and Worst of All, the Media" Where are the First Amendment's estabishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers with computers, not hacks with ... More >>

Tonight: Odd Future, Faith No More, Eve 6, Train, John McLaughlin, the Grouch

Brook Bobbins via Village VoiceOdd Future with Mos Def in NYC earlier this month​The headline earlier this month in the New York Times read: "Young, Gifted and Outrageous: Can Odd Future Survive Popularity?" Which is a fair question. The outrageous L.A. hip-hip crew whose unabbreviated monik ... More >>

We Met Outside The Mummy Ride: The Best Of Halloween Weekend's 'Missed Connections'

PHOTO BY NICHOLE O'CONNORDon't be fooled -- he's as lonely as Mark Zuckerberg​The only thing harder than making a lasting connection in L.A. is making a lasting connection when you can't recognize the person the next day. In the tradition of our sister news blog at the Village Voice, we've be ... More >>

L.A. City Council: Helping 7-Eleven Go Upscale?

​ The L.A. City Council has two food related items on the agenda today, in a sign of the continuing momentum of food activists who are either ameliorating hunger and reversing the decades-long trend toward bad, processed food, or being annoying nanny staters wasting Council time while bigger ... More >>

Arizona You Too, Buddy!

New Phone App Finds Best Happy Hours

Over the Weekend: L.A. Takes on Austin

Last week, L.A.'s music (and music journalist) community headed to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. The annual music event brought together up-and-comers with rock veterans for days and nights of concerts. Check out what our team saw over the weekend. Courtney Love Is Back Erin Broadley​ ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Coffee may enhance inebriation. [Fox] -- For the fourth day of Christmas at Meadowood the Food Dudes gave us meat. [EaterSF] -- Tootsie Rolls, Frooties, and Dots go Kosher (Why this made the Crime ... More >>

Billy Corgan Was One Creepy-Ass Child, Psychoanalytic Marketing Stunt Shockingly Reveals

www.CharlesAddams.com​Our brethren at the Village Voice report that over the weekend, as part of the marketing strategy for expensive facsimiles of The Red Book--a recently unveiled illustrated manuscript by cultish psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung--our friend Billy Corgan was "psychoanalyzed" i ... More >>

AAN Honors: LA Weekly Wins Four AltWeekly Press Awards

LA Weekly led the awards among major circulation weekly newspapers again this year, grabbing four first-place honors from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at its 14th annual AltWeekly Awards in Tucson.The four winners were Art Director Darrick Rainey for his haunting design of a cover sto ... More >>

Nikki Finke Leaves L.A. Weekly

PHOENIX, AZ -- (Marketwire - June 23, 2009) - Village Voice Media, publisher of 15 alternative weekly papers in major metro areas throughout the U.S., today announced that Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily blog, which has been anchored out of Village Voice Media's (VVM) LAWeekly.com for close t ... More >>

Cannes Day Zero: J. Hoberman, Live from France

In addition to L.A. Weekly's Scott Foundas, Village Voice's longtime film critic J. Hoberman will be filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Day zero: Hoberman plans his schedule, looks for strawberries, equates Quentin Tarantino's proudly misspelled Inglourious Basterds to ... More >>

Bulletin: 'Maersk Alabama' Crew Member Tells of Pirate Ordeal

In an exclusive scoop, the Village Voice has obtained and published an e-mail from a crew member of the Maersk Alabama, written about its seizure by pirates last week. From the Village Voice's description:"The crewmember tells friends that by the time the pirates had commandeered the bridge, the chi ... More >>

SXSW and the Future of Media: Guy Kawasaki on how L.A. Weekly Does it Right

Alltop CEO Guy Kawasaki gave a shout out to L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice and SF Weekly right before his March 17 SXSW keynote with Wired editor Chris Anderson regarding Anderson's upcoming book, Free. In Kawasaki's pre-keynote video interview above with Viddler.com, the interviewer (referring to ... More >>

SXSW Random Photo of the Day: The Rock & Roll Party Cab: March, 17 2009

What: Inside view of Austin's only Rock & Roll Party Cab. Location: Picked us up at 7th and Congress, travel time approximately 10 minutes in traffic to Magnolia Cafe. Why we loved it: You can spot this cab easily because it's probably the only yellow Eurovan in all of Texas. That, and there's the ... More >>

Stage Raw: Goodbye Hello, A Memo to the Theater Community

Goodbye Hello, A Memo to the L.A. Theater Community "I say high, you say low "You say why, and I say I don't know "Oh, no "You say goodbye and I say hello . . ." --The Beatles In the program of the off-Broadway production of my play Beachwood Drive last year, I wrote in my bio, somewhat facetio ... More >>

Live Election Day Blogging from New York's Village Voice

I've already voted, have you? Today's the big day and we're going national with our coverage. Click here to stay updated with live election blogging from Roy Edroso of the Village Voice who will be working feverishly all day and night to bring you the latest updates, upsets and commentary from New Y ... More >>

A Serving of Piaf

Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

Welcome to a dusty fantasy land of deep-throating elf ears, masturbating trolls, and chain-mail-wearing porn stars. by Bonnie Ruberg, Village Voice Pornography director Dez is standing on an outdoor set in the L.A. hills, on the first nice day in months. He's surrounded by actresses who're naked ex ... More >>

Who's Sorry Now?

Andy Thomas eats crow to save his political career, but wants an apology to Sheriff Joe

Siren Music Festival in NYC

The Village Voice's Siren Music Festival took place over the weekend with performances from M.I.A., New York Dolls, Elvis Perkins, The Black Lips and a lot more. Click here to visit the Voice's music blog Sound of the City and read more about it. Or go straight to all the photos. M.I.A. actually ... More >>

Crossword

About LA Weekly: Privacy Policy

Joe Donnelly Meets the New Boss, Mike Lacey

The Phoenix cowboys ride again

Return of New Times

Thoughts about merging with the former enemy

Where Are They Now?

An ever-evolving list of L.A. Weekly alumni

No Alternative to Higher Profits

Layoffs at Village Voice send message to investors and employees alike

A Voice by Any Other Name . . .

Letters

Start the Presses

The comeback of a Cleveland alternative newspaper

Shark Patrol

Letters

Rough Trade

L.A. Weekly’s owner and New Times settle anti-trust complaint

Hold the Politics

Why the government in the weeklies’ antitrust case should leave ideology alone

The End of New Times