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Is Hammer and Spear the Hippest New Store in L.A.?

See also: *Top 10 Weirdest Stores in L.A. *10 Best Vintage and Second-Hand Boutiques in L.A. Do you ever sit at home wondering where you can find a set of Shepard Fairey-designed playing cards for your next poker tournament? Or maybe what store carries those 24-karat gold Karl Springer chairs you a ... More >>

Q & A with David R. Chan: 6,165 Chinese Restaurants, Googling Himself Flying Out To Springfield

Among the Chinese food community, David R. Chan is considered an expert. We've written about the accountant and attorney's herculean feat of eating at more than 6,000 Chinese restaurants (and that number keeps on growing each week). He's been on the radio, magazines, international newspaper and on T ... More >>

Brian Banks, Ex-L.A. High School Football Star, Has NFL Tryout With Seahawks After Rape Exoneration

Pete Carroll, the same football coach who recruited Los Angeles High School football star Brian Banks to the USC team one decade ago, is reportedly giving the 26-year-old a second chance after 10 years fighting a false rape conviction. Carroll coaches the Seattle Seahawks now, and has granted the N ... More >>

ABC Pulls Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Watch Some Dancing, Drink Some Chocolate Milk

Jamie Oliver​ If you tuned in last night to see Jamie Oliver, with or without his tomato suit, fighting the good fight on the streets of Los Angeles, if not in its public school cafeterias, you will have been disappointed. And though you doubtless enjoyed Dancing With The Stars as much as we d ... More >>

Andy Dick Is (Allegedly) a Drunk A-Hole

Riverside County Sheriff's DepartmentNot exactly a look of regret​Our worst fears, confirmed again: Impossibly irritating "comedian" Andy Dick is also a drunk A-hole! Dick was arrested by Temecula police at a Marie Calender's restaurant in Riverside County last night, where officials say he w ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Los Angeles Premiers Tonight

JamieOliver.comJamie Oliver​ Tonight you'll finally get to see what all the fuss -- the Facebook petitions and Ryan Seacrest appearances and bus-and-sand stunts and tomato suits and trailing camera crews -- was about. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, "Maybe L.A. Was a Big Mistake," premiers thi ... More >>

Happy Anniversary: Martha Stewart Released From Jail 6 Years Ago Today

Marthastewart.comMartha at home​Happy Anniversary Martha! Six years ago this morning, Martha Stewart was released from jail. As you may recall, Stewart spent five months at the minimum-security federal women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia after being convicted for lying to government inve ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Fills A School Bus With 57 Tons Of "Sugar" In Carson Why L.A. Might Have Been A "Big Mistake"

A. ScattergoodJamie Oliver and a school bus filled with sand​ As you probably know by now, Jamie Oliver's Los Angeles Food Revolution is currently in its second week. Day 1, or the first day of shooting for Oliver's ABC reality show, was last Tuesday, which the British chef marked with the op ... More >>

The LAUSD Says No Thanks to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Jamie OliverOliver's Food Revolution petition: maybe he should make one for the LAUSD​ British cookbook author and food personality Jamie Oliver, who has turned his quest to bring better food to American schoolchildren into the television show Food Revolution, has marched into a roadblock in ... More >>

Three Dog Night

Frank talk about a new L.A. food movement

Music Picks: Liz Pappademas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mad Professor, Bill Frisell

Also, Taylor Swift, Los Tres, Saint Motel, David Allan Coe and others

Ann Magnuson Kicked Off Facebook For Inoffensive Roxy Music Hommage

[Thanks to Lina Lecaro for the tip.] Facebook, which started off as a "Hot or Not" type application for horny preppies to evaluate Harvard coeds, has unceremoniously booted off the amazing singer and performer Ann Magnuson for posting this photo: Austin Young​ The picture is, of course, an ... More >>

Frank Fairfield: The Man Who Wasn't There

His country blues draws more from rural Appalachia than urban California

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other local charities here in the southland. Mark’s Restau ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fake Radio Sing Along

Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

Stage Raw: By the Waters of Babylon

Stage Raw: Major New Arts Fest Slated for L.A.

Stage Raw: Surviving the Surviving Critics

Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

Theater Reviews: Lovelace: A Rock Opera, U.S. Drag, How Cissy Grew

Also, Torn Between Two Bitches, Love's Old Sweet Song and more

Stage Raw: Apollo bound for Oregon

Stage Raw: CTG Receives $90,000 New Play Development Grant

Fab the Ripper: Every Hot Dog Has Its Day

Danger dogs, Chicago dogs, Oki dogs . . . but oh, that Jersey dog

Rock Picks: Beirut, The Cure, Jonathan Richman

And other May 29-June 5 shows

Theater Listings

For the week of March 28-April 3

Hillary Clinton Wins, Republican Style

(Be afraid, be very afraid)

Ravensridge: Atlas Smirked

Which side are we on?

Ravensridge

Todd Taylor

A slice of Razorcake

wayne's world

Film Reviews

For the week of May 12 - 18

2005 in Words

2005 in Words

Battered in Baton Rouge

Tale of Two Ambassadors

One exposed the death squads, the other covered them up

Mike Davis’ 6 Remarkable Ways To Die

Koreatown's Top 40

Springboard for Hitler

Anaheim's Shack has become Nuremberg- Rally Central for O.C. Racists

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead, media junkie

The Short Story

New fiction from Susan Perabo, Dan Rhodes and Stephen Spotte

Letters

New Music

Panic Time

The days, and the electoral votes, dwindle down

Treks For Techs

Finding a corner of the cyberuniverse

Too Beautiful

A Little Bit o' Heaven

The Gospel Midgets reach for the stars

Fetal Positions

Wendy MacLeod's theater of debate