Wilshire

Tar and Roses, Andrew Kirschner's Santa Monica Hot Spot, Has the Zeitgeist Nailed

What the Hell's Been Going On in North Hollywood?

How to Enjoy L.A. Arts and Culture Without a Car

When someone asks me if they have to rent a car when visiting L.A., I really, really, really, really want to say no. Of course you can experience L.A. without a car. I do it every day. But for me to explain all the quirks of navigating our transit-nascent city to a wide-eyed visitor, I'd pretty much ... More >>

What Street Artists Os Gêmeos Have in Common With Frida Kahlo

The concrete swaths of Sunset and Wilshire don't readily conjure images of abundant nature, lush dreamscapes and feminist activism. Yet these boulevards have certainly seen their share of otherworldly goings-on, and this month they prove to be fertile ground for two ambitious exhibitions -- Os Gême ... More >>

Umamicatessen: Meating Place

A "soft open," in restaurant parlance, is a kind of dress-rehearsal period, wherein the establishment throws open its doors and hopes for a manageable trickle of customers to walk in, allowing the kitchen and waitstaff to work out kinks in the menu and service. In the Twitter age, however, a soft o ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Chefs for Hire, Spice Table Recipes Passion for Cilantro

Technology: Why cook when you can hire professional chefs to make dinner via Kitchit. In L.A., choose among Neal Fraser (BLD, Grace), Mark Gold (Eva), Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), and others. Food & Wine: Three Spice Table recipes (simplified!) from Bryant Ng, with photos by Anne Fishbein. Gilt Ta ... More >>

Rock-y Road: Street Closures for LACMA's Levitated Mass

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation announced Monday it will be implementing rolling (get it?) street closures to accommodate LACMA's Levitated Mass as it crawls through the the busiest corridor of its route at speeds of 5 to 8 miles per hour. The 340-ton rock is about halfway through an ... More >>

Zagat Debuts Los Angeles 30 Under 30 List

Some of our favorite young chefs made Zagat's first ever Los Angeles 30 Under 30 list (a.k.a. how to make anyone over 30 feel inadequate). The honorees include Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), Joshua Drew (Farmshop), Jordan Kahn (Red Medicine), Ilan Hall (The Gorbals), Casey Lane (Tasting Kitchen), Crai ... More >>

Tar And Roses: New Restaurant Alert in Santa Monica

Tar and Roses​Former "Next Iron Chef" contestant and renowned L.A. chef Andrew Kirschner is set to open his first restaurant by December 1. Tar and Roses on Santa Monica Blvd., between 5th and 6th streets, will house a highly touted wood-burning oven, which should make for some earthy, rustic ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Jeffrey Vallance on Blinky, the Friendly Hen

Courtesy Marc Foxx William Daniels' "Untitled" oil painting, on view at Marc Foxx Gallery through November 12​ My agenda includes a couple risks -- eight hours of United Nations-style debating and a visit to a temporary hotel room. Then there are the sure bets -- a lecture by an inimitably cle ... More >>

Carmageddon Countdown Finally Ends: Take Advantage of Overblown 405 Closure With Parties, Cheap Stuff Across L.A.

Hot WheelsPartytime.​Really, really sorry we even have to use the word "Carmageddon" again, but -- as we pointed out in our FAQ section -- once that thing gained SEO power, there was no stopping it. On the final day of the countdown to this weekend's 405 closure, we bring you perhaps our most ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Mon Land

Carl Kozlowski, Narcoleptic Comedian, Crashed his Car While Asleep at the Wheel: Hilarious!

​ Carl Kozlowski's not about to let narcolepsy keep him from pursuing a career in comedy. Although he's forced to take buses and trains all over L.A. since crashing his car after falling asleep at the wheel in 2003, he keeps busy as co-host -- with Jake Belcher and Brant Thoman -- of the onlin ... More >>

Flatiron Truck Brings "Farm-to-Street" Food to L.A.

courtesy of Flatiron Truck​ You can't exactly serve farm-to-table food when there's no table involved, so the new Flatiron Truck, which joined the masses of L.A. food trucks on March 5th, has dubbed their cuisine "farm-to-street." The latest endeavor from Chef Timothy Mark Abell, who's worked ... More >>

February Roundup of Restaurant Openings & Closures

Lemonade: Coming soon to Brentwood​ Sure, we enjoy swanky restaurants like The Wilshire, but it's usually the small hole-in-the walls that hold a special place in our hearts, and stomachs. That's why it hurts so bad when the dinky places close. RIP Tacos Carmelita. Let's take a moment to appre ... More >>

'Real Housewives' Lesson of the Day: How to go 'Oklahoma on Your Ass,' L.A.-Style

BravoTaylor will take you to Oklahoma, and not in a limo.​On the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion show last week (we watch when we're not reading the Economist or pondering the latest WeeklyLeak), the cast reflected on the meaning of going "Oklahoma on your ass." The phrase stems from ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants in Buildings Designed by Significant Los Angeles Architects

J. RitzThe eastern portion of Morgan, Walls & Clements' Chapman Market on 6th Street.​ We'd love to linger over a classic breakfast combo and endless cups of coffee at John Lautner's 1949 Googie Coffee Shop, since it was the actual place whose name defined a genre. And then enjoy the cannello ... More >>

Beverly Hills' Laemmle Music Hall Movie Theater Likely To Close

Laemmle Music Hall.​It looks like Beverly Hills' Laemmle Music Hall 3 will be the next of the great old movie theaters to fall in Los Angeles. The Beverly Hills Courier reports this week that the Laemmle folks will likely pull out in April as a result of a rent increase they can't absorb; it' ... More >>

Car-Free Eating

Nondrivers should look to downtown

(D)EVOLVED INTERIORS

JUSTIN LOWE AND JONAH FREEMAN'S DYSTOPIC REDESIGN

L.A. Westside Subway Extension Debate

​CityWatch is refreshing for its willingness to allow advocates on each side of an issue to really air it out and allow readers to make up their own minds. Case in point, a debate over the Westside subway extension, which began last week with a Richard Lee Abrams attack on the subway, ominou ... More >>

Q & A With Danielle Keene: Just Desserts, The Issue of Cupcakes The Possibility of an Ice Cream Truck

BravoDanielle Keene​For those of us who've been following pastry chef Danielle Keene for the past few years, from Wilshire's Ice Cream Shoppe nights, to stints in the pastry kitchens of BLT Steak and Little Door, to her own on-line pastry kitchen, Bittersweet Treats, it didn't come as much of ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Redtop's Boogie

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Quandary at Literati Café

Ben CalderwoodColor-mixing: Literati's Eggs Florentine​ You might not expect such an astutely poached egg atop your Benedict at a commonplace all-day café like Literati, but that's what you get. Tender, uniform capsules of golden yolk that flood your artisan roll the moment you prod the white ... More >>

Howard Hughes' 'Spruce Goose' Hangar, Other Playa Vista Area Property Sold

The Spruce Goose.​Land adjacent to Playa Vista that once belonged to Howard Hughes has been sold in a deal with three buyers worth an estimated total of about $85 million, Bloomberg News reports. The deal includes the hangar-cum-soundstage where Hughes built the record-setting Spruce Goose ai ... More >>

Reality Show About Koreatown Seeks Asian Guidos, Nicolas Cage-Types

richdad.comRobert Kiyosaki, the original Asian guido.​You might not be The Situation, but we know you're out there: Spikey hair, Orange Crush tan, low-riding BMW M3, chiseled arms (24 Hour Fitness on Wilshire), A/X sleeveless t-shirt, fake Panerai. And you can rap. You're an Asian-American gui ... More >>

Kiyokawa: So Sorry, So Good

Satoshi Kiyokawa may be the best unknown sushi chef in L.A.

Brick's Picks: Central Avenue Festival Throws it Down

And Check Out the Trios of John Heard and Matt Cory

The Most Epic Pool Party of the Summer is on Flickr

Erin BroadleyIt's how we doCalling all citizen photojournalists or anyone with a camera and a dream -- L.A. Weekly is now on Flickr and wants to invite readers to upload images to our Flickr photo pool. We will be doing weekly and monthly roundups of the best photos from the pool -- submitted by yo ... More >>

Last Night: Out with the Oldthink, in with the New - Social Media Club Los Angeles Focuses on Film

Depending on whom you talk to, the role of the Internet as a venue for content distribution is either the Wild Wild West or more of the same. The peer review system breakdown associated with the rise of social media means no more "gatekeepers," a situation that is problematic for those consumers and ... More >>

Breaking Free: L.A. Wine Culture

Shattering the stereotypes

Koreatown: Glitter Babies Vs. Thugs

Stylish throngs with dough pour into the area. So do muggers and killers

Where the Crowds Are

What to do in L.A. this week

Red Hots

The chicken as incendiary device at Dino’s Burgers

What Lies Beneath

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Venue Directory

Ups and Downs

Ruben Pardo

Quest for Fire: Out of the Flames

L.A.'s best roasted, grilled sizzled and wood-baked cooking

Letters

Billboard Oases

Greatest SoCal Accidental-Remarkable Human-Made Visionary Environments

All A-Bored

The MTA’s mechanics aren’t the striking janitors of 2000

Sidewalk Service

A photo essay

Rami Kashoú

The 17th Level

Opening weekend at 'The Grove'

Be Bop a Blood Feast

Edited by Kateri Butler

A Defense of Missile Defense . . .

. . . is enough to torpedo your appetite

The Westside of the Eastside

La Luz de Jesus, Pink and Circle Elephant Art

It’s Chinatown

Something new, something old

Broke on Pay Day

The life of a $6.80 janitor with two kids