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L.A. Riots: Civic Leaders Talk About Tough Times Today in Los Angeles

Read L.A. Weekly cover story about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, featuring then-and-now photographs from that devastating time. With the 20th anniversary of the April 29, 1992, the Los Angeles Riots, also known as the Los Angeles Uprising, L.A. civic leaders are reflecting about the racial and econom ... More >>

Blue Ivy Carter: Top Five Worst Examples of Rap Nepotism

Barely two days after his and Beyonce's baby Blue Ivy Carter was born, Jay-Z put her on a song. "Glory" is a tribute to his new daughter, who closes the track out with a guest feature -- crying. Jay-Z may be starting his kid off young, but nepotism is standard practice among rap superstars. There' ... More >>

Best General Cookbooks of 2011: 3 Cookbooks For 3 Very Different Cooks

jgarbeeThe Well-Stocked Cookbook Bar​Because kitchen skills are exactly that -- skills that take time to master -- we offer the best three general cookbooks this year for three very different cooks. Even we never would have thought we would put Ferran Adrià's latest cookbook in the "general" ... More >>

Shame Review

Michael Fassbender naked in Steve McQueen's latest film

Santa Monica Farmers Market Q & A: Laura Avery Talks 30 Years of SMFM

City of Santa MonicaSanta Monica Farmers Market Manager Laura Avery.​ You probably know that this week is the 30th anniversary celebration of the Santa Monica Farmers Market, scheduled to be feted with the week-long Good Food Festival & Conference, gallery shows, and of course, food. The Sant ... More >>

Take It To Go: State Senate Wants to Ban Styrofoam and Styrofoam-Like Products

Flickr/DotPolka​ Starry Kitchen, Chego, and a good number of eateries in the city already package their foods in eco-friendly to-go containers, but if the state Senate has its way, all food vendors in the state will be prohibited from using Styrofoam, er, expanded polystyrene foam[1] starting ... More >>

Q & A With Sang Yoon, Part 2: His Jewish Grandmother, Duck Tongue Why The Chef Wants A Centrifuge

A. ScattergoodSang Yoon outside Lukshon​ At the conclusion of the first part of our interview with Sang Yoon (Lukshon, Father's Office), the chef was considering the relative merits of using heat as a weapon and why you can ask for sriracha at Lukshon although to ask for ketchup at Father's Of ... More >>

Music Picks: Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Prince, Ricky Martin, Carrie Rodriguez, The Low Anthem, Mogwai

Also, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, Pegi Young, Mike Stinson and others

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JR Throws 'Westside' Hand Sign on East Wall of Bristol Hotel for 'The Wrinkles of the City'

Peeking up between buildings on the corner of S. Olive and 8th , "Westsiiiide" represents on the east wall of the Bristol Hotel. Living in LA, we know the origins of this iconic hand sign. Have we been desensitized to the gang connotations over the years after seeing it in 20-odd years of music vide ... More >>

[Updated, Again]: Dervaes Family Trademarks "Urban Homestead" Term: Legal Battle Follows

The cover of The Urban Homestead, written by Erik Knudsen and Kelly Coyne, which might be renamed in the next printing.​Updated, 2/22, 12:30 p.m.: The Dervaes family recently filed a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice to Google regarding content in The Urban Homestead by K ... More >>

WHO'S THIS AL GEBRA?

Intel Founder And Computer Pioneer Max Palevsky Dies In Beverly Hills

University of ChicagoMax Palevsky, right.​Computer pioneer Max Palevsky logged off for good this week at the age of 85, with his assistant telling the New York Times he died of heart failure at his Beverly Hills home. The founder of chip-maker Intel was a major political backer of former Los A ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Tiny Piece of Land

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE ON BLOGGERS VERSUS THE NEWS NEW REVIEW A TINY PIECE OF LAND​photo by Halstan WilliamsThis worthy but heavy-handed drama by playwrights Joni Browne-Walders and Mel Weiser is a well intentioned attempt to articulate the pro-I ... More >>

Two Randy Newman Songs That Sound Like Every Other Song Randy Newman Has Written Since the 1980s Fight It Out For the Oscars!

Full disclosure: we love Randy Newman! Go get yourself a copy of his 1974 masterpiece Good Old Boys and you'll see what we're talking about. And that's why we're so pissed that over the last 20 years he's turned himself into a Xerox machine of his own talent, churning out increasingly more faded cop ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Kitchen Toys: The Anti-Griddle

eBayThe Anti-Griddle: better than plastic​You know the Top Chef sets were seriously outfitted for the Top Chef Masters shows. You don't turn that crowd loose in a kitchen and not give them the good stuff. Mark Peel, Campanile chef-owner and recent Top Chef Masters alum, says that in addition t ... More >>

LA People 2009: Time Bankers — Lisa Gerstein and Autumn Rooney

Uh oh, Obama asks Antonio Villaraigosa for Economic Advice

By Tibby Rothman Many Southern Californians were mystified by this news from the Wall Street Journal and NBC's Firstread blog: The often stumbling Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose city budget deficit has hit a historic high and who has based his economic plan in Los Angeles almost entirely on a s ... More >>

Flyer of the Week: Woolly Bandits and the Ratz

There are many different approaches to the art of the flyer, as many as there are mediocre photoshop hacks and "artsy" fonts. One glimpse of the flyer wall at Amoeba Records offers proof: between the cheesy rave flyers, half-assed Pen & Pixel ("Your music sounds hot, so now what?") ripoffs and artfu ... More >>

Michael Reich's Videothing.com Captures the Essence of L.A.'s Underground

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Movie Reviews: Jumper, Step Up 2 the Streets

Also, The Killing of John Lennon and Les Claypool's directorial debut

Grindhouse Gang

Quentin Tarantino summons the masters to historic summit

Part Time Punks, full-time fun!

Dive Bombing

The Michael Kinsley Experiment Ends

Why he was the wrong guy for the Los Angeles Times

Peter-Anne Dies Again

Happy Balloons and Homicide

Entering the dangerous world of flier parties

Don’t Look Back

Mike Kelley’s Proposal

Guys and Dolls

A revelatory all-male Twelfth Night from London

Primal Screen (Print)

Those Little-Town Blues Are Melting Away

Smoking Guns, Hot Pussy

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

The protests in San Francisco proved that the peacenik universe is expanding

The Performer's Life: Diana and the Supreme Karaoke Singers

A Rich Defection

Harman sides with Bush on free trade

Facial

The Horror, the Horror,

Before American Movie, before Blair Witch, there was Demon Lover Diary

My Mescalito Trip

Victor Pelevin on Carlos Castaneda

Somewhere Between Rammstein and Twiggy

Remembering the short, conflicted life of the Screamers — an excerpt from the new oral history We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

The World Senator

Alan Cranston’s take on things

Letters

Taking Thee Piss

Punk rock in re Headcoats, Cometbus

Blow Hard

Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

The Softer Image

Wendy MacLeod's play of bad manners

You've Got Hate Mail

A critic wonders where it all went wrong

All Juiced Up and No Place To Go

The electric car underwhelms California

The Last Ride?

Paul Little, a.k.a. Max Hardcore (above), remains ambivalent about mandatory condom use.

Toner Poem

Xerox's father of necessity

Sticking It Where The Sun Shines

Santa Monica's gift to the world