Rena Kosnett

Fear not, for although Jimmy Cliff has brought the Santa Monica Pier's Twilight Concert Series to an epic end, that rickety old wooden boardwalk is still the place to be for some of the best (free!) fun in the city. Fall is the season for bundling up and enjoying (free!)......

What do a pickle factory, a surfboard startup and a hipster bicycling apparel shop have in common? They're all attractions along the newest C.I.C.L.E. (Cyclists Inciting Change Through Live Exchange) group ride, Made in L.A. Ride III: L.A. River Edition. The 8-mile ride, beginning at the Los Angeles River Center......

Now 75 years old, Los Angeles' Chinatown is celebrating her landmark anniversary by hosting an epic bash. The annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (also known as the Zhongqiu Festival or Mooncake Festival) is a tradition that dates back more than 3,000 years. Farmers marking the end of the harvest season in......

Sean Carnage's regular Monday night, cutting-edge concert series at Pehrspace is booked in honor of L.A. Zine Fest this week, and the lineup is enticing: L.A. bands Exorcisms, Spokenest and French Vanilla, along with Riverside's Mothers of Gut and Cleveland's Pleasure Leftists. In addition to the musical offerings, zine auteur/L.A......

San Pedro's Ports O'Call Village will be crawling with crustaceans this weekend for the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival. More than 30,000 fresh Maine lobsters will be flown in daily from that other ocean and cooked up in various forms. A limited number of giant Monster Lobsters will be......

This year's Central Avenue Jazz Festival has passed, but luckily Labor Day weekend offers another chance to celebrate our city's rich musical history in the streets where our trumpets first sounded. If it's been a while since you familiarized yourself with one of the most beautiful and historic neighborhoods in......

Architecture in Los Angeles has long been a point of fascination as well as a target of derision. Historians such as Mike Davis and Norman Klein have written about the city's bizarre relationship with its buildings and urbanism in books like City of Quartz and The History of Forgetting, while......

Strap on some chaps, buckle your helmet and rev your engine in the name of organized anarchy, because it’s time to be a badass. Military veterans team up with the stars of Sons of Anarchy as well as ticket-buying civilians for a huge group ride in the name of charity......

Los Angeles can rock the K-pop better than most cities in the United States; after all, we have the largest Korean-American population in the country, all those K-pop–dedicated karaoke palaces on Sixth and Eighth streets, and the multitude of bars and clubs between Wilton and Vermont that play Rain and......