March '09 Month in Photos

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View more photos in the "L.A.'s Cocktail Culture Renaissance" slideshow. Meet the New Cocktailians - the farmers-market-loving" data-rightCaption="View more photos in the "L.A.'s Cocktail Culture Renaissance" slideshow. Meet 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. Read Jonathan Gold's "The New Cocktailians" feature and his "Where to Drink Now" guide.; Credit: Anne Fishbein">View more photos in the "L.A.'s Cocktail Culture Renaissance" slideshow. Meet the New Cocktailians - the farmers-market-lovingView more photos in the "L.A.'s Cocktail Culture Renaissance" slideshow. Meet 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. Read Jonathan Gold's "The New Cocktailians" feature and his "Where to Drink Now" guide.; Credit: Anne Fishbein

March madness included the seven deadly sins, shopping cart pub crawls, the Gold Standard food and wine event, burlesque bingo, hangover cures, SXSW, geek girls and gaming, sword swallowing, fire breathing, belly dancing, flaming cocktails, fashion week, Metallica, PJ Harvey and Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan slapping handcuffs on an L.A. Weekly reporter mid-interview. (Some photos NSFW.)

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