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Los Angeles IPA Festival Organizers Go the Distance for California's Best Hoppy Beers
Barreling down Highway 5 in a 10-passenger van wrapped with an inescapable image of hops, the team from Golden Road Brewery and Mohawk Bend are on a mission for one thing – beer kegs. The destination is San Diego, often called Beer City, U.S.A., and home to the country's most...@ 10:09 AM On Fri, December 5 -
Pauly Shore Gets Candid in His New Showtime Documentary: "I’m the Weasel"
Beverly Hills native Pauly Shore was babysat by comedians, hung out at the Odyssey and attended the same high school as Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz and Nicholas Cage. Oingo Boing used to play his swim gym. His mother Mitzi, owner of Sunset Strip institution the Comedy Store, advised and entertained...@ 3:28 AM On Thu, December 4 -
As the Music Center Turns 50, It Should Shake Up the Way We Use Its Courtyard
On Dec. 6, dancers from L.A. Dance Project will slide and sway across the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion’s stage in resident choreographer of the New York City Ballet’s and California native Justin Peck’s premiere of Helix, a rhythmic piece based on Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2005 musical composition with the same name. The...@ 12:05 PM On Fri, December 5 -
Happy Repeal Day! Here's Where to Celebrate Your Freedom to Imbibe
On December 5, 1933, America got to drink again. The country had been dry for 12 years due to Prohibition, but FDR thought that it was time for a change. His famous comment — " I think this would be a good time for a beer" — sums it...@ 11:56 AM On Fri, December 5 -
U.S. Census Data Confirms That L.A. Millennials Are Screwed
Ah, millennials. We love to hate you, what with your $200 headphones, sticker-covered MacBook Airs, and entitled workplace attitudes. We should really cut you more slack, though. That overpriced technology and inflated job title might be about all you have to hold onto these days. The world has really screwed...@ 7:35 AM On Fri, December 5 -
Growing Up Chinese and Rich in the San Gabriel Valley
I once made a visit to a great big house in the San Gabriel Valley. The door opened to a little Chinese girl with a large fur scarf draped around her tiny neck. The floor was marbled and cold, the ceiling high, the grand hall empty and everything lighted by...@ 4:10 AM On Thu, December 4 3 -
5 Tasty Options for Melrose Avenue's Burgeoning Late Night Dinner Scene
Tourists have long been flocking to Melrose Avenue, ducking happily into the street’s many boutique shops, thrift stores, salons and theaters. There have always been restaurants to feed those crowds, of course, but most come with a touristy edge to them, set up as quick-service concepts catering to little more...@ 8:03 AM On Thu, December 4 -
Hodor Threw Down an Epic DJ Set at "Rave of Thrones"
At midnight inside Exchange L.A., "Rave of Thrones" was in full swing and DJ/Game of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn was about to hit the stage. A digital snowfall poured down the projection screens. Over the sound system, Old Nan, a character from HBO's hit series, talks about White Walkers. Soon,...@ 8:41 AM On Thu, December 4 2 -
SoCal Dominates Top Instagram Photo Locations in 2014
Southern California locations took the top two positions on Instagram's annual list of users' most-geotagged places around the world. Number one was Disneyland in Anaheim, a perennial favorite for Instagram users. Number two was Dodger Stadium in Elysian Park, also a frequent fave. Although greater L.A. represents the first- and...@ 9:03 AM On Thu, December 4 -
Monzo Expands to Torrance, Alimento Solicits Kitchen Tips: This Week in Food
Openings, closings and gratuities for cooks — here's the food news that grabbed our attention this week: In what was probably the most controversial L.A. food news of the week, Los Angeles Magazine broke the news that Alimento chef/owner Zach Pollack has decided to add an extra gratuity line on...@ 9:00 AM On Fri, December 5 -
Nearly Half of L.A. Airbnb Hosts Work in the Entertainment Industry
As if overpaid Hollywood white people, beneficiaries of a recent plan to infuse the industry with nearly $1.6 billion of your tax money, need more cash, it turns out they've found a way to supplement their incomes. Airbnb this week unveiled a study that concludes, among other things, that nearly...@ 9:39 AM On Fri, December 5 -
5 Best California-Based Cookbooks to Gift for the Holidays
If you are lucky enough to have foodies — or even aspiring foodies — in your family or stable of friends, fear not the treachery of gift shopping: behold five great food (and drink!) books to place under your tree, menorah or kinara. From local haunts, like Auntie Em’s Kitchen...@ 6:50 AM On Fri, December 5 -
Weekend DUI Crackdown Starts in Downtown L.A. Tonight
Rain or shine, the Los Angeles Police Department doesn't let up when it comes to taking drunk drivers off the road. Law requires that police vaguely inform people about upcoming DUI checkpoints, but the LAPD does you one better: They'll tell you exactly when and where they'll be. The department...@ 3:43 PM On Thu, December 4 3 -
What's a WTF, and Why Is This Hollywood Community Rallying Against It?
Former KLOS radio personality Gayl Murphy almost tossed the generic white envelope she assumed was junk mail. Then she noticed the familiar map of her street, drawn out by the little-known L.A. Central Area Planning Commission, and realized her fight wasn’t over yet. AT&T was appealing a city decision that...@ 8:31 AM On Fri, December 5 -
With Help From J. Cole, Cozz Is Living the Dream
Cozz emerged from anonymity with dreams of getting rich and a pair of loaded dice. The warning shot was his first video, “Dreams,” set on the nocturnal streets of South Central, surrounded by pit bulls, liquor stores and police helicopters. In 200 seconds, the 20-year-old catapulted into the elite ranks...@ 4:30 AM On Tue, November 25 2
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Reese Witherspoon Hoboes Through the Winning Wild
For reasons that are perhaps understandable, stories about women finding themselves — or their voices, or their inner courage, or any number of things that are apparently very easy to mislay — are big business. But even if Cheryl Strayed's hugely successful 2012 memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on...2014-12-03 14:45:00 -
The Debate Over Po' Boys: Readers Respond
Mayo See the Light Restaurant critic Besha Rodell's review, "Little Jewel Brings Soul of New Orleans to Chinatown, Los Angeles," set off a debate among our local Louisianians. In response to Rodell's description of a proper po' boy as containing Blue Plate mayo, ashley.h.matt responded, "Actually, a properly dressed shrimp...2014-12-03 14:45:00 -
Life Partners' Pals Make Up, Break Up Without Hookup
Susanna Fogel's Life Partners starts with a vehicular meet-cute: Paige (Gillian Jacobs) cuts off Sasha (Leighton Meester), causing the latter, an aggrieved receptionist/wannabe rock star, to scream, "Watch where you're going, bitch!" Both girls park at a gay-pride rally, storm out of their cars and hug. It's a fake fight...2014-12-03 14:45:00 -
Peter Jackson's Hobbit-Embiggening Project Hits Its Spectacular End
The biggest laugh I heard from the audience at my screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies came from seven words in the end credits: “Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.” Just picture that tweedy Oxford philologist nodding in pleased approval at this adaptation of his...2014-12-03 14:45:00 -
Cumberbatch's Codebreaker Gets Lost in Imitation Game Plot
"Politics really isn't my specialty," shrugs Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to a naval commander (Charles Dance) in an early job-interview scene in Morten Tyldum's choppy biopic, The Imitation Game. Yet no less than Winston Churchill would credit Turing as the main cause of the Allies' victory over the Nazis. Turing...2014-11-25 14:45:00 -
"Gay Wing" Pro and Con: Readers Respond
Gay Wing's Haters and Lovers Our blockbuster cover story last week went viral, and global, as hundreds of thousands of people shared reporter Ani Ucar's "In the Gay Wing of L.A. Men's Central Jail, It's Not Shanks and Muggings but Hand-Sewn Gowns and Tears," as well as her accompanying video,...2014-11-25 14:45:00 -
Jim Davis on How Garfield Remains Relevant
Garfield creator Jim Davis is well aware of the Internet's cat obsession. In fact, he's got an upcoming strip about it. "But if I told you the joke, I'd have to kill you," he deadpans, before cracking his paternal composure with a chuckle. (He did tell me, and I've chosen...2014-11-25 14:45:00 -
Gape at the Wonders of the Sublime Antarctica
The heavens dance. From the bottom of the world, where your eyes might freeze in your face, we see stars pulse against seams of luminous dust, all in slow and dizzying rotation. Then come the lights: Ribbons of green unspool and shimmer and whip across the sky, suggesting angels and...2014-11-25 14:45:00
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