Where to go? What to eat? They never seem to be easy questions to answer. Come here for postings on our favorite places to chow down, get romantic over noodles or just grab a quick bite.
I used to frequently complain about the quality of “genuine” restaurants in Los Angeles. In the past couple of years things have markedly changed. Particularly on the Westside and Downtown. I was re-miss at the sudden closing of A.K. but, not for long. A dream team from Portland picked up where A.K. left off and [...]
The best date I ever had was here in Los Angeles. I was working at Trader Joe’s and this hot artsy looking guy passed through my checkout line. I only had mere minutes to strike conversation, hook, line and sink him, as I scanned his produce. I asked him how his day was going and [...]
Gold Standard
Sunday, February 28
LA Weekly presents the 2nd Annual Gold Standard Food & Wine Event featuring a selection of LA’s best and most eclectic restaurants hand-picked by LA Weekly’s Pulitzer Prize winning food critic: Jonathan Gold.
Jonathan Gold is known by many for his unpredictable taste and appreciation of the many ethnic cuisines represented in [...]
Tonight, the Hammer Museum hosts Open Projector Night, an Apollo Theater like evening in which intrepid filmmakers submit their shorts to face the applause or wrath of a rambunctious audience.
On Friday, Soul Sessions transforms the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown into two floors of phat beats and booty shaking goodness to cleanse the mind [...]
Tonight, MOCA presents an evening with MMIX PEN fellows, who will give readings inspired by the museum’s awesome MOCA’s First Thirty Years collection (admission to MOCA is free on Thursdays after 5pm!).
On Friday, catch the opening of a special one-week exhibition, Ecstatic Moments, which features candid photographs of Mos Def with such artists as Jay [...]
Tonight, Down and Derby takes us back, way back to the 70s for a retro-inspired roller-skating dance party at the Echoplex. Rock your bell-bottoms and bring your skates (or rent them for only $5).
On Friday, directors Kathryn Bigelow (”The Hurt Locker”) and Curtis Hanson (”L.A. Confidential”) will present and discuss a movie that inspired them, [...]
Tonight, check out the world premiere of Mia Doi Todd’s video “Open Your Heart“, directed by creative genius Michel Gondry.
Friday, Griffith Park’s Festival of Lights spans a mile long stretch along Crystal Springs Drive. Shuttles run daily from the LA Zoo for those interested in an illuminated stroll.
On Saturday, Santa Monica hosts its 1st ever [...]
8:45 PM Saturday night. Zero plans. My excuse, Thanksgiving weekend blues. Everybody I know is out-of-town, back home with their families, or working. Or maybe I just don’t have enough friends? I am sitting on the couch still wearing my P90X clothes and P90X dried sweat, with a jar of high end vodka and very [...]
On Thursday, from contributing food, making meals, to delivering them throughout LA, Gobble Gobble Give makes it easy to help the less fortunate and yet still have time to get back to your own Thanksgiving gorging. Also that evening, the Shenkman family invites you to The Comedy Store to sit down with them for their [...]
Tonight, Locating Value combines creation and commerce and offers CDs with custom covers and four unique songs. And in a twist that would have Steve Jobs shaking his fists with rage, the purchaser of the CD will own the rights to the only existing copy of the music.
On Friday, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble joins forces [...]
