BLOOD EQUITY If you’ve already read Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent recent New Yorker article on the disturbing physical and mental deterioration that awaits professional football players after their careers are over, you’ll find next to nothing illuminating in thi...
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LA Weekly | Complete Issue
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Movie Reviews: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Planet 51, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm -
When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmCrime and PunishmentIt was chaos this week in the Weekly’s virtual mailroom, which received a deluge of reactionary attitude in regard to Christine Pelisek’s cover story “Chaos ... -
Hollywood's Catered Stimulus
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm“I don’t discuss my personal finances,” Tony Garcia says, sitting in his spacious photography studio on Melrose Avenue. In these hard times, with boarded-up storefronts lining the length of Melrose, Tony Garcia Photography seems to be a rare patch of prosperity.... -
L.A. WEAKLY — GET IT?! THAT'S FUNNY!
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmJames Adomian tells us this about his show L.A. Weakly: "From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, this is a show that celebrates our City of Angels, featuring the local celebrities and laid-back denizens of our smoggy oasis. This is the suntanned playground of Huell Howser, t... -
Kiyokawa: So Sorry, So Good
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmView more photos in Anne Fishbein's Kiyokawa photo gallery.Kiyokawa is a small sushi bar on the southern edge of Beverly Hills, a couple of blocks south...
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LA Weekly | News
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Hollywood's Catered Stimulus
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm“I don’t discuss my personal finances,” Tony Garcia says, sitting in his spacious photography studio on Melrose Avenue. In these hard times, with boarded-up storefronts lining the length of Melrose, Tony Garcia Photography seems to be a rare patch of prosperity.... -
When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmCrime and PunishmentIt was chaos this week in the Weekly’s virtual mailroom, which received a deluge of reactionary attitude in regard to Christine Pelisek’s cover story “Chaos ...
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LA Weekly | Music
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Sounds of the Skin of a Rabbit
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmAs you sip a wheatgrass latte while doing yoga on your surfboard, you might ponder the potential of the tall, ambitious order undertaken by a music and arts festival that will explore the larger “meaning” and musical fruits of living and creating on the West Coast. Th... -
Where the Wild Things Are
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmA legendary performance-art queen and an up-and-coming pop princess bring a special allure to two of L.A.’s wildest dance clubs this week. If you missed the debut party for “Arias With a Twist,” NYC-bred drag wonder Joey Arias’ collab with marionette master Basil Twist and... -
Curt Smith: Ruling His World
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmCurt Smith briefly added another occupation to his Twitter bio. The co-founder of the massively popular ’80s pop group Tears for Fears and solo artist had become a “singer, songwriter, liberal puke.”“It’s amusing,” he says in his soft Br... -
Kids’ Rock
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmView more photos in Lina Lecaro's "Nightranger: Party in My City... And on the Playground" slideshow. ONE LOVENo matter how many great gigs we get to experience, the magic moment wh... -
Rock Picks: THE JOE KROWN TRIO, THE FIERY FURNACES, THE LILYS, MR. GNOME
18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20THE JOE KROWN TRIO, KIRK JOSEPH AT THE MINTAny roundup of Crescent City talent guarantees an estimable earful, and tonight’s brawl, with the sweet-hot jazz-funk wallop of sousaphone paragon Kirk Joseph, is more than enough to s...
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LA Weekly | Events
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The Lilys, We Break Cameras, The Minor Canon
Sun., November 22 - A bit of a rock nomad, ever in search of that elusive sound, in 1988 singer-songwriter Kurt Heasley brought the Lilys from his native Philly to Washington, D.C., where they hit with their first single, "February 14," a tip of the hat to My Bloody Valentine. That starry-eyed shoegazing urge wove thro... -
USC THORNTON OPERA
Sun., November 22, 2:00pm - Although Benjamin Britten was a notorious depressive and neurotic perfectionist, he managed to compose one of the funniest and most outrageous of all operas: Albert Herring , which the USC Thornton Opera Program presents this week in all its audacious glory. The work takes aim at two touchy s... -
The Parson Red Heads, Annie Stela, El Perro del Mar, Hecuba
Mon., November 23, 7:00pm - The Swedish singer Sarah Assbring, a.k.a. El Perro del Mar, steps out from her tour with Peter Bjorn & John (which visited Club Nokia on Saturday) with a solo set at this intimate bar. Her latest album, Love Is Not Pop (the Control Group), is a set of love songs that are indeed quite pop. The... -
The Books
Mon., November 23, 8:00pm - The Massachusetts future-folk duo have been lying low for a bit, focusing, as they put it in a recent press release, on family, deconstruction, reconstruction, film scoring, organic gardening, babies and reassessment. (Wonder if that's a musician's euphemism for something?) Now, though, the Books ar... -
Elle Macho, Mr. Gnome, Diamonds Under Fire
Tue., November 24 - One hesitates to describe Mr. Gnome as a two-piece band. The awesome rush of sound that comes out of Nicole Barille's lungs and guitar and Sam Meister's drums seems much bigger and more powerful than anything two people are capable of. Mr. Meister shifts the room with each stomp of his kick drum, wh...
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LA Weekly | Events
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Oliver!
Sun., November 22, 11:00am - Screening of Oliver!, the 1968 musical adaptation of Dickens' classic novel.... -
Mary Poppins
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Tue., November 17 until Sun., February 7, 8:00pm - The riveting theatricality of Bob Crowley’s production design, climaxing in chimney sweep Bert (Gavin Lee) soft-shoeing straight up, then upside down across the proscenium arch, and culminating in a showstopping umbrella flight over the audience by the famous titular nanny, produces an exciteme... -
Just Imagine
Every week Sunday from Sun., October 11 until Sat., January 2, 3:00pm - The fun of seeing and hearing Tim Piper’s great John Lennon impersonation in an intimate setting with an outstanding band, under Greg Piper’s musical direction, is just undeniable. The evening, which includes a large portion of the Beatles catalog followed by Lennon’s solo work, never... -
The Lilys, We Break Cameras, The Minor Canon
Sun., November 22 - A bit of a rock nomad, ever in search of that elusive sound, in 1988 singer-songwriter Kurt Heasley brought the Lilys from his native Philly to Washington, D.C., where they hit with their first single, "February 14," a tip of the hat to My Bloody Valentine. That starry-eyed shoegazing urge wove thro... -
Nollywood Babylon
Sun., November 22, 8:00pm - Lagos Island locals love the movies, and Nollywood delivers. Nollywood is Nigeria's film industry, nearly the world's largest, an ultralow-budget studio system churning out product at a pace of hundreds of movies a month. Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal's 2008 documentary Nollywood Babylon expl...
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LA Weekly | Restaurants Search
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A-Won
At its best, Japanese sashimi is something exquisite; delicate ultrafresh nibbles meant to be contemplated as much as they are to be eaten. Korean sushi is something else entirely it is bar food, seasoned with raw garlic and hot peppers, smeared with bean paste, consumed in great quantities with flowing oceans of soju or beer. Tucked into the rear of a Koreatown mini-mall, A-Won is one of Koreatown's oldest sushi restaurants, a serene but well-worn place where the high-backed booths are as private as little cabanas. Marinated sea cucumber, big portions and the habit of eating sashimi with… -
Akasha
The Culver City restaurant scene is well into its mannerist phase, an era of sleek surfaces, theatrical settings and food that coolly defies nature. But the standard-bearer at the moment has to be the eco-intensive Akasha, where the recycled wood is sealed with beeswax, the chairs are upholstered in hemp and the waiters wear organic cotton. Akasha Richmond, who is both chef and muse here, may be one of the best-known vegan cooks in the world, a television chef and former Vegetarian Times columnist who has been in the employ of both Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand. The kitchen's… -
Alcazar
‘Zahle in the Valley,” a friend calls it, a bit of Mediterranean Lebanon in the middle of Encino: a shaded terrace of music, grilled mullet and bright coals of apple-scented tobacco burning in brass hookahs. The cooks are reportedly Egyptian and Lebanese, but the owner, a well-known Armenian crooner who sometimes sings here on weekends, is not above insisting on the chile-red Armenian version of hummus and the fluffy raw-beef dish kibbe nayeh to go along with the fried sea bass with fried pita and tahini; stuffed grape leaves, and a dish of sautéed chicken livers with… -
Angeli Caffe
If you have ever been to Italy, you probably still have a vivid memory of your first meal at a simple side-street caffè not the grand and complicated dishes you read about in your guidebook, but a plate of spaghetti dressed with nothing but a bit of cheese, a few stalks of fresh asparagus, or a handful of clams recently plucked from the sea. Evan Kleiman's restaurant can seem like that sometimes: Angeli crystallized the affinity of Angelenos for casual Italian cooking-the spaghetti alla checca, garlicky roast chicken and minimally garnished pizza that a Sienese teenager might eat for… -
Angelini Osteria
Where my favorite osterie in Italy find purpose in the repetition of classic dishes, in menus that may not change for decades, Gino Angelini is by nature a creative chef who likes to mark dishes as his own. A regular at his restaurants could tell the difference between Angelini's saltimbocca and a traditional saltimbocca blindfolded. But as his nearby La Terza came into its own, the simpler Osteria seems to have become fun for the chef, a place where he can serve less elaborately garnished versions of his dishes to people who love them, fuel a happy lunch crowd with pasta al limone and a…
