The Longest Day: L.A. Street Food Fest
In my experience, you are either a festival guy or you are not; you enjoy floating into Coachella or SXSW, or you wait a few days to check out the band you want to hear at the Henry Fonda instead. Either approach can be wonderful — I have sworn never to visit Burning Man, b…
The Real McCoy: Hatfield’s Revisited
The main dining room at Citrus lay at the heart of California cooking in the mid-1980s, a clean, white space opening directly onto the restaurant’s vast open kitchen, where you imagined you could follow the progress of your appetizer from garde manger to hot line to the spot where Michel…
Best of the Oaxacans: A Mole Here, a Mole there …
Dear Mr. Gold:
I have friends coming from NYC and they’ve been asking about Oaxacan food. Oaxacan food? I’d like to find a great place, and what I mean by great is very good food and not a truck.
—Sherry, Manhattan Beach
Dear Sherry:
Los…
Sending Trutanich to His Corner
Carmen Trutanich, the bulky and bullheaded city attorney, has been in office for seven months, and has wasted little of that time making friends.
He has declared war on billboards, feuded with the Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns Staples Center, and taken aim at the…
Stage Door
In 1936, when Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s comedy and homage to The Theater (that would be Broadway) showed the divide between the legit stage and the vulgar movie biz in Hollywood (an industry where “You only have to learn a line at a time and they just keep taking it until you get…
A Paranoid in Reverse: Revisiting J.D. Salinger
If originality is, as Vladimir Nabokov suggests, the true measure of greatness in an artist, then the argument can be made that J.D. Salinger towers over most American writers of the past half-century. Few writers anywhere have ever been more widely or more passionately read. Few…
Eli’s Egoland?
So sorry, Santa Monica. Apologies, Beverly Hills. The jewel you have coveted and negotiated for — billionaire Eli Broad’s proposed museum, which will house his contemporary art collection — may not alight upon your city after all.
Politicians in those two citi…
Public Unwelcome at Grand Avenue
Waiting for Escorts in Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry to show up last week was like waiting for the glitzy Grand Avenue hotel-shop-condos project to finally launch: No one could say exactly when or if it might happen. As the scheduled 10 a.m. start time for the January 25 Grand Ave…
Film Costumes
Art of the Motion Picture Costume Design includes costumes from more than 20 2009 films, including Nine, The Young Victoria, Julie & Julia, Stark Trek and An Education..
Tuesdays-Saturdays. Starts: Feb. 9. Continues through April 17, 2010…
African-American Photography Exhibit
The Black List: Volumes One, Two, and Three features photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and KCRW film host Elvis Mitchell’s photographs of prominent African-Americans, including Chris Rock, Angela Davis and Guns ‘N Roses’ Slash.
Wednesdays-Sundays. Starts: Feb. 3. Continue…