Mastro, Arnie Morton's, Wolfgang's, BLT Steak, Ruth's Chris, the Palm — the city is awash in expense-account steak, empurpled slabs of rare, prime beef
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Every blue moon Redondo Beach beckons: There's the bike ride along the Pacific to Venice for lunch and back. And then there are the mai tais at Old Tony's Ba
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Two stories below Broadway, beneath the ceaseless hustle and/or bustle, there’s a ballroom in the belly of the Los Angeles Theatre. When it’s an empty belly, eve
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Big hair, bigger egos, vapid groupies, never-ending guitar solos, spandex — there’s much to mock when it comes to ’80s-era metal, especially the brand of hairs
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Comic book geek or hip alt-comedy scenesters? The line is pretty blurred on the fourth Friday of the month at Meltdown Comics. That’s when the back room stays open
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When repenting is due after a weekend of rule-breaking, head to the hills for Griffith Park’s composting workshops. On the fourth Saturday of every month, the park
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Like a cleft apricot, the logo of Fred 62 diner sits above a stretch of Vermont Avenue pavement in Los Feliz, where the smoking, chattering masses talk too much and
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Last year, Grand Avenue Festival visitors made downtown L.A. seem almost citylike for a day. And it's happening all over again this year — music, dance, t
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Lyricist John Strand and composer Dennis McCarthy's new musical opens with the cast singing “God save your hat!” — an ode to an outmoded access
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Still a little stunned by this one. I suppose we can chalk this up as some minor triumph to the power of the media, at a time when the Fourth Estate isn't exact
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On Saturday September 13, hundreds of Pee-wee fans from across Los Angeles gathered over picnic baskets and bottles of wine on the lawn of Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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Yosi Sergant is not the type of publicist one sees on TV. The 32-year-old environmentalist rides his bike everywhere — he gave up his Mitsubishi clunker a few year
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