Television has been getting a much-needed makeover this year,
thanks in part to the advent of new portable video-playing devices. The networks
are scrambling to jump
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The Mentones at Club Tropical, March 3
These guys are my homeys, and they are the shit — angular modjazz surgically
implanted into James Cotton’s brain a
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Illustration by J.T. Steiny
1. Frozen ham foam. The menu at Bastide, Los Angeles’ best French restaurant, famously veered from the Provençal stylings o
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Photos by Caroline Ryder
I don’t normally start drinking when the sun rises.
After all, only alcoholics and insomniacs need a tall one — and not t
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FRIDAY, December 23 That night when they took off from Nazareth, it was crisp and cool, but Mary
said, “Joseph, take a sweater. For our-immaculate- birth-
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You can’t exactly ignore the central device of the CBS sitcom
How I Met Your Mother: It kicks off each show. We see a couple of bored-looking
kids from the yea
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The East Coast vs. West Coast beef is so jerky now, baby. Paper magazine has invaded LA, and its founders Kim Hastreiter and David Herskovitz have planned a week of
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Danger Mouse’s sprawling loft ensconced deep in downtown Los
Angeles is hardly the kind of crib that’s expected of the modern music-production
wunde
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Come back, Mike Kinsley. You can even cart back your wacky Wiki-torials
and unsigned, format-breaking and often irrelevant rants. All is forgiven.
Much of the shiny
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Photo by Bill RobensI spoke by phone last week with playwright/musician Bill Robens, who was in Bishop, California, preparing for the second and final show of the tw
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Costume designer Ann Closs-Farley is in the basement of the
Evidence Room theater holding up a little orphan “Annie dress,” as she calls
it, made fr
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Photo by Anne FishbeinI have tasted suckling pig whose skin was so crisp that it shattered in the mouth like spun sugar, and suckling pig so tender that the waiter o
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