{mosimage}For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Mel’s Drive-in on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the events of May 13 still don’t register. Goillen was wo
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One day in 1973, Ellen Flanagan, an exemplary stay-at-home Berkeley mom who sewed and cooked and cleaned on demand, packed her husband and two daughters off to work
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a $14 hamburger. And not just a hamburger: Frequently, t
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{mosimage}MOTORIN!
Just when you thought the ’80s revival was starting to chill, the musical Rock of Ages is here to reheat the hesher love. This headbangin&#
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Robot battles, mentalists and Emo Philips.
This doesn’t sound like the upcoming season at the Ahmanson or even the Groundlings.
In two years, the Steve Allen Theat
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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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I recently lived in New York for three months. I missed many things about Los Angeles — mostly its sense of space. I missed the sky, the landscape and the colo
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Every August the Sunset Junction Street Fair marks the end of another long, hot summer with sweaty hugs and dissonant sounds amid the ever-changing shopscape
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Question: When I was looking for burritos in Queens, New York, last year, I noticed that Roosevelt Avenue, under the tracks of the 7 train, had more restaurant
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Illustrations by Joel Kimmel
To read the first part of Beheading
on Mount Baldy, click here.
As Marcia subsequently explained, when she and Judy first moved i
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Photos by Saeed Adyani
The word “homage” is hardly ever used
these days without a sneer. We infer pretension, thinly disguised plagiarism,
lack of
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Marry me a little Love me just enough Cry but not too often Play but not too rough Keep a tender distance So we’ll both be free That’s the way it ought t
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