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Lou - What's Lou? Lou is a cozy, convivial wine bar located in Hollywood. Our obsessions: natural winegrowing, indigenous grape varieties, and the characterful wines produced by old vines. We enjoy offering our customers unique wines that are expr
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Off Vine Restaurant Fire: 'You could feel the heat taking over'
On this evening's earlier story about the fire at Off Vine, a reader posted their experience in the comments section: I was eating here with my family and friends for the first time after attending the play Wicked. The waiter had cleared our plates and we heard commotion on in the kitchen. I…
The Amazing Car-Free Party at Wilshire Center
Today, Car Culture got a kick in the shin as the Wilshire Center Cool District celebrated Earth Day by shutting down several blocks of Wilshire Boulevard around Wilshire Center to car traffic and providing a case study of what a car free street means to L
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GalleyCat Meets Fishbowl LA...for Dinner
It was the Festival of Book's weekend. What better place than a restaurant that's a little shout out to the written word. Our waiter wasn't a writer - but he was self-loathing - so there's something! Pictured is Ron Hogan of our sister blog GalleyCat and Tina Dupuy of (ahem) here. New…
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Off Vine Restaurant 'Heavily Damaged in Aggressive Firefight'
Off Vine is located at 6263 Leland Ave. in Hollywood | View Larger Map A fire reported at the address of Off Vine Restaurant on Leland Ave. in Hollywood has left the building with heavy fire damage after a 34 minute aggressive firefight, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman…
blogdowntown: 'Skid Row' Documentary a Must See for Downtown Residents
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Hal and the Carob Bean Queen Incident
Hal was working on his third date with Sylvia. He was frankly surprised that things had progressed this far, necking like a couple of high school kids on her sofa while an easy rock station serenaded them on the radio. Hal rarely made it beyond two dates with any woman. Sylvia broke the embrace to…
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Filled up
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Dodgers Sweep the Rockies in the 10th Inning
This is going to be brief. I am lucky to be alive after 3 hours in scorching 90+ degree heat, and my very last ounce of energy will be used to get these photos up before I pass out. Literally. The Dodgers started Loaiza, which is usually a death sentence but today he only gave up two…
Extra, Extra: Prepare for the Cool
Bearlicious, by kpe II via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr. Home plate Kerwin Danley, who took a 96 mph Brad Penny heater off the face mask during last night's Dodger game --and briefly lost consciousness -- has been released from the hospital. Dodgers medical personnel accompanied him…
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Now Playing on Reason.tv: Food Fight: Battle of the Bacon Dogs
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Mika Miko & No Age at the Downtown Public Library 04/20/08
Sunday afternoon marked yet another turn in what has come to be a rather unpredictable career for the Randy Randall and Dean Spunt. The Los Angeles-based duo—who formed No Age after the demise of hardcore punk rockers the Wives—are not only known for their experimental noise rock…
Week Around the Ists
Photo by Cy Goldsbie Torontoist kept its readers in the know during a surprise transit strike—it was announced by the workers' union just after 11:00 p.m. on Friday night, and went into effect by midnight—with a continually- updated status post.Gothamist readers commented extensively on…
Book Review: The Book of Lost Things
My new favorite book is the intriguingly titled The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. It was one of those titles that called to me from a library shelf, and the story has stuck with me so much that I went out and bought it this past week to read again. Connolly is normally a…
JOIE DE VIVRE FINDS ROOM TO GROW / After weathering tumultuous times, Chip Conley's hotel company looks beyond the Bay Area and seriously pursues food and drink
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Classical Pick of the Week: I Want "Nunavut"
the Kronos Quartet performing "Lux Aeterna" The Kronos Quartet is a highly regarded avant-garde string quartet, recognized outside of classical music circles for their collaborations with artists including David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado, and playing on soundtracks…
New round of evacuations as Calif. wildfire creeps closer - Yahoo! News
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Eye Nosh: Salad at Milk
LAist Featured Photos pool contributor pink_fish13 ordered up the Farmer's Market Salad from Milk. With all those tantalizing ice cream concoctions on their menu it's tough to remember that not only do they serve meals there, but they have fresh, light fare, like this salad which is dotted…
CD Review: Jef Stott - "Saracen"
Artist: Jef Stott Album: Saracen Label: Six Degrees Records Release Date: 04/22/2008 Listen to "Lamaset (Miami Mix)": Jef Sott is the multiimstrumentalist cofoundeder of SF-based bands Lumin and Stellamara - Saracen is his first full-length solo effort. Featuring his virtuosity on Arab and…
Tonight in Rock: The Fuxedos
The Fuxedos | Photo by Josh Burian-Mohr via MySpace Spaceland is hosting a night of comedy with America's Funnyman, Neil Hamburger, headlining, but also of exciting and strange interest is The Fuxedos (if you like music that's bordering on plushie and scary clowns and sounds "whacky," but…
Outdoor Living Rooms' Bring Touches of Cheer to Central Los Angeles
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Top 10: Stupid is as stupid does
Stupidity, Manichaeism, self-loathing, pedantry and self-absorption: You folks must have been feeling some serious mid-spring irritation this week, because those were the themes in the five Opinion stories you liked the most. And the second five, a wretched den of...
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Clotilde is coming to L.A.!
Are you a fan of the blog Chocolate and Zucchini? Who isn't? I stopped by the Alliance Francaise's booth at the LA Times book fair yesterday and heard that they're hosting a talk and signing for Clotilde's new book Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris. I'm not sure if she'll be appearing…
Pencil This In: Sunday
Photo by Sundogg via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr ART Catch one of the last nights of the 3rd annual benefit art show, Power in Numbers 3. All artists have done their work on 5" x 7" cards and are donating 20% of their profits to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. So many great…
High on Books
Yesterday was glorious. Today is likely to be more glorious still. (If you live in LA, you still have time to get over there. Or tune in right this minute to hear good stuff like blogfather Marc Cooper moderating a panel on C-SPAN Books) My panel, moderated by Jill Leovy (The Homocide…
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This Week's Most Commented & Recommended
What a week: FO2 Burger & Frites by Caroline on Crack; Muffin top by Malingering; Alice Cooper by Elise Thompson When you read something you like on LAist, we love it when you hit the "recommend" button, and we love it even more if you put your two cents' worth in the comments. Getting…
Maid in the USA - A Visit to Royal/T - Anime News Network
Partly inspired by the dozens of maid cafés in Toyko's (in)famous Akihabara district, Royal/T serves as a café, art gallery and retail shop, each space infused with the sensibilities and eccentricities of modern Japanese<sep/>
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Surreal Sites for Wasting Time at Work
We always knew Jon was a loser, I mean, he was hanging out with Garfield. But the surreal Garfield Minus Garfield paints a picture of a shockingly depressed and delusional Jon. Even cats as annoying as Garfield are some people's only handhold on their sanity. Miss Lethal was naturally…
'Late Late Show' Host Craig Ferguson Dishes At White House Correspondents Dinner
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29-Day Giving Challenge: Day 13 — Greenopia to Desdemona
[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days] This should’ve gone up yesterday, but I got home too late…. My friend Desdemona had a housewarming party last night, and my gift was a copy of Greenopia so she could start life in her new home a lil more eco – …
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Howard Stern regular dies and nobody hears
If a Howard Stern sidekick drops dead and nobody hears about it, is he really dead? Well, it's happened, but who would know? Or care? Gosh, has it really been that long since Howard was relevant-- or even real? For you younger readers growing up in an aural wasteland dominated by the…
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The Least Exciting Strip Club in Hollywood
I think it was the old posters outside the Seventh Veil on Sunset that first caught my eye. The women in them, presumably featured to tantalize the viewer and cause him or her to enter the club, were straight out of Porky’s Revenge. The hair was teased, the thongs were high, and the…