Patti Smith, Tony Hawk, and Other Celebs Are Performing in L.A. to Fight Climate Change

Los Angeles Magazine 7/18 3:31P Brittany Martin

Musicians, artists, activists, and others will be gathering at the Theater at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on September 16 for a benefit celebration raising money and awareness around climate change. The Pathways to Paris concert will...

Taking a Deep Dive Into the History of L.A.’s Craziest Architecture

Los Angeles Magazine 7/18 1:40P Brittany Martin

If you cruised the streets of Los Angeles in the mid-20th Century, you would have spotted giant hats, dogs, owls, oranges, and pianos along the side of the road—and it would have seemed perfectly...

A Place for All Film Lovers: The Academy Museum’s New Home and Contemporary Art Pedigree

LAWeekly.com (Movies) 7/18 10:39A

Something incredible is unfolding at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax. Through the force of dollar signs, and the indomitable will of Hollywood’s glitterati, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is taking shape, glistening in the Los Angeles...

On-location TV production dips in second quarter, but film shoots rise

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 7/18 10:35A David Ng

The Los Angeles region saw a decline in overall on-location production during the recent second quarter as TV shoots fell while feature film activity saw an uptick. A report published Wednesday by Film L.A. showed that on-location TV shoots...

How a Long Beach Brewery Is Making an Extra-Special Sour Beer

Los Angeles Magazine 7/18 8:52A Los Angeles magazine

Ryan Fields, head, brewer at Long Beach’s Beachwood Blendery , is obsessed with lambics . Fermented with acid-producing airborne microflora and aged in oak barrels for years at a time, the obscure, slightly sour style of Belgian beer is known for...

The idiosyncratic synergy of Thomas Adès and Beethoven at the Hollywood Bowl

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 7/18 8:40A Mark Swed

Having maintained a residence in the Hollywood Hills as a part-time refuge from London, the British composer Thomas Adès can usually be counted on to make at least one annual appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as composer, conductor or...

What Happened to the Famous School for TV Animals?

Los Angeles Magazine 7/18 6:04A Chris Nichols

For answers to more of your burning questions, visit the  Ask Chris  archive. What happened to the famous school in the Valley for movie and TV animals?  From the 1930s until last fall, movie mutts, crime-fighting K-9s, and pampered poodles honed...

Beverly Hills Activists’ Final Hope to Stop the Subway? Trump.

Los Angeles Magazine 7/18 5:24A Neal Broverman

Will a group of Beverly Hills residents be fighting the subway even after trains are running under their city? Considering their dogged resistance to a Purple Line station in Century City—which will require a tunnel be constructed under Beverly...

Kathy Griffin: From the D-List to the Blacklist to the A-List

LAWeekly.com (Arts) 7/18 3:54A

Kicked out of Hollywood and put under investigation by the government and on no-fly lists meant for terrorists after posting a photo on Twitter last year with a "bloody" Trump mask in her hand, comedian Kathy Griffin has recovered amazingly...

A Love Letter to the 110 Freeway

Los Angeles Magazine 7/17 12:08P Thomas Harlander

On a good day, driving the 110 can be lovely. Starting at its terminus in Pasadena and heading south at a mere 50ish miles per hour, you’re grateful that you don’t have to get off at one of those terrifying brake-and-swerve exits as you wind...

Why BeautyCon L.A. Wasn't Such a Beautiful Experience

LAWeekly.com (Arts) 7/17 11:08A

At BeautyCon L.A., the premier cosmetics industry convention held at the Los Angeles Convention Center this past weekend, the thirst for swag bags, star power and selfies was everything, it wasn't always pretty.

Delicious Little Tokyo Is an Inside Look at the Neighborhood’s Fascinating Culinary Heritage

Los Angeles Magazine 7/17 7:54A Lisa Beebe

Food festivals pop up almost every weekend in Los Angeles, but Delicious Little Tokyo sets itself apart. Midori Mizuhara, director of Go Little Tokyo, which organizes the festival, says, “It’s not a parking lot with a bunch of vendor booths. That...

6 California cities singing simultaneously? It's the Master Chorale's 'Big Sing'

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 7/17 7:15A Jessica Gelt

Eric Whitacre, the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s Swan family artist-in-residence, says he’s like that old cola commercial — he wants to teach the world to sing. The whole world. And he’s not joking. But he’ll start with a statewide singing event,...

Three Weavers finds a way to grow without losing its craft beer street cred

LATimes.com (Lifestyle) 7/17 6:40A John Verive

When Golden Road Brewing was acquired by Anheuser-Busch in 2015 , L.A.’s craft beer industry lost its largest brewery to what many consider an enemy of the craft beer ethos. Golden Road was stripped of its independent designation by the Brewers...

Author Ottessa Moshfegh Has Become One of L.A.’s Most Promising New Writers

Los Angeles Magazine 7/17 4:57A Scott Timberg

It s hard to make people care about your book when your characters are not particularly likeable, your settings not especially comfortable, and your plots not terribly dynamic. Somehow (black magic, perhaps?) L.A.-based Ottessa Moshfegh manages...