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May 2009

Cheap Eats: Hawaiian
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Healthful
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Hot Dogs
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Indian
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Japanese
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Korean
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Mexican
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Southeast Asian
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Southern
May 2009

Cheap Eats: That's a Cheap Shot
Hey, big spender, order another round—these lowball drink specials go down easy
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Top Chefs' Two Cents
May 2009

Cheap Eats: World's Fare
Who needs a passport? Last year Noah Galuten, the culinary explorer behind the blog Man Bites World, tried the food of a different country for 102 consecutive days while staying put in Southern California. Here Galuten discusses four less common cuisines that will take your taste buds abroad but leave your cash—most of it, anyway—safe at home
May 2009

Cheap Eats: Caribbean
May 2009

The Sun King

He’s responsible for the Von Dutch fad and now the Ed Hardy craze. How long can fashion designer Christian Audigier reign? PLUS: Go behind the scenes at our over-the-top photo shoot at Audigier's home

May 2009

Unleashed
The house calls, the competitors, the pet owners—trying to succeed in the capital of celebrity dog trainers can be trying, but armed with a technique he calls Doglish, Vladislav Roytapel knows fame will be his. PLUS: Once You Go Russian, Any Dog Will Stop Fussin’! 
May 2009

Arts

What a Gas

At an electrifying new station, an architect looks backward—and forward—to celebrate our love affair with the automobile. PLUS: a slideshow of L.A.'s showiest stations 

April 2009

Over 101 Cheap Eats

An extravagant compendium to frugal dining

April 2009

The Hidden Coast: The Rugged North
April 2009

The Other Recycling Business
Cars fueled with dead cow? That’s what Jim Andreoli has in mind, and he’s building a huge biodiesel plant near downtown to prove it
April 2009

Mister L.A.

City council member Tom LaBonge is out of another era. To him the job is about constituent services and public cheerleading. But don’t underestimate him. Just ask Bob Barker, Lily Tomlin, and Cher

April 2009

Pit Boss
Our Love Affair With the Avocado
April 2009

The Hidden Coast: The Sunny South
April 2009

The Hidden Coast
Two staffers set off along 700 miles of shoreline in search of something different, something beyond the familiar magic of Laguna and Santa Barbara. They found it, too: ten affordable retreats, from one-horse hamlets to briny workaday neighborhoods, where you can put your mind at ease and relax as the slow-tempo waves dissolve into white noise and foam. Plus: Watch the slideshow 
March 2009

Fat BurgersCentury
How The Snyder Family Has Kept In-N-Out Hot for Half a Century
March 2009

Distress Test

Planning a wedding and buying a home in the same year? Is she cuckoo? Eager to find a house for under $400K in L.A.’s topsy-turvy real estate market, first-time buyer Lesley Bargar found the road to Happily Ever After paved with stiff competition on even the most forlorn foreclosed homes. PLUS: A price guide that tells you how much your house is worth right now

March 2009

Feature Shock
Forty years after he helped create the Internet, Leonard Kleinrock predicts what’s next: smart rooms, talking toasters, and visiting one another by telepresence
March 2009

Winging It

My Year of Looking for the Insanely Beautiful, Life-Changing Birds of Los Angeles. PLUS: The Primer: Bird-Watching

February 2009

Flour Power
Craving bear claws or baklava? Macarons or macaroons? A sturdy rye or an ethereal challah? Here are L.A.’s top 20 bakeries
February 2009

The Critics
Every film critic is at heart a film enthusiast. Their barbed observations and disparaging insights spring not from disdain but devotion. If they didn’t care so much—if they hadn’t always cared so much—they wouldn’t get so worked up when a movie fails to deliver. Many of the nation’s best critics live in Los Angeles. We spoke to six of them about their unabashed love of the cinema.
February 2009

The Revivalists
Cinefamily is determined to make film geeks of everyone
January 2009

LA's Best New Restaurants
It was the year of neighborhood joints and brasseries. The cloth napkin was replaced by the folded dish towel, the plush booth gave way to the communal table, the tasting menu succumbed to the power of a single dish, and beer became the new pour. These ten newcomers helped dining reclaim its place as a cornerstone of our daily lives.
January 2009

The Arbiter
Other ‘Best’ lists are child’s play compared with Daniel Waters’s annual rankings
January 2009

Lens Master
His images—from the works of Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler to Albert Frey, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Case Study House architects—have defined Los Angeles since 1936 and exported the city’s mythology to the world. In 36 exposures, we tell the life story in words and pictures of the charming, brilliant, and cantankerous architectural photographer Julius Shulman
January 2009

Postscript: Bike Culture
Cyclists are feeling empowered by the results of the March 3 primary election, in which six candidates were running for Jack Weiss’s 5th District seat on the city council. BikingLA blogger Ted Rogers had asked the candidates to provide a statement on bike-related issues. Among the four responses he received —all of them heavily linked among cycle-centric sites—Vehedi’s demonstrated the greatest familiarity with and sympathy to the challenges cyclists face. He also took in 60 more votes than the man he will be facing in the May runoff, Paul Koretz, who provided no statement. Did Vahedi’s cycling smarts efforts make the difference? Who knows, but they’re indicative of the city’s growing cycling movement. Matthew Segal wrote about the city’s growing ranks of riders who have embraced the bicycle as a way to better the city—and their own lives—in January 2007.
December 2008

Hanging by a Thread
Louis Verdad was going to be the next fashion designer to put L.A. on the map. Patronage from Madonna, orders from department stores around the globe, and personal encouragement from Anna Wintour boosted Verdad’s profile. He could have been the next Rick Owens or Juicy Couture. Instead, his business went belly-up. What went wrong?
December 2008

The New Deals: 66 Great Places to Shop in LA
Great Shops, Cheap ThrillsWant to become a stealth buyer? Let us help. At these stores we’ve scoped out the most appealing items at the best prices
December 2008

The Talented Mr. Raywood (Part II)
Interior designer Craig Raywood's clients included an A-list producer and the reigning realtor to the stars. His West Hollywood bungalow was a showplace. There was only one problem—he ripped off almost everyone with whom he did business, from high-end antiques dealers to the local pharmacist. The scams have caught up with him—what will happen next?
November 2008

Chow Fun: Noodles
In the November issue we explore all the things we love about Asian food, from steamed dumplings to silken tofu, plus 11 of the scariest proteins we could find (live octopus tentacles anyone?). Want to get a sampling? Here’s our guide to L.A.’s oodles of Asian noodles as well as our favorite places to slurp them.
November 2008

Chow Fun: Produce  
A shadow army of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and fungi makes up the tastes and textures of Asian cuisine
November 2008

Let it Reign
Resort collections, which land in stores each November, used to be all about clothing to pack for warm-weather vacations. We opted for a staycation theme in our November fashion spread, making use of one of the city's most exotic nooks: Chinatown.
November 2008

The Burning Wind
Every autumn the Santa Anas come howling in from the desert. Impossible to predict, they have eluded definition by the scientists who study them. No wonder the winds put us on edge. They push tempers toward violence, while initiating L.A.’s cataclysmic wildfire season under crystalline skies. The Santa Anas are now upon us. How severe L.A.’s wildfires will eventually turn out to be still waits on the wind.
November 2008

The Talented Mr. Raywood
Interior designer Craig Raywood is gifted and glamorous. His clients included an A-list producer and the reigning realtor to the stars. His West Hollywood bungalow was a showplace. There was only one problem—he ripped off almost everyone with whom he did business, from high-end antiques dealers to the local pharmacist. In part one of the story, we detail the designer's scams and set the stage for his several days in court. Part one of a two-part series 
November 2008

Chow Fun: Scary Meats
Squirmy, Squishy, or Stinging, These Proteins Are What’s For Dinner
October 2008

From Hot... To Not
Long-term couples aren’t the only people who see their passion fade over time; the change is just more noticeable
October 2008

The Don Juan of Our Time
A clever move? A foolproof line? A hidden power? For 25 years, the author has wanted to know how
his high school classmate, David Spade, became the world’s greatest ladies’ man
October 2008

My Life As a Very Naughty Boy
Writer Joel Stein sets out to expand his horizons—or at least pick up a trick or two—in the city’s erogenous zones
August 2008

Death on Terminal Island
Over four years, 74 people have died while being held by immigration officials. Victoria Arellano was one
July 2008

Downtown 2.0: Santee Alley
Is Santee Alley L.A.’s most fashion-forward shopping strip?
June 2008

Pirate's Booty

An ex-Jack Sparrow spills on life at the Magic Kingdom

June 2008

Project Runway
LAX is in desperate need of help. Can this woman save it?
June 2008

What I Really Want to Do Is Design

They can’t sketch, drape, or sew, but celebrities do have opinions on fashion. How clothing lines went from dowdy to dynamite for a new flock of A-listers

June 2008

WE’RE HONORED!
Recent stories chosen for special recognition from the pages of  Los Angeles magazine
June 2008

Article

Carnal Knowledge
A new documentary investigates Roman Polanski’s arrest for rape and its aftermath
May 2008

Sex and the Mag

How Los Angeles has fared on screens big and small

May 2008

Ripped from the Headlines
Times Editors Speak Out
April 2008

Free for All
The Rough-and-Tumble World of Giving and Grabbing on Craigslist
April 2008

The Mayor and His Mistress
Mirthala Salinas on the affair that rocked LA
January 2008

The 800th Plate
The fine line between quantity and quality in Spago's kitchen
December 2007

23 Reasons Why a Profile of Pete Carroll Does Not Appear in This Space
There are plenty of things you don't know about USC football coach Pete Carroll
October 2007

Adam Carolla
Inside the revved-up, pissed-off brain of Adam Carolla, Los Angeles's most provocative talk-radio host
October 2007

Rocket Man
Elon Musk doesn't just want to revolutionize space travel. He wants to save humankind from extinction
October 2007

The Constant Gardener

Despite being HIV positive for 17 years, his partner was the cheerful one, the rational half, the nurturer. Now, after 24 years together, the roles were reversed

June 2007

Casualties of War
Ninety-three armed services members from Los Angeles County have been killed in Iraq. As Jim and Kathi Leon too well know, these are not the conflict’s only victims
May 2007

The Test of Their Lives

Coach Moore, Ace Bunny, and the nerds of Watts take on L.A.'s toughest academic challenge

April 2006

What’s a Dog Worth?

Los Angeles kills more animals in its shelters than any other metropolitan area in the United States. For that to change, we will have to figure out what to do with the pets none of us want

September 2001

Article

Hollywood’s Information Man
He knows the movie business as well as anyone, and when he talks, studio chiefs listen. He’s Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart, and he lives in curious coexistence with the industry he covers
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