From the Editor
I RECENTLY unearthed a pile of childhood drawings my parents had saved. This particular batch dates to 1976, when I was six years old and enrolled in a summer art class at Hollywood High. My classmates were teenagers, and the assignment, if memory serves, was to create movie posters. I was an avid film fan even then, with a cinematic diet that consisted largely of whatever my older siblings were consuming, which was a lot of R-rated stuff. That explains why my art class portfolio didn’t feature Benji the dog but brutal scenes from Rollerball and The Exorcist. My homage to The Omen would have been rejected by Highlights magazine: With crayons I drew a smiling photographer being decapitated by a flying shard of glass… Read
Features:
10 Hometown Getaways
Sometimes you need a nudge to recognize what’s right under your nose. Take a break without even buying an airplane ticket with these staycations, designed for every kind of traveler
In the Footsteps of a Killer
By Michelle McNamara
One of the most violent criminals in California history was never caught—and might still be out there. As an ice-cold case heats up again, one L.A. crime blogger joins the manhunt
The Castle on the Hill
By Ann Herold
It’s the largest Craftsman residence in the United States, built as an immigrant’s Hollywood dream house. Its current owner has spent 25 years quietly reviving all 13,000 square feet of it
The Zen Master of Beef
By David Hochman
The most coveted restaurant reservation in town is at a tiny, no-frills space on Pico Boulevard. Why do diners go to great lengths to get inside? The meat dishes of owner Kaz Oyama
WEB EXTRA: Read a Q&A with David Hochman
(Buzz)
CityThink
Just in time for the election: the ABCs of the city’s government
L.A. Archetype
A location scout who’s a scholar of scenery
Ask Chris
Chris Nichols takes in a burlesque show
L.A. Story
The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons on dumb myths
The Seen
All the parties fit to crash
How L.A. Works
The power behind wind turbines
(Shop)
Spring Fashion 2013
Rocking the season’s head-to-toe white ensembles and glamming up a classic caftan; nails go pop, and handbags put on a peep show
The Land of Ahhs
New Girl’s Hannah Simone shines in our own Emerald City—the former estate of wizardly designer Tony Duquette—in glittering gowns from the latest crop of next-big-thing designers
WEB EXTRA: See behind-the-scenes footage from our fashion shoot
(Eat)
Small Bites
Buttery biscuits are a crumbly craze, and Lou Amdur applauds valdiguié PLUS: New restaurants Littlefork, the Morrison, Bedford & Burns, and Maccheroni Republic
The Dine Review
Josef Centeno is back home, focusing on the Tex-Mex flavors of his childhood at Bar Amá.Patric Kuh crosses the border with him
(Do)
Culture Files
Writer Marisa Silver finds a novel in a vintage photo; an L.A. label signs on to the gender-bending sounds of Rhye; Vicente Fernández says good-bye; and scenes from the front lines come to the Annenberg plus: Breaking up is fun to do at Ex(it) Wounds
The Guide
What to do this month, from testifying with the Harlem Gospel Choir to putting soles on the street for the marathon
(Columns)
Open City
By Anne Taylor Fleming
Keeping friendships alive in L.A. is partly a matter of geography
Cut!
By Nicole LaPorte
Moviefone founder David Freedman enlists students as critics for his show Just Seen It
Well-Being
By Ben Kallen
Practitioners of mindfulness believe in-the-moment thinking is beneficial to your health
Film
By Steve Erickson
Artistic responsibility is knowing films can do more than inspire
