| | | Cabbies Push Back Against Uber and Lyft BY JOSEPH A. LAPIN  It was a Friday night in June when former Lyft driver Yago Rodriguez picked up four women in Santa Monica outside the Buffalo Club and unknowingly drove his vehicle into a sly game of bumper cars. Rodriguez (who has asked not to be identified by name) was about to pull away from the curb when, he says, a taxi hit his front bumper — the very bumper plastered with Lyft's famous fuzzy pink mustache. "That's when I felt another hit from behind," Rodriguez says. "Another cab had bumped into my rear bumper." Rodriguez says the women started to panic, but he calmed them by saying he would handle it. "So I grabbed my knife, and I got out of the car," Rodriguez says. He walked over to the taxi... more >>
| | | | | | The Drama of Chelsea Wolfe BY CRISTINA BLACK  Chelsea Wolfe is looking at a picture of herself. It's on the cover of the deluxe vinyl version of her new album, which is out this week. She's seeing it now for the first time, sitting at the dining room table at the Echo Park home of her record label, Sargent House. The photo shows her standing in a bright spotlight against a black background, attired in a scorching red vintage dress. She wears... more >> | | | | | | Flores Review: The Food of the Moment, Prepared Expertly in Little Osaka BY BESHA RODELL  During the Renaissance, there must have been some curmudgeon who, looking upon another resplendent painting detailing the Crucifixion, complained, "Yes, yes, all this naturalistic, lifelike classicism is well and good, but how I long for something different." See more Anne Fishbein photos of Flores There's no doubt American food is experiencing a renaissance of sorts. We've come out of the dark a... more >> | | | | | | Brian de Palma on How How His Remake of an Erotic Thriller Is Better Than the Original BY AMY NICHOLSON  Brian De Palma had a good reason for remaking the erotic French thriller Love Crime: He could do it better. "I think it's very dangerous to remake a classic," De Palma says. "Leave it alone." But the 2010 corporate cat-fight flick about female frenemies had a framework he loved — drama, sex, backstabbing, secrets — plus enough wet filler that he could sub out for his trademark De Palm... more >> | | | | | | | | The Informer Because of our deep Mexican American population and heritage, L.A. has pretty much become the mural capital of the United States. Pair that with the global street art explosion centered right he... West Coast Sound Burning Man is happening at this very moment out in the Black Rock desert of northern Nevada. (You can catch our coverage starting Tuesday.) Also noteworthy is the just-released documentary Spark... Public Spectacle When the Guggenheim Museum in New York announced its ambitious Art of the Motorcycle show in 1998, people freaked out, and mostly not in a good way. Skeptics and purists were up in arms that mo... Squid Ink Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we check in with Josiah Citrin, chef/owner of Mélisse in Santa Mon... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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