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Entries from LAist tagged with 'thefrench'

February 4, 2008

Barney's Beanery gets rocks the vote. Kind of. RED, WHITE AND BEER If you didn't get enough beer yesterday, Barney's Beanery in Santa Monica is hosting a "Super Tuesday Countdown Beer Vote" today and tomorrow. Alcoholics Drinkers vote for their favorite candidates by choosing which tap to draw their $3 beer from. They'll be serving up plenty of Hillarys and Obamas for sure. A running total will be announced as the votes are tallied.......

Continue Reading "Pencil This In: Monday "

December 1, 2007

Reporting is tough. Transcribing is tough. Transcribing live on tee vee is totally tough especially if there's a damn fire raging. Recently a captioner working for KABC made a mistake that Snopes confirmed to be true. Live broadcasts can present captioners with additional problems: Multiple speakers may talk at the same time, external noise may render some speech inaudible or otherwise difficult to understand, and some words and phrases used by speakers may be......

Continue Reading "KABC's Captioner Makes an Oopsie "

May 26, 2006

Paris, 2010. The French government, plum out of ideas about what to do with its crime-ridden housing projects, has surrounded them with a high concrete wall topped by razor wire. Drugs have taken over the ghetto. Except for one apartment block, where wiry Leïto is fighting to keep the nasty dudes at bay — even if it means stealing a load of cocaine and washing it down the tub. That's when la merde really......

Continue Reading "Banlieue 13: Bust Out the Biceps"

April 14, 2006

We assume that you have places to go and things to do. You are undaunted by rain. You will not, we're sure, be staying home for a double feature of '80s DVD. Like, say, To Live and Die in LA (complete with theme song by the incomparable Wang Chung) and Beverly Hills Cop (with theme song by the Pointer Sisters). But just in case, we have to tell you that these two movies, awful in......

Continue Reading "Everybody Wang Chung tonight"

December 30, 2005

The National Film Preservation Board on Tuesday announced the next 25 films that were being added to the National Film Registry. Here’s the selection that makes us want to jump up and order a pizza in the middle of our posting: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. No matter how hard he tries to distance himself from the role, Sean Penn’s ultimate surfer-slacker dude Jeff Spicoli has now joined a cast of memorable characters from......

Continue Reading "Spicoli heads the class"

September 21, 2005

WEDNESDAY • The best selling duo of all time—Hall & Oates—perform tonight at the Greek Theatre at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $29-65. • The Black Keys, SSM and Mad Man Moon are on tonight at the Galaxy Theatre at 8 PM. Tickets are $15. • AFI at ArcLight presents a special screening of The French Connection tonight at 8 PM. • A limited number of tickets are available for the LA premiere of David......

Continue Reading "Private Eyes"

September 20, 2005

Next weekend brings two major foodie events to Los Angeles! Saturday September 24: 23rd Annual American Wine & Food Festival Wolfgang Puck and restaurant designer Barbara Lazaroff host this annual festival at the Universal Studios back-lot in Universal City. Some of the big-name participants include: Mario Batali of Babbo, Bobby Flay of Mesa Grill, Nobu Matsuhisa of Nobu and Sam Choy of Sam Choy, along with sixty vinters and their products. Admission to this......

Continue Reading "Some Big Time Food and Wine"

December 13, 2004

The Food Section.com has published a report on a book signing by Thomas Keller at LACMA by their chef-correspondent Kristin Franklin, a recent Los Angeles transplant. On Friday, November 12, 2004, Los Angeles Times food writer and author Russ Parsons interviewed superchef Thomas Keller, owner of The French Laundry and Bouchon restaurants, as a supplement at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's latest art exhibit "From Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan......

Continue Reading "No LA Per Se"

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