Kevin Kelly

It's taken us years of research, miles of plates, and yards of waistbands to figure this out, but folks, we have found him (or her, but this her happens to be a him). The Best Waiter in Los Angeles (tm). It's not easy being a waiter, especially in this town where about 99% of the waitstaff population are so busy trying to get that guest role on "Two and Half Men" that they don't...

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Over the holiday weekend, while most people were watching Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning flee from aliens, LAist visited a new day spa in Santa Monica, and had a very earthly experience. The Willow Spa in Santa Monica is housed in a fully restored and refurbished California style bungalow that at one time was home to both a beauty salon, and a gun shop. At the same time. Only in Los Angeles, right? "Hi...

This past Thursday LAist had the pleasure of wandering a sort of semi-timewarp at the M Bar. Stepping from 2005 into the 1940s, we watched the wonder that is "The Thrilling Adventure and Supernatural Suspense Hour". Stuck in a strip mall, although surprisingly anachronistic on the inside, the M Bar is a perfect venue for this show. Several local actors and comedians take part on the first Thursday of every month in this form...

And by that we don't mean that Jason Vorhees popped up during the night, nor did the Blair Witch underwhelm us with hype. This was far more insidious, and really left us with a foul taste in our mouths. Memorial Day Weekend - a long-standing holiday tradition for this weekend involves "getting out of town". Traveling somewhere. Hitching up your skirts and moseying down the lane. You get it. For this auspicious occasion we...

What's the buzz at the water cooler these days? Of course the water cooler was beaten to death (no pun intended) with the happenings of PopeGate 2005, and then we seemed to quickly burn through the "hot at the moment" rumors of Dave Chappelle going mental, checking into a hospital, fleeing to Mars, take your pick. But now, no one can escape THE REVENGE OF THE SITH. Every local place LAist has stopped in...

Three coins, and no fountain in sight, which is good for us because LAist recently attended the opening night of The Threepenny Opera at the Open Fist Theatre, and we are happy to let you know that Mackie is definitely back in town. Written by Bertolt Brecht and first performed in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera broke box-office records during that run, and managed to do the same again when it ran from...

LAist caught David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell last night in Royce Hall on the UCLA campus, and was happy to renew our stock of wry, witty, and cynical humor. Both are favorites of the NPR scene, frequent contributors to "This American Life" (although Sedaris got his start on "Morning Edition"), and authors as well - Sedaris with several books out already, and Vowell with her fourth book just published, "Assassination Vacation". Vowell also provided...

LAist made the mistake of tuning in to Fox's Kelsey Grammer presents: The Sketch Show (they might want to trim that title...or the whole show) last night, and we will forever be longing to have those wasted 30 minutes returned to our lives. Apparently someone at Fox had the brilliant idea that this successful British comedy show in the vein of "Monty Python" and "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" could survive an American version, but...

With today's release of Disney/Pixar's "The Incredibles" on DVD, LAist finds ourselves wondering what sort of a hero Los Angeles would get. Metropolis has Superman, Gotham City has Batman, and if memory serves, New York has Spiderman, the Fantastic Four, and a slew of others. Why does Los Angeles get the short straw? We're the second largest city in the nation, yet we get snubbed when it comes to a super-powered savior? The closest...