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Thanks to this post from Midtown Lunch, we were notified of a restaurant in Manhattan called Fresh N Fast, a New York burger joint that touts itself as "a FRESH NEW FACE in the fast food industry. Fresh, all natural beef patties. Fresh hand cut fries, made daily. The only thing frozen is the real ice cream in our shakes!" Intrigued by this fresh concept, we hopped on the next flight out of LAX to...

You'll have three opportunities to see the St. Petersburg String Quartet this week. We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you a few newsworthy highlights: Dawn Upshaw returns to the Ojai Music Festival as the Music Director for the 2011 season and is bringing in the likes of Peter Sellars, Richard Tognetti, and Maria Schneider. You can check out the program here. Lost Vivaldi concerto found in....Scotland? It's a flute concerto though, so...

This is an excerpt from Messiaen's Turangalila, which you can catch this weekend at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, featured in this clip. No, there's no such thing as "Pianofest" in LA, but if you take a look at the schedule this week, you'll see why. Dudamel and Ax are still performing the Beethoven with a concert this afternoon at 2 PM (if you're reading this, you're probably too late...

Photo by Amy Sheridan If you felt like you took the weather for granted before this week's rainpacolypse, here's your chance to make up for it. This Saturday afternoon, Cube Marketplace is opening up their downtown location for a rooftop barbecue to support the Cube Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving dietary habits, clean-food access and nutritional knowledge among underprivileged LA-area children and their families. Bay Area brands Fatted Calf Charcuterie and Rancho...

The LA Times Roundtable Series is holding a session with the LA Phil's Music Director Dudamel and LA Opera's Placido Domingo. Although tickets are unavailable, the website says that if additional tickets are released, then the website will update immediately. Tickets are free so check it often if you want to go. The second year with Dudamel as the LA Phil's Music Director is even more jam packed and fun-filled than last season, with...

For once, you can drive to Santa Clarita for a taste of San Francisco instead of driving through it. This Tuesday, the San Francisco Opera is playing on the big screen their current production of Madame Butterfly, at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center. Not only will you save on gas, you'll save on tickets as well. Good seats for the SFOpera run between 88 and 210 dollars, and the most expensive seats at...

We return to our regularly scheduled programming to announce the opening of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's 2010-2011 season, this Saturday and Sunday. One of the most well known violinists in the world, Leila Josefowicz, is to perform the Prokofiev Violin Concerto no. 1 with the orchestra, along with conductor...

f you're unfamiliar with Orchestra Unleashed, here are a few clips from a recent concert titled "Mirrors of the Soul". This week is your last chance to catch the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl this season...

LA Times blog Culture Monster takes a sneak peak at a new production featuring the Bolshoi and OCPAC. Titled "Reflections", you can see it in Costa Mesa from January 20th-23rd, or in Moscow January 27th-30th. The Los Angeles based troupe Diavolo was recently profiled by the New York TImes, and will premiere a new work by John Adams NEXT Thursday at the Bowl. This Thursday, you can check out Leonard Bernstein's opera, Candide. This...

Tired of spending your Saturday nights in crowded restaurants/packed locales (or at home reading instruction manuals, not that we do this too often)? Why not try a concert? Since the number of tickets and seats are already set, you won't worry about getting packed into a place like sardines. If you're in Los Angeles....John Williams returns to the Bowl to conduct music from the Golden age of Hollywood and a few of his own...