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It’s arguable that New York’s Sunday in Brooklyn makes the best pancakes in New York. Now, it’s arguable that the same team makes the best pancakes in L.A.  The cult-classic stack comes smothered in a hazelnut, maple and praline blend that borders more on sweet-savory lava than sauce or syrup, and as of Friday, you can find it at the base of Downtown’s new Hoxton Hotel. That’s because the Sunday in Brooklyn team just launched their latest eatery on the ground floor of the Broadway hotel, and while the menu at Sibling Rival is entirely different from their Williamsburg hit, the Sunday Pancakes are one of two items that crossed the country—fitting, because what’s a modern diner without pancakes? Bright, brass-accented and marble-adorned, Sibling Rival looks far from the L.A. diner icons we know and love, but take a closer look and you’ll see the resemblance: the long countertop with stools that overlook the open kitchen; tabletop silverware-and-napkin caddies (albeit new and stylish ones); an all-day menu that serves breakfast staples well until midnight; and, in lieu of a rotating pie case, Sibling Rival’s daily pies circulate the restaurant via pie cart that comes straight to your table.   The cult-classic Sunday in Brooklyn pancake Photograph: Stephanie Breijo   Executive chef John Taube’s turkey club comes smothered with sprouts and pickled carrots and miso mustard on marbled rye, his reuben is made with wood-roasted rutabaga, and his fried-chicken plate come

You might reach for your gazpacho and wind up caught in a spat between a murderous photographer and an undead “glamour girl,” or Charles Manson might recruit you to join the Family by the time the braised short ribs hit the table. Elizabeth Short, dahlia flowers in her hair, will welcome you to dinner, and if Richard Ramirez sketches something terrible on the back of your menu, it’s best to just smile and nod. After all, you wouldn’t want to upset one of your hosts when your hosts are, well, the most nefarious serial killers in L.A. history. To Live and Di(n)e in L.A. dinners come but two or three times a year, each an immersive-theater deep dive into the darker corners of Los Angeles that unfolds over a coursed meal and themed playlist. Over two hours, surrounded by 30-or-so guests and five or six actors playing murderers and victims, you’re just as likely to let Manson and his free-love lackey, Susan Atkins, draw an “X” on your forehead as you are to question how—and why—we’ve become culturally obsessed with true crime.  “People can go to a theme park, people can go to a haunted house and really disengage from the world, but I feel people are just interested in something that’s a little bit more dangerous and a little bit darker,” says Matt Dorado, the visionary behind L.A.’s dark-hearted events company, Drunken Devil. “I think there’s just a morbid curiosity that’s being pushed out of people by the trouble that we’re facing in reality.” Dorado and Drunken Devil capitali

We wish we could view the world through the eyes of Lisa Frank if it means seeing everything as rainbow-winged unicorns and neon, jumping dolphins. Well, this fall our sparkly sticker book fantasy may come true as the whimsical ’90s school supply brand is taking over a hotel pop-up in Downtown L.A. Photograph: Courtesy Hotels.com   The Lisa Frank Flat is plastering a DTLA penthouse with all things rainbow and heart-shaped this month, and you—yes, you, leopard lunch box-carrying, peace sign pencil case-toting Lisa Frank fan—can spend a night there. Starting this Friday, October 11, you can book the Lisa Frank Flat through Hotels.com. Assuming you can snag a reservation, you’ll be looking at a rate of $199 for dates from October 11 to 27. Considering it’s just the one room, though, and not an entire hotel, we’d expect it’ll be booked up faster than you can get on a slap bracelet. We’ve studied the released images of the room with as much focus as we used to stare at the purple-and-white seal on our binder, and so we’ve noticed some dazzlingly tacky, eye-popping details that would’ve been at home in any dream room from the ’90s: a neon unicorn sign, a light-up canopy over the bed, candy-colored leopard and zebra prints, lots of velvety surfaces and an aquatic-themed bathroom with that recognizable pair of dolphins and their interlocking tails. Photograph: Courtesy Hotels.com Photograph: Courtesy Hotels.com Photograph: Courtesy Hotels.com Photograph: Co

You don't have to build your own meth lab to go full Walter White. This month, the team that brought us pop-up restaurants inspired by Good Burger, Saved by the Bell and 90210 is launching a temporary restaurant and bar that dives into the world of everyone's favorite chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin. Expect tableside nachos composed by servers in hazmat suits at the Breaking Bad Experience, which hits West Hollywood on October 16th in promotion of the show's latest continuation, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. There'll be photo ops from all five seasons, Walt and Jesse's RV, and even chemistry-reactive cocktails that you can blend yourself (yeah science).  “It’s exciting to be able to give the folks who supported the show for all these years the chance to experience Walt’s world firsthand,” Breaking Bad creator, Vince Gilligan, says in a news release. Not to be confused with the Los Pollos Hermanos pop-up, which brought Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul's fictional fast-food chain to L.A. in 2017, this dive into Walt's world includes a full themed menu of entrées, alcoholic concoctions, desserts and sides. Expect options such as Heisenburger sliders and the Full Measure grilled cheese (also available as the Half Measure, sans crust)—and a representative of the pop-up tells Time Out that both the food and drink options are interactive, so that guests "will be very involved with their final creations." And, with a menu that includes vegan and gluten-free dishes, it c

Along with jury duty and a trip to the DMV, we’d rank a drive through LAX’s main terminal loop as one of the absolute worst, most soul-crushing, “do I really have to?” chores in the city. So the latest traffic pattern change at the airport might actually bring some welcome relief—but at the expense of convenience. Starting at the end of October, you’ll no longer be able to summon a ride with Uber or Lyft from the central terminal area at Los Angeles International Airport. Instead, you’ll need to board a shuttle bus that’ll take you to a parking lot next to Terminal 1, where you’ll then be matched with a car. You will, however, still be able to get dropped off directly in front of your departure terminal.  At the end of this month, ride app and taxi pickups will move to a central lot next to Terminal 1 called #LAXit. This will remove traffic from the terminal area and improve the pickup experience. No changes to drop off, with fast shuttle service to the lot for quick pickups! pic.twitter.com/XuYqfzH67j — LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) October 4, 2019 The new pick-up parking area comes with an incredibly unfortunate, over-the-counter-laxative–sounding name: LAX-it. If you’ve been to the airport recently, you’ve probably noticed the space already: It looks like a small parking lot just outside of Terminal 1 with numbered posts to designate different pick-up zones.  Travel industry site Skift first reported the news, which it says is a response to increasing traffic in th

The Los Angeles area boasts world-renowned theaters. Broadway shows tour here, but we also springboard shows to Broadway and London’s West End. This month, however, a handful of productions at several of our smaller but equally artistic theaters caught our eye. A political drama emphasizing the personal side of war, a horror spoof, a musical version of a comedy giant’s version of a Russian classic, a site-specific Halloween-appropriate version of Shakespeare and a look at manic but meaningful life in New York City currently fill our stages. That’s why we bet these shows, listed in order of closing date, will be worth your theatergoing time and money this month. The AbuelasAntaeus Theatre Company at Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center, Oct 3–Nov 25 In 1976, a military regime seized power in Argentina, claiming to wrest back their conservative ways of life from the lefties, and ultimately culminated in the establishment of a concentration camp and the subsequent tens of thousands of murders. Stephanie Alison Walker focuses her play on the “disappeared” persons of this so-called Dirty War, examining its repercussions and our abilities to forgive. Andi Chapman directs the West Coast premiere of the script, developed in the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Stars Denise Blasor, Irene De Bari, David DeSantos, Seamus Dever, Carolina Montenegro and Luisina Quarleri. 110 E Broadway, Glendale (818-506-1983). Fri, Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm; Mon at 8pm. $35. The Mystery of Irma VepDavid

You’re most likely to associate Hollywood tough guy Danny Trejo with his roles as a machete-wielding assassin or a bank-heist getaway driver, but this Friday, we’re thinking of him more along the lines of Gene Wilder in purple velvet. That’s because actor and restaurateur Trejo is celebrating National Taco Day with a very Willy Wonka-esque affair: golden tickets at nearly all of his taco shops. Proclaiming himself “Danny Wonka” for the occasion, the actor with a line of casual taco cantinas (and hopefully zero Oompa Loompas) won’t be opening the doors to some treacherous taco kingdom, but he will be giving out free tacos every day for the remainder of October to a few lucky customers. On Friday, October 4 only, dine at any Trejo’s Tacos location—with the exception of LAX and his Hollywood doughnut shop—and you could snag one of these specially printed passes. One winner will be chosen at random from each restaurant (that means Hollywood, Pasadena, La Brea, the Original Farmers Market, Woodland Hills and the USC Village), and if picked, you’ll be able to stop by any Trejo’s for one free taco each day until November 1. You could probably even share some with your grandpa, or you could hoard all the tacos in a very Violet Beauregarde maneuver. We won’t judge. If you’re not able to make it in person to one of Trejo’s restaurants, you can snag $3 tacos (carnitas and jackfruit varieties only) via delivery app Postmates until October 6. But if you are trying to land one of those

After saying goodbye to its longtime Santa Monica home and then finding a sliver of new life with a revival inside Downtown L.A.’s first Alamo Drafthouse, cult-favorite movie rental store Vidiots is coming back in a big way. Vidiots will restore a 90-year-old movie theater in Eagle Rock, where it’ll screen a mix of classics and newly-released indies, as well as run a video rental service in the adjacent storefront. The Vidiots Foundation, the non-profit that sprouted up to preserve the store’s vast film library, hopes to launch the new space in the fall of 2020. Rendering: Courtesy Vidiots Foundation   Like many old theaters in L.A., Vidiots’ new home has an adaptable history: Located at 4884 Eagle Rock Boulevard, the Yosemite Theatre opened in 1929 as a vaudeville stage, but within a few days was converted into a silent movie theater (and within a few years, it added sound). In 1940, it was renamed the Eagle Theatre before flipping to an adult cinema in the ’70s, back to an indie theater in the ’80s and then finally to a series of churches in the ’90s. But come 2020, the 200-seat space will screen repertory titles, new independent releases and hard-to-find and beloved classics, on both digital and 35mm (director Jason Reitman is donating the projector). Rendering: Courtesy Vidiots Foundation   While the theater portion is entirely new territory for Vidiots, the rental component should feel like familiar territory for longtime fans of the quirky video store, wh

Thousands of L.A. restaurants have come and gone since Norms first opened in 1949—including its first location, on Sunset near Vine. Fortunately, the diner institution has been going strong elsewhere in L.A. throughout the last 70 years, and for one day in October you can celebrate the enduring orange-and-white icon with prices that haven’t been, well, the norm in decades. With 19 locations spread from Van Nuys to Huntington Beach and as far east as Riverside, the eye-catching pennant signs are almost synonymous with Los Angeles diner culture, while the oldest surviving location—the one on La Cienega—isn’t just a historic-cultural monument, but one of the best remaining examples of the mid-century Googie architecture movement.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by NORMS Restaurants (@norms) on Jun 1, 2019 at 5:45pm PDT You might not find La Cienega’s rock walls, bucket seats and angular, sloped roofs at all outposts, but you will find a classic diner menu—especially when it comes to breakfast. And to celebrate 70 years in business, Norms is offering a hearty breakfast across all locations on Wednesday, October 23: Stop by any Norms between 6 and 9am that day, and catch a plate hotcakes, two eggs any style and either bacon or sausage for only 70 cents.  The Bellflower-based restaurant family is also unveiling its first line of merch, which includes retro-inspired mugs and tees that c

Before this month we never thought we’d be trying a rummy peanut-and-banana drink served in a large red paper bucket, a matcha take on a grasshopper, or a thin layer of Manischewitz floating atop scotch and a salted-macadamia cordial. But then again, we should always expect the unexpected whenever Yael Vengroff puts together a new cocktail menu. It’s usually best to leave your drink choice in the hands of the L.A. beverage vet, whether she’s shaking things up behind the bar at the Spare Room or in Chinese-American standby Genghis Cohen. Even when she’s not present, you can spot her sticky-with-orgeat-and-glitter fingerprints all over the menus, and that’s especially the case at Genghis now that the fully-realized bar program—after years of planning and months of trial and error—is finally here.  Behold the silver and glass duck as it hits your table, its translucent belly sloshing with gin, jasmine-infused white vermouth, peach, lemon, orange bitters and a bright yuzu tonic, its nest built of shiny blue pebbles. Gaze upon the Chinese lucky-cat–inspired blend of cucumber vodka, plum wine, gin and tonic, all shimmery from edible gold. There are orchids and tiki umbrellas and Seinfeld references scattered throughout the menu, an eclectic and showy showing from a bartender who spent the better part of 2019 building a program that would do the space justice. The result? What she’s dubbed “Foo Foo drinks.”   The Soup for Yous Photograph: Courtesy Genghis Cohen/Eugene Le