Slake, the Midtown dance club and venue that rebranded its street-level space as the Grateful Dead-themed American Beauty bar, closed after their 2017 New Year’s Eve celebration. The building it was ...

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Slake, the quarterly literary journal being launched by former LA Weekly editors Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly, is scheduled to arrive in bookstores by the first week in July. The debut issue weighs ...

Jonathan Gold takes a sensual look at a 17th century painting and builds to something like rapture. Jerry Stahl asserts that Sammy (“Can you actually cry out of a glass eye?”) Davis Jr. did more for ...

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Slake Café is expanding operations at its 120 E. 7 th St. location. The café, which took over the Bakerman’s space just off Congress Avenue last year, will add 1400 square feet and expand to the ...