Ben Wurgaft

It goes without saying that coffee in Los Angeles has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years; the city is now very much on the national specialty coffee scene. But one of L.A.’s most interesting coffee subcultures is usually overlooked: that of Koreatown. We dubbed K-Town "America’s Hippest......

Woodcat: an old word meaning “rabbit,” a song on an album played over and over during a road trip across Europe, and now the name of a new café in Echo Park, run by Janine and Saadat Awan. Open since Saturday, Sept. 20, Woodcat Coffee Bar is serving coffee roasted by......

When, if ever, will we eat lab-grown meat? It's still early enough in 2014 for predictions of the year to come, and late 2013 saw the unveiling of the world's first hamburger made of laboratory-cultured animal protein, leading to a frenzy of journalistic coverage and even one short article that......

It's just five years to the year 2019, the year in which the 1982 film Blade Runner is set, and more than a few element of Ridley Scott's futuristic Los Angeles are already in place: blimps with electronic signs, ramen-yas of every level of quality, and (almost) laboratory-grown hamburgers -...