Deborah Stoll

When we last told you about the exciting new bar opening in Jan., 2010, we promised an update as soon as possible. Here's what we got: Opening Feb. 2nd., La Descarga, slang for go crazy" or "after party", is a 1930s rum bar. The exact location is still undisclosed but......

With a swing and muster that recalls Luc Sante's Low Life hoodlums, David A. Embury was a practicing lawyer in the 1940s when he wrote a book called The Fine Art Of Mixing Drinks. In it, he describes The Zombie as "the most overadvertised, overemphasized, overexalted, and foolishly feared drink......

Tobias Jelinek is a server at The Nickel, plays Bodhi in Point Break Live (the Patrick Swayze role for those of you who don't know) and has a striking new collage-like column in H Magazine. Squid Ink met up with Tobias in the converted laundromat he calls home. While juicing......

Logline for the proposed horror film, "Where To Spend New Year's Eve": Thousands of hallow-eyed would-be-revelers, in a desperate search for a party, comb the streets in their finest digs, racing against the stroke of midnight. This year, instead of staying home like a curmudgeon, or running around town looking......

What do tranny hookers, crumbling walls, fedoras, and a show-stopping entrance have in common? They're all part of a new bar set to open in L.A. at the end of January. Since hearing the whispers, Squid Ink's been begging for a walk-thru of the space, which is still in the......

The Hungry Cat is L.A.'s accidental meeting place. Every time you step foot inside you'll find friends, family, people you've passed in the night and hoped to see again... I can't put my finger on how or why it happens, suffice to say, it's a bright and shining spot in......

For this installation of Your Server's Other Job, Squid Ink presents Brian Summers. With a gravely voice that rises and falls to some kind of whacked-out metronome, it comes as no surprise to learn that in addition to creating cocktails at The Library bar at The Roosevelt Hotel, Summers is......

The tequila cocktail contest held last Sunday at The Varnish was organized by Raul Yrastorza, manager of 213's forthcoming venture, Las Perlas. "There's a brotherhood of bartenders downtown right now that's really exciting," said Yrastorza. "This event is a testing ground for one of my driving inspirations for Las Perlas......

Debunk the theory that nobody reads in L.A.. Bring a book (or six) into Cole's this week and receive a dollar off a French Dip. Considering the sandwiches, avec au jus, cost just $6.38 it's kind of a deal. Your donation will support the renovation of The Midnight Mission's Mary......

How giant bowls filled with liquor ever fell out of favor is beyond me. A bottomless pool of cocktail disguised as "punch" is a drinker's dream: undulating waves of spirit swirling around a block of ice, a frisson of Champagne mingled with a sweetener, the plunk of a ladle, slosh......