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May 24, 2012
Casting Call for Chefs: Screw Restaurants, Work for the Rich and Famous
A new cooking competition show concept is in the works, we've discovered, though the name of it, and even the network it will be on, is still classified information. We admit to being intrigued, and if you're a chef, you may be, too, since like Chef Hunter, this show wins you a job. But a restauran ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Jamie Oliver Is Back with Meals in Minutes. Do We Like Him Again?
We've pissed off Jamie Oliver again. But this time, it not what we're allowing our children to be served in the school cafeteria, as was the case on Food Revolution. It's what we're serving them at home. It's what we're cooking. It's the fact that clearly we can't be trusted to navigate a market or ... More >>
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April 27, 2012
Alie and Georgia's 'Beefy Tomato' Cocktail Recipe
Yesterday we met Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark, the duo behind web series Classy Ladies on Cooking Channel. What impressed us most about them, besides their fab vintage wardrobe, was their ability to come up with dozens of genuinely creative cocktails. Drinks that taste like kettle corn, cheesecak ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
The Critic Hunter: Finding Out How "Chefs Feed" [Video]
The expression goes "everyone's a critic," but when it comes to restaurants, that's pretty much true. You've got your food Tweeters, your Yelpers, your Urbanspooners and, oh yeah, actual critics. This latest spooftastic video rounds all of them up while aping those ever-popular wildlife nature show ... More >>
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April 3, 2012
[Updated] Sex And The Kitchen in Development at Bravo
Update: (11:49 a.m.) It's been announced the Kat Odell, editor of Eater LA, will star in the show, and it's rumored that Brenda Urban from PR firm Wagstaff Worldwide and chef Waylynn Lucas of Fonuts will join the cast as well. More details to come as we discover them. Remember yesterday when we cel ... More >>
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April 2, 2012
No Kitchen Required Around the World in 80 Plates: Does the food still matter?
It takes a special kind of chef to sign up for a competition show. When it comes to cooking, it's much easier, really, to stay in your own kitchen, keep your nose to the saucepan and crank out the best food you know how without the aggravation of mystery ingredients and a ticking clock. But that's ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
"Eat It Don't Tweet It:" When Food Bites Back
We foodists have a sense of humor, right? We'd better, because we deserve to be made fun of for lighting up everyone's minifeed with excited tweets about the "fucking brown buttered hedgehog mushrooms" and "Yakima applewood smoked sea salt" we're about to eat. Our latest find, "Eat It Don't Tweet I ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Food Myths Busted with Mensa Member JJ Virgin
JJ Virgin (shortened due to the unfortunate pronunciation of Julie while living in Japan) is smarter than you. She's a member of Mensa, and seems to have an addiction to academia. After graduating from UCLA, she went on to graduate school for biomechanics, then sports medicine, then took doctorate-l ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
8 Things on Pinterest That Annoy the Crap Out of Me
See our previous story, "Pinterest Makes Me Feel Like I'm Bad at Being a Woman" Pinterest -- the latest social media craze sweeping our laptop screens -- can be many things to many people. As a virtual vision board on which you can bookmark little internet finds that strike your fancy, it's your ca ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
Halfpops: Weird Idea, Delicious Snack
We must have been in a bad mood when Halfpops hit our desk, because it practically offended us. We remember thinking, "What is this? Why would anyone want to eat a bunch of half-popped kernels that look like rejects from the popcorn factory? What's next, packaged potato chip crumbs? This isn't 'the ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
City Tavern Introduces "Build-Your-Own" Cocktails
It's fun to order things Chipotle-style: a little from column A, a little from column B. Now, City Tavern is attempting to channel the same fun we have building our own burgers and burritos (and bears, we guess) into their cocktail menu. Recently the Culver City bar and restaurant announced a new " ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
The Truth About Trutanich
It's fun to order things Chipotle-style: a little from column A, a little from column B. Now, City Tavern is attempting to channel the same fun we have building our own burgers and burritos (and bears, we guess) into their cocktail menu. Recently the Culver City bar and restaurant announced a new " ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Pinterest Makes Me Feel Like I'm Bad at Being a Woman
This is PinterestPinterest, much like the little black dress or the Birkin bag (depending on your tax bracket), has suddenly become the new must-have for women. It's the latest social media craze -- and it's blowing Google out of the water, despite, or perhaps because of, what some media ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Restaurant Industry Treats Women Poorly: Can Tom Robbins Save Us?
Waiting tables has never been known as a glamorous job, but a new study released Monday indicates that conditions are especially shitty for women, who are not only paid less but also subjected to sexual harassment at a staggering rate, reports The Daily Beast. (Via Jezebel.) Where's Tom Robbins' "Da ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Cook This...Get Laid, Or How to Have a Really Happy Valentine's Day
Why should it be believed that only a man's stomach is the gateway to his heart? Women just as easily -- perhaps more easily -- get their fires lit by a man who cooks. And if the guy's really smart about it, he can parlay that spark from kitchen to the bedroom. If you need help figuring out exactly ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Menu for CITY Night at Border Grill Announced
Earlier this week we told you about CITY Night at Border Grill -- a special event at which Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken will indulge the nostalgia of their 1980s glory days by serving a menu inspired by their first restaurant, City Cafe and its subsequent incarnation, CITY. Today, the menu wa ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Top Chef Casting Call at The Foundry
Top Chef is turning 10! Are you surprised? Unlikely. They only win Emmys and James Beard awards out the wazoo. If we were Bravo, we'd keep milking that cash cow as well. But of course, one needs new talent to keep those Quickfires hot, which means it's casting call time.
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January 31, 2012
10 Lessons We Learned From The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season Two
Via bravotv.comIt's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion time! Those delicious three weeks in which Andy Cohen forces the ladies to relive every tension-filled moment from the past 18 episodes they've supposedly "grown from" or "moved past." (But inevitably just end up fighting about all ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question
Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered. Or is it? That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This t ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Nathan Myhrvold on Top Chef: Who Will Be the "Modern-est?"
Nathan MyrhvoldEven if you're kind of over Top Chef (Quickfire challenges! Padma in halter tops!), you might want to tune in tonight to check it out. Because tonight's guest judge is none other than Nathan Myhrvold, the man behind Modernist Cuisine, which 6-volume set is the contestants' home ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
What The Hell Is Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" About? UPDATE: Mind-blowing Shit Has Come To Light
Additional reporting by Ali Trachta UPDATE: SOME NEW, MIND-BLOWING SHIT HAS COME TO LIGHT! See the bottom of the post. See also: Backstreet's Back, All Right! Kevin Richardson Dons a Tuxedo, Talks Lusty 12-Year-Olds Welcome to our new column, Lyrical Dissections. It's pretty self-explanato ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Rachael v. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off: Pitting Celebrity Non-Chefs Against Each Other to See Who Sucks the Least
Have we learned nothing from Famous Food? Only disaster can come from letting half-wit D-listers anywhere near a set of knives. Shouldn't the fact that a New Jersey Housewife is now part owner of a Hollywood restaurant teach us we should leave culinary arts to professionals? Unfortunately Rac ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Martha Stewart Saves Thanksgiving, or Your Life: Top 10 Most Ridiculous #AskMartha Tweets
You know the old Thanksgiving turkey hotline? We always imagined rows and rows of expert turkey-makers manning phones like the Jerry Lewis telethon, ready to answer your burning (or, hopefully just golden brown) bird questions. Actually, that's pretty much how it works, we think. But like Mario Bata ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Coolhaus in Culver City Opening Tonight: Free Ice Cream
Guzzle and Nosh/FlickrWhat's cooler than being cool? (Ice cold) free Coolhaus sandwiches! As if we weren't excited enough for Coolhaus' brick-and-mortar shop in Culver City to finally open, they sweetened the deal by announcing that tonight at 6 p.m., when the doors are unlatched, they'll be ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Chef Hunter: The Food Network is Hiring, Sort Of
Perhaps you think the chef competition show, like the seemingly endless barrage of singing contests on TV, has been overdone. The titles of Top Chef, Iron Chef, Master Chef and even Extreme Chef are doled out left and right, but The Food Network's new show Chef Hunter hands out a prize we haven't he ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Miss Representation: Jennifer Siebel Newsom on Her OWN Documentary at the Paley Center
From left to right, student activist Devanshi Patel, Spaceballs actress and activist Daphne Zuniga and filmmaker Jennifer Siebel NewsomLast night's screening of Miss Representation at the Paley Center wasn't merely a screening. It couldn't be, in the same way watching Food Inc. or Waiting for ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Epicerie Fine: Chef Guy Martin Takes Us Back to Basic Ingredients
Food television already has a Guy in Guy Fieri, but we'll soon have another Guy (pronounced "gee" as in "oui") starting Sunday, Oct. 16th, when French chef Guy Martin and his show Epicerie Fine premiere on American TV. Less of a cooking show and more of an exploration of ingredients, Epicerie Fine ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Best Posts of the Week
This week Weekly staffers Chris Vogel and Simone Wilson broke revelations from the new book Murder Rap, in which former LAPD detective Greg Kading cites testimony implicating Suge Knight in the death of Biggie Smalls and Diddy in the murder of Tupac. On our sister blog The Informer, Wilson also brou ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Breakfast for Dinner Headed to Harvard & Stone
Is breakfast still breakfast at 6 p.m.? Well, it depends what time you went to bed. As for Michael Livingston and Raul Villarreal -- photographers, filmmakers, major drinkers and self-taught kitchen wizards -- they wake up when the sun goes down, so their web series in which they whip up an elaborat ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Dedication To My Sex: Why Lloyd and His String of P-Bombs Pissed Me Off
If only iTunes had a return policy, or at least the ability to exchange for store credit. I'd gladly swap the original version of Lloyd's "Dedication to My Ex" for the cleaned-up radio edit, because frankly I feel like I got tricked. I heard the song for the first time in the car, and for much the ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
The Chew An Exclusive Clip of Michael Symon
Daytime talk show The Chew, which may or may not rhyme with The View on purpose, premieres Monday, and we can't wait. Mostly because we're just so curious about what this show will really look like. It promises to be a groundbreaking and innovative take on exploring life through food, style ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Amazon to Publish The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss What The Heck is a 4-Hour Chef?
Via 4hourlife.comAmazon made the surprising announcement yesterday that it will publish author Tim Ferriss' next book The 4-Hour Chef, The New York Times reports. The book is due out next year, and will be the latest in the writer's series of self-help books for men. It's a deal that makes ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 2: The Best Thing He Ate at Noma, Plus Foraging in the Castle Yards
Photo by Shauna MillerIn Part 1 of our interview with chef Sean Ehland, we learned his thoughts on the ever-present culinary school debate, as well as how he pestered his way into a stage at Noma via the restaurant's reservations email. In Part 2, we learn what working in such a sophisticated ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Heat Seekers Aaron Sanchez and Roger Mooking Visit L.A. via the Food Network
Via the Food Network blog.Chefs Roger Mooking and Aarón Sanchez.If you were to take yourself on a spicy foods tour of Los Angeles, where would you go? There'd certainly be no shortage of options; hell, that tour could probably last a decade. But for the sake of TV, the Food Network narrowed ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Famous Food: The Dolce Group Puts Restaurant in the Capable Hands of Heidi Montag, et al.
Ketchup before. What will be the after?What are reality stars qualified to do? Hmm. Let's think. Have meltdowns on camera, for sure. Gang up on the weak link, certainly. And they're definitely extremely good at identifying who is, and who is not, here to make friends. What about opening a re ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Le Cordon Bleu Changes Curriculum, Reduces Tuition: But is it a Good Deal?
Changes are on the horizon for the curriculum at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. Come the end of this month, LCB will offer students the option to enroll in a 12-month culinary certificate program, foregoing the associates degree that was previously required. According to an email from Mark ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Extreme Chef on The Food Network: Over the Line?
Photo courtesy of The Food Network.Run, chef, run!Somewhere out there, the Top Chefs of the world are sitting around sharing a massive chuckle about what idiots the contestants of new show Extreme Chefs are making of themselves. Either that, or they're suddenly feeling like major pansies. To ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Squid Ink Food Writers' Most Reviled Childhood Dinners
southerbornandbredgirl/flickrFried chicken livers With food, one person's penance is another's pleasure. Many parents view dinner-time as an opportunity, not just to share food and company with their beloved offspring, but also to exert control. Sometimes kids are picky and sometimes parent ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Thrillist Wants to Get L.A. Dudes Drunk, and Laid, and Full on Beef Jerky
Photo via Thrillist.Party like a rock star.This is a man's world. At least if you're a reader of online men's magazine Thrillist, it is. And those masculine horizons are suddenly expanding by way of Thrillist Rewards--a Groupon-like program chock full of guy-specific food, drink and entertain ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Wet Hot American Summer and David Wain at Gallery 1988 For 'Camp Firewood' Art Exhibit, Inspired by the Film
On Friday night, Gallery 1988's so-called Venice location (which is really in Santa Monica) runneth over with fans of cult classic movie Wet Hot American Summer. They packed in to check out "Camp Firewood," an exhibition of 65 works of art inspired by the film, and perhaps to catch a glimpse ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Southland at the Paley Center: Is This the Most Realistic Cop Show Out There?
From left to right, Executive Producer Christopher Chulack, actors Ben McKenzie, Regina King, Michael Cudlitz and Shawn Hatosy, and EP John Wells. In "Graduation Day," the season three finale of Southland screened last night for a small crowd at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills, the scene in ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Arno Shore: Jersey Shore Kids Work a Pizzeria in Italy
A. Scattergoodgood pizza In case the world needed another reason to hate us, the Jersey Shore kids have been deported (okay, not exactly, but we wish) to Italy to film the fourth season of their hit MTV reality show. The Guidos and Guidettes, some of whom aren't even Italian, will be roaming ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Are You a Poet? Do You Know It? If Not, We Might. Submit Your Poems to LA Weekly for Online Publication. An Impoverished Life and Posthumous Fame Awaits You
Dead Poets SocietyYes, you heard that tweet correctly. LA Weekly is now accepting submissions of original poetry to be published on this very arts blog! We're interested in your sonnets, haikus, ballads, lyric essays...hell, even your raps, perhaps? Anything you've written and have rights to ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
2nd Annual Food Blogger Bake Sale: Eat Sweets, Feel Good
Chocolate Chip Stuffed Cookies from What's Gaby Cooking.Ah, bake sales. There's not much else that makes you feel quite like a sugar-crazed kid again. But most of us feel a lot better about gorging on sweets these days when we have an excuse, and this weekend, the perfect opportunity will com ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Seven Weird Things To Do This Week in L.A.
Weekend of Horrors Convention L.A. is weird. You can fight it or go with it. What do you think folks in our Calendar section would say? Here are seven hints: 7. The Underground Rebel Bingo Club Fri., May 13, 10:00pm, secret location "We can't tell you anything about this Bingo Club. That's b ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Squid Ink's Most Beloved Discontinued Products: Well, A Few of Them
DSL in Jaz/flickrWe hardly knew you. Our favorite convenience foods are like friendly co-workers holed up in the next cubicle over. We meet them, like them, grow accustomed to their presence in our lives, and then, just as soon as we realize we can't quite imagine life without them, they di ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Beets Twitter and 99 Cent Chef Recipes
Felicia FriesemaGolden and red beets from Tutti Frutti Farms Last week gave us a big blooming harbinger of springtime. But we admit we're still getting in touch with our roots. Luckily we're not being forced into a mad panicky rush, because beets are generally available all the time (a vis ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
UCLA Sex Survey Results: Threesomes, Celebrity Affairs, Masturbation, and How to Prevent Nude Photos of You Turning Up on Facebook
Read more in our sex features, "Sex and This City: What are Angelenos Looking For?," "Give Sodomy a Chance," "iPhilandering: It's Easy to Be Sleazy!," and "Uncomplicated Casual Sex? Not Easy to Find on Craigslist." College campuses have quite a reputation for bawdy behavior these days, espec ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Is Camille Grammer Leaving 'The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills?'
BravoCamille.There's important news in your world, and we aim to bring it to you. California's only Democratically appointed Supreme Court justice is quitting. SoCal is turning into a ghost town as more than half of foreclosed-upon homes aren't even on the market. And hiring of much-needed po ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL!
BravoCamille.There's important news in your world, and we aim to bring it to you. California's only Democratically appointed Supreme Court justice is quitting. SoCal is turning into a ghost town as more than half of foreclosed-upon homes aren't even on the market. And hiring of much-needed po ... More >>
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