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March 25, 2013
Five Los Angeles Parking Secrets and 111 Places to Park (Google Map!)
(Also contributing to this report were Elisa Losson, Jennifer Swann, Ali Trachta and Ben Westhoff.) You know what sucks? Circling a block for twenty minutes, burning the gas in your car and watching someone slip into a space right as you turn the corner to claim what you dreamed was yours. As Los ... More >>
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March 21, 2013
Watch this Weekend: Bill Esparza on L.A. Street Eats
Bill Esparza is going from Street Gourmet to host of the Street Eats: USA Los Angeles episode this Saturday, March 23, at 3 p.m. He announced the news earlier this morning on his blog. While it's not the first time Esparza has appeared on Travel Channel, it will still be a first of sorts for the mus ... More >>
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March 5, 2013
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 316: Ken Todd and Mauricio Umansky Are Two Peas in a Pod
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November 12, 2012
Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 6, Rice
See also: The Martha Stewart Cooking School archives. Rice can be an unsung hero at times -- taken for granted, treated as merely a bed on which to lay more interesting food, or as filler, say, in a burrito. It's an everyday item, thus we often forget to appreciate the many roles it can play in our ... More >>
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October 31, 2012
Test Kitchen's Latino Series, Part 1: Mexican Chefs to Take Over Bestia This Weekend
If Angelenos are becoming intoxicated by Mexico's culinary renaissance, Northern Baja has been our gateway drug. Several events have popped up in recent years (most recently, at Playa) in which chefs from Tijuana and Ensenada have come up over the border to showcase their talents to eager SoCal fans ... More >>
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October 29, 2012
Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 4, Stocks
Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us. See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 2, Sauces See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School ... More >>
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October 15, 2012
Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 2, Sauces
Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us. See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs Martha Stewart believes in studying the classics, she says, as images of Einstein, Shakespeare and Ab ... More >>
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September 27, 2012
Top Chef Masters Recap: "Do You Want to be Comforted, or do You Want to be Thrilled?"
It was a battle of the coasts in last night's Top Chef Masters finale, pitting New York's Kerry Heffernan against San Francisco's golden boy Chris Cosentino. But it wasn't just that. It was also a battle of culinary ideologies, considering these two chefs' approach to food couldn't be more differen ... More >>
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September 25, 2012
National Reality TV Awards: Kim Kardashian Didn't Show, But the Helicopter Dude From The Bachelorette Was There
So Kathy Griffin has this term of, well, not endearment -- whatever the opposite of endearment is -- for the Creative Arts Emmys. She calls them "The Schmemmys," basically because they're the nerdy little sister of the Emmys, where the supposedly second-tier awards are given out. We don't know if M ... More >>
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September 20, 2012
Top Chef Masters Recap: The Students Become The Masters
Finally, a challenge that truly lived up to the "Master" name. On last night's TCM, the three remaining chefs, Kerry Heffernan, Chris Cosentino and Lorena Garcia, did not touch the food they served in the Elimination Challenge. In fact, they did no cooking at all. Instead, in true master chef form, ... More >>
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September 13, 2012
Top Chef Masters Recap: Blanc-ing Out
Paging P. Diddy. There was a white party and no one invited you. OK, it wasn't that kind of white party. Instead, on last night's episode of Top Chef Masters, the final four contestants were charged with catering a Dîner en Blanc, which is kind of like the James Bond of meals, that is, if 007 had ... More >>
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August 30, 2012
Top Chef Masters Recap: Un-Thaied
Curtis Stone is, in the words of Derek Zoolander, "really, really, ridiculously good-looking," so not the type, we'd imagine, to get tongue-tied around the ladies. But leave it to hometown girl Dita Von Teese, L.A.'s (and the world's) queen of burlesque to make TV's reigning pin-up boy blush. Von T ... More >>
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July 26, 2012
Top Chef Masters Recap: Cooking for Billionaires, and Why Curtis Stone Is, in Fact, the Man
Hooray! Top Chef Masters is back! You know, that souped-up version of the old Bravo staple in which we get to watch alreadyfamous chefs duke it out in the kitchen, not for money (as all their winnings go to charity) but for the prestige of being crowned truly the best of the best. Right? That must ... More >>
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July 18, 2012
La Cava de Marcelo, The Only Cheese Cellar in Latin American Open to the Public, is in Nearby Baja Wine Country
See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately. See also: 'Stick a Fork in It' column Tijuana Sí!. The promise of wine country that's "like Tuscany" right in our own backyard of Baja is enough to have many of us running for the borde ... More >>
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June 22, 2012
Caesar Salad Festival in Tijuana This Sunday: Did You Know Its Roots Are in Baja?
See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately. See also: 'Stick a Fork in It' column Tijuana Sí!. If you're up for a spur of the moment trip across the Mexican border (and who isn't these days) this weekend would be a good time to g ... More >>
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June 20, 2012
Top Chef Tour: Richard Blais vs. Fabio Viviani at Hollywood & Highland
If Richard Blais has any rug burn on its face, it's from hanging out with Fabio Viviani for the last few days. "The kisses are getting longer," Blais joked. "It's the stubble that bothers me." The two have spent yesterday and today going head-to-head on the Top Chef Tour -- a mini version of the Br ... More >>
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June 4, 2012
Vendimia: The Incredible Baja Wine Festival You've Never Heard Of
See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately. See also: 'Stick a Fork In It' column Tijuana Sí!. Like many Southern Californians, and of course, Anthony Bourdain, we've been relatively obsessed with Baja lately, especially upon hea ... More >>
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May 30, 2012
Jon Taffer's Bar Rescue Returns to L.A.
See also: Q & A with Bar Rescue's Jon Taffer: "Everything is to Make Money." If you've recently found yourself in a local bar thinking, "Wow, this place really sucks," one of two things needs to happen: 1. You must accept that you're getting older, and move onto a more age-appropriate location or 2 ... 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 19, 2012
Martha Stewart to Debut Martha Stewart's Cooking School' on PBS
Martha Stewart, who in recent years has been seen most often on the Hallmark Channel, is making the move to public television with the debut of Martha Stewart's Cooking School premiering on PBS this fall. As the title suggests, this show will be largely instructional. Martha isn't the gimmicky type ... 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 21, 2012
Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #10-6
See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #15-11 10. Jared Leto Underneath all that guyliner we still see you, Jordan Catalano. You've ditched the shaggy hair and flannels for a pink mohawk and studded leather but it's OK. Every time y ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Anthony Bourdain: Now Portable Via Travel Channel's New Layover App
We've all wished we could carry Anthony Bourdain around in our pockets when traveling to a new city, and now, the marketing geniuses over at the Travel Channel have figured out a way to make such a thing possible. In digital form, at least. Today they announced the new "Travel Channel Layover Guide ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Restaurants, in Rap Form
Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Restaurants, mapped (not rapped)Wow ... just, wow. We're so glad someone out there was able to cheer us up about Jonathan Gold's impending departure with this hilarious (and, may we say, exquisitely crafted) rap tribute to the Pulitzer Prize winner's list of 99 Es ... 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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January 30, 2012
Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken on Upcoming CITY Night at Border Grill
Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, young, wild and free.With their success at Border Grill and beyond, it's difficult to think of chefs and restaurateurs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger as ever being scrappy young things, just starting out, with a kitchen so tiny it spilled over into th ... 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 24, 2012
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Bravo to Bravo
bravotv.comPaul Nassif "recovering" from a colonoscopy.Holy Jeebus, Paul Nassif, are you dying? You have to be dying. Has anything more horrifying than your post-colonoscopy fart festival ever happened on reality TV? Why in the name of Andy Cohen would you allow cameras to follow you into an ... 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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January 3, 2012
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Is Brandi Glanville the New Kim Richards?
My how the meth head tables have turned. In last night's episode, the better part of the RHOBH gang headed to Hawaii to celebrate Mauricio Umansky's birthday (because, of course, who needs a trip with the boys when you can tow along your wife's TV friends?) and we had the pleasure of watching Brand ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Wendy Doulton's The Headhuntress and Carrie McCully's Chef Hunter: Is Getting a Real Job Reality TV's New Fantasy?
Via NBCUniversalThe Headhuntress Wendy Doulton, right, coaches a job seeker.I watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills every week. I watch New York and Orange County, too. (Though we all agree DC was whack, right?) I watch these shows partly for the ability to laugh at the dippy one-liners ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Lucinda Scala Quinn's Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys: Food, Gender and How We Approach Eating
Photo by David RussellLucinda Scala Quinn and son on the set of Mad Hungry.Lucinda Scala Quinn, food TV personality and Executive Food Editor of Martha Stewart Living, has written a cookbook titled Mad Hungry [Artisan], which is the same name as her cooking show on the Hallmark Channel. What' ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Russell Armstrong, Kim Richard's Boyfriend and a Camel Make Cameos
bravotv.comCamille Grammer, who knows how to properly greet a camel at a party.Today's Tuesday. What will we be doing tonight? Hmm, probably laundry. But in the land of Beverly Hills Housewives, Tuesday is the perfect day for your filthy rich friend and his child bride to throw your daughter ... 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 4, 2011
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Dana Wilkey and Brandi Glanville Shock and Awe
See that horrified face on Kyle Richards? Yeah, it was that kind of RHOBH episode last night. Lots of jaw-dropping cock talk among the ladies, especially considering there was a baby pool and a bouncy castle about 10 feet away from them. More on that in a minute. But first, let's take it from the t ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Jon Taffer Picks Up Season Two of Bar Rescue, Leads Seminar on Making Money in Long Beach
Via Spike.comJon TafferIf we learned one thing about Jon Taffer, host of Spike TV's Bar Rescue, in our interview with him earlier this year, it's that the man is all about making money. He knows all the tricks to make that happen in the bar trade, but apparently in the TV industry as well, si ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Taylor's Meltdown -- Can We Handle It?
bravotv.comCamille, Kyle and Lisa comfort Taylor.Now for the uncomfortable part. When we last left the Housewives, the "creaky beavers" were storming Beaver Creek and having a grand old time. They had a lovely day on the slopes, were greeted at the bottom with warm chocolate chip cookies, th ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Eric Greenspan's New Restaurant-Bar-Hangout: The Roof on Wilshire
Photo by Kathy A. McDonaldChef Eric Greenspan at his new spot, The Roof on Wilshire The Roof on Wilshire is Eric Greenspan's new restaurant, sort of. It's a bar, but not really. It's both, but neither. "It's a hangout," Greenspan says, which really is the best way to describe it. Situated on ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Justin Willman of Cupcake Wars Makes Magic [Video]
Justin Willman, emerging from a cupcake war.Raise your hand if you know Justin Willman as the pun-tastic, spiky-haired host of Cupcake Wars. That he is, but keep them up if you knew he's also an accomplished magician. Fewer hands, right? Willman got his start in magic at age 12, after he bro ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Steel City Sandwich Truck: Bringing Pittsburgh's Blue Collar Food Culture to L.A.
A. Trachta"The Yinzer" from Steel City SandwichMaybe you heard that Steel City Sandwich has joined up with the bajillion other food trucks that roll around Los Angeles everyday. And maybe you didn't care. Why should you? As Angelenos, is Pittsburgh food supposed to be exciting to us? Really, ... 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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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 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 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 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
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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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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November 4, 2010
DON JUAN MAGIC, NOT DON "MAGIC" JUAN
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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