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Jerry Hopkins: Jim Morrison's Biographer Finds a Strange Kind of Bliss in Bangkok

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/10 - 12/14

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'It's the food I grew up with, but my version,' says the chef." Josef Centeno's Bar Amá Opening Tomorrow. "Each of the cookies listed below is locally made, fresh baked and available to order for all of your holiday cookie- ... More >>

Night Market's Kris Yenbamroong: New Dishes A Trip to Thailand

In Bangkok and barely over jetlag, Night Market chef Kris Yenbamroong of helped his diminutive 81-year-old paternal grandmother, Vilai Yenbamroong, into the back of a white van for what he calls "an epic trip." Their game plan was to head out of the city up the Friendship Highway through Isaan ( ... More >>

17: Green Curry Mussels at Jitlada

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 17: Green Curry Mussels at Jitlada. If there is one menu in town that has the best chance of being written about by cultural anthropologists twenty ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Book Review: Take Away, A Food Photographer's Story

On these hot, muggy nights when your ambient kitchen temperature rivals that of your oven, we highly recommend whipping up a batch of ice cream for dinner (protein, calcium, fiber if you add fruit). It's also the perfect excuse settle in with a fantastic photography-driven food book like Take Away b ... More >>

Top Ten Musicals for People Who Don't Know Shit About Showtunes

See Also: Top Ten Classical Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Classical MusicTop Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About JazzTop Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance MusicTop Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-HopTop Ten Metal Albums ... More >>

92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord. You ask a friend with a reputation for never traveling beyond Sepulveda if she wants to join you for Thai food. She tells you, ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Mighty Spice That Mighty Big (Recipe) Legal Disclaimer

Yes, we chose our Cookbook of the Week, Mighty Spice: Fast, Fresh and Vibrant Dishes Using No More than 5 Spices for Each Recipe, in part for the publisher's legal disclaimer (more on that later). It waives them not only from potential recipe disasters but also includes medical warnings (?!). Keep i ... More >>

Peninsula Hotels Will No Longer Serve Shark Fin Soup

Flickr/goosmurfShark fin soup​Following Gov. Jerry Brown's signing in October of an act banning the sale of shark fins in California, the Peninsula Hotel chain has announced they are prohibiting shark fin soup, considered a delicacy in Chinese culture, at all food outlets as of Jan. 1, 2012. ... More >>

Night + Market: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

5 Movies Opening This Weekend, Including The Hangover Part II, Tree of Life and Magic!

​ While the rest of us waited in vain for the Rapture, Karina Longworth was busy writing about her own encounter with the end of days. She offers her thoughts on Lars Von Trier's "depression-as-apocalypse epic" Melancholia in her Cannes Film Festival Wrap-Up. Von Trier's movie hasn't made it ... More >>

The Hangover Part II: Been There, Drunk That

And Now for Something Completely Different: Fried Chicken

D. Gonzalez Samusas at Jasmine Market​ When it comes to dining in Los Angeles, there are can be paths of predictability. Depending on the craving, there are areas where nearly every other restaurant is a safe bet and others where we should have known better. But then there is fried chicken, ... More >>

Quick Bite: Sai Krok Isaan (Sour Sausage) at Night Market

Guzzle & NoshSai Krok Isaan sausage at Night Market in West Hollywood.​A splash of hot sauce. A sprinkling of crushed peanuts. A prisoner stabbing his cellmate to death. Which of these doesn't go well with pad thai? Opened in early December, Night Market is the more "adventurous," more st ... More >>

Bill Clinton Replaces Mel Gibson As Celeb Cameo Of Choice In 'The Hangover 2'

Psycho Hollywood bad boy out, vintage White House bad boy in​Zach Galifianakis threw a tantrum last month when "Hangover" director Todd Philips so much as considered giving the world's biggest arse a few minutes of screentime in the July 2011 sequel to the No. 1 bromantic comedy of the ots. W ... More >>

Steven Erik Prowler, Onetime L.A. Resident, Gets 25 Years For Having Sex With Underage Boys In Southeast Asia

FoxHerbert.​A Los Angeles man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars after an original sentence of 10 years for traveling abroad to have sex with minors was rejected by a federal judge as too light. He was convicted of having sex with underage boys in Southeast Asia and Mexico. Steven Erik Pro ... More >>

Siam Sunset: The Thaiest Thai in Thai Town

It's all about the ordinary

Cal State Northridge Professor Defends His Thai Sex Site

BigBabyKenny.com​Cal State Northridge associate economics professor Kenneth Ng was outed by the Daily News Tuesday as the publisher of a website that focuses on sex tourism in Thailand, but the school is not going to try to discipline him and stated that it supports his freedom of speech. The ... More >>

Tiger's Condom "Outfit" Stirs up a Media Storm Thai Condom Salad

Barbara HansenCondom Tiger​Anything related to Tiger Woods generates a media storm, especially if it's titillating. Witness my recent post, on my food blog Table Conversation, about a Tiger Woods statue clothed in condoms. Like a virus, this post circulated around the world. Some news sources ... More >>

Ozomatli in Myanmar: Punk's Not Dead

Randall RobertsPunk's Not Dead scribbled on a wall in Yangon, Myanmar No, Ozomatli's not a punk band, at least not in the traditional sense -- though Uli Bella does have a Crass button pinned to his requinto jarocho strap -- but that doesn't mean they don't have the attitude. Long story short: I' ... More >>

Suzpree Sneak Peek: Char Sui Tacos and Oxtail Dumplings -- Advance Bites of Suzanne Tracht and Preech Narkthong's Evolving New Project Unveiled Tonight at Jar

Margy RochlinIn Development: Suzpree's eggplant saladEverytime Jar chef/owner Suzanne Tracht and her chef de cuisine Preech Narkthong visit Narkthong's hometown of Bangkok, Thailand, they return with ideas for new dishes, antique silk purses and fairly crazy-sounding tales of two massages a day and ... More >>

Movie Reviews: An American Affair, Phoebe in Wonderland, 12

Also, Between Love & Goodbye, Toyo's Camera and more

Movie Reviews: Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience, Must Read After My Death, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Also, Dog Eat Dog, Echelon Conspiracy and more

Rock Picks: AC/DC, Dressy Bessy, Meshell Ndegeocello

Also, the Submarines, Ruben Guevara, the Coup and more

Movie Reviews: Young People Fucking, A Secret, Ping Pong Playa

Also, Sukiyaki Western Django, Surfer, Dude, and more

Thank God It's the End of Summer!

(Annual rant)

Movie Reviews: Bangkok Dangerous, Babylon A.D., Mister Foe

Also, Ping Pong Playa, A Girl Cut in Two, and more

Flyer of the week: David Lynch!

Well, his foundation at least... If you are lucky enough to have the David Lynch seal of approval, you can't do much better than to slap his face on your poster and put your own band names below it - not too big either. Wed. July 16th sees Nico Vega, Gods and Monsters, Bangkok Five, and 8MM (So ... More >>

What's in the Welcome Hunters Closet?

Rock Picks: Spoon, HorrorPops, Wolf Parade

For the week of September 6 – 13

Flame War

Jitlada Thai is reborn with a southern soul

Santa Monica or Saigon?

A tale of two brothers

The Method Fest

Vacation From Reality

Wild Palms

The French Connection

From moules frite to tom yam goong

Ask Mr. Gold

New to the List

Hi Concept

Hot Rod

Blissfully Ours

Last Life in the Universe moves off the festival circuit and into the art houses

Time of Misery

AIDS: Snoozing after the wake-up call

Ask Mr. Gold

What To Eat Now: The Year's Best Dishes

Ask Mr. Gold

A Neighborhood Just West of Downtown

Bugged

Late-Night Thai

Ping-Pong Balls and Thai Tacos

A different kind of dessert in Hollywood