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4 Great Free Things to Do in L.A. This Week

4. Beach Balls At 53 years old, the Manhattan Beach Open now is older and more established than the dozens of players battling in it for their chance to win a piece of the $200,000 kitty. (For those paying attention at home, that's twice last year's purse.) The tournament, located at the Manhattan B ... More >>

Beach Balls

Q & A With Visitation Street's Ivy Pochoda: On Dive Bars Dennis Lehane's Ordering Habits

Food isn't at the center of Ivy Pochoda's Visitation Street. The Brooklyn-born novelist's latest is about the soul of a tight community, the forestalling of grief and the human need for companionship, all folded into a mysterious tale about two teenage girls who float into the upper New York bay on ... More >>

VICE's New Food Web Series: Truckers In The Wild

Back in the early 2000's, I pitched VICE magazine's then-editor some food content. He basically scoffed at me. "Food?" he said, "That's just not the demographic we're going for." So I've watched with great interest as VICE has produced more and more food content over the last few years. Obviously fo ... More >>

Sameh Shenouda: Photo Of South Bay Taxi Driver Suspected Of Sexual Assault Released

A South Bay taxi driver arrested on suspicion of sexual assault is being investigated in connection with other possible attacks, Manhattan Beach police said this week. Sameh Shenouda, 38, was arrested last month for an alleged summer assault and cops say they've been in contact with other possible ... More >>

Good Girl Dinette's Labor Day Pie Pop-Up

Diep Tran, chef-owner of Highland Park's Good Girl Dinette, isn't taking the day off on Labor Day -- instead, she turning her restaurant into a one-day-only pie shop, which will offer homemade pies baked with local produce. You know, just in case her customers need something to serve after their bar ... More >>

Hooray for Volleyball

The 5 Things You Need Know About This Week's Review of L&E Oyster Bar

This week I review L&E Oyster Bar in Silver Lake. Here are a few outtakes from the review to whet your appetite: Food: The star of the show here is the oysters, from all over the Northeast, West Coast, and as far away as New Zealand. But there's also simple grilled fish, refreshing salads, and a fa ... More >>

David LeFevre Hosts 7-Chef Birthday Dinner at Manhattan Beach Post

Most people celebrate their 40th birthday with a night out their favorite restaurant. Chef David LeFevre is doing his a bit differently -- he's hosting a 7-chef, 5-course meal at his own Manhattan Beach restaurant Manhattan Beach Post on July 16. Alongside him will be Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook of A ... More >>

85: Truffle Honey-Laced Fried Chicken at Manhattan Beach Post

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. 84: Truffle Honey-Laced Fried Chicken at Manhattan Beach Post. When David LeFevre decamped to this sleepy Manhattan Beach space from downtown's Water Grill, a ... More >>

Spike Lee on Shooting in His Favorite Borough for Red Hook Summer

Lee talks making the very indie Red Hook Summer

Chefs Ben Ford, David LeFevre Neal Fraser Cook for GrowingGreat

It's being touted as a "unique foodie experience" for Angelenos. That is, Angelenos with $200 to spare. The "Taste of Spring" event happening May 19 at a private Manhattan Beach home involves cooking demonstrations from David LeFevre (Manhattan Beach Post), Neal Fraser (The Strand House), and possib ... More >>

Manhattan Beach Post's Couscous Salad

The couscous at Manhattan Beach Post -- how have we survived without it until now? The flavors are so right. Perhaps you remember that "OMG I love this", feeling from the first time you had the Crying Tiger Beef at Jitlada or a Kogi taco? Yeah, like that. If you were part of the overheated throng a ... More >>

Manhattan Beach Gay-Sex Ring: Should Police, Media Have Circulated Suspect Mugshots?

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center blasted an angry presser yesterday, calling out sister news stations CBS2 and KCAL9 for printing/airing the "mug shots, names and birthdates for the 18 men who were recently charged in an undercover sex sting operation at a Manhattan Beach public restroom." We were a l ... More >>

Gay-Sex Ring at Manhattan Beach Bathroom? 18 Dudes Arrested for Lewd Conduct, 'Utilizing a Peephole'

Updated at the bottom with more deets on the Big 18, one of whom is a top dog at Viacom. Originally posted at 2 p.m. The public bathroom at the end of Marine Avenue has been getting more action than a West Hollywood back-alley.

Simmzy's to Open Second Location in Long Beach

Manhattan Beach's beachside restaurant and craft beer pub Simmzy's will be opening a second location in Long Beach's Belmont Shore shopping and entertainment district this Spring -- and artist's renderings of the final look were posted on Facebook recently. Construction has been underway on Simmzy ... More >>

Sweet and Sour Chicken Soup

Why Highland Park Is the New Echo Park

Over the last couple of months I've been doing a lot of what a writer does best -- hanging out in bars and listening to people talk. I live in Echo Park, and around these parts the bar banter is usually centered around one question: what's cool. In L.A., the answer to that changes as quickly as the ... More >>

Manhattan Beach Cops' Hit-and-Run Career Fiasco

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One-Time Use of a Leaf Blower in Manhattan Beach Could Land You in Jail

Photo courtesy of the Manhattan Beach Anti-Leaf Blower Association (ALBA). Really.​Ah, Manhattan Beach. Where celebrities sick of paparazzi camping outside their Santa Monica/WeHo/Beverly Hills mansions go to live their lives in peace -- a sea-breeze neighborhood just gorgeous and classy enoug ... More >>

Battle For Brooklyn: Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's Documentary Has Echoes in L.A.'s Football Stadium Controversy

Construction begins on the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn​ There's a moment towards the end of Battle for Brooklyn when Prospect Heights resident Daniel Goldstein peers through a fence at a construction site teeming with workers and cranes. The area was recently home to dozens of small bus ... More >>

"Poptails" All Around: Galco's & Charles Phoenix Band Together for the Southwest Museum

J. Ritz​ Galco's Soda Pop Stop is a magical place. For carbonated beverage fans, the Highland Park shop is a retail marvel, an unparalleled source of sweet bubblies and even some sour pops, and everything else along the soda flavor spectrum you knew and didn't know existed. Even folks whose be ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Delicieuse (Day 15)

Delicieuse is plastered with charts and signs extolling the virtues of goat's milk, but we don't seek out ice cream for its curative powers. Nor do we trek to Redondo Beach for Delicieuse's goat's milk ice cream. We come for the incredible sorbets.

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Manhattan Beach Creamery (Day 14)

Manhattan Beach Creamery is a pleasant neighborhood ice cream store, stocked with as much candy as it is ice cream. The white leather, half-shell chairs, halfway between Louis XIV and Philippe Starck, are a good spot to watch surfers trudge to and from the pier or Saturday Night or Saturday night ... More >>

Neighborhood Eats: Brooklyn Water Bagel Company

No matter what MLB strips from Frank McCourt -- his ego, his baseball team, his dignity (actually, he did that all on his own) -- there's one thing they can never take away: the plaque bearing his name at the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company. At the recently opened Beverly Hills bagel shop, t ... More >>

David LeFevre's Manhattan Beach Post: Now Open

M. B. Post​ For those of you who have been pining for chef David LeFevre's cooking since he left Water Grill last year, you can now find it on the menu again. His own menu, at his first restaurant. LeFevre's Manhattan Beach Post (abbreviated to M.B. Post) opens today. As for why Manhattan Beac ... More >>

Bad Brooklyn Tortoise Knocks Over Heat Lamp, Starts Fire, Kills Turtle

Nothin' to see here​Them city tortoises. Just can't be satisfied with a normal tortoise life of walking in circles and staring at inanimate objects. That's for hicks! The New York Post reports that Giovani the Bad Brooklyn Tortoise, looking for a big adventure on a Sunday afternoon, used his ... More >>

David LeFevre Readies M.B. Post in Manhattan Beach

Courtesy M.B. Post​ We've come to know David LeFevre for his seafood ways at Water Grill, where he was executive chef for six years. He left last fall to open his own place in the South Bay, Manhattan Beach Post (M.B. Post for short), which should debut next month. But he never promised us lob ... More >>

Four Manhattan Beach Police Officers Allegedly Involved in Drunk Hit-and-Run One Year Ago Finally Fired (But Still on Paid Leave)

grunionsmb.comJanuary 31, 2010: One expensive boys' night out for the City of Manhattan Beach​We're big fans of the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing -- and certainly wish it had applied more thoroughly to cases like that of 18-year-old Jeremy Marks -- but in heel-dragging, money-wast ... More >>

GQ's 4th Best New Restaurant in America? The Tasting Kitchen on Abbot Kinney

Anne FishbeinCasey Lane and crew at the Tasting Kitchen​ For those of you who do not read GQ for photos of Jessica Alba or sartorial advice but for other things, like restaurant news, Alan Richman has picked The 10 Best New Restaurants in America. Welcome to the year's end. New York City's Lin ... More >>

Break-In Burglar Takes $2,000 In Coins From Manhattan Beach Wells Fargo

Way more than $2,000 in coins... but not everyone can have hustle like Scrooge​It's the season for artistic public thieving in L.A. County. First, on Oct. 27, there was the guy with the Obama mask who stuck up an El Pollo Loco branch in Duarte with a toy knife. A week or so later, there was t ... More >>

That's Just the Whey it is: Meet Cheese People

Cheese People​ At the conclusion of our November 1st post about the Los Angeles-baked blog Bread People, we entertained the idea of starting a "cheese-themed spin-off." Before we could get a tumblr account running though, we discovered that the blog we'd envisioned already existed. While int ... More >>

As Gun Nuts Head To Family Fair In Manhattan Beach This Weekend, One Commenter Says To Own A Firearm Is To Live In Fear

Open Carry members plan to bring their guns to a family fair in Manhattan Beach this weekend.​For our comment of the day we couldn't resist dipping into that endless well of debate -- guns. A recent post wonders aloud if right-to-bear-arms activists are going to far in targeting a family fair ... More >>

Cooking in Highland Park: The Book

Felicia FriesemaCooking in Highland Park...in Highland Park​ Locally focused cookbooks aren't uncommon in Los Angeles. There's the Santa Monica Farmers Market cookbook, The California Heritage Cookbook, Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, and on and on. But you can p ... More >>

Sand Dune Park Reopens in Manhattan Beach...Just Make A Reservation First

Naked_Eyes via Flickr​ Manhattan Beach's Sand Dune Park reopened Monday amid enthusiasm from fitness buffs and concern from some locals who fear that the noise, traffic and pollution that caused the park to close a year ago would return. The popular park closed last summer due to complaints ... More >>

Small Earthquake Jolts Los Angeles' Westside

Caltech​A small earthquake jolted L.A.'s Westside Monday afternoon. The 3.7 magnitude shaker struck about four miles west-southwest of Manhattan Beach at 4:59 p.m., according to the Southern California Seismic Network. Early Monday a 3.6 struck the Santa Monica Bay off Manhattan Beach. Twitte ... More >>

Frankies Spuntino Comes To Animal For One Night Only: Dinner, Wine and a Cookbook

Frankies Spuntino Cookbook​Frankies Spuntino is coming to Animal Restaurant for one night only, on Wednesday, June 30th from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Coming on the tails of Jeremy Fox's successful stint at Animal, the highly popular Brooklyn chefs Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli will be in hous ... More >>

Brooklyn Boys Food Truck Brings Deli Fare to O.C.

Brooklyn BoysThe Brooklyn Boys food truck​Orange County isn't known for its abundance of New York and Jewish-style delis, but the Brooklyn Boys food truck, launched on Feb. 1, hopes to change that. Roaming from Fullerton and Placentia on the northern tip to Santa Ana and Irvine and all the w ... More >>

L.A. SXSW Showdown: El Ten Eleven, Rainbow Arabia and LAZRtag at Submerged

L.A. SXSW Showdown: El Ten Eleven, Rainbow Arabia and LAZRtag at Submerged

Guns n Roses Plays CBGB! (OK, Axl & Some Dudes Play the Varvatos Clothing Store)

Brooklyn Vegan"You're in Varvatos, Baby--I wanna see you shoooooooppppp!"​Brooklyn Vegan reports that last night Guns n Roses Axl Rose and a bunch of his buddies who are not Slash, Duff, etc. played legendary NYC club CBGBs the hip clothing store Varvatos in the Bowery. According to Brookly V ... More >>

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Charlotte Gainsbourg Reveals Haunting Songs on American Television Debut

Charlotte Gainsbourg Reveals Haunting Songs on American Television Debut

The Jung Trio

A Majority of One

Hot & Ready

My Taco: Frying High

Carne asada fries — the Everest of fine gabacho cuisine

Avenues Gang Members Meet the End of the Road

But is Highland Park safe for blacks?

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