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Master Chef Season 4 Premiers Watch the Trailer for Mind of a Chef Season 2

In food-on-television news, Masterchef Season 4 gets fired up tonight on Fox with a two hour premier -- and apparently there's breast milk involved. Judge Joe Bastianich is quoted as saying that one contestant used her own boob juice in a dish during auditions. Swell. The the page for the promo spot ... More >>

Cochon 555 Returns to Los Angeles

After Cochon 555 2011, we surrendered. Fattened up like one of the hogs that the crowds of attendees had, locust-like, swirled around, oily-faced and intoxicated, we swore the thing off. We were almost politically opposed to the maniacal level of indulgence that the event seemed to encourage. Thi ... More >>

Top 3 Weekend Food Events: Baltimore Pit Beef BBQ, Early St. Paddy's Pub Crawl the Jewish Connection to Chocolate

Jews on the Chocolate Trail Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz will share the history of Jews in the early chocolate trade, including tales of "how Jews, pre-Columbians, Catholics and Protestants all connected through chocolate's religious rituals and narratives." Prinz also will sign copies of her new book, O ... More >>

Tour Thai Town Just Like Anthony Bourdain: Jet Tila's Melting Pot Food Tours

Want to fantasize that you're Anthony Bourdain, slurping up the same boat noodles that he did when No Reservations explored Hollywood's Thai Town? Now you can, because the same guide who took Bourdain around will take you too. L.A. chef Jet Tila, long the go-to person for visiting chefs wanting to ... More >>

Top 5 Menu Modification Nightmares: As Told By L.A. Chefs

You've ordered salad dressing on the side, extra veggies, no veggies, extra crispy fries, non-fat instead of low-fat milk, mozzarella instead of Swiss, tofu instead of chicken. The list goes on. But some people take it to another level. You know who you are. "It was a tall, half decaf-half regular ... More >>

A Dude's Dream Comes True Aboard the Holy Ship!!

Aboard the Holy Ship!! one gets to mix and mingle with the slew of name DJs. "Hey there's Zedd in line for pasta salad. Oh wow, there's Dillon Francis in the elevator. Oh damn, Diplo is out on the beach swimming with all the fans. "Jackbeats just bought all those people shots!" See also: Holy Ship ... More >>

10 Great Restaurants Open New Year's Eve

There are plenty of ways to celebrate the end of the year, and going out to dinner is certainly one of the best. Make a reservation while you can, put on your best party frocks and check out one of these options for your dining pleasure. Please also remember to drink responsibly and that AAA offers ... More >>

Southern Cooking, Animal-Style

Animal, Son of a Gun and the real takeaway of the Southern food trend

5 Essential Back-To-School Food Titles

Summer tomatoes are at their prime, the first fall apples have arrived. Where else but L.A. can you continue to cook your way through the best summer cookbooks by day while starting on those fall reading lists at night? These are the sort of nightcap-worthy books to pull out when you don't quite f ... More >>

Serious Drinking: A Flight of Gin at Lucky Rice Night Market

Bars can be lousy places to drink. Oh, they're excellent places to buy a drink, and to drink a drink, and lately they've been pretty great for marveling at the combinatory skills and anachronistic facial hair of drink executors. But when it comes to actually trying, say, a dozen drinks to learn, sim ... More >>

LuckyRice Night Market Debuts in Los Angeles

It looks likes 2012 might well be remembered as the year of the Asian-inspired "night market." After a successful second round of Pasadena's 626 Night Market, New York-based festival LuckyRice hosted its first L.A. market at the Helms Bakery complex with help from Lukshon chef Sang Yoon. Guests we ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Taco Fest, Lucky Rice Night Market, Plate by Plate Fundraiser, Chichen Itza Seafood Class L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

Los Angeles Taco Festival Enjoy some of Boyle Heights' and East L.A.'s best tacos, from birria to carne asada to shrimp, as well as live mariachi music, arts and crafts at this new outdoor event. Proceeds go to support Jovenes Inc., a nonprofit that provides housing for homeless youth. WHAT: L.A. T ... More >>

Lucky Rice Night Market Coming to L.A.

Lucky Rice, the New York-based Asian food festival whose "culinary council" includes the like of Anthony Bourdain, David Chang, Marcus Samuelsson, and Masharu Morimoto, is moving out west -- well, further west that is. On the heels of its Las Vegas event back in June, Lucky Rice laid out plans for i ... More >>

Chef Jet Tila's Coffin Knife Case: More Fun With Kitchen Gear

In every profession, you'll find those who care about flaunting style on the job. Even the most mundane accessory is a chance to make a statement without words. Jonny "Coffin" Edwards, who we profiled recently in the People issue, knows this well. Since the mid '90s, his company Coffin Case has made ... More >>

A Primer of Dining Venue Terms, From Secret Supper Club to Pop-up Restaurant

A restaurant is a place where people pay to eat meals. That applies to all the variations: café, bistro, diner, pizza parlor, gastropubs, etc. We all know what we're getting when we go to one of those versus another. But what about all the off-the-grid dining establishments? What can you expect w ... More >>

Evan Kleiman's Angeli Caffe Pops Up at The Charleston

Angeli Caffe popped up Monday night with the same kitchen crew, the same servers, the same food and Evan Kleiman in charge, just as if it had never closed. Kleiman's Melrose Avenue restaurant closed in January after 27 years of service. This happened at The Charleston in Santa Monica, where managi ... More >>

Chefs' Worst Kitchen Injuries: More Fun Behind the Stoves

Cooking can be dangerous, as anyone who has spent much time in a kitchen can attest to. Now consider the hazards of a career surrounded by flames, super heated liquids and sharp objects. So we queried some notable area chefs (Ricardo Zarate! Michael Voltaggio! Eric Greenspan!) for the stories behin ... More >>

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Evan Kleiman Pops Up at the Charleston With a 4-Course Dinner

If you're still mourning the loss of chef Evan Kleiman's Angeli Cafe (who isn't?), you can sample her food again at the Charleston on Monday, May 7, with two seatings at 6 and 8 p.m. The KCRW Good Food host will prepare a four-course rustic Italian meal, served family-style. "Every day I get emails ... More >>

March Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings: Endless Tequila, Beer & More

Springtime is upon us -- you can tell by the pastel-colored clothing and cocktails around town. Hopeful newbies and restaurant industry pros to look out for this season include, Japanese ramen noodle shop owner/comedian Menji Miyata, bibimbap peddler/Bibigo project manager Matthew Kim, mixologist Sa ... More >>

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Antaeus Company double dips The Seagull, and more New Theater Reviews . . .

​Antaeus Company's double-cast production of Chekhov's The Seagull scored this week's Pick of the Week.​ Click here for all of this week's New Theater Reviews, or after the jump. Also, check this week's Stage feature on a mixed reaction to Hollywood's A-List (Clooney, Pitt, Bacon, Sheen) taking ... More >>

2012 Will Just Be Ducky!

Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 2: The Best Thing He Ate at Noma, Plus Foraging in the Castle Yards

Photo by Shauna Miller​In 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 >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Sean Ehland's Pennsylvania Summer Salad

​If you read Part 1 and Part 2 of our interview with Sean Ehland, the executive chef-turned-stagier who's not only worked at Noma but among the farms surrounding a rural Danish castle, you would have learned that the man loves foraging. To that end, he's created a recipe for a grilled summer s ... More >>

Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 1: From Culinary High Schooler to Noma Stagier

Photo by Shauna Miller​It seems some chefs just can't sit still these days. As Jonathan Gold mused in A Movable Beast, it's no longer essential that chefs simply keep to their kitchen. We have chefs who pop up, chefs who make guest appearances, chefs who get in trucks and roam the streets. Now ... More >>

Drinking Tea and Coffee May Protect Against "Superbug"

Flickr/Dominic's pics​ Regular tea and coffee drinkers might be less likely to carry the antibiotic-resistant "superbug" MRSA in their nostrils, according to a new study reported by Reuters. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston found that of more than 5,500 A ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Maida Heatter's Cookies Ladybird Johnson's Moonrocks Recipe

​Though some may call Maida Heatter "The Queen of Cake,"and her revamped Maida Heatter's Cakes is certainly at the top of our weekend baking list, after flipping through her companion cookbook, Maida Heatter's Cookies, we would argue that royal title is best bestowed on the octogenarian (or ol ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Tupelo Honey Cafe Their Two-Cheese Mashed Cauliflower Recipe

​If you've ever been to Asheville, North Carolina, a stunning city known for its quietly elegant beauty but also for its cultural diversity (fueled in the early days by Black Mountain College, a Depression-era progressive arts education institute), then you know what writer Elizabeth Sims and ... More >>

Cows In Space: Scientists Working to Make Meat in Laboratories

Santa Monica farmers market​ Meat is more trendy than cupcakes these days, with all standard apologies to Morrissey. Consider the seemingly permanent bacon trend, the rising popularity of butchery, happy whole pig farm-to-table excursions, and local butchers who generate so much interest that ... More >>

Baked Explorations Cookbook: Not Your Mom's Grasshopper Pie Recipes

​When you've amassed a large collection of baking books, there's little need for another hardly shocking bakeshop title -- you know, those books printed in mass quantities by bakeries and pastry chefs espousing their favorite devil's food cake and caramel-apple pie. Again. And again. Then you ... More >>

Man Sets House on Fire Because Wife Didn't Have Dinner Ready

Carolhawkins.com/Christie Bishop​ Ladies, here's a question for you. Say you've had a long day at work -- or home -- and you're running late making dinner. Your husband gets home and there's no dinner on the table. What's his reaction? A) He says no big deal; you usually cook together anyway; ... More >>

LA People 2009: The New Vaudevillians — Lucent Dossier

Best known for its Coachella water spectaculars, the circus troupe founded by Dream Rockwell reaches to the past and the future for its fantasy performances

The Follies Sisters' Past Lives: Tap Dancing Around the Antimodernity Movement

Why live your life in the past? Because the present kind of sucks

L.A.'s Edwardian Ball: It Was a Dark and Gorey Night

First Cut: Big Fish Compete at SushiMasters

Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

Look Out — It’s a Kazan-vilanch!

What to do the week of March 28-April 3

Electric Avenues

The Edison, a thoroughly modern speakeasy

Rock Picks

For the week of February 22 – March 1

Theater

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including All About Walken, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and more

New Theater Reviews

For the week of April 28 - May 4

A Southern Stand

John Edwards wins his biggest trial

Speaking in Tongues

Sport of Supes

Maybe it makes sense to expand L.A.’s Board of Supervisors