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Jay-Z's Great Gatsby Soundtrack Is a Failure

When the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby was released a year ago, it was set to the music of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," from the sometimes duo's incredibly self-important Watch the Throne album. On the surface it made sense. Jay-Z -- who retired as a rapper i ... More >>

Q & A With Lou Amdur: Glazed Hams, Slutty Chardonnays What to Drink at Easter

See also: L.A.'s Wine Bars Are Better Than Ever. Here Are Our Seven Favorites Lou Amdur, may have sold his cozy, Laundromat-and-Thai massage parlor adjacent Hollywood strip mall wine bar, LOU, last March. But he still has that gift for being able to effortlessly hold forth on all things wine and fo ... More >>

Opening Soon: A Burger Round-Up

Can Los Angeles be considered an unofficial burger capital of the U.S.? It wouldn't be a tough argument to make. We have plenty of burger joints: Apple Pan, Hawkins House of Burgers, In-N-Out, Father's Office, Rick's, Pie'n'Burger, and Earlez Grille, to name a handful. Next week, two burger joints - ... More >>

Books: Addicted to Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss' recent cover article in the New York Times Magazine, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, served as a preview for the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter's latest food industry exposé: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. As Moss says, processed foods are a $1 trill ... More >>

Kellogg's and General Mills Among Oxfam America's Worst Offenders

When it comes to rating big food brands like Kellogg's and Coca-Cola, Oxfam America looked beyond their flavor, price value, and even the content of their nutrition. Instead, it was more about each company's environmental and social impact in the countries they set up manufacturing plants. The non-p ... More >>

Kris Kross: Here's What They've Been Doing All These Years

On February 23rd, '90s rap duo Kris Kross will reunite on an Atlanta stage to perform at a celebration honoring the 20th anniversary of So So Def Recordings. Here, we peer into several scenes in the life of Mac Daddy and Daddy Mac from their many years spent away from the spotlight.

Proposition 30: Molly and Charles Munger Spent $79.1 Million Battling Jerry Brown

For the past few months, multi-millionaire and Pasadena civil rights attorney Molly Munger has been a thorn in the side of Governor Jerry Brown -- Munger's Proposition 38 may act as a spoiler for Brown's Proposition 30. But the governor has also been battling another wealthy Munger -- Molly's brothe ... More >>

Proposition 37 Genetically Modified Food Fight

Could spawn endless lawsuits against small shops

Anais Fournier: Alleged Monster Energy Drink Death Leads To SoCal Lawsuit

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been made aware of as many as six deaths and 18 hospitalizations that might be linked to drinking the high-caffeine energy drink Monster, which has its corporate offices in Corona. (Monster disputes any links). It turns out one of those deaths involved a 14 ... More >>

Downey Workplace Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 3 Wounded

Authorities now say two people have died. Headline has changed Updates at the bottom. Three Two people are dead and two people were injured in a workplace shooting in Downey today, authorities told the Weekly. Downey Fire Department paramedics responded to two locations on Cleta Street, one in the ... More >>

Pepsi Is Tweaking Its Diet Soda Formula

PepsiCo Inc. is trying out new artificial sweeteners that would let its diet soda keep its sweet taste for a longer period of time, The Washington Post reports. The current sweetener used in Diet Pepsi -- aspartame -- loses its potency faster than high fructose corn syrup, the sweetener that's used ... More >>

Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug

Happiness, apparently, is a warm embrace. At least, for Coca-Cola, which recently installed a "Hug Machine" that dispenses cold sodas in exchange for warm hugs on the National University of Singapore campus. According to Mashable, the huggable machine is part of the soda company's "Open Happiness" ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/9 - 4/13

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You complete the machine, in other words, but the machine does not complete you." Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug. "I have to watch out for bears? Are you serious?" Q & A With Bryant Ng: The S ... More >>

New 'High End' Hollywood Walgreens at Sunset and Vine to Host Sushi Chefs, Makeup Artists

We always kind of associated Walgreens with crummy carpets and leftover Halloween candy on super-sale. (No offense, Walgreens. If it makes you feel any better, Rite Aid's worse.) But not the new 23,500-square-foot Walgreens slated to replace the shuttered Borders at Sunset and Vine! Apparently una ... More >>

Jean Paul Gaultier Stars in Bizarre Videos as Diet Coke's New Creative Director

Jean Paul Gaultier, designer of Madonna's epic cone bra, now is set to style another icon: Diet Coke. The fashion designer was just named Diet Coke's new Creative Director for Europe and, as part of his creative duties, will create limited edition Diet Coke bottles and cans. According to his state ... More >>

Coca-Cola, Pepsi Will Modify Recipe to Use Less Cancerous Caramel Coloring

As if you need another reason to scale back on all that soda pop: NPR and Reuters report that Coca-Cola and Pepsi will change their recipe slightly to reduce the amount of 4-methylimidazole (4-MI), a chemical that, in high very doses, has been known to cause cancer in animals. In sodas, it's used t ... More >>

Coca-Cola Freestyle: The Soda Machine of the Future ( the Past)

We have seen it, the promised land. The soda dispenser of the future. A machine so sleek it should be in a technology museum and so smart it can dispense more sodas than you can imagine. If you haven't tasted Peach Mello Yello or Raspberry Coke Zero, have you truly lived? We don't normally go gaga ... More >>

'Bark Side' Super Bowl Ad, With Star Wars' Imperial March Sung by Dogs: Director Keith Schofield Explains How He Did It

Have you seen that video of the dogs barking the Darth Vader song? Chances are, if you have a pulse and an Internet connection, you have. The viral video is a teaser for a Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial, so yes, that makes it a commercial for a commercial. It's bold new territory for advertising ... More >>

Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure

Godard's '60s Revisited: The Rebirth of Cool

DRY Bubbles: The Growing Lemongrass Non-Alcoholic Options

It's not often that rounding the corner at a chain supermarket leads to New Year's drinking resolutions, but such was the case when we spotted new additions to our local Ralph's soda shelves: DRY Soda. Last we checked in with Sharelle Klaus, the Seattle-based company's founder, her line of lightly s ... More >>

7 Ridiculously Tacky Commercialized Christmas Tree Ornaments

You know that complaints about the commercialization of Christmas are as unfashionable as figgy pudding when "Your Ad Here"-equivalent Christmas ornaments are popular store items. Companies like Coca-Cola pay big bucks to buy advertising space on billboards and bus stops, but they've cleverly figu ... More >>

R.I.P. Continental Airlines: 800 Employees Say Goodnight to Iconic Airline at LAX 'Memorial'

The Continental crew, circa 1970s.​Like a baseball team or a Hollywood studio, an airline, in America, holds incredible cultural weight. It's a corporation, sure, but only in the way that Coca-Cola is a corporation -- ads don't feel like ads. More like cozy pop art. What little girl, at one p ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Soban

Korean BBQ Trivia Forage's Soy and Coca-Cola Flank Steak Recipe

Eugene Ahn Soy and Coca-Cola Marinated Flank Steak at Forage in Silver Lake​ If you've ever wondered if Korean households have dining tables with built in bbq holes, like the ones at Korean bbq restaurants, the answer is "no". The historical antecedent for modern restaurant tables are traditio ... More >>

Why Los Angeles Schoolkids Get Lousy Meals

Rave Promoters From Electric Daisy Carnival, Together As One Paid L.A. Coliseum Manager $10,000 a Year

Caesar SebastianEDC.​A report in today's Los Angeles Times expands the number of side jobs former L.A. Coliseum events manager Todd DeStefano had, indicating his own private companies took tens of thousands of dollars from the likes of Coca-Cola and UCLA as those entities booked events at the ... More >>

Ricardo Zarate: King of Ceviche

Kevin ScanlonRicardo Zarate​ Ricardo Zarate's path has been a little more circuitous even than most chefs', a peripatetic lot in general. His life in the kitchen began in his native Lima, Peru, where as a teenager he cooked banquets for hundreds and learned from a friend's mother how to make s ... More >>

Pizza & the Politics: Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain Announces Presidential Bid

You may love pizza, but do you love it enough to have it influence your vote? Considering the current field of Republican presidential candidates, pizza may be as good a reason to vote as anything else. Over the weekend, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain formally announced his candidacy for ... More >>

Ricardo Zarate: King of Ceviche

EXCLUSIVE Interview: Why Anthrax's Scott Ian Hates Coachella and Loves the Big 4

Steve ApplefordAnthrax guitarist Scott Ian​ Guitarist Scott Ian has been metal's No. 1 fan ever since his first whiff of Kiss back in the '70s. He's also been the one constant in every lineup of Anthrax, now one of the "Big 4" originators of thrash-metal set to land on the site of Coachella i ... More >>

Cocaine Possession Could Just Get You a Misdemeanor Charge if a Majority of Californians Had Their Way (Poll)

Coca-Cola​Correction: After a commenter pointed out our mistake, we took "ticket" out of the headline and changed it to "misdemeanor charge." Californians want folks who get pinched for a small amount of hard drugs like cocaine to face only misdemeanor charges, not felony ones. In fact the D ... More >>

Ricardo Zarate Wins Food & Wine Best New Chef The Rest of the Winners

Anne Fishbein​ Last night Food & Wine announced their awards for this year's Best New Chefs. The ten winners, picked from around the country, included one chef from Los Angeles: Ricardo Zarate of Mo-Chica, who can now add this award to his accolades, which include showing up on Coca-Cola billb ... More >>

Oak Fire Pizzeria & Pub Opens in Sherman Oaks Tonight More From Greg Morris

L. Balla​Sherman Oaks, get ready for your slice of West Hollywood: Greg Morris' Oak Fire Pizzeria & Pub finally opens to the public tonight. The original Oak Fire opened on La Cienega in 2007, keeping partygoers sated with wood-fired pizzas, salads and afternoon happy hours. With a brick oven ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Tabasco Reports, Tips Reflect Breast Size Mad Men Cocktails

-- Matt Armendariz reports from Avery Island and the center of the Tabasco universe. [Matt Bites] -- The larger the breasts, the bigger the gratuity. (This is not a surprise, is it?) [LA Observed] -- America's Weirdest Restaurants. [CNBC] -- Ricardo Zarate fights hunger in his native Peru via ... More >>

Film Review: Every Man for Himself at LACMA

Jean-Luc Godard's second first film

Ban on Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages (Like Four Loko -- Last Year) Proposed by Valley State Sen. Alex Padilla

La vida Loko.​Long after the FDA pressured the makers of Four Loko to make the alcoholic beverage a little less loco, San Fernando Valley state Sen. Alex Padilla is attempting to put the brakes on similar drinks in the Golden State. As part of a flurry of last-minute bills in Sacramento this ... More >>

Steerage: Smoke City Market

New Sherman Oaks barbecue joint gets the important things right, Texas-style

William Eggleston, Superstar

So much more than a "poet of the mundane"

Captain Beefheart: The Legendary 1980 Profile by Lester Bangs

Captain Beefheart artwork for Doc at the Radar Station album ad (1980)​[As we reported this afternoon, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, died today at 69. We already posted a list of the "Top 14 Reasons Why Captain Beefheart Was a True American Genius" by Beefheartologist Rob Chalfen. You can ... More >>

Mexican Coke: A Myth?

Bob With​ Apparently, Mexican Coke isn't it. A collective shudder swept through diehard foodies everywhere last week, when Time Magazine and The Atlantic, among others, reported a new study in the journal Obesity that may have inadvertantly proven Mexican Coke to be no more than a myth.

Forage: the Found and the Farro

Straight out of Silver Lake

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Air Apparent: Jose Andrés' Bazaar

High-tech foams, Ferran Adrià style, but also the old-school flavors of a slice of bellota ham

Ask Mr. Gold: Salt-and-Pepper Squid

Let's Roll

Super Fry

Layover, With Cheese

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou