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Food Word Clouds: Michael Voltaggios's Ink. Menu

Sure, many of us often long for the days of vellum and foolscap, or maybe manual typewriters, or at the very least dense newsprint and certain glossy Condé Nast magazines, instead of the relentlessness of Twitter's Ritalin haiku and, yeah, food blogs. But sometimes technology is pretty awesome. Con ... More >>

Cry Baby Lane VIDEO: Watch Nickelodeon's 'Banned' Halloween Movie Online

Viacom (Please don't sue me?)Scaredy cat.​So much hullabaloo, this Halloweentime, about the revival of Nickelodeon's fabled turn-of-the-century horror flick "Cry Baby Lane." According to Reuters, it'll be airing this Oct. 31 for the first time since it debuted in 2000. (Once at 12 a.m., and on ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor E-Book to be Published by Vanity Fair: Too Soon?

Vanity FairElizabeth Taylor gets her first posthumous book.​It's never too soon to capitalize on a fallen angel. At least, that is, if you're Vanity Fair magazine. The publication announced this week that it's publishing a book about Elizabeth Taylor. And, yeah, it's coming at you quick. Bec ... More >>

[Updated] Bon Appétit Names Adam Rapoport New Editor-in-Chief

Update: Over at The New York Times yesterday, Julia Moskin caught up with newly named Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport, hours after he was officially named to the post on Monday. Rapoport, who is 40 and likes to cook and play golf with Justin Timberlake, spent the night grilling lamb and m ... More >>

Bon Appétit Moves From L.A. to New York Barbara Fairchild to Leave Magazine

James Beard FoundationBarbara Fairchild​Condé Naste announced this morning that food magazine Bon Appétit will relocate its offices later this year from Los Angeles to New York, and that, after 32 years with the magazine, editor-and-chief Barbara Fairchild will be leaving the magazine. Fair ... More >>

Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate: Starting With Foodie, Part 2

Flickr/WordRidden​ A few months ago we went off on the Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate, a post that generated a lot of feedback, for which we are grateful. It also, as you might expect, generated a lot of other words that are happily vilified by many of us who spend far more time, sadly, writing ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/2-8/6

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Is there caramel soufflé for dessert? There is always caramel soufflé for dessert."

Taste of a Magazine: Condé Nast-themed Restaurants

Novikov GroupMoscow's Vogue Café​ Condé Nast is continuing to do odd food-related things with its magazines, following the Gourmet-as-iPad-app plan by making its rags available to license for themed restaurants in Asia, South America and the Middle East. It's a business practice the company ... More >>

The Legacy of Gourmet Magazine: As They Were

Matter's Most

Mercedes' nondealership

Weed mags sprout across LOS ANGELES

Publications reap windfall from pot ads

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/9 - 11/13

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But I'm not one of those people out in Southeast Asia looking for whatever, fermented chickens in their shells'" Q & A With Thomas Keller, Part 2: The Best Meal He Ever Cooked, The Importance of Fernand Point Lightbu ... More >>

Your Online Recipe Box: Epicurious.com A 1941 Recipe for Lobster Thermidor & Their Most Popular Recipe, Double Chocolate Layer Cake

The vast Condé Nast recipe database Epicurious.com is a phenomenal resource for both home and professional cooks, kind of like The Beatles catalog for food people. With the closing down of Gourmet Magazine (this month is the last issue), Epicurious became even more valuable, as it now functions as ... More >>

For Bon Appétit, and The Rest of Us, A Waiting Game

Bon Appétit​Since Condé Nast made their Sophie's Choice decision last week to keep Bon Appétit and shut down Gourmet magazine, there has been much speculation about how this is going to affect the former publication, the editorial offices of which are here in Los Angeles. Bon Appétit Edi ... More >>

Gourmet Magazine To Close: November Issue To Be Its Last

Gourmet Magazine is closing, according to reports from the New York Times. The Condé Naste magazine will reportedly announce this morning that it will stop publication after its November issue. The magazine, which was first published in 1941, has seen sharply declining ad revenue and there had been ... More >>

Food Fight at Condé Nast: The Sketchy Future of Bon Appétit and Gourmet

Gordon Ramsay does a cooking demo​Readers of food magazines often like to pit Condé Nast's two culinary powerhouses, Gourmet and Bon Appétit, against each other. Like Letterman and Leno, one is based in New York (Gourmet), the other here in Los Angeles (Bon Appétit). Gourmet has historicall ... More >>

Solutions for the Freshly Freelance

The "I don't love the inside of my car that much" edition

Bye Bye, Domino Magazine

The hip shelter magazine is dead. No more DIY gardening projects. No more party planning tips. No more decorating inspirations. The President and CEO of Conde Nast, Charles Townsend, made the announcement today. "This decision to cease publication of the magazine and its website is driven entirely ... More >>

Chris Anderson Wired explain the business of free.

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only some of whom exchange cash.

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Primary colors

Conde Anarchists

This month's Conde Nast-published Wired magazine reads less like a tech-geek periodical and more like The Anarchist's Cookbook, v 2.0. One story, entitled Duck the Police, references our favorite LA rabble-rousers NWA while educating speed-racers on how to dodge cop radar and ... More >>

Apt Pupil

With The History Boys, Alan Bennett stays at the head of the class

Showing Pinkberry

Yogurt clones spread the white stuff

Face in the Hip Crowd

Graydon Carter's Hollywood Ending

Vanity Fair editor reportedly calling friends scumbags on eve of Oscars

Bonfire of the Vanity Affairs

WEB UPDATE: Graydon Carter targeted by Republican attack dogs . . . and other comedies

The Blind Leading the Mauled

White tigers, white men and white mischief

L.A. Times and N.Y. Times investigating Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter

Get Carter?

L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal investigating Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter; LAT probing whether Carter made deals with Hollywood moguls & companies

Your Time Is Now

Text and the City

Londoner Toby Young gets hired and fired by Vanity Fair and lives to write about it

Medium Cool

James Wolcott on lowbrow vs. highbrow, common sense and his first novel, The Catsitters

Text Appeal

Barbara Kruger's word-image art