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Full of Life Flatbread, Um, PIZZA: Worth The Drive

With plenty of serviceable options for wood-fired pizza right here in the city, why would anyone hop into their car for an hours-long ride just to try a pie? And a FLATBREAD pizza at that?! Well, because Full of Life Flatbread in Los Alamos, CA, is fantastic. Sure, it's tucked away at the end of a o ... More >>

What's In the Chef's Market Cart: Seascape Strawberries from McGrath Family Farm

What's in your cart, chef? This week, we ask Karen Klemens, the master preserver behind Mothercluck's vibrant seasonal canned goods and jams as well as chef/owner of Mother Moo Creamery. Open for a year and a half in a location that formerly housed a Domino's Pizza, Mother Moo has quickly become k ... More >>

Better Food for Dogs, A Doggie Diet Resolution A Peanut Butter Dog Treat Recipe

And so the month of dieting, and best-selling diet books, begins. Judging by the stacks on our desk, this year's back cover theme is the anti-diet, with books like The Parisian Diet: How to Reach Your Right Weight and Stay There promising a "sensible and holistic approach ... not a flash-in-the-pan ... More >>

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Is The Dove Shack's "Summertime in the LBC" the Perfect Summer Song?

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] See also: KDAY, the Gangsta Rap Oldies Station, Breaks New Ground by Playing Music From the Bad Old Days This is the city and the season for the summer jam. Yo ... More >>

Deliverance: On the Road With a Domino's Delivery Guy

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. Sixteen-year Domino's veteran Mark Porter drives like my old driver's ed instructor. In fact, Porter's maneuvering of his red Hyundai on a recent Wednesday afternoon reminds me, viscerally, of that long-ago driver's ed class. Mayb ... More >>

2012 Restaurant Issue

Cheese, Please: What's the Deal With Mozzarella?

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. In L.A.'s not-so-distant pie past, family pizza night meant Friday evening quibbles over thick versus thin crust, debates over the proportion of marinara sauce to other ingredients and, inevitably, a few irreconcilable topping dif ... More >>

Most Meat Is Full of Antibiotics, Survey Finds

Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York has released the results from a survey of more than 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry, Forbes reports. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate their level of transp ... More >>

911 For Emergency Food Delivery? LAPD Tells Homeless Man in Venice to Call Cops For Food

The arrest of a man who allegedly snatched a purse at a popular Venice restaurant yesterday was caught on video. Ho-hum, yeah. But what's interesting is that an LAPD officer lectures him and suggests that if the suspect was simply homeless and hungry, as he claimed, all he had to do was call 911 an ... More >>

Domino's New Crust Tests (Mostly) Gluten-Free

Domino's, we may have wronged you. Last month, we wrote about the pizza chain's new "gluten-free" crust, and how the company added a bunch of disclaimers to that description, including saying the new pizza "was not recommended for people with celiac disease." Although the pizza was made with gluten ... More >>

Domino's Introduces (Sort of) Gluten-Free Crust

Domino's is proud to be the first national pizza delivery chain to introduce a gluten-free pizza crust for their "choice consumers." There's just one little hitch: They can't guarantee the pizza is actually gluten-free. So it's not recommended for those with celiac disease, but rather, only for tho ... More >>

Marijuana's Top 5 Uses, From Real University Research

Here in California, marijuana is legal for just about any ailment you can dream up. And while medical cannabis supporters have argued that the drug is a harmless tool for grandmothers with cancer who want to forget their pain and spark their appetites, there has been plenty of academic research on ... More >>

ROC Diners' Guide on Restaurant Working Conditions: The 2012 Edition

​In this age of food we're bombarded by facts and opinions on how, what and where to eat. We Angelenos especially like our fine restaurants and casual eateries. But where to go? There are more than 20,000 restaurants in greater L.A., according to the Weekly's Voiceplaces.com. There seem to be ... More >>

Want to be an Art Dealer? Take Our Quiz and Guess if These Works are Mega Pricey or Super Cheap

jgarbeeThe Hot Pink Catwalk Entry at the Affordable Art Fair​What a difference a few blocks make in the theory of relativity of art value. Yesterday, we went to the L.A. Art Show: Modern & Contemporary at the L.A. Convention Center and the Affordable Art Fair at the event deck at L.A. Live, bo ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/29-9/2

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Pan-fried sand dabs with succotash? A big melon salad with strips of prosciutto and a little lemon verbena? Spaghetti tossed with the orange Juliet tomatoes from Harry's Berries sauteed just until ... More >>

Domino's To Open Pizza Shop on The Moon

Source images from dominos.jpThe Japanese out-innovate America? Yes, they do!​ MEMORANDUM From: Shuji Sakai, LA Weekly To: Scott Oelkers, C.E.O. of Dominos Pizza Japan In re: Your wacky video to build a Domino's on the moon. Dear Mr. Oelkers: We realize you planned and spent the money on y ... More >>

Venn Food Diagrams: L.A.'s Idea of Midwestern Food vs. What Midwesterners Really Eat

After exploring L.A.'s perceptions of Indian, Armenian, and Vietnamese cuisine in our oh-so-scientific Venn Food Diagrams series, it's time to circle back to some American regional cooking, and do like we did for Southern food--this time with the Midwest. D. Berson​

Why Los Angeles Schoolkids Get Lousy Meals

Food News Roundup: Street Food, Is Donald Trump Drinking Too Much Willy Wonka, Molecular Gastronomist

-- Time to Boycott French Toast, French Fries Again. (See: burqa laws.) [The Awl] -- Gordon Ramsay moves to Bel Air ("12 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a summerhouse"). [Digital Spy, via Eater] -- New Farmworker Report Paints a Big, Grim Picture. [Civil Eats via @SlowFoodUSA] -- The wonderful world o ... More >>

Stud Llamas, Delivery Chickens Mark Twain's Favorite Fruit: Top 5 Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds of the Week

Combing through Craigslist's Farm and Garden Classifieds gives an Internet prowler a case of the chuckles. Some people yuck at the writing, but for us, the wares themselves (see pig statue entry) and the vendors' keen marketing ploys (see llama entry) are enough. Seriously though, seeing what peopl ... More >>

Burger King Gives its Burger the Stuffed Crust Pizza Treatment

Courtesy of Burger King.​ With the debut of its BK Stuffed Steakhouse Burger, Burger King hopes to achieve what Domino's et. al. accomplished with stuffed crust pizza: Shove cheap extra calories into its core product to make it exponentially more fattening and, hence, more appealing. The Stuf ... More >>

Van Nuys Farmers Market Shut Down By L.A. City Councilman Tony Cardenas

Here In Van NuysA much lusher Van Nuys Farmers Market, back in October 2008​Updated after the jump: Councilman Cardenas explains his decision. Meanwhile, the market remains shuttered indefinitely. 'Tis the season for L.A. brick-and-mortar businesses to hate on those damned gypsy vendors who s ... More >>

Want a $31,000/hour Part-time Job? Domino's Japan Has One Open

Domino's Japan​ The global recession, or whatever we're calling it these days, seems not to apply to Domino's Japan. Last week the Japanese pizza company announced that it will be offering a special part-time job next month: a one hour gig for which the lucky employee will receive 2.5 million ... More >>

Meg Whitman's Campaign Spending Could Have Gone Toward Two Pizzas For Every California Household: Would You Have Preferred The Pies?

dominos.comPizza, or politics?​As it seems almost a sure thing that Meg Whitman is going to lose this gubernatorial battle (want to bet? No? Didn't think so.), Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez asks if the $140 million she pumped into her own $160-million-plus campaign could have been pu ... More >>

Campaign Finance Reform: Ads or Pizza?

Flickr/VirtualEm​ Over in The Weekly's news blog -- yes, we care about who you vote for as much as what you eat, at least sometimes -- Dennis Romero reports that Steve Lopez has been doing some numbers crunching about the money spent on the gubernatorial race. It seems that the $140 million t ... More >>

California Death Row Countdown: Four From L.A. And Inland Empire Cleared To Die In California's $853,000 Gas Chamber This Month

​It's almost funny that they call it "corrections." Six people on the Golden State's Death Row are expected to get their breathing permanently corrected this month, with Albert Greenwood Brown, Jr. set to be the first  executed in nearly five years. Of the six who officials tell the Weekly a ... More >>

DEAR MAFIA, PLEASE DON'T KILL US FOR THIS

SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere...High Times at High Times...Why in God's Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?

Bloggers are every journalist's favorite whipping boy. If a shitty band gets too popular, blame the bloggers. If the standards of professional journalism have eroded too much, blame the bloggers. If by 2010, Vampire Weekend has inspired legions of college freshmen to dress as ironic yachters, bla ... More >>

Death Penalty for Chester Turner

A victim's mom asks how she can forgive the worst serial killer in L.A.'s history