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Burger Week 2013 at The Oinkster: Doritos Bell Beefer, Thrilla From Manila More!

It's a burger throwdown for restaurant and diners, with the return of The Oinkster's Burger Week from Monday, June 3 to Sunday, June 9. While the slow fast food joint faces off with popular flavor profiles, customers will have the seven-day "Burger Challenge" to contend with. Around the same time l ... More >>

The End is Nigh: Taco Bell Introduces Waffle Taco in Orange County

Coming on the heels of the wild success of the Doritos Tacos Locos, it seems that Taco Bell has decided to just let the stoners completely take over the menu development side of their business, because Brand Eating is reporting that Taco Bell is testing a taco made from a waffle. And -- lucky us -- ... More >>

LYFE Kitchen Review: This Would-Be Chain's Heart Is in the Right Place, But Its Food Isn't

Top 5 Snacks to Emerge After the New Taco Bell Doritos Loco Taco

Last year's unleashing of the Doritos Locos Nacho Cheese beef taco was Taco Bell's biggest product launch ever, shaking the earth and forever changing what we mere mortals thought was possible in the fast food game. Turns out, Taco Bell may even win an award for their culinary black magic. Now, wi ... More >>

Salt Linked to 2.3 Million Deaths Annually

It's the ultimate salt vs. sugar smackdown! On Monday we reported that sugary drinks have been linked to 180,000 deaths worldwide annually. Now a new report presented at a conference yesterday says that eating too much salt kills 2.3 million people every year, CBS News reports. Researchers looked ... More >>

How Easy Is It to Bang at SXSW?

By Kiernan Maletsky "All the single dudes put up your phone. Now all the single ladies put up your phone. Turn to the nearest person with a phone up. Now type in your phone number. Now you have something to do after this." That was Chuck D, talking from the Doritos Main Stage. Or at least I think ... More >>

Research Says Convenience Food Isn't all That Convenient for Families

Convenience food doesn't quite live up to its promise of speed when it's used in the making of family dinners, says a study on the eating habits of middle-class families in Los Angeles. Nor does it necessarily help with each family's long-term nutritional goals.

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 >>

Taco Bell Benches Anti-Veggie Super Bowl Ad

If you were planning to bring a veggie platter to a Super Bowl party this Sunday, maybe raise your hands and yell, "Score!" Right. Team Taco Bell dropped the ball this week, when their trash-talking anti-vegetable TV commercial was blocked by an aggressive Twitter campaign by irate people from Tea ... More >>

Top 5 Places in L.A. To Buy Super Bowl Party Beer Kegs

If you're hosting a Super Bowl party this Sunday for friends, you're probably already stressing at the thought of ordering a half-dozen pizzas for on-time delivery and fist fighting for the last family-size bag of Doritos at the local Ralph's. But when it comes to providing copious amounts of beer ... More >>

Doritos Cool Ranch Tacos Locos: They're A-Comin'

Doritos Tacos Locos weren't just a good idea for Taco Bell, they basically saved the company. OK, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it made Taco Bell kick ass last year when sales had been declining in previous years.

Meet the L.A. Couple Who Are Finalists for the Doritos Super Bowl Ad Contest For the Third Year in a Row

Tyler Dixon and Heather Kasprzak met as nemeses at the Super Bowl in Dallas in 2011. Both had created award-winning ads selected out of thousands by Doritos to air during the Super Bowl. Both were also hoping to be ranked No. 1 by the USA Today Ad Meter, which would award them the $1 million Doritos ... More >>

Top 5 Lessons for Chain Restaurants in 2012: Doritos Tacos Work; Lobster Stuffed Filet Doesn't

It's that time of year when chain restaurants report their year-end earnings and industry rags scramble to report and explain all that went right and wrong for the industry over the past 12 months. People in boardrooms ponder these lessons, and sit around trying to think up ways to gain our business ... More >>

Wolvesmouth Goes to Comic-Con: Food Nerds Pop Culture Geeks

It's almost universally agreed upon that the food at Comic-Con sucks -- that is, unless you're a fan of floppy pizza slices and soggy hot dogs marked up to movie-theater prices. Yet just like music festivals, gaming conventions and other pop culture gatherings, Comic-Con is experiencing an influx of ... More >>

Taco Bell Introduces Mountain Dew Cocktail The Death of Mixology

After surviving the Doritos Taco Loco and the Beefy Nacho Burrito -- billed a plate of chili cheese nachos rolled into a flour tortilla -- we figured that the indigestion engineers at Taco Bell would have a hard time outdoing themselves. It turns out we very, very wrong. Taco Bell recently introduc ... More >>

Doritos Locos Tacos: A Visit to the Taco Bell HQ Test Kitchens Doritos Existentialism

Since our first story on Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco, Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos Taste Like Broken Dreams, we've received an abundance of new information courtesy of the friendly people at Taco Bell Corporate. We were invited to the new Taco Bell HQ in Irvine to re-sample the Doritos Locos T ... More >>

Cinespia Season Begins: 5 Places to Make Dining with the Dead More Livable

You live in Los Angeles so cinephilia is a given. You probably even work in the industry. But have you ever sat in a cemetery with a glass of hooch and a cheese plate to view the classics? If you can't say yes to this, you haven't really lived. And the people buried ten feet to your left would agree ... More >>

UCLA Video Game Art Festival Features Caine's Arcade Made by a 9-Year-Old, and More

A homeless seven-year-old in Russia named Pjotr is addicted to cigarettes. He must navigate the streets of St. Petersburg, doing whatever he can for a smoke -- steal liquor to give to his prostitute mother for a few bucks and trade Mercedes hood ornaments to black market dealers for a spare stoge. I ... More >>

Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco vs. A Crunchy Taco and a Bag of Doritos

"Consumers said that's more than just interesting, it's like 'where have you been my whole life,'" Taco Bell's Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer Brian Niccol told Forbes recently, about the public's reaction to the Doritos Locos Taco. This taco concoction is exactly what you might think it is: ... More >>

Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos Taste Like Broken Dreams

We were rooting for Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco. Honestly we were. We talked it up for weeks in total earnest and even posted a countdown on our Facebook page. Because if somebody gave a green light to a taco shell made out of Nacho Cheese Doritos, an idea we're pretty sure we came up with on the ... More >>

Five WTF Examples of Marketing at SXSW

See also: *The Worst Moments of SXSW 2012 *The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012 By Audra Schroeder During SXSW, and especially in the last five years or so, Sixth Street turns into one long, strange sensory overload. People nearly give you eyeball papercuts trying to get their fliers in your ... More >>

The Worst Moments of SXSW 2012

See also: *The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012 *Ten Awesome Concert Posters at SXSW Spontaneous tattoo at the S.O. Terik-Filter showcase On Friday, Samantha Urbani from Brooklyn indie band Friends did something to a fan he might forever regret. At the S.O.Terik-Filter showcase, beneath a bl ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012

So, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick's Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we'll let you know which shows weren't so hot. Find our favorites below, and if there ... More >>

50 Cent, Eminem, and the Best of SXSW Yesterday

See also Houston Press's 50 Cent showcase slideshow 50 Cent / Eminem - Austin Music Hall Never mind that Get Rich or Die Trying actually came out in 2003; the moist and dewy crowd at Austin Music Hall last night was plenty psyched for his performance of his debut album on its "10th anniversary." Ba ... More >>

Fidlar - SXSW - March 13, 2012

Fidlar and Superhumanoids SXSW Black & White Iris Showcase March 13, 2012 Better than: Playing bridge with your grandma. Once everyone got over the homeless guys being used as hot spots and the half mile line for tacos made with Doritos shells, folks settled in for the music portion of SXSW. Weekl ... More >>

Marijuana-Like Compound in Your Brain Could be Magic Pill For Weight Loss: But Don't Reach For The Doritos Just Yet

Oh boy. You stoners are going to love this one. Turns out the key to weight loss might be a marijuana-like chemical that already exists in your brain. While there are skinny weed advocates out there like Seth Rogen (after) and James Franco, consider all the Taco Bell you ate in the name of bud or t ... More >>

5 Super Bowl Food Commercials Worth Seeing (Sort Of)

Screenshot of the Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt Commercial​Whether you tuned in to cheer on the New York Giants or the New England Patriots, wanted to see Madonna lip-sync or loved the excuse of eating tons of tailgate-type food on this unofficial holiday, Super Bowl Sunday also gave us some memor ... More >>

Junk Food in Schools Not Linked to Childhood Obesity

Fat kids everywhere, rejoice! There's no link between childhood obesity and junk food sold in schools, a new study has found. Cities all over the country have been busy banning the sale of sweet and salty snacks in public schools in a bid to fight childhood obesity (thanks, Mrs. Obama). But a new ... More >>

Food Films at AFI Festival

Courtesy of Chayka SofiaA food fight of epic proportions is portrayed in Zergut.​Food has come to the foreground in cinema as of late. What started with films like Food Inc. and Fast Food Nation has evolved into entire festivals dedicated to the craft, like the recent New York and Chicago Food ... More >>

Doritos Creator Arch West To Be Buried with Corn Chips

When Arch West goes into the ground this Saturday, his family will sprinkle Doritos at his graveside, reports the Dallas Morning News. It's a fitting tribute for the man widely credited with creating Doritos corn chips. West, who died on September 20th at the age of 97, led the team at Frito-Lay t ... More >>

Dark Side of the Moon: Five Essential Parodies of the Iconic Album Cover

​If I say "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Chances are you're picturing a luminous triangle on a black background, with a single ray of light coming from one end and a neat rainbow emerging from the dispersive prism. We couldn't agree more with ... More >>

Must-See Friday Show #1: Caitlin Rose at Largo

​[By now we hope you have figured out that at LA Weekly music we don't do "hype." You can go to a bunch of other places to hear about "buzz" (why do publicists use that word as if it were a good thing?), "relevance" and "this week's hot band." Go through our "Page Two" coverage and you'll see ... More >>

Page Two: Honky-Tonk Woman

Must-see Friday show No. 1: Caitlin Rose

Super Bowl XLV: The V Best Least Annoying Food Commercials

Guzzle & NoshSuper Bowl XLV as seen on television.​ Whether it was the angry Ewoks of middle earth sharing a Coke with a fire-breathing dragon or Adrien Brody crooning to bar full of weepy women (nice to see him finally bouncing back from that Oscar win), this year's bunch of Super Bowl spots ... More >>

David Haskell's Super Bowl Junk Food and Wine Pairings

Caroline on CrackThis $24 Mas du Soleilla Coteaux du Languedoc is perfect with malt balls and Dijon chips. Kid you not.​ Self-professed "wine pimp" and Magnum pop-up restaurateur David Haskell (Le Cirque, Bin 8945) is a die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan, claiming he's worn black and gold since ... More >>

Fig & Garcia Farms Teach At-Risk Teens About Nutrition & Local Produce

C. BishopBraised Oxtail with oranges and prunes from FIG & Garcia Farms' dinner​ Last night, Fig's executive chef Ray Garcia hosted the restaurant's first farm dinner of 2011, serving dishes filled with Fallbrook's Garcia Farm's (no relation) recent harvest of over 50 varieties of citrus. Whi ... More >>

Doritos Invade Britain: Or UFO's Shaped Like Them

Daily Mailan object over Wales ​ If you wanted another sign that we're all eating far, far too much junk food, consider this story from Britain's Daily Mail. There have been many UFO sightings, it seems, in the English Midlands: at least three in the last three years. But what is perhaps more ... More >>

A Recipe From The Chef: Ray Garcia's Quinoa Salad With Orange Blossom Vinaigrette

starchefs.comQuinoa Salad At Fig​When we talked to Fig chef Ray Garcia earlier this week, he told us about cooking for small dogs in large handbags (not his handbags, or dogs for that matter) and the evolution of bacon-wrapped-bacon (get the recipe here). Lately Garcia has been focusing on t ... More >>

October Unprocessed: Q & A With Food Blogger Andrew Wilder, Unprocessed Food Man

Want to eat healthier, feel better and live longer? A million suggestions are out there on how to do just that, but a good place to start might be processed foods. As in, not eating them. Doritos, M&M's, Oscar Mayer wieners, McDonald's french fries -- could you do away with them all? Okay, how about ... More >>

Move Over, Junk Food: Schools Fill Vending Machines With Baby Carrots

Crispin Porter BoguskyCarrots Are Cool​ What comes to mind upon hearing the term school vending machine? If you're like us, you immediately conjure up images of junk food: Funions. Creme-filled Oreos. M&Ms and a plethora of other high-fat, sodium-laden snacks that are not only bad for you, ... More >>

Mac's Headroom

We have seen the future of macaroni 'n' cheese, and its name is Mac & Cheeza

Twinkie Cars, Sausage Men, and Hoagie Blimps: Kitchen (Football Snack) Stadium

The Big Game appoacheth. With Super Bowl XLIV right around the corner, millions of Americans will break out potato chips, Chex mex, Hot Dogs, and hamburgers and, of course, build a giant junk food football stadium. Okay, this may not be standard operating procedure for most gridiron fanatics gather ... More >>

INCHES reviews Mayer Hawthorne, The Anasazis, Robedoor, and Railcars (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Bound Together by the Grim Sleeper

L.A. family of serial killer's victims meet at long last

Who's Your Mermaid?

What to do in L.A. this week

Movie Reviews: Doomsday, Drillbit Taylor, Under the Same Moon

Also Shutter and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns

Un-Fashion Week

I've been unnoticeably absent from Fashion Week this season for no real reason other than I have been doing lots of random shit. It's not 'cause of any beef I may have with Smashbox (even though I am on Fern Mallis' shitlist after accidentally misquoting her in a piece I wrote for the LA Times - she ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Takoyaki

X Ray Vision

Two generations of L.A. rockers on the meaning of punk, then and now

How Good is Olestra?

Depends