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Encino

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Planet Carrots Why Our Winter Carrots Are Less Sweet This Year

    Carrots are an easy crop for farmers with the land for them. They don't have the stigma of Brussels sprouts or the on-again-off-again iron taste that beets sometimes have to fight. And they've been lucky enough to dance in the culinary trio of mirepoix for hundreds of years, an unintended marketin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Tomatomania!: Lecture and Plant Sale

    Even during a warm winter, most of us spend part of the season dreaming of luscious summer fruits and vegetables, especially tomatoes. Yes, the vine-ripe variety are still a way off, but it is finally time to start planting and Tomatomania, the spectacular annual touring tomato seedling plant sale i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Capriotti's Opens in Torrance

    Torrance has a new sandwich shop. Las Vegas-based sandwich chain Capriotti's today opened its first South Bay location -- in Torrance. The chain already has two locations in San Diego, one in Encino and one in Beverly Hills.

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Alcazar: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    Torrance has a new sandwich shop. Las Vegas-based sandwich chain Capriotti's today opened its first South Bay location -- in Torrance. The chain already has two locations in San Diego, one in Encino and one in Beverly Hills.

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

    Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Brian Posehn's Perfect Day In The Valley: Food, Toys More Food

    Brian Posehn is a comic, writer, actor, and food-eater. The Comedians of Comedy, Sarah Silverman Program, and Mr. Show alumnus is also a dedicated San Fernando Valleyite and gastronome. Squid Ink recently asked Posehn to describe what his most perfectest day in the Valley with his wife and baby wo ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 15, 2011

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Brian Posehn is a comic, writer, actor, and food-eater. The Comedians of Comedy, Sarah Silverman Program, and Mr. Show alumnus is also a dedicated San Fernando Valleyite and gastronome. Squid Ink recently asked Posehn to describe what his most perfectest day in the Valley with his wife and baby wo ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 1, 2011

    Your Weekly To-Do List

    Last rays of summer

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Photo Gallery: Vodvil Opens Tomorrow

    Is it a casino? Is it Encino? Is it a casino in Encino? Something about Vodvil, which officially opens tomorrow, evokes the disembodied sensation of spending to long in a Las Vegas gambling parlor. Hours, days, even the sense of what city you're in slips away. It's disconcerting. There's real ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Lenny Dykstra Charged With More Alleged Crimes, Including Grand Theft Auto

    ​Updated at the bottom: Authorities claim ecstasy and cocaine were found at Dykstra's house. Also, we add some details about the alleged scam they say he was trying to pull. More charges for baseball legend Lenny Dykstra today. City News Service reports that he's been charged with a hole pac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Ask Mr. Gold: A Slow Eater's Sanctuary at Aroma Café

    A Slow Eater's Sanctuary Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: I often find myself in the delightful company of very slow eaters. What are some good places to linger over a meal without incurring the passive-aggression of the waitstaff? --Nate Smith, via Facebook

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Lenny Dykstra Indicted For Allegedly Selling Stuff Under The Table After Declaring Bankruptcy

    Lenny.​Charlie Sheen might have helped to spring him from jail, but Lenny Dykstra still faces some serious allegations. Today a grand jury gave the former All-Star player the gift of a 13-count indictment that essentially alleges what feds originally arrested him for last month: Selling stuff ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    February 17, 2011

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it's too late

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    61-Year-Old L.A. Woman Dies At Hands Of Beverly Hills And Encino 'Plastic Surgeon' Ehab Mohamed

    Beverly Hills Advanced LaserDr. Ehab Mohamed​Updated after the jump: Did Dr. Mohamed try to perform a hernia repair on himself? Originally posted at 10 a.m. It's a "Nip/Tuck" episode come horrifyingly to life: Los Angeles gynecologist turned plastic surgeon Dr. Ehab Mohamed operated on 61-yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    September Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closures

    October is creeping up on us, with or without this unexpected heat wave. Angelenos patiently waited in the 90-degree heat at the Abbot Kinney Street Festival on Sunday, September 26th, salivating over grilled cheese sandwiches, fried shrimp, bánh mì, funnel cakes and kitschy L.A. food trucks. If y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    L.A. Suburbs Get What's Coming To Them: West Nile Virus Has Been Detected in Mosquitos

    ​West Nile virus has been found in mosquitoes who can transmit to humans in Cerritos, Whittier, Rowland Heights, Encino and Reseda, making 47 cases in Los Angeles County in 2010. Of people who get West Nile, one in five get symptoms. Of those, one in 150 end up in the hospital. Hopefully the su ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 16, 2010

    Alcazar: An Old Friend

    Back, serving crunchy boreg in Encino

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    First Bite: Alcazar is Back, Serving Crunchy Boreg in Encino

    Christie BishopJonagold apple, portions removed​For most of the decade, there may have been no more pleasant place in Los Angeles to eat Middle Eastern food than in Alcazar's shaded patio, a balmy place scented with hookah smoke, garlic, and the hot sajj bread baking on its grill. The restaura ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Anarbagh Indian Opens Second Restaurant in Encino

    Erinn EichingerTandoori Chicken​ Anarbagh Indian restaurant, run by the Nassa family, has been in business in Woodland Hills for over 20 years. But if getting to that end of the Valley to feed your Indian food fix is just too much for you, you're in luck. A second outpost recently opened ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    LAPD Plans DUI And Drivers License Checkpoints For The Weekend

    ​(Ladies and) gentlemen, don't start your engines. It's going to be a big weekend for DUI checkpoints. What's the occasion? We don't know. It's not the 4th of July or even New Year's Eve, but the men and women in blue will be out in force in the city of Los Angeles. So be on your best behavior ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    L.A. City Worker Deliberately Mows Over Lawn Chairs At Sepulveda Basin Dog Park

    ​A city maintenance worker deliberately mowed over about two dozen chairs at the Sepulveda Basin Dog Park last week, leaving behind a trail of plastic shards and broken parts according to the Daily News. The lawn chairs, which people brought over the years for public use, were said to be nuisa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Plastic Surgery On The Wane In America

    FoxNip/Tuck​This is really sad news for this here capital of nip/tuck. Cosmetic surgery is down a whole one percent in the United States, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, Encino, Las Vegas -- we know you can do better. On your own you can mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Bold girl criminals hit Encino, dubbed Knock-Knock crew by cops

    Cops are asking for the public's help in catching three, bold girl criminals in a burglary crew that hits pricey homes in the Encino and San Fernando Valley hills, by waltzing up to the front door and knocking -- then hitting the house if nobody answers.KTLAFrom LAPD surveillance video​It's the la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Fracking Doc GASLAND Hush-Hush Opens in LA

    ​ Gasland, Josh Fox's riveting personal documentary in which the filmmaker travels the country tracking the human cost of "fracking," a controversial method of natural gas drilling (think inexplicable illnesses, regular-joe-raping corporate cover-ups, and tap water with so much gas in it that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

    ​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Murder was the Case: LA Homicides No. 117, 118, Update: Husband and Wife Die in Murder Suicide at Encino Home

    A husband and wife found shot to death in their home in Encino yesterday died in a murder-suicide, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. View Larger Map Pedro Papias, 41, was arguing with his 35-year-old wife Rosa Valencia when he grabbed a gun and shot her several times in their bedr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2009

    Murder was the Case: LA Homicides No. 117, 118, Man and Woman Found Dead in Encino Home

    A man and a woman were found shot to death in a home in Encino today, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. LAPD officers responded to a 911 call of shots fired in the 4800 block of Haskell Avenue near Ventura Boulevard at 12:36 p.m., according to Officer Bruce Borihanh. Police and fi ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    A Los Angeles “Ban” That Really Invites Billboards?

    Critics assail a “Swiss cheese” vision that allows massive sign proliferation

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    New loopholes for Los Angeles billboards and "sign districts"

    A heated hearing unfolded earlier today before the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, which wants to create yet another complicated, exception-filled plan to try to control street clutter in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.Details of today's hearing will come from ace r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Surprise! Billboard Industry Poll Reports that Angelenos Dig Digital Billboards

    A newly released survey conducted in Los Angeles County found that  just 22 percent of residents polled were familiar with the politics and legal mess surrounding digital billboards. Of that fraction, just six percent reported that the issue was important to them. Those are only a few of the su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Today in Photographs: February 16, 1943

    Cahuenga Pass, before the freeway. Note landscaping and railroad tracks. The picture brings to mind Raymond Chandler's famous road revelry in The Little Sister, that begins with Philip Marlowe recalling: "I drove east on Sunset but I didn't go home. At La Brea I turned north and swung over to Highla ... More >>

  • News

    January 29, 2009

    Is Tokyo the Future for Los Angeles?

    A new "ban" would allow 20 areas citywide thick with billboards

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Today in Photographs: December 22, 1941 & More

    Not JapaneseHelen Chan pins Sun Lum with lapel badge identifying him as "Chinese," to avoid being rounded up with Japanese Americans who were being interred following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. (L.A. Times photo from UCLA Digital Collection)Turn page to see a well-attired Steve Allen picketting ... More >>

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Digital Billboards Become a Bohemian Blasphemy

    Silver Lake, Hollywood, the Valley and Westside take on City Hall's anti-green transformation of LA

  • LA Life

    July 31, 2008

    Greenwashed and Dyed: Nori's Eco Salon

    Nontoxic hair color under the shredded-denim ceilings of a Greenopia-recommended beauty parlor

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    Westsiders Slam Villaraigosa's Push for Apartments Citywide

    Is slow growth back, or is this the eve of construction?

  • News

    May 31, 2007

    A Denser L.A.

    Understanding the map

  • Eat+Drink

    March 15, 2007

    Good, Better, Best

    In search of the Armenian gold standard

  • Eat+Drink

    August 3, 2006

    Ask Mr. Gold: Australian Cuisine

    In search of the Armenian gold standard

  • Art+Books

    July 20, 2006

    Prodigy Schmodigy

    Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

  • Eat+Drink

    October 20, 2005

    I Am Arak

    Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

  • LA Life

    September 1, 2005

    Mr. Zip

    Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

  • Eat+Drink

    September 16, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

  • Eat+Drink

    August 26, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

  • Music

    July 31, 2003

    In With the Out Crowd

    Edited by Kateri Butler

  • Eat+Drink

    January 9, 2003

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Edited by Kateri Butler

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    A Neighborhood Just West of Downtown

    Edited by Kateri Butler

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    A Scary Abundance of Water

    Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Nightlife

    Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

  • Eat+Drink

    July 23, 1998

    Taste Globally, Picnic Locally

    Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

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