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Tobias Summers, Wanted In Northridge Girl's Abduction, Caught In Mexico

Tobias Summers, the gang member wanted in the horrific abduction of a 10-year-old Northridge girl, was captured in Mexico this morning, officials said. After getting nowhere by waiting him out, Mexican authorities yesterday launched a campaign to plaster his mug in public. It worked:

Ricky's Fish Tacos: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Cacao Mexicatessen: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Cocktail Nerdom: It's National Margarita Day!

See also: 5 Best Margaritas In L.A. We all know that the true national margarita day is Cinco De Mayo, but because every food thing under the sun must have a day of its own (Why? Who the hell knows?), today is the official National Margarita Day. This seems a tad counter-intuitive. If it were marga ... More >>

Black Market Liquor Bar: Embittering Ventura Boulevard

You make reasonable assumptions about what you're going to drink depending on where you are. You don't go to Manhattan Beach to drink scotch, any more than you would Ensenada; you expect something more beachy there, in a tropical, caipirinha-colada vein perhaps. In Silver Lake you may be able to ord ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

15: Fish Taco from Ricky's Fish Tacos

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 15: Fish Taco from Ricky's Fish Tacos. There's so much to love about Ricky's: Ricky Piña himself, who couldn't find good enough Ensenada-style fish ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/10 - 9/14

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Now we've gotta worry about what our grandmas ate?" Eating Fatty Foods During Pregnancy Linked to Breast Cancer in Offspring. "Second, and really most important, is that they do not come quickly, ever, so just put that out o ... More >>

Where the Chefs Eat: Ink's Michael Voltaggio

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite spots for everyday or cheap dining options. This week, Michael Voltaggio, chef at West Hollywood's ink and ink.sac, tells us his favorite spots in L.A. "I was in Ensenada recently," says Michael Vol ... More >>

74: The Sea Urchin Tostada at La Guerrerense

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 74: The Sea Urchin Tostada at La Guerrerense. Sure, you can eat Sabina Bandera González' glorious seafood tostadas here in Los Angeles, at the LA Street Food ... More >>

10 Best Tacos in Los Angeles

Los Cincos Puntos, one of our favorite places for a taco, is located right near a cemetery. This is fitting, in a way: After all, in Los Angeles, nothing can be said to certain, except death and tacos. Indeed, we're willing to bet that if you peeked in backyards across town during Memorial Day week ... More >>

Las Cafeteras Defy Tradition

Their take on Veracruz music is pissing some folks off

Tacos Baja Ensenada: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Fish Taco Food Fight: Los Feliz vs. Silverlake

whysarah/flickrFish tacos at Best Fish Taco in Ensenada.​ The ideal fish taco is a time-sensitive collision of hissing-hot battered fish, a shell puffed up around mild, sweet flesh; a tortilla or two; crunchy cabbage; and cool, slightly sour crema. It is time-sensitive because, if the diner ... More >>

Blackout Lawsuit Seeks Class Action Status in Federal Court For Millions Affected by SoCal's Electricity Outage

the arcticSan Diego, in the dark.​Two plaintiffs are suing Arizona Public Service Company, it's corporate parent, and San Diego Gas & Electric over the Great Blackout of 2011. The suit seeks class-action status, which means that anyone else in the same situation could, if approved by the court ... More >>

Oops, I Just Unplugged San Diego: Let's Fix it so Just One Person Can't Put Much of SoCal in the Dark Again

Fox​Updated at the bottom: The California Independent System Operator will join the party, er we mean, investigations. First posted at 7:09 a.m. When the power went out yesterday for a large swath of Southern California only days before the anniversary of 9/11, our thoughts naturally took us ... More >>

Osama's Marijuana Garden Found at Pakistani Compound? Bin Laden Been Blazin'?

Osama Bin Blazin.'​This could maybe explain Osama Bin Laden's pipe dreams of taking down the might United States: Turns out there was a marijuana garden growing next to his compound in Pakistan. CNN's Nic Robertson (via Huffington Post) came across it while touring the residential grounds wi ... More >>

Illegal Immigrants Suspected of Landing in SoCal on a Boat Caught Caked With Sand in Anaheim, Feds Say

TheGirlsNYAh-hah!​U.S. authorities seem pretty cocksure about this case: After a boat ran around in Carlsbad and smuggling-at-sea suspects they were shadowing on land led them to an apartment in Anaheim several hours later, they found ... ... nine illegal immigrants there whose clothing was c ... More >>

Q & A With Ricky Piña of Ricky's Fish Tacos: Lemons on His Fish Tacos (Don't Do It), Growing Up in Baja Henry Ford

T. NguyenRicky Piña ​Ricky Piña is the "Ricky" in "Ricky's Fish Tacos," who, according to some, slings the best fish and shrimp tacos this side of Baja. When Ricky tweets his hours -- currently Thursday through Sunday, around 11:30 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m. -- a line of people shows up at his sta ... More >>

Q & A With Ricky Piña of Ricky's Fish Tacos, Part 2: Fish Tacos For Angelenos Baja Night 2.0

T. NguyenRicky Piña ​In the first part of our interview with Ricky Piña, the guy behind Ricky's Fish Tacos told us about growing up in Ensenada, learning how to cook from his mother and grandmother, and going back and forth between Los Angeles and Baja before finally settling in Los Angeles ... More >>

Links and Locations to Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Restaurants 2010

4,400 Carnival Cruisers Stranded Off Mexico -- With 70,000 Pounds Of Bread On The Way

Wikipedia CommonsThe passengers of the good ship Splendor fight for their lives with no air conditioning​Updated after the jump: A Mexican tugboat named Chihuahua begins the Splendor's long tow of shame. Originally posted Tuesday morning. Update: The burning question: Can they keep drinking? ... More >>

Your Carnival Cruise Ship Emergency Diet: Pop Tarts, Croissants & Spam

So you're stranded on a giant cruise ship 200 miles off the coast of Baja California in the Pacific. Your 952-foot vessel is adrift; the AC and the toilets are not working. You and your fellow 4,500 passengers are running low on food while the Carnival Cruise Line tries to figure out whether to tow ... More >>

Time Capsule: The Yard

Au courant, and we're not talking French

La Cevicheria: Blood and Clams

Ceviche to die for

A Memory of What Might Have Been

Stage Raw: A Memory of What Might Have Been

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashNEW REVIEW GO  A MEMORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ​ Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's Underground George Bernard Shaw wrote that "men and women are made by their own fancies in the image ... More >>

A Benefit for the Kids of Baja: Mole, Music, Tequila and Mezcal

Feel sad about those helpless kids living on the streets of Tijuana and Ensenada? Then do something about it, like take part in the April 22 benefit for Corazon de Vida Foundation at Guelaquetza restaurant on Olympic Blvd. Funds raised will go toward housing and food for orphaned and abandoned chil ... More >>

Consider the Oysterette

Bivalvular (and other) pleasures on Ocean Avenue

Mexican Road Trip Part III: Seafood, Wineries, Barbacoa and Even More Tacos

For the group of food writers, bloggers, chefs and restaurateurs that spent this past weekend traveling through Mexico, Saturday morning began at the weekend-only spot, Barbacoa "Ermita". Slurping lamb consommé so thick and soothing that it should replace chicken soup in elementary school thermoses ... More >>

Roadtrip to Tijuana: Why All Your Foodblogs are Posting From Mexico

Thanks to the tireless work of Mexican food expert and blogger Bill Esparza--in conjunction with the Tijuana Tourism Board Tijuana Convention & Visitors Bureau--a group of bloggers, food writers, chefs and restaurateurs headed south last week on a mission of exploration and eating, to consume some o ... More >>

Queer Town: The Biggest Fan

Caesar Leon, an outgoing and enthusiastic young man, had been waiting for this night for a very long time. “I saw him before the movie,” Leon said, standing below the stage at the El Rey Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard. “I heard his lyrics and read them and fell in love with him. I’m his bigg ... More >>

Cod Almighty

Best Fish Taco in Ensenada

99 Essential - List Only

A Beer-slugging, Flag-waving, Double-Wilder Week of Fun

Regional Mexican

The (Minor) Agony on the Ecstasy

When you cruise, you schmooze � with people who don�t necessarily think like your friends back home

Build a House, Go to Jail

Two Baja laborers led land invasions with their poor neighbors and brought down the wrath of a government intent on enforcing rules that protect the rich

The Great Outdoors

The New Face of Politics in Mexico

Hint: It isn�t Vicente Fox

Gills & All

The fish, the whole fish and nothing but the fish

Life�s a Beach

Papa Fernandez�s strip of paradise

Remembrance of Meals Past

The best dishes of 1999

Yo Quiero Tacos

Yeah. Drop the chalupa.

Marine Land

Finally a great fish taco in Los Angeles

Good, Better, Wurst

You never sausage a thing in your life . . .

Pig Deal

Perfect carne adobada in Highland Park

Ahoy, Amigos!

Something's fishy south of the border(s)

Authentic Café?

Tacos like Mom used to make

Tacos Belles