Ethiopia

A Really Tough Job: Judging L.A.'s International Wine Competition

Would you call this heaven or hell for a wine lover? Getting forty-three Cabernets to taste but not drink, 27 Viogniers to sample and spit out -- and so on, through some 3,200 entries in this year's Los Angeles International Wine Competition. More than 70 judges willing to take on the challenge ga ... More >>

As Live Talks Los Angeles Turns Three Years Old, Its Founder Explains What Makes a Great Conversation

Ronald Reagan may have been the Great Communicator, but Ted Habte-Gabr is obsessed with conversation. Habte-Gabr produces Live Talk Los Angeles, a series of events that pair interesting names -- often of the literary world -- for sit-down interviews in front of hundreds of people. His first event ... More >>

Asian-Chasing Creeps Make L.A. The International-Dating Epicenter Of America

Seeing that we're the jumping-off point for the Asian Pacific, Latin America and, for whatever reason, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, it should be no surprise that Los Angeles is the "international dating" capital of America. That, at least, is the word from a rep for the website AnastasiaDate, which tol ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Becky and Kedist Tsadik, A Modern Ethiopian Supper Club A Yellow Split Pea Recipe

Becky and Kedist Tsadik's Ethiopian supper club Bereket began as a class assignment. In her second year of business school at UCLA, Kedist, 29, drew up plans for an upscale Ethiopian restaurant and entered the campus international food festival for empirical research. Her food kiosk ended up winning ... More >>

Banadir Somali Restaurant: More Fun With Goat in Inglewood

At first glance, Banadir Somali Restaurant looks more like Somalian community center than a restaurant. White bars cover the shaded and tinted windows. The main entrance leads to a long hallway with a kitchen off to the left. You have to look around a bit before noticing a door that leads to the din ... More >>

Meals by Genet: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Cafe Demitasse and Trystero Coffee Launch Demitasse Roasting

With coffee shops opening up in Los Angeles faster than the newest gastropub can fry its Brussels sprouts, it was only a matter of time before a few local coffee professionals decided to go beyond the brew and see about roasting their own coffee. Such is the case with Cafe Demitasse's Bobak Roshan, ... More >>

Georgia Anne Muldrow Is the Most Soulful Woman in the Western States

To invoke Bobby Byrd, Rakim and Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, soul is difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. It can't be calculated, borrowed or bought. The idea is more ancient than Scripture, and its effects are equally ineffable. "Soul" is pure cliché and an unavoidable as ... More >>

Immigrant Dance

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Meals by Genet: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Jonathan Gold Recommends Book Club Eats

Why Should You Listen To Fool's Gold Rather Than "Real" African Artists?

Jesse Fleming​See also: Fool's Gold perform at FYF Fest, September 3, 2011 On their eponymous 2009 debut album, L.A.'s Fool's Gold -- who play the Troubadour tomorrow -- treated the indie-rock mob to a bubbling batch of jammy rock/pop liberally laced with African, Latin and other worldly spic ... More >>

Where to have a Book Club Dinner a Caveat

Dear Mr. Gold: I'm in a book club with some pretty amazing women. All of us are mothers -- read: limited budget but willing to splurge on something special. We read mostly fiction, and a couple of books on our calendar are set in foreign countries, one in France, the second in Ethiopia. We've deci ... More >>

Weird Science: Envy Holds Back Agricultural Development

Flickr/TeseumEthiopian landscape​ In a rural Ethiopian village, a man sets fire to his brother's farm when his brother begins cultivating a more profitable cereal. Why? Envy, which can cripple agricultural development. Actually, envy can cripple just about anything. That's obvious. Now, thanks ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum

Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

The Latest Buzz: The Birth of Coffee at the Craft and Folk Art Museum

Photo: Daniel Lorenzetti from The Birth of Coffee. All rights reserved.Woman from San Juan Atitlan​With support from Gaviña Gourmet Coffee and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, The Birth of Coffee exhibit at the Craft and Folk Art Museum takes us from the coffee industr ... More >>

Movie Review: Teza

Pass the Salt, Please

Preview Cut Chemist's New Album 'Sound of the Police' at KCRW.com

Preview Cut Chemist's New Album 'Sound of the Police' at KCRW.com

Best Coast Announces Details of Debut Album,'Crazy for You'

Best Coast Announces Details of Debut Album,'Crazy for You'

Madlib Goes to Africa on New Beat Konducta Excursion [MP3s]

Madlib In Africa​It's been what -- a week or two since the last Madlib release, or three? Guess that means we should have seen this coming. Stones Throw has just shared the news that Beat Konducta in Africa -- an MP3, CD, limited 2LP and extra-limited 3LP release that seems to be the next ins ... More >>

City of Angles

Daggers of the World Unite! Skateboarders, Artists, and one Runaway Visit Exhibit A

Daggers of the World Unite! O.G. Skateboarders, artists, and one 'Runaway' Visit Exhibit A

Now-Again Records: Egon Calling

Label reissues prime funk from a wild period in music history

Q & A With Marcus Samuelsson: His New Book, Cooking as Prozac, & Why We Should Eat Pickled Herring Hot Dogs

AmazonMarcus Samuelsson's New American Table​Chef and cookbook author Marcus Samuelsson, born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, calls New York City home, not Los Angeles. Although he does come to town often, to check in on his burger operation at South Coast Plaza's Signature Kitchen at Macy's ... More >>

The Alchemy of Fool’s Gold

The self-titled debut album by a polyglot L.A. 10-piece: Hebrew vocals and West African rhythms?

The Weekend in Ethnic Feasting: Have Some Hummos with Your Injera

The post-fire smoke cloud that's still hovering over parts of the city will no doubt be blown away by the exotic spices and music filling the air this weekend. Two cultural festivals, the L.A. Greek Fest and the Little Ethiopia Street Festival, will put on proud displays of the best of their nationa ... More >>

Afghan Star: Kabul Meets American Idol

British Director Havana Marking's Feature Doc on Singing for Fame in a Wartorn Country

South of the 10: Jazz Battles at the World Stage

The World's Stage presents jazz battles in the heart of Leimert Park.

South of the 10: Sonic and Savory Flavors of Ethiopia at the Industry Cafe

For the real sonic and savory flavors of Ethiopia, the Industry Cafe in the Culver City arts district brings together slick jazz and delicious eats from East Africa.

State of Play: Elias Sime at Santa Monica Museum of Art

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Villaraigosa's Dead-End Pico and Olympic One-Way Plan ...

... hits the wall at Fairfax

Hello Mommy Africa: A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rock

Here's eight records. Now go start a riot

Sebastião Salgado's Search for the Pristine

The shift from human degradation to unexploited nature

Seeking Refuge

An accountant’s case sheds light on a troubled L.A. center

Around the Horn of Fairfax

A Fowler Trifecta

And then some

Ethiopian Dreams

Elias Wondimu and the art of bridging continents

Ask Mr. Gold

Best Dishes of 2004

New to the List

Chicken Stew for the Soul

Among the Wretched

Geoff Dyer on Ryszard Kapuscinski

Selling the Sun

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival at 10

Running on Empty

George W. Bush’s plea for votes — and brain cells

The Matter at Hand

In some of our favorite parts of the world, everything is finger food, from steaming gobs of rice to whole fried carp

Fairfax Avenue

Ethiopian Addis-Faction in Mid-Wilshire

Heavy Bad Mojo

Cowboys, Indians and plastic women