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  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    A Recipe from the Chef: Wes Lieberher's 'Beer Belly Brussels'

    Between serving up his "Death by Duck" grilled cheese sandwich at this weekend's Grilled Cheese Invitational, preparing for a championship-defending rematch at this summer's Korean BBQ festival, and engineering weekly creations like pizza cheesesteaks and fried house-cured pickles at "New Order Mond ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 27, 2011

    Inni: Sigus Ros' Second Movie

    Between serving up his "Death by Duck" grilled cheese sandwich at this weekend's Grilled Cheese Invitational, preparing for a championship-defending rematch at this summer's Korean BBQ festival, and engineering weekly creations like pizza cheesesteaks and fried house-cured pickles at "New Order Mond ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 1, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

    Between serving up his "Death by Duck" grilled cheese sandwich at this weekend's Grilled Cheese Invitational, preparing for a championship-defending rematch at this summer's Korean BBQ festival, and engineering weekly creations like pizza cheesesteaks and fried house-cured pickles at "New Order Mond ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Tim Stanley, British Writer in California, Sees Lessons For London in L.A. Riots

    Time​A third night of rioting around London had at least one British writer pondering the lessons of L.A's own unrest in 1965 and 1992. Writing in the

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Top 5 Drinks in Need of Reclassification

    HeadCRasher/flickrBeer, not food. ​ We've long claimed beers to be part of a balanced diet -- like slices of whole wheat crammed into cans. In late July however, Russia sobered us up with a devastating reclassification of our beloved brew: Beer, by the new standard, is amazingly no longer c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2011

    Mott Collection: Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper

    HeadCRasher/flickrBeer, not food. ​ We've long claimed beers to be part of a balanced diet -- like slices of whole wheat crammed into cans. In late July however, Russia sobered us up with a devastating reclassification of our beloved brew: Beer, by the new standard, is amazingly no longer c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Il Fico: Pugliese Cooking Comes to L.A.

    F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ Puglia, the sliver of Southern Italy often described as the heel of the boot, is home to some of the most distinctive cooking in Italy, a plain, solid, vegetable-intensive cuisine thrumming with the strong flavors of olives and garlic, rapini and favas, wild greens. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Exclusive Interview: Sublime with Rome Talks New Album Yours Truly, Tour and a Slice of Humble Pie

    Jena ArdellChilling with Rome, Eric and Bud of Sublime with Rome.​ We caught up with Sublime with Rome before they embarked on their summer tour with 311 to talk about their new album Yours Truly, which drops July 12. Here's what the laid-back trio had to say about their new album, their first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Helene Hegemann, Plagiarist of the Club Scene and 'Most Hated Girl in Germany,' in Exile in L.A.

    Jacob Wirtschafter"I became the most hated girl in Germany. But maybe that's not a bad thing."​ At just nineteen, Helene Hegemann has experienced the full volatility of fame. She was crowned "Wunderkind of Bohemia" for her novel Axolotl Roadkill, a sex and drugs-infused depiction of the German ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Berlinteresting

    Jacob Wirtschafter"I became the most hated girl in Germany. But maybe that's not a bad thing."​ At just nineteen, Helene Hegemann has experienced the full volatility of fame. She was crowned "Wunderkind of Bohemia" for her novel Axolotl Roadkill, a sex and drugs-infused depiction of the German ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Saveur Foodie Giveaway 2011: Did You Forget?

    Saveur​ We hate decreasing our odds of winning a Wüsthof cleaver or a Le Creuset baking dish, but we'd be remiss if we didn't remind you that Saveur is in the midst of its annual Foodie Giveaway. The contest, which kicked off on January 1st and runs through the end of February, features a g ... More >>

  • Music

    January 6, 2011

    From Sweden, With Buzz

    Little Dragon keeps getting bigger, with a little help from KCRW (and the Swedish welfare state)

  • Film+TV

    December 16, 2010

    Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont

    From party girl to Oscar winner, a journey to the stripped-down Somewhere

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    TGIF Mix: D-Formation's Tribal-Tech Journey Reigns In Spain

    D-Formation.​Spain is becoming the new Berlin in dance music. Jimmy Van M, Chus & Ceballos and D-Formation have been turning out some fresh DJ mixes from the Iberian Peninsula. The latter provides our latest TGIF mix, a groovy, tribal-tech journey, via the dependable podcast series from YoshiR ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Food Union Supports California Pot Legalization

    There are many good reasons for California to legalize marijuana, not least being that it's cheaper to drive to Mar Vista, say, than it is to fly to Amsterdam, and because one wonders what the folks who design Intelligentsia's high-strung coffee palaces could do with a pot café. There is also the w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Free Pizza in Ireland For France's World Cup Exit

    Flickr/rick​ I guess you could call this the luck of the Irish. After Ireland lost a shot at going to the World Cup after a dubious call (see Thierry Henry's infamous handball episode) sent France to the Cup instead, Pizza Hut's Irish stores decided to assuage the nation's pain with pizza. For ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Flights Between LAX And London Cancelled

    Craig Murphy.​Nine flights to and from London were canceled Thursday morning as a result of volcanic ash above the U.K. that could damage jet engines, LAX officials report. Four flights from London to LAX were nixed while five from LAX to London were a no-go as an Icelandic eruption sent a pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Korean Tacos and Tripel Karmeliet? Biergarten Opens In Koreatown

    Well, here's something we didn't expect -- but perhaps should have. With our city's growing love for craft beers and Asian fusion cuisine (thank you Kogi), it was only a matter of time before we had a place to watch a playoff game, drink a pitcher of St. Bernardus and eat tempura battered French fri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Q & A With José Andrés: His TV Show, What Should Be In Your Pantry & Cooking with Ferrán Adriá

    José Andrés' beautiful fun-house of a hotel restaurant, The Bazaar, has been open for about a year and a half now, where the Spanish chef has been serving up cotton candy foie gras, little tin cans of King crab and raspberries, and olive oil pancakes to a crowd variously composed of hotel guests, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    5 Questions with The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell [ Free Album Download!]

    5 Questions with The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell [ Free Album Download!]

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2010

    Old Glory

    5 Questions with The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell [ Free Album Download!]

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2010

    WIENER BOYS

    5 Questions with The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell [ Free Album Download!]

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Germans Fulfill Peaches' Weimar Fantasies by Banning Her Little Subversive Cabaret Act

    "A degenerate cabaret singer and her Jew pianist singing about Jesus? Vee are not amused."​Oh, Peaches! Why oh why do you insist trying to engage the Germans? Yeah, "Berlin in the 90s," cheap housing in East Berlin, weird theater, state sponsored art things, yadda yadda. You lived your Weimar/ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Getty States It Will Continue To Fight For Great Bronze Statue

    Getty MuseumStatue of the Victorious Youth.​The J. Paul Getty Trust stated Thursday it will appeal an Italian court's order to return the 2,000-year-old bronze Statue of the Victorious Youth. The ancient Greek statue, which once belonged to Italian owners, is on view at the Getty Villa Malibu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Phoenix Frontman Scores Sweetie Sofia Coppola's New 'Ferraris and Los Angeles' Flick

    The Freewheelin' Thomas & Sofia​Phoenix's frontman Thomas Mars is domestic-partnered to OG hipster director Sofia Coppola. Sofia is about to release a new movie, Somewhere, where she most certainly downscaled the period-piece ambitions of Marie Antoinette. Mars, riding high on a wave of critic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Get Ready For World Nutella Day & Our Top 10 List of Nutella Restaurant Dishes

    Tomorrow, drumroll please, is World Nutella Day. Okay, this is one of those holidays (Arbor Day, National Cream Puff Day) that may seem arbitrary and slightly ridiculous at first, when in fact it is a serious vindication for some of us. In 2007, two American ex-pat writers living in Italy, Sara Ros ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 28, 2010

    Munching the Unmentionable

    Where to find the foodie's equivalent of a snuff film. Or not

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2010

    YOU VIL NOT LAUGH

    Where to find the foodie's equivalent of a snuff film. Or not

  • Eat+Drink

    December 24, 2009

    Carbonara Quest: Angelini Osteria

    Where to find the foodie's equivalent of a snuff film. Or not

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Mount Etna: Great Wine From Europe's Largest Active Volcano

    Think of Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, and you likely do not think of flowing wine. Flowing lava maybe. But some of the best red wines in Europe are being produced in that most unusual and extreme of locales. To the ancient Greeks, eastern Sicily's Mount Etna was home of the one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Cost Of Mayor's Vacation, Er, Trip To Europe: $120,000

    ​A mayoral spokeswoman confirmed to LA Weekly Friday that the mayor's trip to Europe this week to attend a climate conference and meet with world leaders and European dignitaries in Copenhagen, Berlin and London cost taxpayers "approximately" $120,000. While in Europe Mayor Antonio Villaraigo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2009

    ENCHANTREUSE

    ​A mayoral spokeswoman confirmed to LA Weekly Friday that the mayor's trip to Europe this week to attend a climate conference and meet with world leaders and European dignitaries in Copenhagen, Berlin and London cost taxpayers "approximately" $120,000. While in Europe Mayor Antonio Villaraigo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Top 10 Private Dining Rooms For Your Holiday Party

    The deeper we get into November, the more the mind reels with thoughts of the holidays, entertaining, and social obligations. If the idea of throwing a party appeals to you, but the idea of preparing, cooking, and cleaning up after a soiree gives you pause, we offer you this alphabetical list of Top ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Nothing But Truffle: The Truffle Brothers, LA's Italian Truffle Connection

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2009

    The Need to Know

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 24, 2009

    Summer of Tough Love: Iraqi Double Agent Remains in Limbo

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    WELCOME TO LOS SPAINGELES

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2009

    FACE IT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PARIS ANYTIME SOON

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Out With the Cold!

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2009

    Luisa Fernanda

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 11, 2008

    Pan-Hispanic Panorama

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2008

    A Scholar Is Born

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2008

    The Legendary Times of Bulgakov

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 8, 2008

    Office Sonata

    Some people grow up around sports, academics, or the arts. For Michael and Marco Pietroiacovo--two brothers from Campobosso, Italy--their upbringing was around truffles. As children, their grandfather showed them how to forage for the elusive tuber in the hills around Abruzzo, Italy. As teens they s ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 15, 2007

    It Takes a Village

    The Village Idiot, the biggest gastropub in town

  • News

    February 16, 2006

    Fading Lines

    In Europe, it comes down to hate vs. free speech

  • Eat+Drink

    May 19, 2005

    Bosnia’s Big Mac

    In Europe, it comes down to hate vs. free speech

  • Eat+Drink

    March 31, 2005

    Ask Mr. Gold

    In Europe, it comes down to hate vs. free speech

  • Eat+Drink

    March 3, 2005

    Ask Mr. Gold

    In Europe, it comes down to hate vs. free speech

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