Gardening

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Gawker Celery Wars Celeriac, European Cutting Celery

There was high drama in the celery world this past week. Healthy eating advocate, cookbook author and all around nice person Martha Rose Shulman did what she always does -- she penned her New York Times column, Recipes for Health, infusing it with her usual coaxing optimism. Shulman is the mother ... More >>

Deer Being Cut Up In Pacific Palisades Mistaken For Bloody Crime Scene

A Pacific Palisades local who spotted a blood-spattered man with a knife phoned 911, and responding police, seeing much of the same, called for backup. Was it a real-life Silence of the Lambs in the making? Not exactly: Turns out the guy was legally "dressing down" a deer that had been fatally str ... More >>

5 Labor Day DIY Projects: Build a Winery, Plant a Rooftop Garden Make Moonshine

Holiday traffic, bars reeking of stale beer, hoards of people intent on their last beach fling. Ah, Labor Day weekend fun. Actually, it's the perfect excuse to stay home and channel your inner Euell Gibbons and forage for backyard cattails. Or, if you're not swamp-adjacent, build a mini-winery in ... More >>

Playa Debuts John Sedlar's Super-Secret Rooftop Garden A Rooftop-to-Table Party

Strange things have been afoot on the rooftop at John Sedlar's Playa. For the past couple of months, the restaurant has been installing and planting a rather large rooftop garden (you may have noticed a crane doing some heavy lifting along Beverly Blvd. back in March) meant to provide Sedlar's kitch ... More >>

Christy Roberts: The Guerrilla Johnny Appleseed

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Considering she leads her own militia, Christy Roberts is surprisingly charming in person. The Upland native isn't exactly secretive about her plans for global rebellion, but t ... More >>

Jim McAllister

10 People Making L.A. a Better Place

From to a 70-year-old woman teaching others how to use medical marijuana to a man dedicated to saving the sea lions, these Angelenos prove that do-goodery can be vastly more interesting, creative, and fulfilling than writing a monthly charity check or two. Check out our entire People 2012 issue her ... More >>

New Altadena Urban Farmers Market Coming in May

After many months of planning meetings and wrangling with local permits and bureaucracy, Joseph Shuldiner -- founder of the Institute of Domestic Technology -- can finally announce the May 30 start date for the new and highly-anticipated Altadena farmers market at Loma Alta Park. It'll be right nex ... More >>

Walt Disney Concert Hall's Secret Garden: From Patina Chef Tony Esnault

Restaurant chef's gardens are popping up in unusual places, but nowhere more unlikely than in the midst of downtown L.A.'s skyscrapers. Flourishing on an upper level of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall is an outdoor rooftop garden -- public at that -- that lets visitors take in the ... More >>

The Story of How Lalo Alcaraz's Cinco De Mayo Cartoon Cost Brentwood Patch Editor Dennis Wilen His Job

We once said that Patch, that national network of "hyperlocal" news you can snooze to, just doesn't get it. And this completely proves our point. The ex-editor of Brentwood Patch today published the story of how he was fired last year for running a cartoon that the company's New York editors found ... More >>

Q & A With Beekeeper Brent Edelen: Where Honey Went Wrong, What "Wildflower" Often Really Means Industry Changes

Beekeeper Brent Edelengrampashoney.com​Brent Edelen, a sixth generation raw honey producer in Alamosa, Colorado, makes some of the best honeys we've ever tasted. Like grass-fed beef, you can literally taste the terroir in the honey that Edelen makes under the Grampa's Gourmet label. In part, ... More >>

Long Beach Urban Garden Honored

Guzzle & NoshAssorted vegetables.​In a crime-riddled area of North Long Beach, the Growing Experience has transformed a former trash dump into one of the state's most successful urban farms. This week, TGE was honored with an an Award of Merit from the California State Association of Counties ... More >>

[VIDEO] Goats Devour Downtown L.A.

YouTubeHide your dying grasses​One of the best things about living in Los Angeles, as opposed to that other black hole of concrete and emissions: Goats. If you don't know what we're talking about, you chose the wrong neighbors. But there's hope for you yet -- a herd of baying, devouring goatki ... More >>

Origami Yoda and More at Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden's Origami Festival at Cal State Long Beach

Lisa HorowitzOrigami Yoda, folded by Michael Sanders as part of Alison Redfoot-DiLidda's composition​ The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at Cal State Long Beach turned out to be a lovely location to learn the art of origami, or Japanese paper folding, on Sunday. From humble beginnings mor ... More >>

Michelle Obama Signs a Book Deal: The White House Garden Family Recipes

The White House / Joyce N. BoghosianMichelle Obama gardening with kids​ It's not just former presidents who get book deals, but sitting first ladies too, for which we are grateful. First Lady Michelle Obama has just signed a book deal with Crown Publishing to write a book about the White Hous ... More >>

Red Medicine

Jordan Kahn's Vietnamese eatery deserves notoriety for its food, too

OK, BUT THERE'LL BE NO OJ MURDER REENACTMENTS

Pop-Up Shop at Cube Downtown: Cooking Classes, Shopping, Ludo Coolhaus

Amy SheridanCube overview.​Cube has announced another of their weekend pop-up events, to be held on Saturday, August 14th. Both a restaurant and a marketplace, the downtown institution will also play host to a series of classes. Cube cafĂ©'s executive chef Erin Eastland and pastry chef Jun Ta ... More >>

Scoundrel Time: Alleged Mortgage Frauds Increasing

Today flyers posted on telephone poles advertising mortgage fixers are as ubiquitous in L.A. as gardeners' business cards. The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market, combined with a plummeting economy and a questionable sense of rescue created by the Obama administration have led many Californi ... More >>

Market Report: Shiso and Assorted Greens (& Shishitos) at Coleman Family Farm

Farmer Bill Coleman of Coleman Family Farm in Carpenteria has a market stall that partly resembles an arboretum, partly a secret garden on display. This morning at the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market, where Coleman parks his truck and his greenery and his family almost every single week, the t ... More >>

The Care & Feeding of Compost: The Etiology of Dirt, and Thus Your Market-Driven Dinner

Photo credit: Diane CuA wheelbarrowful of dirt​If you work your way down the food chain, traveling, say, from the quail fry with grits, chard, slab bacon and maple jus on the menu at Animal to the rows of chard and thus to the field in which the vegetables are grown, you will eventually come t ... More >>

Fish Tank Meets Zen Rock Garden Meets Bonsai: Takashi Amano's Nature Aquarium

How do you feel about Wabi Sabi? You know, that Zen Buddhist concept/aesthetic of accepting the impermanence and transience of all things. These nature aquariums by Japanese aquarist Takashi Amano are based on that idea. Think of bonsai, but underwater and with fish. That's what a nature aquarium is ... More >>

Adventures in Locavore Land: Food Map Design's Container Gardening on Wheels

Food Map DesignEven though this is the land of backyard paradises, not everyone in L.A. has enough land for a garden. But there is still a way to cultivate your own summer bounty before planting season ends. Local entrepreneurs are thinking creatively about the intersection of design and food cultiv ... More >>

Caltrans Proposes Plan for "Vegetative Advertisements" along the Freeways

What would you think if you saw a Fed Ex logo made out of tulips as you were motoring along one of California's freeways? How about the Golden Arches made from yellow roses or buttercups along the shoulder of the road? It turns out that putting "vegetative advertising" - a logo or advertisement m ... More >>

Love, Janis: Looking for Janis Joplin

The meteoric rock star, as remembered by her sister Laura

First Cut: Big Fish Compete at SushiMasters

Best Lookout Point

Mulholland Trail

Pushing Daisies: Dead End Boy

Examining resurrection and life

Very Be Careful

At Club Bahia, May 25

Sankai Juku

Best ''Make It Up to You'' Gift Shop

The Phantom Jasmine

Best nighttime scents

Native Interests

The Evidence Room: Five Signs You're Gentrifying

Fallow Dreams

Empty talk doomed South Central Farm

Savior of Echo Park

Alexis Whittier Rivera

Green Goddess

Judy Kameon

Snakebites

Party Resources

Singled Out: Everybody has a Mother

Heating Up

Coming out against South Gate’s proposed power plant

Downey to Power Plant: Drop Dead

Hillary Bashing, Horowitz Style

Belle de Jour

A conversation with Catherine Deneuve

Power Play

South Gate is already one of the most polluted cities in California. Does it really need a massive new electric plant?

Lawnbot

It mows the grass while you read a book

Sale Agreed

For the love of a wee Irish cottage

Frida, Friduca, Mami

My Chilean Jewish Mother

Stop To Eat the Daisies

The 21st Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees