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Q & A With Nancy Harmon Jenkins: On the Mediterranean Diet, Her Cookbook(s) What Took Us So Long

For many of us whose idea of good food is a bowl of olives, a plate of mezze, a huge dish of paella or Catalan soup or lamb with couscous, Nancy Harmon Jenkins' cookbook The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, or her newer The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, is one of the basic books of the kitchen. First ... More >>

Eat, Drink, Conquer

Shirley Valentine

18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi

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. 18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi. You may be able to eat chef Nobu Matsuhisa's stunning Peruvian-influenced Japanese cuisine at one of hi ... More >>

Skeletonwitch and Havok - Whisky A Go Go - 10/30/2012

Skeletonwitch and Havok Whisky A Go Go 10-30-2012 Better Than: Drinking alone Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: The Complete List The Ten Most Unreadable Metal Band Logos At the Whisky A Go Go last night the average patron was barely old enough to be out on a school night, let alone imbibing. The kids (a ... More >>

Shakespeare, Kubrick and Oprah: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week the cinephile community is focused on AFI Fest, but here are some other special event films we recommend: Friday, Nov. 2 Women have made giant leaps in history, but every so often someone tries to put them in a binder. Oprah-approved doc Miss Representation explores the correlation betwe ... More >>

Burgers Will Be Sold for 60 Cents Each at the Original Tops

It's tough to purchase an entire meal for under $1 these days, but the Original Tops on East Colorado in Pasadena is making an exception. In celebration of its 60th anniversary, it's selling the Tops Special for 60 cents each. The special is a old-fashioned hamburger (with lettuce, fresh tomatoes, ... More >>

Shaman in a Felt Fedora

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Malibu in 3-D

This week's list includes an awkward, bearded voyeur in West Hollywood, a picture of a white horse in a Chinatown basement and stereoscopic images of made-up archeology in Crenshaw. 5. Underground Malibu in 3-D The name "Malibu" comes from "Humaliwo," a word the Chumash Native American people used ... More >>

Los Angeles Gadflies on Fire

City Hall politicians want them gone

4 Leap Year Dining Events for Feb. 29: The Edison, 29-Cent Wine, CITY Night, Roy Choi/Mark Peel Mashup

[Update: Just added the event at The Edison.] Make Leap Day William happy: Buy a Leap Day cocktail and receive a free sidecar created by The Edison's bartenders. Also, 40% discount on cocktails, beer, wine and selected food items. (As with every Wednesday, all wine by the bottle is half-off.) WHEN: ... More >>

Sinai Temple's World-Record Dreidel-Spinning Attempt: Behind the Scenes

Liz ReinhardtThere better be some chocolate gelt waiting for me if I spin this dreidel for ten whole seconds... ​ "Saben, watch my curveball!" Aaron says, throwing his dreidel out with extra oomph so that he can relish the crisp way it cuts across the table in an arc. "It's all about flicking ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Just the Ticket: Cain and Paterno?

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] We are heading toward the holiday season. Retailers are steeling themselves for what might be ... More >>

Paul Koudounaris' "Empire of Death"

How an art historian became fixated on ossuaries

AFI Film Festival 2011:ALPS and Attenberg

Top 10 Local Burger Condiments

JGarbeeHomemade Burger Buns Come In All Sizes, Too​As our fearless 30-burgers-in-30-days critic moves on to ice cream, some of us are still thinking about burgers. Because it's suddenly June, which means summer, or so we have been told. And so, we are now calendar-committed to stocking up on c ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Ancient Grains for Modern Meals

​Will we ever see the day when a whole grain baking book completely omits the word "healthy" in one of its many thinly veiled forms (health-conscious, nutritious, guilt-free)? Ancient Grains for Modern Meals gets pretty close. Most of the health-touting is on the publisher's sales pitch side i ... More >>

Venn Food Diagrams: L.A.'s Idea of Armenian Food Vs. What Armenians Eat

The Venn Food Diagram train has ventured west of India and landed in Armenia, the ancient landlocked country wedged between Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkey, which recently produced the world's earliest leather shoe and wine-producing facility. Steady immigration from Armenian communities in Lebanon, Ira ... More >>

Love Among the Nuggets: McWeddings on the Rise in Hong Kong

ceetap/Flickr​ In other countries, McDonald's franchises sell different things.  Big Macs are made with lamb in much of India.  In Greece, a Greek Mac consists of several smaller patties tucked into a pita.  In Hong Kong, you can get a burger sandwiched between compressed sheets of glutinou ... More >>

Gallic Pride: French Cuisine Named to UNESCO World Heritage List

Flickr user arthurohm​ At long last there is validation for those of us who find the beauty of a multi-course French meal (avec wine pairings bien sûr) on par with the Great Barrier Reef or the Walled City of Baku. UNESCO, the UN cultural organization, which designates cultural and natural s ... More >>

L.A. Bankruptcy Inevitable, Though Probably After Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Leaves To Become A Male Spokesmodel

See ya suckers! Have fun cleaning up the mess. ​Marc Lacter's column in Los Angeles magazine looks at whether the city of Los Angeles is headed for bankruptcy, and it's not pretty. His diagnosis: We're headed there, though probably not until after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa leaves office.

Free Man of Color

Live in L.A.: Make Music Pasadena (with Matt & Kim, Natalia Lafourcade, Warpaint), Opening Night at the Bowl, Freestyle Fellowship, Jamie Lidell, Erykah Badu, Billy Joe Shaver

Warpaint​Pasadena is used to its parades, but on Saturday its denizens will be traipsing around Old Town to get an earful of music rather than an eyeful of rose pedals. What's impressive about the annual Make Music Pasadena is how many constituencies the festival is serving over one day. With ... More >>

Tragic Dinner Theatre: Greek Food With Your Greek Drama

Tragic Dinner Theatre​ If you like your Greek drama complete with Greek food -- and aren't feeling the urge to visit Greece anytime soon, which you wouldn't really, unless you're a member of the IMF -- there's an event for you this Sunday afternoon in Highland Park. Tragic Dinner Theatre will ... More >>

Live in L.A. This Weekend: Drive-By Truckers, Peter Gabriel, Les Savy Fav, First Fridays

Drive-By Truckers​You may not have noticed if you don't live in a neighborhood where "y'all" is the prevalent pronoun -- and no, that's not pejorative -- but the Drive-By Truckers have a new album out. "The Big To-Do" is just that, out-sized riffs, growling vocals and sweat-stained rhythms sup ... More >>

Director Of J. Paul Getty Museum Steps Down

​Michael Brand is stepping down as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the end of the month, J. Paul Getty Trust CEO James N. Wood announced Thursday. He'll stay on as a consultant through summer and will reportedly be earning a salary through the end of his five-year contract at the close ... More >>

Peace

Movie Reviews: Miss March, Race to Witch Mountain, Sunshine Cleaning

Also, The Cake Eaters, The Secrets and more

Of Time and the City: Terence Davies Goes Home Again

Liverpool director on his first film since The House of Mirth

Movie Reviews: College Road Trip, CJ7

Also Girls Rock!, My Name is Albert Ayler and more

Star Powder

Napoleon Perdis gives L.A. a make over

Mish-Mash

Danube Bulgarian cuisine is all over the map

Sod Off!

Your yard — the last sustainable frontier

Poet In the Midst

Dark Elegies

Similar voices: Uitti, Griffiths

Two Women

Or Not To Be

The lamentable tale of a $250K Hamlet that played two nights and will never be forgotten

The Vanishing

As Fighter Jets Go By

Fetal Frenzy

How the embryo in amnion became the strange icon of anti-abortionists

Petty Connections

Why the Greeks still fly

The Forgotten Paisan

Rediscovering filmmaker Valerio Zurlini

Boys 'R' Us

Joseph’s Cafe

Greek God

Theo Angelopoulos' symphonic vision

The Art of the Blockbuster

"Van Gogh's Van Goghs"

Virtual Gangs

A Real Drago

Great Sicilian food in West Hollywood

The Trip

A Blow to the Head

The 51st Cannes film festival