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Why Are L.A.'s Parks So Lacking in Good Food?

What began as a public-private partnership bidding process to find a food vendor for a beloved urban park launched a massively successful mid-market burger chain. Granted, any business gets a leg up when an already successful restaurateur such as Danny Meyer is at the helm. Shake Shack now has loc ... More >>

Bhanu's: Indian Cuisine in the SGV, a Grocery Store Where to Find Ghost Chiles

Walk into Bhanu's Grocery and Cuisine in San Gabriel and you'll see a grocery store that's slowly being consumed by a restaurant. "We started off with five tables," Richard Harrison, a server at the restaurant said. Now, there are more than a dozen. Owned by Mr. Bedi and Bhanu, a brother and siste ... More >>

10 Things to Do in L.A. on Your Last Day on Earth

We're sure you've heard, on December 21, 2012 -- mere days from now -- we're all fucked. According to the latest scientifically astroreligious analysis, the gates of Xibalba, the Mayan Underworld, will open to unleash upon the earth beasts and plagues of unfathomable cruelty and unimaginable horro ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Dragonfruit

Dragonfruit is so aptly named. The baseball-sized fruit is covered in long, lime green fleshy scales that ripple out from a dark red core. Open one up and you stain your hands magenta from the nearly fluorescent flesh dotted with tiny black seeds. Asia has long grown dragonfruit -- also known as ... More >>

U.S. Open of Surfing, the Sport's Super Bowl, Rides in to Huntington Beach

Over the past nine days, hundreds of thousands of fans, more than 100 professional surfer and dozens of pro skateboarders descended upon Huntington Beach for the Nike U.S. Open of Surfing, an unapologetic ode to Southern California culture complete with plenty of sun, skin, and sex appeal. Equal par ... More >>

Amtrak's Ancestors: The Huntington's Exhibit on the History of the Transcontinental Railroad

Long before studios, hippies, method actors and reality-show wannabes headed out west, the Pacific Coast was a destination for farmers, miners, prospectors and other wagon-wheeling homesteaders who were looking for a new way of life. Two years after California struck gold in 1848, it became a part o ... More >>

What's In A Rose Name? The Food Hybrid Tea Varietals (Whiskey, Too) Planning Your Own Rose Cocktail Garden

Wander around any formal rose garden with name plaques this time of year (The Huntington, Palisades Park in Santa Monica), and you'll likely bump into several Hollywood celebrity stunners like Marilyn Monroe (a tall apricot flower with "large bloom size," per the official description). In the rose-n ... More >>

The Huntington's Japanese Garden Reopens With a New Teahouse

The Huntington Library's circa 1911 Japanese Garden reopened Wednesday after a nearly $7 million renovation, including the addition of a historic ceremonial teahouse built in Kyoto. The teahouse first arrived in the L.A. area in 1964, when it was installed at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple; In 2010 th ... More >>

The Huntington's Orange Marmalade The Citrus (Recipe) Quarantine

The Huntington Library may be best known for its botanical gardens and art collection, but in the museum's kitchen, the citrus trees on the property are the main draw for the onsite chefs, who make some pretty fantastic marmalade from the fruit. If you're a Huntington regular, you probably already ... More >>

PHOTO: Car Shears Fire Hydrant, Unleashes Epic Geyser on Northeast L.A.

Just as Los Angeles was breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon that the rainstorm had finally passed, some terrible driver had to go and shear off a fire hydrant in the Rose Hills. That's all it took for an epic, 10-storyish geyser...

Pasadena's PST Shows Make Everyday Things Into Art, Like Porn and Furniture

It's high time to brave the Pasadena Freeway, thanks to four landmark Pacific Standard Time shows with ambitious curators, catalogues, and historical reach in Pasadena. Pasadena/San Marino has its PST "focus" weekend this Saturday and Sunday, which means lots of extra events. Michael Duncan's "LA R ... More >>

'Blue Sky Metropolis' at the Huntington Library Shows How Aerospace Shaped L.A., From Surfing to Marilyn Monroe

Nasa photoNASA pilot Bill Dana watches a Boeing NB-52B carrier aircraft fly overhead after a successful test flight of the Northrop HL-10 lifting body at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1969. Fellow pilot John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lifting body.​ At a new exhibition at ... More >>

Trader Joe's Tomato Protest Today in Monrovia

Top: Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Bottom: Guzzle & NoshWorkers protest Trader Joe's tomato policies.​A one-cent per-pound increase in the price of tomatoes may not mean much to most consumers, but to many of the workers who pick these tomatoes -- a physically exhausting job with no health b ... More >>

Support Your State: Drink California Wine During CA Wine Month

Kathy A. McDonaldLearn more about wine this month at a wine tasting seminar​These days, every foodstuff or drink gets a day in its honor. Did you know there's a National Pecan Cookie day (September 21)? One guess on how to observe either National Guacamole Day (September 16) or National Beer D ... More >>

John Frame: The Huntington's Unintentional Steampunk Exhibit

Photo by John Frame, courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens​ When people ask John Frame what his work is about, the curators of "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" write in the show's catalog, "he feels that the real answer sh ... More >>

ABC Pulls Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Watch Some Dancing, Drink Some Chocolate Milk

Jamie Oliver​ If you tuned in last night to see Jamie Oliver, with or without his tomato suit, fighting the good fight on the streets of Los Angeles, if not in its public school cafeterias, you will have been disappointed. And though you doubtless enjoyed Dancing With The Stars as much as we d ... More >>

Cheerio, Magna Carta: Nine Important Historical Documents in L.A Right Now

Magna Carta​ A document can make a big difference, as the Birthers are currently proving in all the wrong ways. The Magna Carta -- a document whose Madonna-level status requires you to drop the "the" and refer to it simply as "Magna Carta" -- reframed the relationship between royalty and us re ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Los Angeles Premiers Tonight

JamieOliver.comJamie Oliver​ Tonight you'll finally get to see what all the fuss -- the Facebook petitions and Ryan Seacrest appearances and bus-and-sand stunts and tomato suits and trailing camera crews -- was about. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, "Maybe L.A. Was a Big Mistake," premiers thi ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Jamie's Food Revolution, Take Two

Carrots For One And All!​As Jamie Oliver launches his Food Revolution Truck, his publisher is re-issuing Oliver's ninth cookbook in paperback form. Wait, which one was the ninth? Jamie's Food Revolution, of course. Even good causes need a constant flow of publicity fuel. And so, Oliver has ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Jamie's Kitchen Opens, The Revolt Begins Fighting with the LAUSD

A. ScattergoodJamie Oliver at the LA Food Revolution headquarters​ Jamie Oliver was in pre-revolt mode yesterday morning, as he gave the press a tour of Jamie's Kitchen, the new Westwood headquarters of his Food Revolution, the former retail space that will be his kitchen classroom and product ... More >>

The LAUSD Says No Thanks to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Jamie OliverOliver's Food Revolution petition: maybe he should make one for the LAUSD​ British cookbook author and food personality Jamie Oliver, who has turned his quest to bring better food to American schoolchildren into the television show Food Revolution, has marched into a roadblock in ... More >>

Vinyl of the Week: Portland's Prids Redefine Shoegaze on 'Chronosynciastic,' for Velvet Blue [MP3]

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>

The British Landscape

MURDER, THEY WROTE

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady march toward legalization nationwide

EVERYBODY MUST GET STRUNG

Corpse Flower Update: Bloom "Any Day Now"

Huntington Botanical Gardens Stinky at Noon Today"Stinky," a malodorous Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the Corpse Flower, reached a height of six feet, one-quarter inch at noon today. This was a four-and-a-half-inch growth over the last 24 hours and means the Sumatra-native will be blooming v ... More >>

Best Museum Gift Shop: Huntington Library Bookstore & More

Gone With the Wind

Santa Anas at night, surfers’ delight. Santa Anas in the morning, homeowners take warning.

In Hot Water

Where to spend teatime in L.A.

Mario Beltran's Wild Night

Rising political star, on trial for falsely accusing others, can’t recall using the “N” word or attacking a woman UPDATE: Beltran convicted

The Big Picture, and the Small

“Modern and Contemporary Landscapes” at Forum Gallery

De Tocqueville, Part Deux

Bernard-Henri Lévy on American sex, American religion and American Vertigo

East Riverdance

The Michael Ritchie era opens at the Ahmanson

Newtonianism for L.A.

It’s not about the apple.

Stripping Lessons

Ranking the Museums

Writing Los Angeles

When the city joined the literary conversation

Discovering the Jolly Nightmare

The lost world of Charles Altamont Doyle

Makeover 2

Photos by Larry Hirshowitz

Weird Scenes From the Darkroom

Edward Weston’s legacy, and the strange days of Gary Winogrand, William Eggleston and Diane Arbus

The Final Frontier

Depending on whom you ask, stem-cell research is either a medical godsend or further proof that God is dead.

A Cop and I

Encoutners with the LAPD as told to Christine Pelisek

A Stretch for Garcetti

L.A.'s Ethics Commission gets an insider

A Few of Our Favorite Things

Fleas, flying fish, glass eyeballs, dissected Japanese criminals. Rimbaud and Hammett, too

Scopophilial Pleasures

Dave Hickey and Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Williams and Leni Riefenstahl, James Hayward and more

Bump, Set, Spike

South Bay Volleyball with the Best of ’em

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

The Chords

Woody Guthrie's hitherto unsung anthems