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Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Dance in a Vintage Trailer

This week's dance events include the return of Dance Camera West dance film festival and Eifman Ballet's sensual bio-ballet Rodin. See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. 5. A moving and movable ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Offshoot of Cirque du Soleil

This week's dance events include the arrival of nouveau circus Traces and the 6th Annual Pasadena Dance Festival wraps up. 5. Pasadena does festivals besides the Rose Parade The week-long Pasadena Dance Festival peaks with a series of jam-packed shows. Up-and-coming dancemakers and their companie ... More >>

'The Only Thing Holding Me Back Is the Cost of Color Copies' and Other Bizarre Things Overheard at L.A. Art Book Fair

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Last weekend's first annual L.A. Art Book Fair brought more than 200 independent publishers, galleries and booksellers from more than 20 countries to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA to talk art, hock prints and ... More >>

Dunkin' Donuts Moves Into Southern California

Watch out, Intelligentsia and The Donut Man. Dunkin' Donuts is coming to Los Angeles. The Massachussetts-based company, which was founded in 1950 in Quincy, Mass., announced plans to expand to Southern California this morning. They're recruiting now for franchises in L.A., Riverside, San Diego, San ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/10 - 9/14

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Now we've gotta worry about what our grandmas ate?" Eating Fatty Foods During Pregnancy Linked to Breast Cancer in Offspring. "Second, and really most important, is that they do not come quickly, ever, so just put that out o ... More >>

Baking Books: A Baker's Field Guide To Doughnuts (Mock Krispy Kremes!) A Peanut Butter Glaze Recipe

Type "Field Guide" into the Amazon book search list, and you'll get, as of this typing, 39,688 results. These are the moments when we suspect the A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts, to be released in a few weeks, will come in handy. A little rainbow sprinkle, Boston cream, or old-fashioned buttermil ... More >>

Read This Now: The Awl's "Writer Food From A To Z"

It's worth keeping tabs on the New York-based website The Awl for many reasons, not least being their occasional cooking posts (my all-time favorite: "How to Cook A Fucking Steak"). Yesterday Jane Hu wrote an utterly lovely piece called "Writer Food From A to Z," which isn't quite as irreverent as t ... More >>

Steve Nash's Secret Diet NBA Eating Habits

Yesterday came the news that the Lakers had landed future Hall of Fame point guard (and all-around amiable Canadian dude) Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for a boatload of future draft picks. Despite being 38 years old (the fifth oldest active player in the NBA), Nash last year had on ... More >>

LA Donut Summit Returns: Deep-Fried Mayhem

With the highest number of per capita donut shops of any major metropolitan area in the United States, Los Angeles is the ideal locale for a donut confab. Following on the greasy heels of 2009's Hot Dog Death March and last year's inaugural Donut Summit, the 2nd LA Donut Summit will unite donut co ... More >>

Fried Kool-Aid, Fried Brownies, FryBQ Ribs: A Sneak Peek at Chicken Charlie's Newest Fried Fair Fare

Courtesy of Chicken CharlieFried fair fare trio: Totally Fried Brownies, FryBQ ribs and Totally Fried Kool-Aid​ His life's work reads like a chapter in The Fattening of America. Every year, Chicken Charlie a.k.a. Charlie Boghosian, the fried food maestro of Southern California's county fair c ... More >>

In-N-Out Opens First Texas Locations

Flickr user thomashawk​ Irvine-based In-N-Out Burger opened their first two Texas stores this week, to much fanfare and long lines. How long was the line? Youtube user armenw estimated 150 cars parked outside the Allen, Texas, location five minutes before the doors opened. Youtuber kylycorey shot ... More >>

The Spudnuts Saga: A Bite of Donut History

Jim Thurman​What was the first nationwide donut chain to reach Los Angeles? Krispy Kreme? You're not even trying. Dunkin' Donuts? Not from around here, are you? Winchell's?, Yum Yum? Getting closer, but no. The answer: Spudnuts. Brothers Al and Bob Pelton were working as an appliance salesman ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: In Search of the Doughnut-qua-doughnut

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: My brother wants to open a doughnut shop that makes the best donut in Los Angeles. I believe he has the passion and skill to do it. In the process of research he has been seeking the best donut in Los Angeles and I can't say he's found it ... More >>

Do Booze And Breast Cancer Awareness Mix? Not Really, Says L.A. Expert Deborah Anthony

​It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Los Angeles, and the alcohol companies are out in force making sure you "think pink" when it comes to supporting this particular cause. There's Chambord and its "Pink Your Drink" campaign. Sutter Home has a white zinfandel wrapped in a pink ribbon. And, ... More >>

Fried Beer? Yes, Fried Beer

BBCFried beer​ Fair food likes to straddle that fine, batter-flecked line between alluring and puke-worthy. Cases in point: Deep-fried bacon from Texas, spaghetti and meatball on a stick courtesy of Minnesota, and a California-bred Krispy Kreme chicken sandwich, which, with a puddle of Smuc ... More >>

God Bless America: Where You Can Have Your Snickers Bar On a Stick AND Deep Fried!

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/16-8/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Also, all of Takosher's food, including the brisket, which is slow-cooked for six to eight hours, must be prepared on the truck rather than in a prep kitchen." Takosher: Nation's First Kosher Truck Dishes Up Brisket & Latke ... More >>

Want Fries With That? Meet The Krispy Kreme Doughnut Burger

A Hamburger TodayKrispy Kreme Doughnut Burger​ The Orange County Fair ended last weekend, but throngs of fried food aficionados turned up to get their fair (sorry) share of deep fried Oreos, Snickers, Twinkies, and even fried cheese on a stick. While that might sound like groundbreaking fried ... More >>

Best Bánh Mì: Buu Dien in Chinatown

Flickr/Pabo76bánh mì​ We have, we think, followed the evolution of the Vietnamese sandwiches called bánh mì throughout their evolution in California, from the mingy sandwiches stacked like cordwood at the earliest delis, through the specialist phase, and onto the mega-bakeries whose neon f ... More >>

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Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/12 - 9/18

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Hard to believe it was only five weeks ago I tweeted: Why doesn't someone start a pancake truck? " Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein on her wish come true. "Really, we have to rethink USDA." Marion Nestle finds hope that t ... More >>

I'LL HAVE THE SALAD ON A STICK AND A DEEP-FRIED MARGARITA

Blood, Dumplings, & Nicotine Gelato: Esotouric's Unusual LA Tours, With Food

It still feels like summer vacation, and whether you have guests, or just feel like exploring a bit, Esotouric isn't your cookie-cutter tour company and promises an "intelligent, unpredictable ride into the secret heart of the city we love." The tour's themes integrate literature, rock and roll, ar ... More >>

Doh! National Doughnut Day With Grace: "We can offer the fanciest doughnuts... but we're still all Homer Simpson"

Shannon CottrellWhen most of us think of doughnut shops, we picture dinky dives, places where men all over America stop off on their way to work for the breakfast their wives won't let them eat and a Styrofoam cup of crappy coffee. Doughnut shops are landmarks for truck drivers, and travelers, and p ... More >>

It's National Doughnut Day, Do Your Part! Where to Get Fried Freebies, Gourmet Glazes and More

Shannon CottrellLA-based band The Keyishe are down with doughnuts.Although National Doughnut Day officially began in 1938 as a means for The Salvation Army to raise money for those struggling during the depression, the organization's connection to the fried confection began on the French battlefield ... More >>

2007: Outta Sight

Falling, spinning, shining stars and the year's most stellar parties

Why Don't We Do It in the Dirt?

Top 10 e-mail responses to the question, “Where would you have your last lay in apocalyptic L.A.?”

(Powdered) Sugar Walls

The Grammy parties and the pod people

Milking It

9/11 thumb suckers

How Deep Is Your Fried Avocado?

Welcome to Inglewood — Leave Your Aspirations Behind

For Erin Aubry Kaplan, coming home has been a labor of tough love

Carolina in my Mind

Mr. Baguette Takes on Mr. Lee

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the March 4 Los Angeles municipal election

Black on the Block

Can Degnan have its world stage and Wal-Mart, too?

Gift Bag of the Dolls

Edited by Kateri Butler

Ten Years and a Cloud of Dust

Crenshaw in slow motion

Ordinary Heroes

Harrison’s Flowers transcends its star power; not so Showtime

The Year in Music

Letters

Hang On

Let’s not do away with the summer ritual of drag racing

It Took a Weill

Cause Celeb

Julia Roberts turns activist in Erin Brockovich

Fried and Convicted

Grease 'em up boys...

Letters

Automatic Rounds

The Krispy Kreme Doughnut invasion

The Accidental Populist

Magic Johnson gives some back