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  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Top 5 Local Farmer-Made Jams and Preserves

    Felicia Friesema​Farmers markets and the vendors who populate them with table bending piles of bumper crops and hard-to-find seasonal produce rarely sell every last item before it's time to collapse the pop up tents and head home. Portlandian pickle jokes aside, what do farmers do with all th ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

    Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Large California Chanterelles

    Felicia FriesemaCantharellus californicus from Tutti Frutti Farms​Our early season rainstorms have yielded two predictable outcomes: angsty tweets from farmers market vendors trying desperately to keep self, customers and produce dry, and a splendid sprouting of mud puppies, a.k.a. California ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Kristen Chrstian: L.A. Gallery Owner Behind Bank Transfer Day Talks About Her Inspiration to Take Her Cash to a Credit Union

    Courtesy Kristen Christian​She says it has nothing to do with Occupy L.A. and its Occupy Wall Street sister movement. Class warfare? Meh. Yet the timing of L.A. gallery owner Kristen Christian's idea couldn't have been better for those fed up with corporate banks that took billions in taxpaye ... More >>

  • News

    September 15, 2011

    Glen Hartford's Hollywood Dream and How It Came to Ruin

    Courtesy Kristen Christian​She says it has nothing to do with Occupy L.A. and its Occupy Wall Street sister movement. Class warfare? Meh. Yet the timing of L.A. gallery owner Kristen Christian's idea couldn't have been better for those fed up with corporate banks that took billions in taxpaye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Lompoc Wine Ghetto: Get Your Wine On Alternative

    Jeff KirshbaumWinemaker Sashi Moorman of Piedrasassi New Vineland at work in the Lompoc Wine Ghetto.​ Substance outshines style at Santa Barbara County's low-key Lompoc Wine Ghetto. A semi-industrial office park that's in the heart of land-that-time-forgot Lompoc, California, Lompoc Wine Ghett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Stud Llamas, Delivery Chickens Mark Twain's Favorite Fruit: Top 5 Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds of the Week

    Combing through Craigslist's Farm and Garden Classifieds gives an Internet prowler a case of the chuckles. Some people yuck at the writing, but for us, the wares themselves (see pig statue entry) and the vendors' keen marketing ploys (see llama entry) are enough. Seriously though, seeing what peopl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Outstanding in the Field Announces Its 2011 Touring Schedule

    Outstanding in the Field​ Outstanding in the Field, that Magical Mystery Tour of underground suppers, has announced its 2011 schedule. As usual, the dates are heavy on visits to West Coast farms. In case you don't know much about this roving feast, allow us: a merry band of activists, artist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Spring Artichokes A Recipe for Ricardo Zarate's Grilled Baby Artichokes

    Felicia FriesemaArtichokes from Tutti Frutti Farms at the Hollywood market.​ We're hard-pressed to think of a more primal springtime food than the artichoke. Favas, maybe, with their gravid bean-filled pods, which showed up this week at the Hollywood market (Valdivia Farms). But after a wint ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Samsara: California Wine Elevated To Art

    J.KoslowSamsara's Finest​ Three hours north of Los Angeles in bucolic Lompoc, obscured by a Home Depot and suburban housing, resides one of the finest garage projects you've never heard of. It is Samsara, the smallest of small wineries, producing a scant 900 cases annually and distinctively h ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    The Sound of Pretending

    Dispatch from the white zone

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Root Vegetables, Citrus, More Persimmons

    In other parts of the country -- the parts with blustery, wintery, freezing weather -- the farmers markets are depressingly closed this time of year. Not so in LA, thanks to dozens of micro-climates that produce year-round artichokes (Suncoast Farms in Lompoc), asparagus (also Suncoast, plus a few ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Billy Cottrell's SUV-Arson Conviction May Be Vacated

    Billy Cottrell in 2003​The L.A. Times is reporting that the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion, still unpublished, that may vacate the 2005 conviction of Billy Cottrell, the brilliant Caltech math instructor convicted of vandalism and arson charges in the 2003 attacks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Market Report: What's in Season at the Farmers Market

    Photo credit: Amy ScattergoodTenerelli's O'Henry peaches​The Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market is a very fun place, between the streets filled with farmers' stands and the enormous variety of fresh produce and the marine layer blowing in from the ocean only a block away. It's also a great ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    A Great Walnut Season: La Nogalera's New Batch of Walnut Oil A Recipe

    Photo credit: Amy ScattergoodLa Nogalera walnut stand​Between Buellton and Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, about 11 miles from the ocean on the inland side of the Santa Ynez Mountains, you'll find Rancho La Viña--and some of the best walnuts in this part of the country. This pleasant fact is ... More >>

  • News

    May 14, 2009

    Life Before Craigslist: On L.A. Weekly's Crime Features

    Photo credit: Amy ScattergoodLa Nogalera walnut stand​Between Buellton and Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, about 11 miles from the ocean on the inland side of the Santa Ynez Mountains, you'll find Rancho La Viña--and some of the best walnuts in this part of the country. This pleasant fact is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2009

    Road Trip Agenda: California Weekend Wine Fests

    If you're willing to spend a long day on the road and splurge for a food-and-slosh fest, then the second-annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine gathering held April 16-19 merits the effort. Consider: 250 wineries. 50 major chefs. Tastings. Demos. Meals. Names on the roster that are near and dear to Angele ... More >>

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    A Terrible Thing to Waste

    Convicted as an ecoterrorist, a brilliant young scholar nose-dives in prison Also, excerpts of Billy Cottrell's letters from prison

  • Film+TV

    February 2, 2006

    New Film Reviews

    For the week of February 3 -10, 2006

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    The Smog Doctor

    John Peters and the science of children and dirty air

  • News

    February 3, 2005

    Who’ll Stop the Reign?

    The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    Watching the Detectives

    How a couple of middle-aged P.I.'s and world-class raconteurs survived the DEA, the mob and the tabloid wars to take on their most elusive target yet -- Hollywood

  • Art+Books

    February 24, 2000

    Mitnick Speaks

    Computer-hacking guru Kevin Mitnick says he's no cyberbogeyman

  • Stage

    June 11, 1998

    For the Birds

    Computer-hacking guru Kevin Mitnick says he's no cyberbogeyman

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