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Connie & Ted's: Michael Cimarusti's Seafood Restaurant to Open in June

If you've spent any time dining at Providence, Michael Cimarusti's Melrose Ave. seafood palace, you'll know how much the chef and co-owner of the place loves his fish. Since it opened in 2005, the restaurant has earned accolade after accolade, including Best Restaurant, 2012 in these pages. But for ... More >>

Why Los Angeles Deserves Major Credit for the National Gay Marriage Movement

When it comes to life-impacting stuff -- civil rights, political movements, or education reform, for example -- Los Angeles too often gets overlooked by snobby journalists and intellectual types in New York City and Washington D.C. Let's just admit it: They don't take L.A. seriously and they hate ... More >>

Five Wines to Seek Out in L.A. Wine Bars That You Probably Won't Find Anywhere Else

Here in Los Angeles our embarrassment of riches wine-wise might sometimes lead to a forest-for-the-trees blindness, with too much to weed through on the shelves or the wine lists to actually find something you like. Fortunately area wine bars work hard to assemble lists that are highly focused and d ... More >>

Former S. Pasadena Kid (and Little Bro) Wins Today Show Chicken Wing Challenge Recipe

Malcolm Bedell, a food blogger from Rockland, Maine, was the big winner in the Today show's first Super Bowl chicken wing cookoff today, with his Apricot-Shellacked Ghost Chile Wings. Why, exactly, is this so unspeakably thrilling? Because he is my little brother! I never would have imagined, when ... More >>

Trader Joe's Butter Chicken Recalled for Listeria Risk

We're still fond of you, TJ's, and we're hoping we can work this out, but your empty promises about caring for our health and safety are beginning to make us sick (literally). Coming on the heels of recalls this year of barbecue chicken salad (Listeria, July) and peanut butter (Salmonella, Septemb ... More >>

Why is California So Liberal, You Ask?

Why is California so liberal, you ask? Why is it so broke? Some folks are having a little fun with Google's autocorrect search function, finding that top questions about our beloved Golden State included ones that weren't so flattering. You can try it yourself by typing "Why is California so" in yo ... More >>

Voter Suppression Efforts Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Walter Manzke, Debbie Lee, Jane Austen, International Food Bloggers Conference, Pizza Festival, Speed Rack

Jane Austen, spinach and tomato pizza, Walter Manzke.​12 Chefs, 12 Months, 12 Charities: Walter Manzke To celebrate 20 years in business, Joe Miller launches a year-long dinner series, inviting guest chefs to prepare a monthly prix-fixe feast with the proceeds benefiting St. Vincent Meals on W ... More >>

Whoopie Pies: Maine Can Claim Them, We'll Just Eat Them

Baking Whoopie/We Heart This​ While Michelle Obama pushes to bring more healthful food to the masses, and Jamie Oliver fights to get more vegetables into Los Angeles schools, across the country, it's a different kind of food fight: Mainers are trying to make their beloved, sweet whoopie pie th ... More >>

Eat and Drink Well for Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve 2011

So, it's time to plan New Year's Eve if you haven't already. Avoid the amateur's night problem by putting your 2011 celebration in the hands of restaurant pros who will handle the fine food and drink part. And save you clean-up troubles. Merriment, cheer, reflecting on the past year (which may or ma ... More >>

Sapling Liqueur: A Vermont Fall in Los Angeles, Sort Of

Flickr user laurencebrilliantYour High ABV Maple Syrup Brunch​While the rest of the country is lounging by the fire with hot chocolate, we're still downing frozen margaritas (granted, they are flaming). In the weeks leading up to that pretend-it's-fall-moment (otherwise known as Thanksgiving i ... More >>

IF YOU'RE LUCKY, YOU MIGHT GET SOME TAIL, IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE MEAN*

*That's lobster tail, pervert.

Book Review: What I Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets (Hardly That Kind of Diet Book)

​What I Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets is the sort of coffee table book you have to remove before the guests come over -- at least if you want them to leave after that final bottle of Pinot has been polished off. The latest photo-journalism book from husband-wife authors Peter Menzel and Fa ... More >>

Yesterday At Taste of the Nation: Photos Of Hunger-Fighting Food

Taste of the Nation Los Angeles had its annual event yesterday at the Culver City Media Park, and as usual, there was a lot of good food and drink. All ticket sales, as well as money received from charitable donations and the silent auction, went directly toward fighting childhood hunger. There wer ... More >>

Last Big Sardine Cannery Closes How to Become a Sardinista

Monterey Public Library, California History Room1943 storm hitting Monterey Harbor, pushing the sardine fleet onto shore​ Today the last big sardine cannery in America is closing its doors. The Stinson Seafood plant, located in Prospect Harbor, Maine, is closing after a century of operation, ... More >>

True Grit

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Theater Reviews: The Ballad of Emmett Till, Dual Citizens, The Subject Was Roses

Also, Wit, Calliope Rose, Barbra’s Wedding and more

Top 10 Christmas Dining Options If You're Going Out This Year, For Whatever Reason

Because your mother-in-law is critical of your cooking. Because your mother-in-law always burns the roast. Because you've been finding Pepperidge Farm bread crumbs scattered about your kitchen since Thanksgiving. Because this year you just don't have time. For whatever reason you're not cooking or ... More >>

Details Emerge On Obama's Pot Stance

Just as a crackdown on the city's medical marijuana dispensaries is being set in motion, the Obama administration is calling off the federal fight against sellers and buyers who abide by laws in California and 13 other states that allow the distribution of doctor-approved pot, the Associated Press i ... More >>

L.A. Lobster Fest Goes For Guinness Record

The lobsters at last week's Long Beach Lobster Fest won't hold a claw to the colossal crustaceans at our own Port of L.A. Lobster Festival in San Pedro this weekend. Although the festival is already recognized as the biggest event of its kind, this year they're looking to make it official: starting ... More >>

Queer Town: California Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8

Patrick Range McDonaldAnti-Prop. 8 marcher in Westwood in November, 2008.In an unsurprising ruling, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 today. As for the fate of approximately 18,000 legally married same sex couples, the supreme court decided they remain valid. Chief Justice Ronald Geo ... More >>

Rock Picks: Pelican, Herman Dune, Rasputina, Bill Frisell, Random Patterns

Also, the Rakes, Cold War Kids, Idan Raichel Project and others

Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!

Omakase Warrior

A soft touch beyond the hard rules of Hiko Sushi

Austin City Limits

Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at SXSW 2007

Not Starbucks

Where do Goya, Samuel Pepys, L.A. graffiti and Monique Prieto meet?

Voters' Guide

Making sense of the ballot measures

Rest of the Fest

Our critics weigh in

10 Best Dishes of 2005

10 Best Dishes of 2005

Marineland: Michael Cimarusti's Providence

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894–1941

Baby Love

The hippie-capitalist wisdom of CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, hero to 93,000 indie musicians and counting

It’s No Shame About Ray

Ray LaMontagne’s hard past fuels startling songs and an anxious cult following

Beyond 30-second spots

Debating the merits of a civic discourse

Leave No Particulate Matter Behind

Tofu On A Stick

The Kooch’s low-carb campaign heads west

Recall Demographics

And the importance of SB2

From It Happened in Boston?

It Must Be in the Genes

Seeing Things

Art for Art Bell’s sake: Crackpot visionaries in Orange

Grief Observed

Todd Field’s In the Bedroom

Money Changes Everything

Lunching with the ladies who lunch

Be Here Now

GPS means never having to say 'Where the fuck are we?'

bLAnd LAnd

Sitegeist’s semiannual scene column (with special guest editor Rita Elkbrute)

Hot Stuff

Incendiary Sichuan in Pasadena

Darkness Revisited

The Feel-Good War