Manila

Cat Stows Away on Ship, Makes 6,400-Mile Journey to L.A.

If you took a 6,400-mile journey from the Philippines aboard a ship without proper food or water, how long would you last? Pinay the cat is just fine, say L.A. County Department of Animal Care and Control officials. The feline was discovered in a container that had come all the way from Manila:

Pacific Rim Review: Guillermo del Toro Tries to Make a Better Blockbuster

Fishing With Dynamite Review: New Manhattan Beach Hotspot's Food Is Hit or Miss

How 6 SoCal Places Got Their Really Weird Names

There are all sorts of unusual places names in this part of the country we call "The Southland." We have names of historic English derivation, not so unlike what you'd find back in the civilized East (Whittier, Torrance, Hawthorne, Glendale). We have place names of Spanish derivation (Tujunga, Rese ... More >>

Any Day Can Be Burger Day in L.A.

Yesterday was National Burger Day, capping a whole month of burger celebration. This year, the day also came right after Memorial Day -- one of three national holidays with a strong grill tradition. If you somehow missed the opportunity to enjoy a burger in the course of the past few days (or the wh ... More >>

Burger Week 2013 at The Oinkster: Doritos Bell Beefer, Thrilla From Manila More!

It's a burger throwdown for restaurant and diners, with the return of The Oinkster's Burger Week from Monday, June 3 to Sunday, June 9. While the slow fast food joint faces off with popular flavor profiles, customers will have the seven-day "Burger Challenge" to contend with. Around the same time l ... More >>

The Adobo Road Cookbook: A Cookbook Launch Party and Dinner

This Thursday, May 23 is the official launch party for food truck owner, blogger and cookbook author Marvin Gapultos' The Adobo Road, a celebration open to the public through ticket purchase. The cookbook is a collection of recipes he compiled from family and research. It's part of his long-term goa ... More >>

The Spice Table: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

10 Best Sweet Treats in Los Angeles

As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, last week. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of spas and hikes and cocktails and grottos (yes, grottos), so many that you might get lost -- so many that we thought we'd pull out ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Summer Be Gone!

[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.] September is upon us. In its final weeks, August was staggering crookedly, profusely bleeding ... More >>

The Jolly Oyster: Baja Oysters and Clams at the Beach in Ventura

Here's a delicious field trip that combines all the elements of an ideal Southern California picnic. Fresh-from-the sea proteins ready-to-eat. Bring-your-own wine and beer. And dogs are welcome. The Jolly Oyster is a fresh oyster and clam shackette just an hour north of L.A. on the 101. Inspired ... More >>

Bourne Legacy Review: Sequel Suffers From Damonlessness

Isla Cocina Pilipina: Eagle Rock's Thrilla From Manila

Does Filipino cuisine have a publicity rep? Because if it does, he should be working overtime right now. At every hip gastropub in town -- and certainly there is no shortage of those -- the pig has been elevated to princely levels. It's a mathematical certainty that the menu will feature some kind o ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Peninsula Hotels Will No Longer Serve Shark Fin Soup

Flickr/goosmurfShark fin soup​Following Gov. Jerry Brown's signing in October of an act banning the sale of shark fins in California, the Peninsula Hotel chain has announced they are prohibiting shark fin soup, considered a delicacy in Chinese culture, at all food outlets as of Jan. 1, 2012. ... More >>

The Manila Machine: Off the Streets

Manila MachineMarvin Gapultos and Nastassia Johnson​ The Manila Machine, this city's first Filipino food truck, parked for the last time this past Friday and went on indefinite hiatus. The announcement, which was not, sadly, an April Fool's Joke, was made by Marvin Gapultos and Nastassia Johns ... More >>

Ode to the Slimy Hagfish

Battleground Jae Bu Do

Quan Mien Trung: Not Your Mother's Noodle Soup

Unless she happens to be from Central Vietnam

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/7-6/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!"

The Manila Machine: Filipino Food Truck Rolls Out

Marvin GapultosManila Machine​ The democratization of food, if you can call the evolution of the food truck such a thing, continues. And this time, instead of a rogue chef taking the wheel, it's a pair of food bloggers. Noting the relative absence of Filipino food in Los Angeles in general, an ... More >>

Manny Pacquiao: The Fight of His Life

Boxer goes for his greatest win yet — congressman

Happy Birthday, Harry Culver: A Menu Traces the Culver City Founder's Life

The Culver Hotel​Harry Culver's birthday was January 22, and the celebrations will continue throughout February. Only Harry won't be there. The founder of Culver City, Culver was born in 1880 and died in Hollywood August 17, 1946. For several years he kept an office in the Culver Hotel. And s ... More >>

FBI Once Investigated Michael Jackson For 'Transporting A Minor Across State Lines For Immoral Purposes'

​The FBI on Tuesday released its files relating to pop star Michael Jackson. Most of the seven files, which comprise a total of 333 pages, relate to the bureau's assistance with local cases surrounding molestation allegations. In 1993, the FBI states, its London and Manila offices stepped int ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Switched on Jazz

The Unmassacred Churro

Fried-dough dessert is best at its plainest

Suzpree Sneak Peek: Char Sui Tacos and Oxtail Dumplings -- Advance Bites of Suzanne Tracht and Preech Narkthong's Evolving New Project Unveiled Tonight at Jar

Margy RochlinIn Development: Suzpree's eggplant saladEverytime Jar chef/owner Suzanne Tracht and her chef de cuisine Preech Narkthong visit Narkthong's hometown of Bangkok, Thailand, they return with ideas for new dishes, antique silk purses and fairly crazy-sounding tales of two massages a day and ... More >>

Sprechen Sie Berlinale? Looking for "Slow Cinema" Among the Polyglot Unhappy Meals at the Berlin International Film Festival

German director Maren Ade's Everyone Else is competition's most impressive film

Enslaved in Suburbia: Inside the World of Trafficked Indentured Servants and the Visa Violators Who Care for Our Old

Two women, two fractured American dreams

Manila: In the Claws of Mendoza

UCLA surveys the prolific Filipino auteur

Dame Edna, Makeup Muse: Painting the Town Varicose Violet

Think Possum Nose Pink

Brick's Picks: Jazz for a Summer Day

Shots in the Dark at Cannes 2008

Reflecting its moment, the festival takes a decidedly serious tone

Pacific Heights

Jazz picks around L.A.

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Cavite

Cavite

Master of Budgets

Karen Sisson

I Art the '80s

Pettibon, Ocampo, Foulkes, Rath and Deen at Track 16; Herman at INMO

Sweatshop on the Sea

Wanted: 600 computer coders to work for cheap on old cruise ship

Losing Our Shirts

An unhappy New Year looms for American apparel makers

As the World Burns

The national idea as soap opera

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

An Island of Words

Luisita López Torregrosa on breaking the silence of infinite longing

An Island of Words

Luisita López Torregrosa on breaking the silence of infinite longing

The Forgotten Woman

Revelations from a plus-size life

Heaven on Earth: The Seminar

Shadows and Fights

Images from the ring

Vicissitudes of the Victor

Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition

Music Reviews