Mark Gold

Surfers and Environmentalists Peeved Over Malibu Lagoon Will Crash Ribbon-Cutting

Read L.A. Weekly's "The Battle for Malibu Lagoon." Beware state politicians and UCLA professor Mark Gold, surfers and environmentalists are planning to crash your ribbon cutting ceremony at the controversial Malibu Lagoon restoration project on Friday. "We are not happy with what happened," Ballo ... More >>

Los Angeles' Filthy, Fecal-Laden, Sickness-Inducing Beaches: Who Should Pay to Treat the Rain Runoff from Oily, Dog-Poop Streets?

By Matthew Mullins and Jill Stewart Update: The Board of Supervisors rejected the Clean Water, Clean Beaches plan today in a big upset, thanks to what many say was exceedingly poor outreach on the massive tax plan to pay for it. See next page for details. Hundreds of angry people today demanded th ... More >>

Eva: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

10 Great Restaurants Open New Year's Eve

There are plenty of ways to celebrate the end of the year, and going out to dinner is certainly one of the best. Make a reservation while you can, put on your best party frocks and check out one of these options for your dining pleasure. Please also remember to drink responsibly and that AAA offers ... More >>

Eva Restaurant Rallies for Help to Solve Parking Debacle

In an unique move, and in light of recent parking related issues, Mark Gold, chef/owner of Eva restaurant, made a plea via his newsletter and Facebook fan page, asking friends of the restaurant to help them raise money towards appealing to the city for a variance on their parking situation. The vari ... More >>

Will Forage For Food: The Chefs at Eva Take Up Weeding

If you're the sort of person who likes to eat what's outside of your raised garden beds as much as what's in them, or if you've found yourself staring at the urban forest of nasturtiums lately taking over the embankments of Laurel Canyon as it nears Mulholland Drive, then maybe you should read today ... More >>

Behind the Scenes: The Early Morning Hours at the Farmers Market

What happens in the early hours at the farmers market? Early as in 6 a.m., those pivotal few hours before the opening bell rings and most of us are sipping coffee. It's around that hour that farmers start pulling into their parking spots at the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market, some after an al ... More >>

L.A. Bartenders Get Artsy at Sadie

Ever wonder what L.A.'s most creative bartenders like to do on their days off? That's exactly the idea behind Art Beyond the Glass, a fundraiser that features a variety of art, music, DJs, live performances and, of course, lots of cocktails for a cause at Sadie in Hollywood. Created by Providence ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Strawberry Festival, Mark Gold Seafood Demo, EggFest, Chocolate Lecture, Beer and Brunch Bike Ride, Hudson Block Party Smog City Beer Dinner

California Strawberry Festival Strawberry shortcake? Boring. How about strawberry pizza, nachos or kabobs, along with strawberry beer? More than 40 food booths will offer strawberry-centric items at the California Strawberry Festival. Also expect concerts, contests, amusement park attractions and a ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Chefs for Hire, Spice Table Recipes Passion for Cilantro

Technology: Why cook when you can hire professional chefs to make dinner via Kitchit. In L.A., choose among Neal Fraser (BLD, Grace), Mark Gold (Eva), Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), and others. Food & Wine: Three Spice Table recipes (simplified!) from Bryant Ng, with photos by Anne Fishbein. Gilt Ta ... More >>

Mark Gold Steps Down as 'Heal the Bay' President, Moves Inland to UCLA

greenlacoalition.orgMark Gold for Heal the Bay.​It's hard to imagine the Los Angeles County coastline without Heal the Bay, defender of marine life and official housecleaner for our world-famous beaches/waters since 1985. And it's hard to imagine Heal the Bay without Mark Gold, its head and h ... More >>

Eva: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

The Battle for Malibu Lagoon

Should humans destroy Mother Nature in order to save it?

What to Read Now: Eating Bugs in The New Yorker

Anne FishbeinDonaji​If you have not yet picked up the latest issue of The New Yorker, you may want to. Turn to page 38, dear reader, and you will find a Dept. of Gastronomy piece by Dana Goodyear on bugs. You will also find happy mention of John Sedlar (Rivera, Playa), Bricia Lopez (Guelaguetz ... More >>

Destruction of Fish Sucked Into L.A. Power Plant Cooling Systems to Continue Under California Ruling

Tim PearceTake us to your power plant.​Imagine a world in which seawater and sea life are sucked into a coastal power plant in order to cool its generators. In the process 30 billion larval and adult fish are destroyed. Well, you don't have to imagine. That's life at the city of L.A.'s three ... More >>

L.A. Beaches Are Dirtier This Year, But a Surf Spot Called 'Shitpipe' Gets an A For Water Quality (Go Figure)

Heal the Bay​We know our friends at the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau are always hard at work thinking of new ways to attract tourists to our fair city. Heal the Bay's latest L.A. Beach Report Card suggests some new attractions, such as lumpy water, waves you can smell, and, of ... More >>

Janice Hahn Takes Oil Money, Then Attacks Debra Bowen For Taking Oil Money

Debra Bowen, as depicted in a Janice Hahn mailer​In the closing days of the hot Dem-on-Dem Congressional primary, Councilwoman Janice Hahn has gone on the attack against Secretary of State Debra Bowen for taking oil money.Voters head to the polls tomorrow to choose a replacement for retired Congre ... More >>

L.A. Restaurants Celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month Free Grilled Cheese Truck Sandwiches Today

Celia SoudryAsparagus Melt at Clementine​ It's National Grilled Cheese Month and Clementine chef-owner Annie Miler isn't taking it lightly -- she's been brainstorming new sandwich ideas and bracing her staff for a menu of 10 different grilled cheeses offered every week of the month. "This is d ... More >>

[Updated] The Gold Standard 2011: So Much Food, So Little Time

​ Update: The Weekly just announced a special presale for this year's Gold Standard tickets, starting today. Save $10 on both regular and VIP tickets. Enter promo code GOLD 11 when purchasing online or calling 1-888-878-9651. Discount available only until 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 20. The ... More >>

Los Angeles Magazine Hosts The Food Event 2010: From The Vine

Los Angeles MagazineThe Food Event 2010: From the Vine​​If you missed last month's Taste of Beverly Hills or Wolfgang Puck's American Wine & Food Festival, mark your calendar for October 24, when Los Angeles Magazine hosts The Food Event 2010: From the Vine at Malibu's Saddlerock Ranch. ... More >>

Malibu Lagoon Dredging War Erupts Between Heal the Bay and Wetlands Defense Fund as Coastal Commission Decides Fate

Tibby RothmanStart your bulldozers​ Updated Wednesday afternoon with unanimous vote by Coastal Commission. When Heal the Bay waded into Malibu Lagoon to devise a way to "restore" the rebuilt-by-man lagoon, they probably weren't thinking their blue chip environmental credentials might get bogg ... More >>

Chefs Come Together to Support Good Food for All Angelenos

​ Philanthropic food lovers, mark your calendars: on October 6th some of the biggest and most sustainability minded chefs in the city, along with some conscientious local farmers, are coming together for the fundraiser Good Food for All, A Taste of the Los Angeles Foodshed. Hosted by the n ... More >>

Water-Quality Testing At California Beaches Down; Public Health At Risk?

Flickr via irene​ Health officials have reduced bacteria testing at California beaches, a move that has resulted in fewer closures, but one that could also be putting more beach-goers at greater risk when it comes to contaminated water, according to the Los Angeles Times. The number of annual ... More >>

Heal The Bay Releases Mockumentary Promoting Legislation Banning Plastic Bags In California

taberandrew via Flickr​ A mockumentary released today by Heal the Bay aims to promote the passage of AB 1998, a state measure that would ban the single-use of plastic bags in retail stores in California, according to a release by the nonprofit. Actor Jeremy Irons narrated the four-minute piec ... More >>

Zócalo Seafood Discussion Tonight: Maybe Eat Sushi Another Night

Anne Fishbeintoro, yellowtail, uni, albacore, wild scallop at Kiyokawa​ A reminder to maybe put down your chopsticks (omakase) and your TV remote (CNN) tonight and consider heading over to the Skirball Center for the Zócalo discussion: Will Seafood Soon Be a Delicacy? Jonathan Gold, his brot ... More >>

Eva: Intimate Bistro, Epic Meals

A place for regulars, at regular prices

Will Seafood Soon Become a Delicacy?: A Zócalo Discussion with Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold has recommended ordering dishes such as Urasawa's high-priced and rare Fugu sashimi as one of the 99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die, and has reviewed classic edo-mae sushi at Takami, as well as countless other seafood dishes around town. But on July 7th, Gold won't be talking abo ... More >>

Water Quality At L.A. Beaches Improving

Heal the Bay​Heal The Bay's 20th annual Beach Report Card showed "significant improvement" in the water quality of L.A.'s coastal spots from March, 2009 to April, 2010. Nearly eight in 10 of the 86 beaches tested received A or B grades verses seven in 10 last year. "After all these years of p ... More >>

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Santa Monica Could Shut Down Whale-Sushi Spot

thehump.biz​The city of Santa Monica, which apparently owns the land occupied by exotic sushi restaurant The Hump, is looking into allegations that the eatery serves exotic whale meat in violation of federal law. Santa Monica City Attorney Marsha Moutrie told the Santa Monica City Council tha ... More >>

Hatfield's Opens Tonight: A Look Behind the Scenes

Brooke BurtonQuinn Hatfield at Hatfield's​If you don't read the blogs (or Twitter), you may be one of the few people unaware that Hatfield's opens tonight. Make that re-opens, as this will be the second incarnation of Quinn and Karen Hatfield's restaurant, which was previously located on Bever ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Potato and Reggiano Soup from Eva Restaurant's Mark Gold

Eva Restaurant has only been open a short while, in the former Hatfield's location on Beverly Boulevard, but it was packed last night, the patrons taking shelter from the sudden rainstorm. Slightly damp diners ate bowlsful of warm potato-Reggiano soup as the rain came down, chef-owner Mark Gold ushe ... More >>

All About Eva

Actually, Eva is all about you

Buddha's Belly: Yakisoba and Chefs Hang-out

Last night at Eva, chef-owner Mark Gold was in fine form, greeting guests and chatting table-side on the third night since his new Beverly Boulevard restaurant opened. "You know, I wouldn't have ordered that," he said, considering the plates of foie gras with summer melon and maple, and Hokkaido sca ... More >>

Eva Restaurant Progress Report: On Twitter

Used to be, the path of a restaurant's opening was marked by permits and inspections, liquor licenses and telephone calls, delivery trucks pulling up to the kitchen entrance, and general sleep deprivation by everyone involved. Now those same things apply, of course, but you get to see the whole thin ... More >>

Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy

Activists leave the street-fighting to the little guys

Rivers' Edges: Israel's Yarkon May Reflect Opportunities for the L.A. River

Tel Aviv's Yarkon RiverMark Gold, the president of Heal the Bay, recently blogged from Israel, where he was visiting as part of an L.A.-Tel Aviv environmental exchange. While there he took note of similarities between the L.A. River and Tel Aviv's Yarkon River, once a notoriously polluted body of wa ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Newsmakers: Columnist Mark Groubert on Dr. Drew Live, Jonathan Gold vs. Heal the Bay in L.A. Times

Last night L.A. Weekly's Mark Groubert stopped by Dr. Drew Pinsky's nationally syndicated radio show, Dr. Drew Live, to chat about his articles on Congresswoman Diane E. Watson and Proposition 5, plus his upcoming book on addiction in America. Earlier this year, Groubert was also on Pinsky's show t ... More >>

The Lost Streams of Los Angeles

Uncovering our wet and wild past. Is it safe, or even possible, to let the water flow again?

The Story of O

How much difference can a pot of money make in the fight against urban runoff?

Beaches of Shame

Why can’t we keep our oceans clean?

The Big Spill

The Great Wet Hope

Will Measure O remake Los Angeles? Only if voters know it exists

Environmental Ecstasy

Santa Monica marks 10 years of renewal

Beaching the Cleanup Plan

How a one-man crusade to overturn pollution controls became a $1 million legal fight

The Gods of Small Things

The Center for Biological Diversity cares as much about the unarmored threespine stickleback as it does a cathedral forest of trees, which is why it is reinventing the environmental movement and could be saving Southern California in the process.

Wetlands and the Well-Ordered Society

Coming to terms with Playa Vista after DreamWorks