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Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken: The Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, Prop 37 a New Chef at Border Grill

Mary Sue Milliken, as always, is in the midst of a zillion things. The food activist, TV personality and chef-owner with Susan Feniger of Border Grill has been a vocal advocate of passing Proposition 37, the ballot initiative that would make the labeling of GMO products law in California. Milliken ... More >>

Oksana Marafioti

Cookbook Of The Week: Susan Feniger's Street Food, Now In Hardcover Form Her Spicy Yuzu Mayonnaise Recipe

The subtitle to Susan Feniger's Street Food -- Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes -- could just as well be a Wikipedia entry on the woman who, as we are reminded on the book jacket flap, is behind Street, co-founder of Border Grill, one of the original Food Network pe ... More >>

Status Report: Lamb Burger at Shaanxi Gourmet

Recently, we told you about the lamb sandwich ('Fried With Meat') at Beijing Restaurant. Our original plan was to compare it with another lamb sandwich, namely the lamb burger at Shaanxi Gourmet in Rosemead. At least that was the plan. On three visits, we were told they no longer served them. We ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister

[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.] Still in Australia, get used to it! I will be here for quite a while. Things are going very we ... More >>

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot in the SGV Now Open

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot opened their San Gabriel location yesterday, April 4. This is the chain restaurant's second location in the greater Los Angeles area. The menu is similar to it's Hacienda Heights counterpart, featuring herbal, spicy and vegetarian soup stock options. "Everything is pr ... More >>

Starbucks Protest Art in Little Tokyo?

At first glance, the poster on a bulletin board in Little Tokyo looks like a Japanese woodblock print of the Edo period, 1600-1868. Four stately cranes appear in front of a lake, trees and the sunrise. But wait, is that a Starbucks "Drive Thru" sign in the midst of nature's beauty? We stop to look c ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tonight: Tunes from Down Under

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #104 for Saturday, March 5. Fanatics! It's me, your FM favorite. I am in Australia at the moment and to pay tribute to the great musicality of this country, we made the first hour all Aussie. Some of the bands are quite familiar but perhaps not all of them. The M ... More >>

Top Ten Musician Restaurant Franchises (In Honor of Flavor Flav's New Fried Chicken Joint in Iowa--Yes, Iowa)

Don't Believe the Hype! 10 Musician's Restaurants Less Strange Than Flava Flav's Chicken Joint

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins' Predictions for 2011 (Protip: It Gets Better)

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henr ... More >>

10 Things You May Not Know About Korean Food a Recipe

B. Hansenpork with kimchi at Yongsusan​ Did you know that L.A.-style galbi is famous in South Korea? If the answer is no, then bone up (what better term) on this and other little known facts about Korean cuisine with a 10-point guide that will make you sound like an expert. 1. L.A.-style g ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Mary Sue Milliken's Mexican Chopped Salad

Peter BarrettMexican chopped salad at Border Grill​ In our recent interview with Mary Sue Milliken, the Border Grill chef talked about all kinds of fun things, like stalking lamb in Mongolia and having a Hitchcock experience with raising pigeons in her back yard. She also discussed the Border ... More >>

Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken, Part 2: The Transformation of Ciudad, Lifting the Tablecloths Some Thoughts on Food Trucks

Border GrillMary Sue Milliken ​In the first part of our interview with Mary Sue Milliken, the chef talked about her travels abroad (fish tacos in the surfing capital of Alaska, chasing dinner in Mongolia), which she somehow has had time to do while, with Susan Feniger, running not one but now ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/11-10/15

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "There was a time when art in restaurants signified more than the $3,000 ceramic dildo for sale at the gift shop of Bazaar." Best High-Art Patio: Michael's. "If that sounds like the perfect snack after stumbling out of a b ... More >>

Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken: Adventures In the Alaskan Surfing Capital, Chasing Boar in Mongolia Her Hitchcock Squab Experiment

Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger have been culinary fixtures in this town for decades, from their first restaurant, City Cafe, which opened in 1981, to their downtown flagship Ciudad, to the Westside's Border Grill to, inevitably, a food truck of the same name. Oh, and let's not forget the five c ... More >>

You Can't Go Home Again: Henry Rollins on Being Back in the USA, Autumnal Feelings and his Favorite Thomas Wolfe Passage!

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

The Globe Trottin' Mr. Rollins: Henry Rollins Visits a Dead North Korean Leader, Ponders the Relationship Between State Communism and Scientology, and Finally Finds Time to Chill Out in Mongolia (also, HR's Musings on Jimi Hendrix!)

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

HEY EVERYBODY-- LET'S MAKE LIKE A BABY AND HEAD OUT!

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

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Roll Over Eddie Vedder and Give Scott Stapp the News: Real-deal Tuvan Throat-Singers at Zanzibar!

Meet the Tuvan Beatles!​If you thought Eddie Vedder invented throat-singing--well, think again. Traditional throat singers Huun Huur Tu "come from the former Soviet Autonomous Republic of Tuva, a sparsely settled region of grasslands, boreal forests, and mountain ridges" situated north of Mong ... More >>

AFI Fest, A to W

Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup

Movie Reviews: Couples Retreat, The Damned United, Good Hair

Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more

JTYH Restaurant: Heavy Noodling II

Knife-shaved pasta, the next generation

Mongolian BBQ Ready to Fill Up, Sizzle and Serve at Gobi in Silver Lake

Sweet after savory is always good, right? Maybe that's part of the entrepreneurial logic behind Pazzo Gelato co-owner Michael Buch and his fellow business partners opening the contemporary styled Gobi Mongolian BBQ House on Sunset just east of Parkman/Silver Lake Boulevard. Following a soft opening ... More >>

Inauguration Day Extravaganza: The First Hip-Hop President?

Image via Hip Hop is Read Unless you've been living in the Madagascan Rain Forest or are a cave-dwelling ignicolist in Outer Mongolia, you're well aware that today marks the inauguration of Barack Obama. To the delight of the rap world and the chagrin of the social security set, Obama has been bi ... More >>

Warrior King: Sergei Bodrov

Mongol director retraces the footsteps of Genghis Khan, navigates the Hollywood battlefield

Kingdom Come

Theater Reviews: Lady, A Chorus Line, I Gelosi

Also, The Legendary Times of Bulgakov, and more

Irving Norman, Healing

Showing Pinkberry

Yogurt clones spread the white stuff

Is It Life or Is It Memorex?

In an extraordinary new film from China, all The World’s a stage

The Gang of Four Invades Orange County

Chen Yi speaks for Chinese music reborn

Speed Freaks

On the road with Dave Eggers

This Year’s Remodel

Rising After the Fall

Rituel Humain

Dumpling Chic

Beijing snacks in San Gabriel