Montrose

Three Bottles, One Shop: Rosso Wine Shop in Glendale

Three Bottles, One Shop is a new series in which we take a peek into an L.A. wine shop and ask the owner to pick and describe three great bottles on offer. Have a shop you'd like to see featured? Email brodell@laweekly.com. Rosso Wine Shop sits on a quiet strip of retail stores near the corner of V ... More >>

You've Been Trumped Review: A New Doc on How Donald Trump Pissed Off Scotland

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Dragonfruit

Dragonfruit is so aptly named. The baseball-sized fruit is covered in long, lime green fleshy scales that ripple out from a dark red core. Open one up and you stain your hands magenta from the nearly fluorescent flesh dotted with tiny black seeds. Asia has long grown dragonfruit -- also known as ... More >>

Giant Black Bear Roams Streets of Glendale, Scares Crap Out of Texting Pedestrian (VIDEO)

The notorious black bear of northern L.A. County reportedly spent some quality time in the Glendale suburbs last night, trolling for tuna and meatballs as he's been known to do. But this time, he stuck around until morning -- causing an L.A. media frenzy we've not seen the likes of since Caltrans s ... More >>

Alan Zweibel

L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

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

Rashad Varma, Young Aspiring Comic, Jumps to Death off Historic Pasadena 'Suicide Bridge'

weirdca.comThe Colorado Street Suicide Bridge​A bridge in Pasadena infamous for hosting over 100 suicides saw another jumper last Saturday. The L.A. County Coroner's Office identifies him today as 25-year-old Rashad Varma of Montrose, originally from India. Friends on his Facebook memorial pa ... More >>

Cochinita Pibil Taco Fight: La Cabanita vs Chichen Itza

B. MesirowLa Cabañita's Cochinita Tacos​The versatility of the taco is well-documented, on these pages and countless others. There are as many potential taco fillings as there are kinds of food in the world, but not all of them are equally wonderful. (We know that Korean BBQ works but Taco Be ... More >>

Music Picks: Agnostic Front, the Latebirds, Def Leppard, Jay Rock

Also, Kristeen Young, Diego Garcia, the Human League and others

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: UK Subs EP

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #121 for Saturday, July 2. Fanatics! Talk about no sleep! I have been bouncing from planes to taxies to studios on both coasts. I worked on this show for a few days on paper and then only a few hours ago was able to listen to all of it and makes sure it is up to ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Paradis (Day 21)

Paradis had already made inroads in Montrose, when the shop opened a new outpost in April on the Hollywood/Los Feliz border. These are, so far, the only two, U.S. franchises of a popular Danish gelato chain with over 30 shops in its native land.

If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Montrose

Now Open: Paradis's Danish-Style Ice Cream in Los Feliz

T. Nguyen​ A great number of great things have come from Denmark. Hamlet. The Killing. Legos. To this we add: ice cream. Now open in Los Feliz, Paradis Ice Cream replaces the space vacated by Pinkberry on Vermont and brings Danish-style ice cream to the neighborhood. Paradis actually is ... More >>

Arcadia Tree-Sitters Call For Probe of LA County Department of Public Works, Release List of More Woods Targeted for Destruction

Camron Stone​Sit in a tree. Go to jail. That's how they roll in Arcadia. The "Arcadia 4" tree-sitters are having a press conference April 19 at 10 a.m., (Criminal Justice Center, 210 West Temple Street), where environmentalists John Quigley and Camron Stone, and actors Daryl Hannah and Ed Begl ... More >>

Kirk Spiegel, Second-Grade Teacher at LAUSD's Pinewood Elementary, Commits Suicide off 210 Freeway Overpass

FacebookSecond-grade LAUSD teacher Kirk Spiegel​Updated throughout. Early this morning around 2 a.m., 49-year-old Kirk Spiegel -- a Los Angeles Unified School District employee, according to LAUSD -- jumped to his death off the 210 freeway overpass in La Canada Flintridge. "He was a second-g ... More >>

L.A. Road Closures, Wednesday Edition: Where Not To Drive

PHOTO BY TED SOQUI​I punish thee with hella traffic​Updated after the jump: The beginning of the end FLASH FOOD warnings until 6 p.m. (this includes downtown L.A.). Constantly updated with traffic conditions, evacuations and the best in emergency rescues. Originally posted at 8:30 a.m. ... More >>

November Roundup of Restaurant Closures By The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Kat Teez via FlickrJerry's Deli ruben sandwich​ Since the hepatitis scare at Jerry's Famous Deli in Westwood last month, specifically on Nov. 18, 21, 23 and 24, many of us have been weary of our restaurant choices. And some of us are getting hepatitis A vaccinations or immune globulin shots. ... More >>

The Family Prostitute

As the recession continues, more and more women are turning to the world's oldest profession to support their loved ones

Landmark Birthday

Options for a Special Night

Booze AND Chocolate, Simultaneously: Valentine's Day Cocktails A Recipe for The Chocolate Covered Cherry Cocktail

Valentine's Day is Sunday, and if you're poised to woo or be wooed chances are you've got chocolate and booze on your mind. If you're looking to approach the sweet holiday from both angles at once, you might be interested in some cocktails that also satisfy your chocolate cravings. L. William-Ross ... More >>

A Question of Degrees: Boiling or Roasting?

Wo Können Wir Essen

Sprechen Sie hipster?

Emerald Beaut Plums: Late Summer Plums Hit the Fruits Stands

Photo credit: Todd Porter​Emerald Beaut Plums will be showing up at farmers markets this weekend. Many of us have waited long and patiently for this green plum to hit the stands, and at least one farmer, Annie from Sweet Tree Farms, has finally deemed her crop ripe and sent crews up the ladde ... More >>

The Unmassacred Churro

Fried-dough dessert is best at its plainest

Did Losing His Dog, Saki, Detonate the 'Killer Santa' Bruce Jeffrey Pardo?

One of the creepiest pieces of news about mass-murderer Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, an aerospace software technician who lived in Montrose, among Los Angeles' most charming, quiet and friendly suburban neighborhoods, was that he lost his "beloved" dog, Saki, to the estranged wife Pardo so viciously and met ... More >>

Best Day in the 'burbs

Going carless in Glendale and Montrose

Three Drunken Goats and the Reign of Spain

More tapas and wine, please

Best of the Wurst

Schreiner’s Fine Sausages

Animal Planet

A local children’s line mixes fashion and conservation

John DiFusco Returns to His Roots

Working class hero

A Beer-slugging, Flag-waving, Double-Wilder Week of Fun

The Death Squads

When dying is downright dirty, these guys clean up the mess

Chocolate City

Letters

Ask Mr. Gold

Comfort Cuisine

Changing Colors

The BellRays' Maximum Rock & Soul