Signature wedding cocktails are so last year. Now that craft beer is becoming more and more ubiquitous -- and beer lovers are meeting and marrying over pints -- it's about time a wedding package included the chance to brew your own custom wedding beer. Enter the crafty planners over at Four Points ... More >>
As anyone who's followed L.A.'s food scene this year can attest, 2012 was marked by the demise of some near-and-dear classic restaurants. Of course, restaurants shutters are a fact of life -- some face an inevitable decline, while some seem to disappear overnight. Nothing quite compares to the con ... More >>
Not content to run just one farmers market adjacent to Griffith Park, the folks who brought us the Yamashiro Farmers Market -- which reopened for the season on April 5th -- are now aiming east and will be launching a new destination farmers market at the Autry National Center, across the street fro ... More >>
Also, Hot Snakes, Strange Boys, Ken Parker, Flash Express and others
Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free
Malibu TimesFeinberg jumped from the Rindge Dam in Malibu.A former Agoura High student named Joshua A. Feinberg, now 21, jumped 100 feet to his death off the Rindge Dam at Malibu Creek yesterday. The century-old structure is located about three miles inland from the Pacific Coast Highway. Th ... More >>
Steven ArmstrongJoe Nascenzi and Matt Enegren at Enegren Brewing Co. As often happens in life, collegiate eccentricities lead to post-baccalaureate vocations. For one Harvard dropout, late-night computer programming led to multi-billion dollar "facebooking." And for three Loyola Marymount gr ... More >>
Felicia FriesemaKendor Farms free range eggs at the Hollywood market. Eggs? Yes, eggs. This week is National Farmers Market Week, and while the bulk of what you see piled high on tables at your local market is more flora than fauna, here and there you'll likely see neatly stacked cartons of ... More >>
Rabid bats.Could there be anything more insane/dreadful to discover, or even imagine, hidden beneath your porch/roof shingles, than a swarming nest of rabid bats? Aside from maybe rabid raccoons -- or rabid possoms, or rabid rattlesnakes, or the neighbor's rabid purse-dogs -- we think not. ... More >>
MetrolinkThis Hyundai Rotem rail car is flyer than VixenIf public transportation makes you want to mummify yourself with disinfecting hand towels and stay there in that sudsy little cocoon forevermore, maybe the stainless-steel rail beasts unveiled this morning by Southern California's Commut ... More >>
An "excessive heat watch" has been issued by the National Weather Service for much of Los Angeles Tuesday and Wednesday, with "dangerous heat possible" and even record temperatures for the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Santa Monica Mountains. A high-pressure system is ... More >>
Silver Lake Farms blogFarmer John's white eggplant in SilverlakeHow adventurous do you feel at the farmers market? Enough to let someone else do the produce picking for you? If so, now may be the right time to try a CSA, or community supported agriculture program. L.A. is chock-full of the ... More >>
Indentured servitude; toxic-land development
Scenic journeys to hell, on wheels
Law enforcement officials called off the search today for the remains of 16-year-old Roger Madison who was believed to be buried along the 23 Freeway at the Tierra Rejada Road offramp in Moorpark for the last 40 years. Madison was a victim of child serial murderer Mack Ray Edwards. The remains pr ... More >>
Weston Dewalt's amazing year
As a media throng watched from behind yellow crime scene tape, dozens of law enforcement and forensic experts on Monday began excavating a small piece of land along the 23 Freeway in Moorpark where police believe child serial murderer Mack Ray Edwards buried 16-year-old Roger Dale Madison 40 years a ... More >>
Wondering why guys don't make the first move anymore, and notes on the pains and pleasures of threesomes
A paranoid transit agency spends public money threatening critical Web sites
Richard Grant leaves home base for a show at Café 322
How the Santa Monica Farmers Market transformed the restaurant landscape
Term limits open races to maverick candidates
Harry Potter’s magic survives another match with Muggles-parents
Fares to Remember
