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First Look: Badmaash Indian Gastropub

In the '80s and '90s there was fusion, often done by American chefs in high-end places, often for no discernible reason, often with suspect results. Then, partly as fusion backlash, partly as an honest curiosity about other cultures, came the obsession with authenticity. Now we've come full circle, ... More >>

EDC 2013 Lineup Announced

Electric Daisy Carnival is back at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway this year, June 21-23. It is sold out. But we'll provide full coverage, in case you can't be there. The full lineup is below, in alphabetical order.

How a Sardine Surplus in India May Change Our Daily Diet

Sardines may not be what's for regular seafood dinners in Los Angeles, unlike in Mumbai where there is plenty to be found at a local wholesale fish market. There is a more direct tie, however, between L.A. and Mumbai seafood supplies than a comparison of what goes onto one's dinner plate. As reporte ... More >>

Bhanu's: Indian Cuisine in the SGV, a Grocery Store Where to Find Ghost Chiles

Walk into Bhanu's Grocery and Cuisine in San Gabriel and you'll see a grocery store that's slowly being consumed by a restaurant. "We started off with five tables," Richard Harrison, a server at the restaurant said. Now, there are more than a dozen. Owned by Mr. Bedi and Bhanu, a brother and siste ... More >>

Olympic Drinking: Beer, Gin Whisky

By now you're fully ensconced in the full-on drama of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, a global event featuring feats of human skill so thrilling that you're likely to have to endure a few marathon sessions yourself -- in front of the telly, that is, unspooling TiVo recordings hour after hour, devotin ... More >>

Trishna: Michael Winterbottom Brings Thomas Hardy to Mumbai

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/18 - 6/22

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Sorry England and Germany -- if the American craft beer revolution owes its adventurous and hoppy spirit to any country's brewing tradition, it's Belgium's." Top 5 Belgian IPAs: More Fun With European Hops. "But the fact i ... More >>

The Pikey: Hollywood's Riff on the London Blues

We've always had a soft spot for Welsh rarebit -- pronounced "rabbit" -- an English pub staple that essentially amounts to a layer of yeasty cheese sauce broiled onto toast. The name is sort of an Anglican inside joke, implying that a conniving Welshman might try to swindle by insisting your savory ... More >>

Summer Drinks, Part 1: The Gin & Tonic

It is odd to think that the Gin & Tonic originated as medicine -- or rather the 'tonic' part did, dosed as it was with a measure of quinine, a bitter alkali that British nationals from the East India Trading Company used to ward off malaria. Recipients sweetened the medicine with sugar, then added g ... More >>

The World in Dumplings: Or, Not Living By XLB Alone

Dear Mr. Gold: I'd like to do a tour of the world's cuisines through dumplings. Xiao long bao [Chinese soup dumplings] may be my favorite food on Earth, but one does not live by XLB alone. So far I've got momo, gyoza, shui jiao, samosa and piroshki on the list, even though the latter two are perhaps ... More >>

Shane Sakhrani's A Widow of No Importance

Mumbai cougar at the Bollywood Zoo

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Sex Toys And Lingerie Confiscated From Woman Who Flew to India From Los Angeles

sarabronfman.comPower tools.​You better be damn proud to be an American. Those soldiers over there in Iraq and Afghanistan fight for your freedoms: like your ability to bring sex toys onto airplanes. S'okay. Whips and chains, even. And once you, er, get off (the plane), you're good to go. But ... More >>

Ten European Artists You Should Have Heard By Now

Parisian rapper Rohff​In the States, it's easy to be stuck in the bubble of our domestic music. Sadly, many European artists have a difficult time breaking into the North American market. Often, this stems from the language barrier, but it can also be due to the straight-up oddball nature of t ... More >>

Q & A with Kaumudi Marathé: Regional Spices, Hot Oil Seasoning Marathi Cuisine

Melkon KhosrovianChef Kaumudi Marathé prepares dinner for an Un-Curry Table event.​Born in Pune, India, Kaumudi Marathé grew up all over the world. (Her parents loved to travel and took jobs in far-flung locales.) After her early years living on and off in Maharashtra, a central Indian state ... More >>

Mumbai Diaries

The Twelve Days of Cookies: Blackmarket Bakery's Coconut Curry Mango Bar Recipe

Blackmarket BakeryCoconut Curry Mango Bars​As our Twelve Days of Cookies comes to a close this year, we feel compelled to offer our thanks. Not only to the pastry chefs and baking book authors who shared their recipes, but to Sherry Yard's chocolate lab, the catalyst for her holiday dog biscui ... More >>

Toe-Sucking, Vacuum Sex, Epic Boobs and ... El Guincho? Watch the NSFW Video for 'Bombay'

El Guincho stars in the tits-filled surrealist masterwork, "Bombay." (Adria Canemeras)​Barcelona psych-pop musician El Guincho, who performs at La Cita on Wednesday, October 6, is the star of a tits-filled surrealist masterwork called Bombay. Those already familiar with the man's incredible n ... More >>

Fringe on the Top

L.A.'s first noncurated arts festival is a triumph

Mashup! Or, the Art of the Repurposed Condiment

Flickr/greenkozia row of condiments​ Angelenos have always hoarded takeout condiments, keeping a jug of Phillip's extra-hot to apply to their own barbecued ribs, frying last night's Dos Arbolito's roasted poblano salsa into tomorrow morning's chilaquiles, spooning the pureed ginger that comes ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Bollywood and Vine. LA Indian Food Fit For An Englishman (Or -Woman)

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: Could you recommend some great Indian restaurants in Los Angeles that visiting Londoners might like? Anarkali and the Bombay Cafe are just fine, but they seem a little bland compared to what we're used to at home. If you have any i ... More >>

Light up the Night at Diwali, India's Festival of Lights

Oil lamps are traditional for Diwali​Dress up in your brightest and best to celebrate Diwali, India's Festival of Lights. The official day is October 17, but you can beat that by going to the L.A. Mumbai Sister City Affiliation's Diwali party the weekend before. On October 11, the group will g ... More >>

IS IT ART? OR JUST NUDIES?

Hollywood Jobs to Be CGI'd to Mumbai

It seems like only yesterday that the Times of London was ballyhooing the outsourcing of New Line CinemaOscar-winning special effects winner The Golden CompassHollywood special-effects projects to India. "Post-production movie work," the Times reported in May, 2008,  "is steadily migrating from ... More >>

Fall Film: Slumdog Millionaire: Game Show Masala

Bollywood Meets Hollywood

Fall Film: From Manchester to Mumbai with Danny Boyle

A Filmmaker Less Ordinary

Tirupathi Bhimas Gets Regional

Living dals

Bollywood Bohème

Indian cinema’s past meets its present in the lavish Saawariya

Tandoor at Heart

¡Ask a Mexican! East Meets Mex

Is it true that there are a lot more Mexicans hooking up with East Indians now?

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Film Reviews: Bridge to Terabithia, Daddy’s Little Girls and more

Film Reviews: Norbit, Hannibal Rising

Including Norbit, Hannibal Rising,Traffic Signal, and the Ralph Nader documentary, An Unreasonable Man

Film Reviews

Incuding Salaam-e-Ishq, Epic Movie, and Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?

Film Reviews

Including Danielson: A Family Movie, Guru, Primeval and more

Ram Gopal Varma and Company: Indian Goodfellas

Running Hot and Cold: A Dozen Weird Weather Moments

Valley of the Swills

Planet Bollywood?

Indian musicals are hip, sure, but the Hollywoodization of Bombay cinema may not be as imminent — or as desirable — as advertised

Stormy Weather

Monsoon Wedding shelters under a tree of chestnuts

The Million-Dollar March

A tribute to greed, power and excess

Bollywood Now!

The stars come out for Craze 2001

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

And other treats from India (dosas may vary)

The Chai Life

In search of real Indian tea

The Best of Counter Intelligence

Here Comes Salman

Rushdie on -- or as -- celebrity

Satori Night Fever

A Ghost in the space-time machine

All Singing! All Belly-Dancing!

Wild and wiggly Egyptian musicals

Profiles in Curry

I am curious - yellow.

Wrap Party

Thai duck calzones? Turkey, sweet potato and cranberry sauce tacones? Mango chicken burritos in Gorgonzola-chive tortillas? No, thank you. Around here, we’re into old-school wrap.