New Year's

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Video: Downtown Mochi Shop Fugetsu-Do Celebrates 110th Anniversary

Fugetsu-Do Confectioners, a mochi shop in downtown Los Angeles, will celebrate its 110th anniversary this fall. The family-run sweet shop was founded by Seiichi Kito in 1903. In Japanese culture, mochi, a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice, is a favorite food for New Year's Day. Fugetsu-Do's ... More >>

Sundance 2013: America's Black Indie Film Renaissance

You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009. Coogler opens the fi ... More >>

A Southern Tradition: Where to Get Your Collards and Black-Eyed Peas for New Year's Day in Los Angeles

Who couldn't use more health and wealth in 2013? These are the gifts that eating collard greens and black-eyed peas on New Year's Day delivers, according to Southern tradition. But where in Los Angeles can you find such rare and exotic menu items?

Top 7 Ways to Avoid a DUI on New Year's Eve

We've survived the election, the holidays and the apocalypse, so there's even more to celebrate come New Year's Eve. Not only is it almost 2013, but we're all still here -- so let's keep it that way. Given the vast amount of liquor that comes with NYE, operating heavy machinery isn't feasible, and ... More >>

Green Eggs and Roses?

Exploring The Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection, The New Years Eve Edition

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. The tradition of New Year's Eve Champagne dining extends back at least as far as the menu archives at the Los Angeles Public L ... More >>

Top 6 Seasonal Pumpkin Picks For Under $5

We realize that the profusion of pumpkin products isn't everyone's cup of squash. So we feel a little sheepish admitting that we're suckers for some of this pumpkin stuff (which reminds us, we need to get to See's Candy for a box of their pumpkin spice lollipops). With that in mind, we put togethe ... More >>

Jim Mahfood Is Off Like a Prom Dress

Cookbooks: Eastbound and Down's Final Episode, The (New) White Trash Cookbook Tribute A Memorable Sandwich Recipe

How fitting, in a marshmallow salad sort of way, that 25 years after Ernest M. Mickler first published White Trash Cooking, the final season of HBO's Eastbound and Down has wrapped up. If you've missed "the best f--king show on HBO," as MTV's James Montgomery neatly summed up in Kenny Powers-appr ... More >>

The Fooducate iPhone App: Scan Favorite Foods At Your Own Risk

Does your New Year's resolution have you up against a wall yet? Introducing the Fooducate app, an app available for iPhones that helps the average food consumer shop for grocery foods. The app works like a scanner; it scans the barcode of foodstuffs and immediately produces a nutritional breakdown i ... More >>

What Leap Year Means To Farmers Your 2012 Holiday Table Implications

Unless you happen to man a soda stand at Disneyland, the side effects of 2012 being a leap year probably aren't tops on your back-to-work frustration list (For the Mickey Mouse lollipop obsessed: The theme park is staying open 24 hours on February 29). And for many farmers who sell their produce at ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Bi-Rite Market's Eat Good Food Is Really Good

amazon​If your New Year's resolution list includes something along the lines of eating more good food -- home cooked, farmers market-inspired, healthier or whatever your definition -- you're going to want to add Bi-Rite Market's Eat Good Food cookbook to your Amazon wish-list. If for no other ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Oro Blanco and Mellow Gold Grapefruit

Are you ready for your Trese Klase? Roughly translated to "13 types," the annual new year's practice in the Philippines requires collecting 13 different types of round fruit -- one for each month of the new year plus one in the next -- and putting them on the family table to be eaten on New Year's ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content comes ... More >>

10 Cheap Restaurants for New Year's Eve

Last week, we listed 11 new restaurants open for New Year's Eve. All will present special menus -- at "special" prices ranging from $46 to $475. Prefer to not break the bank for New Year's? We've selected ten restaurants where you can dine for less than $30 per person (not including drinks) past ... More >>

10 Best New Year's Eve Events in Los Angeles

Flickr/ Bayasaa​ New Year's is upon us soon, and with that, the angsty debate about what to do in order to make it the most epic night of both the last and the new year begins (no pressure attached, of course). In order to take some of the stress out of planning the big party, here are LA Wee ... More >>

Freaks and Frocks at the 34th 'Occasional' Doo Dah Parade

Lina LecaroWord bubble bunch at Doo Dah 2011​ Uniformed marching bands, ma$$ive floats, robotic waving beauty queens... snooze. Parades can be so predictable. But Doo Dah is different (and we mean that in more ways than one). The self-proclaimed "twisted sister" to Pasadena's other more famou ... More >>

Carlos Ibanez, L.A. Homicide No. 4: Young Partygoer Gunned Down in Valley Glen Drive-By on New Year's Day

Google Maps​A Latino man who died January 4 after suffering multiple gunshot wounds at a New Year's Day house party in Valley Glen has been identified as 28-year-old Carlos Ibanez. According to the Los Angeles Times, Ibanez had no gang affiliation; however, LAPD detectives think the shooters ... More >>

Arcade Fire's Secret Show for LA Fans: Here's Where You Can Get the Cheap Tickets (People Are Camping Out Already)

Arcade Fire Frontwoman Regine​Yeah, yeah we know: The Arcade Fire is playing a secret club show in LA. [UPDATE: We got the right locations.] You were probably monitoring Arcade Fire's Twitter feed all week awaiting details about the Montreal group's surprise show tonight. Last night, that fe ... More >>

January Roundup of Restaurant & Food Truck Openings And Closures

Anne FishbeinRIP Beacon​ For those of us who've kept our New Year's resolutions, bravo ... and for the other 99 percent, we hope our favorite food spots continue to serve the stuff we love. Sit-down restaurants are nice, but who has the time (or money) for three-martini lunches anymore? Good ... More >>

Today Is The Most Depressing Day Of The Year: Welcome To 'Blue Monday' In L.A.

Here's one way to deal with the blues.​Welcome to the most depressing day of the year. Statistics indicate that y'all are bummed out. Your bank account is drained after the holidays. You still have a post-ecstasy fog from that New Year's eve bender. And it's still almost six months until summe ... More >>

I'M BOUQUET, YOU'RE BOUQUET

Top 5 Easy Edible New Year's Resolutions

pixxiestails/FlickrNot eating it this year.​ This time of year, people are holding fast to fresh New Year's resolutions, many of which pertain to eating and drinking habits. Magazines and websites love rattling off good food-related resolutions, often suggesting lifestyle changes such as fewe ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Men'sHealth Magazine Takes On Your New Year's Resolution

​If 2009 was the year of the baking books, 2010 was the year of the media cookbook. Sunset magazine, Bon Appétit and The New York Times (review coming later this week) all published their decades-thick reflections on the molten chocolate cakes of the 1990s and the bulgar pilafs of the millenn ... More >>

Ronald Reagan Library New Year's Eve Celebration

Q & A With Lou Amdur (Part 2): Lambruscos, Blanc de Blanc Champagne and The Effervescent Cure-All Known As Alka-Seltzer

Anne FishbeinLou Amdur, of LOU: A Wine Bar​In part one of our conversation with Lou Amdur, owner of Lou: A Wine Bar, we asked him for suggestions about what to drink on New Year's Eve, and he sang the praises of yeasty proseccos and fizzy red lambruscos (especially the ones made by third gener ... More >>

Ten Great New Year's Brunches (for the Hungover and the Smugly Sober)

Cecconi'sCecconi's breakfast pizzette​ If the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year, then the day after New Year's Eve is the biggest hangover day of the year. And hangovers must be fed - and well. But since many restaurants shutter their doors on New Year's Day, and b ... More >>

How to Have a Happy New Year: Top 5 "Good Luck" Foods

Gleek.net/Flickr​If you're the superstitious type, seize the moment. There's a huge handful of foods one can eat around New Year's which are thought to ensure good luck for the next 365 days. We've rounded up a list of a few "good luck" foods that, if for nothing more than karmic efficiency, ... More >>

Rose Parade Rules: No Tents, Fires, Horns, Pets, Alcohol, Drugs, Fireworks, Throwing Things, Unsupervised Minors, Suspicious Packages Or 'Unoccupied Chairs' Allowed

NASANASA's 2007 float: worth the wait​Boy, the annual New Year's Eve campout along the Rose Parade route in Pasadena sounds like a barrel of fun this year! Police are warning they'll be stricter than ever on the exhaustive list of parade rules, including fun-extinguishing items like: "Throwin ... More >>

Best 2010 "Diet" Cookbook That Isn't A Diet Book: Mark Bittman's Food Matters

​Diet may be a four letter word on a food blog, but eventually too much bacon really does catch up to you (or so we're told, as we have yet to reach our limit). But as it is perilously close to the New Year's resolution hour, we have been looking back on 2010, and the large amounts of cured me ... More >>

Let it Snow!

Eat and Drink Well for Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve 2011

So, it's time to plan New Year's Eve if you haven't already. Avoid the amateur's night problem by putting your 2011 celebration in the hands of restaurant pros who will handle the fine food and drink part. And save you clean-up troubles. Merriment, cheer, reflecting on the past year (which may or ma ... More >>

Disneyland's New 'Fairy Tale Suite' Might Still Be Available For New Year's Eve -- If You've Got $500 On It

Disney ParksChampagne-colored everything, for your puking pleasures​Yeah, yeah -- Vegas is pretty tops for NYE, but keep an open mind. The Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim has unveiled a fourth *magical* suite in its new series: the 750-square-foot Fairy Tale Suite. And let us tell you -- it is fu ... More >>

Tonight: Remy Zero, Macy Gray, Eels, the 88, Alice in Chains, Fran Healy, the Blakes

Cinjun Tate of Remy Zero​Remy Zero winds up a bittersweet reunion tour tonight, but it might not be the last fans have heard of the Alabama-bred, L.A.-based quintet. The band known best for the single "Save Me" (the theme for TV's Smallville) reunited earlier this year to play shows in memory ... More >>

What Was Burning up Tune in Tokyo's NYE Dance Floor? Lady Gaga

For more photos from Tune in Tokyo, check out Timothy Norris' photo gallery "New Year's Eve 2009 Downtown Crawl." New Year's Eve, we made our way to Little Tokyo for Tune in Tokyo's party at Second Street Jazz. Though we were impressed by the mix of club regulars and local party-hoppers and complete ... More >>

Over the Weekend: New Year's Eve Celebrations from Hollywood to Downtown

Once again, L.A.'s numerous party scenes finished the year in outrageous fashion. L.A. Weekly hit the town in search of New Year's Eve parties from Hollywood to Downtown. New Year's Eve Downtown Crawl GiantHotelTimothy Norris​Photographer Timothy Norris spent New Year's Eve combing downtown ... More >>

New Year's Eve in Los Angeles: A YouTube Snapshot at Midnight

Lord knows West Coast Sound can't cover everything, but why should we even have to when God YouTube is doing the heavy lifting. A lot of stuff went down in LA this weekend, for sure. Some crazy shit, actually. All that gunfire had to come from somewhere. The sirens, the tire squealing, the horns. Th ... More >>

DIP, ANYONE?

HAPPY KOTOHAJIME!

New Year's Eve Dining Roundup: Because 2012 is Only Two Years Away

January 1st will be the time for resolutions. For losing weight. For spending less money, and more time with your family. For getting a job, or quitting one. Yes, January 1st you will start again. And that's good. Because tonight, December 31st, New Year's Eve, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., the lovely peop ... More >>

New Year's Eve in LA: Top 5 Songs for Shooting Your Gun in the Air at Midnight*

Top 5 Songs for Shooting Your Gun in the Air at Midnight

LA Chefs' New Year's Resolutions

As the final hours of 2009 tick away, Angelenos dash off their New Year's resolutions like grocery lists. Food lovers are known to promise eating better and exercising more, but what to do the food makers of our city decree on New Years? We checked in with some of our city's top chefs to find out ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/28 - 12/31

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. Happy New Year everybody. "Sweetened and condescended milk." Squid Ink Top 10: Foodie Typos. "I kind of lost a little faith in Spanish restaurants in L.A., because the quality wasn't nearly as good as I thought it could be. ... More >>

New Year's Eve in LA: Bubbly and Bumpin' In the Clubs with Arabian Prince, Hang the DJs, Part Time Punks and More

The year -and decade- are done, and the city's biggest, most buzzed about New Year's Eve bashes (Hard, Giant, Gridlock) are either out of your budget or out of your comfort zone. The house party of a good friend -with lots of other good friends- might be optimal this Thursday night, but we think we' ... More >>

New Year's Specific Cupkakes from SusieCakes

SusieCakesCelebratory Cupcakes​It's your last chance to stuff your face with unhealthy goods before your inevitable "I'm going to try to start eating better" New Year's resolution. So to send you off in style, SusieCakes is rolling out a few date-specific goods just for the holiday. Available ... More >>

Where To Spend New Year's Eve: In A Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name. At Least For One Night.

Logline for the proposed horror film, "Where To Spend New Year's Eve": Thousands of hallow-eyed would-be-revelers, in a desperate search for a party, comb the streets in their finest digs, racing against the stroke of midnight. This year, instead of staying home like a curmudgeon, or running aroun ... More >>

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