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Q & A With Soul of a Banquet's Wayne Wang: Cecilia Chiang Why the Best Chinese Food in the World is in the SGV

Back in 2011, when it seemed like the entire Bay Area was seized with Chez Panisse 40th anniversary fever, Hong Kong-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Joy Luck Club, Smoke) asked Chez Panisse's founder, Alice Waters, if there was a role he could play. Waters suggested ... More >>

William Close's "Earth Harp" Is Pretty Neat

Five years ago, William Close's house in Malibu caught fire and burned to the ground. This was even more devastating because his life's work -- a collection of giant, almost sculptural instruments, including something he calls his Earth Harp, painstakingly constructed over the past decade -- acted a ... More >>

Bertolli Sponsors Emmy Swag Suite for Celebs

It used to be easy to shower celebrities with lavish gifts. Back in the good old days, companies put together gift baskets worth tens of thousands of dollars that they gave to presenters and other celebrities attending awards shows such as the Oscars and Emmys. Then those spoilsport Feds decided t ... More >>

Domino's New Crust Tests (Mostly) Gluten-Free

Domino's, we may have wronged you. Last month, we wrote about the pizza chain's new "gluten-free" crust, and how the company added a bunch of disclaimers to that description, including saying the new pizza "was not recommended for people with celiac disease." Although the pizza was made with gluten ... More >>

10 Best Dim Sum Restaurants in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a special place. While the rest of America opts for eggs and a mimosa on Sunday mornings, a good portion of Los Angelenos prefer Chinese banquet-style restaurants for their weekly fix of turnip cake and tea. The long impatient lines and lack of parking spaces on Valley Boulevard is pr ... More >>

Tax Day Deals to Mark the Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat

It's Tax Day, one of a few days this Election Year that you'll likely be remotely interested in tearing apart the finer parts of the so-called Buffett Tax and seeing how it would have directly affected you, or not. At least, that interest will hold for a few seconds, until you've stared at your sad ... More >>

Against the Rock-Hard Matzoh Ball

Guzzle & NoshMatzoh ball soup at Mezze.​It's almost impossible to find a decent matzoh ball at a restaurant in Los Angeles. Even at the finest delis, the standard matzoh ball is as large as a softball and nearly as hard. Perhaps this could be justified by some complex sociocultural explanation ... More >>

Kris Keith of Spacecraft: 'I Will Crush You'

Making L.A. interior design a lot more colorful

America's 15 Favorite Chain Restaurants: We ♥ The Cheesecake Factory

Cheesecake FactoryLos Angeles Cheesecake Factory locations​ Want to know how America really eats? I guess track where NBA players go after a game. Nation's Restaurant News recently published a list of our 15 favorite casual and family restaurant chains, and The Cheesecake Factory, reportedly a ... More >>

A Word About the Chains

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Ask Mr. Gold: A Word About the Chains (No)

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: How do you feel about chain restaurants in Los Angeles? Are there any that you find satisfying? Are there lessons to be learned from large corporate feeding troughs? --Daniela G., Los Angeles Dear Ms. G.: Do I go to chain restaurants? Al ... More >>

CSPI Releases Its Annual List Of The Fattiest Foods In America

KFCThis did not make the list​Some restaurants, it seems, are trying their best to kill you as quickly as possible. While we knew that most dishes at places like The Cheesecake Factory and Outback Steakhouse were incredibly unhealthy, we still didn't know which ones were the absolute worst of ... More >>

Staff Meals Today: From Duck Fried Rice to the Mysterious Urasawa

If you're lucky, your job buys you dinner. If you're really lucky, that doesn't just mean P.F. Chang's or Daily Grill. We talked to ten more top restaurants around L.A. and tried to find out what they're feeding their staff tonight. Picasa user KeithChefs eat too.​

New Chong Qing: New Hot Pot Spot

Boiled Fish à la San Gabriel Valley

Eating in Encino

And overcoming the Romanian-goat-herder problem

Bail Reduced for Alleged Dolla Killer

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge lowered bail to $2.1 million for 23-year-old Aubrey Louis Berry, an Atlanta entertainment promoter who allegedly shot to death aspiring rapper Dolla. Berrys' bail was originally $5 million. Judge Terry Bork said the bail reduction  was "appropriate." Atlan ... More >>

Dim Sum When the Sun Goes Down

In the night kitchen

Where To Eat Now

Rotten Regifting

County employees stole gift vouchers from foster kids. They might not be fired.

Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

Today was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Picket Day at the WGA strike, and the three-foot-and-under marchers were in abundance proudly waving their signs. A favorite among strikers was a little cutie with a sign that read, "I'm little but I know how to share." She looked so tired from all that marching in the su ... More >>

Master Mizoguchi

Life, love and loss in the films of a cinematic giant

Where To Eat Now

Where to Eat Now

Thirty-five new entires to the list

Best Mall for (Actual) Rats

Beautiful Game

Porto Alegre

Shopping the ’Bank

Bring your own parking meter

The Miseducation of Ericka Griffin

Ericka Griffin figured she was finally getting her big break when she got a teaching job at an exclusive Santa Monica private school. Instead, the school’s elite taught her the lesson of her life.

This Year’s Remodel