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What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Giant Purple Artichokes from Suncoast Farms

Lompoc is an agricultural Brigadoon, a place of eternal springtime where it's never too cold or too hot, and where a rich, loamy soil mixes with sand from the coastline's protected dunes to create a near perfect spongey and fertile substrate for the valley's lucky farmers. It makes perfect, deliciou ... More >>

Fallen Angels

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/7 - 1/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Among the topics? Secret burger menus, fair food, ostrich omelets and plenty of old guys in the desert." Top 5 Huell Howser Food Episodes: In Memoriam. "4. Eat a meatball sub any time someone thanks Harvey Weinstein." Tina ... More >>

La Monarca Bakery Opens in Pasadena Rosca de Reyes Cake

Huntington Park-based La Monaco Bakery, which now has four locations in the L.A. area, debuted its newest branch in Pasadena today. The sprawling home-grown Mexican bakery, home to as wide an array of bollios, pan dulces, quiches, postres, tortas and any other Pan-Latin baked good you could hope fo ... More >>

Cousins Maine Lobster Opens in Pasadena Lobster Ice Cream

Opening Friday, September 21 at 5 p.m., Cousins Maine Lobster evolved from food truck to brick and mortar in a mere 5 months, as a response to hundreds of customer requests. Housed within Pasadena's Live Mixx lounge, the shellfish centric brand, known for serving fresh lobster and crab delivered dai ... More >>

47: Lucky Baldwins' Traditional Full English Breakfast

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 47: Lucky Baldwins' Traditional Full English Breakfast. Breakfast can mean many things to many people. A perfectly constructed pastry from Joan's on Third. Bru ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Farewell to Yujean Kang's Gourmet Chinese, Swiss Take Over Olympic Dining Recipes for Cherry Desserts

L.A. Eater: A sad farewell to Yujean Kang's Gourmet Chinese in Pasadena. Food GPS: Following up with the progress of Pipe Dream Brewery. Zester Daily: The House of Switzerland venue to cook the Olympics. Grub Street: The opening of Dogtown Coffee in Santa Monica brings us back to the days of "ska ... More >>

Make Music Pasadena - Old Town Pasadena - 6/16/12

Make Music Pasadena Festival Old Town Pasadena 6-16-12 With the Sunset Junction Festival filing for bankruptcy and the Silver Lake Jubilee upping admission to $20 a head, one's options for quality summer music festivals in L.A. have dwindled a bit. Meanwhile, at this point the only two free festiva ... More >>

Stone Brewing Co. Coming to Pasadena

Fans of San Diego's Stone Brewing Co. should be very happy to learn that they'll soon be saving themselves a 2-hour drive south. Greg Koch's popular brewery, which has grown over its 16-year history to become 11th largest craft brewery in America, is planning on opening a new bottle shop in Pasadena ... More >>

What Fantasy Production Would L.A. Artistic Directors Put On If They Had Unlimited Money?

Seminar, Maple and Vine and The Mountaintop in New York

Bulgarini Gelato Update: A New Outpost in Culver City

Fans of Bulgarini Gelato know the drill: head to Pasadena from wherever else you are, climb up Lake Avenue to Altadena, traveling up practically into the Mt. Wilson clouds, and then turn off into the vast concrete landscape of a Rite Aid parking lot. There, at the end of a long patio, you'll find Le ... More >>

South Pasadena's Ancient Sewer Pipes Have Leaked 120,000 Gallons of Waste Into L.A. County Waterways

southpasadena.blogspot.comYou don't even want to know what's going on down there.​Awesome. The Pasadena Star-News has released a two-part expose on South Pasadena's almost incomprehensibly crappy sewage system (complete with violation maps and damning documents). Turns out the consequences o ... More >>

5 Best Ice Cream Shops in Los Angeles

5.1. Rite Aid (everywhere): Their ice cream isn't chic and artisanal, but it's cheap, ubiquitous and features their standout flavor, Chocolate Malted Krunch. Milky, creamy and slightly tart, it's flecked with soft shavings of dark chocolate that melt on your tongue while crisp, malted mini-bombs e ... More >>

$1 Hot Dogs at Dog Haus Tomorrow

Guzzle & NoshThe Sooo Cali dog at Dog Haus.​To celebrate its 1-year anniversary, The Dog Haus in Pasadena is giving away free hot dogs tomorrow, October 20th. The gourmet hot dog shop is doing so well, owners Hagop Giragossian, Quasim Riaz, André Vener and Robert and Denise Zeilstra plan to o ... More >>

Chris Burden: Dead Man and a Hot Dog Stand

Ask Mr. Gold: Having Your Food & Hearing It Too at Vertical Wine Bistro

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Do you have any recommendations for a restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley where six people can have dinner and actually, really hear each other talk?? We need a variety of suggestions to meet varying dietary needs (gluten-free options, n ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rock With You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

Next time someone starts talking about the good ol' days, remind them that California used to sterilize the "feebleminded"

​ Seriously, things are better than they used to be, people! If you don't believe that, take a good, long look at Eugenics Simply Explained for All, the 1937 magazine featured in this week's Studies in Crap on our Style Council blog. There you'll be confounded by doctor-written articles that c ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Quelling That Carnitas Craving at Cacao Mexicatessen

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Where can I find good carnitas? I'm thinking like the kind I'd get off the taco trucks in Oakland -- we loved to go to El Ojo de Agua. Relatively close to Pasadena would be nice. --Nina K. Dear Ms. K.: You are, alas, a few years too la ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Lasagna to Go? Try the "Cupcakes" from Heirloom L.A.

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: This weekend, we're having some fellow parents over for a playdate with our 2-year-olds, and then dinner. With all that 2-year-old energy going on, I'm thinking it might be a good idea to buy a lasagna, so I don't have to slave away in th ... More >>

Millet-Corn Chowder: A Class a Recipe

Flickr/permanentlyscatterbrained​ Join doctor of Chinese medicine Henry Jun Wah Lee and holistic chef Vicky Valencia for an evening of food and learning in Pasadena on Thurs., Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. There will be tasty (and healthful) dishes to sample, practical recipes you can use, and enlight ... More >>

Ecole De Cuisine Pasadena: Farid Zadi's New Cooking School A Moules à la Moutarde Recipe

A. ScattergoodChef Farid Zadi, at Ecole de Cuisine Pasadena​ Those of us who have followed Farid Zadi's career -- at the Le Cordon Bleu School in Pasadena, where he was a chef instructor for the last six years, or via his blog chefzadi, or through Charles Perry's excellent 2007 profile of the ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Back in Business

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore PASADENA PLAYHOUSE BACK IN BUSINESS Sheldon Epps and Stephen Eich, respectively the Pasadena Playhouse's Artistic Director and Executive Director, have just announced production plans through January, 201 ... More >>

Pasadena, We Have A Problem: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Kaput

NASA​NASA officials in Pasadena this week officially gave up on the Phoenix Mars Lander after the little tyke went incommunicado and appeared to be damaged by ice as it succumbed to winter conditions on the red planet. The spacecraft had already collected images of Mars and successfully compl ... More >>

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Changing the System From Within

PAS DE DENA

What To Wear While Tailgating: The Cook, The Milliner, His Wife & Her Quarterback. Or Something Like That.

Between tonight's Orange Bowl and the crowds slowly gathering in Pasadena for Thursday's BCS championship game (with all the Longhorn banners fluttering along Del Mar, you'd think that half the faculty at Cal Tech was secretly from Texas), we thought it was time for a little food fashion weigh-in. ... More >>

The Big Game's In Two Days!

Where Can a Girl With Attitude Take a Guy on a First Date?

Glendale City Council: No to 710 Tunnel

One of L.A.'s great communal imbroglios is the extension of the Long Beach Freeway, also known as State Route 710. Years ago construction ended at its Alhambra terminus, so that it currently connects Long Beach directly to -- Valley Boulevard. Caltrans wants to complete it so that the highway will c ... More >>

Summer Seasonals: Farmers Market Finds You Don't Want To Miss

Felicia FriesemaMarket tomatoes​All the big summer market favorites are hitting their stride right now - peaches and other stone fruits, corn, and lordy, the tomatoes. Mountains of each line the market alleys at the Pasadena and Hollywood markets this week and all of them grab your attention ... More >>

Blues and Ballads on a Budget

Celestino: First Date, Italian-Style

White tablecloths, good wine and that golden light

Ask Mr Gold: White Tablecloths, Good Wine & That Golden Light

Dear Mr. Gold: What would you recommend as a good first-date Italian restaurant more or less in the Pasadena area? Peter, Pasadena

The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

The Arts Crisis Edition

Stage Raw: L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

Light up the Sky is this week's Pick of the Week. Light up the Sky Photo by Maia Rosenfeld THEATER PICK Moss Hart's sharp, hard-boiled 1946 farce, Light up the Sky, is the quintessential backstage tale of the mid-20th century. His characters are often based on real people: fast-talking produ ... More >>

Earth Day Events Around L.A.

All day long at 3700 Wilshire Blvd., between Oxford and Serrano Aves. there will be live music on a solar-powered stage, as well as a bike raffle. Michael Franti of Spearhead plays at 4 p.m., a yoga session at 3:30, Chris Pierce at 2:30, Latin music from Cava at 1:30 and lots more, including Balin ... More >>

La Grande Orange

Swank suburban style

The Disinvited

How Fences divided a community

Hers, Not His

The Great Carnitas Plate

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants - Part 3

From Renu Nakorn to Zankou

The Real Thing

Feral Pop

Mexican street graphics in Old Town Pasadena

Restaurant Halie: The Meat and Potatoes of It

David Ebershoff's Pasadena

Eat, Memory

Searching for the taste of home

Ambitious … Pretentious … but Pretty Good Cobbler

Restaurant Halie tries hard

Let the Sunshine In

Wachs pushes to end city secrecy