Pico-Robertson

Riff Raff and Kapparot Chickens: Readers Respond

Sacrificial Chickens: Jewish Yom Kippur Ritual Sparks Controversy in Pico-Robertson

The chickens will pay for your sins. Mary Smith stumbled onto this gambit while walking to the Starbucks in her Pico-Robertson neighborhood on Sunday, when she noticed "many, many cages" crammed with chickens in an alley behind the Bait Aron building at 8701 Pico Blvd. The sight of the birds was, sh ... More >>

August is National Sandwich Month! 31 Sandwiches in Los Angeles To Celebrate

The sandwich: named for John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, because he liked to eat his meat between bread so he could continue playing cribbage. But the sandwich actually dates back much further, to 110 BCE or so, when Jewish sage Hillel the Elder wrapped lamb and herbs in soft matzah. Today in Ame ... More >>

Could L.A. Become a Honeybee Mecca? The Backwards Beekeepers Are on It

Garcetti or Greuel for Mayor? Micro-Neighborhoods like South Robertson May Cast the Deciding Votes May 21

Wendy Greuel or Eric Garcetti will be the new mayor of L.A. thanks to Precinct 9001492A, a micro-neighborhood in South Robertson where voters in the March primary were about equally divided between Garcetti and Greuel, Kevin James came in third and Jan Perry trailed in fourth. In fact, the South R ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Sotto Chefs Zach Pollack and Steve Samson A Chickpea Panelle Recipe

The sensibility of Zach Pollack and Steve Samson's Pico-Robertson restaurant Sotto is clearly laid out on their menu. Take the appetizer of chickpea panelle, a traditional Sicilian street food, that's been available at the southern Italian restaurant since it was opened in 2011. "They're basically ... More >>

10 Best All-Day Happy Hours in Los Angeles

By Sarah Bennett and Erika Bolden When we went looking for all-day happy hours, geographic diversity was a priority. But striking patterns emerged -- namely, the bars most likely to discount booze beyond the typical late-afternoon hours were located mostly in 9-5 work destinations. In fact, from Sa ... More >>

Porchetta Hits L.A.: The Mysteries of Pigsburgh

Porchetta is the thing to eat right now -- but deep roots belie its current trendiness

Life of Pie: L.A. Celebrates Its Pizza Moment

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. On a Wednesday evening, 10 students sit along the counter at the Scuola di Pizza, the, yes, "School of Pizza" at L.A.'s premier pizza joint, Mozza. I'd like to say we're a varied lot, but that wouldn't be true -- we're uniformly w ... More >>

75: Porcetto at Sotto

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. 75: Porcetto at Sotto. Porchetta is one of those dishes that, once you've tried it, tends to feature prominently in recurrent dreams. The same genre of dream a ... More >>

Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest

Betsy Butler and Torie Osborn woo the carbon-counting strata of Assembly District 50

Update: Hollywood Pies Moves West Seating Coming Soon

Are you familiar with Hollywood Pies, the Chicago-style deep-dish pizza operation that operates in semi-secrecy? We were big fans when we got our first taste late last year outside a nondescript building west of downtown -- a crispy, cheesy sauce-drenched pizza that weighed about as much as a manhol ... More >>

Alain Salas, Fremont High School Girls' Volleyball Coach, Arrested by FBI for Alleged Sex Crime

Updated at the bottom with a few more details from the FBI and a possible Facebook connection to the case. First posted at 6:40 a.m. It seemed like a week or so could go by without another sex abuse arrest of an L.A. Unified School District employee. Nope. KTLA News this morning reports that a Fr ... More >>

Sex Abuse Scandal at Miramonte, Hamilton High Claims Jobs of Two Accused Teachers: Martin Springer and Vance Miller

In the midst of a historic scandal, the L.A. school district board today fired two teachers accused of molesting students. A firestorm was sparked when ex-Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt was charged last week with 23 counts of unspeakable acts against children under his care: But he ... More >>

Beverly Hills-Adjacent Smoke Shop Robbery Ends in Death For One Suspect

Google Maps​Looks like bad guys robbed the wrong place in more ways than one. Not only did they hit a Pico-Robertson smoke shop next to a marijuana dispensary (?), but the shop owner defended his business with a a gun. One suspect was killed and another was wounded before an apparent retreat ... More >>

From Marina del Rey to Skid Row

War Over Marina Del Rey Remake

A broke county government seeks dramatic growth of seaside district

Venice Crimes Such as Auto Theft, Aggravated Assault, Burglary Way Up

Tony Vera / YouTubePolice on the beach.​The unusually warm spring weather has brought out the rowdies in Venice, it seems. April was a violent month on the beach, with fights, stabbings and even a shooting. New LAPD statistics from mid-April (PDF) show that certain categories have seen huge i ... More >>

Kogi Meets Googie

Graphic design helps food trucks get attention

Beverly Hills Moves to Shut Out Marijuana Dispensaries Permanently

Beverly Hills has its green, but not this kind.​Beverly Hills shoppers can buy fur, bespoke suits, brand new Bentleys and even rare cheeses from around the world. But to get a certain kind of medicine -- medical marijuana -- they have to trek to nearby Los Angeles. City officials want to keep ... More >>

Beverly Hills Fur Store Robbed In Broad Daylight

​Updated at 5:30 p.m. with police now saying suspects were armed. A Beverly Hills fur store on South Robertson Boulevard was robbed in broad daylight Monday afternoon, Beverly Hills police confirmed to LA Weekly. A sergeant said at least two suspects were armed, but further descriptions were ... More >>

Takosher: Nation's First Kosher Truck Dishes Up Brisket & Latke Tacos

Guzzle & NoshA brisket taco (left) from the Takosher Truck and its co-founders (right).​ The People of the Book (finally) become the People of the Truck when Takosher (Twitter: @takosher), the nation's first kosher taco truck soft-launches on Monday, serving tacos brisket, latke, and more tra ... More >>

LAPD Searching For Good-Taste Robbers Who Target Westside Antique Stores

LAPDHe did not ask for Grey Poupon.​Banks, liquor stores and check-cashing outlets seem to be the tried-and-true targets of run-of-the-mill robbers. But the Los Angeles Police Department reports Friday that a pair of stick-up artists has more refined taste than your average criminal. The LAP ... More >>

Pregnant Woman Shot On The Westside (Updated)

​(Updated throughout at 12:20 p.m.): A pregnant woman and her fetus died in a shooting in the Westside community of La Cienega Heights Wednesday morning, police said. The attack appeared by be a gang-related, drive-by shooting near the Ward Plaza Shopping Center, which contains a Ross, a Toys ... More >>

Some In Venice Decry A Rise In Crime, Homelessness

​Some Venice residents are complaining that as city budget cuts take police from streets and county homeless officials claim Skid Row's street dwellers are decreasing, crime and homelessness are on the rise in L.A.'s bohemian beach-side community. Some crime has, in fact, been on the upswing ... More >>

Black Lung Lofts

Many children being raised in L.A.'s hip, new freeway-adjacent housing are damaged for life

City Council Passes Pot-Shop Law; Challenges Likely

​After years of wrangling and foot-dragging the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to a law that would essentially shut down nearly 475 medical marijuana dispensaries in the city while allowing another 137 or so to remain open. The ordinance has a final goal of capping th ... More >>

At the New Intelligentsia Venice Bash: Traveling Tattooed Baristas, Wurstkuche Dogs and Cold Beer Between the Espresso Pulls

Long lines, hot dogs, beans and booze: the Intelligentsia Venice opening party. For those on the Westside unfamiliar with the Sunset Junction cult that surrounds the Silver Lake outpost of Chicago's Intelligentsia Coffee -- where a quick-fix takes on the seriousness of a wine tasting, where espress ... More >>

Workmen's Circle's Search For the New Young Radicals

What is to be done?

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

The Chosen Pancake

From Iran to Uzbekistan, the foods of the Jewish Diaspora

Showing Pinkberry

Yogurt clones spread the white stuff

Anytime, Anywhere

Hardcore provocateur Eugene Robinson searches for the almost-perfect punch

Winners and Losers

Scenes from Election Night

Not in My Neighborhood Council

What can save L.A.’s broken neighborhood councils?

Yemenite Delight