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7 Food-Related April Fools' Pranks: From Spielburgers to Bacon-Scented Kitty Litter

Yesterday was April Fools' Day, that sacred holiday in which you can't trust anyone any more than you already don't. And even though it was a Sunday, a good number of food-related folks (including us) nonetheless jumped at the chance to prank a witting or unwitting audience with various fake tweets ... More >>

Planet Dailies and Mixology101 Open at the Grove

A Las Vegas-born concept, Mixology101 soft opened in the Original Farmers Market at the Grove on March 8 and officially opens to the public on Monday, March 12. Mixologist Salvatore Calabrese and bartender Joseph Brooke (still trying to decipher the difference between the two titles) grind fruits, p ... More >>

Top 20 Things We Learned About L.A. from Vintage Menus

We've been big fans of Menu Design in America since it came out in autumn of 2011. It's big, beautiful and lovingly curated by Taschen editor Jim Heimann, an obsessive menu collector and self-admitted menu thief. Now that we've had time to pore over the book, which features plenty of menus from Los ... More >>

I'm on a Boat: Why So Many Places in Koreatown Have Nautical and Pirate Designs

At the center of the city, there is a 100-foot-long ocean liner dry-docked in a parking lot. It would seem out of place in many if not most L.A. neighborhoods. Except here. Landlocked Koreatown is bobbing with nautical-themed restaurants, and you can't walk the length of a plank without stumbling in ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Adrienne Maloof's and Lisa Vanderpump's Dueling Vegas Parties

bravotv.comLisa Vanderpump and the "chipmunk."​Last night's RHOBH episode was a battle between Adrienne Maloof and Lisa Vanderpump to see who could out-Vegas the other. In one corner we had Maloof, owner of the Palms Casino, "rolling out the red carpet" with connections and comps galore. In th ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Retail Therapy and the Lisa Vanderpump-Adrienne Maloof Feud Over the Palms Hotel

Where is our pesky gajillionaires etiquette manual when we need it? We hate when we can't figure out which Vegas hotel owner friend we should choose to host our daughter's bachelorette party. Such was Lisa Vanderpump's dilemma, and what sparked a tiff between her and fellow Housewife Adrienne Maloo ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Mugabe and the White African, Peepli Live, Animal Kingdom

Also, Eat, Pray, Love, Mundo Alas, Tales From Earthsea

Moving Up

Lobster Las Vegas: The City Where Crustaceans Go to Die

Las Vegas is the city where crustaceans go to die. Apart from the copious amounts of tea I drank this past weekend at the World Tea Expo at Mandalay Bay (see Squid Ink for the dispatches), I also ate lots of seafood. The populace at large, in fact, seems to have seafood on the brain. I spotted this ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Sarah Palin Dictionary

Here Comes the Sin

The start of a spicy new year

Paprika

Movie Reviews: Day Watch, Mr. Brooks, Paprika

Also reviews of Bamako, The Devil Came on Horseback, Golden Door and more

’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks

Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

The Meat of the Matter

Richard Linklater maps out his Fast Food Nation

Mistrial of the Century

Free legal advice to the $700-an-hour schmucks screwing up the Disney courtroom drama

Rise of the Anti-Machine

Momma Does Mackie

Selling Really Weird Music

After Seattle

Free-trade protests coming soon to a city near you

Hailey's Comet

How Bruce Willis Romanced and then Jilted a Small Idaho Town

Taco Bowl

Carson meets Michael Ovitz