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Connie and Ted's Review: Michael Cimarusti's WeHo Seafood Shack Is a Success

[Updated] Pomegranate Seeds Recalled in Hepatitis Outbreak

Updated July 1, 11:34 a.m.: The Food and Drug Administration says it will detain shipments of pomegranate seeds from a Turkish company when offered for import because of a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses linked to a frozen-food blend containing pomegranate seed mix, the Associated Pres ... More >>

Riffing the Light Fantastic

[Updated] Whole Foods Recalls Smoked Salmon

Updated: 1/30 1:54 p.m. Whole Foods is recalling an additional lot code (for a total of two lot codes) of Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon (4 oz.), UPC code 0 99482 40880 0, cold smoked and sliced, because it may contain listeria. The second lot code is 7425A2297A. The recall has also expande ... More >>

Smoked Salmon Recalled for Listeria

Put down that lox. It might be loaded -- with bacteria. A Seattle-based company is recalling 371 cases of ready-to-eat smoked salmon because the fish may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, Food Safety News reports. Ocean Beauty Seafoods LLC issued a voluntary recall of its Nathan's Brand ... More >>

Trader Joe's Butter Chicken Recalled for Listeria Risk

We're still fond of you, TJ's, and we're hoping we can work this out, but your empty promises about caring for our health and safety are beginning to make us sick (literally). Coming on the heels of recalls this year of barbecue chicken salad (Listeria, July) and peanut butter (Salmonella, Septemb ... More >>

2012 Election Results: Historic Night for Gay Issues and Candidates Across the United States

Four years ago, Senator Barack Obama won the presidency, but gay folks across the country were outraged that California voters approved Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ban. Last night, it was a completely different story -- and one of the most historic and significant nights for the LGBT comm ... More >>

[Updated] Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Recalled for Salmonella

Update, 9/24 1:12 p.m.: The maker of Trader Joe's peanut butter tied to a multi-state salmonella outbreak has pulled 76 additional peanut and almond products because of possible contamination, NBC News reports. California is among the 18 states that have reported infections of the rare and nasty st ... More >>

MAP: Los Angeles Is Bigger Than These Eight Major U.S. Cities Combined

Whenever out-of-towners complain about how hard it is to get anywhere in Los Angeles, we try to tell them: It's no more difficult than trying to traverse the entire Bay Area in a single shot. Because this city is HUGE. Like, half the size of Rhode Island. And because of that, we've got a whole serie ... More >>

Laura Dave, L.A. Novelist, on Nora Ephron, Chick Lit and Whether Facebook Makes Us Happy

Laura Dave made a career out of writing the kind of fun, unabashedly frothy fiction we all tend to impulse buy at the gate before long flights, but that doesn't mean she hasn't earned her literary stripes. For one thing, the author has an MFA from the University of Virginia's highly regarded creat ... More >>

Marijuana Legalization: East Coast, West Coast Governors Call For Legit Medical Cannabis on a Federal Level

Medical marijuana supporters this week were high on statements from the governors of Washington and Rhode Island, who have joined a chorus of support for making medical marijuana possible across the land. Christine Gregoire of Washington and Lincoln D. Chafee of Rhode Island have formally asked fed ... More >>

AraabMuzik - Mondrian Hotel - 11/11/11

Chris Walker​AraabMuzik Mondrian Hotel 11-11-11 AraabMuzik can move his fingers so fast that they appear to become a single blur. I can vouch for this because I was standing less than five feet away. Last night, I capped off my celebration of Nigel Tufnel day by heading over to the Mondrian ... More >>

Thoughts From A Random Black Guy: The Rise Of Young Gunshot

Frank Miles​[Editor's note: Odd Future member Lionel Boyce writes a weekly column for West Coast Sound. His archives are available here.] Over the past few weeks I've taken an interest in this new artist in the game. I'm not usually big on underground rappers, but a friend of mine was listeni ... More >>

Medical Marijuana's Increased Availability Does Not Entice Teens to Toke up, Study Finds

StrainBrainValedictorian.​There's been a lot of fear about the wide availability of medical marijuana in California serving as an enticement to teenagers to toke up. One shop on the edge of Culver City was even closed down, and its owner was sentenced to a year behind bars, after authorities ... More >>

Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay Youths Less Likely to Use Condoms, More Likely to Use Drugs, Alcohol -- Study

Infidelic​As if life isn't hard enough for them, the Centers for Disease Control on Monday reports that gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students are more prone to drug, alcohol and tobacco use. The study (PDF) includes data from Southern California and indicates, according to a CDC stat ... More >>

Robert Watson, Rhode Island Republican Leader Who Joked About Pot Users, Caught With Marijuana, Cops Say

East Haven Police / Providence JournalUnder the influence of weed?​Dear righteous right-wingers: We're sorry you haven't learned your lesson by now. But it seems clear to us there is some divine retribution aimed straight at your heads. Every time you call out gay people you end up being caug ... More >>

Stud Llamas, Delivery Chickens Mark Twain's Favorite Fruit: Top 5 Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds of the Week

Combing through Craigslist's Farm and Garden Classifieds gives an Internet prowler a case of the chuckles. Some people yuck at the writing, but for us, the wares themselves (see pig statue entry) and the vendors' keen marketing ploys (see llama entry) are enough. Seriously though, seeing what peopl ... More >>

A Recipe From The Chef: Lidia Bastianich's Genovese Style Stuffed Vegetables

Lidia Cooks From The Heart Of ItalyStuffed Vegetables​If you've been following our 2-part interview with Lidia Bastianich -- a car chase, rather, as she dialed us up from a cab right after landing at LAX -- you've already heard the high priestess of Italian cuisine bless Sunday family suppers, ... More >>

Linda Gagnon Defrauded Nuns of a Quarter of a Mil, Used Cash to Buy Lingerie and Other Goods, Feds in L.A. Claim

lalalingerie.comThe devil wears lingerie, feds allege.​Is there a lingerie section in hell? (If so, it would be hot). It's a question prosecutors might be asking Monday after 57-year-old Southern California woman Linda Rose Gagnon surrendered to authorities following her indictment on allega ... More >>

Best Chocolate Milk: Norwalk Dairy

Flickr/Pink Scarfglass of chocolate milk​ As much as our daydreams may run toward the coffee milk you find in Rhode Island and the root-beer milk popular in the greater Wichita area, we have nothing against chocolate milk, really we don't. The sticky concoctions in most supermarket dairy case ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Pat Saperstein of EatingLA

Pat Saperstein is senior editor at Variety and the grand dame food blogging in Los Angeles. Her blog, EatingLA, is playful and pithy, offering up restaurant reviews, Top Chef updates and local food news. Squid Ink caught up with Saperstein to ask about Peter Bart's foodie side, her take on comped me ... More >>

Police Investigating Venice Murder-Rape Suspect For Other Possible Crimes

Google Maps​Police on Thursday said they were looking into the possibility that the suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a pregnant woman in Venice could be linked to other crimes. KNX 1070 Newsradio states that police are double checking unsolved crimes in the area to determine if the su ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​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 on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

Details Emerge On Obama's Pot Stance

Just as a crackdown on the city's medical marijuana dispensaries is being set in motion, the Obama administration is calling off the federal fight against sellers and buyers who abide by laws in California and 13 other states that allow the distribution of doctor-approved pot, the Associated Press i ... More >>

The Game Within (Or, Beer Pong, a Pissing Good Time)

Crude: A Sticky Situation

Joe Berlinger’s documentary dives into the toxic battle between big oil and dying natives in Ecuador

All Your Eggs In One Basket: Peter Schaner's Pheasant Eggs, Quail Eggs, Duck Eggs, Emu Eggs

If you're used to the boxes of blindingly white eggs that you get grocery stores--a dozen at a time in production-line rows, sometimes stamped, often tasteless--fresh eggs can be revelatory. Farmer Peter Schaner's eggs, which he sells at farmers markets, are definitely so, in taste and size and colo ... More >>

Travel Logs

Brick's Picks: Savina Yannatou, Janis Mann, Tony Bennett and more

Getting found in the music

Will i Am Offers Obama Handjob Via Campaign Song

As the voters of Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio filed to the polls yesterday to help decide the Democratic Party's nomination for President, will.i.am., the capitalization averse mastermind of the Black Eyed Peas continued his steadfast efforts to help elect Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... More >>

The World on Fire

Something wicked this way will come again

Brick's Picks: Little Earthquakes

Small jazz ensembles shake things up

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

Wrap It Up, I'll Take It

Last-minute hostess gift ideas

Polyrhythmically Diverse

Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet and other picks

The People Revolt

If only the Democrats could find a credible candidate for president

Six Appeal

A Long, Final Act

Materialistic Fetishism Reconsidered

(A last-minute gift-giving guide)

California Dreaming

Ozomatli and a gathering of West Coast underground hip-hop luminaries fight the power

The War on Relief

With Iraq in crisis, humanitarian efforts around the globe go on hold

The Robert Downey Jr. Celebrity Crime Blotter

When in Rome . . .

Let It Drool

Films from Bobby and Peter Farrelly and Lars von Trier

Neighborhood Watch

Life in the target area

Neighborhood Watch

Life in the target area

Bad News

L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

Notorious Crush Brothers

A Boy's Own Story

Pawtucket, 1975

Sun Dialogue

A couple of hotheads take on summer’s wily charms