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5 Great Old School L.A. Ice Cream Places

Last week, we took a look at the six remaining hot dog stands that had been featured in a June 1972 Los Angeles Times article titled "Biting The Dog." Not long after, the Times did a similar feature focusing on ice cream. Titled "Here's The Scoop", Billy Adler, John Margolies and Ilene Segalove sp ... More >>

Trader Joe's Suing Vancouver-Based Pirate Joe's for Reselling Products

There are no Trader Joe's stores in Canada, but there are, apparently, an awful lot of Canadians who love the unique grocery store's Mac & Cheese Bites and lemonade and pasta sauce so much so that they will cross the border just to shop at the nearest store location in Washington. Or, if you're Vanc ... More >>

Feds Photograph Guilty Diamond Jeweler and Accused KPMG Honcho Passing Bags of Cash

In exchange for confidential information worth of millions of dollars to him, well-to-do Encino diamond jeweler Bryan Shaw admits, he gave his tipster at KPMG a $12,000 Rolex Daytona Cosmograph watch. Shaw, of Shaw Diamond Co. located in a high-rise on Ventura Boulevard, pleaded guilty Monday to f ... More >>

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New 'High End' Hollywood Walgreens at Sunset and Vine to Host Sushi Chefs, Makeup Artists

We always kind of associated Walgreens with crummy carpets and leftover Halloween candy on super-sale. (No offense, Walgreens. If it makes you feel any better, Rite Aid's worse.) But not the new 23,500-square-foot Walgreens slated to replace the shuttered Borders at Sunset and Vine! Apparently una ... More >>

Michigan Man Sues AMC Theaters Over Overpriced Goobers and Other Snacks

Movie theaters make a good chunk of their profits selling exorbitantly overpriced snacks to those of us who believe that the moviegoing experience is not complete without a box of Sour Patch Kids and a bag of popcorn. Not so for Joshua Thompson, who filed a class action suit against his local AMC t ... More >>

Harry Burkhart: Duraflame-Type Fireplace Logs Used to Spark Alleged, 53-Fire Spree, Source Says

CBS / OnScene TVBurkhart.​The suspect who ignited as many as 53 arson fires over New Year's weekend used Duraflame-type slow-burning fireplace logs to set the blazes, a knowledgeable source inside the Los Angeles Fire Department tells LA Weekly. Investigators believe the fire-starter placed t ... More >>

L.A. Arson Fires: Suspect Under Arrest, LAFD Says

Updated at the bottom with an official arrest (the third since Thursday). Fire officials now count 53 blazes in the arson spree. First posted at 2:48 a.m. Monday. The L.A. arson fires have sated the city's everlasting expectation for the criminally bizarre, but so far there's no Michael Connelly en ... More >>

Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz Is Missing: Young Lincoln Heights Mom Went Out for Cough Syrup, Never Came Home

Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz via Facebook​LAPD detectives are trying to track down a 22-year-old mother of two who went missing Monday night in Lincoln Heights. Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz, as she spells her name on Facebook, told her family on the evening after Christmas that she was going out to buy cou ... More >>

10 Best Ice Cream & Gelato Shops in L.A.

Delicieuse, known for its goat's milk ice cream, is closing, but that doesn't mean Los Angeles isn't full of fantastic ice cream and gelato shops. In fact, we're chock-a-block with delicious frozen treats. Here are ten of our favorites.

U.S. Still a Dumping Ground for Crappy Honey, Study Finds

Flickr/Joelk75​ They're calling it "honey laundering." More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores is filtered to the point where it contains no pollen -- which would make it flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies, according to testing ... More >>

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 >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: The Aftermath

​ It's summer. You want to eat ice cream. Here's a map to help you do it. From Altadena to Artesia, from Santa Clarita to Redondo Beach, from Echo Park to Venice, it's a roundup of all the places we visited on our 30 Scoops in 30 Days quest, plus a few other hot ice cream spots. And it's just ... More >>

Rite Aid/Thrifty Unveils New Ice Cream: Just in Time for National Ice Cream Day

Our love for Rite Aid/Thrifty's array of cheap ice cream, specifically their Chocolate Malted Krunch, is well established. The strange cylindrical scoops are probably the best $1.69 you'll spend all summer. Now, in honor of National Ice Cream Day on July 17th (a holiday created by President Ronal ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Al Gelato (Day 30)

Before every neighborhood boasted its own gelato shop, before bacon and Fernet-Branca began showing up in frozen treats, before premium ice cream became ultra-premium, there was Al Gelato. This friendly neighborhood cafe on the southern edge of Beverly Hills (i.e. the "wrong side of the tracks" by ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Paciugo Gelato (Day 29)

Down in Hermosa Beach, there's a cool, spacious shop that serves gelato worth seeking out. Paciugo Gelato (pronounced "pa-choo-go," if their signage is to be believed) offers a dizzying selection of 32 flavors. They line up all the usual suspects -- chocolate, caramel, sea salt, banana, peanut but ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Millions of Milkshakes (Day 28)

Where an ice cream shop like Milk builds layered, elegantly crafted milkshakes replete made with superlative ingredients in carefully constructed combinations, Millions of Milkshakes devotes itself to diversity, an array of candy, fruit and syrup toppings in a mind-boggling array of permutations. ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Hadley's Fruit Orchard (Day 27)

The road to Palm Springs is dotted with three inevitable roadside attractions: Indian casinos, outlet malls and date shakes. None of these are much fun, but date shakes may be the worst. Date palms aren't native to the region (you'd have to travel to the Persian Gulf area to find their roots), but ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Lappert's (Day 26)

Outside of its birthplace in Hawaii, Lappert's Ice Cream is mostly a Northern California brand. Bored in retirement, Walter Lappert mixed his first batch of ultra rich, high-butterfat ice cream in Kauai in 1983. The brand took off, and his son, Michael, opened a California production facility the ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Handel's (Day 25)

If you had grown up in Cleveland, you'd already know all about Handel's Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt, but this being Southern California rather than suburban Ohio, Handel's is a barely known brand with only two far-flung franchises in Southern California: one in Redondo Beach and one in Upland.

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Farrell's (Day 24)

Sentimental Southern Californians who remember celebrating birthdays, soccer tournaments and the like at Farrell's have watched the decline of this faux fin de siècle ice cream "parlour" (complete with a superfluous British "U") with dismay and resignation. After years on the wane -- flagging con ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Saffron Spot (Day 23)

Customer: "Waiter! I asked for alu paratha but I find no potatoes in it!" Waiter: "What's in a name Sir! If you ask for Kashmiri pulav, will you expect to find Kashmir in it?" At Saffron Spot in Artesia, the ice creams tend toward a vibrant candyish hue and sport names that sound like particularl ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Milk (Day 22)

Guzzle & NoshThe Milkie Way malt at Milk.​Some people come to Milk for the dense, brick-like ice cream bars. Some come for the ice cream sandwiches, stacked on toasted macarons and dipped into chocolate. Some even come for the plain old ice cream in intriguing flavors like Thai ice tea and cof ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Pazzo Gelato (Day 20)

The other day we talked about the incredible pistachio gelato at Bulgarini. Today, it's all about the chocolate gelato at Pazzo. This small Silver Lake shop near Sunset Junction makes incredible, creamy gelato that's densely flavored and as soft as silk.

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Bulgarini (Day 19)

There's a reason Bulgarini Gelato is a perennial topper on Best Gelato lists, our own and others. While other gelaterias do a superb job of capturing the essence of a particular flavor, Bulgarini somehow captures the flavor itself. Nowhere is this more true than their pistachio gelato.

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Bennett's Ice Cream (Day 18)

There's nothing all that special about a frozen banana, but somehow, Bennett's Ice Cream in the Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax makes the best one. Maybe it's the chunks of almonds as big as gravel studding the fresh, dark chocolate. Maybe it's the slightly underripe banana, frozen just below th ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: GO Burger (Day 17)

Guzzle & NoshGrandma's Treat milkshake (left), South of the Border float (middle), Aztec Mocha milkshake (right).​ You have a straw. GO Burger has a milkshake. You take your straw and drink their milkshake. You drink it up. Then, as you savor it all the way to your car, you realize you may be ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Carvel 90210 (Day 16)

It has to be the most déclassé shop on Rodeo Drive, but there it is, amid David Yurman tennis bracelets and Christian Dior handbags, buried in the parking structure of an office building dedicated to aesthetic self-improvement and expensive housewares: Carvel.

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Delicieuse (Day 15)

Delicieuse is plastered with charts and signs extolling the virtues of goat's milk, but we don't seek out ice cream for its curative powers. Nor do we trek to Redondo Beach for Delicieuse's goat's milk ice cream. We come for the incredible sorbets.

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Manhattan Beach Creamery (Day 14)

Manhattan Beach Creamery is a pleasant neighborhood ice cream store, stocked with as much candy as it is ice cream. The white leather, half-shell chairs, halfway between Louis XIV and Philippe Starck, are a good spot to watch surfers trudge to and from the pier or Saturday Night or Saturday night ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Jerry's Soda Shoppe (Day 13)

Guzzle & NoshThe ice cream soda at Jerry's Soda Shoppe at the De Soto Pharmacy.​A spectacular ice cream float doesn't cure the pain of existence, but it goes a long way toward soothing the ache. Yesterday, while Leo Bloom was munching on mutton kidneys and we were sorting through the detritus ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/13-6/17

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I sleep better knowing that there is still fried pork leg with onions like this in the world." Ask Mr. Gold: Top 10 Pico Boulevard Eats. "Aside from Sun Chips and soda, Rite Aid's most noteworthy ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Gelato Bar (Day 11)

It's both cruel and practical that Gelato Bar limits customers to three samples. Otherwise, we'd probably be lolling at the counter and annoying the clerks as we taste our way through the shop's repertoire of dense, Italian-themed gelato flavors. Owned by Gail Silverton (sister of Mozza's pizza qu ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Rite Aid (Day 9)

Aside from Sun Chips and soda, Rite Aid's most noteworthy gastronomic feature (read: its only noteworthy gastronomic feature) is its ice cream bar. In specific, the Chocolate Malted Krunch (alternate spelling: Chocolate Malted Crunch), a flavor found nowhere else on earth, as far as we know.

Why Can't L.A. Seem To Be Able To Regulate Its Pot Shops? And If Pot Is Such Legit Medicine, Why Don't They Sell It At CVS?

The L.A. City Council can't seem to pass this particular joint.​The city of L.A. has had worse luck trying to pass rules that govern pot shops than the Obama administration has had in trying to make health-care reform a reality. In fact City Hall's efforts at regulating cannabis retailers star ... More >>

Police Impersonators Kidnap, Rob Rite-Aid Drug Delivery Worker In Sherman Oaks

Rite-Aid​Let us now add to our official list of dangerous jobs -- taxi driver, armored-car guard, snarky blogger -- one more: dude who delivers prescription drug supply to local chain pharmacy. Who knew? On Thursday morning said guy was kidnapped and taken for a ride in his delivery vehicle b ... More >>

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It's A Family Affair: Couple Brings Kids Along On Alleged Robbery Spree

CHPFile photo.​We've heard of families that do everything together, but this is ridiculous. Los Angeles police report that a couple took a 6- and 4-year-old along for an alleged, early morning robbery spree in the San Fernando Valley Monday. The suspects hit a Rite Aid at 13333 Riverside Driv ... More >>

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