Royalty

Kate Middleton Helped Make Emerald the Color of 2013. An L.A. Art Exhibit Asks Why

How Much Should I F***ing Tip?: The Internet Just Made Tipping Abroad Easy

So there you are in Belarus, supping on beet soup and rye bread, getting all stinky on kvas. The bill comes and you reach for your wallet. To tip or not to tip, you wonder. You try to remember the advice dispensed in your uncreased copy of Lonely Planet: Belarus, but the details are pretty fuzzy ... More >>

A Diamond Jubilee Year: The Queen In Cupcakes, A Lamprey Pie Dilemma A Recipe For Her "Chocolate Perfection" Pie

After Mother's Day, it seems only fitting that we celebrate the Queen Mother. More so in a Diamond Jubilee year, as Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating her 60th year on the British throne next month (the British monarchy is the exception to the typical 75-year diamond anniversary rule). You are p ... More >>

Jayne Amelia Larson Wanted to Work in Hollywood -- But Instead Became a Chauffer for Saudi Royalty

Jayne Amelia Larson is a Jersey girl who made it to Harvard. But she may have gotten her greatest education from her job as a chauffeur.Larson's 16-hour days behind the wheel were spent driving royalty of every variety: Cross-dressing movie stars. Coked-up rock stars. Spoiled Beverly Hills brats. An ... More >>

Nobody Messes With Giselle

Nightmare on Century Boulevard

Pippa Middleton: L.A. Adult Video Company Vivid Offers Kate Middleton's Sister $5 Million to do Porn

Pippa Middleton with Prince Philip.​We always wondered what (quasi-) royal porn would be like. Pardon me, Jeeves. Would you pass the liter-sized bottle of lube, please? There would surely be white gloves everywhere. Anyway, looks like our favorite porn king, Steve Hirsch of Vivid Entertainmen ... More >>

Royal Couple Might Stay at Schwarzenegger's Brentwood Home

Google MapsDis is like a big house and all dees tings.​Get ready Westsiders. If you didn't fully enjoy the spectacle of President Obama's last few visits, then here's your chance to observe another media frenzy. Prince William and his new wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, are rumored ... More >>

William and Kate, Royal Couple, Plan Visit to Hollywood This Summer

New York PostWills and Kate to do L.A.?​It's official! Updated after the jump with the royal couple's dates of stay. Paparazzi alert! Y'all can take a break from heckling Paris Hilton and her belligerent stalkers for a couple days this summer, because brand-spankin'-new royal couple Prince Wi ... More >>

Tacos de Cabeza: More Fun with Goat Heads Test Kitchen Experiments

Farid ZadiRoasted Goat Head Triptych​ Last Friday we invited Charles Perry, beer of the month columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and seven other guests, for a Royal Wedding viewing and tacos de cabeza recipe testing party at Ecole de Cuisine, a fully equipped culinary school and test kitchen. Th ... More >>

Canapes for Monarchists: The Royal Wedding Lunchtime Reception Menu

Flickr/webponcecanapes, of a sort​ If you've been up all night watching the royal wedding coverage on CNN -- which seemed a lot like a cross between the Oscars and an episode of Masterpiece Theatre, circa 1972 -- and are now collapsed on your fainting couch, having called in sick to work, you ... More >>

Royal Wedding Is Amazing, Gorgeous, Stunning, Stylish, Dreamy, Bloody Delightful, Say Critics

Getty Images​'Twas the holy matrimony heard round the world: The great Prince William wed his favorite muggle, an impossibly lacy Kate Middleton, through the wee hours (PDT) last night. As soon as Kate stepped out of the queen's Rolls Royce, Hollywood's toughest and snarkiest critics were redu ... More >>

Food News Roundup: The Royal Wedding Edition

-- Royal wedding sparks fruitcake boom in U.S. [Fox News] -- Dunkin' Donuts rolls out the Royal Wedding doughnut. No pun intended. [Orlando Sentinel] -- Where to Watch the Royal Wedding in Los Angeles. [The Feast LA] -- Coronation prawn vol-au-vents (a recipe). [BBC] -- Watch The Royal Wed ... More >>

The Royal Wedding Crass Commercialism: Commemorative Plates, Throne Up Bags Pieminister Pies

PieministerKate and Wills pie​ The British do so many things better than us: Table manners, diction, the drug-addled teens-gone-wild television series, Skins. One thing we can beat them at hands down? Pop culture exploitation. Here, something as minor as Charlie Sheen losing his mind happens a ... More >>

Q & A With Maida Heatter, Part 1: The Queen Of Cakes On Unintentional Pie Prejudice, Her Favorite Cake What She Baked Last Week

www.socialmiami.comWolfgang And Maida At The 2006 South Beach Food And Wine Festival​ There is a beautiful irony in knowing that all those years Betty Crocker boxed cake mix devotees were strolling the grocery store aisles in a fruitless search of the perfect pre-mixed chocolate birthday cente ... More >>

OK, Everybody, Time to Get Royally Pissed!

Prince Willy's Pint: Brewdog's Royal Virility Performance

​ When is a beer not a beer? When it's a gimmick, of course. And almost nobody makes more gimmicks (and fewer beers) than notorious Scottish brewery Brewdog. The most well-known of their efforts is Tactical Nuclear Penguin, a 32% abv imperial stout made by freezing their standard imperial s ... More >>

Papa John's Says "I Dough" to Royal Wedding

Papa John's pizza portrait of Prince William and Kate Middleton.​Papa John's, which has been trying to woo American consumers with a campaign that essentially says "Our old toppings sucked. Try our new ones," has taken their oddball promotional schemes to the next level. Just in time for the r ... More >>

Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: The Complete Schedule

officialroyalwedding2011.orgStrategically flashing the sapphire.​The Royal Wedding is here! The Royal Wedding is here! Well, not quite. April 29 is the big day, as you're well aware. But the next best thing is here: The complete schedule of the Royal Wedding, down to the last rose petal and g ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/28-4/1

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Whatever the current style in Los Angeles restaurants ends up being named, all of it -- from the small-plate thing to the fixation on local, organic produce; the off-center proteins to the internat ... More >>

Prince William's Groom's Cake Revealed The Royal Family's Chocolate Biscuit Cake Recipe

Eating RoyallyChocolate Biscuit Cake (Background)​If you enjoyed a tabloid-free weekend, let us break your fast with the latest Royal wedding reception menu gossip: Prince William has chosen a groom's cake made of tea biscuits and chocolate. A groom's cake? Though groom's cakes are more comm ... More >>

A Recipe From The Chef: The Royal Family's Chocolate Birthday/Yule Log Cake ( Now Wedding?)

Leonardo FrusteriThe Royal Yule Log​When we talked with Darren McGrady, the Royal Family's former private chef (and later Princess Diana's chef -- yes, he considers those two very different titles), he told us about cooking for the Queen of the kitchen, as well as his thoughts on the upcoming ... More >>

Q & A With Darren McGrady, Princess Diana's Former Chef: The Royal Family's Kitchen, Why He Moved Stateside The Next Royal Wedding

Aaron Lynette, Toronto StarDarren McGrady, Expat Yorkshire Pudding Expert​Darren McGrady's résumé reads pretty much like your average private chef's story. He earned a culinary arts degree and trained in a top restaurant kitchen (Savoy Hotel, London) before hitting the private sector -- and ... More >>

Q & A With Former Royal Family Chef Darren McGrady, Part 2: Cook and Tell

Daily Mail The Royal Family's 20th Century Party Portrait With McGrady​In the first part of our interview with Darren McGrady, former private chef for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh and later Princess Diana, the chef was sharing why he turned down a job as Prince Charles' chef (Camilla), as w ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Lakers Triumph, Micro-Riot Quelled The L.A. Lakers won their 10th NBA championship as a Los Angeles team, in Orlando, Florida last night, while at home jubilant fans set fires and vandalized cars. Police arrested at least 25 people near Staples Center downtown and, in a smaller action, in the Crensh ... More >>

GOOD CATCH!

An Annie Kind of Photo

Working with Annie Leibovitz

Eli Broad's Grand Avenue Follies

Mecca for the monied can't get a loan, but is likely to get City Council's nod

Eli Broad's luxury Grand Avenue project is now half-owned by Dubai

Royal Pains: King Richard II and Power

Bounced checks and balances

The Best of James Bond, Agent 007

Nothing Like a Dame

Helen Mirren takes on The Queen

Canadian Club

The Royal Art Lodge Spikes L.A. art scene

Royal Coke

How the U.S. and France let the smuggling prince get away to help the war on terror

London Calling

A sampling from the city’s stages

Generation Hex

Douglas Coupland: All Families Are Psychotic

Double Agent for Cain

William T. Vollman and the case against God