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The 10 Best Restaurants in Silver Lake: A Neighborhood Grub Crawl

Ah, Silver Lake. Home of hipsters, celebrities and -- not very many good restaurants. Or, more accurately, a whole lot of pretty bad restaurants. But while Silver Lake hasn't had the food boom you might expect, given the price of housing in the neighborhood (seriously, a tiny Spanish bungalow with a ... More >>

Korean Sex Workers Exploited In L.A.; 'Madam' Eun Suk Sun Faces Charges In Korea

So get this: Eun Suk Sun allegedly ran a house (or, rather, apartment) of prostitution right here in L.A.'s Koreatown. But it isn't American authorities who want to take her down for it. Nope, it's Korean officials. And their wish might come true:

Top 10 Old-School K-Pop Groups

By Michelle Woo Before there was SNSD, 2NE1, Big Bang, and Wonder Girls, there was S.E.S., g.o.d., and H.O.T. Familiar with these names? You must be an O.G. K-pop fan. See also: *K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on the Korean Boy and Girl Groups That Get Major Play in Koreatown *Our review of 2NE1 ... More >>

Mara Salvatrucha, Koreatown Gang, Is Now An International Crime Syndicate

Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran American group that got its start in the heart of L.A.'s Koreatown, has been designated by federal authorities as an international criminal organization, a first for a street gang. MS-13, as it's also known, "is being targeted for its involvement in serious transnat ... More >>

6 Great Food Museums: Food as Art, Or Not

Last week, the Carpigiani Gelato Museum opened in Anzola dell'Emilia, Italy, just outside Bologna; the first in the world, it says, to "delve into the history, culture, and technology of artisan gelato." Inside, you'll learn about the history of the frozen treat, from an 11th century recipe for pom ... More >>

Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong Is the Restaurant Koreatown Didn't Know It Needed

Cloud Atlas Review: The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer bring their adaptation of David Mitchell's novel to Toronto

One man's ambitious, iconoclastic, like-nothing-ever-before-seen passion project is another man's Battlefield Earth, and so it goes that for some of us who saw the film's world premiere in Toronto last night, Cloud Atlas -- written and directed by Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski from David Mi ... More >>

Mara Salvatrucha Gang Turf Targeted in Spate of Deadly Koreatown Area Shootings

Updated at the bottom with a report stating there's a gang truce. First posted at 7:07 a.m. Monday. A spate of gang-related shootings have broken out in and around Koreatown in recent months, most happening in a neighborhood known as the epicenter of the global El Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha gang. ... More >>

Asians Surpass Latinos in Immigration to United States

Asians have, since 2009, surpassed Latinos in immigration to the United States, according to a new Pew study. So all you immigrant haters out there have a new group to target! Asians outpaced Latinos in sending folks stateside (36 percent of new immigrants in 2010 were Asian, compared to 31 percen ... More >>

Pulling Off the White Tablecloth

In the L.A. dining scene, it's no magic trick. It's casual.

Music Picks: Regina Carter, Madness, Melvins, Grace Woodroofe

Also, Neon Indian, Moab, Damien Jurado and others

10 Best Korean BBQ Restaurants in Los Angeles

Los Angeles' Koreatown probably doesn't need another BBQ place -- well, at least not another Korean one. There seems to be a restaurant with tabletop grills in every plaza, strip mall and food court, cannibalizing another one's business two doors down or across the street. Let's be blunt: Entreprene ... More >>

Know When to Fold 'Em

5 Koreatown Restaurants Open 24 Hours: Hangover Soup

There is a segment of the population whose late-night cravings consist not of bacon and eggs or burgers and fries, but of sizzling grilled short ribs and flaming hot soups and comforting porridge. That segment of the population is the one you'll find after last call in Koreatown. There are so many ... More >>

Mr. Pizza Now Open in Little Tokyo

In Korea, Mr. Pizza Factory is as ubiquitous as Pizza Hut in our country, with more than 350 locations. But here in the U.S.? Last week, we had just one, tucked into an old office building in Koreatown. Now, notch it up to two: A location in downtown's Little Tokyo just opened. Despite the American ... More >>

Dumbfoundead

Koreatown rapper inspires a tremendous following with his unlikely story

Jonathan Gold Reviews Wako Donkasu

L.A.'s Idea of Korean Food vs. What Koreans Really Eat

​ Our continuing series of Venn Food Diagrams has explored American regional and a smattering of international cuisines in no particular order or with any sense of geographic or cultural continuity. We're taking another random trip from the land of tater tot hot dish to the land of kimchi hot ... More >>

Top 5 Westwood Dishes UCLA Grads Will Miss

Flickr/Kyle StricklandIn-N-Out Double-Double​ With the mass exodus of thousands of UCLA graduates from their picturesque Westwood neighborhood -- picturesque if you've always envisioned a neighborhood where you'd search 30 minutes for a parking space before giving up, or if you've dreamed all ... More >>

LA Street Food Fest: Photo Gallery

Carmageddon? Where? The traffic-nightmare-that-never-was (westside to Pasadena in under 30 minutes!!!) may have kept cars off the road and eaters from attending LA Street Food Fest, but their loss was our gain. With few lines, we managed to sample from EVERY vendor at the festival. Yes, every v ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Eighth Street Soondae

Sunset Strip Follies

Roy Choi's "Modern Picnic"

A-Frame captures Asian-American flavor

Baek Hwa Jung: Kogi's Choice

Roy Choi's favorite Korean cafe

Dak Dak Galbi

Playing musical Korean barbecue chairs

Whale Sushi At Santa Monica Restaurant Came From Japan Scientific Hunt

​Whale sushi purchased at a Santa Monica restaurant in September came from an endangered sei whale hunted in Japan under the guise of scientific purposes, a scientific paper published in the journal Biology Letters concludes. Scientists say genetic testing prove that that sashimi served at Th ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: Korean Sushi, Rice, Salad Bowl: Hwe Dup (Mmmmm) Bap

Eating in Koreatown is like being an inventor in the second half of the 18th century: it's nearly impossible to put forth any effort at all without stumbling onto something exciting. Located in a fairly central and accessible region of our city, this fascinating pocket is densely populated and loade ... More >>

Norm the Lego Stormtrooper Tours Globe with Crystal Method

When Scott Kirkland of The Crystal Method left for tour last May, his young son gave him two Star Wars Lego figures to keep him company. One went missing. The other, a small Stormtrooper named Norm, went on to have the adventure of a lifetime. Scott KirklandNorm Trooper at Buckingham Palace​

Men Are From Seoul, Women Are From Pusanthe: The films of South Korean director Hong Sang-soo

Soul Food Meets Seoul Food, Courtesy of Next Food Network Star Finalist

Food NetworkDebbie Lee is making good old fashioned soul food, by way of North Korea.​Starting September 10th, "Next Food Network Star" finalist Debbie Lee will unveil a new menu at Culver City restaurant Gyenari, which will draw from both her Korean and southern U.S. heritage. "We are showca ... More >>

Thursday-is-Still-the-New-Friday Agenda: Hatchi Series at Breadbar, "Juniper in June" at Ammo, Simon L.A.'s 3rd Anniversary

In an ever-changing world, Breadbar is still into chef's series that give traveling talents a temporary place to hang their toques. The Third Street location is already home to LudoBites, and the "Hatchi" guest chef pro ... More >>

In the Midnight Hour: Late-Night Goat Supper at Bulrocho

Dispensing chile-red comfort in a bowl of Koreatown goat soup

Movie Reviews: Secret Sunshine, Awake, The Amateurs

Also Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Timber Falls, Oswald's Ghost and more

Let the Sunshine In

Last Thursday morning in Paris, the lineup was announced for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The announcement was made by Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux during a press conference held in a gilded and mirrored salon of the Hotel de Crillon, located on the Place de la Co ... More >>

The Lost Streams of Los Angeles

Uncovering our wet and wild past. Is it safe, or even possible, to let the water flow again?

The Friendly Pulpit

Aaron D. Iverson

Morning Glory

Sumi Chang

Layover, With Cheese

People in Glass Apartments

Living a stone’s throw away from an architectural masterpiece

Sweatshop on the Sea

Wanted: 600 computer coders to work for cheap on old cruise ship

Don't Cry for Me, Korea

A new Yi dynasty arrives

Midnight Movies at the Planetarium

Peace operatives Super Furry Animals’ non-proliferation treatise

Notes on the Taco Gap

Remembering Things Past

Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-Taek

Heart and Seoul

Strange and wondrous kimchi in Koreatown

The Go Club

Getting lost in the game

Public Jocks, Private Dicks

Plus, Eddie Murphy's The PJ's and Scott Adams' Dilbert

Man Bites Prawn

A Koreatown seafood adventure

Sampling L.A.'s newest restaurants

Mayor Overboard