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Easter Sunday Food Drink Specials

For those who celebrate the holiday, Easter Sunday is a time to gather loved ones for brunch and, maybe, an afternoon egg hunt. If you're planning to host a celebration at home, there are purveyors and markets like Lindy & Grundy who offer a range of resources from traditional smoked hams and legs o ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bikers Around a Bonfire

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a new gallery debuts on Melrose, a film by and about a lover of life screens in West Adams and a light show plays out in a corner in Culver City. 5. Mind games When artist J ... More >>

Robert M. Parker Jr. Steps Down as Wine Advocate Editor

In a stunning turn of events, the Wall Street Journal reports that Robert M. Parker, Jr., the single most driving force in the wine industry in the last 30 years, wine's most influential critic and populist, is stepping down from editing his influential journal The Wine Advocate. According to Let ... More >>

Touche Amore's Southeast Asia Tour Diary: "Little Regard for Our Personal Well-Being"

Full of emotion and earnestness, Touche Amore's 2009 full-length debut ...To The Beat Of A Dead Horse was a walloping punch to the gut of the hardcore scene. Their 2011 follow-up Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me kept the jabs coming. The Los Angeles group's popularity has grown in large p ... More >>

Kula Sushi: Conveyor-Belt Sushi in Little Tokyo

Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, or kaiten-zushi as they're known in Japan, are big business these days. You might not think so when plates of sushi are priced at just $2 each, as they are at Little Tokyo's Kula Sushi, the newest and most ambitious kaiten joint to hit the L.A. scene. But arrive on a ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

A Fashion Show That Jazzes Up Conservative Clothing For Muslim Women

Marwa Atik needs five pieces of trim, the kind embellished with pearls and black jewels. At a store in downtown L.A.'s Fashion District, boxes of trimmings line the walls from floor to ceiling, but Atik scans quickly and zeroes in on what she wants. At her direction, a clerk climbs a tall, wooden la ... More >>

BBQ Beer: The Spice Table and The Bruery Host an Event

Barbecue and beer. A pretty ordinary combination -- except when the chef adds coconut, or a dash of fish sauce. The Spice Table is partnering with The Bruery to offer a prix-fixe dinner May 23 at $75 per person. The Singapore-inspired restaurant will serve eight dishes, each accompanied by select be ... More >>

Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug

Happiness, apparently, is a warm embrace. At least, for Coca-Cola, which recently installed a "Hug Machine" that dispenses cold sodas in exchange for warm hugs on the National University of Singapore campus. According to Mashable, the huggable machine is part of the soda company's "Open Happiness" ... More >>

Q & A With Bryant Ng: The Spice Table, Food & Wine's Best New Chef Award, Bears in Aspen The Joy of Pig's Tails

When you walk into The Spice Table, the Little Tokyo restaurant chef Bryant Ng and his wife Kim Luu-Ng opened just over a year ago, you are presented with a composition of place so complete that you might not even notice it. The wood-burning open fire behind the bar like a cabin hearth. The birdcage ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Cupcakes Continue World Domination and Other Lessons from Google's 2011 Zeitgeist

R.E.~/FlickrCupcakes were one of the most Googled terms of 2011​Much to our chagrin, the cupcake is a trend that just won't die: according to Google's 2011 Year-End Zeitgeist, cupcakes were one of the most popular Food and Drink search terms of the year. Other fascinating revelations about ou ... More >>

Spice Table: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Eat This Now: Lukshon's Duck Popiah

davidwangla/flickr​ For people who eschew red meat yet eat poultry (you might hear them claim they "do it for the protein"), duck is a gateway drug, an opulent bridge between feathered and hooved things. It is the color of liver, encased in a scuba suit of fat, and drawn to fruit, spice, and ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Spice Table

Food Memoir(s) Review: A Tiger In The Kitchen And The Problematic Food Memoir Genre

​Memoirs have never been easy to pull off. For starters, no matter how interesting we may personally find our own Pinot Noir-enlivened nights, publishers have long gravitated to those authors who are famous enough to keep those Williams-Sonoma book signing lines out the front door. Even if tho ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Spice Table

First Bite: Spice Table in Little Tokyo

​You might expect a new restaurant from the opening chef of Pizzeria Mozza to be jammed from the moment it opened, and you wouldn't be surprised to find quartinos of crisp Italian white wine. Diligent ingredient sourcing would practically be a given, as would be the wood-burning oven and the c ... More >>

The Cocktail Issue: Lukshon's Singapore Sling A Recipe

Anne FishbeinLukshon's Singapore Sling​This past week's cover story was the cocktail issue, or L.A.'s Best Cocktails, in which Jonathan Gold considers, as you can probably infer from the title, the best cocktails in Los Angeles. To celebrate the happy event, we're giving you a cocktail a day h ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

Sang Yoon's Lukshon Is His Most Fully Realized Concept Yet

New eatery livens up Helms complex

The Road To Singapore: Silverton, Batali and Bastianach Open Mozzas in Southeast Asia Pictures!

Far, far away in an island country known as Singapore, on the second floor of the 800,000 sq. ft. luxury mall known as Marina Bay Sands (a new Southeast Asian offshoot of the Rat Pack's old hangout of choice, The Las Vegas Sands), sits Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza. To the naked eye they are so e ... More >>

Updated: Pizzeria Mozza To Open in Newport Beach

Pizzeria Mozza​ Update: When a reader recently wrote in to ask about the status of the Mozza in Newport Beach, we thought we'd find out. Mozza general manager David Rosoff tells us that the pizzeria, which will be very similar to the original on Melrose and Highland, is coming along nicely. ... More >>

Interview: Bomb Zombies On Autotune, Smashing Pumpkins, Moms

​ Bomb Zombies "FWUH (Fuckwhatchaheard)" by Hellfyre Club Bomb Zombies is a collaboration between Low End Theory's DJ Nobody and Nocando, offering smart lyrics executed overbass-heavy 808-and-autotune backing tracks. Their Sincerely Yours EP with a provocative cover was released two w ... More >>

Look, Up in the Sky!

It's the Ritz! It's Chinese! It's Wolfgang Puck!

Wayne Coyne's Feet Eaten By Fish in Singapore

Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, unsuspecting, before the incident.​Good news for the weird uncles: Despite previously held suspicions to the contrary, there is room for you in the age of social media. (Not creepy uncs. They've already had their day.) Thank Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, a goo ... More >>

Top ChefUpdate: Season 7 Winner, Season 8 Rumors Top Chef: Just Desserts

BravoTop Chef: Season 7 Winner Kevin Sbraga​ Wednesday night on the Top Chef Singapore-based finale, host Padma Lakshmi announced 31-year-old chef and New Jersey native Kevin Sbraga winner of the cooking competition's seventh season, edging out New York-based contestants Angelo Sosa and Ed Co ... More >>

Life During Wartime: Happiness Recast

Todd Solondz on the new roles, and new life, in his latest film

Singapore's City Harvest Church Controversy Comes to the Hollywood Hills

Singaporean Pop Star Sun Ho​Unbeknown to many Hollywood Hills residents, a major, developing controversy involving a wealthy Singapore minister and his widely influential mega-church has come to their posh neighborhood. Over the past few weeks, City Harvest Church pastor Kong Hee, a Christia ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- The 41 Deadliest Fast Food Meals in America. [Daily Beast] -- Woman becomes first person to be banned from drinking in every bar in England and Wales. [Daily Mail] -- The British finally discover bá ... More >>

Think Pink: Nan Ru Peanuts, Better Than Parrot Feed or Cat Videos

​If you ran across a bowl of nan ru peanuts at a party, you'd probably pass right by them on the way to the bean dip. They're unprepossessing little things, closer to parrot feed than to the peanuts you find at the ballpark, and the shells are tinted a pale yet alarmingly vivid pink. Bitter ex ... More >>

A Feast at RockSugar with Chef Mohan Ismail: It's No Cafeteria

Last night's 15-course feast at RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen--16-courses if you count the surprise Singapore butter lobster chef Mohan Ismail snuck in--was enough to feed a small village. A village with a very sophisticated palate. The feast was orchestrated to introduce next year's new menu items. ... More >>

Street Cred

At her new Hollywood restaurant, Susan Feniger puts the cart before the hors d’oeuvre

Hail the Conquering Chicken

Hainan (Chicken) Rice in Alhambra

Chef Robert Danhi Leads Culinary Tours of Little Saigon

Emma CourtlandA labyrinth of foreign labels​Los Angeles' ethnic neighborhoods often feel impenetrable. Navigating the seas of strip malls signed by foreign characters, and market mounds of various exotic herbs all labeled "peppermint," is a disconcerting task for even the most adventurous flav ... More >>

When Bad Things Happen to Funny People

Doug Stanhope, Elayne Boosler, Merrill Markoe and other standups on the pitfalls of comedy

Summer Cooking Classes: Mohan Ismail's Southeast Asian Flavors at Rock Sugar and Michael Beglinger's Market Bounty at Larchmont Larder

Larchmont LarderThe Larchmont Larder has set its summer slate of cooking classes. Chef and co-owner Michael Beglinger teaches Summer Salads on Thursday, June 11. Summer Baking happens on Thursday, July 16, featuring fruit sweets and ice cream from Milk on Beverly. And on August 13, students get thei ... More >>

Nikon's Creepy, Funny S60 Ad Campaign

These are hilarious. "The Nikon S60 detects up to 12 faces." Look closer.This last one with the tribal men is my favorite. The photos remind me a little of those old photos of people out in the wilderness that "captured" images of fairies and gnomes lurking in the background. Campaign conceptualized ... More >>

Smokey and the Bandit: Special Edition

Ask Mr. Gold

Newton's Laws

The late photographer on voyeurism, women as sophisticated animals and David Bowie

Steam Dream

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Deconstructing Mr. Grinch

He's green, he's a queen, get used to it!

Hainan Chicken

The cuisine, not the crisis

I Dough

An homage to pasta

Korean Comfort Food

Gook Soo is more than just a noodle

The Battle in Seattle

World-class protest at trade summit may be turning point in fight against right-wing economics

Money No Enough

Asia's financial crisis has its filmmakers scrounging for dollars