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January 17, 2013
Food News Roundup: Existential Food Questions, Bacon Rillettes A Novice's Guide to Craft Beer
Michael Ruhlman: The single biggest problem in home kitchens? Dull knives. Smithsonian Magazine: The Novice's Guide to Venturing Into the World of Craft Beer. Food Republic: Existential Food Questions, Part 1. James Beard Foundation blog: How to make bacon rillettes. Eatocracy: My 8 most stained ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2013
Food News Roundup: White House Beer, Best L.A. Tacos A Recipe for the Elvis Presley Milkshake
Mental Floss: Does drinking booze really keep you warm? Hmmm. Ever gotten drunk in Minnesota? Right. The New York Times Diner's Journal: Slow Food USA gets a new leader. Michael Ruhlman: A review of Alex Witchel's book All Gone, a memoir with refreshments. The Smithsonian: Whether or not diet sod ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2013
Food News Roundup: 10 Worst Meals in 2012, Fishing With Dynamite How to Eat a Persimmon
The Guardian: How to eat a persimmon. Pigeons & Planes: 20 Things Everyone Thinks About The Food World (But Nobody Will Say). Riding Shotgun: Happy New Year's from Roy Choi. The New York Times: After Crispy Pig Ears, 10 Trends for 2013. Daily Dish: Fishing With Dynamite, David LeFevre's new rest ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2012
Video: Merry White on the History of Coffee in America
Calling all coffee geeks! Today from Smithsonian Magazine comes a video featuring Merry White, author of Coffee Life In Japan, on the history of coffee consumption in America. There's also some cool science in there, as well as smart people saying smart things about our favorite caffeinated beverage ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2012
The Secret Life of Eero Saarinen, Architect of the St. Louis Arch and...the White House War Room?
See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Eero Saarinen's fingerprints are all over mid-century design's greatest hits, and even if you can't pronounce his name, you definitely know his ... More >>
Calendar
October 4, 2012
Best Spy Who Built the Thing You Come in From the Cold Into
See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Eero Saarinen's fingerprints are all over mid-century design's greatest hits, and even if you can't pronounce his name, you definitely know his ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012
Food News Roundup: Campanile News, How to Quit Your Diet Coke Habit A Guide to Obama's Ale
Daily Dish: In which Bill Chait and Walter Manzke probably take over the Campanile space for Republique. Tasting Table: Café Dulcé pops up with coffee and street art in downtown L.A. The New York Times Diner's Blog: Brewing President Obama's ale, step-by-step. Zester Daily: Cruise food! (And we ... More >>
Blogs
August 28, 2012
Food News Roundup: How to Roll Vietnamese Spring Rolls, Jamie Oliver's New TV Series 10 Labor Day Grilling Dishes
Ecosalon: "Ask Foodie Underground," ecosalon's new advice column for foodists. (On Mason jars, radish tops, cheese sprinkles, etc.) Channel 4: Jamie Oliver's new TV series, Jamie and Jimmy's Food Fight Club. Slate: Burning Question #147... What do Swedes think of the Swedish chef?? Smithsonian Fo ... More >>
Blogs
August 22, 2012
Food News Roundup: 11 Things You Didn't Know About Wheaties, Paul Ryan's Vegan Speechwriter Homemade French Fries
Smithsonian: The 11 Things You Didn't Know About Wheaties. LA Observed: Paul Ryan's new speechwriter is, among other things, a vegan. Bon Appetit: How to make the best homemade french fries ever. Grub Street LA: Jon Shook and Michael Voltaggio head to Baja. The Huffington Post: Nancy Pelosi's ob ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2012
Sandow Birk's Monument to the Constitution Includes Security Cameras
By Alexis Coe In 2007, Los Angeles-based artist Sandow Birk was a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. He was afforded a small studio within the Archives of American Art, but Birk spent much of the eight weeks outside of the world's largest museum, engrossed in all that Washington, D.C. ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2012
The Simpsons is Really Set in Portlandia
If you thought The Simpsons was Portlandia-like in its satiric outlook, what with the nuclear-hi-jinx backstory, psychedlic romps by Homer and pot-smoking school bus driver, you were right. Show creator Matt Groening revealed this week that the location of the show that got its start via his "Life ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Food News Roundup: No More Starred Reviews, Mario Batali Settles Lawsuit Notorious B.I.G. Food Lyrics
Daily Dish: No more starred reviews in the L.A. Times, effective now. The Salt, NPR's Food Blog: Mario Batali settles lawsuit alleging he and business partner Joe Bastianich took employee tips. Gilt Taste: What Francis Lam learned about food from the Notorious B.I.G. ("The milks was chocolate; t ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Food News Roundup: America as Food Truck Nation, Ruhlman's Toys, Sushi Nozawa Song About Waiters
Michael Ruhlman: Great Kitchen Tools a very fun short film. Smithsonian Magazine: How America Became a Food Truck Nation (by Jonathan Gold). Daily Dish: The LA Times Food section debuted nearly 50 years ago. (It will fold into a new Saturday section beginning Mar. 10.) New York Times: On the cl ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Food News Roundup: Oysters, Foodie Pick-up Lines Why We Infantilize Our Food
Flickr/julesjulesjules moystersTasting Table: Slurping oysters at L&E Oyster Bar, newly opened in Silver Lake. ecosalon: 50 pick-up lines for foodies. ("I can last as long as a Le Creuset.") Daily Dish: 5 Questions for Tim Goodell. Zester Daily: The Infantilization of American Taste, or wh ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2012
Quetzal, East L.A. Activists to Their Core, Play Tomorrow
See also: *Las Cafeteras Defy Tradition Sitting in a Highland Park restaurant behind a plate of french fries and a mint tea, Quetzal Flores talks about gentrification. The subject plays into his new album with his Mexican-Afro-Cuban rock band Quetzal, called Imaginaries, which is out next month on ... More >>
Calendar
September 22, 2011
Go Ask Julie
See also: *Las Cafeteras Defy Tradition Sitting in a Highland Park restaurant behind a plate of french fries and a mint tea, Quetzal Flores talks about gentrification. The subject plays into his new album with his Mexican-Afro-Cuban rock band Quetzal, called Imaginaries, which is out next month on ... More >>
Calendar
June 23, 2011
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment
See also: *Las Cafeteras Defy Tradition Sitting in a Highland Park restaurant behind a plate of french fries and a mint tea, Quetzal Flores talks about gentrification. The subject plays into his new album with his Mexican-Afro-Cuban rock band Quetzal, called Imaginaries, which is out next month on ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2011
Study: Are L.A. Housecats Killing Off All the Baby Sparrows?
Laurie Munro via FlickrLemme get thatWe knew our neighborhood housecats were fickle, and death stareish, and inclined to linger near our tires when we're late for work and perch on our garbage bin when we're late for the garbage truck. But new Smithsonian Institute research makes America's do ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2011
Jeffrey Deitch of the Museum of Contemporary Art Gets Custom Condom In His Honor
YouTubeBlu's mural at MOCA.A protest group formed to decry the recent whitewashing of a mural at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) this week handed out condom packages that facetiously tell controversial MOCA chief Jeffrey Deitch to "practice safe art." The website ARTINFO reports that ... More >>
Film+TV
December 30, 2010
David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly Comes to L.A.
Censored by the Smithsonian, now at the Hammer
Blogs
November 30, 2010
Today's New Releases: Hanni El Khatib, Nguzunguzu, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Complete Anthology of American Folk Music
HANNI EL-KHATIB, "BUILD. DESTROY. REBUILD." 7" (INNOVATIVE LEISURE) "Build. Destroy. Rebuild" is the second fuzzy single from Hanni El-Khatib's upcoming debut album Will The Guns Come Out, which I've been anxiously awaiting ever since I heard his first 7" months ago. "Build. Destroy. Rebui ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2010
Jeff Corliss of Venice Needs $3 Million To Fly Without Parachute: Dude, I Can Do This
SmithsonianJeb Corliss and the "Stealth 2" flying suit. Of course he's from Venice, Los Angeles, California. Smithsonian has the story of Jeb Corliss: The dream has recurred since childhood: I jump, and I can fly. Corliss hopes the wing suit he designed (photo), will enable him to jump from a ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2009
California Science Center Sued For Refusing To Screen Anti-Darwin Film
California Science CenterThe California Science Center in Exposition Park is being sued after it pulled out of a deal to screen a documentary that question's Darwin's theory of evolution. The center shelved the screening after a pro-intelligent design group issued a press release promoting th ... More >>
Film+TV
May 21, 2009
Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue
Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more
Blogs
December 2, 2008
Wale-"Nike Boots" Video
Give Wale credit for knowing how to fall back. The D.C. rapper/Mark Ronson bid for street cred has laid low since The Mixtape About Nothing led the blogosphere to declare him "real and spectacular." Now with every Internet dork hunkering down to craft their year-end lists, flagon of Merlot and c ... More >>
LA Life
June 26, 2008
Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizio
Heeling ailing soles
LA Life
January 31, 2008
What Super Bowl? Let's Go Whale Watching!
What to do in L.A., Feb. 1-7
Calendar
January 10, 2008
Hello, Gorgeous
What to do in L.A., Feb. 1-7
News
October 4, 2007
Best Extinction Experts
The Dinosaur Institute
Stage
September 21, 2006
No Greater Attainment
The Dinosaur Institute
Stage
June 29, 2006
Earthly and Heavenly Delights
The Dinosaur Institute
Columns
January 19, 2006
How Green Is Your Library
The Dinosaur Institute
Eat+Drink
January 19, 2006
Into the Deep
The Dinosaur Institute
News
August 11, 2005
Lost On Earth
The Dinosaur Institute
Eat+Drink
January 20, 2005
Into the Deep
The Dinosaur Institute
Art+Books
July 8, 2004
Echoes of the Fall
The Smithsonian�s September 11 collection
Music
March 25, 2004
Let There Be Light
The Smithsonian�s September 11 collection
Art+Books
January 22, 2004
The Last Bohemian, RIP
Jirayr Zorthian, 1911�2004
Columns
September 4, 2003
Behind the American History Curtain
Washington, D.C., and the lessons of memory
Stage
February 6, 2003
The History of America: Abridged
John Henry Redwood plays the butler to four presidents
News
August 15, 2002
The L.A. Cinema Club and the Rise of Amateur Filmmaking
John Henry Redwood plays the butler to four presidents
News
January 10, 2002
Read This
comic creators recommend their favorites
News
January 3, 2002
Top 6 Science Blunders of the Bush Administration
� so far
Music
May 17, 2001
This Is Our Music
The Napster museum of cultural heritage
Music
July 13, 2000
Vintage Voodoo
Screamin� Jay Hawkins rises from the grave
Music
July 6, 2000
House of Whacks
Screamin� Jay Hawkins rises from the grave
News
May 18, 2000
Fashion Victims
If you missed the Smithsonian's Sweatshop Exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance, or don't remember even hearing about it, you're not alone
Eat+Drink
March 2, 2000
My Favorite Things
Part 1: Bread, and things that go better with bread. Some things, anyway.
Film+TV
January 28, 1999
The Balding Soprano
From antipasto to antidepressants: a Mafioso's midlife crises
Art+Books
May 7, 1998
Moving Violations
Art cars don't kill people. They just annoy them.
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