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The Undercover Vegetarian: Rustic Canyon

Chef Jeremy Fox once presided over the most celebrated vegetarian menu in the country at Ubuntu in Napa. So now that he's taken the helm at Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica, it is no surprise that it's quite easy to eat incredibly well without meat at his current endeavor. On the current menu, more t ... More >>

Restaurants, Please Use This: Wordpress Launches Confit For Restaurant Websites

It's a cry that's been uttered many times: Why are restaurant websites so bad? Why do web designers, in cahoots with chefs and owners, think that we want to see a fancy Flash presentation collage of your restaurant and hear smooth jazz but we have no interest in say, the hours, or address, or access ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/7 - 5/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I was never trying to make a statement about vegetarianism at Ubuntu, I was just trying to showcase the best ingredients I had available." Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Prefabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post- ... More >>

Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Pre-Fabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post-Ubuntu

The last place you'd probably expect to find a chef with a Michelin star under his belt would be West L.A.'s Paper or Plastik, a neighborhood café that has been a favorite of locals for years but was never known as a place to host nationally-acclaimed chefs. But that's exactly where former Ubuntu ... More >>

L.A. Geeks Sue Google Over Bad Android Apps

If it weren't for geeks keeping tech companies honest we'd still be using Windows 95 and paying AOL for dial-up. Two L.A. men, Dodd Harris and Stephen Sabatino, are seeking class-action status for a suit against Google. Their issue? The duo claims that some Google Android phone apps don't work, an ... More >>

Geek Chicks: PyLadies, a Gang of Female Computer Programmers

Nanette GonzalesKatharine Jarmul, PyLady​It's not that the PyLadies are intimidated by the men who dominate computer programmer events and workshops. It's just that they got tired of feeling like outsiders.Katharine Jarmul, 29, remembers the day they first identified the problem. She and t ... More >>

Angry Birds: The Cookbook

Flickr/tomazstolfaone very angry bird​ If weather girls can become television food megastars, then why can't massively addictive Finnish game apps become cookbooks? That was a rhetorical question; of course they can. And what better game to make the transition to cookbook than Angry Birds, a g ... More >>

Apps That Tip iPhone Users Off to Drunk Driver Checkpoint Locations Nixed by Apple

hotgirlswithiphones.com​Trying to avoid DUI checkpoints this weekend? There's an app for that. Or, at least, there was. Bowing to pressure following outrage from anti-drunk-driving activists and politicians over the tip-off apps, Apple has quietly written them out of its App Store, omitting t ... More >>

iPhone Snitch? There's an App For That, and It's Connected to L.A. County Law Enforcement

hotgirlswithiphones.comDo tell.​In the hood they say snitches get stitches. But what if they can tell all with the push of a few keys on their iPhones? You'll never know, pelon. This could change the whole game, player. Look here, my snitches, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced th ... More >>

Marijuana Bust-Alert iPhone App Prank in L.A.'s '420 Times' Dupes San Diego Columnist Tom Blair: There's Not an App For That

420 TimesActually there's not an app for that.​It appears San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Tom Blair was duped by an April Fool's joke in L.A.'s own marijuana magazine the 420 Times. In a Monday column titled "What are these people smoking?" the journo blasts the Times for rolling out its "D ... More >>

iPhone App Allows Fans To Search For Stars On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

​ An iPhone application allowing people to search for their favorite stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Wednesday, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced. Those eager to find the stars of Lucille Ball, Clint Eastwood or Mark Wahlberg can now do so with a few strokes of the ... More >>

Coachella Q&A: DJ Richie Hawtin Speaks About Technology And The State Of American Electronic Music

​We caught up with Richie Hawtin, a.k.a. Plastikman, at Coachella over the weekend and asked him a few questions about technology and the state of North American dance music. Hawtin has pioneered the use of Ableton Live software to atomize and reconstruct tracks on-the-fly during DJ performanc ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs and Newsletters

-- Oprah rebuilds her television set out of chocolate. No word on how much of it she ate. [Grub Street] -- The White Stuff: an author's exploration (in Gastronomica) of his mother's all-white eating habits. [Psycho-Gourmet] -- Biking the L.A. River, but with food. [Eating L.A.] -- Ubuntu's former ... More >>

Meth-Face Imaging Software Puts Scare Into Kids

Face2Face​A California sheriff has helped a tech company develop 3D imaging software that can show people what their face would look like if they start and continue abusing methamphetamine for months and years. The results are shocking and compelling enough that law-enforcement agencies from L ... More >>

L.A. Law Firm Reports Cyber Attack From China

​A Los Angeles law firm representing a company suing China for allegedly stealing its software code announced its computers have come under a cyber-attack that originated in the Asian nation and that the FBI is investigating the attempted intrusion. Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, which is represe ... More >>

Chinese Government Sued In L.A. Over Censorship Software

Lenovo​The Chinese government was sued in Los Angeles court this week over its imposition of content-filtering software that is allegedly based on code stolen from CYBERsitter, LLC. The $2.2 billion suit claims that the People's Republic of China distributed "Green Dam Youth Escort" censorship ... More >>

Pedraza vs. Macintosh: Worms in the Apple

Cab Fare: Hope Swings Eternal

Even amid the economic meltdown and collapse of the music industry, hope springs wherever there's a microphone, green grass and baked goods. This Saturday, at Culver City's Woodbine Park, a new recording label launches with a DIY fundraising event. "A Day in the Park" features Orange Cab Records' de ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Rejected: Trent Reznor is Pissed, Posts E-Mail from Apple on NIN Forum

On May 2 Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor broke the news via Twitter that Apple had rejected the updated NIN iPhone app because it contained "objectionable content," specifically lyrics on the album The Downward Spiral. Needless to say, Reznor is pissed. After posting Apple's rejection e-mail on the NI ... More >>

Best Cutters: L.A. Final Cut Pro Users' Group

Hollywood's Magic Castle Goes Adobe for a Day

Plus: The Owl that guards the entrance is a hoot

It's Not Just Lunch!

Networking at lunch 2.0

Map of the L.A. 99

Esa's New Program

The L.A. Philharmonic's music director previews his latest work at the Santa Monica Apple Store

I Think, Therefore I Am — Sorta

The belief system of a virtual mind

Byrne, Baby, Byrne!

The Big Dirt Napster

A digital new era finds the labels asleep

Webs

Steven Johnson has seen the future, and it’s SimCity

Enhancing the Scanner

Can Digital Convergence stop hackers from making the CueCat useful?

Napster, Round 2

Genie 1, Bottle 0

Microsoft Loves You to Death

Software gives computer viruses a smooth ride

Y2K Bugs

Wares Wars

Consumer non-protection act threatens open-sourcers — not to mention the rest of us.

No-Tell Mattel

Censorware maker slams the censor busters

Pandora’s Box

Napster unleashes whole new Net ball game

Hacking the Future

Why code crackers will lead the digital age

Control Freak-Alt-Delete

Reading the Microsoft Findings of Fact as a riveting novel

Talking to the Machine

Finally, software that gets my dichotomy -- or is that dike hot to me?

Go to Sleep With a Toaster, Wake Up With a Microwave

Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products

Pro-Choice Computing

Man Against the FUD

How Eric Raymond became the ambassador for the open-source movement -- and why he hasn't quit

Viral Paranoia

Who's afraid of a little bug?

Downloading the Future

The MP3 Revolution — the End of the Industry as We Know It

We'll Soon Have You Cured

The World in a Box

Conclusion of a Three-part Series

Free Is a Four-Letter World

Suiting up the open system at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo (Second in a three-part series)

The Loneliness of Linux

The First of a Three-Part Series

The Best Things in Code Are Free