South Asia

5 Best Dosas in Los Angeles

There are as many kinds of dosas as there are moms in South India -- which is to say, a lot. This Indian breakfast and snack food is a thin, crispy crepe made from a lightly fermented batter of ground rice and lentils. The batter is ladled onto a hot griddle and then quickly spread to paper thinness ... More >>

A Brave Gay Teen and GMO Activism Get Readers Talking

The 20 Worst Albums Of The '90s: 20-11

Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say, or Ok Computer and much of hip-hop's g ... More >>

Lukshon: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Ask Squid Ink: Couples Cooking Classes, or Love Me Tandoor

Dear Squid Ink: In your experience with the wonderful restaurants and chefs of our city, have you stumbled across any unique places that offer cooking lessons? My lovely and talented wife is quite accomplished in cooking various cuisines at home and I'm looking to surprise her with some unique cook ... More >>

38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat. As sort of shameful as it is to admit, I drove to all the way Cerritos this weekend just ... More >>

Mona Shaikh Is a Naughty Muslim Comedian

Mona Shaikh is not impressed with the supposed merits of Islamic martyrdom. "Seventy-two virgins? As a reward? Have you ever been with one virgin? [winces] That shit sucks. Can you imagine having to teach 72 of them how to do everything? Guys -- wouldn't you rather have 72 hos?" she asks. Shaikh i ... More >>

Top 5 U.K. Beers That Should be Served at the Olympics Instead of Heineken Happy International IPA Day

The summer Olympics are well underway and with the Games, the inevitable media spotlight on the host country's culture. Between the star-studded opening ceremonies and the unprecedented Cultural Olympiad, Great Britain has done its best to take advantage of the attention the Olympics brings. Except, ... More >>

79: Tandoori Chicken at Al-Watan

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 79: Tandoori Chicken at Al-Watan Surely we can't be alone in our endless fascination with the tandoori oven, a cylindrical-shaped clay oven that facilitates a ... More >>

Trishna: Michael Winterbottom Brings Thomas Hardy to Mumbai

L.A. Vendy Awards Roll Into Town This Weekend

The second annual L.A. Vendy Awards, an event and fundraiser that's been called the "Street Food Oscars," is coming to Pan Pacific Park this weekend, on June 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eight finalists, which include local vendors such as the India Jones Chow Truck, Tacos El Gallito, Buttermilk Tr ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Short-Season Olallieberries and Mulberries

The path to the olallieberry, a 1935 loganberry and youngberry cross that grows exceptionally well here in California, is a very short one. It's around only three to four weeks tops from the start of picking to the last luscious berry. It has a direct lineage link with and acquires its color and ... More >>

Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani: Nerds of a Feather

Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When Kumail Nanjiani was 18, he came halfway around the world from Karachi, Pakistan, to one of the whitest places on Earth, Grinnell College in Iowa. Appropriately, at 34, he' ... More >>

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Bela Tarr and Bollywood

New Bhimas' Spring Dosa: What to Eat When Celebrating Spring in Artesia

What should you eat to celebrate today's arrival of spring? A spring dosa, of course. It's the dish of the season at New Bhimas, a South Indian vegetarian restaurant in Artesia's Little India. Dosas are big, crisp pancakes that come with all sorts of fillings, most typically spiced potatoes, as in m ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hands Are Groping Me, Breasts Are Pushed Into Me

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Time becomes fluid and is then smashed, compressed, elongated by miles and then slammed into a ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Korean BBQ Cook-Off, Ubriaca, India Sweets & Spices, Blue Palms Brewhouse, Taste of Santa Monica

Guzzle & NoshKorean barbecue.​Korean BBQ Cook-Off Sample the best Korean barbecue from dozens of local Koreatown restaurants and vendors. The third annual cook-off features an Orion Choco Pie eating contest, a craft beer and Korean wine garden and a contest (judged by our own Jonathan Gold) in ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dax Riggs

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #118 for Saturday, June 11. Fanatics! It is 1600 hrs. PST. I am in Los Angeles, in the back of a taxi, speeding back to the office. I am in the third day of next to no sleep. I don't know what is keeping me up. I got a few hours in the early part of last Thursday ... More >>

Irfan Khan, Arrested in L.A. For Allegedly Aiding Taliban, in Court Today: Brother Says Feds' Case is a 'Big Lie'

AP / YouTubeIkram Khan, a relative of the accused, said the charges are false.​Update: Irfan Khan will face a bail hearing Thursday to determine if he can travel to Miami to face the music there. On Monday in federal court he waived his right to an identity hearing. Irfan Khan, one of three p ... More >>

UCLA Undergrads Were 80 Percent Sure Where Osama Bin Laden Was Hiding in 2009

MIT International ReviewBoink! Bin Laden.​Updated after the jump: Professor Gillespie tells us more about his prediction system, which can be used on everyone from a Mexican drug lord to the rare Yangtze River dolphin. Sweet. No joke: A class of undergraduate students at UCLA predicted way ba ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden: Los Angeles Police Vigilant Despite Death of World's Most Reviled Terrorist

Gone.​Updated after the jump with a pat on the back from the LAFD. The LAPD is keeping its guard up despite President Obama's world-shaking announcement that terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan. Assistant Commanding Officer Blake Chow, the department's counterterrorism comm ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

Evan Kleiman Talks Global Street Food - Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

​Street food existed long before the myriad of Twittering food trucks took over Los Angeles. Evan Kleiman (chef/owner of Angeli Caffe, host of KCRW's Good Food) reminds us of that on May 1st, when she moderates the Global Street Food event featuring OC Weekly Managing Editor and food contribut ... More >>

Venn Food Diagrams: L.A.'s Idea of Indian Food vs. What Indians Really Eat

Our continuing series of Venn Food Diagrams moves from the great American South to an even more controversy-prone collection of states... India. ​

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AWAY IN A DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION

Interview: Punk Photographer Ed Colver On Angels, Assholes and Anarchists (Plus Legendary Album Cover Outtakes)

edward colverblack flag's damaged and damaged outtakes​ For about five years, five nights a week, Edward Colver was there to see L.A.'s punk scene erupt through a small viewfinder, snapping photos with black and white Kodak Tri-X film, a 35mm camera with a 50mm lens and "no fucking auto-focus ... More >>

BHUTTO

Q & A With Madhur Jaffrey: She Cooks, She Acts, She Writes, etc.

When Madhur Jaffrey arrived at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, she was a Delhi-born 19-year-old from a wealthy family and so accustomed to being waited on that even the most rudimentary cooking skills eluded her. In the end, it was her inability to find authentic Indian food in 1950s En ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Chico's Angels: Chicas in Chains, Hello, Merrily We Roll Along

Also, Valentino Valentina, Sultan's Battery and more

Stage Raw: Hello

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on Polish punk and Glendale's classicistsNEW REVIEW GO HELLO ​ Photo by Mark Bennington You may not find logic in this quirky tale about love, marriage and the enigma of sexual attraction but you'll recognize a lot of human truth. ... More >>

Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate: Starting With Foodie, Part 2

Flickr/WordRidden​ A few months ago we went off on the Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate, a post that generated a lot of feedback, for which we are grateful. It also, as you might expect, generated a lot of other words that are happily vilified by many of us who spend far more time, sadly, writing ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Mugabe and the White African, Peepli Live, Animal Kingdom

Also, Eat, Pray, Love, Mundo Alas, Tales From Earthsea

Beyond

The Best of the Past

The resurection of a forgotten master spearheads LAFF's diverse retrospective offerings

Terror Suspect Arrested In New York; L.A. Authorities Beef Up Studio Patrols

​As federal authorities announced late Monday that a suspect in Saturday night's attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square was arrested, Los Angeles-area authorities said they have beefed up patrols of area movie studios as a precaution. It's not clear if the terror attempt targeted th ... More >>

5 American Fast Food Items You Can't Get in America

While America may be known around the world as a fast food paradise, there are actually some menu items you can't get stateside. Here are our Top 5 oddities from abroad. 1. McDonald's Spaghetti and Fried Chicken (Philippines) Fried chicken with a side order of spaghetti? Yes, please! McDonald's Ph ... More >>

FRIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, PART 2

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THE ANTI-TOYOTA GRAND PRIX

A Man's a Man

Dishing Up Mexican

Dancing Waters

Burmese Underground

At Jasmine Market, picking up the scent of Muslim Myanmar

Tandoor at Heart

Curry Invasion

Koren Paalman, the Yoga Principle

The Pie's the Limit

This is what happens when the world goes to pizzas

Lotus Eaters

Indian food for a post-Beck Silver Lake

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