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Why Are L.A.'s Parks So Lacking in Good Food?

What began as a public-private partnership bidding process to find a food vendor for a beloved urban park launched a massively successful mid-market burger chain. Granted, any business gets a leg up when an already successful restaurateur such as Danny Meyer is at the helm. Shake Shack now has loc ... More >>

9 Silicon Beach Office Buildings and What They Say About Their Companies

See also: *More tech stories from L.A. Weekly *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Since the arrival of Google in Venice last year, westside beach communities like Santa Monica, Playa Vista and others have seen an influx of tech companies, startups, investors and soft ... More >>

Top 6 Seasonal Pumpkin Picks For Under $5

We realize that the profusion of pumpkin products isn't everyone's cup of squash. So we feel a little sheepish admitting that we're suckers for some of this pumpkin stuff (which reminds us, we need to get to See's Candy for a box of their pumpkin spice lollipops). With that in mind, we put togethe ... More >>

Register To Vote Online, L.A: Today Is Your Last Day

Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 6 presidential election, people. So when it comes to the Obama vs. Romney war, don't talk about it, be about it. County registrar officials say as many as 3 million people in L.A. County who are eligible are not registered to vote. Wow. And her ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/17 - 9/21

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Rice, seemingly so bland and innocuous, harbors the same deadly poison beloved by Victorian mystery writers." Consumer Reports Warns of Arsenic in Rice. "At most regular restaurants, the communal table is awkward at best, ... More >>

Woman Claims to Have Lost 85 Pounds on 'Starbucks Diet'

A woman with a lot of spare change in her piggy bank claims she lost 85 pounds in two years by eating only at Starbucks, Fox News reports. Guess the "Starbucks Diet" doesn't include a lot of caramel macchiatos. Christine Hall of Alexandria, Va., 66, said she bought oatmeal and black coffee every da ... More >>

Man Who Stole LAPD Cruiser Loses Leg After Patrol Car Crashes Into Mid-City Starbucks

A 25-year-old man who stole an LAPD cruiser today lost a leg when the patrol car hit a light pole and crashed into a Starbucks in Mid-City, police said. The Ford Crown Victoria was left unattended by a supervisor who was at the scene of a robbery investigation at a motel at La Brea Avenue and Adams ... More >>

Starbucks has Venti Recycling Goals

If you've ever finished your drink in a Starbucks cafe, then looked around in vain for a recycling bin in which to deposit the empty cup, you're not alone. With less than 10% of Starbucks in Los Angeles County having customer recycling bins, a lot of our cups end up in landfills. There are 364 compa ... More >>

Starbucks Protest Art in Little Tokyo?

At first glance, the poster on a bulletin board in Little Tokyo looks like a Japanese woodblock print of the Edo period, 1600-1868. Four stately cranes appear in front of a lake, trees and the sunrise. But wait, is that a Starbucks "Drive Thru" sign in the midst of nature's beauty? We stop to look c ... More >>

Fashawn Wanted to Be Pastor, But His Destiny Was Rapping

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, a young shepherd, Santiago, attends seminary but longs to travel. He embarks on a quest to find a hidden treasure and ends up meeting an alchemist, who teaches him that the treasure really is the journey itself. Fashawn once lived in a trailer behind a church and w ... More >>

Former Starbucks Exec Speaks Feb. 22 at Occidental

Flickr/Amir K.Starbucks​The public face of Starbucks may be a mermaid with long green locks and a star-topped crown, but behind the barista counters, it's been people like Howard Behar, not mythical creatures, pushing the coffee chain to success. Behar, former president of the Starbuck's Nort ... More >>

Jason Mraz's "I Won't Give Up": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: "I Won't Give Up" is the first single from Jason Mraz's upcoming album. No title has been released for the album yet. Nobody at his label could think of on ... More >>

Starbucks to Sell Beer and Wine: Make Your Own Four Loko!

Finally, a way to mitigate the Starbucks caffeine high, or at least a chance to start fiddling with DIY energy drinks. The giant Seattle-based coffee company began selling wine and beer, as well as "more upscale food" (savory snacks! hot flatbread!) at a Seattle cafe in October, and now five stores ... More >>

Starbucks Adds Alcohol: Chain Is One Bad Hot Dog Away From Becoming 7-Eleven

As if the hipster / unpublished author / part-time screenwriter milieu of Starbucks wasn't enough of a reason to get your ass to the nearest indie java dealer ASAP, the coffee giant announced today that it's adding alcohol to the menu of as many as six Southern California locations. Our local Starb ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/26-9/30

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And when you manage to get into the place, the dim blackness of the dining room -- formerly Tulipe, Jozu and the sushi bar Hamasaku -- flickers like something from a Robert Irwin installation, a re ... More >>

Top 5 Food T-Shirts That Don't Cost $85 and Aren't Designed by Alexander Wang

Hot coffee became haute coffee as Starbucks debuted a line of high-fashion t-shirts designed by the likes of Sophie Theallet, Billy Reid and Alexander Wang. The ugliest of the shirts, which cost $85 apiece, is undoubtedly the Wang creation. The theoretically unisex shirt features "a coffee spill ill ... More >>

Starbucks And Marijuana: Lawsuit That Says Starbucks Asked For Job Applicants' Pot Use Records Might Go Up in Smoke

Keila Ribeiro​If ever there was a retail heaven for day trippers, it's Starbucks. Wi-fi, air-con and a cozy armchair to sit in with your shades on: Stoners really couldn't ask for much more when it comes to time-sucks. But as it turns out the Seattle-based chain once asked job applicants in t ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/21-3/25

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "While waiting for Pho Minh to resurface (please, please, let it resurface), try Pho Filet, a couple of blocks away, which also has a delicious pho bac, highlighted by a slab of filet mignon that l ... More >>

10 Places to Get a Damn Good Cup of Coffee

T. NguyenA pretty cup from Espresso Cielo in Santa Monica.​ Intelligentsia's founder, Doug Zell, told us in 2009 that "LA got a later start in terms of the very best coffee can offer, but they seem to be embracing it with the religious zeal of a convert." The conversion didn't happen overnight ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/14-3/18

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Have we ever tried poutine? Don't come around here much, do you?" Ask Mr. Gold: Poutine in Los Angeles, or The Endurance of Boy Food. "'You're not nearly as fat as I expected.'" 30 Burgers in 30 ... More >>

'Trenta' Will Soon Be Ours: Starbucks Unleashes 31 Oz. Iced Coffee Cup On California This Feb. 1

Rage time.​When your L.A. freeway (read: parking lot) commute hasn't even reached the 30-minute mark and the straw in your iced coffee is already bottoming into a chorus of slurps a la Mary Louise Parker, Starbucks knows exactly what's going through your head, because Starbucks knows you bette ... More >>

31-Ounce "Trenta" Coming Soon to Starbucks: A Bit Much?

Marco Arment/FlickrTall is really not so much anymore.​Like any good fast food chain, Starbucks is supersizing. The Informer let us know this morning that come February 1, the coffee purveyor will unveil the new 31-ounce Trenta size, making the 24-ounce Venti seem suddenly "girlyman." Trenta ... More >>

Food Fight: Starbucks vs. Coffee Bean's Gingerbread Latte

C. BishopCoffee Bean & Starbucks Gingerbread Lattes​ Tis the season for holiday-themed coffee drinks. It's admittedly one of our favorite times on the coffee calendar, when we can temporarily trade in our "wake us up" skinny double-shot lattes for some classic and even more contemporary "fatt ... More >>

Starbucks Tells Baristas to Slow Down, Make Drinks Two At a Time

Flickr/(e)spry​ When it comes to our morning coffee, in a perfect world we'd all wake up late, stroll to our neighborhood coffee shop and linger for an hour or two over a perfectly-brewed cappuccino, espresso, or caffè latte. But in reality, our rushed schedules barely leave us enough time t ... More >>

Is Starbucks Getting Into the Wine Bar Business?

Brooke BurtonA glass of wine to go with your espresso and that new Sarah McLachlan CD?​ A report came in yesterday at TheAwl.Com that Starbucks has been doing a little experimenting with the idea of opening casual wine bars throughout the country. The piece also cites an article from The Seat ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/14-6/18

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I WANT TO BUY YOUR GOATS."

Starbucks Makes Wi-Fi Free: How To Cater To Unemployed Writers

After years of bad press (global expansionism, burnt beans, the invention of the frappuccino) Starbucks may finally have found a way to endear itself to one vast, growing segment of the populace, and especially the populace here in Los Angeles. No, not reality television stars, but unemployed, lapto ... More >>

L.A. City Council Backs State Law That Would Ban Open Display Of Firearms

​The Los Angeles City Council this week backed a proposed state law that would ban the open display of handguns in public, a practice that has been advocated in recent months by the pro-gun "Open Carry" movement. The law, proposed by San Diego Democratic Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña, would most ... More >>

A Q & A With SCAA's Ric Rhinehart, Part 2: Coffee Geekdom, The 4th Wave Starbucks

SCAA​In the first part of our interview with the Specialty Coffee Association of America's's Ric Rhinehart, Rhinehart discussed Arianna Huffington, the definition of cupping (no, it is neither a baseball nor a lingerie term), and the utterly serious question of how much coffee he drinks. Turn ... More >>

April Fools! A Roundup of Food-Related Fools' Day Materials From Around the Web

Deep End DiningHappy April Fools' Day​-- In-N-Out toys with the hearts of New Yorkers. [Huffington Post] -- Reports on a new bathroom truck to keep Kogi and Nom Nom company. [Thrillist] -- Actual roach coach hits the streets. [Deep End Dining] -- Starbucks announces two new drink sizes: Th ... More >>

Two Girls, Many Cups: SoCal Beer Pong Open Tournament Photos

This is what it's like at a Beer Pong tournament. (You can read about it in our A Considerable Town section.) These shots are from the Southern California Beer Pong Open in Fullerton. Lots of beer. Lots. I'm getting drunk just looking at these. Lester "Facetime" Marks earned his nickname by popping ... More >>

I'd Like a Black Eye, Please: Secret Fast Food Menus

Samantha SpanosSuicide on a bun.In a town that elevates VIP treatment to a level that, at the very least, approaches absurdity, it makes sense that the rest of us would want a taste of it too. The easiest, and cheapest, way to be special and in-the-know? Ordering secret (and not-so-secret) off-menu ... More >>

Starbucks Raises Some Prices, Lowers Others

The Starbucks Stops HereStarbucks has apparently jumped the price of its drinks that take longer to make while lowering the cost charged to customers ordering easier to make brewed coffee, cappuccinos and lattes. (Prices for added expresso shots and flavor are also going up.) According to the L.A. T ... More >>

Stabbings and Starbucks: Something in the Brew?

Today is the sentencing date for Jacob Lee Westin, a man who pleaded no contest to stabbing a Good Samaritan unlucky enough to step in between a quarreling Westin and Westin's girlfriend in front of a Glendora Starbucks. There's something that catches the eye whenever you read the juxtaposition of v ... More >>

Starbucks Learns Bitter Lesson About Music. (Coffee Also Still Bitter)

Sonic Youth Powerless to Blend Over-Priced Coffee with Lame CD Compilations for the Masses Yet another supposed savior of the recorded music business has spectacularly failed, not that it was ever a very good bet to begin with. Starbucks, which had ramped up their Hear Music imprint to sell CDs, si ... More >>

Sonic Youth: They Are Not Rock. They Curate Rock.

Marc Jacobs asked Sonic Youth to leap. Their response was "How high?"

Last Wet Dream

Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain

Best Tidal Refuge

Infuzion Café

McCartney's Vintage Clothes

Paul gets heavy on Memory Almost Full

Badly Drawn B(h)ummer

And an intriguing new anti-Starbucks campaign

Last Call at Heaven’s Hot Spot

The end of Diedrich’s coffee shop in Malibu and the beginning of yet another Starbuck’s

Best Corporate ­Coffee Break

The Evidence Room: Five Signs You're Gentrifying

Christmas Music for People Who Like Music

East of Western, North of Hollywood

Finding community in a Starbucks

House Rules

Reverend Starbucks

A Cop and I

Encoutners with the LAPD as told to Christine Pelisek

Joe Cool

A guide to cold

No Fries; Chips