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Styrofoam

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Chefs' Worst Kitchen Injuries: More Fun Behind the Stoves

    Cooking can be dangerous, as anyone who has spent much time in a kitchen can attest to. Now consider the hazards of a career surrounded by flames, super heated liquids and sharp objects. So we queried some notable area chefs (Ricardo Zarate! Michael Voltaggio! Eric Greenspan!) for the stories behin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2012

    Lost in the Blue Whale

    Cooking can be dangerous, as anyone who has spent much time in a kitchen can attest to. Now consider the hazards of a career surrounded by flames, super heated liquids and sharp objects. So we queried some notable area chefs (Ricardo Zarate! Michael Voltaggio! Eric Greenspan!) for the stories behin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Bartering for Paintings

    Future and past feel like they're on a collision course this week -- especially in William Leavitt's deceptively mundane drawings of suburbia gone awry and Dennis Hoekstra's and Noah Olmsted's ghostly, garish re-envisioning of the Pacific Design Center. 5. Modern-day mythmaker Charles Garabedian di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Top 10 Best Karaoke Bars in L.A.: #10-6

    ​For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. To the rest of the country, L.A. is a city of wannabe stars chorusing, "Look at me!" But outside of Hollywood, most of us only want to be onstage when we're bombed. Lucky for us, L.A.'s karaoke bars are as diverse and plen ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 5, 2012

    L.A.'s New Wave of Pie Shops

    ​For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. To the rest of the country, L.A. is a city of wannabe stars chorusing, "Look at me!" But outside of Hollywood, most of us only want to be onstage when we're bombed. Lucky for us, L.A.'s karaoke bars are as diverse and plen ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2011

    Matthias Merkel Hess

    ​For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. To the rest of the country, L.A. is a city of wannabe stars chorusing, "Look at me!" But outside of Hollywood, most of us only want to be onstage when we're bombed. Lucky for us, L.A.'s karaoke bars are as diverse and plen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Britney, Beyoncé, & Foster the People's Guide to Your Post-Apocalyptic Future

    A group of angry apocakids from the video for Foster the People's "Helena Beat" (Sony Music)​As the debt ceiling languishes unraised, whole regions of the US lie under floodwaters while others dry into baked earth, and the wedding cake topper industry finds itself facing major overhauls, peopl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Take It To Go: State Senate Wants to Ban Styrofoam and Styrofoam-Like Products

    Flickr/DotPolka​ Starry Kitchen, Chego, and a good number of eateries in the city already package their foods in eco-friendly to-go containers, but if the state Senate has its way, all food vendors in the state will be prohibited from using Styrofoam, er, expanded polystyrene foam[1] starting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Meet Your Restaurateur: Jason Michaud of Local (Chimú Opens Monday)

    Graphic by Samrod Shenassa.​The latest installment in our sporadic series about life behind the kitchen door features Jason Michaud, the 39-year-old owner of Local. At his two-and-a-half-year-old Silver Lake cafe, he is committed not just to local produce and sustainable environmental practice ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Street Artist Free Humanity Plants Apple Grenades Along Light Rail; Bomb Squad Halts Service, Removes 'Forbidden Fruit' With Robot

    Free Humanity​If only every art installation would set off a chain of events this awesome [Curbed LA]. Last week, street-art blog Melrose & Fairfax reported that Free Humanity, otherwise known for his dark, political Star Wars stencils -- read the Weekly's exclusive interview here -- left a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Indulge Wines Debuts The AstraPouch In California

    JGarbeeJust Add Pie​Wine in a bottle, wine in a box, wine inside a bag inside a box. Just when you think the bagged wine market is over saturated, the AstraPouch makes its U.S. debut. New York's Glenora Wine Cellars was the first American wine producer to pouch its Riesling and Chardonnay last ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    The Fine Art of the Accident

    JGarbeeJust Add Pie​Wine in a bottle, wine in a box, wine inside a bag inside a box. Just when you think the bagged wine market is over saturated, the AstraPouch makes its U.S. debut. New York's Glenora Wine Cellars was the first American wine producer to pouch its Riesling and Chardonnay last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Top 5 Alternative Oscar Movie Food Pairings

    Guzzle & NoshNatalie Portman Kyochon chicken bones​ Subsequent to the Golden Globes and SAG awards, with Oscar season in full swing, we've seen both good and bad films this year. With few exceptions though, movie theater food remains as uniformly vile as ever: Styrofoam packing chips douse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Los Angeles County Enemy Number One: Styrofoam-Like Containers

    ​In this vast region where unemployment is high and the economy is especially weak, it's nice to have leaders who have their eyes on the ball. In this dreary, post-recession, pre-recovery zombie dance we call 2010, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has found the enemy, and it is ... ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Squid Ink Food Fight: The Kafta-esque Search for Beef Supremacy

    Ground meat, seasoned and cooked, is like religion: every culture in the world seems to come up with it, or at the very least, to personalize it. An American hamburger, an Italian meatball, an Argentinian beef empanada -- all delightful, all distinctively representative of their own nations. In the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Top 10 Food Habits You Picked up During College & Probably Miss

    Flickr/JenguinThe college lifestyle​You may have left college eating habits behind, but still find that passing the canned food section at Ralphs leaves you feeling nostalgic for your freshman year in college. So from Hot Pockets to dirt cheap beer, we've put together a list of our favorite co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Chitlins: Pasadena's Hog Killing Dinners

    There are people who wait all year for the Hog Killing dinners at Pasadena's Calvary CME, a church fundraiser that sees a fairly large number of pigs off to their reward in heaven. It's kind of expensive, but your $18 goes to a good cause, and the Styrofoam cartons are packed with exquisitely cooked ... More >>

  • Music

    June 18, 2009

    Proud, Out and About

    There are people who wait all year for the Hog Killing dinners at Pasadena's Calvary CME, a church fundraiser that sees a fairly large number of pigs off to their reward in heaven. It's kind of expensive, but your $18 goes to a good cause, and the Styrofoam cartons are packed with exquisitely cooked ... More >>

  • Music

    June 19, 2008

    Freaky Friday

    Party at Houdini's; Henry Rollins on Target; All Girl at the Echo

  • Art+Books

    June 19, 2008

    Is Art Center Gehry-Rigged? Richard Koshalek Says No

    But students and fearful faculty beg to differ

  • Film+TV

    May 29, 2008

    Sex and the City: Big-Screen TV

    Despite the labels, SATC movie is a Canal Street knockoff

  • Columns

    November 22, 2007

    The Unconsumed Life

    Silver Lake's bring-your-own-bag lady

  • Eat+Drink

    November 22, 2007

    My Taco: Frying High

    Carne asada fries — the Everest of fine gabacho cuisine

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Hot Mango!

    Farm Fresh Ranch Market

  • Art+Books

    May 10, 2007

    Must See Art

    “Western Edition” by Tony Feher at ACME and “Eden’s Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists” at the Hammer Museum

  • Eat+Drink

    January 18, 2007

    Waiting for Shwarma

    Little Armenia’s Arax Falafel

  • Stage

    September 28, 2006

    Weekend Theater Reviews

    Reviews of What to Wear, Tonight at 11! and Sides: The Fear is Real

  • LA Life

    April 20, 2006

    Get Naked for Gaia or Go Clean a Stream

    Hoopla's Earth Day Edition

  • Columns

    November 3, 2005

    The Last Hallowed Haunting

    Hoopla's Earth Day Edition

  • Art+Books

    November 3, 2005

    High Art

    Affirming art’s secret history of substance abuse

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    After Sunset

    Life is a carousel, old chum

  • Columns

    March 24, 2005

    Pancakes With Czajkowski

    Life is a carousel, old chum

  • Eat+Drink

    September 2, 2004

    Hot Rod

    Life is a carousel, old chum

  • Eat+Drink

    June 3, 2004

    Very Asia

    Indonesian convenience cuisine

  • LA Life

    January 15, 2004

    Hair’s Looking at You

    Indonesian convenience cuisine

  • Eat+Drink

    April 24, 2003

    Green Eggs and Pan

    Indonesian convenience cuisine

  • Art+Books

    April 25, 2002

    Styroforms

    Martin Durazo’s building blocks; plus Kelly McLane’s dreamscapes

  • Art+Books

    June 28, 2001

    Multiple Exposures

    “Snapshot” at the Hammer, and beyond

  • Eat+Drink

    February 15, 2001

    All-In-One Redux

    Meals cheap, fast and with a past

  • Eat+Drink

    December 7, 2000

    Saladang Song

    Music to the eyes, and mouth

  • Eat+Drink

    April 20, 2000

    The Chai Life

    In search of real Indian tea

  • Art+Books

    April 13, 2000

    Galleria

    Tim Hawkinson, Charles LaBelle, John Divola, Tim Ebner, Shirley Tse, more

  • LA Life

    June 24, 1999

    The Open Window

    On a hard-class sleeper to Shanghai

  • Art+Books

    April 15, 1999

    Futurama

    Post-millennial déjà vu at Luckman Fine Arts

  • Film+TV

    November 5, 1998

    On TV

    Homicide anatomized, Sports Night's backstage dramedy

  • News

    July 16, 1998

    40 Bucks and a Dream

    The lives of a Hollywood motel

  • Eat+Drink

    July 9, 1998

    Ping-Pong Balls and Thai Tacos

    A different kind of dessert in Hollywood

  • Eat+Drink

    June 4, 1998

    Out of Africa

    A different kind of dessert in Hollywood

  • Eat+Drink

    February 12, 1998

    Dizie With Anticipation

    A different kind of dessert in Hollywood

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    A Day in the Life

    A different kind of dessert in Hollywood

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