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Washington and 10th: Fried Catfish, Supreme Tacos Repeating Chinese Takeout

You know you've found a great strip mall when it's almost entirely obscured by a carnival that's setting up in the parking lot. The Washington Market Square is an eight acre strip mall just west of Crenshaw on Washington Boulevard, directly across the street from the Johnnie Cochran Middle School an ... More >>

Fast Food's Healthful Makeover: Truth or Perception?

Recently, Wendy's rolled out flatbread sandwiches and McDonald's added a yolk-less breakfast sandwich to their respective menus. Taco Bell has indicated its desire to shed its junk food persona. Giving alternatives for healthful eating has become a main strategy for fast food restaurants. And the ef ... More >>

Many Animals You See on Film and TV Are Taxidermied. Here's Where Hollywood Gets Them

"No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture," the famous disclaimer goes. None, it ought to say, unless you count the ones that were dead to begin with. When a role is too dangerous or difficult for a live animal, filmmakers call in the taxidermy stunt animal. Chances are, it came f ... More >>

Xposed Strip Club Billboards Subject of Takedown Effort by Mad Mom Ursula Pyland

There is a thing called freedom of speech. But do you want a stripper peering down at you longingly, right in your own neighborhood? Okay, don't answer that guys. If you're a mother, would you want said exotic dancer giving your 11-year-old boy a come-hither look from a billboard right near the loc ... More >>

Love the Beans, Hate the Beaner: Even White Supremacists Can't Resist a Good Burrito

10 Best Tacos in Los Angeles

Los Cincos Puntos, one of our favorite places for a taco, is located right near a cemetery. This is fitting, in a way: After all, in Los Angeles, nothing can be said to certain, except death and tacos. Indeed, we're willing to bet that if you peeked in backyards across town during Memorial Day week ... More >>

L.A. Times Festival of Books Recap: Star Chefs Food Authors

Foodists could have done worse than to spend two sun-dappled days at USC last weekend for the L.A. Times Festival of Books. TV personalities and chefs including Michael Voltaggio and Chris Cosentino flaunted their skills at the Cooking Stage, Nancy Silverton dropped by for a chat, food journalists d ... More >>

Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos Taste Like Broken Dreams

We were rooting for Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco. Honestly we were. We talked it up for weeks in total earnest and even posted a countdown on our Facebook page. Because if somebody gave a green light to a taco shell made out of Nacho Cheese Doritos, an idea we're pretty sure we came up with on the ... More >>

Man Stabbed Over a Bag of Taco Bell Tacos and Harmonicas

Playing a taco the way you play a harmonica just isn't possible. So maybe that's why a Florida man stabbed another man for allegedly trying to grab harmonicas instead of a bag of tacos from his car. Sheriff deputies in Sarasota County, Fla., said 52-year-old Bruce Richard Hood offered to give a man ... More >>

Hey, Where'd You Get That Heroin Burrito?

If you keep up with the LAPD police blotter, or perhaps are just are a civic-minded Mexican food enthusiast, you may have heard about the Los Angeles County deputy who was recently charged with trying to smuggle a bean and cheese burrito filled with heroin into the Airport Courthouse. Yes, you read ... More >>

Victoria's Secret Diet Revealed. Perfect Body = No Solids for 3 Weeks. Hot?

This broke on the Telegraph in the UK a few weeks ago, but a recent incident in a small-town bar leads us to believe it didn't make enough of the rounds. It was getting near closing time at a local watering hole where we found ourselves surrounded by several townie types and a few former high schoo ... More >>

Yelping With Cormac: The Author of Blood Meridian Reviews Taco Bell

Yelping with Cormac​At its best, Yelp help can help you find a lunch that won't ruin your day.  At its worse, the website is, if not a petri dish for extortion, a willful enabler of bad, whiney writers.  The first big problem is, according to a judge, no longer up for debate, but the second ... More >>

Das Racist, Danny Brown - The Roxy - 11-3-11

Rebecca Haithcoat​Das Racist, Danny Brown The Roxy 11-3-11 Aural chaos characterized Das Racist's show last night. Also, "Tricks with Microphones." The NYC trio of Himanshu Suri (Heems), Victor Vazquez (Kool A.D.) and Ashok Kondabolu (Dap) had a great earworm in 2008, "Combination Pizza Hut a ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Trader Joe's Tomato Protest Today in Monrovia

Top: Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Bottom: Guzzle & NoshWorkers protest Trader Joe's tomato policies.​A one-cent per-pound increase in the price of tomatoes may not mean much to most consumers, but to many of the workers who pick these tomatoes -- a physically exhausting job with no health b ... More >>

85°C Bakery-Café Opens in Hacienda Heights

Jim ThurmanLine at grand opening of 85°C Bakery-Café, Hacienda Heights​ The number of international chains with outlets in Los Angeles County grew by one when 85°C Bakery-Café opened in Hacienda Heights on Saturday. The Taiwanese chain, with nearly 500 stores in Taiwan, China and Australia ... More >>

Food News Roundup: The Costco Hot Dog, White Tablecloth Prison Food The Sacred Cow Hamburger

-- 6 Things to Do with a Can of Tuna. [Bon Appétit] -- Coffee Pros Leave Intelligentsia to Launch Handsome Coffee Roasters. [The Feast LA] -- A consideration of the Costco hot dog. [Chowhound Los Angeles] -- White tablecloth prison food: The Clink restaurant, where English prisoners learn to ... More >>

Food Truck Friday: Auntie's Frybread

Guzzle & NoshAuntie's Frybread truck (left), cinnamon sugar frybread (right).​Native American comfort food has finally hit L.A.'s food truck scene. Launched only a few months ago (thanks to a Kickstarter campaign) at local farmers markets, Auntie's Frybread (@auntiesfrybread) headed out on whe ... More >>

Top 9 Now-Defunct L.A. Fast Food Restaurant Chains The Return of #3

Del Taco Corp.​With the further expansion of Chick-fil-A in Los Angeles, the recent announcement of Papaya King coming to Hollywood and the arrival of Australia's Oporto to the Southland, we at Squid Ink thought it was an opportune time for a trip down memory lane. Here, in no particular orde ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Texaco-Mex, Bacon Toothpaste Rich People Discover Fast Food

-- Bacon toothpaste. If you needed more evidence that the bacon trend has peaked. [The Food Section] -- Taco Bell defends its beef in a new $3 million ad campaign. Imagine if they spent that much on sourcing. [Nation's Restaurant News] -- Rich Americans discover the joys of fast food. Finally. ... More >>

Das Racist: "We get really sick of playing "Time to Pretend" but we have to do it for our fans" (Live at the Echoplex Tonight)

​Das Racist may not be reworking "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" to include our beloved In-N-Out any time soon, but they will be playing at the Echoplex tonight, performing in their signature half-serious style. We caught up with the group last week to get the scoop on their background a ... More >>

Giant Donut Fight, Part 1: Randy's Vs. Kindle's

N. GalutenRandy's Donuts​Back in the 1940s, a donut machine salesman named Russell C. Wendell created a chain of Big Donut Drive-Ins. He opened nine total locations, with each one featuring an enormous donut perched on the roof (a quintessential example of programmatic architecture). Wendell t ... More >>

Los Angeles Chihuahuas Being Abandoned Like Ed Hardy; Rest Of Country Adopting Trend

No longer the "it" pup in L.A.​Does anyone else find it ironic that in this self-absorbed bastion of PETA-loving celebutards yesterday's top dog for Hollywood types -- the Chihuahua -- has been kicked to the curb like trash? Really, L.A? We reported this week how the Society for the Preventi ... More >>

Food Trends for 2011: Your Dinner in Las Vegas, So To Speak

It's getting close to the end of the year, which fact you can tell by the beginning of year-end predictions. Yes, already. Along with the Christmas decorations, which seem to go up earlier every year. Subliminal Capitalism, I guess. In this vein, PR Newswire is reporting on food service trends for 2 ... More >>

The Sausage Stand at the Echo

A music innovator and sound impressionist gets inspired by the life customizers of Echo Park

Movie Review: Buried

Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival

Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others

12 Deceptive Pieces: The KFC-Komen Foundation Union

KFC/Susan G. Komen Foundation​Witness the improbable marriage of grease-pusher KFC and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, who have united under the inelegant banner Buckets for the Cure in a bid to make "the largest single donation to end breast cancer forever." In their television ad, diners are ... More >>

Top Ten Musicians Who Cannot Tour Arizona Without Proving They're "Legal"

Carlos Santana: Papers please!​We don't know if you're aware of this, but Arizona has recently passed a little law demanding that every cop, security guard or random person in some kind of uniform and in possession of a Tazer stop anyone "suspected" of being an illegal immigrant and demand tha ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Tiny Piece of Land

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE ON BLOGGERS VERSUS THE NEWS NEW REVIEW A TINY PIECE OF LAND​photo by Halstan WilliamsThis worthy but heavy-handed drama by playwrights Joni Browne-Walders and Mel Weiser is a well intentioned attempt to articulate the pro-I ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: Santa Monica Wet Burrito, Lettuce Be the Judge

Growing up in Los Angeles, my brother and I used to joke that all Mexican food was just the same ingredients, put into different edible containers. That is a product, really, of Mexican food in the United States, and most specifically, Taco Bell. Sure, we have much more traditional fare available in ... More >>

The Blind Side's Blind Spot

What would black people do without bighearted white people?

LA People 2009: Cool Twist — LemonLime Agency's Robin Harrington

Advertising America's alternative-culture darlings are quirky-cool nerds, and Harrington knows just where to find them

Sacred Cow: Carl's Jr., Padma Lakshmi and a Drive-Thru Journey Into the Pornography of Meat

Sex and the Western Bacon Six Dollar Cheeseburger

Thoughts on Arizona’s "Fucking Racist” Sheriff

Earlez Grille: Hot Dog Thrillers

Sit at Duane Earle's place long enough, and all of Crenshaw passes by

Chihuahua Crazy

The Los Angeles Regional Races in Montebello

¡Ask a Mexican! Brown Pride

Great Cesar's Ghost

The UFW has to give it up, and reinvent a culture of organizing

Houses of Cards

Where to get poker-faced without leaving L.A.

Your Popsicle’s Melting

Beck’s Guero parties with death, wakes up with life

Pulling the Plug

The long, sad road to King-Drew

American Idyll

Whatever happened to dirty bombs and homemade polio?

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead, media junkie

Art & Commerce

At an intersection near you

Taco Shell Hell

Down Town

Homage to Catalina

Talking Pictures

A view from the Writers Guild conference

?Que Paso, Gloria?