Tehachapi

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Local Gravenstein Apples Your Two Week Window

If the Red Delicious apple was hard to grow and had at most a three week harvest window, we safely predict the farmers market cognoscenti would be making at-dawn market runs to the one or two vendors who offered it -- to buy it by the crate. That rush-and-grab mantle currently belongs to the Graven ... More >>

72: Persian Mulberries at Weiser Family Farms

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. 72: Persian Mulberries at Weiser Family Farms. If you've never had a bowl of ripe Persian mulberries -- a berry about which the Homeric adjective "wine-dark" w ... More >>

Finally: Gay Bullying Gets Recognized as a Civil Rights Issue

Top 5 Local Farmer-Made Jams and Preserves

Felicia Friesema​Farmers markets and the vendors who populate them with table bending piles of bumper crops and hard-to-find seasonal produce rarely sell every last item before it's time to collapse the pop up tents and head home. Portlandian pickle jokes aside, what do farmers do with all th ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Bartlett Pears Quince from Tulare County

Felicia FriesemaPears from Ha's Apple Farm at the Pasadena market.​ You can count on the arrival of Bartlett pears to signal the official end of summer, at least in Southern California. This year, they showed up just one week prior to the autumnal equinox; non-fall weather aside, it is nice t ... More >>

LAUSD Becomes First California School District to Mandate Gay Curriculum

Instinct MagazineL.A. is officially leading this parade.​The "Stop SB 48" campaign may be doing its darndest to shield California youth from the horrors of learning about gay and lesbian contributions to history, but the religious bigots behind it are bugs under the shoe of the L.A. Board of E ... More >>

VIDEO: Canyon Fire Lights Up Wind Farm Over Tehachapi Pass

YouTubeEarth, wind & wildfire​The massive fire ignited by a double-fatality plane crash in Blackburn Canyon, Tehachapi, on Sunday has since raged through nearly 15,000 acres of Kern County. A dozen homes have been destroyed, and 650 more are under evacuation orders. Bakersfield Now has some in ... More >>

Taste of Tehachapi Farm Dinners: Vultures, Angry Ostriches L.A. Chefs

Flickr user photography hoboOstrich Burger From Lulu's Cafe on Beverly​There are the typical farmers market discussions involving the final peach season days and those first fall apples. And then there are the back alley conversations about angry ostriches and vulture migrations, like the one ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Kyoho and Red Flame Grapes A Request For Bronx

Felicia FriesemaKyoho grapes are now available at Ha's Apple Farm.​ Cherries are to the start of summer as grapes are to the end of it. Yes, we're still in July, but this is when we start to see the seasonal harvests switch gears into later-bearing crops. This past week we noted -- in part b ... More >>

May at L.A. Farmers Markets: Your Virtual Grocery List

A. ScattergoodMcGrath Family Farm's pea tendrils​ It's May at Los Angeles farmers markets, bringing the season's first cherries and sweet corn, Bloomsdale spinach -- which Alex Weiser of Weiser Family Farms is growing longer this year up in Tehachapi; something he does when he's not shooting ... More >>

Dressing for an Earthquake

Put on your red vest for the big one

'Seth's Law' to Prevent Anti-Gay Bullying at California Schools Introduced

FoxNelson Muntz.​Every little boy has been called anti-gay slurs by a kid who's bigger and badder. But in a world in which we now realize people are born with homosexual traits from day one, this has become seriously harmful discrimination for kids who really are gay. California Sen. Tom Amm ... More >>

Today In WTF: Group Of Men Sought For Sex Assaults On Disabled Women In L.A.

One of the suspects.​Updated after the jump with a second suspect in custody. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials on Thursday released images of men they suspect of raping disabled women. Authorities believe there are a least 10 victims, but they're not exactly sure when and where the atta ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Uncured Olives

Felicia FriesemaTehachapi-grown, raw Manzanillos at Walker Farms booth in Pasadena​ Local olive growers, or even farmers with just a few remnant olive trees here and there (they've been growing here since the 1800s), are banking on the do-it-yourself vibe in the local food movement (Artisinal ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Quince

Felicia FriesemaQuince picked at Alex's Red Barn Winery in Temecula.​ Here in L.A., the dark red squares of dulce de membrillo (Mexican quince candy) are pretty commonplace, their intensely sweet and floral fragrance adding a seasonal exclamation point to autumn festivities and apple pies. Bu ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Fall Apples

Flickr/beyondramenGravenstein apples​ Hawk-eyed market-goers started spotting the first signs of fall this past week. And while Southern California isn't a hotbed of apple fever -- it simply doesn't get cold enough for trees that need a solid chill-induced hibernation in the winter -- LA does ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Ivory Gaya Melon

Felicia Friesema​ The first time Ivory Gaya melons showed up at local markets, it was alongside another semi-new arrival, the Kyoho grape, which by the way comes into season this week. But when asked what the melon was named, the vendor would shrug and say only, "Japanese melon." That offhan ... More >>

Meet Your Local Farmers at Ammo's Farm-to-Table Dinner Series

With new organic-friendly eateries popping up all over town, one long-standing restaurant, Ammo, is bringing farmers directly to you during their quarterly Farm-to-Table dinner, Sunday, Nov. 8. Next week's dinner, with produce provided by Weiser Family Farms, features a puree of butternut squash w ... More >>

9/11: Truth and Reconciliation in Tehachapi

Farm to Cell Phone to Table: Alex Weiser's i-Field

The path from farm to table is sometimes a convoluted one, with hours logged in the fields and on the highways to farmers markets. At Weiser Family Farms in Tehachapi, this path is also virtual. You can now follow your Ru ... More >>

At the Market: Cherries Coming In, Lilacs Heading Out, Plus Sneak Peek at Hollywood Farmer's Kitchen

Murray Family Farms early season cherry stock. Sweeter than you'd think: cherries from Mark Boujikian Farms This time in May at the Hollywood Farmers Market showcases a just a tease of stone and summer fruits to come, and a fleeting spring treat that's already on its way out. Several market ven ... More >>

The Porn Star's Revenge: Formerly Known as Jeff Stryker, Charles Peyton Has Turned His Toxic Feud Over the Folk-Music Club Kulak's Woodshed Into a Real-Life Online Obsession

Owner Paul Kulak says he's willing to risk his life to keep club going

Throwing the Book at Najee Ali

Four years? Robbers get less time than the hated/loved black activist

California Prisons' Big Group Hug

Under court order, races must co-exist

Rock Picks: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Neil Innes, Cheap Trick

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Ersi Arvizu Throws a Hook (and Chorus)

Boxing trainer, singing prizefighter and legendary Chicana vocalist

The Scourge of Skid Row

A staph infection threatens the lives of cops, firefighters and homeless people. But don’t expect any help from county health officials

Extreme Campers

Best place for your inner child to do backflips

The Child in Hard Time

Meet Alonza Thomas, first-time juvenile offender, now superpredator

Antonio Villaraigosa Interview Transcript

Interview With Antonio Villaraigosa

The Hobohemians

On the rails with the new freedom riders

The Mission Is on a Mission

And Cardinal Mahony has been its target for years