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Now Open: MSG Pop-Up in Venice

For a limited time, former Alma chef de cuisine Derrick de Jesus is running his MSG pop-up at Brick House Kitchen in Venice on Monday nights from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. This latest version departs from the tasting menu series the chef ran at City Sip in Echo Park, but it continues his plans to scope o ... More >>

How to Succeed on the Web: 4 Tips from This Week's Digital Hollywood Summit

Hashtags and Twitter handles were flying at this week's four-day Digital Hollywood conference. Executives and innovators in film, television, technology and new media came to speak at more than 50 panels held in the glitzy halls of the Ritz Carlton, Marina Del Rey. Attendees were split between youn ... More >>

Brian Gerber, Film Producer Behind 'Digital Hollywood' Summit, Commits Suicide off Angeles Crest Highway

Update, 1 p.m.: Gerber's suicide was just confirmed in a post on his Facebook profile. Headline and story have been changed to reflect this fact. Another well-loved member of the L.A. film industry -- documentary producer and digital-tech pioneer Brian Gerber -- took his life this week by driving h ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Reportedly Found Unconscious at Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey

ABC7 is reporting that Lindsay Lohan "was taken to hospital after being found unconscious at Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey." Paramedics reportedly arrived around 10:15 a.m. She's been filming "Liz & Dick" in the area, and was involved in a car crash along the PCH last week. Alcohol was later repor ... More >>

John Lydon Used the Money From a Butter Commercial to Fund Public Image Ltd.

There's a cartoonish irony to punk patriarch John Lydon funding the reunion of his band Public Image Ltd. with money he made portraying a gentrified exaggeration of himself in TV commercials for Country Life butter. Quipped one YouTube uploader of the humorous U.K. spots, which aired in 2008: "All c ... More >>

How Green Was My Downtown

Hotel Art in L.A.: A User's Guide

Maxi Pad Stadium Proposal For Downtown L.A. Could Include Unprecedented, Off-Site Roof That Wasn't a Part of The Deal

AEGLike Red Bull, Farmers Field gives you wings.​In the proposal to build an NFL stadium in the middle of the publicly owned Convention Center, it's all about the roof. The stadium's would-be owner, Anshutz Entertainment Group of next-door Staples Center, promised the city a retractable roof ... More >>

Occupy L.A: Top 5 Would-be City Giveaways That Might Inspire Occupiers to Give up The Lawn

Leave it to L.A. leaders to make a half-assed offer to Occupy L.A. in an attempt to extract demonstrators from the City Hall lawn. The city said occupiers could take over the old old B. Dalton Bookstore space in the nearby, subterranean L.A. Mall if they gave the lawn a permanent break. Occupiers pr ... More >>

Oscar de la Hoya Did Booty Bumps of Cocaine With Model Angelica Marie Cecora?

Is boxing's Golden Boy really a ... white boy on the inside (and we do mean inside)? A woman claims that L.A.'s Oscar de la Hoya engaged in a kinky cocaine ritual with her last March at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York. That time frame might coincide with De la Joya's own admission that he had a ... More >>

Farmer's Field's Fanciful Green Promise

Rembrandt Drawing Worth a Quarter Million Stolen From Ritz-Carlton Marina Del Rey

A self-portrait of Rembrandt.​Updated at the bottom: Rembrandt recovered (but no suspects were in custody). First posted at 7:04 a.m. Monday. It sounded like a scene out of a high-intrigue film about white-gloved burglars, something with the tone of a James Bond caper or The Thomas Crown Affa ... More >>

Huge Subsidy for Stadium Architect

Villaraigosa quietly plans to hand Gensler $1 million meant for the poor

Pour Your Own Beer: City Tavern Opens April 4

​When it opens on April 4th, City Tavern will boast 22 beer taps stocked solely with California microbrews like Port Brewing Co, Bear Republic, Eagle Rock Brewery, Craftsman, Telegraph and Iron Fist. The strangest element in the 2,400 square-foot bar may be the three Table Tap booths, equipp ... More >>

Hollywood is missing 30,300 people. Antonio Villaraigosa's "elegant density" plan says they'll appear

New, improved Hollywood Boulevard​Los Angeles City Hall produces padded "population growth estimates" for L.A., an over-jammed city now driving away more humans than it attracts. Now, Antonio Villaraigosa and Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner are using the junk data to further remake Hollywood. Cit ... More >>

4 Local Gingerbread Structures of Note: How Southern California Builds Christmas

Forever dreaming of a white Christmas that will never come -- unless we head to the Sierras, at the very least -- we Southern Californians do Christmas a bit differently than the rest of the country. Were we to go caroling, for example, we might consider wearing sandals, or Ugg boots with skirts, i ... More >>

Look, Up in the Sky!

It's the Ritz! It's Chinese! It's Wolfgang Puck!

Barry Minkow 2.0

L.A.'s fraud king is back — and taking the media for another ride

Top 10 (Un)Essential Kitchen Tools: What Happened to The Cutting Board & Knife?

Williams-Sonoma4-in-1 Avocado Tool​ Anyone who loves to cook - from the most casual culinary hobbyists to Michelin-starred powerhouses - can rattle off their kitchen essentials: A sharp chef's knife? Check. A sturdy cutting board? Double Check. A Dial-A-Slice Apple Divider? You've got to be k ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Wolfgang Puck's Soft-shell Crab Tempura

A. ScattergoodWP24's soft-shell crab tempura with fried spinach​ If you head to downtown Los Angeles, just past the vast complex that it LA Live, to the newly opened Ritz-Carlton, and press the elevator button for WP24 and the 24th floor, you will come to a restaurant that is not only Wolfgang ... More >>

Chef Tracker: Anthony Keene Takes Over the Stoves at Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay may have been a no show at LudoBites last night, where he had originally booked a table with Joe Bastianich, et. al., but the chef's around, even though he sold Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood last year. (Ramsay is listed as "chef patron" on the restaurant's website, which i ... More >>

Johnny Rotten Settles Suit Alleging He Punched a Woman in the Face

​Former Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten and a woman who sued him over alleged abuses, including a punch in the nose, have agreed to settle. Lawyers for Roxane Davis filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 28 stating that the case was resolved, although no terms were divulged. D ... More >>

Paul Stanley: Portrait of the Therapeutic Artist

L.A. Could Be Looking At 'Two-Year Jobless Recovery'

Los Angeles, home to a near 14 percent unemployment rate, could be in the midst of "a two-year, jobless recovery," Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Larry Frank told Reuters. That's some hard medicine to swallow, but the city has received about $44 million in federal stimulus funds intended to train workers ... More >>

Pulling an All-Nighter at Panera: A Look into the Bakery's Heated Nightlife

In honor of National Bread Month, Panera Bread recently invited us to pull an all-nighter with its kitchen staff to check out their nightly bread-baking routine. Panera manager Tanell Cook begins his shift at 10 p.m. every weeknight, supervising cooks, prepping food for the morning rush and brewing ... More >>

Once More Into The Breach: The Gorbals Reopens (Really) This Saturday

Ilan Hall, with Tillamook cheese at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic​So, after many optimistic false starts, The Gorbals will officially reopen this Saturday night. Ilan Hall's downtown restaurant has finally been given the go-ahead, by both inspectors and publicists, and thus will begin serving ... More >>

Poor, Ultrarich Tim Leiweke

L.A. City Hall genuflects to AEG. Somebody forgot to tell Carmen Trutanich

Dodgers Not the Only Ones the Phillies Sent Home Early: An Interview With Dodger Stadium Executive Chef Joseph Martin

The Dodgers season isn't just over for the players, but for all the staff and employees that it takes to uphold a professional sports franchise. One of those people is Chef Joseph Martin, a lifelong Dodger fan who also happens to be the Executive Chef at Dodger Stadium. We asked him a few questions ... More >>

"Shady stories” Come Out

Los Angeles Corporate Welfare: Ritz-Carlton and AEG

Rich entities siphon taxpayer money while real communities struggle

Downtown's Dueling Ice-Skating Rinks

In addition to Pershing Square's ice-skating rink, downtown L.A. will soon be home to a sparkling new rink at L.A. Live -- one that, according to the Downtown News, seeks to recreate the holiday season vibe of New York's Rockefeller Center. As opposed, say, to Pershing Square's feedlot-with-benches ... More >>

Eno-Versity at the Ritz: Liberal Arts Wine at State School Prices

Ritz-CarltonPool Party Later?​There is a better way to ensure you get that hotel deal than punching vacation hours into your kids' old Calculus graphing calculator. The basic iPhone app works just fine for pretty much everything, including figuring out restaurant tips. The easiest solution? It ... More >>

Craig Strong's New Beachfront Kitchen, Wherein the Chef Demonstrates How to Stuff a Squid A Recipe

Chef Craig Strong left the kitchen of Pasadena's The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa at the end of May--after eight years and one Michelin star--and decamped for Laguna Beach, where he became executive chef of Studio at Montage in June. (Studio's previous chef, James Boyce, left for Alabama; Strong ... More >>

Mastering The Art Of Julia: Drinking STREET's Susan Feniger Under The Table

Sony PicturesMeryl Streep as Julia Child in "Julie and Julia" In this week's ongoing Mastering The Art of Julia series - partly started in anticipation of this summer's Nora Ephron-directed Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as the food world's warbly-voiced Julia Child - we talk to STREET's Susan ... More >>

Downtown L.A.: No Longer a Crane Sanctuary

Eric Richardson at Blog Downtown has noticed the disappearance of construction cranes, where the city center had once teemed with them. The falloff in construction is as clear an economic indicator as the daily Dow Jones figures."Today," Richardson writes, "the construction crane at Concerto is step ... More >>

Last Resort: Pasadena Ritz-Carlton Faces Developer’s Makeover

Could it be last rites for the legendary hotel?

Michelin Tires

The tour guide’s L.A. detour

Harbinger

Downtown gets its first grocery store since 1950's flight left a ghost town

Screenwriter Mistaken for a Terrorist

L.A.’s big population of Brits used to breeze between there and here, but no more

Big, Big Love

‘Mac daddy Lindsey Buckingham on painting, Pet Sounds and Tusk

Martini Club Concert

Camerata Pacifica at the Ritz-Carlton

New York Playbill

A winter sampler

Ask Mr. Gold

You Can’t Get Everything You Want at Alex’s

Make Nice

The GOP goes gooey

Martin Luther Bush

And the new, improved, compassionate, fraudulent Republican Party

Draw My Modem, Jeeves

Do not disturb -- unless you've brought me some floppies

When the Cat Stays

Here Come the Brits With Strings Attached

Encounters Across Time