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5 LGBT Movers and Shakers in L.A.

From the national battle for marriage equality to the ever-increasing pool of public figures blasting down their closet doors, it's a good time to be LGBT. Check out all of our People 2013 profiles This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing, including some LGBT i ... More >>

Prince Gomolvilas: The Only Gay, Thai, Science-Fiction Playwright

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. While researching The Brothers Paranormal, his latest comedy-horror play, about Thai-American brothers who launch a ghost-hunting business, Prince Gomolvilas was invited to go o ... More >>

Hurrah for the James Beard Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards Winners!

The James Beard Book Broadcast and Journalism awards were held this past Saturday night, and a whole new crop of book authors, TV and radio folks and food journalists were honored with what is still considered the food world's greatest honor -- a James Beard medal. You can see the full list of win ... More >>

For Once, Someone Got An L.A. Food Show Right: Bourdain's Parts Unknown Koreatown Episode

For the second installment of his new CNN show Parts Unknown, which aired last night, Anthony Bourdain explored L.A.'s Koreatown. The show was insightful, revealing and pretty much spot-on, giving an accurate depiction of both the fraught history of K-Town and its current status as one of our city's ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Debuts Parts Unknown on CNN

Anthony Bourdain's new CNN show Parts Unknown debuted last night on CNN. The show, which is very much like his Travel Channel show No Reservations, which ended in November of last year, took us last night to Myanmar, a country that only recently began allowing outsiders in, let alone western film cr ... More >>

Tokimonsta on Asshole DJs and Her Twitter Game

Tokimonsta is the subject of our music feature this week; for the story, we hung out with the beat scene DJ/producer at the dinner party event celeb chef Roy Choi whipped up for her at his restaurant A-Frame. A few days later we sat down with her over green tea to talk about her recently released so ... More >>

Watch this Weekend: Bill Esparza on L.A. Street Eats

Bill Esparza is going from Street Gourmet to host of the Street Eats: USA Los Angeles episode this Saturday, March 23, at 3 p.m. He announced the news earlier this morning on his blog. While it's not the first time Esparza has appeared on Travel Channel, it will still be a first of sorts for the mus ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's Reddit Q & A

A little over an hour ago, Anthony Bourdain jumped on Reddit to answer fan questions. A lot of familiar territory was covered -- why he left the Travel Channel for CNN, why he decided to do The Taste, what his favorite thing to eat in a multitude of places was.

Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre L.A. Restaurant Overview

On a recent episode of his podcast "Go Fork Yourself," Andrew Zimmern -- host of the Bizarre Foods series -- reveals his list of Los Angeles restaurant picks in something less sensational than we've come to expect from the Travel Channel guide to unfamiliar foods around the world. In fact, it's so s ... More >>

The Taste Debuts Tomorrow with Judges Bourdain, Ludo, Nigella Lawson Brian Malarkey

When a chef sees something he likes, he inevitably wants to make it, but better and with his own twist. Perhaps that was the rationale behind culinary luminaries like L.A. favorite Ludo Lefebvre and Anthony Bourdain of Travel Channel fame, hitching their wagons to The Taste, a new reality competitio ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's Top 10 No Reservations Episodes

Today on his blog, Anthony Bourdain pens a long and thoughtful piece about his 10 favorite episodes of No Reservations as the show's run comes to an end. Bourdain will be leaving the Travel Channel for CNN, where he will host a similar show that will launch next year.

Mayer Hawthorne's Umami Burger: When Musicians Menus Collide

If you're someone who subscribes to the theory that food is the new rock, then you might have see last Wednesday night as a watershed moment. Umami Burger, the L.A.-based gourmet burger chain that's set to open it's thirteenth location next week, released the first of what it's calling its "artist-e ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Naomi Duguid's Burma, Rivers of Flavor Is Here A Recipe For Fried Banana-Sesame Seed Fritters!

"Finally here!" are words we hear all too often with every 30-minute meal-type cookbook these days, but with the release of Naomi Duguid's latest cookbook, Burma: Rivers of Flavor, it couldn't be more accurate. If you don't know Duguid, she is the sort of author who works on her cookbooks -- cultu ... More >>

Got a Reality Show Idea or Documentary in the Works? Here's a Festival Where You Can Pitch It

Anyone who's ever played certain junior high party games knows a lot can happen in seven minutes. It can be heaven, maybe, if it goes well. And if you happen to be a participant in the annual WESTDOC Pitchfest, and your seven minutes goes really well, you may walk out with a prize package worth $25 ... More >>

Bed Bugs Reported at L.A. Central Library

See also: "Report: Los Angeles Now Has More Bed Bugs Than New York" and "Women Surprised to Find Bed Bugs at $62 Glendale Motel, Sue." At least two bed bugs have been spotted at L.A. Central Library in the last month -- one on August 9, crawling across a reference desk in the Science & Technology D ... More >>

Q & A with Anthony Bourdain: The End of No Reservations, CNN Throwing a Drink in Alan Richman's Face

See also: Anthony Bourdain: 5 Unexpected Lessons He Taught Us Last Night. See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately. Anthony Bourdain has a lightness to his voice. It's jovial, almost, which is unnerving. "This is the longest I'v ... More >>

Top 5 L.A. Hotels for Room Service, According to Adam Richman

When we initially sat down with Adam Richman at the bar of the Four Season's hotel in Beverly Hills, we were hoping to get a top five list of best sandwiches in L.A. It made sense since he was in town plugging his new show, Best Sandwich in America on Travel Channel. But we were more intrigued by hi ... More >>

Street Gourmet L.A.'s Bill Esparza on Bizarre Food America Tonight

L.A.-based food blogger and professional saxophonist Bill Esparza, whom you might remember from his L.A. Weekly piece about being a "reverse coyote" for Tijuana food tourists, will serve as guide for Bizarre Food America host and man-who-will-eat-anything Andrew Zimmern as the duo explore San Diego ... More >>

Q & A with Adam Richman: Heartbreak, His Food Journal L.A. Food Profundity

Adam Richman spends the first several minutes of our interview discussing the best way to get places in L.A., as most Angelenos do. He can't count himself one anymore, but he used to live here, coincidentally, one block from this writer's current residence. Now, however, Richman is a citizen of the ... More >>

Hollywood's Favorite Haunted Hospital Is Being Flipped Into $40M Old Folks' Home

Even the handiest of set designers would be hard-pressed to recreate the years of organic decay that have made Linda Vista Community Hospital into the ultimate film set -- streaks on the walls, peeling paint, broken pipes, the occasional stray syringe. (Mixed in with some Hollywood props, left behin ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately

The Baja California episode of No Reservations begins with a soundtrack of gunshots and sirens peppering news reports of violence in Tijuana. But against this noise we see Anthony Bourdain strolling into town looking unafraid. He knows what you're thinking: "Wait, isn't Tijuana dangerous?" The shor ... More >>

James Beard 2012 Award Winners

The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>

Travel Channel Show Follows a "Coffee Hunter" Hunting for Coffee

Because the tough-guy-braves-[insert literal or metaphorical monster here]-to reveal-the-inner-workings-of [insert subject matter here] reality show formula continues to be popular, we'll be getting at least one more, courtesy the Travel Channel. The network just announced that it will develop a se ... More >>

I Am a Reverse Coyote: Smuggling Food Tourists Into Tijuana

Tijuana is the new culinary media darling, but this writer has been smuggling food tourists there for years

2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition

Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/5-3/9

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Tommy's chili is a flame-orange concoction that, no matter how many napkins you have at the ready, will inevitably leave its mark somewhere on your face, shirt or shoes." 10 Best Hot Dogs in Los Angeles. ​"We've all wished ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain: Now Portable Via Travel Channel's New Layover App

We've all wished we could carry Anthony Bourdain around in our pockets when traveling to a new city, and now, the marketing geniuses over at the Travel Channel have figured out a way to make such a thing possible. In digital form, at least. Today they announced the new "Travel Channel Layover Guide ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain: 5 Unexpected Lessons He Taught Us Last Night

College of the Canyons/Jesse MuñozAnthony Bourdain, giving a rapt audience a window into making No Reservations.​We don't think any stone was left unturned by the end of Anthony Bourdain's speaking engagement last night at Santa Clarita's College of the Canyons. We know his new "death row" m ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover Uses Jonathan Gold as a Guide

The Travel Channel obviously saved the best for last. The season finale of Anthony Bourdain's The Layover airs tonight, in which Tony will enlighten viewers on how to get the most out of the L.A. food scene in a short period of time. Between cocktails at the Chateau Marmont and, we think, a peek in ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern's Pop-Up Dinner at Royal/T: How It's Different from Every Other Episode of Bizarre Foods America

Royal/T, the Culver City cosplay café, is in shambles right now -- a chaotic mess of boxes, dust, overturned tables and yes, TV cameras. It will be spic and span by 6 p.m., though, when Andrew Zimmern's "California Dreaming" pop-up dinner will opens its doors. Part fundraiser, part stint for his n ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain on The Layover, L.A. and Jonathan Gold

Via the Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain at the LudoBites truck.​We elbowed our way into the Travel Channel's crowded media conference call to speak with legendary chef, food writer and TV personality Anthony Bourdain about his new show, The Layover, premiering this month. When it was finally o ... More >>

Taste Awards Nominees Announced: Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown Steve Jobs

Taste Awards​What do Steve Jobs, Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Chew have in common? They'll each be recognized during the next annual Taste Awards. Contrary to the name, the award ceremony, held January's 3rd in Hollywood, honors not just food but style and home lifestyle programming in television, ... More >>

The McDonald's Channel: Fast Food HDTV

​ The reprogramming of America just keeps getting scarier. First Oprah launched her own television channel (OWN), and now McDonald's is doing the same. Not on your home HDTV (yet), but in its own restaurants. The McDonalds Channel (McDTV, doubtless) will soon be in some 800 California restaura ... More >>

Fried Kool-Aid, Fried Brownies, FryBQ Ribs: A Sneak Peek at Chicken Charlie's Newest Fried Fair Fare

Courtesy of Chicken CharlieFried fair fare trio: Totally Fried Brownies, FryBQ ribs and Totally Fried Kool-Aid​ His life's work reads like a chapter in The Fattening of America. Every year, Chicken Charlie a.k.a. Charlie Boghosian, the fried food maestro of Southern California's county fair c ... More >>

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Guns, Gasoline & Shark Fins: Gordon Ramsay Risks Life for Television Show

MirrorGordon Ramsay​ If anybody thinks that being a TV chef is easier than actually working behind the stoves, Gordon Ramsay, of all people, can now report otherwise. The English chef, still a faint presence here at Gordon Ramsay at the London, West Hollywood and the host of many reality telev ... More >>

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Anthony Bourdain Coming to Royce Hall: Yes, Reservations

The Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain, the hazard pay episode​ Tired of getting your Anthony Bourdain fix via the Travel Channel, your demi-glace-stained pages of Kitchen Confidential (or Bone in the Throat, circa 1995), or even, gasp, from the untangled threads of @ruthbourdain? The chef-author ... More >>

2010 James Beard Finalists Announed: Suzanne Goin, Matt Molina, Michael Cimarusti, Jonathan Gold, Patric Kuh Nominated

James Beard​Twitter is at it again. The 2010 James Beard Award Finalists were announced this morning via the foundation's Twitter account. L.A's Suzanne Goin, of Lucques, AOC Wine Bar, Hungry Cat and Tavern was nominated for Outstanding Chef, while Matt Molina of Mozza and Michael Cimarusti of ... More >>

Bill Murray on No Reservations: Give This Man A Travel Show

Anthony Bourdain's traveling road show, No Reservations, is a meandering and often exhaustingly self-referential hour of television. Not so for the final 4 minutes of last night's show, when, after wandering up and down the Hudson River, Bourdain ran into and dined with Bill Murray. Bill Murray (Gro ... More >>

Food, Dude! Stoner Caterers

Chef duo's Food Network show falls flat, but they've moved on to the Carson Daly show and their first restaurant, Animal

No Reservations: Light Dining

Sweet and savory fare — without the foam

Calling The Hole

The Vin Scully of pro poker: Mike Sexton

Clean and Sober

And heading straight to Dubai