Tijuana

San Diego-Tijuana Olympics Bid Nixed

San Diego and Tijuana holding hands like ebony and ivory, together in perfect harmony, side-by-side, hosting the Olympics? Not going to happen. Yes, the dream of brownfolk and surfer dudes working in tandem to host the 2024 Summer Games was a pipe dream:

Q & A With USC Professor Sarah Portnoy: On Latino Food in L.A

We all eat for pleasure. Some of us also eat in pursuit of academic knowledge. "Food studies" is a burgeoning field where scholars consider food a potent tool for illuminating a vast range of topics and issues. Among L.A. colleges and universities, you'll find classes on "Animal Ethics," "Restaurant ... More >>

Cannibalism Is the Theme of the MexiCali Biennial. But Not in the Way You'd Think

Test Kitchen's Latino Series, Part 1: Mexican Chefs to Take Over Bestia This Weekend

If Angelenos are becoming intoxicated by Mexico's culinary renaissance, Northern Baja has been our gateway drug. Several events have popped up in recent years (most recently, at Playa) in which chefs from Tijuana and Ensenada have come up over the border to showcase their talents to eager SoCal fans ... More >>

The Chef's Library: John Sedlar Go Fish, by Laurent Tourondel

The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we talk to John Sedlar, chef and owner of Rivera and Playa. John Sedlar is plotting a sea change (pardon the pun) for Playa. "I'm in the thick of changing my current Playa menus, intro ... More >>

Baja Chefs Coming to Playa This September

Baja cuisine is habanero hot right now, with food personalities like Anthony Bourdain (who said the region "feels like Tuscany") and Andrew Zimmern elevating the area's chefs to national prominence. If you've been stuck salivating stateside, unwilling or unable to make the jaunt south of the border, ... More >>

California Noir

LACMA's series The Sun Sets in the West

Outernational - The Echo - 5/1/12

Outernational The Echo 5/1/12 Better than ... Eddy Grant. If you thought all screaming, sweaty, hip-swiveling rock and roll frontmen were motivated purely by narcissism, Outernational's Miles Solay might make you think again. Solay and his NYC-based Spanglish rockers played a super high-energy s ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Planet Carrots Why Our Winter Carrots Are Less Sweet This Year

Carrots are an easy crop for farmers with the land for them. They don't have the stigma of Brussels sprouts or the on-again-off-again iron taste that beets sometimes have to fight. And they've been lucky enough to dance in the culinary trio of mirepoix for hundreds of years, an unintended marketin ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Javier Plascencia: Coming to bulthaup for a 5-course Dinner

bulthaup (and no, it's not capitalized), the high-end kitchen designer and manufacturer, will host chef Javier Plascencia of Tijuana's Misión 19 for a five-course meal at its Robertson Blvd. showroom on March 22. The site asks you to RSVP by today, March 15. Check your wallet first; the price is $1 ... More >>

L.A. Zoo Will Have a Carousel Made Entirely of Endangered Species (Plus a Unicorn!)

Los Angeles TimesDibs on poison dart frog.​Never has jumping on the green train looked so goddamn fun. Meet the Conservation Carousel at the L.A. Zoo: It's not the first of it's kind (and the Bronx Zoo beat us to an insect carousel! Jealous!), but it's the first to feature a serval, a maned w ... More >>

Day of the Dead: What to Cook for Hungry Spirits

Barbara Hansena table in Tijuana​Souls of the departed are wandering the earth now as they head home for a good meal. They'll eat their fill on the Day of the Dead -- Día de Muertos -- when families all over Mexico, and here too, greet them with their favorite foods. The holiday lasts two day ... More >>

LA Street Food Fest: Photo Gallery

Carmageddon? Where? The traffic-nightmare-that-never-was (westside to Pasadena in under 30 minutes!!!) may have kept cars off the road and eaters from attending LA Street Food Fest, but their loss was our gain. With few lines, we managed to sample from EVERY vendor at the festival. Yes, every v ... More >>

Venice Marijuana Doctors Told to Stop Luring Customers on Boardwalk With Human Hawkers

Jake SlagleWeed and the beach -- the perfect mix.​These peddlers have more moxie than the guys being paid to get you inside a Tijuana strip-club. They hang out on the Venice boardwalk and call out that the doctor's in if you need a medical marijuana prescription from your friendly, nearby cann ... More >>

LA Session Drummer to the Stars Will Be Your Personal Manbitch If You Buy $75K Version of His Album

​Everybody has a price. Josh Freese, studio drummer to the stars (Weezer, Devo, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N Roses) is up to his old tricks with the upcoming announcement of his plans for his latest solo album, Since 1972. He listed his album for sale in packages ranging from $7 for a straightf ... More >>

Said Jaziri, Controversial Muslim Cleric, Caught After Allegedly Entering U.S. Illegally East of San Diego

YouTubeSaid Jaziri.​Said Jaziri, a controversial Islamic cleric who had been deported to Tunisia from Canada, was caught east of San Diego after he was allegedly smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico earlier this month, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Jaziri was a Montreal imam who led ... More >>

10 Shows We're Stoked About in Early 2011

10 Shows We're Stoked About in 2011

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Was L.A. Downtown Art Walk Just An Excuse To Party? One Commenter Thinks So

Bistrosavage via Flickr​The demise of downtown's monthly Art Walk has bummed many a boho (or boo-hoo) hipster who feels the event was L.A.'s great "Kumbaya" moment. But not everyone is sad. For some critics, the event became another excuse for bros in Minis and women toting Kate Spade bags t ... More >>

West Hollywood Pot Shop Continues To Stay Open, Defies City Orders To Close

dey via Flickr​A West Hollywood medical marijuana dispensary continues to defy that city by staying open. The Sunset Super Shop on Sunset Boulevard isn't one of the four pot retailers approved by the City Council, and the body even declared operating a rogue cannabis outlet a criminal endeav ... More >>

WE LOVE YOU HOLLYWOOD BOWL!

Madlib Goes Psych-Rock on New 'Brain Wreck' LP

Bunnies makin' babies.​It was only a matter of time. It's been said that Madlib owns over two tons of vinyl, and you can be damn sure that collection is free of the standard thrift shop filler. No Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. No Barbra Streisand embracing Kris Kristofferson. No holida ... More >>

Rock Picks: Willie Nelson, Maude Maggart, Two Tears

Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others

Mexican Road Trip Part III: Seafood, Wineries, Barbacoa and Even More Tacos

For the group of food writers, bloggers, chefs and restaurateurs that spent this past weekend traveling through Mexico, Saturday morning began at the weekend-only spot, Barbacoa "Ermita". Slurping lamb consommé so thick and soothing that it should replace chicken soup in elementary school thermoses ... More >>

Tonight: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Return to LA

After a seven-year hiatus, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are finally touring again, despite the loss of percussionist Gerardo "Toto" Rotblat, who died of pulmonary edema last year, shortly before rehearsals for the reunion. Their latest CD, La Luz del Ritmo, might seem at first like a tentative return, ... More >>

The Women: New Fiction by T.C. Boyle

Miriam Agonistes, an excerpt

Best Hot Dog: L.A. Street Dog at Fab's

Well Suited: The Legacy of the Pachuco

Plus, the Mexican explains turista traps and babies as burritos

Sex crimes investigator assassinated in Juarez

Berenice Garcia Corral was commander of the sex crimes unit of Chihuahua state's State Investigation Agency before masked men shot her in her driveway in Ciuadad Juarez on Monday night. La Jornada reports that she was shot at least 10 times with AK-47 rifles. On Tuesday in the municipality of Hida ... More >>

Rock Picks: Stagecoach, Alicia Keys, Vetiver

And other shows happening May 1-8

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

Broken Sanctuary

Did Elvira Arellano need to martyr herself?

Pedro Guzman's Return

Wrongly deported to Mexico, a developmentally disabled man is found safe

Shock Corrido

Two radically different Latino odysseys

Music Picks

For the week of July 27 - August 3

Snakebites

California Dreamin’ Gone Seriously Sour

Kem Nunn on environmental apocalypse, surfing subcultures and his new novel, Tijuana Straits

Present Perfect

Daylight Drive

On the Border of Hypocrisy

The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration

A Day With The Locust

On the road with the world’s most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, “hardcore,” millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra

Ask Mr. Gold

Love in the Abstract

Border Calls

In the Mexican desert, a sanctuary for worried migrants

Other Assassinations in Mexico

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Road Warrior

Corridos Prohibidos

Los Tigres del Norte, Idolos del Pueblo