Tootsie Rolls

The Grossest Cake of All Time: Kitty Litter Cake! Happy Halloween!

When the gummy worm dirt cake first appeared, it was received as a giggle-worthy novelty for children's parties. It's silly and creative. When it started being a part of Halloween party foods, there were no qualms as most people saw it as funny. Then, someone had to one-up and thus was born the most ... More >>

Cooper Black: The Story Behind Louie's Typeface

An overweight balding man exits a subway station and, as he walks, up pops his name in bold, cartoonish, drop-shadowed white letters: Louie. He stands alone in the doorway of a pizza parlor inhaling a slice, his eyes searching and expressionless, watching people pass by as people watch him, an urban ... More >>

High Bonnet: Medlars, Literature & Idwal Jones

You're only two pages in when Jean-Marie Gallois, the hero of Idwal Jones' 1945 novel High Bonnet: A Novel of Epicurean Adventures, is seduced away from a life at sea and into a life spent behind the stoves. Blame it on the peddler traversing the Toulon wharf with a basket of medlars on his head. "T ... More >>

Medlar Tootsie Rolls at Proof Bakery

Guzzle & NoshMedlar rolls at Proof Bakery​Here's a little fuel for the fire of our slow-burning medlar obsession. About a week-and-a-half ago, Proof Bakery in Atwater Village began selling medlar "Tootsie Rolls" made by Jessica Koslow of Sqirl. Made from the ancient and rare fruit (rare in Sou ... More >>

Angel City Eats: Where Joe Friday Kim Kardashian Meet Over Donuts This Weekend

jgarbeeA Gumdrop Sculpture In Progress​Beginning this weekend at Gallery KM, Joe Friday ("Dragnet") gets to spend the next six weeks with Kim Kardashian. We're sure that Mr. Friday is thrilled. At least there will be plenty of yin-yang marshmallows and food-inspired sculptures on hand. The e ... More >>

My Drunk Kitchen: Halloween Candy [Video]

In the Halloween episode of My Drunk Kitchen, Hannah Hart goes from zero to drunk in 60 seconds (less, actually) as she pairs a Bloody Mary with whatever she pulls from her candy bowl. Despite her inebriation, she speaks truth to sugar, dropping profound insights: Tootsie Rolls: "Ugh. This is was a ... More >>

Top 5 Halloween Candy Urban Legends

T. NguyenWhat evil lurks in this year's bag of Halloween candy?​Trick-or-treating is a time-honored, once-a-year tradition when, just for this one night, children are ask for, and receive, candy from strangers. Reliance on the kindness of strangers, only goes so far. Every Halloween, parents Q ... More >>

Top 5 Halloween Candy from the 99¢ Only Store

Rachael Narins99 Cent Only Store​99¢ Only Stores, we love you so. Halloween is just around the corner, and you're our go-to spot for kitschy decorations, recyclable costumes and a parade of weird and off-brand candy choices. Buyer need only be aware of just how spooky things get in your aisle ... More >>

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Pee-Wee's Big Comeback

18 years after a bruising fall, Paul Reubens returns to an L.A. stage

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Coffee may enhance inebriation. [Fox] -- For the fourth day of Christmas at Meadowood the Food Dudes gave us meat. [EaterSF] -- Tootsie Rolls, Frooties, and Dots go Kosher (Why this made the Crime ... More >>

Rush Street Hosts Halloween Thriller Party

Perhaps because restaurant life affords little to no time for Hollywood Blvd.-style shenanigans, this year Rush Street is bringing the funk of forty thousand years to Culver City. We're talking about a Thriller party, so elaborately themed that despite the film "13 Going on 30" and countless YouTube ... More >>

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Citizen Beck

Coming to terms with our native son

Citizen Beck

Coming to terms with our native son

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