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Torrance

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Early Poppy Apricots

    Apricots join artichokes, garlic, avocados and citrus on the long list of fruits and flowers that make California agriculture the envy of the nation, if not the world. It's a finicky fruit that needs a dry spring (check), free of late spring frosts which can devastate crops (also check, at least th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Japanese Curry House CoCo Ichibanya Opens in Rowland Heights

    ProfessorSalt.comCoco Ichibanya's Katsu-curry​Do you love Japanese curry and need to fix that jones in the eastern San Gabriel Valley? We told you this summer that CoCo Ichibanya was coming to Rowland Heights, and we just found out that location opened two months sooner than we expected, on Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Chick-fil-A Hollywood: Sneak Peek [Photo Gallery]

    Guzzle & NoshThe spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A Hollywood.​When the Chick-fil-A at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue opens, it will be only the second Los Angeles location, but the Southern chicken chain is looking to expand throughout California in a big way. Jeremia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

    Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Sexting: About One in Five Americans Has Done it (Not Just Anthony Weiner)

    KINGjeorge​Don't point the finger at Anthony Weiner, people. You do it to. At least some of you do. And you can't all be raging liberals. A new poll commissioned by the maker of Trojan condoms finds about one in five Americans "have engaged in sexting." Of course, that doesn't mean you shoul ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    The Art World Party Line Blows Up

    KINGjeorge​Don't point the finger at Anthony Weiner, people. You do it to. At least some of you do. And you can't all be raging liberals. A new poll commissioned by the maker of Trojan condoms finds about one in five Americans "have engaged in sexting." Of course, that doesn't mean you shoul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    The Technicolor Dessert: Hawaiian Paradise Cakes from King's Hawaiian

    D. GonzalezHawaiian paradise cake​ When it comes to some food items, there can be too much of a good thing. However, this rarely applies to dessert. At King's Hawaiian Bakery & Restaurant in Torrance, the signature dessert is their Hawaiian paradise cake, so popluar that the cake's colorful ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    1321 Beer Bar Opening in Torrance in May

    Courtesy of EB Design and Dmar InteriorsA rendering of 1321's exterior.​Chef Greg Paul, known for creating the fantastic burger at The Oaks (dry-aged beef topped with thick Black Forest bacon, buttery taleggio and a smoked jalapeno and pineapple compote) is heading south -- to 1321, an upscale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Sex Crime and Violence During DJ-Driven 'Ultra Weekend' in Miami -- And, Yes, Californians Were in the Thick of It

    YouTubeHeadquarters, we have a wedgie.​The just-wrapped "Miami Music Week/Ultra Weekend" in South Beach was marred by violence, and allegations of rape. Our sister publication Miami New Times reports that three Californians were arrested on suspicion of gang raping a college student at the Fon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

    MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Top 9 Now-Defunct L.A. Fast Food Restaurant Chains The Return of #3

    Del Taco Corp.​With the further expansion of Chick-fil-A in Los Angeles, the recent announcement of Papaya King coming to Hollywood and the arrival of Australia's Oporto to the Southland, we at Squid Ink thought it was an opportune time for a trip down memory lane. Here, in no particular orde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/14-2/18

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "They're filled with custard, you could eat a million of them, and you get to gripe about how they're not as good as the ones you had on the Big Island on your last surf trip. Mission accomplished." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    BP Puts Monster SoCal Refinery -- 25 Percent of All L.A. Gas -- Up for Sale

    terrapsych.comBP Carson Refinery: officially on the market​It's easy to hate BP. Those jerks made the glistening Gulf of Mexico into a goopy seafood dish that lined our nightmares in black slime and swallowed helpless baby animals whole. And that was just the view from unaffected California, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Skinny Shirataki: Are Zero-Calorie Noodles Too Good to be True?

    Nichole O'Connor​At first we were repulsed by the bizarre feed bags that arrived in LA Weekly's mail bin, addressed to no one in particular, looking like they were ready to board a spaceship in some astronaut's lunchbox. We weren't really in the market for zero calorie, low-carb, low sodium, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/4-10/8

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Musso & Frank Grill, although it is perhaps most famous for serving steaks and impeccable martinis to character actors, is a rare conservatory of early-20th-century American cooking, and if the EPA cared as much about threat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Hurry Curry of Tokyo Expansion News: Two More Locations to Come, Maybe

    Celia SoudryHurry Curry chicken curry​ Sitting in a heavily Asian-food-influenced strip mall, next to Little Hong Kong on Sawtelle Boulevard, Hurry Curry of Tokyo bustles during lunch hour with patrons ordering mild, medium, and hot curry dishes. Though the menu also consists of Japanese "spa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Ramen Yamadaya Opens In Torrance

    N. GalutenYamadaya's tonkotsu ramen​ Do we need more good ramen shops in Los Angeles? Always. Thanks to another opening tip from the appropriately named Rameniac, we learned of Yamadaya, which began service in Torrance at the end of July. Yamadaya is not a trendy noodle vendor with a sleek in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Best Evening Farmers Market: South Pasadena

    A. ScattergoodSouth Pasadena farmers market​ Sure, there are farmers markets with more high profile chefs trailing carts and, often, camera crews (Santa Monica Wednesdays); there are markets with stalls featuring more Asian or Hispanic produce (Torrance); or markets scheduled early enough and ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 22, 2010

    Jinya: Ramen Freaks and Noodle Geeks

    Getting schooled in the finer points of broth

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    This Weekend's Good Deed: Rising Songwriter Rocco DeLuca at "White Light White Night" Fundraiser

    ​[West Coast Sound's Lily Borghi points out this very special fundraiser happening this weekend:] "Rocco DeLuca will be headlining this Saturday's summer party, White Light White Night. It's the big annual fundraising event for Walk With Sally, a local non profit that provides mentoring progr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Ask Mr. Gold: Best BBQ, or Sunshine on a Gloomy Day

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: So okay, not to be like everybody else who does this, but... It's my wife's birthday, and we gotta get a big bunch of barbecue - Southern American, not Southern Korean - for a group of 10ish. There are a lot of barbecue restaurants out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Gourmet Lites: The (Sort-of) Healthy Cookie

    ​ We admit we're frequent victims of the coffeeshop pastry pitfall. We swing by for a quick nonfat latte but end up walking out with some chocolatey croissantpoundcakemuffin that puts our carb intake way over the edge. This is why we were particularly pleased (if not a little stunned) to dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Howard Hughes' 'Spruce Goose' Hangar, Other Playa Vista Area Property Sold

    The Spruce Goose.​Land adjacent to Playa Vista that once belonged to Howard Hughes has been sold in a deal with three buyers worth an estimated total of about $85 million, Bloomberg News reports. The deal includes the hangar-cum-soundstage where Hughes built the record-setting Spruce Goose ai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Ask Mr. Gold: Fish For More, or When Mrs. Paul's Just Doesn't Cut It

    Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Where can I buy nice fresh fish in the Silverlake/Los Feliz/downtown area? I'm having a housewarming party. --Deborah, Los Feliz Dear Deborah: Do you really want to do seafood for a party? You're almost always better off wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Toyota Suspends Sales Of SUV That Failed 'Consumer Reports' Test

    Toyota​Toyota late Tuesday announced it was suspending sales of its 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV after Consumer Reports magazine reported it was prone to rolling over and declared the vehicle a "Don't Buy: Safety Risk." "We are taking the situation with the GX 460 very seriously and are determined t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    A JAPANESE VERSION OF SIDEWAYS?

    Toyota​Toyota late Tuesday announced it was suspending sales of its 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV after Consumer Reports magazine reported it was prone to rolling over and declared the vehicle a "Don't Buy: Safety Risk." "We are taking the situation with the GX 460 very seriously and are determined t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    L.A. Could Be Ground Zero For Toyota's Legal Woes

    ​Torrance-based Toyota Motor Sales USA has asked that 200 sudden-acceleration lawsuits be consolidated into one case to be heard before a federal judge in Los Angeles. According to Associated Press, Toyota lawyer Cari Dawson argued before a U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in San Diego ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Evacuations Ordered For Several Foothill Communities (UPDATED)

    National Weather Service​Authorities ordered 64 households in the Paradise Valley area of La Canada-Flintridge to evacuate as storm-caused mud flows threatened a neighborhood above 2524 Ocean View Boulevard. Evacuations of 83 residences in the Riverwood Ranch, Alpine Village, Zachaou Canyon, H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Autism In L.A. Clustered Around Affluent Areas, Study Finds

    UC Davis​Researchers at UC Davis have been studying geographic patterns that correlate to autism perhaps in hopes of coming up with an environmental link. On that front, they came up blank. But the school's recent findings are interesting nonetheless: For the greater Los Angeles region, the ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Now Open: Gonpachi Torrance

    The Tokyo-based Global Dining, Inc. opened their fourth U.S. Gonpachi Restaurant location last Thursday in the new Miyako Hybrid Hotel in Torrance. Situated close to LAX, near the corporate headquarters of Japanese corporate giants Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Honda, and Toyota, the Torrence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Root Vegetables, Citrus, More Persimmons

    In other parts of the country -- the parts with blustery, wintery, freezing weather -- the farmers markets are depressingly closed this time of year. Not so in LA, thanks to dozens of micro-climates that produce year-round artichokes (Suncoast Farms in Lompoc), asparagus (also Suncoast, plus a few ... More >>

  • Articles

    November 12, 2009

    Unregulated Medical Marijuana: Could Pot-Brownie Bake Sales Help?

    In other parts of the country -- the parts with blustery, wintery, freezing weather -- the farmers markets are depressingly closed this time of year. Not so in LA, thanks to dozens of micro-climates that produce year-round artichokes (Suncoast Farms in Lompoc), asparagus (also Suncoast, plus a few ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    New Culinary Historians Website, Jonathan Gold Podcast, Free Root Beer AND A 1894 Trifle Recipe

    Any residual high school class-cutting guilt can now been assuaged by a fantastic modern invention: podcasts. The Culinary Historians of Southern California (CHSC) has launched a new website that includes podcasts of recent lectures. That means you can catch Jonathan Gold's recent talk on regional c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/12 - 9/18

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Hard to believe it was only five weeks ago I tweeted: Why doesn't someone start a pancake truck? " Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein on her wish come true. "Really, we have to rethink USDA." Marion Nestle finds hope that t ... More >>

  • News

    August 27, 2009

    Back When Quentin Was Behind the Counter

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Hard to believe it was only five weeks ago I tweeted: Why doesn't someone start a pancake truck? " Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein on her wish come true. "Really, we have to rethink USDA." Marion Nestle finds hope that t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    ABC Rhubarb Farm's Fresh Herb Stand: Like Water for Chocolate, Only With Lemon Verbena and Rosemary

    Every week, crowds of farmers market regulars gather at the herb stand of ABC Rhubarb Farm to bury their noses in the fresh lemon verbena, rosemary, oregano and thyme. Spend a few minutes watching customers at Lily Balthazar's herb stand and you might think you're watching a remake of "Like Water fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    The Baseball Bat Peppermill: Who Needs Cork When You Have Tellicherry Peppercorns?

    Here's the perfect summer grilling accessory: a baseball bat that's actually a peppermill. Imagine the langorous backyard, the coals glowing in the firepit, Vin Scully broadcasting on a radio propped against the sweating keg, a tray of burgers and steaks and links that would make any self-respecting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Two Local Strikes on the Horizon

    A pair of labor disputes that could have far-reaching effects on the L.A. economy are edging into the spotlight. Tomorrow morning Local 675 of the United Steelworkers of America will seek a strike sanction from the L.A. County Federation of Labor. The union, whose local and national negotiating comm ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    December 25, 2008

    "Man Bites World" Writer Running Out of Cuisines, Asks Mr. Gold

    Is it the end of the world?

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Honda's Giant Robot Crushes Big Three Carmakers

    As if it's not enough that Japanese carmakers have crushed their American competition, now Torrance-based Honda, USA has announced that it's entering the Rose Parade with a huge top-hatted robot float. No, not Gort, the giant cyborg in The Day the Earth Stood Still, but a 49-foot version of Honda's ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 9, 2007

    Bird Is the Word

    Chicken with a side of chicken at Kyochon

  • Eat+Drink

    July 20, 2006

    Beautiful Game

    Porto Alegre

  • Eat+Drink

    May 11, 2006

    Ask Mr. Gold: Fiery Ramen

    Porto Alegre

  • News

    January 12, 2006

    Drug Warriors and Mountain Men

    Porto Alegre

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    The Sex Files

    When you find yourself in one and can’t get out

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    The Day the Sky Fell

    This time, it was impersonal

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    Animal Nature

    Can Marcia Mayeda save county animal control?

  • Eat+Drink

    April 16, 1998

    Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam. . .

    Hawaiian musubi in Monterey Park

  • Eat+Drink

    April 2, 1998

    Griddle Me This

    Japanese pizza in Torrance

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