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L.A. to Build Football Stadium at 405-10 Interchange

By Eva Recinos and Zachary Pincus-Roth The city of L.A. today reached a historic agreement on a new NFL football stadium to be built at the intersection of the 405 and the 10 freeways. The decision comes after various proposals for stadium plans have fallen through in recent years, notably a propo ... More >>

Meiko's Boyfriend Left Her for a Hooters' Girl. It Was the Best Possible Thing

Singer-songwriter Meiko moved to Los Angeles from a small Georgia town outside Macon in 2001. Her career has since taken off; she signed a major label deal with Universal imprint Concord Records, licensed a bazillion of her songs to TV and film, and got big in Japan (seriously, she's on the radio th ... More >>

King Arthur Recalls Flour Containing Blue Plastic Balls

King Arthur Flour has initiated a voluntary recall of flour sold between mid-December and early February, according to an email sent to the company's "Baking Friends." The recall was also announced on the King Arthur website. King Arthur is the third largest seller of flour in the country. The issu ... More >>

Trader Joe's Mexican Chocolate How to Make Mexican Hot Chocolate

Trader Joe's is known for traveling the globe to find a wide and ever-changing variety of foods. They recently went next door to bring back Organic Stone-Ground Mexican-Style Dark Chocolate, which has the shape, taste and paper packaging of traditional south-of-the-border chocolates. There are two ... More >>

[Updated] Whole Foods Recalls Smoked Salmon

Updated: 1/30 1:54 p.m. Whole Foods is recalling an additional lot code (for a total of two lot codes) of Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon (4 oz.), UPC code 0 99482 40880 0, cold smoked and sliced, because it may contain listeria. The second lot code is 7425A2297A. The recall has also expande ... More >>

Naked Wines: Invest In A Winemaker (And Drink The Benefits)

If your resolutions include expanding your wine fridge offerings beyond Trader Joe's corporate specials, UK-based Naked Wines opened a Napa outpost last year with a wine program that, in theory at least, makes small-batch bottles straight from winemakers more affordable. The California winemaker's ... More >>

Rates of Foodborne Illnesses Rising, CDC Reports

In the wake of the massive Trader Joe's salad recall comes a new government report that says the U.S. is falling short of its goals to reduce foodborne illness outbreaks, Bloomberg reports. According to preliminary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data for 2011, the foodborne pathogens Sal ... More >>

Most Meat Is Full of Antibiotics, Survey Finds

Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York has released the results from a survey of more than 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry, Forbes reports. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate their level of transp ... More >>

A Brief Guide to L.A. Grocery Stores' Confusing Coupons, Club Cards Contests

Did you ever try to make a shopping list from the grocery store fliers that arrive in most L.A. mailboxes each Tuesday? In theory the promotions are supposed to let us know about all the great deals taking place during the next seven days, starting on Wednesday. But some marketing guru evidently dec ... More >>

90: Furikake Kettle Corn at A-Frame

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 91: Furikake Kettle Corn at A-Frame. Roy Choi is rightly credited with many things: launching a fleet of trucks considered the modern street food equivalent of ... More >>

Historic Plastic Bag Ban Vote Tomorrow Will Bring Heal The Bay to L.A. City Hall

The L.A. City Council this week could make ours the biggest city in America to not only bag plastic bags at markets, but also prohibit paper bags. The body finally takes up the historic proposal on Wednesday. And environmentalists and supporters of Heal the Bay will be there:

Top 10 Gay Bars in Los Angeles

Gay nightlife in Los Angeles might seem like it's separated into two distinct camps -- Weho on one side and Silver Lake on the other -- but the truth is, plenty of queer and queer-loving crowds hit both, thanks to promoters offering parties on both sides of town. Cliches about the Westside being s ... More >>

On The Heels of Water Rate Increase For L.A., Report Says Average Water And Power Worker Makes Nearly $100,000 a Year

Craig Bennett​You think times are hard? Try being an average-salaried Department of Water and Power worker, who takes home $96,805 a year of public money, according to a recent analysis by Bloomberg. Can you even, like sustain a Whole Foods-stocked pantry on that kind of money? Really, that's ... More >>

Pinot Days Is Back: How To Fit 80 Wine Producers Into An Airport Hangar A Special Discount

JGarbeeThe Pinot Days Aftermath At Barker Hanger​With so many wine festivals and tastings out there these days, forking over $60 ($54 with the 10% discount code for LA Weekly readers below) seems somewhat excessive for your everyday Chardonnay and Merlot pours. But this is Pinot Days, the ann ... More >>

Master Cleanse, aka 'Lemonade Diet': I Tried it During Christmas. Here's How That Went

In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it. Deciding to go on the master cleanse in December was either inspired or idiotic. Since I got the idea while in the far-too-familiar haze of a wine buzz, I blame it on the alcohol. You'r ... More >>

Ready Pac Recalls Bagged Romaine Salads

FDAToss your salad.​ Irwindale-based Ready Pac Foods Inc. is recalling 5,379 cases of bagged salad products containing romaine lettuce because they may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, Reuters reports. The voluntary recall includes a dozen different salad products including Caesar salad ... More >>

Q & A With Farmshop's Jeffrey Cerciello: Open For Dinner, Keller, El Bulli Market Plans

A. ScattergoodJeffrey Cerciello at Farmshop​ When Jeffrey Cerciello came to Los Angeles to open Farmshop in the Brentwood Country Mart, in the space formerly occupied by Maury Rubin's short-lived City Bakery, it was a homecoming of sorts. Cerciello, who was culinary director of Thomas Keller's ... More >>

Westside Market Robbers Dressed as 'Security' And Holding Guns Have Hit Three Stores Including Trader Joe's: LAPD on The Hunt

LAPD/YouTubeA robbery at Overland Liquor Store.​The latest in a series of market robberies has authorities on alert and normally happy shiny Westsiders shaking in their Ugg boots. It happened Wednesday night about 9:45 p.m. when three gun-toting men dressed in black "security" shirts burst in ... More >>

Top 5 Food Festival Etiquette Rules

Guzzle & NoshCrowds at the 2010 LA Food Festival.​Summer is the season of food festivals. Whether it's beer, pancakes or food trucks, this is the time of year we line up (or sit down) at weekend events for samples of exotic and exciting foods. Unfortunately, some of us don't quite know how to ... More >>

West Hollywood is California's Most Walkable City?

Nichole O'Connor.Walking in WeHo.​West Hollywood was named the "Most Walkable" city in California. It's 89 out of 100 score for walkable amenities even beat out San Francisco and New York, the two major cities that duked it out for top honors (New York won). Makes you wonder if the company th ... More >>

[Updated] Michelle Obama Announces Retailers Will Expand Into Food "Deserts"

Samantha Appleton/White HouseThe First Lady and elementary school students tend the White House garden​ Update 11:50 a.m. 7/20/2011 - Mayor Manuel Lozano spoke before Obama about his work in Baldwin Park, along with James Gavin III, chairman of the Partnership for a Healthier America's Board ... More >>

Don't Eat This Now: Ralph's "Fresh" Strawberry Whippy Satin Cream Cake

JgarbeeRead The Ingredients At Your Own Risk​Some people show up to dinner, be it at a restaurant or at a friend's house, with a running list of what they do not allow to pass their lips (after you have already prepared a dinner of said offenders, of course): Beef, pork, dairy, carbs, anything ... More >>

Summer Wine Deals: Five Picnic Friendly Wines

Flickr/lovelornpoets​The word "bargain" is always consumer relative, but perhaps rarely more so when the subject is wine. Even without getting price involved merely the word "Chardonnay" can start a (polite, of course) wine bar fight. And we've all learned the hard way that at the lower end of ... More >>

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Q & A With Lou Amdur (Part 2): Lambruscos, Blanc de Blanc Champagne and The Effervescent Cure-All Known As Alka-Seltzer

Anne FishbeinLou Amdur, of LOU: A Wine Bar​In part one of our conversation with Lou Amdur, owner of Lou: A Wine Bar, we asked him for suggestions about what to drink on New Year's Eve, and he sang the praises of yeasty proseccos and fizzy red lambruscos (especially the ones made by third gener ... More >>

Cilantro Recall: What Not to Buy At Trader Joe's

​ Trader Joe's is recalling several cilantro products that may contain salmonella. If you're looking for that spicy Thai style pasta salad with chicken and rib meat in the ready-made section, it won't be there until further notice. If you're already sick, the lawyers are all over it. Of cours ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Lasagna to Go? Try the "Cupcakes" from Heirloom L.A.

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: This weekend, we're having some fellow parents over for a playdate with our 2-year-olds, and then dinner. With all that 2-year-old energy going on, I'm thinking it might be a good idea to buy a lasagna, so I don't have to slave away in th ... More >>

October Unprocessed: Q & A With Food Blogger Andrew Wilder, Unprocessed Food Man

Want to eat healthier, feel better and live longer? A million suggestions are out there on how to do just that, but a good place to start might be processed foods. As in, not eating them. Doritos, M&M's, Oscar Mayer wieners, McDonald's french fries -- could you do away with them all? Okay, how about ... More >>

Top 10 Kitchen Safety Tips (Excluding: "Don't Be a Moron")

Flickr user Photography_1O1Is your meat being stored at the appropriate temperature?​ It is National Food Safety Education Month, because everyone knows that the best way to deal with a serious issue is to give it its own month. We also love giving out National Days (yesterday was National Cr ... More >>

Duck Duck Taco: CACAO MEXICATESSEN

Confitlike carnitas, hecho en Eagle Rock

Eat Like the Police: Dinner and a Ride Along With the SMPD

Yes, we all know the stereotypes. Cops sit around at doughnut shops, drinking coffee and knocking back crullers. Do some of them? Yes, probably, but certainly not all. On Sunday night, I was fortunate enough to jump in a squad car (front seat, I promise) for a ride along with SMPD Officer Dustin Bra ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Nightlife

Stone Ground Bakery in Agoura Hills: Handmade Challah for Rosh Hashana

Drive up the 101 past the city, into the hills nearing Ventura, to a little strip mall right off the freeway in Agoura Hills, and you'll find a bakery that feels unquestionably like Europe and has some of the best challah you'll find in town or out of it. Stone Ground Bakery, which celebrated its fi ... More >>

Possible Jasmine Fiore and Ryan Jenkins Cars Found

Buena Park Police are reportedly examining a car, found in the parking lot of the West Hollywood Trader Joe's, as possibly belonging to murdered model Jasmine Fiore. Fiore was strangled late last Friday night and her teeth extracted and fingers cut off, before her corpse was stuffed into a suitcase ... More >>

Why They Hate Us: The Life of L.A. Stereotypes

File under Too Good to Be True: Jacksonville.com, the Florida Times-Union Web site, has a Dare to Ask column and today's question came from a 21-year-old Angeleno seeking to learn why the rest of the country "think[s] we're all a bunch of jet-setting, fast-talking, unfriendly, shallow, flaky yuppies ... More >>

Cacao Mexicatessen Is Hecho and Open in Eagle Rock

Trader Joe's in Eagle Rock has a new neighbor. Cacao Mexicatessen opened last Friday, functioning as a taquería, marketplace, café, and catering shop all in one. By the entrance there's a nice selection of the namesake product, including imported Mexican chocolates and a few organic Taza Chocolate ... More >>

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

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Glass Half Full: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart ... The Regulars Story

Working in a bar, you get used to seeing people roll in sober, and stumble out drunk. A respectful start with a friend or two has a 50/50 chance of ending in broken glass and loud guffaws punctuated by the slurping of tongue down some unknown throat. And please believe me when I say I'm not judg ... More >>

Lincoln Hts. Jail: A Hard Cell for Condo Conversion?

The Eastsider L.A. poses the tantalizing possibility that the old Lincoln Heights Jail could be converted to loft spaces. (I'm waiving all rights to jokes and puns here to cut to the chase.) The under-employed jail, whose storied cells have been home to Minsky's burlesque queen Betty Rowland, a youn ... More >>

Commie Girl: "Pastry Crust Is a Bitch"

Rebecca Schoenkopf, aka Commie Girl, tried her hand at making pies recently on FourStory and found, in the process, an American idyll. Balking at the $7 price of store-bought pies (attention, Trader Joe's), Schoenkopf did the unthinkable and attempted to make one from scratch. In her quasi-fake-diar ... More >>

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