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Ventura

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    BBQ Contest At The Queen Mary This Saturday Your Insider's Guide to Sampling!

    Legit barbecue contests like the ones you see on TV don't happen much in Los Angeles. Did you make it the contest at Santa Anita Park we told you about? No? Well, the 1st Annual West Coast BBQ Classic drops anchor this weekend at the Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach, and it is the last sanction ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Lassen's Protest Tomorrow

    ​It doesn't have the critical mass of the Occupy movement, but tomorrow at 1 p.m., Los Feliz locals upset at gay-unfriendly Lassen's, the store that took over Nature Mart when it closed, will stage a protest outside the health food store at 1 p.m. Some locals are boycotting Lassen's because of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    5 Local Farmers Who are Doing it Right

    Felicia FriesemaThe Hollywood market earlier this year.​After reading Beth Barrett's piece about farmers markets this week, it might be tempting to hang up the locavore hat and head out for an angsty and cathartic mouthful at the local McDonald's. We're envisioning an army of market goers as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    McRib Returns to Southern California!

    McDonald's much-loved McRib Sandwich returns today.​Rejoice, McRib lovers! Beginning today, the McRib sandwich, with its strange but undeniable sway over its devotees, returns to McDonald's restaurants in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. Shaped to look like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Rum Society: Connoisseurship Made Accessible

    On the last Tuesday of every month, downtown's Caña Rum Bar hosts Rum Society, a members-only tasting event that features a rum expert, a rum company representative, and access to some of the finest small-batch rums in the world. September's event featured two plantation rums from Cognac Ferrand, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Vegas Bomb Plot: Zachary Jackson and Fellow Simi Valley Teen Threaten to Blow Up Strip

    High five!​Updated after the jump: Ventura County officials say the 16-year-old has not yet been arrested, and Vegas cops call the Strip "a very important part" of Nevada. Aw. Originally posted at 12:30 p.m. SoCal's bad little suburban boys (and girls) just keep getting craftier. Most recent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Best Local Limoncello: Ventura Limoncello

    JGarbeeRosanna Zaretti​It's not difficult to make your own limoncello, as Ventura Limoncello owners James Carling and his Rome-born wife Manuela Zaretti-Carling are quick to point out. But if you proclaim yours the best in SoCal (and please not Danny DeVito's namesake version), we will declar ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    August 4, 2011

    Bellflower: Flamethrowers and Broken Hearts

    Indie sensation is a macho, violent fantasia, and maybe the most honest film yet about the young male broken heart

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Teen Smash-And-Grab Robbery Suspect Arrested by LAPD With Help From His Own Parents

    LAPDA Koreatown smash-and-grab.​Just be glad you're not this kid: A 17-year-old was arrested in connection with a smash-and-grab jewelry store robbery that happened downtown on July 12. And you know who cops say fingered him? His own parents. The teen wasn't identified because he's underage. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    4th of July DUI Checkpoints Waiting For You in L.A., But You Can Avoid All That And Get a Free 'Tipsy Tow'

    TMZDon't be a Lohan.​Yes, there will be fireworks going off in your head this holiday weekend. We know our LA Weekly readers. But don't be a Lohan and stumble or, worse, get your ass busted for DUI. And, frankly, as you celebrate our quasi-independence from Mexico (joking), there's no excuse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    New Local Liqueur: Ventura Limoncello's Blood Orange Launches Today

    JgarbeeBlood Oranges Actually Look A Lot Like Lemons In Pith-Only Form​ Limoncello. It's easy to make, right? Not if you are pith perfectionists, as James Carling and Manuela Zaretti-Carling, the husband-wife duo behind Ventura Limoncello happen to be. Add mother-in-law (mom to Rossana, photo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Top 10 Local Burger Condiments

    JGarbeeHomemade Burger Buns Come In All Sizes, Too​As our fearless 30-burgers-in-30-days critic moves on to ice cream, some of us are still thinking about burgers. Because it's suddenly June, which means summer, or so we have been told. And so, we are now calendar-committed to stocking up on c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Bar BLVD & Lounge Opens Inside Studio City's Newest Hotel

    Bar BLVD​Studio City isn't famous for its nightlife, for its sushi maybe, but now we have another option to consider: 3,000 square foot Bar BLVD, inside BLVD Hotel Spa, opening Thursday, April 14th. The boutique hotel, which soft-opened February 4th with 58 rooms, is still smoothing out the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    UCLA Report: Racial Segregation is Alive in Los Angeles and Southern California Schools

    ​Separate but unequal. That's how a team of civil rights researchers at UCLA characterize the elementary and secondary schools in Los Angeles and surrounding counties in a recent report examining segregation. For while the days of actual Jim Crow laws in California may be gone, Latino and Afric ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Sweet Butter Kitchen: Market, Café, Kitchen A Ludo-approved Croque Monsieur

    A. ScattergoodSweet Butter Kitchen ​ For those of you who only head over to the San Fernando Valley when Ludo Lefebvre pops up on that side of the hill, there is another reason to actually go to Sherman Oaks. Open now for only six days, Sweet Butter Kitchen on Ventura Boulevard -- that's a fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Michael LoGrande Confirmed Planning Director; Symposium Asks, What Now?

    New Planning Director Michael LoGrande with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa​ Michael LoGrande, who had been the city's chief zoning administrator, was confirmed Wednesday by the City Council to become the new planning director. He'll be charged with creating and executing a vision for the city's fu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Shark Warning North Of L.A. Issued By National Park Service

    ​Great white sharks? In Southern California. Nice way to start off the summer season. The National Park Service issued a shark warning for the Santa Barbara area on Wednesday following a great white shark sighting off East Beach. A shark might have also attacked a sea lion pup that ended up de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    This Weekend: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings, Dead Man's Bones, Warped Tour, Black Francis, Danzig

    Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings​Can it get any more real that Sharon Jones? Well, it can't get any more heartwarming. The leading lady of the Dap-Kings is, after all, a rising star at 54, having shucked the uniforms of her previous careers (corrections officer at Rikers Island, and armor truck g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Spiritual Voice Of KCRW To Retire

    KCRW (89.9 FM) general manager Ruth Seymour announced Wednesday that she's retiring after 32 years running the public station out of Santa Monica College. She said she'll leave in February. Meanwhile, the college has already begun a search for a replacement.KCRWRuth Seymour​

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    Gold’s 99: Where’s the Fire?

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Landmark Realty The Los Angeles Coliseum! San Quentin Prison! Orange County Fairgrounds! These and other hot properties must liquidate and are priced to move! See Governor Schwarzenegger for details. L.A. TimesA Sequel You Can Believe In Obama for President campaigners are morphing their 2008 moveme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Swine Flu Scorecard: 99 Confirmed State Cases

    The state's Department of Public Health says there are 99 confirmed cases of swine flu in Nuke PillsCalifornia, with 119 "probable" cases being tested. One such probable victim is a Fairfax High School student -- the first such case recorded in the L.A. Unified School District. School superintendent ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 2, 2009

    Pink Slip Parties in L.A.: Laid Off but Not Out

    In the pink — half-price appetizers and $5 martinis

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Deputies Shoot Machete Man A young man said to be under the influence of drugs was discovered in a Rosemead back yard by sheriff's deputies. Ernesto Castaneda was shot when he threatened them with a machete and baseball bat. He later died. L.A. TimesMolina Slams Obama on Saenz According to Superviso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Sweet Smell of Secession: Another Move to Split California

    To hear Bill Maze tell it, L.A. County takes all the money generated by the rest of hard-working California and squanders it on stuff like "public services and education." Not only that, says the termed-out Assemblyman, but you've got places up north like San Francisco and Marin County that always v ... More >>

  • Music

    December 4, 2008

    Rock Picks: AC/DC, Dressy Bessy, Meshell Ndegeocello

    Also, the Submarines, Ruben Guevara, the Coup and more

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Man-Made Reefs or Oily Eyesores?

    In a raging debate, some say Mother Nature has warmed to California’s offshore oil rigs

  • Music

    June 7, 2007

    Love Each Other So, Androgynous

    In a raging debate, some say Mother Nature has warmed to California’s offshore oil rigs

  • News

    May 31, 2007

    What's Smart About Smart Growth?

    City Hall's plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car - and learn to love density

  • Music

    December 14, 2006

    Rock Picks

    For the week of December 14 – 21

  • Columns

    April 6, 2006

    Eight Seconds at a Time

    For the week of December 14 – 21

  • News

    December 29, 2005

    Big Wednesday

    Every surfer’s dream... and nightmare

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    The Nutty Professors

    Ingenious schemes to wash, pipe and blow away our worries

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Designer Air

    A clean city looks a lot like L.A.’s growth around transit stations

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2005

    The Lemons of Orange

    A clean city looks a lot like L.A.’s growth around transit stations

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Radio Provocateur

    Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    From Motown to Rimtown

    The blinging of Los Angeles

  • Columns

    September 18, 2003

    Maria Bustillos

    The blinging of Los Angeles

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Peace Games

    At Vandenberg Air Force Base, protest was just another military exercise

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Behind the Robes

    Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

  • Columns

    November 21, 2002

    The Performer's Life: Diana and the Supreme Karaoke Singers

    Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Copland

    How blue is my valley

  • Eat+Drink

    July 4, 2002

    So Cal-Asian

    How blue is my valley

  • Columns

    March 14, 2002

    Protest: Rat Trap

    How blue is my valley

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    A Scary Abundance of Water

    Part 2

  • News

    November 29, 2001

    No Room at the Ranch

    Ahmanson won’t have truly affordable units

  • LA Life

    August 3, 2000

    Child Abandonment

    Two mothers on the loose in Ojai

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Bump, Set, Spike

    South Bay Volleyball with the Best of ’em

  • Eat+Drink

    February 19, 1998

    Macaroni & Cheese

    And the crossing of cultural borders

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