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  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Top 5 Weekend Food Events: TEDx: Food, Soba Movie Night, Cupcake Challenge, Burger Night, A Cook's Tour to Mexico

    Guzzle & NoshAn entrant at a previous Cupcake Challenge.​TEDxSantaMonica The theme at this month's smartypants gathering is food, specifically how local Santa Monicans are transforming their community. After cocktails and mingling, there will be a discussion with chef and radio host Evan Kleim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Quetzal, East L.A. Activists to Their Core, Play Tomorrow

    See also: *Las Cafeteras Defy Tradition Sitting in a Highland Park restaurant behind a plate of french fries and a mint tea, Quetzal Flores talks about gentrification. The subject plays into his new album with his Mexican-Afro-Cuban rock band Quetzal, called Imaginaries, which is out next month on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Las Cafeteras On The Strict Rules Of Son Jarocho Music

    Brandon Showers​Editor's note: This week Erica E. Phillips tells the remarkable story of Los Angeles group Las Cafeteras, a seven-piece who play a traditional type of Veracruz music called Son Jarocho. But they're controversial because they put their own spin on it -- merging a punk ethos, imp ... More >>

  • Music

    December 29, 2011

    Las Cafeteras Defy Tradition

    Their take on Veracruz music is pissing some folks off

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Ask Mr. Gold: Señor Bayless Where To Eat Regional Mexican Food in L.A.

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: Chef Rick Bayless has continuously told the media that he thinks L.A. is a "timid" food city and that we do not have as good regional Mexican cooking as what he can find in Chicago. He seems to think that we only have "California" Me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    It's Cinco De Mayo: Do You Know What Actual Mexicans Are Listening To?

    Listen up Gringos! Today might be Cinco De Mayo but did you know there's a lot more to the strangely non-English language celebration than rhyming 'Cinco' with 'Drinko'? There is! You see, there's this country called 'Mexico' just south of here, and it turns out Cinco De Mayo actually commemorates ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2011

    'RACH & ROLL

    Listen up Gringos! Today might be Cinco De Mayo but did you know there's a lot more to the strangely non-English language celebration than rhyming 'Cinco' with 'Drinko'? There is! You see, there's this country called 'Mexico' just south of here, and it turns out Cinco De Mayo actually commemorates ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Rick Bayless Does a Star Turn at Red O

    B. HansenRick Bayless at Red O, with Edgar Vazquez (left) and Victor Torres (right)​Red O was jammed the other night, but for the real action, you had to have an invitation to the tequila lounge. The highlight of the party in there was an appearance by Rick Bayless, who had flown from Chicago ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    December 16, 2010

    Pork, Glorious Pork

    Quell carnitas craving at Cacao Mexicatessen

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Ask Mr. Gold: Quelling That Carnitas Craving at Cacao Mexicatessen

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Where can I find good carnitas? I'm thinking like the kind I'd get off the taco trucks in Oakland -- we loved to go to El Ojo de Agua. Relatively close to Pasadena would be nice. --Nina K. Dear Ms. K.: You are, alas, a few years too la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Rick Bayless Introduces Los Angeles to Authentic Music

    Courtesy of KCRW.Chef Rick Bayless.​Now that chef Rick Bayless has succeeded in finally introducing Los Angeles to authentic Mexican cuisine, he's introducing us to authentic music. The controversial Chicago chef behind (well sorta kinda behind) recently opened upscale Mexican restaurant Red ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 23, 2010

    Red O: Back to Bayless

    Bringing Mexican to L.A., With Mixed Results

  • Eat+Drink

    July 8, 2010

    La Cevicheria: Blood and Clams

    Ceviche to die for

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    Messy Shoppers, Guatemalans and Lebanese Wannabes

    Ceviche to die for

  • News

    June 12, 2008

    Secure Borders? Try Fenced In

    With $860 million spending sprees, high-tech surveillance towers that don't work and Operation Streamline show trials, it's still the same old catch-and-release game

  • Eat+Drink

    November 1, 2007

    A Federal Case

    Eating D.F. style on both sides of town

  • Eat+Drink

    October 4, 2007

    Stop the Music!

    In search of a quiet place to eat in L.A.

  • Art+Books

    August 2, 2007

    Relatives in the Mirror

    Unearthing la raza’s Third Root

  • LA Life

    July 5, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Dividing the Multiplying mindset

    "Dear Mexican: After asking my dad about black people in Mexico, it almost seemed as if Mexicans don’t like speaking about black people in their country.... Are we Mexicans racist toward black people?"

  • LA Life

    May 10, 2007

    Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu

    The Taste of Nostalgia

  • LA Life

    February 15, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Corn Beef

    Rice grows in rice paddies flooded with water. From what I understand, Mexico is mostly desert. So how on earth (literally) did Mexicans end up making arroz a staple of their diet?

  • Eat+Drink

    December 29, 2005

    That’s Entertainment

    Sometimes the show is on the plate, but sometimes all you have to do is look around.

  • Music

    December 8, 2005

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Does L.A.

    Sometimes the show is on the plate, but sometimes all you have to do is look around.

  • Eat+Drink

    October 20, 2005

    Self Serve

    Chosun Galbi, a pleasant restaurant with the patio-side glamour of a Beverly Hills garden party.

  • Eat+Drink

    March 31, 2005

    Ceviche

    Chosun Galbi, a pleasant restaurant with the patio-side glamour of a Beverly Hills garden party.

  • News

    March 24, 2005

    Last Exit to Tombstone

    Scenes from the capital of illegal immigration

  • Eat+Drink

    December 16, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Scenes from the capital of illegal immigration

  • Eat+Drink

    December 2, 2004

    Regional Mexican

    Scenes from the capital of illegal immigration

  • Art+Books

    June 3, 2004

    Dead Men Walking

    Border crossings gone very, very wrong

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2004

    Man vs. Mongrel

    Love, lust and the dog fighter

  • Art+Books

    April 29, 2004

    Man vs. Mongrel

    Love, lust and the dog fighter

  • Eat+Drink

    January 22, 2004

    Keep on Trucking

    Love, lust and the dog fighter

  • Eat+Drink

    November 20, 2003

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Love, lust and the dog fighter

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    The Mystery of Digna Ochoa

    Did the Mexican human-rights lawyer kill herself?

  • Eat+Drink

    February 28, 2002

    Hey, Babita

    Looking for La Moderna

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Ultimate Indignity

    The killing of Digna Ochoa tests Mexico’s president

  • Film+TV

    September 6, 2001

    South of Your Border

    New films from Mexico

  • Music

    February 8, 2001

    New Music

    New films from Mexico

  • Stage

    January 18, 2001

    New York, New York

    Actoids, lockdowns and double rainbows

  • News

    September 14, 2000

    I'm Just a Three-Striking Old Softie

    Actoids, lockdowns and double rainbows

  • Eat+Drink

    May 4, 2000

    Gills & All

    The fish, the whole fish and nothing but the fish

  • Eat+Drink

    March 30, 2000

    Welcome to La La Land

    But not a lotus in sight

  • Art+Books

    December 23, 1999

    Mexico and Y2K

    The U.S. stands to lose if millennium bug strikes south of the border

  • Eat+Drink

    October 21, 1999

    Marine Land

    Finally a great fish taco in Los Angeles

  • Eat+Drink

    October 21, 1999

    Good, Better, Wurst

    You never sausage a thing in your life . . .

  • Eat+Drink

    May 20, 1999

    Ahoy, Amigos!

    Something's fishy south of the border(s)

  • Eat+Drink

    January 14, 1999

    Loco Moco and Other Delights

    1998's best dishes

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    Third Ear

    Bossa Nova Hunchback Corpses on the Moon

  • Eat+Drink

    March 26, 1998

    Grill Crazy

    Bossa Nova Hunchback Corpses on the Moon

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    Forcing the Issue

    Tijuana strike highlights the trouble with NAFTA

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