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California Ranks Low on 2013 Locavore Index

California chefs -- think Alice Waters and Suzanne Goin -- have led the way in using seasonal, locally-sourced ingredients, practically inventing the concept of "California cuisine" in the process. And so it's surprising to learn that our state placed a miserable 42nd of 51 in a national index ran ... More >>

Best New Baking Book: Bake It Like You Mean It

Really, April is the ideal time to Bake it Like You Mean it, as we could probably all use a little post-Spring Break malakofftorte à la raymo (chocolate ladyfinger cake, here filled with Kahlua cream) kitchen therapy. This is the third in a recent series of pastry books from Gesine Bullock-Prado ... More >>

10 Best Arcades in L.A.

See also: *Family Fun Arcade Prepares to Close After Four Decades *10 Oddball L.A. Museums Worth Seeing *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. For those of us who grew up in the 1980s and '90s, arcades were an integral part of our childhood and adolescence. They existed inside malls and in shoppin ... More >>

Ask Squid Ink: Couples Cooking Classes, or Love Me Tandoor

Dear Squid Ink: In your experience with the wonderful restaurants and chefs of our city, have you stumbled across any unique places that offer cooking lessons? My lovely and talented wife is quite accomplished in cooking various cuisines at home and I'm looking to surprise her with some unique cook ... More >>

Read This Now: The Paris Review on Los Feliz' House of Pies

House of Pies, located on the corner of Franklin and Vermont in Los Feliz, is one of those places that catches your eye for a second on the drive past -- the indeterminately retro style of architecture, the old-school diner facade and, of course, the promise of fresh pie. For many locals, House o ... More >>

USC Student Knocked off Motorcycle by Hit-and-Run Driver 'in Critical Condition'

Google MapsThe driver was last seen speeding west on Lexington.​A 21-year-old motorcycle rider who attended USC was run over by a burgundy GMC Safari van from 1993 yesterday, just after the sun went down. After crashing into the bike at Vermont and Lexington near Los Feliz, the van took off do ... More >>

Dinner a Show: Sing-a-long Coen Brothers

Photo Courtesy For the Record​ In L.A., dinner and a show doesn't have to mean parking at the Arclight and walking to one of the myriad bars and restaurants near the movie theater. There are some great spots around town where you can dine and be entertained at the same time, and we don't mean ... More >>

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 >>

10 Restaurants Off the 10 Between Downtown and Santa Monica Where You Can Escape Traffic and Regain Your Sanity

Click for the Google Mapped version of the list.​ We've been there. It's rush hour. Or, Obama's in town. Or, there's a terrible hip-hop band on the freeway. Or, everyone decided to leave work at the same time. Whatever the reason, the Google Map's all red, you're not going anywhere, and y ... More >>

Masters of Pop, Pulp and Pots

Nine Degrees of Food & Wine: 9 Academic Food Programs

UW Digital Collections​Does your "I'm-running-away-from-home" daydream involve the countryside and small batch goat cheese or building a giant copper still in an industrial warehouse space? Maybe it's time to take the first step towards making that dream a reality, and maybe the way to go is t ... More >>

David LeFevre Readies M.B. Post in Manhattan Beach

Courtesy M.B. Post​ We've come to know David LeFevre for his seafood ways at Water Grill, where he was executive chef for six years. He left last fall to open his own place in the South Bay, Manhattan Beach Post (M.B. Post for short), which should debut next month. But he never promised us lob ... More >>

TGIF: LAPD DUI Checkpoint, 'Saturation Patrol' Planned for the Weekend

LAPD comin' at ya.​Didn't the LAPD just saturate the city with checkpoints and DUI "saturation patrols" during Super Bowl weekend? They did. And New Year's Eve? Ditto. The holidays? Yep. The thing is, they don't stop: Even as you're thanking God it's Friday, the boys and girls in blue are pla ... More >>

Circle Mirror Transformation

Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation and Tom Wells' Me, as a Penguin

The circle mirror game

R2D2 — and Double-Ds

Sapling Liqueur: A Vermont Fall in Los Angeles, Sort Of

Flickr user laurencebrilliantYour High ABV Maple Syrup Brunch​While the rest of the country is lounging by the fire with hot chocolate, we're still downing frozen margaritas (granted, they are flaming). In the weeks leading up to that pretend-it's-fall-moment (otherwise known as Thanksgiving i ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/11-10/15

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "There was a time when art in restaurants signified more than the $3,000 ceramic dildo for sale at the gift shop of Bazaar." Best High-Art Patio: Michael's. "If that sounds like the perfect snack after stumbling out of a b ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​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 ... More >>

Hoax Press Releases Falsely Report Deaths Of Two California Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein

​Fake news releases emailed to various media outlets earlier this week falsely announced the deaths of California senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer along with the demise of senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Kay Hutchison of Texas, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. The releases ann ... More >>

An Exponentially Good Time at Vermont Restaurant on 9/9/9 Rockwell Update

Exponents and neatly divisible numbers feel good in a practically Pythagorean and spiritual kind of way. At least Vermont restaurant and lounge must think so, since it's organizing a night of events around this theme tonight, i.e. 9/9/9. Photo credit: VermontLounge at Vermont, with additional chan ... More >>

Bring the Kids, Have a Drink: Are Silverlake Wine's Barnsdall Tastings TOO Family-Friendly?

When Silverlake Wine began weekly tastings on the west lawn of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House at the Barnsdall Art Park complex earlier this summer, fans of wine, architecture, and public life rejoiced. The series, which costs $15-20 per person to help benefit the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation ... More >>

Robert Frank: Beat-Gen photographer

A retrospective at the Egyptian and Silent Movie theaters

Phish: An LA Fan's Defense in the Wake of the Hampton, Virginia Reunion Shows

By Jeff Miller Growing up in LA's rock scene means spending your formative years building hipster credibility; writing about music in LA, as I've been doing for the last decade or so, often means working to maintain it. So there's a certain implicit shame when I admit a couple things about myself ... More >>

Rider on the Storm: The Best and Worst of L.A. Buses, Subways and Light Rail

Scenic journeys to hell, on wheels

The $850,000 Crosswalk, a.k.a. the Island of Dr. LaBonge

Your Los Angeles City Council at work

The B-Sides: Blu Interview

Contrary to popular belief, Blu did not take his name from the Eiffel 65 song popular in the late 90s. Q: So where exactly in LA did you grow up? A: I was born at St. Andrews and 54th, at my grandparent’s crib, that’s where I was living last year and it’s the first place I ever stayed. But ... More >>

Koushik-Out My Window

From Sugar Hill to the Wild Pitch/4th & Broadway/Rap-A-Lot years to Fondle 'Em and Rawkus, hip-hop was founded on a bedrock of great labels that you could generally trust whatever they released to be quality, save for the the 4th and Broadway-signed Stereo MC's (though we can all admit to liki ... More >>

Living Room On the Street: Public Parking on a Sofas Level

San Francisco landscape architect takes the indoors outside in L.A. neighborhoods

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I'm digging these multi-layered pasted posters around Hollywood and Silver Lake of video cameras, radios, and other techno-objects. They tend to be placed really low on walls, just a few inches off the ground, as if they're... well... as if they're lurking. Also, seen for months up and down ... More >>

Black Man Walking

I’m Too Sexy For My Grease Paint

A Costume Guide, of sorts

Missing El Lay

Eating the culture of resistance

An After Hours Burrito

Echo Park Is All Right With Me

Bamboozled in South L.A.

A new building will benefit everybody but the people who live there. So what else is new?

Building Confidence?

Riot-scarred Vermont Avenue finally gets a big development, but some say it’s the wrong kind

Barhopping the Red Line

Upwardly Mobile

Developer Dan Rosenfeld on the vertical future of Los Angeles

Coffee and Dessert

Letters

The Doctor is In

Rolling with people-powered Howard Dean from the highs and lows of spring to the triumphs of summer

Political Life: Shopping for a Hero

Howard Dean meets the Hollywood Left

The Steak House Rethunk

The Sound of Music

Gay Shame

The threat of a Bush victory

The Clove That Dares Not Speak Its Name

A jug of wine, a bulb of garlic and . . . whither goest thou, my pet?

DOG GONE IT ALL

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