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Now Open: King Hot Dog in Koreatown

Now in its second month of operation, the quiet King Hot Dog on Western is, in the words of General Akbar, "fully operational." In a northern strip of Koreatown just below Beverly that's not exactly known for quick, approachable lunches, King Hot Dog is pushing diners through their doors with fast, ... More >>

The Killer in You

California Dominates America's Happiest Twitter Cities

Los Angeles might not have made this list of happy cities, but three Southern California towns did. (Are we then, happy by association?). And the University of Vermont found that California was a top 13 happy state and that Napa was the nation's happiest city. They did so by analyzing 10 million ge ... More >>

85°C Bakery Café: Squid Ink Bread A New Location in West Covina

At first glance, the pastry looks far from appetizing. The exterior is a steely black color and out from the middle, a green, mucus-like spread of garlic oozes out from the freshly baked crust. It's an ugly specimen of pastry -- but a cult-favorite among customers. It's really just a glorified garl ... More >>

Cheese-Making May Date Back 7,500 Years

Aged cheeses are delicious, although 7,500 years old might be a bit much. But that's how old the practice of cheese-making may be -- much older than previously thought -- according to an article in the journal Nature. Scientists have reportedly discovered 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that have ... More >>

Shaoyan Almazan, Bicyclist Run Down And Fatally Shot, Was Riding in M.S. Gang Turf

On a warm and breezy afternoon over the weekend a bicyclist was run off the road by an SUV in Koreatown and then gunned down. It remains a whodunnit for the LAPD, which named the victim of Saturday's attack as 19-year-old Shaoyan Almazan. A friend who was also on a bike was shot in the hand and sur ... More >>

LaOn Dining: "Exceptionally Satisfying" Korean Tapas

LaOn Dining is a tapas restaurant located right next door to Don Dae Gam, the immensely popular, pork-intensive Korean BBQ restaurant. If you walk into one because you thought it was the other -- depending on where you were trying to get to, the presence or absence of the tabletop grills should tip ... More >>

Vermont Kale Advocate Battles Chick-fil-A Over Slogan Similarities

"Eat mor chikin," beg the witless cows in Chick-fil-A advertisements, eager to avoid a grisly fate and carrying on the Atlanta-based chain's tradition of eccentric spelling in the process. As far as intellectual property goes, the slogan is pretty low-wattage, but that isn't stopping the company fr ... More >>

Listeria Hysteria: Romaine Lettuce Recalled Over Contamination Fears

Flickr/MuffetCalifornia's True Leaf farms has recalled their romaine​ Stop! Put down that salad fork! No, not because you're using the wrong fork. California's True Leaf farms is recalling 2,498 cartons of chopped romaine lettuce because it may be contaminated with listeria bacteria, although ... More >>

Los Feliz Village Street Fair's Fashionably Funky (and Free) Fest, 7/24/11

Lina LecaroA "feliz" fest.​The period from now until Labor Day will be fest-full to say the least. Sunset Strip Music Fest, Sunset Junction Street Fair and FYF Fest will see hordes moving through the streets of LA, angling for a view of their favorite bands, gnawing on greasy grub from the foo ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Eighth Street Soondae

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Visits Eighth Street Soondae

Anne FishbeinSoondae​ This week, Jonathan Gold visits Koreatown, the soondae restaurant, and specifically Eighth Street Soondae, one of the oldest and most respected of its genre. Soondae, for example, Korean blood sausage, is a popular dish, and you proably could have led a friend to two or ... More >>

Midnight Ridazz, in Group of 100 L.A. Cyclists, Plowed Over by Young Female DUI Suspect in Culver City; Some in Critical Condition

Midnight RidazzFrom a past Koreatown Wednesday​Updated after the jump: Christine Elizabeth Dahab, 27, was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence. One Midnight Rida calls her a "drunk bitch." Originally posted at 8:50 a.m. The famed Midnight Ridazz took a hard hit in the wee hours ... More >>

Project SOAR: Giving Kids a Chance to Sing and Dance

Courtesy of Hollywood Arts CouncilKids from Project SOAR show their artwork​ Up onstage in the Los Feliz Elementary School auditorium, a group of third-graders literally runs through an improvisational acting exercise, the instructor having directed them to scurry at each other from opposin ... More >>

Now Open: Mother Dough Pizza in Los Feliz

J. Ritz​ When a pizza restaurant runs out of dough during a busy night, it's a bummer for hungry customers who show up expecting to eat. For the restaurant, there could be worse problems. To anyone else, the irony is kind of amusing, given that the business's name itself contains said pizza co ... More >>

Jontahan Gold Reviews Frysmith

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

Marlin Harvey, L.A. Homicide No. 211: 38-Year-Old Gunned Down Near Westmont

Google Maps​A man fatally shot around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, has been identified as 38-year-old Marlin Harvey. The shooting took place on the 1300 block of West 95th Street, between Vermont and Normandie Avenues, according to City News Service.

Beware The Motorcade: President Obama's Visit To Los Angeles Friday Will Cause Street Closures, And We Have The List

We hope we're not caught in Obama's traffic.​Here's the fun part of President Obama's visit to USC: We'll soon get to debate about which of his recent L.A. trips, his Westside appearance in August or his Trojan-campus campaign stop for Sen. Barbara Boxer at 1:30 p.m. Friday, tied up the most t ... More >>

"The problem of Israel and her neighbors may take years to solve" & other astute observations from Let's Visit the Middle East

​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Let's Visit the Middle East Author: John C. Caldwell Date: 1966 Publisher:John Day Company, New York Di ... More >>

Brothers Benny And Nissan Pirian Get One Year In Jail For Underpaying, Overworking Car Wash Employees

cleancarwashla.org​Brothers Benny and Nissan Pirian, owners of four Los Angeles area car washes, were each sentenced to one year behind bars and ordered to cough up $1.25 million in unpaid wages to 54 workers, according to La Opinion. The duo also received four years probation. All this came ... More >>

At the Tip of the Spear

Players on the fringe, making the future

Dine Out & Bake For Haiti: More Fundraising Events Around Town

Celebrities banded together for "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon on Friday, which raised $57 million and counting. And on a bit of a smaller, but no less meaningful scale, local bakers and restaurants have been rallying support for those in need, suffering from t ... More >>

Chaos in the Casitas

Lawless, south of the border-style speakeasies get a grip on L.A.

Details Emerge On Obama's Pot Stance

Just as a crackdown on the city's medical marijuana dispensaries is being set in motion, the Obama administration is calling off the federal fight against sellers and buyers who abide by laws in California and 13 other states that allow the distribution of doctor-approved pot, the Associated Press i ... More >>

Flour Wars: A Flour Primer, No Product ID Test Required

When I was in culinary school we were given product ID tests, and the most difficult one, by far, was a flour test orchestrated by the baking instructors during the second round of baking classes. Repeating rows of mis en place cups were lined across the steel prep tables, each one containing a diff ... More >>

Umami Burger Expands to Los Feliz and Fred Segal Santa Monica

Umami Burger has helped spread word of the so-called "fifth taste," and now it's time for its own second and third locations. After all, the La Brea streamlined burger joint has been as packed as an ambitiously-built burger since it opened in February. Photo credit: Umami BurgerUmami: coming to a n ... More >>

Transformers, Bel-Air Brats and Kobe, Oh My! Lakers Parade at Coliseum Brings L.A. Together

Jeff CowanLakers fans: Storm Troopers and Transformer Bumble BeeLos Angeles doesn't really do civic pride. We're too aloof and jaded for that sort of thing. We're a secular, sunglasses indoors, windows up, bowling alone type of town (except that when we bowl, it's usually at some swanky alley with a ... More >>

Queer Town: The Torie Osborn Speech

Torie Osborn in downtown Los AngelesIn a recent speech given by Torie Osborn at a grassroots training seminar called Camp Courage, the longtime gay rights activist and former executive director of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center called for a new way of doing things within the gay establishm ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Wayne Shorter at Disney, Mundell Lowe at Giannelli Square, Ralph Alessi at Ramada Hollywood

Diary of a Gay, Traffic-Snarling Sore Loser

A married man's protest

You Can Feel It All Over: Partying on Election Night With Hollywood's Godless Liberal Elites and Lowlifes

Keeping score at Big Wangs, the Century Plaza and the Echoplex

Will i Am Offers Obama Handjob Via Campaign Song

As the voters of Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio filed to the polls yesterday to help decide the Democratic Party's nomination for President, will.i.am., the capitalization averse mastermind of the Black Eyed Peas continued his steadfast efforts to help elect Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Beneath an Amber Moon

Seven days of solid jazz, plus the sounds of Brazil

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Just another perfect day

The Last Drive-in

Taking in the air at the county’s only “ozoner”

Crullers That Bloom in Spring

Time to see the Donut Man

Fashion Conscience

Sweet Charity — where giving looks as good as it feels

What Happend to My Piece of The Cake?

How far I have come from the Van Nuys Motel 6. Almost right where I started, give or take a few blocks. Since then, a friend (ok, my ex-boyfriend) took my dog cross country. Stevie (my four legged dog child) has been to San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and today swam (or tried to) in a river in Mon ... More >>

On the Boulevard

IS THE DOCTOR In?

Howard Dean and the fight for the DNC's soul

Resurrection of the Two Johns

And Dean’s debacle in Iowa

Initiation by Fire

Hard lessons learned by a paper and a journalist when the city burned

No Crystal Method

Edited by Kateri Butler

Actionauseam

Junkman’s Journey

Beck at the crossroads

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

Drunken Santas

Red Line Blues

Up and down the new Metro Rail stations