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Corazon y Miel Review: Craft Cocktails and Creative Cooking Take Up Residence in a Surprising Place

The Bell restaurant's heart is in the right place, our critic finds.

How Medicare Fraud Became the Nation's Most Lucrative Crime

It costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. But the feds say they're finally trying to crack down

If Hipster Cameras Are So Popular, Why Did L.A.'s Lomography Stores Close Down?

As early as 15 years ago, if you wanted to take a picture, you'd need to bring your film into a lab and wait to see how the images developed. A semi-working knowledge of film speed helped, as did a bit of familiarity with shutter speed, aperture settings, and other variables required to produce a de ... More >>

Catherine Opie Discusses Her Three L.A. Art Exhibits

Flu Season Comes To Los Angeles, Blindsides Rest Of America

We survived the end of the world, the worst economy since the Great Depression, and the fiscal cliff. And you thought we were out of the woods? Nope. Flu season is your next big obsession if you're a pessimistic Debbie Downer who dwells on a dark future. Emergency room visits for this bug are expl ... More >>

Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards

Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post and one print pi ... More >>

Woman Set On Fire In Random Act Of Violence In Van Nuys

A woman was set on fire by a man in what appears to be a random act of psychotic violence overnight. The homeless lady, in her mid- to late-60s, was sent to a hospital in critical condition following the early morning attack in Van Nuys, police told the Weekly. It happened ...

How a Shabby Hollywood Intersection Became a Hot New Art District

Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication" History: "Californication" is from RHCP's Californication, an album that people high-fived when it was released b ... More >>

Cauliflower in Echo Park: Mohawk Bend and Red Hill Play With Their Vegetables

If we were to conduct a poll of the most appetizing vegetables, it's unlikely that cauliflower would show up anywhere near the top 10. The oddly shaped lumpy white vegetable looks a bit like broccoli's albino stepchild (excluding certain handsome heirloom varieties), and is often treated about as ... More >>

Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance

1:04 pm: In about 25 minutes, I'm going to be chaperoning a middle school dance. The dance is for the school's graduating 8th graders, of which there are several hundred. I've probably chaperoned fifteen of these things already. It's like being a bouncer at a night club, except this party will take ... More >>

Community Activists Spar Over Walgreens Project in West Hollywood

Update, Tuesday, May 8: West Hollywood City Council approved the Walgreens project on Monday night. Read reaction from those who opposed it after the jump. For years, West Hollywood community activists were united in their fight to stop the construction of a proposed Walgreens at Santa Monica and C ... More >>

New 'High End' Hollywood Walgreens at Sunset and Vine to Host Sushi Chefs, Makeup Artists

We always kind of associated Walgreens with crummy carpets and leftover Halloween candy on super-sale. (No offense, Walgreens. If it makes you feel any better, Rite Aid's worse.) But not the new 23,500-square-foot Walgreens slated to replace the shuttered Borders at Sunset and Vine! Apparently una ... More >>

Sunset Boulevard Project at Site of Late Tower Records On Hold For a Month as West Hollywood Opponents Ask For Downsizing

Developers of a proposed mixed-use strip mall that would stand at the former site of the famed Tower Records store on Sunset Boulevard hit the pause button over the weekend as opposition to the project, which would feature Times Square-like electronic billboards, grew to a roar. Project spokesman B ... More >>

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog Food Fight: Echo Park Street Vendor vs. The Stand

There is so much fuss over new baconized products (bazookas, salt, alphabets) that we sometimes forget that street vendors were outfitting hot dogs with bacon long before anyone knew how to tweet or Instagram. The vendors wheel out their carts like clockwork, punching in just as you're punching out ... More >>

Arsenic Levels in Fruit Juice Cause Concern

Flickr/Ben Garney​Thanks a lot, Mott's. Dr. Oz threw down the gauntlet a couple months ago when he commissioned a study that found that 10 of three dozen apple juice samples had a total arsenic level exceeding federal safety standards of 10 parts per billion (ppb). Now a new study from Consume ... More >>

U.S. Still a Dumping Ground for Crappy Honey, Study Finds

Flickr/Joelk75​ They're calling it "honey laundering." More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores is filtered to the point where it contains no pollen -- which would make it flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies, according to testing ... More >>

John & Ken Radio Show Plagued by Anti-Latino Hate Speech, UCLA Study Says

johnandkenshow.comJohn & Ken under the gun.​A UCLA study of broadcast hate speech, including a look at L.A.'s controversial John & Ken Show (KFI AM 640) found that two thirds of hateful statements analyzed targeted undocumented immigrants "and Latinos." The study (PDF) looked at single segmen ... More >>

The Kosher Corridor

A restaurant renaissance in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood

Top 5 Places to Eat in the Kosher Corridor

Guzzle & Nosh​Pico Boulevard has its share of intriguing restaurants, and the "Kosher Corridor," from Beverly Drive on the west to La Cienega on the east, is no exception. Although this neighborhood has long been home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish populations in the city, for years, ko ... More >>

LA Beer Week's Musical Beer Crawl Hits Echo Park Tonight

Cambria Griffith Craft beer takes over the taps at the Short Stop​ The third annual LA Beer Week (this year's "week" is fourteen days long) kicked off yesterday with a two-part, eight-hour party at Naja's Place in Redondo Beach. But if you missed out on the festivities, fret not. The celebrati ... More >>

Toothpaste Lawsuit: Encino Man Can't Squeeze Out Last 20 Percent of Paste From Tube, Wants His Dollar Back

Be not fooled by its friendly exterior: This tube is (allegedly) a dud.​In trying to solve one inconvenience of toothpaste -- the mess it can unleash on your bathroom sink -- it looks like Procter & Gamble may have created a whole new monster [Courthouse News Service]. At least, that's the in ... More >>

Kabab Mahaleh: Kosher Corridor's Best Cheap Eats

Guzzle & NoshBeef koobideh at Kabab Mahaleh.​In a neighborhood as heavy on Persian culture and cuisine as the Kosher Corridor, it shouldn't be so hard to find a good kebab. It shouldn't be, but it often is. The small and grubby Livonia Glatt Market grills up kebabs you can smell from half-a-bl ... More >>

The Ten Bloodiest Metal Album Covers [Gross, but not entirely NSFW]

Exhumed​At Exhumed's Sunday night show absolutely nothing trendy, hip, or fashionable will be on display. Picking up where they left off after a five-year hiatus, the California deathgrind pioneers will headline at the Key Club in support of their comeback release All Guts, No Glory. That titl ... 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 >>

Coheed & Cambria's Bassist Robs A Pharamcy

​Michael Todd of Coheed & Cambria, the once East Coast emo phenoms now worldwide arena rock stars, was arrested yesterday. Todd decided to add robbing a pharmacy for Oxycontin to his pre-show ritual, obviously the best time to try to pull a stunt like this: After walking up to the pharmacy de ... More >>

Why Can't L.A. Seem To Be Able To Regulate Its Pot Shops? And If Pot Is Such Legit Medicine, Why Don't They Sell It At CVS?

The L.A. City Council can't seem to pass this particular joint.​The city of L.A. has had worse luck trying to pass rules that govern pot shops than the Obama administration has had in trying to make health-care reform a reality. In fact City Hall's efforts at regulating cannabis retailers star ... More >>

Your Latest Dietary Law Kitchen Gadget: An Instant Pork Tester

Flickr/agtwo​ At last, a portable kitchen gadget for anyone trying to keep halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian, or any combination of the above. Scientists in Kazakhstan have come up with an instant pork tester. The plastic-stick test, which changes color rather like a pregnancy test, detects fo ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: --Honey, I'm home (indefinitely). Let's eat in. [LAT] -- Flu shot line at Walgreens too long? Head to the bar! [NYT] -- Annual turkey-shaped Jell-O mold contest at David Byrne's studio. [New Yorker] ... More >>

Rubber Soul: CVS Accused of Locking Up Condoms in Its Eastside Stores

CVS pharmacies are being accused of keeping their Eastside stores' condoms locked up at the same time its Westside outlets have the rubbers on open display. A press released issued by the labor federation Change to Win stated today that this practice "stigmatizes condoms and condom users," while not ... More >>

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

Porn Yesterday

Building Confidence?

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

Fight of the Condors

Can the giant birds survive Tejon Ranch development?

Leave Your Inhibitions at the Door

Mr. Fantastic, Superduper Star

Chris Jackson is a Backyard wrestler. All he wants from this media-saturated world is a little bit of glory, a little bit of fame. Even if it takes blood. Or having a fluorescent-light tube jammed

Our Bodies, Their Solutions

The rise and fall of one more fad diet

Invisble Man

Novelist Percival Everett on the wrong kind of success and his desire for anonymity