Amy Scattergood

Sure you can watch football or go to church on Sunday (same thing for some of us), but this particular Sunday, Sept. 29, you might want to head to West Hollywood, where the 12th edition of the West Hollywood Book Fair will be going on. Yes, books. We still read......

Ramen Yokocho Fest Weekly LALALA, the L.A.-based Japanese free magazine, is presenting the first Ramen Yokocho Festival, a two-day noodle extravaganza, in Torrance. Billed as the "largest ramen festival in the U.S.," the event will have 12 vendors, from Japan, Hawaii, Las Vegas, San Jose and L.A. Local ramen shops......

Is it ramen weather? It is decidedly not, nor is it likely to be next weekend in Torrance, but you're just going to have to suck it up (literally, in this case) anyway, at least if you truly love ramen. Because next Saturday and Sunday you have someplace to be,......

It's the season of chile roasts, even if you don't live in New Mexico, and if you didn't make it to Sante Fe you can head on over to the Santa Monica farmers market, where they're having southwest-style chile roasts every Saturday for the month of September at the Saturday......

The Onion, America's finest news source, celebrates its 25th birthday today. Congratulations! Founded in 1988 by two juniors at the University of Wisconsin in Madison -- it being an article of faith that most genius things are created in dorm rooms -- the satirical newspaper has spent the last quarter......

The end of August is high season for stone fruit in Southern California, with peaches in particular loading the stalls of L.A. farmers markets. Peaches, pluots, plums and more peaches, including the prized O'Henrys, which are only available for a few short weeks. In fact the folks at Tenerelli Orchards,......

The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. A chef puts his art on the plate, the white expanse of porcelain standing in for the blank field of the stretched canvas. In this era of social media, the logical......

Danielle Keene has always had a fondness for retro. Back when she ran the dessert kitchen at Wilshire, she instituted Ice Cream Shoppe night. She often favors a '50s-era aesthetic at her Pasadena bakery and ice cream shop, Bittersweet Treats, putting bundt pans on the walls and Whoopie pies in......

If two of the things you love most in life are football and tacos, as is true for some of us, you have someplace to be on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 8. This is, as you of course know, the first Sunday of the 2013 NFL season. To celebrate......