Amy Scattergood

If you're celebrating Columbus Day today, Govind Armstrong's Melrose Avenue burger joint 8 oz. Burger Bar will help you out. They're extending their happy hour(s) today in honor of the federal holiday, which was established in 1934 by Franklin Roosevelt. If you want to know where your postal carrier and......

The second outpost of Fraîche will open this Wednesday for dinner, in the former Riva space in Santa Monica. The website goes up today for reservations. If this game of musical bar chairs seems somewhat confusing, you're not alone. But at least you know where you'll be eating your dinner......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It's impossible to turn a 350-pound pupusa. So I invented the pupusorno.'" World's Largest Pupusa: Why? Why not! "Why the pig? Why the man on stilts? Why the hell not." The Gorbals To Reopen, Possibly Next......

Tonight Silverlake Wine will be hosting a wine and cheese tasting event for, get this, the Nice Jewish Guys Calendar 2010. Yes, that's a real calendar, and yes, those are real nice Jewish guys. Apparently a longtime wine shop customer is also a nice-Jewish-guy-turned-calendar-model. Mr. January will be there, according......

Kristine Lefebvre is a lot more than her twitter name (@FrenchChefWife) would indicate. The former Apprentice finalist (and yes, Playboy covergirl) is a corporate transactional attorney who specializes in intellectual property law. As such, she's her chef-husband Ludo Lefebvre's (Ludo Bites) attorney, and in a uniquely qualified position to discuss......

In the this-picture-is-worth-1,000-words category, a Twitpic of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's breakfast, from his Twitter feed, @Schwarzenegger. Along with the picture, the text: "This is how I start my day." A bit more upbeat than his previous update ("Water is biggest crisis facing CA. 40% unemplymt in Cent Val. Delta close......

Anyone who's been downing Eric Alperin's violet-scented cocktails to cope with living in a post-Gourmet world should get up at least by 11 tomorrow morning and turn on the radio. On KCRW's Good Food program, Evan Kleiman will be discussing the demise of the much-loved magazine with the Weekly's Jonathan......

Downtown LA's Art Walk transformed Spring Street into a mobile eatery restaurant row on Thursday night. Nom Nom truck, Dosa truck, Cool Haus, Skewers on Wheels and Marked 5 were all lined up like a haphazard convoy. But the real show was a block or so further south, where Ilan......

We updated the status of The Point in Culver City not too long ago. This morning Mark Peel's mostly-take out (for now) eatery reopened for business. Starting today, they'll be open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Given the construction, you may need this handy map. Between......