Dave White

Still life with Bitter Lemon; Credit: Photo credit: Dave White

Current Obscure Product Obsession: Schweppes Bitter Lemon

If you were born anytime before the advent of, say, Crystal Pepsi, then you may remember a time when Schweppes Bitter Lemon was widely available and people actually drank it. Around since 1957, it was never incredibly popular in this country--if you grew up with sophisticated or alcoholic parents who......
Real Food Daily's vegan blueberry pancakes; Credit: Photo credit: Dave Smith

Cooking (and Eating) Dangerously: Where to Go for Vegan Gluten-free Pancakes

Unless you're Elisabeth Hasselbeck--The View's resident Republican published a gluten-free "survival guide" in May--the gluten-free vegan pancake is not something you will want to try at home. Amateurs are less likely to wind up with pancakes than very unappetizing pan-bricks. But because Los Angeles is the city where most dietary......

Night Out: Man's Spiritual Journey Begins With Prada

There’s a joke about attending the opening of an envelope in all this. But in my defense, it was a sturdy matte-black envelope embossed with Prada’s logo. And it was addressed directly to me — apparently straight from Miuccia herself in Milan! I couldn’t just toss it out like it......

Diary of a Gay, Traffic-Snarling Sore Loser

I’m protesting against Proposition 8 — after the fact — with thousands of other people because: 1. We lost, and I hate everyone now. Especially you good people who voted for Prop. 8. You’re all jerks. Burn in Hell. 2. Queer protest marches always have the most imaginative chants, notwithstanding......

The Gayest Wedding, at La Brea Tar Pits

I like the Bismarck the best. That’s the doughnut with the red-flavored jelly on the inside, powdered sugar on the outside. It’s the messiest, most impolite doughnut you can eat. And that’s the doughnut my friends bought and impaled with toothpicks topped with two cutout paper grooms for our reception......

Day of the Dolphin

We were going to find that stretch of Malibu that David Geffen once tried to declare off limits to the public. I wanted that to be my first beach experience in Los Angeles. But I ended up at El Matador instead, with a dozen gays, my first time at a......

Husband and Husband

“Let’s go to Toronto and get married!” says my boyfriend, all sparkly. He says this because it’s now legal for queers to get married a couple thousand miles away in Canada. And I approve of that. In fact, I think it would be nice if the same thing were available......