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He's no longer merely the voice of the Nasonex allergy-fighting bee. Actor Antonio Banderas is now the spokesman for Anta Banderas, a line of Spanish wines he introduced this weekend at the annual South Beach Wine and Food Festival in Florida. Before heading to the Oscars in Los Angeles on......

Conan O'Brien loves gravy. That's what the ultra-pale comedian and TV show host discovers when he visits M&M Soul Food with his pal, comedian and actor Deon Cole......

Walmart is coming to downtown Los Angeles. The big box retail giant plans to open a grocery store on the northern edge of downtown L.A., reports the Los Angeles Business Journal. The 33,000-square-foot market will be located at the northwest corner of Cesar Chavez and Grand avenues inside the ground......

Created by Japanese inventor Yukio Horie in 1963, the humble highlighter has moved far beyond basic yellow. There are dozens of colors -- and flavors. Raymond Geddes makes 21 flavors of scented highlighters, from sweet to savory, obvious to absurd. There's Fudgie Wudgie, Candy Apple, Pizza, Lemonade and more. How......

Last time we hosted a Celeb Coffee Showdown, we threw Darth Vader, David Lynch and Rob Zombie into the same metaphorical octagon. What did we learn? Everyone's a product whore, even the Dark Lord. This time, we went for a less formal but more carefully curated showdown, pitting Bonny "Prince"......

This is what happens when London rag The Evening Standard sends a cheerfully clueless writer to Los Angeles. She discovers an "alternative Los Angeles," one where, "You'll even find that rare Los Angeles sighting -- the non-collagen-implanted, surgically unaltered human being." You know where we find that kind of neighborhood?......

These past six months have been a game of musical chairs in the pastry department at two Wolfgang Puck restaurants. When pastry chef Sally Camacho left WP24 to oversee the pastry program at the reopening Wolfgang Puck at the Hotel Bel-Air, Cassie Ballard stepped in at WP24 with her own......

So much can happen between two slices of bread. Practical, portable, difficult to define and nearly impossible to mess up entirely, the sandwich offers a broad canvas for the harried parent or the creative chef. John Montagu (aka the 4th Earl of Sandwich) could never have dreamed of the baroque......

Can You Dig It? Chef David LeFevre kicks off a seasonal series where he hosts a guest chef who will cook a three-course meal of shareable small plates. For the inaugural event, it's LeFevre's pal Giuseppe Tentori (Boka, GT Fish & Oyster in Chicago), who's highlighting produce from Maryann Carpenter......

A car slammed into popular Echo Park restaurant Pizza Buona shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, shattering the glass window in front, smashing through tables and chairs and sending a pregnant woman to the hospital. The dining room was empty at the time, but a 20-year-old pedestrian was dragged when......