Elina Shatkin

--Michelle Bachmann eats a footlong corndog. At least if this whole presidential run doesn't work out, she has other career options. --Some dude from Chicago wins Food Network Star. --The Brits discover BBQ. --Dine like it's 1981: Saint Estèphe returns to Rivera for a month. --How many clowns fit in......

When Andy Warhol filmed a Screen Test with him for a planned film called The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys, artist Paul Thek truly was a beautiful boy. Clear-eyed and golden, even on black-and-white film, he was 31 and at the cusp of his career, obsessed with the glistening, waxy sculptures......

There were always plenty of good butchers around town, if you knew where to look, but now that butchery has, for better and worse, acquired a patina of hipness, meat and potatoes, with all the old world comfort and stodginess they represent, are safe again for the younger set. Perhaps......

Los Angeles Craft Beer Crawl With a beer selection curated by The Beer Chicks, you can hit seven downtown bars -- Golden Gopher, Seven Grand, Cole's, Las Perlas , Casey's, Caña and Broadway Bar -- to sample over 50 beers from 26 breweries including Allagash, Ballast Point, Bootlegger's, Brouwerij West,......

There's an update on the condition of the Silver Lake restaurant employee who was shot and seriously wounded last weekend in an apparent road rage incident. Sadly, Juan David Vasquez Loma (who goes by David Vasquez), an employee of two popular silver Lake restaurants, El Chavo and Garage Pizza, is......

Gourmet foodstuffs are big business, especially if you're skimming off the top of that triple cream brie. Lisa Sackie, 47, yesterday pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges stemming from her embezzlement of $1.1 million from Santa Barbara Bay Foods. Between 2004 and 2010, Sackie, who served as the Vice President......

There are many things Brentwood needs. Apparently, Chipotle is one of them. Even after Soul Daddy's stunning but unsurprising failure, Chipotle co-CEO Steve Ells has enough cash to open this new location, which will open at the corner of Barrington Avenue on San Vicente Boulevard on August 17th. Like all......

In some ways, last night's Downtown Art Walk looked exactly the same as it has for the past couple years: gallery hoppers, drunken revelers and pedestrians all enjoying the breezy street fair vibe. In one important way, it looked very different: no food trucks clogging the Historic Core's main drag......