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Quick Peek: Boho Reopens in Hollywood & Highland [Photo Gallery]

Elina Shatkin
The new incarnation of BoHo in Hollywood & Highland is scheduled to open April 18th, but here's a quick peek at the gastropub. The decor, done by Spacecraft's Kris Keith, is still upscale-bohemian with mix-and-match lighting fixtures, plenty of antlers and clubby, brown leather and dark wood booths. Despite a......
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Tax Day Deals: Blow Your Rebate Before You Get It

Elina Shatkin
April is National Grilled Cheese Month and National Poetry Month, but it's also a month of evil. It's tax month. To help, here are a few tax day and, in some cases, tax month, deals. (BTW the last date to file taxes this year is April 18th.) Every day during......
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Food Truck Friday: Auntie's Frybread

Elina Shatkin
Native American comfort food has finally hit L.A.'s food truck scene. Launched only a few months ago (thanks to a Kickstarter campaign) at local farmers markets, Auntie's Frybread (@auntiesfrybread) headed out on wheels just last week. The motto on the brown and tan truck proclaims "Native American fusion." That word,......
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CSI: NY Blows Up a Food Truck

Elina Shatkin
The food truck business is booming... literally. (Yes, we sometimes borrow our ledes from TV voiceovers.) In "Food For Thought," tonight's episode of CSI: NY, "the team enters the competitive world of gourmet food trucks when one explodes at a SoHo food festival." The plot details? Camille tricks Hawkes (Hill......
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Quick Peek: Malibu Inn Revamp [Photo Gallery]

Elina Shatkin
Malibu Inn on PCH has been many things in its 60 years (more than 60 if you count its original location, erected farther inland). Tourist draw, biker hub, Sunday brunch spot, concert venue, post-surf fill-'er-up and local hangout. At one point, it was Crazy Horse, a saloon and rock concert......
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Eat This Now: Cake Os, Cupcake Redux

Elina Shatkin
Cupcake balls. Cupcake lollipops. Cupcake burritos.* We've tried nearly every iteration of the cupcake. Most have been bland and gimmicky or fussy and cloying. A few have been plain disgusting. Not the Cake Os from Cakes Suzette, which we first discovered at Artisanal LA......
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Quick Peek: Osteria La Buca Reopens Tonight After Revamp [Photo Gallery]

Elina Shatkin
After a nine-day closure so it could revamp its menu (courtesy of chef Jason Neroni) and its interior (courtesy of designer Brendan Ravenhill), Osteria La Buca reopens tonight to the general public. (They held a friends-and-family preview last night.) Beginning tomorrow, La Buca will also reopen for lunch. The interior......
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Saveur, Cooking Light are National Magazine Awards Finalists

Elina Shatkin
The National Magazine Awards finalists were announced yesterday, and aside from the usual suspects (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire), never-before-nominated Cooking Light was a finalist in the Leisure Interests category -- alongside Golf Digest, Runner's World and Los Angeles. Speaking of Los Angeles, it couldn't touch The New Yorker's......
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Bacōn Cologne: It's Real — Or Is It?

Elina Shatkin
In case you want bacon on your body instead of just in it, there's Bacōn, a cologne that claims to combine the salty, savory scent of bacon with "11 essential oils" (manteca, we presume). Unless, of course, Bacōn is a spoof -- and we suspect it may be. Supposedly invented......