Emma Courtland

Psychic eating powers, bird flu-related conspiracies, and ass-kicking FDA agents more or less round out the major plot points in Chew, the latest full color comic book venture from writer John Layman (Puffed, Army of Darkness/Xena: Why Not?) and artist Rob Guillory. In July, Chew, which centers around Agent Tony......

The waffles at Shaky Alibi, a new coffee bar and wafflerie on Beverly Boulevard, are markedly different from those famously large, fluffy Belgian waffles served down the street at the Fairfax Farmers Market. These Liège waffles, named for the city in Belgium where they're sold by cart-toting street vendors, are......

In addition to the comic books, video games, and movies about comic books and video games, the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con debuted a new batch of nerdy snack foods this past weekend. Attendees geeked out, and rightly so. A nerd's gotta eat, mainly because walking the half million square foot......

That it exists nowhere else in the world, that it is of mixed and dubious cultural origins, or that its architecture is not unlike a Hot Pocket shouldn't necessarily preclude this from the Best Of category -- the wowshi at Bella Pita is, indeed, the best. For nothing but best......

Whether consciously or not, there are a few specific signs we look for when approaching a pho shop. Among these: a B grade from the health department, and a waitstaff with limited English are often the first signals of the bounty of powerfully delicious, sweat-inducing, MSG-filled noodle soup that awaits......

The foodie's documentarian, Les Blank, director of "Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers," "All in this Tea," and "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe," which, though only 20 minutes long, is quite possibly the most perfect union of food and film ever captured on celluloid, will pay a visit to......

So you didn't make it to last night's screening of "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead," a grindhouse zombie musical about the fast food industry, at the New Beverly Cinema? The film PETA called "A vegetarian-manifesto masterpiece"? Here's a taste of what you missed: When the Tromahawk Indian burial ground......

Q: What's better than an energy dome? A: An energy dome made of JELL-O. On display at the new Tender Greens Hollywood: terraced mold of cherry JELL-O, like a translucent ziggurrat crowned by Cool Whip, beneath the caption "Crack that whip!". The poster, for a show that 80's New Age/fashion......

Everyone's talking about Mid-City's newest burger joint, Burger Kitchen. Specifically about the fact that they serve 22 hamburger variations, including a breakfast burger and a dessert burger. What nobody seems to mention, however, is that 22 burgers divided by 7 days in the week approximates π, or pi, the ratio......