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Phamish Vanished: Food Truck Heist

Erica Zora Wrightson
A phunny thing happened on the way to the phood truck. Phamish, a Vietnamese food truck, has gone missing, and there are few details on its disappearance. A few weeks ago, a note on the Phamish blog reported the theft, but gave no information regarding how or why it was......

George Laguerre: From the Ruins

Erica Zora Wrightson
First, there was the 7.0 quake in George Laguerre's native Haiti , which destroyed houses and businesses of his friends and family. Then, on the night Laguerre was packing for his first trip back to Haiti since the disaster, an electrical fire burned his beloved Echo Park restaurant, TiGeorges. Asked......
Credit: PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON

Adam Cooper: The Mayor's Twitterer

Erica Zora Wrightson
In Adam Cooper's life, there is The Mayor in 140 characters or less, his cartoon strip, "Ted the Terrible Superhero," and Bruce Springsteen. Oh, and a helluva lot of food. When the 28-year-old Cooper isn't disseminating mayoral updates from his third-floor office at City Hall, he's usually racking up gastronomic......
Credit: PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON

Ken Jeong: Doctor on the Set

Erica Zora Wrightson
When comic actor Ken Jeong is tempted to laugh onstage, he thinks dark thoughts. "I'm pretty good about not breaking," he says. Except with Alison Brie, "Annie" in NBC's Community. "She's a silent killer." The last time Jeong had to resort to dark thoughts was on the set of The......
Credit: PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON

George Laguerre: From the Ruins

Erica Zora Wrightson
First, there was the 7.0 quake in George Laguerre's native Haiti , which destroyed houses and businesses of his friends and family. Then, on the night Laguerre was packing for his first trip back to Haiti since the disaster, an electrical fire burned his beloved Echo Park restaurant, TiGeorges. Asked......
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"Passing Time": Hank Jones, 1918-2010

Erica Zora Wrightson
Hank Jones, jazz pianist who started performing at age 13 in Pontiac, Michigan. Hank Jones, brother of drummer Elvin Jones and trumpeter Thad Jones. Hank Jones, who turned down offers to join the bands of Charile "Bird" Parker and then Miles Davis, because he didn't think he was good enough......
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Golden Fridays on KCRW

Erica Zora Wrightson
You can now hear KCRW's Good Food host Evan Kleiman and LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold on Friday afternoons. A condensed version of Gold's weekly restaurant profiles on Good Food will be played at 4:44 p.m. as part of All Things Considered. Rush hour never sounded so......