James Bartlett

Lawry's ribeye; Credit: courtesy: Lawry's

Lawry's The Prime Rib Announces First New Dish in 20 Years

Tom Bergin's may have been the latest old school casualty, but Musso & Frank's is still around after 94 years and has never changed its menu, something that could also be said for Lawry's The Prime Rib, the granddaddy of what we now know as Restaurant Row -- until now......
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Tickets on Sale Now for Taste of the Farmers Market on July 16th

The Original Farmers Market at 3rd & Fairfax is already a varied dining experience, with everything from Korean BBQ and Brazilian sausage to brisket, tofu and gumbo. For dessert, there's tiny chocolate mousse, warm donut holes, root beer floats and lots, lots more. But at the 5th annual Taste of......
cocktails at The Varnish; Credit: Anne Fishbein

5 Great Hidden Cocktail Bars in Los Angeles

With so many bars to choose from across L.A., some owners have opted to make themselves so special that you almost can't find them -- or maybe they've been there for years, but you just didn't know it. Groping around in the dark or stumbling down a back alley may......
Smokin' at the Purple Orchid; Credit: Facebook/Purple Orchid

Top 5 Tiki Bars in Los Angeles

Even if it's reborn as part of the newly-imagined Clifton's, many still mourned when aquarium-filled Bahooka tiki bar in Rosemead closed its doors recently. But in NoHo, the Tonga Hut will be celebrating its 55th birthday this year -- and appropriately for such an exotic craze, the phenomenon began right......
candy vending machines; Credit: James Bartlett

Sweet! Hollywood + Sweets for My Suite at the Loews Hotel

The holidays are the ideal -- and perfectly acceptable -- time for kids of all ages to chow down on chocolate, crunch candy and basically indulge your sweet teeth. At the new Sweet! Hollywood candy emporium at Hollywood & Highland, which soft-opened in November, you can literally do this; there's......
Copies of internal Daily Police Bulletin magazines at the L.A. Police Historical Society Museum; Credit: James Bartlett

James Ellroy Gives Us a Tour Through the LAPD History Museum

See also:*Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *5 Freaky L.A. Crime Sites from James Ellroy's City of Demons Dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, novelist James Ellroy breezes into the Los Angeles Police Historical Society Museum, collapses into a chair, puts a foot up on the table and wonders aloud where......