Jenn Garbee

Leave it to a piano playing mathematician to give us the musical theater version of the Periodic Table of the Elements. And a couple of calender designers (presumably hungry) to give us the edible version, aptly named The Periodic Table of Condiments.

It's been a rough year for cattle herding dogs.

If you happened to pop into the Santa Monica Whole Foods on Saturday - the one with the underground garage so tightly packed it's hard not to feel like Hugh Grant walking into a mobster meat freezer - you probably bumped into Rod Rotondi.

The line at Mozza is about to get longer. On July 22, the wood-burning pizza oven at 8-month-old Riva in Santa Monica is going on hiatus.

America the Beautiful. Home of hot dogs, competitive eating and as of last weekend, the "chew view" camera.