Michele Stueven

Summer is heating up and the days are getting longer, perfect for a sangria crawl across town. There’s a wealth of juicy fruit at the farmers markets to make your own and about as many different versions as there are tacos in L.A. Here are a few that we stumbled across, starting at the beach....

During the ’60s and ’70s on the small strip leading up from Pacific Coast Highway and the city’s only gay beach, you could enjoy a prime rib dinner and stiff martini at the Golden Bull restaurant, and then stumble two doors down to the S.S. Friendship for some after-dinner dancing and dalliance....

Four of L.A.’s top chefs converged at sunset on Saturday, June 23, in the hills overlooking the city for a cannabis-inspired culinary evening hosted by Bong Appetit’s Ry Prichard, treating guests to cannabis-infused edibles and drinkables....

The star of Lifetime TV’s Little Women L.A. and its franchise, Banks has created her own athletic clothing line called Boss Body and, most recently, a high-end blend of red wine, L’Tonya Renee. Inspired by her mother, who died in 2000, the wine is a blend of 48 percent merlot, 32 percent syrah and 23 percent zinfandel; it's produced by Longevity Wines in Livermore....

Next spring the Los Angeles LGBT Center will celebrate it’s 50th anniversary with the opening of the Anita May Rosenstein Campus and a multi-million dollar major expansion directly across the street from The Village at Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood, and nobody could be giddier about it than chef and board member Susan Feniger....

Grub restaurant owners Betty Fraser and Denise DeCarlo opened their charming, converted 1920s bungalow in the heart of the industrial section of Hollywood on Saturday night for a rare dinner, which featured CBD-infused gourmet fried chicken with terpene cocktail pairings....

I’m not sure if it’s my fascination with the afterlife or just a real estate issue, but it seems that more funky food choices have been popping up near historic cemeteries recently. Latest case in point: About a block from the famed Hollywood Forever Cemetery in East Hollywood is Marinate on Melrose, which has a selection of tacos, wraps, sliders and bowls that are sure to raise the dead — and appeal to local stoners....