Michele Stueven

Rejoice, ballers, March Madness is here. It’s that time of year when the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament takes center stage as the premier spring sporting event. Print out an official March Madness Bracket and follow the rounds at these six spots:...

L.A. Family Housing will honor Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas at its 20th annual awards event on Thursday, April 25, at the Lot in West Hollywood for his dedication to ending homelessness in Los Angeles. Actor Michael B. Jordan will present the supervisor with the RBC|City National Bank Inspiration Award....

The seventh annual Latin Food Fest returns to Los Angeles State Historic Park March 29-30 and will feature a long lineup of participating chefs including Mary Sue Milliken, Susan Feniger, Jaime Martin Del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu....

Tonya Allen’s passion for cooking started in the kitchen of her family’s San Fernando Valley home at the apron strings of her mother and grandmother, preparing dishes from their homeland of British Guyana. No Christmas passed without a week’s worth of pepper pot on the stove. It’s also where she learned the power of women; she has set the same tone of sisterhood at Bacari PDR, where she has worked her way up from line cook to chef de cuisine....

Nothing says St. Patrick’s Day like tacos. But then every day is a taco holiday in L.A. Trejo’s Tacos and Cantina is celebrating with corned beef and fried avocado tacos. If you’re not into being green, Smorgasburg hosts its second annual Beat Swap Meet for vinyl lovers on Sunday and chef Neal Fraser is raising funds in the garden at Redbird/Vibiana for L.A.’s BEST Afterschool Enrichment Program. Here’s what’s popping up this week....

Temperatures in Los Angeles have finally hit a balmy 70 degrees, signaling that spring is around the corner, and our gardening gloves are getting itchy. Even if you don’t have a garden, a new membership program called Lettuce Grow provides people with the tools, encouragement and inspiration to grow 20 percent of their food at home on balconies, patios and rooftops in decorative and functional containers....

With our perfectly predictable weather (atmospheric river aside) and wide open spaces, L.A. used to be the miniature golf mecca of America. Alas, all that valuable real estate got gobbled up to make room for office buildings. For eight weeks starting March 15, Kara Godfrey is bringing a new wave of indoor mini golf to West Hollywood — a place for adults to enjoy a round of golf with a cold beer or cocktail in hand....

Whether you call it a hotcake, flapjack, griddlecake or latke, the pancake has been around since the Greeks turned a mixture of wheat flour, olive oil, honey and curdled milk into breakfast. Whether it’s a pannekoek, rishiki, salukara or palatschinken, every region around the world has its own version. We’ve come a long way since then, elevating the humble cake into a work of art with ingredients from potatoes to caviar. Today is National Pancake Day and we’ve got six ways to celebrate in L.A....

Despite the Lakers’ painful loss to Boston on Saturday night, there was still much to celebrate at L.A. Live when friends like Tiffany Haddish and Chauncey Billups and family came out for the official grand opening of Shaquille O’Neal’s namesake restaurant across from Staples Center....