Tien Nguyen

Over the weekend, folks of all stripes landed in Orlando, Florida for Star Wars Celebration VI, the ultimate Star Wars fan convention that undoubtedly was more fun than the Republican National Convention will be this week. Of course, where there are Star Wars geeks, there are ingenious Star Wars-themed kitchen......

If we've learned anything from all the specialty coffee shops in the city -- other than what, exactly, constitutes barista chic -- it's that we can pick up a bag of great beans and easily figure out how to make our own great good cup of coffee at home. But......

Gastropubs have been opening one after another at a steady clip for the last few years, and this year has been no exception. In fact, maybe this is the year we hit critical mass of upscale pubs: The Spanish Fly, The Corner Door, and The Parish all opened this summer,......

Every year, Merriam-Webster updates its Collegiate Dictionary -- you know, that big book of words you referenced every once in a great while, in the era before Google -- with words that, for better or worse, have become part of our lexicon. According to the Associated Press, Merriam-Webster adds about......

Plow & Gun Coffee's Ian Riley and Daniel Kent had an idea: Carbonate their cold-brew, add cardamom and piloncillo and create a coffee soda to sell alongside their beans and cold-brews at their stand at the Altadena Farmers Market. And yet, even if such a drink would be perfect for......

"Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age," Obi-Wan Kenobi said, introducing Luke Skywalker to the lightsaber, the Jedi's weapon of choice. Which brings us to Kotobukiya's line of Star Wars Lightsaber Chopsticks, not as clumsy or random as a spork, an......

Compared to its other locations scattered throughout the South Bay, Tierra Mia's new downtown location at the base of the Bartlett Building at Seventh and Spring streets is small. "Yeah, this is downtown-sized," owner Ulysses Romero says, noting that a few of Tierra Mia's comparatively spacious cafes are located in......

Depending on what kind of person you are, potlucks are a source of either great excitement or enormous dread. Excitement if you have your famous potato salad recipe to show off; dread if you don't have a famous anything at your ready. And yet you must bring something; after all,......

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. If you're the type of person who believes in consolidation, then maybe the purist's pizza -- charred crust, tangy tomato sauce, a bit of cheese, maybe sausage -- is not necessarily for you. Maybe the more appropriate pie hails from......

Chick-fil-A has seen its last sunny day on Sesame Street: Last Friday, The Jim Henson Company announced that it dropped a partnership with Chick-fil-A, explaining on its Facebook page that it "has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-fil-A that we do......