Tien Nguyen

Remember the Dodgers? The baseball team we loved but whose stadium we abandoned because of all that nasty Frank McCourt business? Now that Magic Johnson has gone on and saved the Dodgers, we can all head back out to Chavez Ravine on a lazy weekend afternoon to catch a game......

First robots that can build sushi rolls, now machines that can print in chocolate: According to Fast Company, United Kingdom company Choc Edge is now accepting pre-orders for the "world's first commercial 3-D chocolate printer." For the discounted price of £2,488 (about $4,000, or 47 boxes of 40-piece truffles at......

If you, like us, often eat your ice cream too fast and subsequently suffer from a crippling headache, it's not so much nature's punishment as it is a simple change in your body's blood flow. According to Discover, a team of scientists have traced the cause of brain freeze to......

"Consumers said that's more than just interesting, it's like 'where have you been my whole life,'" Taco Bell's chief marketing and innovation officer Brian Niccol told Forbes recently, about the public's reaction to the Doritos Locos Taco. This taco concoction is exactly what you might think it is: A regular......

Inspired by The Awl's fantastic -- and surprisingly somewhat difficult -- "Edith Wharton? Or Girls Review?" pop quiz last week, we created our own little take-home exam that may or may not shed some light on the state of food criticism today. Quotes from current food and restaurant reviewers are......

Over the weekend, Katie Carguilo took the champion title at the annual USBC event -- that would be the United States Barista Championship and not the United States Bowling Congress (though that, too, apparently had everyone on pins and needles this weekend). Hosted by the Specialty Coffee Association of America,......

Before they opened Sotto last year, Steve Samson and Zach Pollack went direct to Naples and hauled in all the raw materials to build a proper pizza oven -- that would be 15,000 pounds worth of cement, bricks and Vesuvian sand. So heavy were these building blocks that the delivery......

On Saturday, June 16, the folks from Golden Road Brewing, Tony's Darts Away and Mohawk Bend will host their first annual B3 charity event -- that would be Bikes, Brunch and Booze and not vitamin B3, although a boost of niacin may not be a bad idea. The 11.2-mile ride......

Thirtysomething vegetarian looking for restaurants that other thirtysomething vegetarians also enjoy? Now, there's a Yelp! for that: The site recently rolled out two new filters called "Yelpy Insights," which narrows search results based on eateries "liked by vegetarians," as well as those liked by users in their 20s, 30s or......

Because the tough-guy-braves--to reveal-the-inner-workings-of reality show formula continues to be popular, we'll be getting at least one more, courtesy of the Travel Channel. The network just announced that it will develop a series tentatively titled Coffee Hunter, which "spotlights businessman and adventurer Todd Carmichael as he travels the globe, often......