Willy Blackmore

Every dive has its history, but when it comes to bars in Southern California, it's nearly impossible to top Long Beach's Joe Jost's--one of the oldest continually operating taverns in any state west of the Mississippi......

Condé Nast is continuing to do odd food-related things with its magazines, following the Gourmet-as-iPad-app plan by making its rags available to license for themed restaurants in Asia, South America and the Middle East. It's a business practice the company has tried before with Vogue and GQ, which both have......

Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson and collaborator/boyfriend Alex Somers have been sharing their love of food and cooking for the past year through their online-only Good Heart recipe book and four-part cooking show, The Recipe Show--which aired its final episode just the other month. The pair may be based in......

Booze and taxidermy have a long, intertwined history, the un-ironic moose, deer or elk head--always complete with an impressive rack of antlers--a staple of small-town dive bar décor. Referenced with varying degrees of tongue-in-cheekiness by local establishments such as Seven Grand, The Bigfoot Lodge and the now-defunct Stinkers, the tradition......

We're used to finding our Mexican food in less-than-normal places: sold out of grocery carts, cooked in fly-by-night outdoor kitchens, served out of bicycle-mounted freezers. But the lexicon of this cuisine--tamales, huaraches, sopes, paletas, raspados and more--rarely feature in the billboards that line the freeways of Los Angeles, except in......

Craigslist is your next apartment, your next job; it's your next bike, bed, kitchen table, boyfriend, girlfriend, trans or sub or dom or gay/bi-curious one-night stand. The farm+garden section is certainly helpful if you're looking for some fertilizer for that window-box herb garden, baby chicks for a backyard coop or......

If you're an Intelligentsia regular and drink brewed coffee, you're familiar with the unique process the baristas goes through to make your cup: freshly grinding a single cup's worth of beans, then dumping them into a machine, pressing a few buttons, running a squeegee across the top, then pouring out......

Tumblr is a blogging platform that bridges the gap between social networks like Twitter or Facebook, and a Word Press or Blogspot blog. It has yet to be utilized for a Presidential campaign or propagate any false celebrity death rumors, but the short-form, photo-heavy blogging style Tumblr promotes has made......

The menu at a taco joint can read a bit like a horror film script: brains, steamed head, stomach, guts, the occasional eye-ball taco. But bugs? Bugs are a major requisite for that creepy, crawly horror flick scary feeling. And while the occasional fried grasshopper can be found on the......