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A Tale of Two Johnnies
By Matt Mason | 1 CommentLast Saturday, the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce held its Health and Fitness Expo on the Third Street Promenade. The event featured scores of exhibitors in the health and wellness field. By the luck of the draw, St. Johns Health Center had its booth set... -
Win Tix For Queensrÿche Cabaret!
By Burns! | 15 CommentsQueensrÿche returns to Los Angeles on Friday night, bringing their latest creation to Club Nokia. Enter below to win your tickets to the show. Progressive rock is about creating something. Not just the same old rock & roll with a 4/4 beat, but stretching the... -
Learn to Make Sushi This Wednesday in Little Tokyo
By Kevin Ott | No CommentsEveryone loves a good spicy tuna roll. Or a big pile of nigiri. But eating out is expensive. And the economy sucks. My wardrobe has been reduced to a comically large barrel with a pair of suspenders attached, which makes it difficult to perform simple... -
LA’s Nickel Diner On TV Tonight!
By Julia Frey | 3 CommentsFor you lovers of the famous Maple Bacon Donut at the Nickel Diner in downtown LA (and by “lovers” I mean “fanatics”) you can see your love on television tonight. The Cooking Channel (not to be confused with The Food Network, though they are sister... -
East LA, Meet Napa. Napa, Meet East LA.
By Queequeg | No CommentsFive years ago, the foods of East Los Angeles met the Latino/a-owned wineries of Napa Valley. The rendez-vous was pre-arranged by AltaMed, which, when it is not playing matchmaker, is a network of community clinics and health care providers that provide services to those in... -
Face Palm: Mayor Pedals Straight From Joy To Pain
By Will Campbell | 5 CommentsHot on the back tire of my post Friday gushing with unbridled joy at finding a photo-op of our up-to-now notoriously bike-blind mayor actually riding an actual bicycle, comes news that Villaraigosa apparently liked it so much (and perhaps the positive reaction it engendered) that... -
Dear LA, can we have these bike lanes too??
By Sean Bonner | 16 CommentsI’m visiting New York City this week and stumbled across these new bike lanes that they are beginning to install all over the city. These are amazing and akin to the lanes you see all over much of bike friendly European cities. It’s a subtle... -
Tomorrow: Cleanup in South Park
By Kevin Ott | 1 CommentProbably one of the worst things about living in a major city is the trash. LA probably has more than its fair share — around the corner from my apartment is a public trash can that struggles mightily to contain its daily load — but... -
Ride, Said The Mayor
By Will Campbell | 9 CommentsEarlier today Mayor Villaraigosa(‘s aide) tweeted about how much he enjoyed last night’s Summer Night Lights event at the Jim Gilliam Recreation Center in Baldwin Hills. In the tweet the mayor(‘s aide) wrote about eating, doing arts and crafts and bicycling with the community. Wait... -
Archiving Angeles (AA): RKO Radio Pictures
By Jason Burns | 5 Comments860 North Gower was home to one of the Big Five – RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. It’s latest film was considered a critical success, but a box office failure. How would history come to remember Citizen Kane? The year was 1941. Photo from the USC... -
Home Sweet Home
By Queequeg | 2 CommentsSonja Rasula wants you to buy local, and you know what? There's good reason for it, and it has to do with the circle of life. It's true. Her Unique LA event and upcoming Street Food Fest will give you all the local culture you and your belly can handle. -
Last Call For Ye Coach & Horses
By Jason Burns | 2 CommentsEaterLA is reporting that Ye Coach & Horses pub on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is set to close its doors after 73 years. Something about a lease dispute with next door neighbor and building owner Samuel French Bookstore. At least the owners weren’t evicted in... -
Languid LA Summer Nights
By tammara | No CommentsOne of the sweetest things about a 98 degree day like today in Los Angeles, is the cool night that follows. Just when I thought I couldn’t take the fiery heat anymore… the sun set and a cool breeze blew in. It was time to... -
It Caught My Eye: Hive Mentality
By Will Campbell | 6 CommentsA few weeks ago I alerted our next-door neighbor that what had started off as a few bees had blossomed in short notice into a small colony that had been busy under a roof eave making his house their home. I told him I don’t... -
Win Tix to The New Pornographers 7/20!!!!
By Queequeg | 22 CommentsThose Canadians! Giving us great things like poutine, part of a title of a Calvin & Hobbes collection, and a pretty great band pretty awesomely called The New Pornographers (band name history: founder and lead singer A.C. Newman was contemplating the use of placing “new”...
