Mud Baron

You can thank Alice Waters for yet another thing: Chipotle founder Steve Ells' enlightened approach to fast food (or as they call it, fast casual.) The rapidly expanding chain of farm-to-fast food eateries started by the Waters protege ran a two minute commercial featuring a cover of Coldplay's "The... continue reading on LAist

Screenshot Every year Project Censored rounds up the annual most horrible stories you don't know about. They are after all, umm, "censored." Regardless, I dutifully read them like a looky-loo at a crash scene on the 101. So while Time Magazine has declared 2011 as the "year of the... continue reading on LAist

School lunch served in Virginia in October 2011 (Photo by USDAgov via Flickr) Nearly a year after chef and activist Jamie Oliver visited LA and our schools' lunchrooms none other than Rush Limbaugh weighs in on our kids and their eating habits at the Los Angeles Unified School District.... continue reading on LAist

Photo by Gunnar Pippel via Shutterstock "Shut your fucking mouth! We can lose you in here." That's what "Officer K" of the Los Angeles Police Department's Metro Detention facility said to me as I was lining up to be bailed out with 8 other arrestees forty hours after my... continue reading on LAist

Santee High School may have its not so stellar graduation rate and its sometime partner Mayor Villaraigosa, but it does have one of the most amazing Culinary Arts programs in the country, Bistro Mundo. While we love them because they can rock a chile relleno stuffed with corn, beans and... continue reading on LAist