Everybody should know by now that one of the secrets of lasting through a shopping trip to Ikea is making a pit stop at their cafeteria, which features whimsical Scandinavian delicacies like Swedish meatballs and lingonberry jam. The Burbank location even has a well-stocked food market where you can pick up your own frozen meatballs, cream sauces, lumpfish roe, canned herring, rye breads, cheeses, and countless other little oddball treats like roe cheese spread.......

Since the 80’s Ikea has become a cultural icon of the do-it-yourself furniture world, here in the U.S. Almost all of us at some point or another have struggled putting a piece of Ikea furniture together for ourselves. Artist Felis Stella explores these concepts in her latest exhibit IKEA My House: Part 1 on view now through May 17th at the L2kontemporary Gallery in Chinatown.......

One of the first major stores in the US to initiate a surcharge per plastic bag, IKEA, has announced that they will stop providing customers with disposable bags entirely in October of this year. The decision to ban the bag in the States comes on the heels of the same move the Swedish-based furniture and home design store implemented in their UK and Australia stores last year. Since instituting the 5 cent per bag charge......