The locally based GOOD Magazine, founded by Ben Goldhirsh, always treats its hometown with respect. Here's some of what they had to say about Los Angeles in their most recent rag, the food issue. LA Weekly's pulitzer prize food critic, Jonathan Gold, is given props in "The Next Sushi" (pg. 70). Which food type will go from unknown to trendy? Gold predicts that Korean Bibimbap could be it: "[It] may someday be as popular among......

PETA has a very difficult trick to pull off. They have to try to convince men to stop eating at KFC, buying leather jackets, or barbecuing meat - for starters. While we don't always get the connection between Pamela Anderson posing nude in the window of a NYC department store, we appreciate the effort. Here PETA gets us to listen to several minutes of their past accomplishments and they even figured out a way......

LAist is currently holding a Bloc Party ticket giveaway. Email LAist at gmail.com with a little something about your block and the winner gets two free tickets to see Bloc Party at the Greek next Thursday. Deadline for entry is 4pm today. I live in Glendale, and you know what THAT means! ARMENIANS! LOTS OF THEM. However, I feel that my block is special. I just graduated from college so i'm still living with......

My brother was in town today, and since he's been here before, I wanted to think of something to do that was specific to LA, but not the Walk of Fame, the Getty, or the beach. He already appreciates LA: as a helicopter pilot, he takes a certain professional delight/amusement in this city's obsession with that mode of transportation, and having spent time in Naples, also enjoys LA's quasi-Mediterranean landscape. He'd already gone with......

A few weeks ago we were pretty jazzed about Porto's Bakery opening up at the corner of Magnolia and Hollywood Way in Burbank. Turns out that wasn't the only local or national eatery with new digs in the little city known as the Media Center. Recently we found ourselves on that strip of commercial real estate on San Fernando on the other side of the mall, and noticed that things had been developing in......

LAist recently got an e-mail from an organizer of 15 visitors en route from France, age 35-55. It reads, in part: I thought you might be able to give me advices: I'd like to find a place where we could have dinner or a drink, where there are no tourists. In fact, I'm looking for the last place where to go out in LA, just to do as the LA people do (when in......

We can already taste the garlic. Zankou Chicken opens a new location tomorrow at Sepulveda and Little Santa Monica, their first west side location. We'll be at the Festival of Books while they are doing the whole grand opening bit but there's no reason why we can't stop in and get a #4 with no tomatoes and extra pita tomorrow night for dinner is there?......