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Your move, Del Taco. I'm waiting for my invite to the Del Scorcho Cruise.

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something red. The Formosa is an authentically inauthentic jumble of Chinese, American and Hollywood history.

Campus physician Dr. Dennis Kelly has now been accused by 48 men of sexually abusing them during exams.

"Curious but also scared" -- that's how our friends felt when we told them we were going.

National Ice Cream Day is Sunday but any day is a perfect day to scream for ice cream. And paletas. And gelato. And mangonadas. And soft serve.

Residents of Ridgecrest are picking up the pieces the morning after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the area.

Once we are born into this world, we can count on only a few things. We all suffer. We all die. We all need to eat.

She did it with Blum's Coffee Crunch Cake. Now, she's going to do it for us.

My job is to connect hungry Angelenos -- through food -- to the culture, history, people and neighborhoods that make up our city.

But owner Tai Kim has a plan and his wonderfully weird flavors won't disappear.

Michelin has broadened its culinary point of view but it hasn't narrowed its cultural blind spot.

I had the cutest kid at DragCon (totally objective) but I was hardly the only parent present.

Shelli and Irving Azoff have expanded their holdings to save another classic L.A. restaurant.

At first glance, it looked like a case of a big, bad landlord muscling out a small, indie business. But that's not the whole story.

They go by many names. At Kermés Taco Grill, they're called volcanes -- and they're fantastic.

Probably not. But a special meeting of the neighborhood council and a last ditch petition might make a dent.

Rueda worked at the restaurant for 52 years, most of them as a bartender, and had a legendary ability to remember his customers' orders.

The U.S. is on track for the worst measles outbreak this century -- and some of those cases are in L.A. County.

Genocide remembrance marches have become major annual events in Los Angeles, which is home to largest Armenian community anywhere outside of Armenia.

And the other eats making their debut during the 2019 season.

You voted for the flavors you love -- and the flavors you love to hate.

Los Angeles has half a dozen chefs and three restaurants still in contention for a 2019 James Beard Award.

This is our version of bracket madness: 16 flavors enter, one will win. You decide.

Put on your raincoat and dive into the photo archives.

Sing it with us: "In-N-Out. In-N-Out. That's what a lawsuit's all about."

You don't have to be a 420 fan to enjoy the food at Banc of California Stadium -- but it wouldn't hurt.

The James Beard Awards are a lot like the Academy Awards -- they're a big deal and they're often myopic

Technically, it's a kind of snowfall known as graupel, which is not a weird Bulgarian stew. We'll let the NWS explain.

Eat local. Sweet local. Or as local as you can since most chocolate is grown in West Africa or Central and South America.

Entertainment mogul Irving Azoff and his wife, Shelli, bought the 72-year-old West L.A. burger shack.

Among the holiday's many scams and shams, the prix fixe restaurant meal is perhaps its crowning achievement.

It kind of makes sense.

PSA: DO NOT resort to violence because you are angry about the price of hot dogs.

The son of deli founder Ben Canter has passed away at age 82.

Lucky Boy -- and its massive breakfast burritos -- have bounced back.

With Smosh Town, an immigrant family chases success in America's parking lot of dreams.

In order that we may celebrate the auspicious victories of our local sports team, let us eat foods and drink beverages of tribute.

It's not a great scene at L.A.'s main airport. Consider this your TSA PSA.

Sandwiches for students. Tacos for teachers. See what's cooking.

I, for one, welcome you, our new millennial overlords, and your penchant for murdering products and industries that should have died long ago.

Slice into the cake that celebrates Three Kings Day and maybe you'll find the baby Jesus.

Black-eyed peas. Mochi. Donuts. Lentils. Grapes. Nosh your way to prosperity.

It's called World Harvest and anybody can shop there -- including you. Yes, really.

And only one of them is eggnog.

"I bet the secretions from the anal gland of a deer would be delicious if you mixed them with rose water and pink food coloring."

We've got more details on the Clifton's closure -- and its planned reopening.

L.A. city council thinks it might be possible to phase out all single-use plastic straws by the year 2021.

Grab your cocoa and your remote and play along with us.

It's a deceptively simple dish. You need only six ingredients. The trick is in how they come together.

It only takes two words to make them golden and edible.

If a giant redwood tree falls in the middle of downtown L.A. and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a sound?

The host of Pati's Mexican Table says, "Thanksgiving is all about appreciating what we all bring to the American table, different waves of immigrants through time."

From theme parks, zoos and gardens to boat parades, Candy Cane Lanes and shopping malls, here's where to get lit.

Some residents of Malibu Colony Cove were allowed to return to their homes -- or the sites where their homes once stood.

What's old is new again at the beloved Boyle Heights burger stand.

With the addition of Bill Addison, Patricia Escárcega and Lucas Peterson, the L.A. Times now boasts its most robust food section in more than a decade.

The layout has changed but the bagels are just as good.

The site is riddled with radioactive waste and toxic compounds. Where does it all go during a fire?

Will the show go on? Should it? Cal Lutheran theater professor Brett Elliott is torn.

The rewards of living in a democratic nation where corrupt politicians can be voted out of office should be enough. But a free cookie and a cheap cocktail never hurt.

We wept. We cursed the heavens. We regrouped.

We asked. You answered. What are your favorite Halloween candies from yum to yuck?

In fact, they don't go far enough.

Only 95 cents for the famous #1 combo plate? Go now!

A two-mile test tunnel that runs underneath SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters is set to debut on Dec. 10.

Never forget.

It's election season! Important issues need to be decided! Make your voice heard!

The exam to become a master sommelier is the hardest test in the wine world -- and someone gave this year's applicants an unfair advantage in the tasting portion.

The governor quietly signed a bill that bans bars from adding cannabis to cocktails and other beverages.

There's one catch.

A happy 78th birthday to L.A.'s most famous hot dog stand.

After a 15-year absence from acting, Wiseau returns to the screen playing a quirky mortician. Could he play any other kind?

Want to make your foodie hustle legal and NOT have health inspectors come after you? Now you have a better shot.

The governor just signed a bill that decriminalizes sidewalk vending. More tacos, churros, champurrado and bacon-wrapped hot dogs on L.A.'s streets? We hope so.

We asked a simple question: "Why are people so obsessed with LAUSD's coffee cake?" LAist readers answered.

The fluffy, crumbly dessert has been around for more than 60 years and Angelenos' love for it hasn't diminished.

It's okay if you left your wallet in El Segundo. You won't need it to get a free donut at Randy's newest location.

The SoCal-based burger chain gave $25,000 to the California Republican Party. But, their spokesperson notes they also gave to both Democratic and Republican PACs.

Hundreds of people showed up at Grand Park for a public memorial. Here's what they had to say.

"Instead of tacos, they had foldies. We don't know what a foldy is. We don't eat foldies around here. We eat tacos."

It was the 1980s, an era of large shoulder pads and conspicuous consumption, an age utterly unlike our own.

While plenty of people supported the concept, LocoL struggled to find its niche, both among locals and foodies.

Aug 21 is Hello Kitty Night at Dodger Stadium, and the wholesome, blank-faced Sanrio spokesmodel has her own line of vino. It's a perfect pairing.

How do you down 300 gyoza in 10 minutes? Carefully. Meet the Angeleno champs in the know.

The shop's signature dessert is an ice cream soda -- and it's the best in Los Angeles.

Mastering faux fish is just the beginning. Jocelyn Ramirez wants to create a focal point for health and wellness in East L.A.

The Beastie Boys once name-checked the Formosa in a song -- and other fascinating facts uncovered during the bar's lengthy renovation.

The steep terrain is proving to be as much of a challenge for crews fighting the Holy Fire as it was for the firefighters who faced down the Decker Fire in 1959.

It features Gold in his bowler hat, an image as distinctive in the foodie world as Alfred Hitchcock's silhouette is to movie buffs.

Southern California was ground zero for buildings shaped like owls, toads and tamales, a genre officially known as programmatic architecture.

The newspaper sent a Brooklyn novelist to enlighten us.

Like every food writer in this city -- hell, like practically every writer in this city -- I idolized his words long before I met him.

We talked to a bunch of bartenders and bar owners about what they're doing to keep hate out of their establishments.

And here's where to eat these green and gorgeous babies.

There's a $300 reward -- plus a round of beers -- for finding it.

...and for every week after that. Think of it as our foodieversary. We do.

From Sizzler to Swadesh, Anthony Bourdain loved Los Angeles and Los Angeles loved him back.

Earlier this week, to celebrate the relaunch and revival of LAist, we brought you puzzlemaster Zach Sherwin's "LA To The Core" brainteaser. The answers in this little game were all two-word phrases with "LA" in the middle and they were all designed to test how much you know about Los Angeles. 

Before that dumbass vegan couple in Georgia starved their baby to death by feeding him soy milk and apple juice instead of breast milk (and all the subsequent outrage that caused), one woman was boldly going where few in the culinary world dare venture: making human cheese. More specifically, making Paneer from her own breast milk. I've often wondered what would happen if such an endeavor was viable on a mass scale. What kind...

A tip of the hat to disability blog The Gimp Parade for turning us onto Norway's own Boys on Wheels, a parody boy band fronted by Jesper Odelberg a wheelchair-bound guy with cerebral palsy who also co-stars in a Norwegian comedy show. This clip is a medley of 80s rock song parodies that gleefully skips from Euro pop to A-ha's "Take On Me" to Bryan Adams' "Heaven" to Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer." And...