Results tagged “Elina Shatkin”

Which is to say: very fast, messy, and possibly risky to your health.

And there's a 5% chance we could see a larger earthquake in the next few days.

There's an excellent Google doc that lists a bunch of them. We can't take credit for it but we want to spread the word.

They just have to follow the county's health and safety guidelines... even though the health department hasn't yet released detailed guidelines.

You'll almost certainly be able to eat in the streets later this summer but what if you want a beer with nosh? It just got a little easier.

Pasadena, Palm Springs and Sierra Madre are all considering similar initiatives.

Here's our question: Does this new iteration of Taix even deserve the name?

Concerns about delivery app fees have been growing for the last few years but the COVID-19 quarantine has given them new urgency.

"In a way, this feels almost like a spiritual lockdown within a physical lockdown."

Coronavirus might be the death knell for other buffet restaurants.

In a particularly bitter irony, two restaurants just named as finalists announced last week they're closing.

Musso & Frank is the most famous local restaurant to file a lawsuit against its insurance company for denying its coronavirus-related claim.

How did Shake Shack, which has earned $143 million in 2020, even qualify for the PPP?

How can they do this? The liquor you pour in your martini and the sanitizer you rub on your hands have the same key ingredient.

Does it actually reduce the coronavirus risk? And where can you find Southern California stores doing this?

And why, after 37 years, did it really shut down?

Remember those faux In-N-Out sneakers that weren't actually sanctioned by In-N-Out? These are different.

Give everyone on your gift list -- or yourself -- a taste of Los Angeles.

It was a cold, wet and snowy Thanksgiving Day, severely limiting our god-given right as Southern Californians to troll the rest of the country.

Hollywood's most articulate resident walks us through the triumphs and heartbreaks of becoming a real store.

The alt weekly announced it was shutting down but the owner says he's in talks to sell it "to a local businessman."

If you want a microcosm of gentrification in Los Angeles, circa 2019, you won't find a better case study.

The latest as of Thursday morning: Hillside Fire and 46 Fire. With large swaths of L.A. County under an "extreme red flag warning," fires are springing up everywhere.

We conduct a semi-secret social experiment and we gleaned some important scientific-adjacent results.

Mamey, tejate, tlayudas, chilacayote and so many delicious foods you'll find in a Oaxacan market.

Here's what happened at the Original Cannabis Cafe in West Hollywood, the first cannabis cafe in the United States.

And the winner is...

Only two weeks into the football season, the player-turned-broadcaster-turned-administrator has stepped down.

Five women and one man say restaurateur Gareth Kantner sexually harassed them -- and others.

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.