Andreanna Ditton

Opening up in downtown’s snazzy new TASTE at FIGat7th, Juicy Lucy is exactly what you want from an upscale fast-food joint. It’s tasty, delicious, and a cut-above the ordinary burger and fries.

These happy hours are a chance to eat and drink well in this city on a limited budget.

Locally-sourced, seasonal, organically grown, farm to table—we’ve grown used to these adjectives gracing food menus across the city, but more often these modifiers are also referring to a delicious approach to cocktails.

Performing for one of KCRW's Berkley Street Sessions(think small studio session opened to about 175 "friends" in Bob Clearmountain's Apogee studio in Santa Monica), the intimate show on April 5 featured the L.A.-based band's new album, Here, which will be released in May.

The Red Carpet Rosie packs quite a punch. Photo by Kelly O Photography. If you’re participating in the craft cocktail movement—as an observer, as an imbiber, or a practitioner—you know one thing: gin is in! Nothing solidified that fact better than the Gin Master Class, followed by a gin pairings dinner, held at Hollywood’s Eveleigh in late February, and hosted by the English Gin Company. Importers and ambassadors of Beefeater London Dry Gin, Beefeater...

The Queen of Semi-Homemade eating and entertaining knows that we’d all like to throw award-winning Oscar parties. Pulling up lawn chairs and ordering pizza just doesn’t cut it in a city where everyone knows someone who knows someone who actually gets to go to the show (at least as a seat filler).

Richard Parks' short film "Music Man Murray," premiering this weekend at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, opens on a vast warehouse of record albums, with one little old man smack dab in the middle of them, surrounded and barricaded, somewhat happily, in the claustrophobia.

There are only four more sleeps before Christmas. You don't have to be Semi-Homemade Sandra "I'm Freaking Terrifying" Lee or your great Aunt Tamanay to create a cherished (or at least wanted) homemade gift for your friends and relatives in a short amount of time.

Got a passion for all things motorized and two-wheeled? Then the Progressive International Motorcycle show being held this weekend in Long Beach is just the ticket. The show, running through Sunday at the Long Beach convention center is the place for those of us on the West Coast to see the debut of new motorcycles, learn more about riding and see some of the bikes that transcend the idea of mere transportation to become art.

Halloween may be over for another year, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to celebrate the otherworldly and pay homage to the dead as the seasons change. Las Perlas in downtown LA has a special cocktail for just that occasion.