Jessica Ritz

Lovers of good food and doing good will revel in some new exciting businesses that recently opened. The Coffee Cellar (La Bodega de Café): Sustainable Coffees Community Roaster is the latest of the bunch. The Coffee Cellar is located at the MacArthur Park Sidewalk Vending District headquarters and inside Mama's Hot Tamales Café. An outgrowth of the Institute for Urban Research & Development, these projects merge progressive business philosophy with providing some damn tasty goods....

Close access to respites from urban intensity is another one of L.A.’s great advantages. A weekend in Big Bear or up the coast is needed every now and then, but far less so in comparison to east coasters’s desperate summer escapes to the Catskills or the Cape. Lucky for us Angelenos, urban hikes with a modicum of peace can be found just a couple miles north of some of this city’s busiest thoroughfares. Why...

Close access to respites from urban intensity is another one of L.A.’s great advantages. A weekend in Big Bear or up the coast is needed every now and then, but far less so in comparison to east coasters’s desperate summer escapes to the Catskills or the Cape. Lucky for us Angelenos, urban hikes with a modicum of peace can be found just a couple miles north of some of this city’s busiest thoroughfares. Why...

As much as LAist loves this town, we gotta admit that local pizza lovers suffer from a dearth of decent product. The L.A. Times Food section, however, gives us reason to rejoice. This article about Peppe Miele tells us how he’s keepin’ it real at Antica Pizzeria in Marina del Rey. While his L.A. Trattoria location on Third Street closed to make way for the culinary hot spot A.O.C., Miele continues to produce the...

As much as LAist loves this town, we gotta admit that local pizza lovers suffer from a dearth of decent product. The L.A. Times Food section, however, gives us reason to rejoice. This article about Peppe Miele tells us how he’s keepin’ it real at Antica Pizzeria in Marina del Rey. While his L.A. Trattoria location on Third Street closed to make way for the culinary hot spot A.O.C., Miele continues to produce the...

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents the "On the Map" lecture series again this summer. According to the Forum, "On the Map" “intends to build a critical map of Los Angeles’s architectural milieu and will provide access to some works that might otherwise remain inaccessible to the general public.” Events are held at locations of architectural note that have been recently completed, so we think it’s a cool opportunity to check...

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents the "On the Map" lecture series again this summer. According to the Forum, "On the Map" “intends to build a critical map of Los Angeles’s architectural milieu and will provide access to some works that might otherwise remain inaccessible to the general public.” Events are held at locations of architectural note that have been recently completed, so we think it’s a cool opportunity to check...

We all know that Los Angeles is changing, and it’s changing fast in more ways than LAist can count. Media attention is generally focused on L.A. as global city containing immigrants from all over the globe and where Anglo residents are no longer the majority. This commentary by Gregory Rodriguez in the L.A. Times points to another interesting fact—that the urban “core” from Hollywood to Downtown might be experiencing “a quiet Anglo reconquista.” LAist...

We all know that Los Angeles is changing, and it’s changing fast in more ways than LAist can count. Media attention is generally focused on L.A. as global city containing immigrants from all over the globe and where Anglo residents are no longer the majority. This commentary by Gregory Rodriguez in the L.A. Times points to another interesting fact—that the urban “core” from Hollywood to Downtown might be experiencing “a quiet Anglo reconquista.” LAist...