Tag: February 2012
How Hot are L.A.’s Hot Wings?
Buffalo style or szechuan, the ultimate game-day nosh is on fire
Amuse Bouche: Dim Sum Pup
Illustration by Andy Friedman
Since we’re technically illegal, we keep things mysterious. Also we have over 3,000 on the invitation list—being anonymous helps avoid swamping my personal in-box. Why only...
Almost There
Illustration by Bill Brown
My New Year’s resolutions, like most people’s, have been hampered by a persistent lack of resolve. This year I had a great workout on January 1,...
March 2012
Explore L.A.'s Best Bike Rides
Batch
Photograph courtesy facebook/batchrestaurantandbar
Previously home to Wilson’s and Sublime Food Lounge, the space along Culver City’s gallery row is morphing again. Run by two Church & State alums, Batch...
Silents, Please
Illustration by Andre Carrilho
Lost to the ages, with no extant copy known, the first feature-length movie was made a century ago this year. A story of the Roman Empire,...
Did Cleopatra really bankrupt its studio and force the sale of the back lot?
Photograph courtesy julianstark-moviesandotherthings.blogspot.com
Twentieth Century Fox purchased a large property in the hinterlands near Beverly Hills in 1926. By the 1950s, studio chief Spyros Skouras realized the city had...
Freddy Smalls
Photograph by Lisa Romerein
What draws us to Freddy Smalls, a Mexican café turned cocktail-centric American bistro, is consulting chef Jeremy Fox, who made waves in Napa with his vegetarian...
Hollywood Behind Handlebars
Hitting the trail with yesteryear’s celebrity cyclists
Papilles
Photograph courtesy papilles.com
Between a Pilates studio and a doughnut shop in a Hollywood minimall is this surprising, slapped-together French bistro from the owners of downtown’s Mignon wine bar. The...
