This Friday, June 29 marks the one-year anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson’s death. To celebrate his life, Akasha Richmond and Mani Niall, the founder of Mani’s Bakery and executive chef of Just Desserts in San Francisco, will be serving up MJ’s favorite dishes at Akasha in Culver City. How would they know what the…
Category Archives: Dining
Highlights From the Eat My Blog Summer 2010 Bake Sale
Last December, the inaugural Eat My Blog bake sale raised over $3,000 for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Pretty nice for a first time effort. But this past Saturday’s event went further by exceeding Eat My Blog founder Cathy Danh’s goal of over $5K; $5,427 to be exact. Congrats to Cathy and the Eat…
This Weekend: Bloggers Who Bake, Free Counter Burger, Beer Class for Dad
Yee-haw for Dads! Hope your kids really celebrate you…except for the deadbeat dads, in which case never mind. Thursday, June 17 Steve McQueen Weekend and James Bond Double Feature I know these film events are supposed to be for dads but damn, I like Steve McQueen and Sean Connery, too. HOT! This whole weekend, the…
This Weekend: $1 Tacos, $5 Jameson, Free Tequila
Woo hoo! I’m going to NYC this weekend for the Big Apple BBQ Block Party as well as an s-load of barhopping. Wish you could go, too, but don’t feel bad as there are lots of fun things to do in town. Thursday, June 10 Tiny Bandit Sample Sale at Malo With $1 Tacos and…
Eat My Blog Summer 2010 Charity Bake Sale Plus 3 Recipes
Last year’s blogger charity bake sale, Eat My Blog, was such a huge success that it just makes sense to make it a biannual thing. Not only is it for a good cause, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, but I can only go so long without such yummy fare. This summer’s bake sale will feature…
Red O Restaurant: New Mexican, Tequila Tunnel and More Cowbell
I’m going to admit something to you that may get me disbarred from the L.A. Food Bloggers Association, if there was one. I don’t know who this Rick Bayless is. At least I didn’t really before I was invited to a blogger dinner at the new Red O Restaurant (Bayless created the Mexican cuisine menu…
This Weekend: Fashion Food Truck, N'Awlins Crawfish Boil, Girls' Night Out
Joseph Brooke from Edison in LA – Part 2 from Shaker Faces on Vimeo. Is it the weekend already? Awesome. Thursday, June 3 Los Angeles Magazine‘s Girls’ Night Out Yes, sadly, I was SO disappointed by Sex and the City 2 and wouldn’t see it again. BUT if you’re an SATC fan and haven’t seen…
This Weekend: A Boozy, Barbecue-Filled Memorial Day Weekend
Sure, it may not feel like it with this dreary weather but summer is here! Yay for three-day weekends! Especially three-day weekends with booze and barbecue! Oh, and of course it’s also the opening weekend of Sex and the City 2! Thursday, May 27 Checkers Four at Four: $5 Buffalo Trace Cocktails Mmm, so good…
This Weekend: Silver Lake Jubilee, Rebecca Minkoff Sample Sale, The Bruery Party
Damn this weekend is going to be so fun. Festivals, sales and, more importantly, a beer celebration. Friday, May 21 Rebecca Minkoff LA Sample Sale At this sample sale, get the same hot handbags that you see Hollywood starlets toting around on TMZ for 50-70% off. How is that possible? These babies are samples from…
Urban Hike: Robertson Boulevard From West Hollywood to Culver City
Living in L.A. we come to accept that all these cars and all that traffic are an intrinsic part of our culture. Hey, this is a sprawl so we spend a great deal of time in our automobiles to get to work and play. But while we do that we end up skipping over a…
