By a 13-1 vote, the Los Angeles City Council today voted to approve an aggressive plastic bag ban that is aimed at saving taxpayer money for trash cleanup, promoting sustainability, and improving the environment. Los Angeles will become the largest city in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags in retail stores once the law is in effect. Today's Council vote orders the Bureau of Sanitation to complete an environmental review of the ban and an ordinance to enact it in four months, according to City News Service. The approved ordinance is a slightly paler version of an even more strident ban as proposed by Councilman Paul Koretz, which also called for the eventual ban of single-use paper bags. Instead, the approved ban calls for ... Continue reading →
event of the day: [ The Guide ] Cajun & Blues Fest If you couldn’t make it to New Orleans for Jazz Fest, here’s the next best thing up the coast: Cajun, Creole, zydeco, and blues music on two stages... Read [ The Guide ] Hilary Hahn & Hauschka Hahn is an American violin virtuoso who made her major orchestral debut at age ten... Read [ The Guide ] Time's Up You’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. In between you’ve got this engaging exhibit and film about apocalyptic hysteria... Read [ The Guide ] Los Otros Overachiever Michael John LaChiusa (Hello Again, The Wild Party) debuts one of his three new musicals at the Taper... Read [ The Guide ... Continue reading →
event of the day: [ The Guide ] Cajun & Blues Fest If you couldn’t make it to New Orleans for Jazz Fest, here’s the next best thing up the coast: Cajun, Creole, zydeco, and blues music on two stages... Read [ The Guide ] Hilary Hahn & Hauschka Hahn is an American violin virtuoso who made her major orchestral debut at age ten... Read [ The Guide ] Time's Up You’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. In between you’ve got this engaging exhibit and film about apocalyptic hysteria... Read [ The Guide ] Los Otros Overachiever Michael John LaChiusa (Hello Again, The Wild Party) debuts one of his three new musicals at the Taper... Read [ The Guide ... Continue reading →
Photograph by Misha Gravenor Here’s the story Adam Fleischman likes to tell about the genesis of his Umami restaurant empire: Hunched over a ketchup-red plastic cafe-teria tray at the Culver City In-N-Out Burger, Fleischman, a 35-year-old wine entrepreneur, peers into a cardboard box flecked with french fry grease. He ponders the questions that bedevil future restaurant moguls: Why do Americans hunger for pizza and hamburgers more than any other dishes? And why, exactly, is the In-N-Out Double-Double he’s devouring his most beloved indulgence, not to mention one of Southern California’s premier sources of bragging rights? Somewhere between bites of the dripping cheeseburger, a word comes to mind that afternoon in 2005. It’s one Fleischman has been encountering often, on select food blogs and in books ... Continue reading →
Wendy Gilmartin Everyone knows L.A. sits atop a vast reserve of petroleum sludge and stink (hence the Tar pits, the methane vents, the ever-bobbing drills along La Cienega Blvd. in Baldwin Hills, etc.), but would you ever suspect that's the reason for this sad, drooping, pastel colored tower on the Beverly Hills/Century City border? This is in fact a functioning oil tower that sits on the property of Beverly Hills High School. It is owned and operated by Venoco Inc., an oil company that acquires, exploits and develops oil and natural gas properties all over California. Venoco operates offshore platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, and landlubbing "properties" from L.A. to Sacramento -- including the rig at Beverly Hills High. When Beverly Hills High was ... Continue reading →
The June Gloom Julian Cox shares his Los Angeles magazine-commissioned recipe 6/1/2012 It’s summer in L.A.—so why is the weather so crummy? We shed some light on the topic in the June issue of Los Angeles magazine, on newsstands now. Grab a copy, then wash what you’ve learned about June Gloom down with this foggy cocktail created specially for us by Short Order’s Julian Cox. “Cherries are a summer fruit, and the drink is cloudy from the orgeat, " he says, "just like a cloudy summer day.” 2 rye whiskey3/4 lemon3/4 orgeat1 dsh plum tincture3 cherries muddled Shake double strain up in cocktail glass The June Gloom will be served at Short Order during the month of June. » 6333 West 3rd St. Los Angeles, ... Continue reading →
It’s Not Smog, It’s June Gloom 6/1/2012 Hot town, summer in the city? Not until the haze burns off. Check out photos of some of L.A.’s dreariest June days, then learn about Southern California’s most notorious seasonal bummer in the June issue of Los Angeles magazine, on newsstands now. Photographs courtesy (in order): (1) panoramio.com, (2) suzannecasamento.blogspot.com, (3) http://www.laobserved.com/malibu, (4) gocalifornia.about.com, (5) remotecontrolcats.com, (6) yusa-graffiti.blogspot.com, (7) lifethroughthelens.tumblr.com ALSO: Get the recipe for Julian Cox's June Gloom Cocktail Continue reading →
