Imagine a place where everything you eat comes directly from your immediate surroundings: Oil pressed from the olives of nearby olive trees. Ricotta made from the milk of your uncle’s sheep. Produce from the garden out back …
Not exactly ...
French food?
You love the stuff. French fries, French toast, French dressing, French’s mustard … All right up there.
So you’ll no doubt be seriously digging the Piper Club Cafe, a brand-new authentic creperie just like the ones in Paris
Ethereal girls with heavy-lidded eyes in playful clothes, passing through a dreamscape littered with pop-cultural references.
No, not the party in Echo Park last night.
Rather, a new show at the Four x Four gallery in Hollywood called “The Habit ...
Somewhere along the way clothing got complicated.
When last we checked, a single outfit could reference several decades, various TV shows, and a rock star … all at once. Leaving most of us with a desire for simpler things.
Like ...
You like to think of dining out as a competitive sport.
You’re a path forger, a bar setter. You eat at all the best places. You know every chef, menu, maitre d’, private phone number, and wine list in town. ...
Some people are just naturally thoughtful.
Like you, for instance. You’re always thinking of other people. You never forget a birthday, you commemorate every holiday with an appropriate card, and you always send a thank-you note.
You’re just the sort ...
What: Sigerson Morrison
When: Through 2/1; Mon.-Sat. 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m.
Where: 8307 West Third Street, between La Cienega and Crescent Heights
Boulevards (323-655-6133).
Why: Here’s the hitch: The longer you wait, the more ...
The year is 1984. You wear dangly plastic earrings and listen to Van Halen’s “Panama” at unholy decibel levels. The impulse buy of the year: those vending-machine rings that come in color-capped plastic bubbles at the supermarket.
Fast-forward twenty years. ...
