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Cool cats and tiki treats: Inside the outrageous Midcentury Modern Shag House in Palm Springs
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Cool cats and tiki treats: Inside the outrageous Midcentury Modern Shag House in Palm Springs

LA Times  

In a neighborhood filled with homogeneous Midcentury Modern residences, Brandon McBurney’s Palm Springs home stands out thanks to its 10-foot-tall lime green doors that face the street. “I wanted something that would stand up to the history of the Palm Springs front door,” says Josh Agle, the artist popularly known as Shag, who designed the house and chose the lively …

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The fits are giving Camp Flog Gnaw
1 year, 1 month ago

The fits are giving Camp Flog Gnaw

LA Times  

What’s that old adage? @beng.mp3 Outfit details: Puma X Fenty boots, Jaded London cargo pants, Amazon belt, Boiler Room cropped tee, thrifted vest, Buffalo Exchange sunglasses. Traci Nzuve, student, L.A. Outfit details: Skirt and long-sleeve top from Urban Outfitters, thrifted belt, Steve Madden boots, Shein sunglasses. @tommyychill Outfit details: Doc Martens shoes, shorts from Mario’s in San Diego, Golf Wang …

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Tiffani Thiessen fed me fried chicken, cheesy enchiladas, beef jerky and a Michelin tasting menu. We had leftovers
1 year, 2 months ago

Tiffani Thiessen fed me fried chicken, cheesy enchiladas, beef jerky and a Michelin tasting menu. We had leftovers

LA Times  

“Frickles are freaking good.” Tiffani Thiessen is sitting in the Elvis corner at Johnny Rebs’ True South in Long Beach. “I’ve been told by so many Long Beach friends to come here,” Thiessen says. “I’m a pretty good connoisseur of beef jerky,” Thiessen says. “This is one of the best ones I’ve ever had.” Tom kah soup, beef jerky and …

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‘I can leave my tears in the garden.’ A tiny flower farm offers a reprieve from cancer
1 year, 2 months ago

‘I can leave my tears in the garden.’ A tiny flower farm offers a reprieve from cancer

LA Times  

Eight months after her husband, Chad, was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer, Stacie Vanags planted 1,100 flower seeds in her Ventura backyard. “It’s easy to get caught up in all of the planning and logistics and never get started with ‘the thing.’” While Chad was in India shooting what he describes as a “mission-based, purpose-driven adventure travel show” with …

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Facing eviction, a beloved Little Tokyo cafe charts its survival in a gentrifying city
1 year, 3 months ago

Facing eviction, a beloved Little Tokyo cafe charts its survival in a gentrifying city

LA Times  

After more than half a century serving Little Tokyo — and more than 35 years in its iconic location — family-run Japanese restaurant Suehiro Cafe has moved to downtown’s Historic Core as it faces an eviction lawsuit. “We wanted to make sure that when they come in, there’s something that’s familiar about this place.” Though the sampuru, or plastic, custom-made …

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It’s banchan heaven at Perilla L.A.
1 year, 3 months ago

It’s banchan heaven at Perilla L.A.

LA Times  

Los Angeles food obsessives have long deliberated over which Koreatown restaurants serve the finest spreads of banchan — and whether the merit in a given flurry of small plates lays in the care of each dish’s individual preparation, or in the sheer variety, or both. When Jihee Kim began her Perilla L.A. takeout project in summer 2020, she taught many …

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Millennials and Gen Z can’t afford homes. Is this prefab ADU a solution?
1 year, 3 months ago

Millennials and Gen Z can’t afford homes. Is this prefab ADU a solution?

LA Times  

On a quiet cul de sac in suburban Los Angeles, the installation of Martin Guevara and Grace Kuo’s prefab accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, caused quite a stir in the neighborhood. “All of our neighbors came out to watch.” Guevara was referring to a prefab ADU designed and built by Villa Homes; the 850-square-foot home was craned over the couple’s …

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How a Spanish bungalow in L.A. went from sad to sexy (Hint: There’s an ADU rental)
1 year, 3 months ago

How a Spanish bungalow in L.A. went from sad to sexy (Hint: There’s an ADU rental)

LA Times  

Like many tech workers, Jing Guo and Gabriel Taylor Russ left Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic in search of warmer weather. “The house needed some love,” Cooke said diplomatically, “but we worked with the existing details and tried to enhance what was already there.” Cooke added an arch in the ADU in keeping with the main home’s Spanish architecture. “We …

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‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death
1 year, 3 months ago

‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death

LA Times  

Petra Janney nimbly climbs in and around her tiny 1973 Piper Cherokee airplane, preparing the crates inside to hold 17 dogs. Amelia Air is small but it operates on both coasts, with Janney in Los Angeles and co-founder Dean Heistad in Washington, D.C. They’ve rescued 1,318 dogs, cats and even a few ferrets since they began — 310 animals this …

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Villa’s Tacos is the essential taqueria that only L.A. could dream up
1 year, 4 months ago

Villa’s Tacos is the essential taqueria that only L.A. could dream up

LA Times  

A thrilling sort of gravitational pull always attracted food lovers to the weekly pop-ups by Villa’s Tacos in 2021 and 2022, held near a restaurant-dense corner of York Boulevard in Highland Park. Villa frequently focused on his marquee queso tacos — tortillas fused with cheese that often formed into browned, jagged rhombus shapes resembling continents; on others the cheese ran …

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The most quietly ambitious cooking to emerge in Los Angeles this year is at Yess
1 year, 4 months ago

The most quietly ambitious cooking to emerge in Los Angeles this year is at Yess

LA Times  

The long, narrow, single-story building at 2001 E. 7th St., its catty-cornered entrance facing the intersection of Mateo Street, debuted in 1924. He channels these qualities into an early, daily-changing signature he calls “monk’s chirashi-sushi.” In late July a black bowl held red, green and orange cherry tomatoes, each with similarly bursting textures; fresh peaches cut in thick triangles; bright, …

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He quit his soulless job to throw pots in his garage. Then Danny D’s Mudshop took off
1 year, 4 months ago

He quit his soulless job to throw pots in his garage. Then Danny D’s Mudshop took off

LA Times  

In the middle of an unrelenting Los Angeles heat wave, potter Daniel Dooreck greeted his neighbors as they said hello from the sidewalk in front of his single-car-garage pottery studio in Echo Park. “Turning mud into really nice ceramics” in his garage may be his deadpan slogan, but on a recent visit, Dooreck was all business as he finished an …

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At Colette, Los Angeles’ next generation of Cantonese cuisine takes shape
1 year, 5 months ago

At Colette, Los Angeles’ next generation of Cantonese cuisine takes shape

LA Times  

No cuisine is a monolith, and that seems especially true in the case of Cantonese cooking across Los Angeles right now. The audience for the San Gabriel Valley’s grand 20th century banquet halls wanes while cha chaan teng, a genre of restaurant derived from Hong Kong’s diner-like teahouses, thrives at places like Henry’s Cuisine in Alhambra. At least one of …

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No yard? No problem. She’ll teach you to grow mobile gardens that’ll shift your thinking
1 year, 5 months ago

No yard? No problem. She’ll teach you to grow mobile gardens that’ll shift your thinking

LA Times  

Domesticated wild cats attempt to find their way into the chicken coops. Read Plant PPL stories “Which blows my mind, like, all this started with me just growing a pack of seeds on my parents’ back porch,” says Lindsey, 36, who moved to South L.A. nearly 24 years ago with her family. Often people come to Lindsey’s workshops with an …

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‘All the neighbors know who she is’: How one woman built a flower farm across eight yards
1 year, 5 months ago

‘All the neighbors know who she is’: How one woman built a flower farm across eight yards

LA Times  

Rachel Nafis, waist-deep in corncockles, cut the blush-colored flowers growing in her neighbor’s yard as her eyes wandered to the front door. “It’s so wonderful to see flowers growing outside my window,” he said from his wheelchair. “I feel I’m adding value to their homes and our neighborhood.” Sunflowers in Tom Weaver’s backyard, left, and a sign for Psalter Farm, …

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Your next Little India dining destination? This Rajasthani restaurant for a thali feast
1 year, 5 months ago

Your next Little India dining destination? This Rajasthani restaurant for a thali feast

LA Times  

When Bhookhe’s narrow dining room in Artesia fills to capacity, which is most of the time during prime lunch and dinner hours, nearly every table has at least one person absorbed in navigating the restaurant’s maharaja thali. “We thought, ‘Let’s try a restaurant.’” A thali is the move when it comes to ordering from Bhookhe’s nearly 80-item menu. It’s also …

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Amid ‘concrete and trash,’ a healing garden for violent crime survivors stands out
1 year, 6 months ago

Amid ‘concrete and trash,’ a healing garden for violent crime survivors stands out

LA Times  

Walking into the Survivors Healing Garden on 108th Street, just blocks from Watts Towers, Oya Sherrills radiates calm as she stops to pick up trash that has blown in from the Union Pacific railroad tracks nearby. We want to give people in the community access to nature to feel safe.” The garden is another way to help survivors who are …

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Lionel Boyce of ‘The Bear’ shares his favorite local restaurants on an Inglewood food crawl
1 year, 6 months ago

Lionel Boyce of ‘The Bear’ shares his favorite local restaurants on an Inglewood food crawl

LA Times  

Ongoing Series Columnist Jenn Harris joins your favorite celebrities to explore their go-to cuisines and restaurants in Los Angeles. To prepare for his role as a baker in “The Bear,” Lionel Boyce spent two weeks working at Hart Bageri in Copenhagen, he told The Times’ Jenn Harris. “It’s like the heavens overlap.” At Dulan’s: “This is a restaurant where you …

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What’s with all the wine at Anajak Thai? Don’t sleep on these bottles from its massive list
1 year, 6 months ago

What’s with all the wine at Anajak Thai? Don’t sleep on these bottles from its massive list

LA Times  

Wine, wine everywhere: bottles stacked on bottles, crowding every spare surface space, taking every inch of unclaimed countertop, packed like sardines between the tables, layered like a phalanx three soldiers deep atop the bar. “It’s almost like we’ve become more wine than restaurant,” laughs sommelier John Cerasulo, the driving force behind the restaurant’s wine program. “I remember we had those …

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Shohreh Aghdashloo shows us where to find the best Persian food in L.A.
1 year, 7 months ago

Shohreh Aghdashloo shows us where to find the best Persian food in L.A.

LA Times  

Ongoing Series Columnist Jenn Harris joins your favorite celebrities to explore their go-to cuisines and restaurants in Los Angeles. “This one is just right.” Aghdashloo says she didn’t learn how to cook until she was 35, prompted when she became a mother. “By Persian parties, I mean eat, dance and tell jokes,” says Shohreh Aghdashloo. “They make it the best …

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Among the ‘it’ pieces of MidcenturyLA
1 year, 7 months ago

Among the ‘it’ pieces of MidcenturyLA

LA Times  

This story is part of “Clearance,” a design issue that peels back the layers of aspirational architecture in L.A., and envisions a more beautiful future that lives a little less on the nose. Co-founded by David Pierce in 2004, the store has become a destination for Midcentury heads, designers, those who obsessively covet online, and celebrities seeking finds from around …

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She wanted more than a guesthouse for her sister. This tiny ADU in L.A. delivers
1 year, 8 months ago

She wanted more than a guesthouse for her sister. This tiny ADU in L.A. delivers

LA Times  

Bridget Bousa knew from the start that she wanted a functional home and not just a temporary guest house when she added an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, in her backyard. Shortly after reading an article about an ADU in Elysian Park that was designed by architects Bo Sundius and Hisako Ichiki for Sundius’ parents, Bousa reached out to the …

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Inside the blockbuster lawsuit threatening one teen YouTube star’s multimillion-dollar empire
2 years ago

Inside the blockbuster lawsuit threatening one teen YouTube star’s multimillion-dollar empire

LA Times  

Piper Rockelle looks like the kind of girl who’d offer you a seat at her table in the cafeteria. “‘She has a right to an education.’” Tiffany Smith said she was hurt that her sister would bring up Piper’s reading, and that Piper has been home-schooled all her life. “In this case, Piper’s mother Tiffany Smith, who administers the earnings …

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How a teeny-tiny ADU completely transformed their L.A. yard
2 years ago

How a teeny-tiny ADU completely transformed their L.A. yard

LA Times  

Nicole Fitzgerald was 25 when she and husband Rick Steil bought a 1926 bungalow in Pacific Palisades on a tree-lined street graced with similarly romantic Spanish Colonial single-family homes. “I can see us renting out our house and traveling the world and keeping the ADU as a home base for us.” At just 290 square feet, the ADU incorporates all …

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