Category Archives: Koreatown

La Descarga: The Underground Rum Revival

February 5, 2010 – 10:10 am

The speakeasy isn’t dead.
Due to fatigue induced by Mark Gold’s wonderful fried chicken over at Eva, I had missed a late reservation on opening night at La Descarga. Luckily, thanks to Mattatouille and the company of H.C. of LA-OC-Foodie and Fiona of Gourmet Pigs, I was able to avoid the rush and visit the new, under-cover, reservation-only [...]

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Cookies Without Borders: A Bake Sale for Haiti

January 26, 2010 – 9:51 am

Photo credit to BitchMagazine on Flickr
The mind behind No Cookie Left Behind – who has held three bake sales for Share Our Strength – is now turning efforts towards the people of Haiti. On Sunday, January 31st, 2010, come to Scoops Ice Cream to help out, hang out and come together for a common cause.
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Cabbin’ it in LA: It’s Text-a-Taxi

September 4, 2009 – 9:41 am

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I’m going to New York next week. Though I’m very much a subway girl while there, there will be a lot of taxis – and at that, ones you can hail. I doubt any of us ever instructed anybody to “hail a cab” as a means of getting around Los [...]

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Pinkberry is Officially Not Yogurt

June 18, 2007 – 12:45 pm

So, in another fell swoop to inform my readers about the truth and oppression of mindless fadtastic trends which have duped all other members of the public, I felt it my duty to update you all that California has ruled that Pinkberry is not allowed to label their dessert “frozen yogurt.” (You can also view [...]

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Adventures in Korean Noodling

May 15, 2007 – 7:48 am

Roycifer and I have had a display, lately, of slightly masochistic behavior.
Okay, maybe I’m being dramatic. Let me explain. We’ve been visiting Korean restaurants in Koreatown, just the two of us, for about … lessee … 5 trips in the span of not more than a week.  That is, while not having a Korean-speaking fellow accompany [...]

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