The Best New Restaurants of 2022Each year, Vegetarian Times celebrates the best new restaurants in the U.S. serving the plant-based dining community. This year, our list contains 11 fantastic examples of culinary craft, innovation, and resilience. Opening a restaurant is anā¦ Oct 11 22October 11, 2022Article at Vegetarian Times
The Best Hard Seltzers for When Youāre Over White ClawThink back to the summer of 2019. āOld Town Roadā is playing from passing cars, youāve never heard of COVID, and the cooler at every house party is stocked to the brim with cans of hard seltzer. Hard seltzer sales reached $627.2 million in mid-2019,ā¦ Jun 09 22June 09, 2022Article at Vegetarian Times
Chef John Fraser Gets Creative at the Vegetable-Forward Ardor in West HollywoodChef John Fraser has been a leader in plant-based fine dining for more than a decade. After cutting his teeth in some of the most prestigious kitchens on the planet, he opened Dovetail in New York City in 2007. The elegant restaurant, acclaimed forā¦ Oct 28 21October 28, 2021Article at Vegetarian Times
Haile Thomas Wants to Share the Joy ā and Power ā of Plant-Based EatingAt 20, the activist, author, and nonprofit founder just opened her first restaurant and is finding yet another way to build community through food At the age of 20, Haile Thomas is already running out of space on her business cards. Last month, theā¦ Jun 03 21June 03, 2021Article at Vegetarian Times
How Two of L.A.ās Beloved Indie Arts Spaces Are Surviving the PandemicJunior High is an art and performance spaceābut calling it a āgalleryā doesnāt quite capture what it means to the community that has grown around it. āI try to describe Junior High as the feeling you get when you are with your best friend in herā¦ Mar 29 21March 29, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
A Former Panda Express Worker Alleges She Was Subjected to āCult-Likeā Rituals and Sexual HumiliationThe ex-employee claims advancement at the company is predicated on āself-improvementā seminars that she describes as āpsychological abuseā A former employee of a Panda Express in the Santa Clarita Valley is suing the company after, she claims, sheā¦ Mar 10 21March 10, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Channel 66 Breathes Some Life Into the Pandemic-Hushed Music SceneThe new livestream network from Vans will broadcast from L.A., New York, Chicago, and Mexico City Before the pandemic, Costa Mesa-based Vans frequently sponsored large events and concerts, particularly through its House of Vans music venues andā¦ Feb 11 21February 11, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
An Influencer Helped Launch the Gender Reveal TrendāNow Sheās Pleading with Parents to StopLifestyle blogger Jenna Karvunidis says catastrophic wildfires arenāt the only reason the parties have become problematic Gender reveal parties were not always a thingāand there is really no reason anyone has to keep making them one. Now, as yetā¦ Sep 08 20September 08, 2020Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Bella Thorne Bagged $2 Million on OnlyFans. Sex Workers on the Platform Say Sheās Endangered Their LivelihoodsāThe pandemic pushed me out of one job already, and now Bella Thorneās behavior has pushed me out of another.ā Erstwhile Disney Channel star Bella Thorne made headlines with her splashy debut on OnlyFans, an online platform that allows the fans ofā¦ Aug 28 20August 28, 2020Article at Los Angeles Magazine
What Will Be Left of L.A.ās Music Scene After the Pandemic?As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in the U.S., live performance venues will be among the last businesses allowed to reopenāand, even when some reopening is possible, there is no way to know yet what it might initially look like. For largeā¦ Aug 11 20August 11, 2020Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Sqirl Accused of Moldy Jam, Questionable Practices, and Stolen RecipesOne of L.A.ās best-known restaurants has found itself engulfed in a growing scandal. Just days before the debut of a new cookbook full of recipes for jams, workers at Sqirl leaked images of what they say is mold growing on batches of jam headed to beā¦ Jul 14 20July 14, 2020Article at Los Angeles Magazine
L.A.ās Asian-American Activist Newspaper from the ā70s Is Back in PrintWhen a group of UCLA students met in 1969 with an idea to found a publication that would address issues facing the Asian American community, even the term āAsian Americanā was considered revolutionary. It had only just entered the lexicon, thanks toā¦ Dec 19 19December 19, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
How a Failed Magician Brought the Magic of Faux Snow to L.A.While making snow fall at a SoCal shopping mall seems pretty magical, itās not exactly the type of magic Adam Williams originally had in mind when he headed to Hollywood. āI was working at the Magic Castle and trying to become a successful magicianā¦ Nov 25 19November 25, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Marciano Art Foundation Shutters, Blaming Low AttendanceāFormer Employees Have Other TheoriesJust days after staffers announced their intent to unionize, the Wilshire Boulevard museum has closed with āno plans to reopenā On Tuesday night, employees of the Marciano Art Foundation received a brief email with some surprising news. Effectiveā¦ Nov 06 19November 06, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Santa Monica Art Space Highways Celebrates 30 Years of Changing the World Through Queer OutrageousnessWhen Highways opened in May, 1989, the idea of a performing arts space dedicated to providing a platform for radical queer art was bold and provocative. The country was in the midst of a conservative culture war, artists and arts organizations wereā¦ May 15 19May 15, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Roy Choiās New Docuseries Isnāt Afraid of the Tough PartsRoy Choi didnāt want to make just another glossy, globe-trotting food show. For his new show, Broken Bread, he didnāt even want to leave Los Angeles. What he wanted to do was use the platform he was presented with to talk about things likeā¦ May 03 19May 03, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Nipsey Hussle Had a Vision to Make His Communityāand the WorldāBetterAs the search for Nipsey Hussleās killer goes on and mourning continues, many have spoken out about the numerous ways he was actively working to spread a message of positivity in Los Angeles and beyond. Strikingly, he was scheduled to meet with theā¦ Apr 01 19April 01, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
We Need to Talk About Your Behavior at the SuperbloomThis yearās poppy superbloom is particularly spectacular, and has drawn visitors from across the region. Unfortunately, what should be a lovely experience, as strangers gather to take a moment from our hectic lives to appreciate the simple naturalā¦ Mar 11 19March 11, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Michelin Will Rate L.A. Restaurants This YearāBut Does Anybody Actually Want That?Starting in June, L.A. restaurants will have their first chance to be awarded Michelin stars in more than a decade. Rather than bringing back the city-specific book, as Michelin published for 2008 and 2009, this time around it will be aā¦ Mar 06 19March 06, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Annie Leibovitz Looks Back on Her āVery Californiaā Early YearsAnnie Leibovitz found herself in the right place at the perfect time. āIt was 1967, ā68, sort of near the end of the whole āflowerā period in San Francisco. I bought a camera and started taking some pictures,ā she recalls. Those pictures grew to beā¦ Feb 13 19February 13, 2019Article at Los Angeles Magazine
