Digging through the details at Nosh Café

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Susan McKenna rolls up words with the kind of ease only an Australian accent can produce, tying together quick jumps of the tongue that sound through most of her tiny Nosh Café. She’s there most days (the place closes down when McKenna heads out of town) [...]

‘Controversy’ takes familiar subjects in new directions

ARTURO SANDOVAL’S ‘STRAIGHT JACKET’
What is “Controversy”? What’s controversial? Depends. Ray Vasquez, mild-mannered gallery manager, etc., etc., thought telling someone else might be too, well—you know. And because someone else was happy to decide, that was it.
“We just left that to the hands of the artists,” Vasquez says while leading [...]

There’s always plenty to eat around town, but there’s a particularly filling week of food ahead for interested eaters, including these (ongoing) events:
One-Year Anniversary at Tracht’s: Suzanne Tracht’s eponymous spot inside the Renaissance Hotel (reviewed here) is celebrating its anniversary with a special three-courses-for-$30 menu. Among the options is, of course, Chef Tracht’s signature pot [...]

Guess who had the best weekend ever? Why it’s our running-unopposed-in-November Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach)! Yay!
As the Daily Breeze’s Gene Maddaus reported Saturday, if you missed it, Richardson finally officially got her house in Sacramento back. (Meaning … house-warming gifts, or no?)
Quick refresher: this is the house in Sacramento which the congresswoman purchased during [...]

‘New In Town?’ leaves you hungry to create–and eat candy

EDITH ABEYTA’S MYTHICAL BEAST SWEET SHOPPE
An exhibit has to believe in itself before it can win over the audience, and “New In Town?”, up now at Angels Gate Cultural Center, is a very convincing show. These artists—new arrivals to Angels Gate’s studio artist program—seem to have [...]

Mishi’s Strudel
Mishi’s Strudel is a place of intense thought, modeled after the kind of Old World cafés where philosophies were formed and great art admired. But there’s no pretense here—Mishi’s Strudel is as simple as it gets. As its name suggests, the café fills its ovens almost exclusively with strudels, flaky pockets stuffed with only [...]

You might have missed this, but The Associated Press’s Erica Werner covered the annual release Monday of congressional disclosure reports, in hopes it would shed some light on that whole Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) thing.
“In earlier disclosure forms filed in May, the first-term Democrat listed no liabilities, although reports emerged late last month she [...]

One book’s look back at the founding of the Port of Los Angeles

Phineas Banning pulled up some deep dreams from the bottom of San Pedro Bay. There, he imagined the greatest shipping center in the world, built upon the purest port land he had ever seen. But if railroad tycoon Collis Huntington had his way, [...]

Bob Barry’s subjects are focused on playing jazz, and that’s how he photographed them

Los Angeles photographer Bob Barry apparently leads a very interesting life.
Most recently, Barry (whose real last name is Horowitz) has brought us “The Brotherhood: Performance Portraits,” a series of photos of jazz greats up now at Flazh!Alley Studio in San Pedro—and we’ll [...]

Last night, a person or persons unknown slashed more than 100 tires on vehicles in San Pedro, hitting parked cars “near 21st Street between Gaffey Street and Pacific Avenue; Ninth Street and Patton Avenue; Sebastian and Channel streets; and Battery Street and Cabrillo Avenue” according to the Daily Breeze’s Donna Littlejohn.
That’s a huge loss for [...]