The City E-Zine

Word about the Donut Summit is spreading like wildfire over the interwebs!  They’re talking about it over at the LA Weekly’s Squid Ink; at NBC LA; and over at Food is my Nish, there’s an awesome list of Donut Summit-inspired local gourmet donut options!  So exciting!
And now, dear readers, a challenge for you:  Help me [...]

Last Saturday was a fun, though very low-key Classic Eats. The weather was gorgeous and so was the company!
Special guest Susan (who is now a veteran Classic Eater*) and I were first at Johnnie’s Pastrami. We were met a short while later by Sarah and her son Charlie then Burns! not long thereafter. We chowed [...]

The legendary Bruce Lee, would have turned 70 years old this year. And while it may or may not be difficult to imagine him as a septuagenarian still beating down bad guys, what can’t be denied is decades after his passing, he remains as influential as ever.
In tribute to and in celebration of [...]

13 years before an earthquake in Long Beach would render it useless, the red stone clock tower and ivy-covered walls of the Los Angeles County Courthouse stood proudly next to the more modern Hall of Records, at Temple & Broadway.
The year was 1920.
Photo from the USC Digital Archive

Peter Friess (The Tech Museum) and Daniel N. Fenton (Team San Jose) announced that “Genghis Khan” will be the next blockbuster exhibition coming to San Jose.
“Genghis Khan’s brutality is well known, but less visible is the man whose natural leadership formed the first united Mongol nation – no small feat,” said Peter Friess, president of [...]