Andrea Chang

The courtyard is the most popular dining area at Violet. The Westwood restaurant and cooking school is preparing to reopen fully on June 15, 2021. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

What workers want from customers: Don’t be a jerk, say if you’re vaccinated, and please keep masking

June 17, 2021 at 9:13 p.m.

Frontline workers have gone through the wringer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their customer-facing jobs meant they could not escape potential exposure to the coronavirus, and the burden of enforcing safety...

Patagonia muestra que el activismo empresarial es más simple de lo que parece

May 12, 2021 at 9:28 p.m.

En 1990, Patagonia hizo una donación a Planned Parenthood, un gesto que enfureció a los fundamentalistas cristianos. La respuesta fue rápida: llamadas a un boicot, amenazas de protestas en las...

Airbnb is cracking down on holiday bookings to prevent users from renting homes for large gatherings.

Party ban: Here’s what Airbnb is doing to discourage large holiday gatherings

December 24, 2020 at 2:51 p.m.

That secret party-house rager you were hoping to throw on New Year's Eve? Don't think you can book it on Airbnb. The short-term rentals site has clamped down on listings...

Las Vegas buffets: Your guide to lavish nonstop dining on the Strip

February 11, 2020 at 7:17 p.m.

Nothing says "America" like excess, and nothing says "excess" like Las Vegas, and nothing says "Las Vegas" like the all-you-can-eat buffet. By the transitive property, that makes the AYCE buffet...

Jonathan Gold, left, chef Alvin Cailan of Eggslut and Ramen Champ, and chef Roy Choi of Kogi taste hot sauces to see if they can find a new favorite.

Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57

August 18, 2019 at 7:49 p.m.

Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city’s vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has...

Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57

December 13, 2018 at 3:58 a.m.

Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city's vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Few took Rose McGowan’s claims seriously before Weinstein scandal. Now, everyone is listening.

December 17, 2018 at 10:44 p.m.

Well before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, Rose McGowan was already, in her words, a "feminist whistleblowing badass." For months, the actress had warned of a powerful Hollywood figure who...

Faraday Future unveils Batmobile-like electric concept car at CES

June 1, 2019 at 6:49 a.m.

The wait is over. Faraday Future, the secretive Chinese-backed Gardena automaker, finally unveiled its first concept car at CES: a sleek, silver-and-black Batmobile-esque electric vehicle called the FFZERO1. The 1,000-horsepower...

The Sphero BB-8 remote-controlled droid is on display at CES Unveiled, a media preview event for CES International, on Jan. 4, 2016, in Las Vegas. The robot is controlled by an app for a mobile device.

CES kicks off with prediction that global tech sales will fall 2% this year

May 23, 2019 at 6:59 p.m.

Global technology sales are predicted to fall 2% to $950 billion this year, setting a cautionary tone on the first day of the massive CES trade show. The annual consumer...

The Apple Watch event: What we already know and what to expect

June 21, 2019 at 8:21 a.m.

Apple is hosting a media event Monday morning to launch its Apple Watch, and we'll be in San Francisco to give you all the details as they're announced. Chief Executive...

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