Listage: Los Angeles' Best Taco Trucks; Rolling With The Grilled Cheese Truck

Published June 8, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.

Menu at La Descarga, Hollywood. [Photo: djjewelz/Eater LA Flickr Pool] ·Tasting Newly Opened Raw/Vegan Eatery Mooi [LAT] ·World's Biggest Burger Competition: 95.5-kg Burger from Australia [AHT] ·Los Angeles' Best Taco Trucks [WWD] ·Kellogg Drops Rice Kirispies Health Claims [MNN] ...

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Friday Opening Report: Caribbean at Kassava and Vietnamese from Paddy Rice

Published June 11, 2010 at 5:24 p.m.

Click the image above to view the full photogallery.1) West Hollywood: Kassava Caribbean Restaurant has been on an expansion streak. Let's review: back in September of 2008, the first Kassava opened on West 3rd Street in what was the North ...

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Playboy Jazz Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl

Published June 10, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.
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TV Junkie: Paul Provenza's Comedy Show Premieres after Penn & Teller

Published June 10, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
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8:00pm Disaster in the Gulf: A Race Against Time Discovery - Engineering efforts try to stop the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ... 9:00pm Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina PBS/KCET - Those who contributed to the romantic history of Santa Catalina include Hollywood stars and Chicago Cubs players ... 9:00pm So You Think You Can Dance Fox - Ten finalists are announced ... 10:00pm Penn & Teller: Bull! Showtime - Season Premiere ... 10:00pm Royal Pains USA - Newberg's

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Maps of 101 L.A. Staircases & Route of Big Parade Released

Published June 10, 2010 at 6:29 p.m.
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This weekend is the Big Parade, a two-day 35-mile walk urban hike between downtown L.A. and the Hollywood sign that goes up and down 101 public staircases. Today, the maps were released with extremely detailed instructions on how to join in on the fun at any staircase (they don't expect you to do the whole thing) -- even public transit notes are included. Organizer Dan Koeppel says Saturday will be shorter with more stairs and be more culture-oriented while Sunday will be longer, more

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Banksy-esque Street Art Pops up on Melrose

Published June 10, 2010 at 8:50 p.m.
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Photo via unurth.com, used with permission ... A new piece of street art has appeared on Melrose. It's actually in the spot where Banksy put up his "out of bed" rat at Orange Avenue (one of several rats that he's done in Hollywood), which was recently taken down. Unsure if Banksy is actually back in Los Angeles or not, some believe it's not the elusive British street artist. Still, the art has been applauded because the new work has "a clever twist," as Unurth.com notes -- "the rat became Pope

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Adam Carolla Talks About Talking And Pie

Published June 11, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.
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LAist: What’s going on with the new old show? ... Adam Carolla: It was always the plan to take it from a podcast and transform it into a show ... I always knew the podcast, while enjoyable, was a little bit of a placeholder until we could do the show ... I mean, I liked doing the long-form interviews and having the guests and freedom and all that kind of stuff, but ultimately, I wanted to compete with other radio shows and morning shows ... That just meant getting the band back together ...

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Pencil This In: Film on Wheels, LA Art + Vinyl Collection Exhibit Opens, Drink at R Bar for WWF + Gulf Coast Recovery

Published June 11, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
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PERFORMANCE ... The Rachel Rosenthal Company's TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theater Ensemble collaborates with special guest artist George Herms. You never know what will happen with this theater ensemble--and neither do they. TOHUBOHU is about total free improvisation. The opening performance begins at 8:30 pm tonight. Additional performances on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets: $20 ... MUSIC ... On the second and last Friday of the month, there are free music concerts at California Plaza Downtown.

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It's L.A. Pride Weekend: Celebrate! And Plan for Traffic, Parking

Published June 11, 2010 at 7:01 p.m.
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At L.A. Pride 2009 (more photos here) Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist ... Just days before closing arguments are to be heard in the federal Prop 8 trial, hundreds of thousands will descend upon West Hollywood for L.A. Pride, now in its 40th year ... Events begin tonight with the free Dyke March at West Hollywood Park. On Saturday and Sunday, the main festival takes place with the culminating parade taking place on Sunday at 11 a.m. on Santa Monica Boulevard between Crescent Heights to Robertson

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Big Parade to take hikers through L.A.'s public stairways

Published June 11, 2010 at 3:31 p.m.

LAist points out that this weekend is the Big Parade, a two-day hiking and camping trip from downtown to the Hollywood sign – through 101 public stairways. A map of the route is above: Today, the maps were released with ...

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