It's a challenge to find healthy, cheap, quick, and tasty food. So when I heard that The Juices Fountain in Hollywood is back in action after a short hiatus, it totallly made my day. After months battling redevelopment plans in Hollywood, this family-owned stand is juicing away again from a new location in the neighborhood near the El Capitan Theater. They assure us they still make the same fine, fresh juices, smoothies, sandwiches, salads......

by Peter DeWolf As a screenwriter I've been drawn to L.A. like a Hollywood starlet to a sketchy Greek shipping heir. For some reason I've thus far resisted the call. But, I have thought about what the trip would be like. And it would go a little something like this... As soon as I arrived, I'd go straight to the Park Hyatt. (I'm an out of towner, how would I know where the cool......

We've mentioned this before, but we're still amazed at how we take our juice and smoothies so seriously here in sunny SoCal. We aren't sure if we remember when the craze began, but we do have a fondness in our hearts for the simpler days of going to the Surf City Squeeze booth at the mall (and a time when "Wanna go to the mall and get a smoothie?" said in a Valley Girl......

Veteran journalist and cultural chronicler Kristine McKenna has profiled, documented, and interpreted much of what and who has impacted Los Angeles over the past several decades. Her work has appeared in numerous newspapers and publications including the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and the erstwhile great Wet magazine. The subjects of McKenna’s tête-à-têtes reads like a virtual who’s who of influential thinkers, artists, writers, musicians, and personalities of our times. Many of these interviews......

LAist patriarch Gothamist recently asked the question, Do You Feel the Jamba? -- asking New Yorkers if Jamba Juice shops in the Big Apple was a huge stretch... Did New Yorkers freezing their asses off really want to get a Peach Pleasure or a Coldbuster to refresh their taste buds? The question was negotiable, but it got LAist to thinking: Has the trend of Jamba Juice, Roebek's Juice, Surf City Squeeze and other un-chained......