by Katherine Spiers " One of my most “will die on this hill” beliefs is that most people are incorrect about where they got food poisoning. I’ve even written about it. So of course the last time I got food poisoning I was hoist by my own petard and [...]
Let the new season of horror begin! Sam Pancake is here in the new year to get back to the Monday Afternoon Movie roots, which is all that is shocking and scary and sometimes ridiculous. He's asked actor and now returning guest Alec Mapa to sit down with him to [...]
See full artwork here → Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “Sorority House” (February 8, 1961) A few times on this podcast, we’ve bent over backwards to find a gay interpretation of a sitcom that never did anything gay, but this is not one of those. Mister Ed [...]
"Comfort food comes in so many forms." Read the article here: Eat Here: Multiple Islands in Two Restaurants Subscribe to see all of our How to eat LA newsletters. If you'd like to donate without subscribing, you can do so on Venmo and PayPal. Thank you! Find me on [...]
by Katherine Spiers " I started this newsletter about three years ago with a rather starry-eyed premise: I could hire freelance journalists from around the world, and pay them well, and run this by myself while also doing all my other work, and funding would eventually be found, [...]
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See full artwork here → Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “Fathers and Sons” (May 3, 2003) And we’re back! Our first regular episode of the new year returns to the first-ever show we discussed: Frasier. It’s the episode where David Ogden Stiers plays an old colleague of [...]
"Los Angeles' most glittering restaurant specialized in chili. But Ronald Reagan loved the boiled beef." Read the article here: Chasen's Served the Most Expensive Beans in L.A. Subscribe to see all of our How to eat LA newsletters.
" Sometimes you connect two things and think that this link you’ve made *has* to be intentional. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it’s not. But also I’ll take any excuse to talk about a woman who wears a parrot on her head for the purposes of fashion. " Read [...]
by Alicia Bones " In 2017, a Massachusetts city hall was overrun with millions of drugstore beetles. When a pest control company was called to the building, they discovered the source: rotting civil defense crackers. Since the early 1960s, the crackers had been stored in aluminum cans in an [...]
