Pairings: Alma’s Ari Taymor and Bludo’s Jason Bernstein

If Los Angeles really is the most “important place to eat in America right now” as food critic Ruth Reichl recently declared, then 26-year old Ari Taymor of Alma and Jason Bernstein of Golden State and Bludsos are a pair of Young Turks on the scene. Both have been racking up rave reviews in the local and national press culminating in Bon…

It’s Worse Than You Think

Well, at least we have the weather.  The future of Los Angeles remains bleak, according to a highly anticipated report released Wednesday by the LA 2020 Commission.  “For too many years we have failed to cultivate and build on our human and economic strengths, while evading the hard choices concerning local government and municipal finance…