Food critic Jonathan Gold of our sister paper LA Weekly has won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, it was announced today.
The Pulitzer Board noted Gold's "zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater."
The two other excellent nominees were both from the Los Angeles Times.
Congratulations to Jonathan for earning this news organization's FOURTH Pulitzer Prize.
(The Orange County Register has won three.)
In 2000, Mark Schoofs of the Village Voice--an
We here at the OC Weekly have been accused of many things over the years: libel, slander (whenever one of us appear on radio), lies, Commie-sympathizing, Reconquista cheerleading, selling ours souls to New Times, and—most memorably—"Satan instrument,"what Congressman Robert K. Dornan called the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley on television. But in my five years at your favorite fish wrap, I don’t recall any writer being accused of plagiarism until this morning.
Cue a long, rambling phone message
Of all the trendy foods to hit L.A. recently, nothing has intrigued me more than Kyochon Chicken, fried chicken as done by Koreans. Jonathan Gold's Pulitzer-prize winning taste-buds swears by it ("Current fried chicken mecca", he writes), while food bloggers, Chowhounds, and Yelpers alike have gone ga-ga, typing out countless testimonials of its greatness.
The buzz has been so loud that it's even spurred the predictable backlash, a signal that the hype has run its course, at least in L.A.
So
The LA Weekly is announcing that Editor in Chief Laurie Ochoa and the paper are parting ways after eight years.
A former intern, contributor, and special sections editor at the LA Weekly from 1984-1988, Ochoa returned to take over the editor in chief role in 2001.
LA Weekly wishes her luck in all future endeavors.
LA Weekly is actively searching for Editor in Chief candidates who will continue LA Weekly's legacy of journalistic excellence while expanding its online presence.
Since 1978, LA
One of the pleasures of belonging to Village Voice Media
is that the company hosts the best roster of food critics in the
country--but you don't have to believe my boosterism? Who's the only
food critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize? Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly.
Who's going to be releasing a memoir of his food life for a
mega-publishing house? Westword's Jason Sheehan. And what paper employs
Robb Walsh, the expert on Texas food culture? The Houston Press.
I was in Houston over the weekend for a b
The OC Weekly--as in ORANGE COUNTY Weekly--plot for Los Angeles media market domination has been slow to achieve but persistent, as evidenced by the impressive showing Weeklings make on the Los Angeles Press Club's list of finalists for the 51st annual SoCal Journalism Awards.Winners will be announced June 14 at the "newly renovated" Sheraton Universal hotel. Which means several of us will be consulting MapQuest between now and June 14. Most certainly MapQuesting will be Daffodil J. Altan, who i
Our sister paper, L.A. Weekly, debuted their very own food blog last week. Called Squid Ink, it features the return on Ask Mr. Gold, where resident Pulitzer-prize winning critic, Jonathan Gold, reprises his popular food advice column.We welcome the esteemed Mr. Gold and crew to the food bloggin' foray, but this gives me an idea...an idea to steal the idea! (Hey, SF Weekly's SFoodie flattered me by cribbing my Wacky Snacks idea once).
So here's my proposal: Why not an O.C. food advice col
For local foodies, Good Food needs no intro; for everyone else, it's a long-running show on KCRW-FM 89.9 hosted by famed L.A.-area chef Evan Kleiman on everything food--books, recipes, trends, articles, and holes-in-the-wall. The main voice in the latter field, of course, is LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, the only food critic to ever win the Pulitzer Prize in his craft. Following him on the rotation is Fullerton's own Eddie Lin, the hilarious, infamous blogger behind Deep End Dining. And completing
