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Chef Roy Choi

Could His Next Project Be a Zombie Restaurant?

Does Roy Choi need an introduction? The chef behind the Kogi BBQ trucks and a slew of L.A. restaurants—the most recent of which are POT and Commissary in the Line Hotel—also served as a co-producer and technical consultant on the movie Chef. Before screening Chef at the Million Dollar Theatre, Choi sat down in the Zócalo green room and talked about everything from what he’d eat for his last meal (it depends on how exactly he’s going to die) to how he’d defend himself in a zombie apocalypse (if he …

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My 1930s Education at the Movies

The Golden Age of Hollywood Taught Me About War, Crime, Natural Disasters—and What Was Funny About America

By Manuel H. Rodriguez |

I’d long wanted to see the two movies on the double bill at our neighborhood movie house, the Princess at 61st and Main streets in Los Angeles, that week in …

California Needs a New Vision of Its Apocalypse

Why Do Novelists and Screenwriters Keep Rehashing the Same Old Stories of the End Days?

by Joe Mathews |

What explains the success of California? Fear of the apocalypse.

Fear of a publishing apocalypse, to be precise. Most of us never would have heard about Edan Lepucki’s debut novel, California, …

L.A. Greats of Film and Food Jon Favreau and Roy Choi Screen ‘Chef’

The ‘My Favorite Movie’ Series Launches With a Love and Laugh Fest

by Sarah Rothbard |

In 2009, Zócalo was the first L.A. organization to invite Roy Choi—then a restaurant-chef-turned-food-truck-operator who was selling Korean barbecue-filled tacos on the streets of Southern California—to speak on a panel …

Bring the George Lucas Museum to Modesto

Forget San Francisco and Chicago. The Legendary Filmmaker’s Collection Belongs in the California Region Where He Was Born and Raised.

by Joe Moore |

In California, we have high standards, especially when it comes to development. Whether it’s a new warehouse or an apartment building, the bigger the project, the lengthier and more complicated …

Making Mom a Movie Star

Creating a Documentary About My Mother’s Work in the Fields Helped Me See Her in a New Light

by Janelly Martinez |

On a typical morning, my mother, Camelia Maribel Sanchez, drives 15 minutes from our house in Coachella, a small city in the Southern California desert, to the bell pepper fields …


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