Define 'Forecast'...

forecast: 1) A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop. 2) In LA, an educated shrug.

Is it just me, or are the southern California weather predictions completely useless? For example, today's reports predicted your typical warm September WeHo day. Cut to us stewing in sweltering heat, with a health department heat advisory to boot! Say it with me: "WTF?!?"

The folks at ForecastAdvisor.com happen to track weather forecast accuracy. Last month, the National Weather Service correctly predicted LA's high temperature (within 3 degrees) ... drum roll please ... 59% of the time! Which isn't even the worst of the bunch. Even the almighty Weather Channel's accuracy was a measly 50%.

Now, I'm sure those meteorologists are smart people trying their best. But frankly, if I did my job right only 50% of the time, I'd have my ass handed to me on a platter.

So what's the weather going to be like tomorrow? Hold on... it looks like ... "tails." Definitely "tails." Or maybe it's "heads." Well, I'll leave you with one prediction can safely make with 100% accuracy: Today's Pinkberry line will be long. With a 75% chance of wrapping around the block.

Don't forget your misters.

WeHo Restaurant Menus @ MenuPix

Don't you just hate the "restaurant gotcha?" It happens to the best of us in two forms. 1) You discover that there's nothing on the menu that fits with your vegan-paleo-zone-GI-CRON-Laguna-Beach diet or 2) The prices are WAY higher than what Citysearch said.

Nowadays most popular restaurants have web sites that feature their menu. Great! But to get to them, you're stuck sitting through obnoxious Flash movies full of highly stylized, faded-in photos set to the exact same ambient electronica soundtrack you've heard on every other site. And after waiting patiently for the damn web site to load, the menu doesn't even share the sure-to-be-exorbitant prices. Enter MenuPix.com.

In addition to listing restaurants, MenuPix.com includes images of the restaurants' actual menus. They also accept reviews and allow you to add restaurants that aren't listed. You can even create a "myMenuPix" list to just show your usual haunts.

Among the Ho's personal favorites, they already have the Abbey, Cha Cha Cha, Hugo's, Urth Caffe . And to see how much cash you'll REALLY be burning on that hot date, you can even check Koi, Boa, Lucques, the Palm, La Boheme, or the Tower Bar.

Use the link below to find all the West Hollywood restaurants with available menus, and may you never be "gotcha-ed" again.

MenuPix.com West Hollywood Restaurants with Menus

LA Times Pinkberry coverage

Deborah Netburn of the LA Times has wisely decided to cover our favorite obsession in an article entitled The Taste That Launched 1,000 Parking Tickets.

In the last update, the Ho revealed six of the eight rumored new locations. The Times article reveals more:

• The Koreatown location opens NEXT WEEK.


• The Melrose & La Brea location opens in early September.


• Not 8, but 30 LA locations are in the works.


• New York can expect 30 locations as well.


• San Diego is also on the radar

There's also plenty about the rift with neighbors on Huntley and the copycat, Kiwiberri.

Keep it tuned here for all your Pinkberry news. Scratch that. We know you're in line trying to beat that 10:45pm cutoff.

The Taste That Launched 1,000 Parking Tickets

Grocery Shopping in WeHo

Smogless air, traffic-free streets, enough energy to withstand heatwaves. There are many things that LA lacks. However, there is one thing in no short supply here, unlike Manhattan, and that is the supermarket. Picture, if you will, your average coupon-clipping grocery shopper. "Hmm... does any store have a special on top sirloin?" A simple enough question. Whose answer lies buried in a thick stack of weekly ads: Albertson's, Vons, Food 4 Less, Pavilions, Ralphs, Jons, Bristol Farms, Gelsons, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Smart & Final, ... it's enough to make David Blaine leap out of his acrylic box and cry, "Stop the madness!"

To save you from this third circle of hell, your salvation awaits: the WeHo Ho Food Shopping Guide.

West Hollywood Supermarkets

• Trader Joe's - Eastside (Santa Monica & Fuller)

  
  

• Trader Joe's - Westside (Santa Monica & Westmount)

  
  


• Ralphs (Sunset & Poinsettia)

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  AKA "Rock 'n Roll Ralphs"
  
  

• Ralphs (La Brea & Fountain)

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• Jons (Fountain & La Brea)

  Weekly Ad
  Not to be mistaken for Vons (despite the suspicious logo similarities).
  



• Whole Foods (Santa Monica & Fairfax)

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• Gelson's Market (Santa Monica & Kings)

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• Bristol Farms (Sunset & Fairfax)

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• Pavilions (Santa Monica & La Peer)

  Weekly Ad
  Pavilions is owned by the same company as Vons and Safeway.

And let's group them like so:

Premium Grocery Stores: Whole Foods, Gelson's Market, or Bristol Farms

Your Average Supermarket: Ralphs, Pavilions

Discount/Ethnic Grocer: Jons

In a League of Its Own: Trader Joe's. Oh, Trader Joe's, how I heart thee. Let me count the ways. But I'll spare you and save the TJ's poetry for another day.

New PinkBerry Locations

Still no relief from the heat. And guess what? The PinkBerry line on Huntley has officially gone insane.
With that, the hunt is officially on for the 8 new LA PinkBerry locations. Here's what the Ho has found so far.

Beverly Hills
Little Santa Monica Blvd & N Rodeo Dr (by Jamba Juice)

Koreatown
W 6th St & S Berendo St

Larchmont Village
236 N Larchmont Blvd
Between Beverly Blvd & W 1st St

Studio City
Studio City Plaza (by Trader Joe's)
Ventura Blvd & Radford Ave

West Hollywood #2
Melrose Ave & N La Brea Ave (by M Cafe de Chaya)

Westwood
Lindbrook Dr & Westwood Blvd (by Subway)

6 down, 2 to go. Over and out.