The undulating red neon heartbeat atop the center of Hollywood’s renaissance belongs not to a tarot card reader storefront, nor a house of sci-fi soul salvation, but to the Roosevelt Hotel, which conceals in its underbelly a gourmet hamburger diner called 25 Degrees.  A lead on the streets about the burgers at 25 Degrees had [...]

It was a quiet Sunday evening in August when Madlib and I found ourselves heading due north on the 101 freeway towards Hollywood. The freeways were empty, and that was a good thing, because our destination took us to the opposite side of town at the edge of the Los Feliz/Hollywood divide—longtime BurgerFile hideaway, The [...]