Bobby Flay

On the air: Bobby Flay, the chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and television personality, will host Bobby Flay Radio, an exclusive five-week series of live call-in shows on Sirius XM Radio.

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its jury for the 2013 edition, and it's the usual mix of star names and unexpected public personalities. The world narrative competition jury will include playwright and filmmaker Kenny Lonergan, director Paul Haggis and actresses Bryce Dallas-Howard and Blythe Danner, as well as Time Magazine senior editor Jessica Winter. Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg will serve on the world documentary jury, joining directors Sandi Dubowski and Joe Berlinger and actresses Evan Rachel Wood and Mira Sorvino.

White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford knows about all about cooking under pressure. After all, she cooks for the leader of the free world. (First under George W. Bush, now under Barack Obama.) So she said she wasn't all that unnerved by entering Kitchen Stadium for a special two-hour episode of the Food Network's cooking competition "Iron Chef America," which will air at 8 p.m. Sunday. "Kitchen Stadium and the White House, they're both immensely intense in terms of pressure," Comerford said.

Rankings are based on a Times poll of national and independent booksellers. *--* SO. CAL. RATING *--* *--* 1 30-Minute Meals 2 by Rachael Ray (Lake Island Press, $14.95) Still going strong. 2 Italian Easy: Recipes From the London River Cafe by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers (Clarkson Potter, $35) Admirers of the authors' half-dozen other cookbooks are propelling this new title. 3 The South Beach Diet Cookbook by Arthur Agatston (Rodale Press, $29.95) Recipes for the dieter.

Eat your heart out, Bobby Flay. These sleek, shiny grills and accessories from Viking -- the Rolls-Royce of kitchen appliances -- will have neighbors scaling your fence in hot pursuit of the wafting smell of smoked rib-eyes. Jeff Black, whose family has owned California Home Spas & Patio in Long Beach for 31 years, offers tips on how to burn a hole in your wallet and get your grill on: -- Who says bigger isn't better?

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its jury for the 2013 edition, and it's the usual mix of star names and unexpected public personalities. The world narrative competition jury will include playwright and filmmaker Kenny Lonergan, director Paul Haggis and actresses Bryce Dallas-Howard and Blythe Danner, as well as Time Magazine senior editor Jessica Winter. Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg will serve on the world documentary jury, joining directors Sandi Dubowski and Joe Berlinger and actresses Evan Rachel Wood and Mira Sorvino.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, wrapped up a summit at this sweltering California desert resort Saturday after nearly eight hours of talks over two days and a candle-lit dinner aimed at shaping what both leaders called a "new model" of future relations. The meetings grew contentious Saturday morning when Obama pushed Xi to do more to curb Chinese cyber attacks on U.S. businesses and infrastructure. Obama argued the alleged hacking was "inconsistent with the kind of relationship we want to have with China," according to Tom Donilon, the president's national security advisor.

White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford knows about all about cooking under pressure. After all, she cooks for the leader of the free world. (First under George W. Bush, now under Barack Obama.) So she said she wasn't all that unnerved by entering Kitchen Stadium for a special two-hour episode of the Food Network's cooking competition "Iron Chef America," which will air at 8 p.m. Sunday. "Kitchen Stadium and the White House, they're both immensely intense in terms of pressure," Comerford said.

One of the most intriguing 3-year-old fillies running in today's Grade I $700,000 American Oaks at Hollywood Park is the Irish-bred Mrs Kipling, owned by celebrity chef Bobby Flay and trained by renowned turf specialist Neil Drysdale. The most obvious question is what in the name of breeding logic is Mrs Kipling, a daughter of Australian sprint champion Exceed And Excel, doing in a 1 1/4 -mile turf marathon? "We don't know if she can go 10 furlongs yet," Drysdale said. "It's an experiment."

On the air: Bobby Flay, the chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and television personality, will host Bobby Flay Radio, an exclusive five-week series of live call-in shows on Sirius XM Radio.

Eat your heart out, Bobby Flay. These sleek, shiny grills and accessories from Viking -- the Rolls-Royce of kitchen appliances -- will have neighbors scaling your fence in hot pursuit of the wafting smell of smoked rib-eyes. Jeff Black, whose family has owned California Home Spas & Patio in Long Beach for 31 years, offers tips on how to burn a hole in your wallet and get your grill on: -- Who says bigger isn't better?

Rankings are based on a Times poll of national and independent booksellers. *--* SO. CAL. RATING *--* *--* 1 30-Minute Meals 2 by Rachael Ray (Lake Island Press, $14.95) Still going strong. 2 Italian Easy: Recipes From the London River Cafe by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers (Clarkson Potter, $35) Admirers of the authors' half-dozen other cookbooks are propelling this new title. 3 The South Beach Diet Cookbook by Arthur Agatston (Rodale Press, $29.95) Recipes for the dieter.

The home-improvement sector, already benefiting from spending on rehabilitating foreclosed properties, can be expected to get an even larger boost in the coming months from owners who have deferred maintenance during the recession and newly minted empty nesters who want to turn Buffy's bedroom into a home office. But the question is, how are you going to pay for that new roof you needed two years ago or that kitchen remodel you've been yearning for since the kids left the roost?

One of the most intriguing 3-year-old fillies running in today's Grade I $700,000 American Oaks at Hollywood Park is the Irish-bred Mrs Kipling, owned by celebrity chef Bobby Flay and trained by renowned turf specialist Neil Drysdale. The most obvious question is what in the name of breeding logic is Mrs Kipling, a daughter of Australian sprint champion Exceed And Excel, doing in a 1 1/4 -mile turf marathon? "We don't know if she can go 10 furlongs yet," Drysdale said. "It's an experiment."