In the 11 years since the original “Bring It On” (starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku and Gabrielle Union) came out, studios have milked the peppy cash cow for all its worth.

It’s easy to overlook the 26-year-old Empanada’s Place if you’re just driving by. Located at 3811 Sawtelle Blvd., right around the corner from a liquor store and blocks of residential housing, its store front is about as long as a dorm room.

The dining table of Dahlia Gratia Setiyawan, a history doctoral candidate, is covered with large photography books open to pages of unsmiling mug shots and homicide crime scenes.

When you walk into an English pub, Sunday Night Football probably shouldn’t be playing on the flat screens.

Located at 1271 S. La Brea Ave., Flavors of Belize is run by a short, vibrant woman named Diamine Pariente who chats with guests and says things like “You girls look 16.”

This week I found myself in the all-too-familiar situation of trying to find a restaurant open late at night.

Somewhere in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York is a big white farmhouse surrounded by fields and patches of green grass.

Originally I hadn’t planned on getting Russian food, which might be why I ended up in a run-down shopping center late at night, at a table near a bunch of people celebrating a birthday party with the help of a bottle of vodka.

After graduating from UCLA’s Theater, Film and Television program in 2008, alumna Beth Behrs spent years working and auditioning for film and TV before landing her breakout role as Caroline Channing in the freshman CBS sitcom “2 Broke Girls.” Daily Bruin reporter Arit John talked to Behrs about the show, her time at UCLA and actually being a broke girl.

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I try not to go into restaurants with set expectations, but I had a pretty clear idea of what I was expecting from a German restaurant.