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7-Eleven Inc.

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    7-Eleven Introduces Slurpee Lite Free Slurpee Day

    7-Eleven is introducing a new low-calorie, sugar-free Slurpee at its stores nationwide this week. The offering targets women in their 20s who have bought into the whole "skinny girl" hoopla. Right off the bat, we see a couple of problems with this move. One, we weren't aware that anyone over the ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Eat This Now: Oden At Morinoya

    If you get tired of American comfort food, you might consider comfort food from Japan -- by which we do not mean, at least at the moment, ramen and curry rice. One of the most comforting of Japanese comfort food dishes is oden, a bowl of broth in which has been simmered many things, notably fish cak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    Celeb Coffee Showdown: Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Will Oldham

    Last time we hosted a Celeb Coffee Showdown, we threw Darth Vader, David Lynch and Rob Zombie into the same metaphorical octagon. What did we learn? Everyone's a product whore, even the Dark Lord. This time, we went for a less formal but more carefully curated showdown, pitting Bonny "Prince" Bill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Starbucks Adds Alcohol: Chain Is One Bad Hot Dog Away From Becoming 7-Eleven

    As if the hipster / unpublished author / part-time screenwriter milieu of Starbucks wasn't enough of a reason to get your ass to the nearest indie java dealer ASAP, the coffee giant announced today that it's adding alcohol to the menu of as many as six Southern California locations. Our local Starb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    L.A.'s Idea of Japanese Food vs. What Japanese Really Eat

    Our Venn Food Diagram series has studied the people of Thailand, Armenia, Vietnam and most recently California, comparing what they actually eat with what Angelenos believe they eat. In this edition, we turn our attention to Japan, looking past ramen and sushi to see what foods Angelenos have left t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Binge Drinkers Hit The Bar Once a Week, Get Wasted: U.S. Health Officials Concerned

    America, we've got a problem. The first step is admitting it: More than 38 million of us binge drink about four times a month (only?), having as many as 8 drinks in a sitting (lightweights). In some nations across the Atlantic -- Germany, England, the Netherlands -- this is called being a pussy. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Nigel Tufnel Day 11/11/11: Eleven Ways To Celebrate

    obamicon.me​See also: Nigel Tufnel Day 11/11/11: It's Official 11/11/11 is finally here. Happy Nigel Tufnel Day! After all, the man is both a rock god and a numerologistical prophet. Which is why, in his name, we celebrate this sacred and mystical occasion, when all of the elevens come toget ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Gumby-Costumed Man Tries to Rob 7-Eleven in SoCal, Cops Say

    Gumby.​Updated at the bottom with San Diego police telling us they don't believe it was a hoax. Two suspects turned themselves in. First posted at 6:03 a.m. on Sept. 7. Gumby tried to rob a Southern California 7-Eleven. You read that right. A man dressed in a full-on, head-to-toe Gumby cost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Your July Sugar Rush: Free Slurpees, Lollipops and Dessert A Slurpee Recipe

    Cheesecake Factory's newest Hershey's flavor & free 7-Eleven slurpees​ Café patios are jammed at mid-day, beach parking lots are more overcrowded than usual, and neighborhood teens are breaking into your pool at midnight. If you're reading this during "normal" business hours, you're most like ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2011

    No-Buck Chuck

    Cheesecake Factory's newest Hershey's flavor & free 7-Eleven slurpees​ Café patios are jammed at mid-day, beach parking lots are more overcrowded than usual, and neighborhood teens are breaking into your pool at midnight. If you're reading this during "normal" business hours, you're most like ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 19, 2011

    Pilar Alessandra: 5,000 Scripts and Counting

    Cheesecake Factory's newest Hershey's flavor & free 7-Eleven slurpees​ Café patios are jammed at mid-day, beach parking lots are more overcrowded than usual, and neighborhood teens are breaking into your pool at midnight. If you're reading this during "normal" business hours, you're most like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Zachariah Timothy Lehnen, Accused in Double Murder of Culver City Pair, Could Have Been in Prison Until 2013 But Was Released Early

    Patrick HealyZachariah Timothy Lehnen.​The transient accused of killing two people in Culver City this month was let out of prison late last year -- with three years cut off his time -- via a controversial early-release program. Thirty-one-year-old Zachariah Lehnen's parolee information sheet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    A Glee-Inspired Slushie Food Fight: Slurpee vs. ICEE

    FOXGuilty pleasures: Glee & Slushies​ In a list of guilty pleasures about a mile long, two things rise to the top. First, the TV show Glee. Second, the slushie: a brain freeze-inducing, icy concoction sold at most convenience stores and movie theaters. Lucky for us, we can (sort of) enjoy bot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Rogue's Gallery: Mug Shots Of Robert Rizzo And 'The Bell Eight' For Your Next Dart Game

    Ted Soqui​They're quickly becoming known as the "Bell Eight" -- those illustrious officials from that working-class, Los Angeles suburb accused of misappropriating public funds and, as state controller John Chiang put it Wednesday, using public money "like a petty cash drawer." On Tuesday they we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Fishbone, Sam Sparro, I&I Soundsystem and Infinity at Sunset Junction Street Fair

    Lina Lecaro High at Sunset Junction​The photo above was taken from atop (and we mean the very top) of the ferris wheel at this year's Sunset Junction Street Fair. We have lots just like it because the giant wheel got stuck --yes stuck!-- as soon as we got on. "A tangled cable or something," i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    8 Reasons Why Your Drug Dealer Hates You

    Open for business. Unless you suck. ​It's been said that miserable circumstances are incited when you piss off your bartender, hairdresser or leader of your preferred religious denomination, in addition to a slew of people in other professions (your pizza delivery guy, your fitness instructor) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Michael LoGrande Confirmed Planning Director; Symposium Asks, What Now?

    New Planning Director Michael LoGrande with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa​ Michael LoGrande, who had been the city's chief zoning administrator, was confirmed Wednesday by the City Council to become the new planning director. He'll be charged with creating and executing a vision for the city's fu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    L.A. City Council: Helping 7-Eleven Go Upscale?

    ​ The L.A. City Council has two food related items on the agenda today, in a sign of the continuing momentum of food activists who are either ameliorating hunger and reversing the decades-long trend toward bad, processed food, or being annoying nanny staters wasting Council time while bigger ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Neighborhood Activist Allan DiCastro's Rules of Engagement With The City Hall Leviathan

    DiCastro knows how to get these fixed.​ In these lean budget times, services are being cut, which means more trash, potholes and unwanted liquor stores in your neighborhood, in a city already known for having well enough of all of the above. City workers have many more demands on them and are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    2010 Hangover Cures

    LA Weekly Flickr Pool Member: A.C. Thamer​ Every New Year is a time for contemplation, resolution and for celebrating the infinite possibilities of the next 365 days. But for many, the end of one year marks the chance for limitless imbibing in the new year. As we prepare for the leap into a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    L.A. City Council Puts Off Pot-Shop Ordinance ... Again

    ​If you were an animal-rights advocate worried about the plight of cats and their claws, justice would be swift and City Hall would be at your service with a quick ban of declawing. But if, say, you lived next to a pot dispensary that did more business than a 7-Eleven (and that had shady chara ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 5, 2009

    Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

    ... and into the urap

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    7 Eleven Opens New Store: Free Pizza The Laker Girls

    Who'd have guessed that the debut of a new 7-Eleven would be such a grand event? This Friday's opening of the new convenience store in Compton will occasion the kind of fanfare normally reserved for oh, I don't know, a celebrity-named community center or a new hospital wing. In addition to an appea ... More >>

  • Music

    December 18, 2008

    Brick's Picks: David Arnay Performs A Charlie Brown Christmas Live

    Who'd have guessed that the debut of a new 7-Eleven would be such a grand event? This Friday's opening of the new convenience store in Compton will occasion the kind of fanfare normally reserved for oh, I don't know, a celebrity-named community center or a new hospital wing. In addition to an appea ... More >>

  • News

    December 4, 2008

    The Verdict: After Rodney King

    Who'd have guessed that the debut of a new 7-Eleven would be such a grand event? This Friday's opening of the new convenience store in Compton will occasion the kind of fanfare normally reserved for oh, I don't know, a celebrity-named community center or a new hospital wing. In addition to an appea ... More >>

  • LA Life

    March 27, 2008

    Energy Drunk: One Man's Monster Bender

    How one man drank a Vin Diesel movie ... and just kept drinking

  • News

    September 6, 2007

    Jodie Foster: Chaos Control

    With a controversial new vigilante movie, Jodie Foster takes the driver’s seat

  • Columns

    July 12, 2007

    Where's the Duff?

    Burbank gets a Kwik-E-Mart, minus Apu

  • Stage

    June 22, 2006

    Weekend Theater Reviews

    Reviews of A Nervous Smile, P.O.P: The Principles Of Perfection and Salsa Saved the Girls

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Around the Horn of Fairfax

    Reviews of A Nervous Smile, P.O.P: The Principles Of Perfection and Salsa Saved the Girls

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2005

    Live Jazz

    Reviews of A Nervous Smile, P.O.P: The Principles Of Perfection and Salsa Saved the Girls

  • Music

    June 2, 2005

    Snakebites

    Reviews of A Nervous Smile, P.O.P: The Principles Of Perfection and Salsa Saved the Girls

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    My Parents’ Bachelor Pad

    Living high on the Golden Mile

  • Eat+Drink

    September 9, 2004

    Heavenly Creatures

    Living high on the Golden Mile

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    Make War, Not Breasts

    Living high on the Golden Mile

  • Eat+Drink

    June 3, 2004

    Very Asia

    Indonesian convenience cuisine

  • Eat+Drink

    February 19, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Indonesian convenience cuisine

  • Art+Books

    March 27, 2003

    The Fourth World

    Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Hurry Sunrise

    Hollywood’s last act before daybreak

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    Remains of the Day

    Hollywood’s last act before daybreak

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Joe Cool

    A guide to cold

  • Stage

    January 4, 2001

    My List

    And welcome to it

  • Music

    January 20, 2000

    Singles Night

    Brainfreeze: In praise of the funk 45

  • Music

    November 11, 1999

    The Suck '90s and So You Do

    Brainfreeze: In praise of the funk 45

  • News

    December 3, 1998

    Hell on Wheels

    Brainfreeze: In praise of the funk 45

  • Eat+Drink

    August 20, 1998

    Lotus Eaters

    Indian food for a post-Beck Silver Lake

  • Music

    February 26, 1998

    Security to the Stage

    Indian food for a post-Beck Silver Lake

  • Eat+Drink

    February 19, 1998

    Creme Brulee

    And the sweetness of selling out

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