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Wilshire Boulevard Temple Launches a Unique Project to Bridge Religion and Art

L.A. is the Most Expensive City in America For Living 'Well'

Los Angeles is a city of billionaires with priceless views and immigrants who barely have enough to eat. Sometimes if feels like there's not a lot in between. We're a microcosm of an America that is increasingly a nation of haves and have-nots. To hammer that point home, take a look at the August i ... More >>

The Dodgers Celebrate Back-to-Back Wins in San Diego, But Can They Make a Run?

A little skepticism is a healthy thing. The Dodgers beat the Padres in San Diego Saturday and Sunday and we're all pleased. Relieved, ecstatic, borderline giddy, actually. My bad mood rises after a Los Angeles victory, staying with me overnight and right up until game time the next day. Twitter was ... More >>

Joc-ularity Not the Order of the Day for Dodgers in Colorado

After a little two-game winning streak was followed quickly by a more familiar losing streak of the same length -- all courtesy of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim -- and players requiring medical treatment all over the bleeping place, there is little joy in Dodgerville this afternoon. Nor in Denv ... More >>

A New Day Dawns as Dodgers Win Two Straight

The Dodgers showed up for their weekend test, ready with their sharpened # 2 pencils (no jokes about their walking up to the plate with them in hand, please), scouted out the nearest restrooms, got credit for spelling their names correctly, and beat the patsy Miami Marlins two out of three. They di ... More >>

Dodgers Swept into San Francisco Bay, Drift Rudderless Out to Sea

Good news, bad news. The good news first: no one drowned. Now the bad news. Your Los Angeles Dodgers went to San Francisco and were swept in three by the hated Giants, losing each night in one-run fashion, 2-1, 10-9 and 4-3. There was the usual trouble hitting with runners in scoring position, some ... More >>

Dodgers Falling All Over Themselves, Hope to Avoid a Padres Sweep

Remember that supposedly over-loaded eight-man starting staff the Dodgers were sporting all winter? Well, it's down to four, and by most accounts five are required. Aaron Harang -- didn't want to be here, wasn't wanted anyway -- traded. Zack Greinke, TKO. Chris Capuano, ineffective and injured quic ... More >>

Dodgers Sweep Bucs, Trade Harang. A Good Time Was Had by All

Check almost any close-up of Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle during a baseball game and watch the frequency and ferocity of the up-and-down jaw smacking of his gum chewing; you'll be convinced, and afraid for his family, that his face is about to explode. Of course, it might be the Pirates' flounde ... More >>

Filthy Peanut Butter Plant Gets Preliminary OK to Reopen

Remember that filthy peanut butter factory that the feds shut down last month? You know, the one responsible for the massive peanut butter recall that sickened at least 42 people in 20 states and eventually expanded to nearly 300 different nut and seed products the company produced? Every single pro ... More >>

The Coarse Acting Show and Dirty Filthy Love Story, Reviewed

Xzibit Carries the Weight

Post–Pimp My Ride, the rapper strides forward

Penny Marshall on Her New Memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, and How She Influenced Women in Comedy

With today's 24-hour news cycle, it isn't uncommon for the Hollywood elite to take to social media or a friendly tabloid to debunk rumors about their personal lives and well-beings. Penny Marshall took it one step more: She wrote a tell-all book. "My brother just finished his second book, so I tho ... More >>

10 Years Review: Channing Tatum's Back Again

L.A. Weekly's People 2012 Issue

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Intronaut's Tour Diary II: Buying Weed in the Middle of Nowhere

See also: Intronaut's Tour Diary I: From Playing Clubs to Opening For Tool in Sports Arenas Los Angeles metal group Intronaut is currently on tour opening for Tool. Last week, guitarist/vocalist Sacha Dunable shared his thoughts on the trip's opening days -- which saw them playing arenas for the f ... More >>

Best hike ever

Pacific Standard Time Performance Art Festival Preview

California Governor Jerry Brown's Plan to Abolish Redevelopment Agencies: 1601 Vine Street in Los Angeles is Exhibit A

City Hall ​Los Angeles City Hall watchdog Jack Humpreville is making the case that Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to wipe out Community Redevelopment Agencies has an "Exhibit A" in the dubious money pit at 1601 Vine Street. City activists uncovered a hidden appraisal that shows the CRA overpaid by $1.4 ... More >>

Video: Teaser for Hecuba's Film 'Brass Knuckles'

More Manimalian--Manimalien?--news today: L.A. band Hecuba has been laying a little low since the release a memorable EP and a very sophisticated full-length since 2008. If you've never met them, allow John Payne to introduce you to producer/singer Jon Beasley and singer/daner Isabelle Albuquerque ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

Flore Vegan Cuisine​ According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive V ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

​According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy ... More >>

Sparkling Wines for the Holidays: Bubbles That Won't Blow Your Budget, Overly

​Dom, Veuve. Perfect toastables if your '09 funds have lingering residuals for the French, bubbly and decadent. Not so perfect if you're looking for something to squeeze into your budget. So, what's the alternative for revelers looking to keep it at or under 20? Sparkling wines. Wines produ ... More >>

1959 Pillsbury Bake-off Cookbook Reissued: Mastering the Art of Vintage Cooking

Although many Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbooks have been published during the years, it's the 1959 book that is the classic, assembling the best 1000 winning recipes in the Best of the Bake-Off Collection. The book, which Wiley is reissuing in a facsimile of the original edition on its 60th anniversary, ... More >>

Laid-back, Uneducated, Macho-Obsessed

LA People 2009: Wilder Thing; Travis Walck

"This Was Someone's Daughter:" Paleontologists Find Huge Boneyard

The announcement of a huge prehistoric ossuary discovered near La Brea Tar Pits is one of those stories that delights through a balance of incongruous details. The fact that the bones were located under the old May Co. parking lot lent a vague irony to the announcement -- who knew that beneath the l ... More >>

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Hecuba: Tranforming the Visual into the Musical

Hecuba, transforming the visual into the musical

In Plain Sight's Concealed Federal Witnesses and Swingtown's Suburban Sexual Adventurers

Hide and seek

¡ask a Mexican! Special Día De Los Impuestos Edition

Social Security, identity theft and why the Feds couldn't care less

Speed Demons: Breaking Bad

New series traffics meth labs and fatherly love gone awry

¡Ask a Mexican! Recipe From the Melting Pot

Who came up with Tex-Mex or New Mexican food names?

¡Ask a Mexican! the Dating Gain

Dear Mexican: Why do so many of my peers assume I must have low self-esteem just because I’m dating a Mexican guy?

Pimp My Geo

Xzibit: Chrome wheels, platinum records, silver screens (and the dirt behind)

Stepping Into the Light

Here's Mud in My Eye

I just returned from a trip to New Mexico with my mother. It was the first extended vacation we ever took together (by that I mean just the two of us; that's not counting family trips in the station wagon, etc.), and we had a ball. In one action packed week we hit Taos, Ojo Caliente, Santa Fe and Al ... More >>

Hot On the Enchilada Belt

Green With Envy

Coming from all over

South by High-Tech

A teenager’s guide to New Mexico

The Suck '90s and So You Do