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5 Offbeat Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles Tired of frequenting the same routine haunts for entertainment? Suffer no longer with these fantastically quirky events, from Kathy Griffin ... More >>

Escape from the D-List

A New Book About the Gay Press, From The Advocate to Anderson Cooper

See also: *Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers *Our Queertown column In her highly illustrated, keenly observed book Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America, Chicago-based editor Tracy Baim looks at how gay magazines and newspapers ... More >>

Cheech and Chong Tell Us About Their New Animated Movie, the Duo's First Feature in 29 Years

Kathy Griffin's Favorite Author

Christopher Dorner Sent Anderson Cooper A Package With A Note And Bullet-Damaged Coin

Updated at the bottom: Apparently Dorner had messages for many, including Charlie Sheen, Tim Tebow and even disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahony. First posted at 3:04 p.m. Of all the crazy news swirling around the search for alleged murderer Christopher Dorner, including the LAPD's accidental shooting t ... More >>

Assembly District 50 Election Results: Richard Bloom Declares Victory Over Betsy Butler

The vote count has been taking forever in the closely contested Assembly District 50 race, but on Wednesday night Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom declared victory over Assemblywoman Betsy Butler. After the latest count by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, Bloom leads by 1,246 votes. "Our ... More >>

Kate Anderson vs. Steve Zimmer LAUSD Board Race: Mother of Twins, Lawyer and Activist Goes After Anti-Charter Zimmer

The heat is on. Kate Anderson, an activist mom and successful attorney with political chops -- she worked for Congress members Henry Waxman and Jane Harman -- will try to oust Steve Zimmer, the Westside's man on Los Angeles Unified School Board, in March 2013. Zimmer has emerged as a fierce oppone ... More >>

Assembly District 50 Betsy Butler and Richard Bloom: Absentee Ballots and Early Returns Show Underdog Bloom Leading Butler By Nearly 4 Percent

Update: At 12:42 a.m., with 12 percent of precincts reporting, Bloom leads Butler by 3 percentage points with 51 percent of the vote. In the hotly contested California Assembly District 50 race, Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom is leading Assemblywoman Betsy Butler by nearly 4 percentage points: Bl ... More >>

Assembly District 50 Election Results: Underdog Richard Bloom Holds on to Slim Lead Over Assemblywoman Betsy Butler

Update, 1:05 p.m.: Bloom campaign releases cautious statement about possibly victory, after the jump. Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom holds on to an extremely slim lead over Assemblywoman Betsy Butler. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Bloom captured 69,280 votes, or 50.08 percent, to Butle ... More >>

California Voter Guide for Nov. 6, 2012, Los Angeles Weekly

Confused about the measures and races on Tuesday's ballot? This California Voter Guide for November 6, 2012 contains a summary of all state measures and several key races. It does not take a position but does touch on controversies, polls and analysis. Proposition 30: Jerry Brown's Tax Hike Governo ... More >>

Assembly District 50: Facing Tough Political Battle, Betsy Butler and Friends Point Fingers and Slam L.A. Weekly

We always know we're sounding the right notes on a story when a politician and her "friends" start crying foul in such an over-the-top way that it makes us laugh out loud. Such is the case with California Asseblywoman Betsy Butler, who's running for Assembly District 50 in a tight race against Santa ... More >>

Will Betsy Butler's Sex Pervert Vote Kill Her Political Career?

In Assembly District 50, underdog Richard Bloom sees daylight

Gaydar For Dummies: Eyes Are The Window to The Homosexual Soul

You praise yourself for having excellent gaydar, you say? You knew about Anderson Cooper all along, you boast? Nobody in this here Chick-fil-A is gay, you state with confidence? Maybe you're giving yourself a little too much credit, Lady Gaga. A new study claims that you can tell right away using ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Joins CNN

If you had any last lingering doubts that Anthony Bourdain has conquered the world, this morning's news should put an end to them. CNN announced this morning that Bourdain will join the network as a weekend anchor. The host of No Reservations, writer of mystery novels, kitchen tell-alls and the occa ... More >>

The Boy Scouts' Police Problem

Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should Scouts share the blame?

Five Hip-Hop Snitching Controversies

Yesterday LA Weekly brought you the shocking revelations of former LAPD detective Greg Kading, whose new book Murder Rap fingers Suge Knight for ordering Biggie's killing and Diddy for ordering Tupac's. At the center of the story is Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis, who told Kading that Diddy offered him ... More >>

CNN Names The World's 50 Most Delicious Foods

Flickr/rockYOfaceMassaman curry: CNN's favorite food​CNN has a lot on its plate. Literally. Not only does the news empire have to follow Anderson Cooper around the globe, trailing camera crews and earnestness, but it has lately gone on a quest to identify The World's 50 Most Delicious Foods. W ... More >>

Low Levels of Radiation Found in West Coast Milk: Far Below Levels of Concern, According to the EPA

Flickr/Ashley R. GoodNo need to fear milkshakes.​ According to reports from the New York Times and Associated Press, low levels of radioactive iodine from the compromised Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan have been found in milk in California and Washington state. Last week, tests of mi ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Hot Sauce, Lady Gaga's Food Fetishes The Invention of Gluten-free Multigrain Bread

-- A profile of Tapatío hot sauce maker Jose-Luis Saavedra. [Los Angeles Times] -- Todd English on a cruise ship. A video. [Feast LA] -- The Moral Crusade Against Foodies. [Atlantic Food Channel] -- Checking in with San Francisco blogger Sodium Girl. [food52] -- Ten States With The Deadlies ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

Chefs Predict Restaurant Trends for 2011: The Locavore Issue

A. ScattergoodMozza's garden wall​ It's that time of year again, Anderson Cooper time, when everybody starts making lists from this year and predictions for next year. The Nation's Restaurant News is very fond of such lists, and has now polled chefs for their latest: the top 20 restaurant tre ... More >>

Proposition 8: Thirteen Out-of-State Attorney Generals Don't Want California Gays to Get Married, Join George Wallace in History Books

Prop. 8 supporter and Alabama Attorney General Troy King​With the appeal hearing for the Proposition 8 lawsuit set for Monday, December 6, we thought it would be a good time to look into the out-of-state attorney generals who stuck their noses into California's business and filed a friendly b ... More >>

LA Weekly Journalists Recognized At Southern California Journalism Awards In Downtown Los Angeles

Anderson Cooper.​LA Weekly took home several awards, including Best Website for a News Organization, at the Los Angeles Press Club's 52nd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards gala, held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel downtown Sunday night. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a speech a ... More >>

CNN Launching Food Blog: Eatocracy Coming Soon

what your new site will look like, more or less​ We have CNN to thank for so much. The invention of Permanent Television, Jane Fonda in a Braves cap, the number of times we get to say "Wolf Blitzer" every day in casual conversation. And now, in addition to giving us Anderson Cooper hour after ... More >>

Where's Antonio? Flying to D.C., Hanging with His Cousin...Again

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flew out of town again this week, and attended another swearing-in ceremony for his cousin, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez. This time around, the mayor didn't blow a good chunk of his workday glad-handing in Sacramento.L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraig ... More >>

The Traveling Mayor Imposes Travel Freeze

​Buried in Thursday's news that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and city controller Wendy Greuel have issued a city spending freeze was a mandate that "travel has been suspended" with some exceptions. It's fascinating because, as you might have read here, the mayor has been everywhere b ... More >>

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

L.A. County Firefighters Make Weekend Rescues In Haiti

​The Los Angeles County Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue task force in Haiti rescued at least five women over the weekend in Haiti. The the saves, which upped the team's total rescues in the earthquake-devastated nation to nine, have put the unit "in high spirits," according to Inspec ... More >>

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

Fear Itself: D.C. and Hollywood In and Out of the Closet

Marie Osmond Prop 8 Fantasy

Before you begin your Boxing Day labors, pour a Smirnoff and eggnog, sit down and YouTube this funny post-Prop 8 video written and directed by Los Angeles theater icon Michael Kearns. Hello? Marie! imagines a gay man (John W. McLaughlin) chatting on the phone with Mormon princess Marie Osmond. By tu ... More >>

O.J. Simpson's Day of Infamy: A Holiday Timeline of O.J. News From Every December 5 Since 1994

From Greta Van Susteren's boasts to the Vegas sentencing

O.J. Simpson: A Holiday Timeline

It doesn't exactly seem like yesterday afternoon, but pretty close to it, that I stood in an LAX cocktail lounge that erupted in cheers when jurors in O.J.Simpson's murder trial announced they'd found him not guilty of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. That was October, 1995. This mor ... More >>

Kathy Griffin's Kodak Moment

A Q&A with the former D-lister

Theater of the Absurd in New Orleans and on the Campaign Trail

Waiting for Godot

Harry, Dykes and Gays

Good Night and Good Luck

A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

Colors of Optimism

The immigrants’-rights movement energizes a nation

Good Night, and Good Luck

A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

They Shoot News Anchors: Part II

Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

Week of the Living Dead

They Shoot News Anchors, Don’t They?

Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

Two Americas, Two Lists

Al Bruno: Poetry on Six Strings

And Merle Haggard’s media war

How AMERICAN Is It?

Fox News vs. CNN International

The Logo-Spangled Banner

Slices of a digital war

The Ultimate Reality Show

Scenes from the first days of war coverage