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Stupid California Traffic Laws For 2013

The problem with having a full-time legislature in a high-stakes political state like California is that these people sometimes feel the need to make laws. Unnecessary laws. You see, members of the state assembly and senate have to show some work when the go home to constituents. But instead of att ... More >>

Why Is There So Much Indie Rock on Television? Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas Explains

It's hard not to notice: Indie bands seemingly soundtrack just about every sitcom, film and television commercial today. But why? Influential music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas swears it's not just about cheap labor. "It's far more of a creative decision than a monetary one," she says. "We're pick ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/22 - 10/26

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We're kind of worried that the folks at the big box store know something we don't, as the new seasonal catalogue has some sobering emergency food options." 6 Things on Sale at Costco.com: Your Holiday Dinner Party, My Apocal ... More >>

38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat. As sort of shameful as it is to admit, I drove to all the way Cerritos this weekend just ... More >>

Serious Drinking: Stop the Vodka Insanity

It's time to say it: Flavored vodka is a threat to our cultural existence. It's bad enough that vodka branding has devolved into an almost brazen mash-up of borrowed imagery, aspirational memes poached from music (Chopin), art (Van Gogh), clouds (Cirrus), ice (Iceberg), sky (Skyy), geometry, weird ... More >>

iPads For All at Rich Manhattan Beach Middle School

While teachers in some inner-city schools struggle to get supplies for their students, sometimes buying books, paper and pens themselves, the pupils at tony Manhattan Beach Middle School will each get an iPad as part of the educational experience there this fall. About 75 percent of the kids will b ... More >>

Surface Tablet Crashes During Microsoft Unveiling in Hollywood

You have to love Microsoft for complicating the uncomplicated and making the computer experience a nightmare for going on two generations now. The behemoth unveiled its Surface tablet in Hollywood today and, in typical Microsuck fashion, the thing "crashed badly," according to News Photos LA. A rep ... More >>

L.A. County Officials Hosting Design Contest for 'The Official Los Angeles Condom'

Never thought we'd see the day. The Los Angeles County Department of Health is funding a contest called "L.A.'s Next Sex Symbol," in which any old struggling artist is invited to submit a condom-package design to appear on "1 million and one" free, county-issued condoms this year. Too good to be t ... More >>

Teens Break Into Apple Store on Promenade With Sledgehammer, Take $31K in iProducts

When four L.A. teens hatched a plan to break into the iconic Apple Store along the 3rd Street Promenade last week, theirs wasn't a heisty plot of censor-dodging and lock-popping. Nope. According to Sergeant Richard Lewis at the Santa Monica Police Department, these geniuses simply smashed the glass ... More >>

5 Best Martinis In Los Angeles

The handful of establishments that made our 5 Best Martinis in L.A. list are not notable for their martini happy hours, Kim Kardashian-friendly accommodations or cute cocktail names. They simply make a fine martini. Vodka or gin, dealer's choice or your choice, depending on how you like to roll on a ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Greece's "Potato Movement," 60 Cool People Homemade Booze

The Guardian: In Greece, consumers save money by buying straight from farmers. It's called the "potato movement." The Daily Meal: The 60 "coolest" chefs, restaurateurs, bartenders, farmers and food writers. Plus a food performance artist (think cheese block sculptures; a room stuffed with cotton c ... More >>

Study Shows 90% of Gen Y Uses Phone on Toilet; Dudes With Androids Are the Worst

Did you know that a little over 90 percent of Generation Y does the smartphone while sitting on the toilet? This survey says so! (We realize we're like two weeks late on this, but our favorite AM station just mentioned it this morning, and it's way too newsworthy and hard-hitting and relevant to pa ... More >>

Archie Comics Getting Hip? They've Brought in Gay Marriage, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and KISS

What do gay marriage, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and the band KISS have in common? In the crazy world of comics, everything. Newer, edgier titles have been known to push the boundaries of expectation or mesh disparate imagery and pop culture references, but it's a particular nostalgic title that's r ... More >>

L.A. Flash Mob on the Red Line Sings Adorable Rendition of Lil Wayne's 'How to Love'

Kelly Simpson/KCET"Flashmobber: Harlem gives a thumbs up"​Crazy things happening on the subway is not exactly an M.O. of Los Angeles. We admit, New York Shitty usually has us beat in this arena. (Turtles. Surfers. Naked, racist meltdowns. Homeless guys licking their own shoes. Zilla marches. T ... More >>

Siri, New iPhone Virtual Assistant, Works With Your Girlfriend to Bust Your Cheating Ass

AppleA girl's best friend?​Ashton Kutcher, you definitely don't want to get the new iPhone. Reports indicate that the iPhone 4S' voice-activated assistant, Siri, can still take commands when your phone is otherwise passcode locked. Meaning that your wife -- Demi Moore, for example -- can ask ... More >>

iPad Killer Sought by Tribune Co., Corporate Parent of L.A. Times: Try Not to Laugh

Newspaper suits want to go head-to-head with this.​The Chicago-based geniuses at the Tribune Co., corporate parent of the Los Angeles Times, have their sights set on an iPad killer. Really. Because nothing says "future-forward high-tech hub" like the land of hot-dogs and coronary disease. The ... More >>

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Angry Birds: The Cookbook

Flickr/tomazstolfaone very angry bird​ If weather girls can become television food megastars, then why can't massively addictive Finnish game apps become cookbooks? That was a rhetorical question; of course they can. And what better game to make the transition to cookbook than Angry Birds, a g ... More >>

Robert Nicholas McGuire, Homeless Sex Offender, Busted in Apple Store When Sheriff Catches Him on Facebook

Megan's LawChild-porn connoisseur Robert Nicholas McGuire​This stupid (alleged) criminal makes his non-home way up in the San Luis Obispo boonies, but the story of his arrest -- a modern-day detective's epic -- deserves a good telling way down here in L.A. (If only so we might learn from one p ... More >>

Is Grooveshark the Future of Digital Streaming?: The Secrets of the Popular Streaming Site You're Probably Listening to Right Now

Did Prince upload all this?​ Article and interview by Jade Shames I got on Skype and called my contact. His name is Ben Westermann-Clark, the VP of Public Relations at Grooveshark's head office in Gainesville, Florida. While I'm writing this article, I'm listening to a band called Masterfac ... More >>

8 Things You Need to Know About Music in the Cloud

cloud music...​ The future is almost here. Except for the part with jet packs and holographic television. The part that is here? Cloud based music storage. WTF is that, you might be wondering, and why should I care? Herewith we will tell you what it is, why it's important, and how it affects ... More >>

iPhone FAIL: Some Users Get Daylight Savings Time Snafu, End up Two Hours Late

AppleThe iPhone can't tell time, apparently.​It can help you find a parking space, video chat with your mom, and find you the best restaurants nearby. But apparently the iPhone still can't tell time. The device was a FAIL again this weekend after it didn't automatically register the "spring f ... More >>

Why, In 2010, Is Voting In California Still Stuck In The Age Of The Typewriter?

AppleWe would vote with this thing. Would you?​Every two years or so you hear somebody whining about how antiquated America's voting system is. Well, here's our turn: Voting sucks. No, we know, it's a privilege and we should thank our lucky stars we live in such a democratic society. We do. B ... More >>

When We Were Fab

Peter Asher's Apple days

Drinking Bottled Water In This L.A. Heatwave Can Represent A Colossal Waste Of Cash: Here Are Some Other Ways To Burn Money

​During this heatwave in Los Angeles it's tempting to go for that $1 (-plus) bottle of water. But according to some reports, these products represent as much as a 4,000-percent markup on tap -- and many of them are simply filtered tap. Of course, some of you like the whole process of forking ... More >>

Is The New iPhone 4 An Epic FAIL? Consumer Reports Gives It A Thumbs Down

Gizmodo​Hold on to your Ray-Bans, Echo Park hipsters: The iPhone 4 has been declared a FAIL by Consumer Reports magazine (via LA Biz Observed). It wasn't AT&T's new reaming digital data plan that will certainly put most monthly iPhone bills above $100. It wasn't the fact that the new phone ... More >>

Verizon iPhone Service In January? Yes: Hipsters Rejoice

Gizmodo​Woo-hoo. Echo Park hipsters rejoice. Verizon is said to be breaking AT&T's lock on iPhone service starting in January, when it will start selling the devices with its own service attached, according to Bloomberg News. Forget the improving economy, a win by your favorite World Cup team ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: Banana Cream Pie, Apple Pan vs. Jar

Certain foods feel nostalgic, whether they were a part of your childhood or not. You don't need to have grown up in the 50s to have a sense of comfort sitting in an Eisenhower-era roadside diner, drinking burnt coffee and eying a piece of cherry pie sitting under a glass covering on the counter. Pie ... More >>

Melvins Remixes to Be Released: Features Boredoms' Eye, Matmos, Lee Ranaldo

The Melvins have announced the impending release of remix album with a twist: instead of a single track to work with, each remixer was given a full Melvins album, and then some, to work with. This is remarkable news if only to hear how the producers treat Dale Crover's drum fills; the drummer is, al ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Rejected: Trent Reznor is Pissed, Posts E-Mail from Apple on NIN Forum

On May 2 Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor broke the news via Twitter that Apple had rejected the updated NIN iPhone app because it contained "objectionable content," specifically lyrics on the album The Downward Spiral. Needless to say, Reznor is pissed. After posting Apple's rejection e-mail on the NI ... More >>

iPhone Wizards: Duo FInd Success Programming Apple i-Products

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5 Albums in 9 Years = VP at EMI

New EMI VP to bank on the awesome power of Rush to revitalize the music industry in the 21st century Once upon a time the people who ran record labels were quite simply music freaks. They were producers like Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic, tastemakers like Tony Wilson at Factory, or musicians like Ian M ... More >>

Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped last week; they've been in town all this week gigging (a few nights ago for the Yahoo! Live series, and tomorrow at the Apple Store at the Grove); an ... More >>

Amazon's MP3 Bargains

Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "1234" by Feist, which is popular because it's played in an Apple commercial. Amazon's songs are DRM-free and 256k which are the big selling points. ... More >>

Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus

Sales Go Soft. Shins Go Limp. Rock Critics Go Limper.

Esa's New Program

The L.A. Philharmonic's music director previews his latest work at the Santa Monica Apple Store

Hip-Hop Is Dead

...and other reports that have been greatly exaggerated

Prankfest

Re/Search's Pranks 2

5 Transmissions From the Post-TV Frontier

5 Transmissions From the Post-TV Frontier

Lock, Stock & Module

Los Angeles architects are leading the modern prefab pack — again

Portals to Other Worlds

L.A.’s comic book stores: A driving guide

Baby Love

The hippie-capitalist wisdom of CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, hero to 93,000 indie musicians and counting

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

This Ain't No Juilliard!

Life and violins at the school that Flea built

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

Stool Sample

These joints put the counter in Counter Intelligence

Vintage Computers

208 machines museum-ready for the new technology center

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