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Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Tap Dancing to Ruined Billboards

This week, one artist makes crystals from scratch, another paints portraits of people who share his name, and a third focuses on the rhythms of the StairMaster. 5. Get-togethers "Show and Tell" at the Armory Center for the Arts is a group exhibition that continues through September and consists of ... More >>

Funny or Die's iSteve Beat All the Other Steve Jobs Biopics to the Screen. Maybe Because It Was Shot in Five Days

'Parent Trigger' Petition Rejected by Adelanto School District After Teacher-Backed Rescission Campaign

A group of parents at Desert Trails Elementary, located two hours east of L.A. in the dusty desert town of Adelanto, saw months of hard work thrown back in their faces last night. The "parent union," as they call themselves, guided by controversial ed-reform org Parent Revolution, have been going d ... More >>

Condoms Suck

We're spending billions to develop an HIV vaccine. Why not also focus on building a better condom?

Kim Kardashian Boycott: It's On

America, the strange. As the middle class shrinks like wet sand under a hot sun, we continue to be fascinated by the good life. Are we living vicariously or holding on to that '80s pipe dream of upward mobility? Last month the Census Bureau reported that, by new measures, including spending power, ... More >>

Catching Up With Grandmaster B

Outing Lemon Teachers at LAUSD

33,000 teachers, now always stamped "satisfactory," might finally get graded

More L.A. Leaders Come Out Against Teachers Union, in Support of 'Don't Hold Us Back' Reform at LAUSD

The L.A. Civic Alliance gives this ad -- which recently appeared in the Times, Daily News and La Opinion -- a big fat thumbs up.​In case you haven't heard, the door to much-needed education reform in L.A. will either be thrown open or slammed shut this fall. More specifically, the Los Angeles ... More >>

LAUSD Declares Homework Racist, Classist

HW is for crackers.​Updated after the jump with angry arguments from the "Teach for America" camp, contrasted by the district's stern belief that they've done the right thing. How to deal with the rude K-12 achievement gap in Los Angeles? District officials have a new solution that should be ... More >>

Q&A With Patricia Tsai: The Oaxaca Fiasco, IMing With Her Grower, and Chocovivo's Future (Part 2)

J.KoslowChocovivo assembly line​ In the first part of our interview, Chocovivo's Patricia Tsai discusses her trajectory from CPA to chocolatier and the decision she made to opt for flavor thereby leaving her chocolate untempered. In this second part, Tsai shares her mind-boggling and almost f ... More >>

Jon Stewart Crowned 'Most Influential' Man Of The Year

Jon Stewart influences people.​It looks like L.A. will be enjoying hosting (he'll appear via satellite) the most influential man in America Saturday -- Jon Stewart, who topped AskMen.com's "Top 29 Most Influential Men of 2010" list this week. Stewart is appearing, via satellite, at his "Rally ... More >>

McCourt Divorce Trial, Day Three: Screwing The Fans

Frank McCourt​Day Three. The Dodgers began the day 6.5 games out the wild card, but fell 7.5 games back with an afternoon loss to the Phillies. How's this for karma? At the same moment that Roy Oswalt was mowing down Dodger hitters this afternoon, David Boies was grilling Frank McCourt ab ... More >>

Dat Boy Slim: World's Richest Man A (Gasp) ... Mexican

Carlos Slim Helu.​It is whispered among some Mexican-Americans that rich Mexicans don't tend to keep residences in the Los Angeles area, preferring San Diego (La Jolla, Bonita, Chula Vista) New York and, of course, Mexico City over America's most-Latino city: The region's deep history of anti- ... More >>

L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

PICK THE WEEK FOR SOMEBODY OUT THERE

Cojones and the Mexican Bill Gates

The Woz on Dancing with the Stars

Oh man. Steve Wozniak is going to be on Dancing With the Stars. I don't watch the show, but they've now found the one star that would make me start. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs. I wonder if they tried to get Jobs to dance as well. Or Bill Gates. That would have been the ultim ... More >>

La Vida Loca: Monsters, and Cory Kennedy's Socks

Plus, Obama socks take off big time

They Shoot, They Score

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the International Documentary Association polled its members (themselves filmmakers, industry executives, and academics) to determine the 25 best documentary films of all time. The results, announced publicly last week, span more than 50 years of movie histor ... More >>

It's Not Just Lunch!

Networking at lunch 2.0

Hot off the Grill

And CHOLO a go-go

Rock Picks

For the week of May 10 – 17

Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allen

Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

E Is for Excess

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

The Distributor Who Wasn't There

Local filmmaker Brian Flemming would rather do it himself

Night Vision

Jim Shaw's "The Dream That Was No More a Dream"

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

A Drop in the Ocean

Lies and the Dirty Liars Who Tell Them

Mike Ovitz takes the stand

Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America

Crashing Comdex

Guerilla Etiquette: The 'Oops, I Did It Again!' Tour

Slushed in 2001

Eidted by Kateri Butler

Techno Prisoners

South by High-Tech

A teenager’s guide to New Mexico

From Their Vaults to Your Desktop

Finding documents “The Man” wants to hide

Down the Tubes

U.S. balks at European rule that manufacturers recycle toxic computers

Master of the Game

Kool Keith of the no-rule school

The Citizens Band

Omnivorous Welsh art-poppers Super Furry Animals use guerrilla tactics

Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products

Don't Touch That Redial

Ever wondered how the scalpers always get tickets?

Man Against the FUD

How Eric Raymond became the ambassador for the open-source movement -- and why he hasn't quit

Campaign2000.com

What the administration's antitrust crusade against Microsoft means for Al Gore on the stump

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Cannabis Connection

Clinton's campaign against California's California's medical-marijuana movement

The Scream of the Hard Drive, the Roar of the Fan

Spam:

It's Not Just for Dinner Anymore

Smash the Technorealist State