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Holiday Hangovers Will Be Worse If You Drink And Smoke -- Study

As you gear up for holiday drinking shenanigans, we're sad to report that a cure for the common hangover remains elusive. However, you might want to arm yourself with this latest science about alcohol consumption: Smoking and drinking makes your hangover worse, experts say:

Jessica Rath Turns the Science of Apple Breeding Into Art, in Pasadena

Los Angeles Ranks High Among Cities With Young Adults Slacking at Home

Now we understand why so many young Angelenos can afford iPhones, glasses without lenses and pool parties at the Standard hotel rooftop. Turns out nearly a third of you are living at home with mommy and daddy. A new study about young adults (those 20-34) living with their parents during this Great ... More >>

Surfers Rise in Malibu Politics

Local Spiccolis turn city against lagoon dredging

Top Books We Read in 2011, by L.A. Weekly Writers

Yes, bookstores are closing all around us, from the giant Borders to the tiny Village Books. But Angelenos still read, and to prove it, we asked LA Weekly's staff writers, editors and freelance contributors to tell us their favorite book they read this year, and why. Answers after the jump. What's ... More >>

Arsenic Hysteria: Now It's Been Found in Rice

Flickr/DanoIt looks so harmless.​ First it was apple juice. Now researchers say there is inorganic arsenic in rice, and that it could particularly affect pregnant women, CBS News reports. Arsenic is able to cross the placenta and may harm a developing baby. For the study, researchers measure ... More >>

Joe Paterno Fired: The Danger of Making Gods Out of Men

The Ig Nobel Awards: Researchers Invent a Wasabi Fire Alarm

Anne Fishbeinwasabi, etc. at Kiyokawa​ The Nobel committee has been awarding their coveted prizes this week, which fact may have overshadowed the announcement of the 21st annual Ig Nobel (get it?) awards, sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research and handed out last Thursday at a Harvard ... More >>

Willoughby Britton at the Buddhist Geeks Conference, on the Problem with Meditation

​ The Buddhist Geeks conference is filled with, well, geeks. Who happen to be Buddhists. Who happen to be meeting on a recent Saturday for a conference in Rosemead to share their common afflictions. There's nothing crunchy here -- no handwritten signs, no dreads, no Birkenstocks. These techno ... More >>

Torpedoed Science

First Successful Hand Transplant in Western U.S. is Achieved at UCLA -- after the Fingerprints got a Background Check

UCLA Health System/ Ann Johansson PhotographyFuturamaaaa!​Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed a 14-and-a-half hour hand transplant this weekend.The hand traveled from San Diego to become the first ever hand transplant in the western U.S. The Futurama-esque procedure has decid ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

The Comfort of Anne Rice's Shadow

The Comfort of Anne Rice's Shadow

At the Helm of the L.A. Film Festival

Producer Rebecca Yeldham fights the good film fight

Out of the Fog: Will Oldham's Warm and Fuzzy Return to L.A.

Plot thickens with Bonnie Prince Billy’s new album, Beware

Mike Einziger's Vacuum Chamber Music

Incubus guitarist's convention-bending orchestral work debuts at Royce Hall

Starting Out in the Evening: Intelligent Design

PYT seduces her literary hero

Rocky Delgadillo's Flameout

Once a rising star, the city attorney muffs it with endless screwups

It's Ugly Out There

Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties

The Encyclopedia Project

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New Jack Activists

The Coalition for Educational Justice is fighting generations of neglect with a secret weapon — students

Peeking Through the Stage Door

Behind the scenes of Athol Fugard’s newest play

Eisner’s Embarrassment

Court Records show Disney boss told dumped Michael Ovitz: 'Nobody ever needs to Know'

Police and Thieves

Fernando Meirelles on the dead-end denizens of Rio’s favelas

Young Man Blues

To be a real player, the Green Party must harness its youthful passions

Invisble Man

Novelist Percival Everett on the wrong kind of success and his desire for anonymity

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Todd Haynes' postmodern tearjerker

Mr. Livingston, We Presume

Queasy Sick Wonderful

What it means to love records

Directing History

A talk with director Amir Bar-Lev

The Boy Can’t Help It

Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer’s reductionist theory of rape

Bad Girl

The incredibly strange films of Doris Wishman