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  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Chicken McNuggets 'Addict' Collapses

    Flickr/Calgary ReviewsA 10-piece serving of McNuggets packs 470 calories, 270 of those pure fat.​McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are causing all sorts of mayhem lately. First there was the woman who allegedly tried to trade sex for McNuggets (no word on what kind of dipping sauce she wanted). Now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    McDonald's, Target Drop Egg Supplier Over Cruelty Concerns

    Flickr/Calgary ReviewsMcDonald's will find a new egg source for its McMuffins.​ McDonald's and Target dropped one of the nation's largest egg suppliers after an animal rights group released an undercover video last Friday of the egg producer's farms in three states, according to the Associated ... More >>

  • Music

    October 6, 2011

    Music Picks: India.Arie, Merle Haggard, Endangered Blood, Little Dragon

    Also, Lupe Fiasco, Yelawolf, Miguel Migs, Chad VanGaalen and others

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Culture Collide Festival Preview: Let's Get International

    See also: *Culture Collide Festival review: Liam Finn, Rainbow Arabia, Guineafowl, The Awkwards perform on October 6, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: The Death Letters and Cameras perform on October 8, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: Chad VanGaalen & Gang Gang Dance perform on October ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Bon Iver - The Shrine Auditorium - 9-19-11

    Timothy NorrisBon Iver​Bon Iver and Other Lives The Shrine Auditorium September 19, 2011 Better than... Monday Night Football Last night around 8pm most of the crowd in the Shrine Auditorium was under the crystal chandeliers in the lobby fighting for a drink and trying to forget that Monday ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Baths, Braids

    Timothy NorrisBon Iver​Bon Iver and Other Lives The Shrine Auditorium September 19, 2011 Better than... Monday Night Football Last night around 8pm most of the crowd in the Shrine Auditorium was under the crystal chandeliers in the lobby fighting for a drink and trying to forget that Monday ... More >>

  • Music

    March 3, 2011

    Music Picks: Julieta Venegas, Deicide, Yefim Bronfman, Chick Corea and Gary Burton

    Also Conspiracy of Beards, Lykke Li, Khaira Arby and others

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    New Weight Loss Pill? Fake Food Tricks Body Into Feeling Full

    Flickr user erix!Pills, pills, pills​ The Obesity Society had their annual meeting in San Diego over the weekend, and Shari Roan at the Los Angeles Times filed a report on some of the latest discoveries in the field. One of the bigger pieces of news came from researchers in Calgary, who had be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Lizzy Caplan, Jason Priestley and Cote de Pablo on 'The Last Rites of Ransom Pride'

    Last weekend, The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, a new western starring Lizzy Caplan (Party Down), Jason Priestley and Cote de Pablo (NCIS), was the subject of several screenings at Laemmle's Sunset 5. It will continue to play at the theater at 10 p.m. nightly through Thursday. The film, which won Edin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    The Supper Liberation Front: Your Secret Che Guevara Dinner Club

    Supper Liberation Front​One of the many advantages of living and dining in Los Angeles is that you can wear shorts to your favorite Michelin-starred restaurant. Now not only can you walk into Spago in flip-flops, but you have someplace where your Che Guevara T-shirt will be seriously appropria ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- An interview with Shut Up, Foodies, a new satirical food blog. (More on this one later.) [Eat Me Daily] -- Walmart's exclusive Ben & Jerry's flavor: flourless chocolate cake ice cream. [Serious Eats] ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Cooking With Ice Skaters: "What Would Brian Boitano Make?" Premiers on the Food Network

    Food NetworkIce skater and Food Network star Brian Boitano​Food television keeps getting stranger and stranger. This month the Food Network will premier a cooking show by former Olympic ice skater Brian Boitano. "What Would Brian Boitano Make?" debuts Sunday August 23. In the show, the US gold ... More >>

  • Music

    March 26, 2009

    Rock Picks: Pelican, Herman Dune, Rasputina, Bill Frisell, Random Patterns

    Also, the Rakes, Cold War Kids, Idan Raichel Project and others

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    He shoots, He scores: Why I love the Los Angeles Kings

    Kevin ScanlonWarning: This week, I'm talking all about the Los Angeles Kings. Even though we've had a team here since 1968, the First Rule of Being a Sports Fan In Los Angeles dictates that relatively few people follow the Kings or care about the game, because the Kings have struggled - not "The Cli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Leonard Cohen to Gig at the Nokia a Week Before Coachella

    Leonard Cohen just announced an extended spring tour, and will hit the Nokia Theater on Friday, April 10 -- a week prior to his Coachella appearance. Which is great for those of us who were a little worried about seeing one of our favorite songwriters surrounded by a bunch of drunken/tripping/coke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    Passchen-less

    The desperation of the Toronto Film Festival to land a high-profile new Canadian film for its annual opening-night gala has rarely been more palpable than in the case of this year's Passchendaele, an expensive exercise in maple-leaf patriotism set before, during and after the titular World War I bat ... More >>

  • LA Life

    July 24, 2008

    Special Tortilla Contest Edition

    Corn vs. flour: Cual es mas masa?

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2008

    LAFF 2008: Bagging on the Fest

    The absolute best way to see BAGHEAD is at a film festival after you’ve seen a few other movies, because the opening scenes perfectly skewer the universal truths of indie fests, from the pretentious film being viewed (a black-and-white number entitled WE ARE NAKED) to the Q&A host plugging the spo ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 3, 2008

    Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

    Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

  • Stage

    February 8, 2007

    László Fassang

    Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

  • Music

    April 14, 2005

    Sister Gurls

    Tegan and Sara make the world a more kick-ass place

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    The Pleasant Probation of Tommy Chong

    Conversations with the creator of “Man”

  • News

    February 13, 2003

    Letters

    Conversations with the creator of “Man”

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    Terms of Resistance

    Training at the Ruckus Society’s Democracy Action Camp

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