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Facebook 'Likes' Can Reveal If You're Gay, Straight, Black, White, Republican Or Democrat

Researchers at Cambridge University say they can tell if you're gay or straight, black or white, Republican or Democrat just by analyzing your Facebook "likes." Scary? The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America looked at .. ... More >>

L.A. Author Amelia Gray Is a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. But She's Still Living Hand-to-Mouth

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament On Monday, March 5, Amelia Gray was sitting in a windowless closet -- which she had turned into her office -- in her home in the Little Armenia area of East Hollywood, when she received a rare phone call that only top writers like Philip Roth or Don D ... More >>

UCLA A Top 8 University, According To Times Higher Education World Ranking

UCLA is the eighth best university in the world, according to the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings. That's even better than last year's 13th place for the publication's World University Rankings, in which Caltech came in at No. 1. The latest showing for the Westwood campus .. ... More >>

Human Rights Campaign: Los Angeles One of Top Gay-Friendly Cities in United States

Los Angeles gets mocked and dumped upon by all kinds of outside critics, but they can't say it isn't a great place to be gay. According to the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights organization based in Washington D.C., Los Angeles is one of the top 11 gay-friendly cities in the United Stat ... More >>

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Getty Museum Gets a New Director: Timothy Potts

Timothy Potts is the new director of the Getty Museum, and will begin the job on Sept. 1. Potts, a native of Sydney, Australia, has been director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, since January 2008. He also has been director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and before ... More >>

John Waters: Interviews: Top Five Favorite Quotes From the Cult Film Director's New Interview Collection

Hide your kids. Hide your wife. John Waters has escaped from Baltimore. On Friday, Waters will appear at the University of Southern California for a discussion and screening of his classic Pink Flamingos. If you scored tickets you're in for a treat: by this point, Waters is almost as well known fo ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

William and Kate, Royal Couple, Plan Visit to Hollywood This Summer

New York PostWills and Kate to do L.A.?​It's official! Updated after the jump with the royal couple's dates of stay. Paparazzi alert! Y'all can take a break from heckling Paris Hilton and her belligerent stalkers for a couple days this summer, because brand-spankin'-new royal couple Prince Wi ... More >>

Edward Anthony's Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath

'LA Weekly' Names Underachiever Keith Plocek as New Web Editor

Keith Plocek comes to LA Weekly.​True story: An acquaintance of ours wanted to go for this job. We said, sure, if you can waive a wand and make six-figure traffic appear instantly, you're in. The shoes of LA Weekly's former web honcho Erin Broadley are huge (like Ru Paul size). She was nothin ... More >>

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3-D

Theater Reviews: The Limitations of Genetic Technology, Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein

Also, Roccopella, Crimes of the Heart

Stage Raw: Roccopella

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Watson (Sacred Fools) and Futura (Boston Court)COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROCCOPELLA ​ Embellished with funky MTV-inspired videos, writer/solo performer George Spielvogel's goofy good-natured comedy sports an array of ditzy characters who sha ... More >>

The Town: Townie Made Good

Ben Affleck and his bank-robber role, caught between redemption, action and hometown

Depeche Monde

Fan doc casts Brit synth-pop as the soundtrack of revolution

A New Documentary Profiles Obsessed Depeche Mode Fans Around the World

Depeche Mode ought to reach out and touch British filmmakers Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller for making the most loving and life-affirming documentary about their fans. First off, Trent Reznor pops up for a sizeable interview, and when the elusive Mr. Self Destruct talks about his influences, you dr ... More >>

Just Pho Fun: Top Ten Phở Restaurant Names

Phở might be the fastest, cheapest, most exotic, late-night fix that you can't order at a drive-thru window (not in L.A., at least). It also might be the most frequently mispronounced three-letter word. We rounded up some of our favorite phở restaurant names. Broward Palm Beach ​

Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

... and into the urap

Brendan Mullen the Writer: Highlights of his Work for the Weekly

In addition to opening punk club the Masque, LA DIY music giant Brendan Mullen, who died at age 60 yesterday after suffering a stroke on Saturday, was a longtime LA Weekly music writer whose prescient insight and in-the-trenches curiosity captured the experience of being a music head in LA in the 8 ... More >>

Italian Illumination Lecture

LACMA SALUTES JAMES MASON

A look back at the larger-than-life film star.

Divided We Stand: Art of Two Germanys

Both sides now at LACMA

The Whitest Kids U'Know, Fighting to Offend

Conform or disappear

David Leavitt’s The Indian Clerk

A mathematician's apology

Beyond Kebabs

Where to find Afghan haute cuisine

Born to Be Rad

John S. Rad, 1936–2007

A Full Life

Claire Messud on marriage to a critic, diapers and The Emperor’s Children

The Word and the Image: The Films of Peter Whitehead

''Seems never to achieve his potential. Indolent.''

Re-reading report cards can be depressing

People, Chaos, Everything

How photographer Zana Briski got Born Into Brothels

The Passion of the Rad

An enigmatic independent auteur may have made the world’s next great midnight movie

Romance and Resistance

Head in the Clouds sexes up war; Zelary brings it back to real life

Gimme Sheltered

Post-revolutionary Patti

America Childless

Julia Child, 1912–2004

Bushless in Boston

Progressives, pawns and prawns in our cowardly democracy

So Goes the Gay Nation

Same-sex-marriage activists set their sights on California

Monty Python and the Flipping Bird

The Last Intellectual

Clive James, Renaissance man

Divided We Stand

This is no time for unity on the left

Lots of Screamingly Funny Sentences. No Fish.

Douglas Adams, 1952–2001

Boss Cupid’s Poet

The good life and hard times of Thom Gunn

Masters of Deceit

Behind Santa Monica’s breathtakingly bogus living-wage initiative

Offer They Can Refuse

The Big Nowhere

Out on the Nellis Range with the Center for Land Use Interpretation

The End of Heaven

Margaret Wertheim charts the course of our spiritual crisis

The Shock of the Old

Penelope Fitzgerald and the Art of Surprise

The Prime Minister of Culture

George Steiner’s sonorous solemnities

The Prime Minister of Culture

George Steiner's sonorous solemnities

Creme Brulee

And the sweetness of selling out