Cancer

Roger Ebert, Hollywood's Most-Famous Film Critic, Dead At 70

Roger Ebert, the nation's most high-profile movie critic, is dead at age 70, his longtime employer, the Chicago Sun-Times, announced this afternoon. He died today in his hometown of Chicago following a much-publicized battle with cancer, the paper reported:

Two Great Fundraisers: Animal and N/Naka Both Have Benefit Dinners Coming Up

Two great L.A. restaurants have dinners coming up that benefit charity. Next week on Jan. 14, Animal will host a dinner with Christopher Kostow, the 3 star Michelin chef of The Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena, California.

Vets and Doctors Don't Usually Talk to Each Other. Zoobiquity Is Trying to Change That

Clad in a white coat, teal scrubs and leather clogs, the doctor describes the case to the group. He explains that 27-year-old Rosie had painful periods and trouble conceiving. "She just wouldn't get up in the morning, and she wasn't eating or drinking during her periods," he says. After a sonog ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/2 - 7/6

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If you still look confused, you may be offered a free sample." 10 Best Tamales in Los Angeles. "But, as one might predict, the law barely lasted one full business day before a lawsuit was filed against it." Lawsuit Claims ... More >>

Tommy Chong's Prostate Cancer Getting The Marijuana Treatment

America's stoner-in-chief, Tommy Chong, announced over the weekend that he has prostate cancer -- and that he believes the disease took hold when he was in federal prison 8 years ago for distributing his namesake bongs to a conservative state. The longtime Angeleno and father of actress Rae Dawn Ch ... More >>

Coca-Cola, Pepsi Will Modify Recipe to Use Less Cancerous Caramel Coloring

As if you need another reason to scale back on all that soda pop: NPR and Reuters report that Coca-Cola and Pepsi will change their recipe slightly to reduce the amount of 4-methylimidazole (4-MI), a chemical that, in high very doses, has been known to cause cancer in animals. In sodas, it's used t ... More >>

What's in Pepper Spray?

In California, the toxin TCE

Chocolate May Prevent Colon Cancer: One More Reason to Eat It

If we didn't know better, we'd swear this study was funded by a syndicate of chocolate producers, but we don't like to look too skeptically at research that reinforces our notions of how the world should be. A recent study on rats has for the first time confirmed that flavonoids such as those foun ... More >>

Marijuana Smoker Norman Smith Booted From Cedars Sinai Hospital Liver Transplant List: Medical Pot Advocates Outraged

​Medical marijuana advocates are getting behind the plight of a cancer patient who says he has been kicked off a liver transplant list at Cedars Sinai Medical Center because he smokes medical marijuana. The California-based group Americans for Safe Access has sent a letter to the Beverly Hill ... More >>

Cancer Virus in Nearly Everyone's Mouth, USC Says

Elizabeth Beers​Bad news: Almost every one of us has a virus that causes cancer, according to USC research released today. And it's in our mouths. The good news: Doctors might be able to treat it if it goes darkside and creates tumors in your pie hole (yeah, we said tumors in your pie hole). ... More >>

50/50 Review

BPA Found in Kid-Friendly Canned Foods

Campbell'sDisney princesses may contain toxic chemicals​ Disney princesses may be toxic, and not just for sociological reasons. New testing by the Breast Cancer Fund has found BPA (bisphenol-A) in six brands of canned foods marketed to children, with the highest level in Campbell's Disney Prin ... More >>

The 911 on Halloween

Spicy Broccoli Helps Fight Cancer

Guzzle & NoshBroccoli, potatoes au gratin and steak at McCormick & Schmick's.​Nutritionists have long touted broccoli's healthful qualities, but now they think that spicing it up with broccoli sprouts, mustard, horseradish or wasabi can actually boost its cancer-fighting powers. When fresh br ... More >>

Real Housewives' Toxic Margarita Pulled from Whole Foods

Skinnygirl Margarita.​Bethenny Frankel, "diet guru" and former "star" of "reality" show The Real Housewives of New York City, doesn't care that her "all natural" Skinnygirl Margarita contains potentially carcinogenic ingredients, which caused Whole Foods to pull the "drink" from its stores. T ... More >>

Best Home-Cooking Site: In Erika's Kitchen

Dr. Lawrence Resnick, Women's Breast Specialist in Santa Monica, Sued for Alleged Sexual Harassment During Breast Exam

Google MapsThe Women's Breast Center is located along Wilshire in Santa Monica​Last thing a girl wants to encounter while undergoing an already-uncomfortable boob ultrasound: A creeper with fondling rights. That's not to say that Dr. Lawrence H. Resnick, president of the Women's Breast Center ... More >>

Ruminations on the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Very Large Poultry

Costa Mesa Company Fights Horse Cancer With Grass-Scented Horse Sunscreen

Lewis Circle​Don't let your horse's thick, gleaming beast coat fool you: Dude can still get skin cancer. Freaky, right? One would think, with all those teeny hairs and years of evolution from prehistoric odd-toed ungulates and general indestructibleness, such would not be the case for a horse. ... More >>

R&B Legend Etta James Has Dementia, Reveals Sordid Riverside County Money Lawsuit

​A sad, sordid saga is unveiling right now in Riverside County: papers filed in court concerning the administration of her fortune and the care-taking of R&B legend Etta James reveal a family feud over money and allegations that the "At Last" singer's health has been wrecked by leukemia and de ... More >>

LA Drinking Water May Have High Levels of a Likely Carcinogen

​ While no city beats Norman, Oklahoma for shockingly high levels of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium in its tap water, both Los Angeles and Riverside have higher levels than California officials would like to see. With .20 and 1.69 parts per billion (ppb), LA and Riverside, respectively, don' ... More >>

Carly Fiorina, Rebublican U.S. Senate Candidate, Hospitalized With Infection Caused By Breast Reconstruction Surgery

Associated PressCarly Fiorina on a better day​[Updated after the jump: Fiorina will be released today -- and is expected back on the trail by tomorrow.] [Updated after the jump with the probability that this is just an infection. Expert commentary from Laura Kruper, M.D., an assistant profess ... More >>

Weekly Cover Story: Paying The Bills At Nevada Brothels

Kevin ScanlonCiara, 20, earned $8,000 one week, half of which she gets to keep. She supports her boyfriend, who has cancer, and his mother.​Check out the Weekly's cover story, "The Family Prostitute," this week, about California woman going to Nevada in some significant numbers to work in the ... More >>

Dodgers Outfielder Manny Ramirez Donates Rare Porsche To Charity

​An online charity auction of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez's 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6 will begin on Friday. Proceeds from the auction will benefit ThinkCure!, which funds research to cure cancer and Maryvale, a Rosemead resident placement home for girls. ThinkCure!, a non-p ... More >>

12 Deceptive Pieces: The KFC-Komen Foundation Union

KFC/Susan G. Komen Foundation​Witness the improbable marriage of grease-pusher KFC and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, who have united under the inelegant banner Buckets for the Cure in a bid to make "the largest single donation to end breast cancer forever." In their television ad, diners are ... More >>

2010 IACP Award Winners Announced

​The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- which comes up first on a Google search, proving maybe that cops can SEO better than writers -- has announced their 2010 cookbook award winners. The ho ... More >>

'Stand and Deliver' Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies

​Following recent fund-raising efforts to help continue his cancer treatment, retired teacher Jaime Escalante of Stand and Deliver fame died in Reno, Nev. at the age of 79. Garfield High School's Facebook made an announcement Tuesday, stating that the former math teacher there "will forever ... More >>

SARAH SILVERMAN NEEDS A RIDE TO HERMOSA BEACH!

Wait. What? Jackson Browne, Inara George, and Fran Drescher at the Million Dollar Theater?

Wait. What? Jackson Browne, Inara George, and Fran Drescher at the Million Dollar Theater?

BEST WHERE'S JOHNNY

IN THE PINK WITH DODGER BLUE

BOOBS FOR BUCKS

Rest in Peace: Pablo Castelaz of the Dangerbird Records Family

It's been a rough week, for sure. The untimely deaths of Michael, Farrah, Ed, Sky, and Billy were all pretty jarring in their own way. The news, however, that Pablo Castelaz, son of Dangerbird Records co-owner Jeff Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann, had died on Saturday after a long, heart-wrenching and ... More >>

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal to Wed

"Till death do us part."Those words will weigh heavily during the planned vows that will be exchanged between troubled actor Ryan O'Neal and longtime companion Farrah Fawcett, whose health is deteriorating from terminal cancer. In a segment of ABC TV's 20/20 program to air Friday, O'Neal, who has ha ... More >>

Fire Sale: Farrah Fawcett's Bathing Suit to Be Auctioned?

By now it may have occurred to Farrah Fawcett that she should have modeled for her famous 1976 poster in the nude. That way, like Marilyn Monroe's red-satin spread that would grace a thousand calendars, the image's value would have resided solely in the woman -- and not have triggered a ghoulish auc ... More >>

San Fernando Valley's Galaxy of Chemical Goo

City planners make a slick zone change to allow easier building on troubled land

Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

Tonight (Wed, 10/4) kicks off the month-long Fashion Targets Breast Cancer (FTBC) charity event at Beauty Bars across the nation. The Council of Fashion Designers of America, with Rose Apodaca and Trina Turk, are hosting our local fundraiser at the Cahuenga Beauty Bar tonight. Get a martini* and a m ... More >>

A Race for Life

Adventure racer Louise Cooper

Rhinestone Vaquero

Joan Sebastian can sing and ride a horse and has recorded more than 30 albums. We’re impressed

A Day at the Races

Faster, Speedycat! Thrill! Thrill!

Minister of Marijuana

Scott Imler’s war with Ashcroft over the cannabis center

Masters of Charity

Time catches up with Pallotta Teamworks

Miles To Go

Another Pallotta TeamWorks’ setback leaves kids in the dust

It Was a Doll Revolution

The Other War

What Belmont Foes are Saying: Part 2

Her Last Worry

Lucy Esquivel blamed the tainted soil for her cancer

Toxic Project

State calls for health study of residents at contaminated public-housing project

Spiritual Calling

Elaine Welton Hill, 1954 - 1999

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