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These SoCal Colleges Turn Out Top Money Makers

If you're looking for more than a worldly education, a sense of history, and a decent grasp on literature, then you're in the right place when it comes to colleges. Yes, Southern California offers you higher education that pays. Eventually. The latest "Payscale College Salary Report," based on what ... More >>

5 Reasons to Drive to Claremont for Its First-Ever Restaurant Week

One week before our own dineLA launches on July 15, Claremont kicks off its first-ever Restaurant Week from now today through July 16th. Home to the seven Claremont Colleges, a botanic garden covering 86 acres, a bustling Sunday farmers market and Ben Harper's Folk Music Center, Claremont is looking ... More >>

L.A.'s Scripps College Olive Oil Wins at Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition

For the first time in the 14-year history of the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition, a Best of Show has been awarded to a L.A. County-produced olive oil. Even more fascinating is that it wasn't an established olive farm but rather a local college that won. Were you thinki ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: (The End of) Purple Brussels Sprouts at Weiser Family Farms

There's a very good reason that so few farmers are willing to bring purple Brussels sprouts to market. They're a pain to grow. But what makes them a pain also entices customers -- they lack the cabbage funk of your standard green Brussels sprout and have an almost broccoli-like sweetness That sw ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Watermelon Radish

The watermelon radish, or shinrimei -- a drab celadon on the outside and fuschia fireworks inside -- is winter's agricultural thermometer. From sow to harvest is about two months, and during that time both the soil and air temp should hover between the upper 60's and 50's. Major shifts in temperat ... More >>

Claremont Colleges, USC, Occidental Some of The Most Expensive Schools in America

We recently told you -- and you were surprised -- that some of the best universities in the world are right here in Los Angeles, including number-one Caltech and number-13 UCLA, according a British ranking. But, given that this is L.A., land of the Hollywood mogul and real estate billionaire, we al ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Weiser Family Farm's Hot Roasted Peppers

Alex Weiser's market tables are groaning under the weight of his summer harvests -- Gaia and Ogen melons, freshly dug torpedo onions, a small rainbow of eggplant including Caliope, Hansel and Gretl to name a few. He recently added just-cured Spanish garlics and French shallots, and then there are ... More >>

Inside the L.A. Dominatrix Industry

This piece is part of our series on the L.A. dominatrix industry. See also: *How a Dominatrix Does Her Taxes "Chains and whips excite me," Rihanna sings. "You're a dirty little whore, and I'm going to send you home to your parents covered in cum," Lena Dunham's love interest tells her on "Girls." ... More >>

California Tax for Mentally Ill Is Going Toward Massage Chairs, Zumba Classes in SoCal

California Governor Jerry Brown is asking for another tax hike this November: He hopes the dead-broke people of this dead-broke state will have the heart to toss a few coins at our crumbling education system. But how do we know our money won't end up paying for some bedazzled charter-school megagym ... More >>

Art Students Blow Up the Blue Whale

USC Hosts Weekend Seminar to Educate Current Politicians on Ethics, Transparency; L.A. Mayor Attends Kentucky Derby Instead

The University of Southern California isn't just for strapping young scholars anymore. Today and tomorrow, the USC Price School of Public Policy begins an ongoing series of classes that will school current politicians in "public transparency and ethics, leadership, governance and environmental polic ... More >>

National Pie Day: Pie Popsicles

Last year for National Pie Day, we made a list of the top 10 places to celebrate the holiday. It's still a great list, though it needs a few alterations: The Flying Pie Man has decamped from Los Angeles, The Pie Hole has opened its doors and we've fallen in love with the hand-pies at The Village B ... More >>

Master Food Preserver Program Application Deadline

With the resurgence in pickling and preserving, Los Angeles County's revived Master Food Preserver (MFP) program is all the rage. The MFP, which we first reported on back in January, is taking applications for the spring 2012 class. Open to L.A. County residents, the 12-week session covers canning, ... More >>

Marcus Coates' Journey to the Lower World at Pitzer College Art Galleries: Can Deer Antlers Solve America's Housing Problem?

Photo: Nick David. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry, London.Still from Marcus Coates' 30-minute video Journey to the Lower World ​ The two-channel video work Journey to the Lower World by British artist Marcus Coates is a high point in an exceptionally engaging exhibition closing today ... More >>

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Last rays of summer

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Music Picks: Talib Kweli, Pete Yorn, Lucy Schwartz

Also Rise Against, Piney Gir, Deradoorian and others

Citizens Redistricting Commission Chosen by Lottery, Eight Make History In California

These jerks are out. Normal citizens are in charge.​The new California Citizens Redistricting Commission's first eight members are Democrats Jeanne Raya of San Gabriel, Elaine Kuo of Mountain View, Cynthia Dai of San Francisco; Republicans Jodie Filkins Webber of Norco, Peter Yao of Claremont ... More >>

Bacon Muffins & Banana Chocolate Danishes at Some Crust Bakery

Guzzle & NoshA bacon muffin (left) & banana chocolate Danish (right) from Some Crust Bakery in Claremont.​ No one should eat the banana chocolate Danish at Some Crust Bakery in Claremont -- at least not for breakfast and definitely not by yourself. I'm not saying I couldn't. (Don't tempt me.) ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Up the Wazoo

Abortion "Holocaust Survivors" to Protest at Corn Field Rally

​When Congress members and others opened the doors of town hall meetings to hear constituents' views on health care reform, they never dreamed of what was waiting for them on the doorstep. By now we're familiar with the images of red-faced elders shouting down meek Congressmen, or of gun-toting ac ... More >>

Emerald Beaut Plums: Late Summer Plums Hit the Fruits Stands

Photo credit: Todd Porter​Emerald Beaut Plums will be showing up at farmers markets this weekend. Many of us have waited long and patiently for this green plum to hit the stands, and at least one farmer, Annie from Sweet Tree Farms, has finally deemed her crop ripe and sent crews up the ladde ... More >>

FRINGE BENEFITS AND OTHER ODDLY REWARDING CHOICES

Kurt Elling, Frank Marocco, Bob Sheppard

Brad Eberhard at Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home

Chris Darrow's Kaleidoscopic Vision

A mentor to Ben Harper; a "world music" propenent before there was even a name for it

Nick Cave, Spiritualized, Cat Power Stanch the Wounds at the Hollywood Bowl

Infinite Loss: David Foster Wallace and the Troublesome, Inescapable "I"

"Was he a good writer?" asked the young sales clerk at Borders

Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Claremont Folk Festival, 5/3

Ben Harper, Jackson Browne Claremont Folk Festival, Sycamore School May 3, 2008 Photos and Text by Ryan Colditz Nestled neatly inside the Inland Empire is Claremont, an unassuming, quaint city with a "small town" feel. But there's much more to Claremont than clean streets and a great record store ... More >>

Claremont Folk Festival

By Ryan Colditz Get the folk out of the city on Saturday and mosey on over to Clarmont (just a few miles past the Glass House in Pomona) for the 28th Annual Claremont Folk Music Festival, held at Sycamore Elementary School. Sounds boring, right? WRONG. A full day of art and music performances ... More >>

It's Record Store Day!

Go out and visit your local independent record store today, if there is still one within 100 miles or so. You know your business model is in trouble when you get a "day" devoted to it. Why, I remember celebrating "Floppy Disc Day" and "Blacksmith Appreciation Day" as if they were yesterday. Ther ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Beneath an Amber Moon

Seven days of solid jazz, plus the sounds of Brazil

Brick's Picks: Winter Songs

Jazz picks around L.A.

This Is Iran, Too

Best Place to Get All High Fidelity

The Scissor Misters

Elation: Still Possible!

Letters

Like Goths to the Flame

Jesus Was a Luthier

Homeward Bound

A play, and its performers, from Skid Row

In Between

Peace Gets a Chance

Holiday cheer for the anti-war movement

Return to the Burning Planet

Can’t Claremont Just Get Along?

Of Rodney King, Jesse Jackson and Irvin Landrum Jr.

Lots of Screamingly Funny Sentences. No Fish.

Douglas Adams, 1952–2001

Maybe Politics Doesn’t Pay

Santa Monica frets over anti-corruption measure

Peripheral Visions

The edge of L.A. in three dimensions

Fast Track

I got railroaded and now I’m hooked

Rozz Williams, 1963-1998

Objet d'art

In praise of decoration