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  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    NASA Seeks Volunteers for Astronaut Cooking Challenge

    Are you unemployed? Hungry? Have you always wanted to be an astronaut? NASA may have just the job for you. The space agency is seeking six volunteers to live on a simulated Mars base on a Hawaiian lava flow for four months to test meals that could be served on an eventual mission to Mars, Sci-Tech ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Study: Customers Prefer Half-Sizes of That Giant Side of Chow Mein

    If given the choice, would you opt for a half-sized portion of chow mein to accompany your orange chicken? Research by Tulane University marketing professor Janet Schwartz and Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely suggests that not only would a significant number of diners prefer smaller ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    DooD Food: A New Company That Helps Your Dog Go on a Diet

    Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. Andrea Carrano was raised in Italy, which means he grew up with table-fed canines. That also was true of his brother-in-law, Ali Niroomand, who grew up in France. "Very few people were buying s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Report: Treating Workers Well Helps Bottom Line

    As the restaurant industry's busiest and most profitable day of the year (Valentine's Day) approaches, ROC has released two reports: a study challenging the idea that restaurants can succeed only by keeping labor costs low and a Diners' Guide spotlighting restaurants that aim for sustainability -- n ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2011

    Lost Boys

    New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Kids Eat More Fruit When It's In Colorful Bowls

    Wanna move more fruit? Arrange it in bright bowls, suggests a recent study from Cornell University. Marketers, graphic designers and fashionistas have long understood the crucial role of attractive packaging, but applying these same techniques to lunchrooms and cafeterias could lead to a marked incr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    R.I.P. Continental Airlines: 800 Employees Say Goodnight to Iconic Airline at LAX 'Memorial'

    The Continental crew, circa 1970s.​Like a baseball team or a Hollywood studio, an airline, in America, holds incredible cultural weight. It's a corporation, sure, but only in the way that Coca-Cola is a corporation -- ads don't feel like ads. More like cozy pop art. What little girl, at one p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Pepperdine Makes Top 5 of GQ's 'Douchiest Colleges in America' List

    KLMThe bros of Pepperdine.​L.A. has made GQ's latest "10 Douchiest Colleges in America" list, and for some reason the honor doesn't involve USC. Maybe it's our Bruin bias, but you can't get much douchier than a college where redneck parents send their kids to be walled off from the West Coast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Weird Science: Eating Dirt Can Be Good For You

    Jack Delano / Courtesy of The Library of CongressMember of a Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in near Yauco, Puerto Rico.​Eating dirt? It sounds like one of the tamer though still disgusting episodes of TLC's Addicted, the awful show (awful in a "can't stop watching" kin ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 19, 2011

    Henri Ford: Doctor Sans Frontieres

    Jack Delano / Courtesy of The Library of CongressMember of a Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in near Yauco, Puerto Rico.​Eating dirt? It sounds like one of the tamer though still disgusting episodes of TLC's Addicted, the awful show (awful in a "can't stop watching" kin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Nine Degrees of Food & Wine: 9 Academic Food Programs

    UW Digital Collections​Does your "I'm-running-away-from-home" daydream involve the countryside and small batch goat cheese or building a giant copper still in an industrial warehouse space? Maybe it's time to take the first step towards making that dream a reality, and maybe the way to go is t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Mezze: Opening Next Month in the Former Sona Location

    L. Balla​ There should be a show like Moving Up for restaurants, where the former tenants of a space get a peek at what the new tenants have done, and comment on it. Mezze would be at the top of our list for screen time. The new Mediterranean restaurant, slated to open next month in the form ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 13, 2011

    DIG THESE A CAPPELLA FELLAS

    L. Balla​ There should be a show like Moving Up for restaurants, where the former tenants of a space get a peek at what the new tenants have done, and comment on it. Mezze would be at the top of our list for screen time. The new Mediterranean restaurant, slated to open next month in the form ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Hungry? With FabApps, Just Hit Print

    BBC​Imagine you're in charge of hors d'oeuvres for the upcoming holiday potluck, and whipping up 100-some canapés just doesn't fit into your New Year's Eve schedule. Sure, buying is an option, but in the near future, there may be another one: printing. According to a recent article from BBC ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2010

    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?

  • News

    June 10, 2010

    Cowboy Down

    Murdered Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    Kate Micucci: Music Not Quite From Here

    Murdered Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    This Is Why We're Fat: Last Supper Would Have Left Us Hungry

    People have been saying for quite time that our portion sizes have been increasing. Now, thanks to a study at (Sweet 16-bound) Cornell, and paintings of the the last known meal Jesus ever ate, we might just have the proof. Cornell's Brian Wasnik pored over 52 different paintings of The Last Supper, ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    January 8, 2009

    Talking with the Institute for Figuring’s Margaret and Christine Wertheim

    Masters of the Woolen Reef

  • Stage

    June 7, 2007

    Shadow and Substance

    The bullshit factor and positive vibrations

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    It Comes From the Garage

    These do-it-yourself misfits just might win the DARPA Grand Challenge

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    The Invasion of the Elegant Trogons

    Is Sierra Club’s anti-immigration insurgency for the birds?

  • Film+TV

    March 4, 2004

    Kitchen Stories

    Listening to Chantal Akerman

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Exit Stage Left, Slowly

    Gordon Davidson and the changing of the guard

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    Personal Wars

    Gordon Davidson and the changing of the guard

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    To Be Gay and Young in L.A.

    Coming-out stories

  • News

    November 15, 2001

    Beloved Infidels

    Coming-out stories

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Frankenfoods

    Should genetically modified produce frighten you?

  • Art+Books

    June 1, 2000

    True Grit

    To be young, gifted and a senior at Crenshaw High

  • Stage

    December 2, 1999

    The Right Stuff

    To be young, gifted and a senior at Crenshaw High

  • Columns

    August 19, 1999

    Insomnomania!

    To be young, gifted and a senior at Crenshaw High

  • Stage

    March 25, 1999

    The World in a Box

    Conclusion of a Three-part Series

  • Calendar

    May 21, 1998

    Why Toilets Are White

    Nancy Tomes puts germaphobia under a microscope

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