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Fanatics! We Think This Is the Right Show for a Sunday

RADIO BROADCAST #218 06-02-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Rush Limbaugh Gets It Wrong, Again Fanatics! I don't know why I keep thinking that each show we do is the best one yet, but I almost always do. This is an amazing line up of songs. I know we have played the Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink track ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' Radio Show This Week Will Be Live

RADIO BROADCAST #217 05-26-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Remembering Ray Manzerek Fanatics! Below, you will see what we have prepared for your hopeful enjoyment. I will be back from location, and we will go for our first live Sunday show. As some of you know, I have been out on the east coast, work ... More >>

Trader Joe's Butter Chicken Recalled for Listeria Risk

We're still fond of you, TJ's, and we're hoping we can work this out, but your empty promises about caring for our health and safety are beginning to make us sick (literally). Coming on the heels of recalls this year of barbecue chicken salad (Listeria, July) and peanut butter (Salmonella, Septemb ... More >>

Porn's L.A. County Condom Measure B Sees Fight Over Alleged Foreign Contributions

A week before the big election and the epic battle around here isn't Obama versus Romney or Sherman versus Berman. No, it's nasty versus safe sex. Only in L.A. would one's pornographic preference become a ballot issue for the ages. The latest shot in the war over measure B, which would mandate con ... More >>

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Beer Pairing: Boneyard Bistro Tomatoes Stone's Saison du Buff

If you're lucky enough to be growing your own, you know that tomato season is almost over. For this reason you should get yourself to Boneyard Bistro in Sherman Oaks for the last few weeks of their seasonal tomato salad. With a beer uncanny in its pairing power, this is the perfect last hurrah for s ... More >>

Tap Takeover at Steingarten LA: All the Dogfish Head You Can Drink

With the Labor Day holiday weekend approaching, you are undoubtedly destined to have a few lowest common denominator beers with your barbecue. Even those of us who tend toward craft are destined to live the High Life. You can start the weekend on a much higher note by attending the Dogfish Head tap ... More >>

Dodgers Sale On Track Despite MLB Concerns; Fans Avoiding Parking Lots in Record Numbers

The Dodgers sale is still on track to close on April 30, as a bankruptcy judge approved the sale agreement today despite last-minute objections from Major League Baseball.According to the tandem of @EricFisherSBJ and @BillShaikin, who were both tweeting the proceedings in Delaware, the attorney for ... More >>

Five Attractive Strange People Working for Tips at SXSW

Paying homeless people $70 a day to serve as human wifi hotspots is a bizarre way to make a buck, but it's indicative of the hustler's spirit at South By Southwest this year. Folks are grinding hard and employing increasingly-gimmicky measures to make money. But there's more to it than that. Lik ... More >>

Marijuana Can Help Prevent Suicide, Study Suggests

Marijuana does many magical things, not the least of which is make dubstep listenable. In Los Angeles, we use it pretty much legally for back pain, nausea and hot tubbing. But a new study from Germany says that, in U.S. states like California where marijuana has become medically legit, rates of sui ... More >>

Prop. 8 Ruled Unconstitutional in California: Appeals Court Supports Gay Marriage

Update: Los Angeles, West Hollywood to host dueling celebration rallies tonight. Proposition 8, the voter initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California in 2008, has just been overturned by a three-judge panel at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. From here, Prop. 8 backers ProtectMarr ... More >>

Bitches Brew Returns For The Holidays: From Miles Davis To Your Pint Glass

When the 9% ABV fusion beer Bitches Brew was first released by Delaware-based Dogfish Head Brewery in June 2010 -- on the 40th anniversary of the jazz fusion album of the same name -- the beer world sipped slowly, hoping to delay the inevitable end to its glorious existence. But as with most limit ... More >>

Top 5 Pumpkin Beers: Drink Up, Pumpkin Kings

B. MesirowKern River's Pumpkin Ale and a whole pumpkin​ Is there any vegetable more versatile than the pumpkin? They can be turned into delicious pies, magical carriages, whimsical lanterns, terrifying (or hilarious) helmets and, best of all, beer. Pumpkin beers come in a variety of styles, f ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed

In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees

Real Mex Files For Bankruptcy

Courtesy of El Torito.​If you've ever wondered why the food at El Torito, Chevy's and Acapulco tastes remarkably similar, it's because they all have the same corporate parent, Real Mex Restaurants, Inc.. The company, which owes $49 million to its employees and food suppliers but only has $1 mi ... More >>

When Will Dodger Divorce Case End? Wait Till Next Year.

Frank McCourt​If you're a Dodger fan, September is when you start to say, "Wait till next year." Not for the Dodgers to win the pennant, but for the McCourt divorce case to finally end.It certainly won't happen this year -- but maybe next? Outside court today, Michael Kump, one of Jamie McCourt's ... More >>

James Gentry: 1978 Westside Cold Case Solved as Walter Randolph Peartree Arrested in Ohio, LAPD Says

LAPDJames Gentry.​In 1978, pantlegs were wide, mustaches were big, a cellphone was something you wheeled in on a cart, and police couldn't count on the kind of DNA and fingerprint technology they have today. And so it is that after 33 years the LAPD announced that it has solved the homicide o ... More >>

Judge Denies Frank McCourt's Bankruptcy Loan, As Major League Baseball Tightens Its Grip On Dodgers

Frank McCourt​Updated with judge's ruling, McCourt's lawyer's statement. Continuing Frank McCourt's unbroken streak of losing court decisions, a Delaware judge today rejected his costly bankruptcy loan, opting instead for cheaper terms offered by Major League Baseball.Despite what everybody will s ... More >>

Dodgers Likely to See Major League Baseball Takeover Attempt Soon

AP​Put us out of our misery already. Associated Press reports that Major League Baseball will likely begin its long threatened Dodger takeover attempt by filing a motion in bankruptcy court that would seek to terminate the franchise. In other words, they want Frank McCourt out and the league ... More >>

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Sexted Underage Girl? Cops Are Looking Into Reported Twitter Relationship Between U.S. Rep And 17-Year-Old

debaird​This Weiner scandal has legs, and not the kind you want to see sexted to your iPhone, either. Cops today are reportedly investigating whether U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner communicated with an underage girl from Delaware as part of the Weinergate sexting scandal that erupted after L.A. blo ... More >>

Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay Youths Less Likely to Use Condoms, More Likely to Use Drugs, Alcohol -- Study

Infidelic​As if life isn't hard enough for them, the Centers for Disease Control on Monday reports that gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students are more prone to drug, alcohol and tobacco use. The study (PDF) includes data from Southern California and indicates, according to a CDC stat ... More >>

California Has More Ultra-Rich People Than Any Other State

We're rich -- in a statistic-skewing, ratio-dismissing kinda way -- bitch!​Recession be damned. Of 55,000 Americans worth over $30 million, almost 20 percent live in California -- more than any other state. Wealth-X, the self-proclaimed world leader in "wealth intelligence," reports that 9,80 ... More >>

Dodger Divorce: Despite What Bill Plaschke Says, It's Too Soon To Celebrate

Frank McCourt will cling the Dodgers with every legal argument at his disposal.​There was much rejoicing over last week's ruling in the McCourt divorce case, which made it more likely that the Dodgers will be put up for sale. Bill Plaschke started rounding the bases. T.J. Simers wanted to put a st ... More >>

Bootsy Collins and LA Art Group Unveil Funk Portrait

bootsycollinsart.comHe's got the art funk: Bootsy Collins​A few months ago, the Wu-Tang's RZA unveiled a limited-edition piece of art billed as his "self-portrait"--a large image of himself as George Washington crossing the Delaware. The artwork was conceptualized by the RZA aided by Scene Fo ... More >>

"Hide Your Will, Hide Your Lights"???: Ridiculous Tea Party Senate Candidate Jumps on Antoine Dodson Bandwagon

The extreme right co-opts Antoine Dodson's anti-generalized rape message. In Delaware.​Today is an Antoine Dodson-heavy news day. First we told you about the Antoine Dodson-licensed Antoine Dodson Halloween outfit and now we get word that someone has created an ad for Delaware senatorial cand ... More >>

Does The Lesbian Sister Of Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Tea Party Senate Candidate, Live In L.A.?

Christine O'Donell​Christine O'Donnell is the eccentric Tea Partier who shocked the world this week by beating Establishment Republican Mike Castle in the Delaware primary, thus likely ruining whatever outside shot the GOP had at taking the Senate. O'Donnell has spent most of her ramshackle pu ... More >>

Movie Reviews: After the Cup, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia

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California's Big Whiff on Education-Reform Money

What the hell led to the "Race to the Top" rejection from Obama?

Lawyers Cash In On Los Angeles Times Bankruptcy

​The 15-month-old bankruptcy reorganization for Los Angeles Times (and KTLA News) parent Tribune Co. has been really successful ... for the lawyers. In a breathtaking statement, the company's namesake Chicago Tribune reports (bravely, we might add) that "law firms and other professionals have ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from LA Food Blogs

-- Pat Saperstein checks out 5 month-old Cham Korean Bistro in Pasadena. [Eating L.A.] -- Mattatouille's Top 10 Favorite Food Books of All Time. [Mattatouille] -- Good Food considers the aerodynamic pumpkins of Punkin Chunkin, a 23 year-old Delaware pumpkin-throwing contest. [Good Food] -- Makin ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Brave New Archive UCLA will get the correspondence, speeches, papers and audio recordings of 20th-century author, seeker and drug experimenter Aldous Huxley. L.A. TimesSlay Case Man Still Missing Nearly nine months after the gruesome killings of four people in a Quartz Hill house, a fifth presumed v ... More >>

Coming Home: Taking Chance Writer Lt. Col. Michael Strobl and Producer-Director Ross Katz on the Iraq Movie About America

Kevin Bacon gives a powerful performance as Strobl in the HBO film

Abiding Joe Biden: Obama's VP Pick Exposes the Dems' Shallow Talent Pool

The senator's predictably unpredictable verbal eruptions will make a memorable campaign season

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