"You don't take perfectly awesome Oreo cookies, scrape out the cream filling and refill them with toothpaste," pontificates a well-lit Sara O'Donnell. She's looking into the camera, warning against the stupidity of food-related April Fools' pranks. "Here's a better idea -- why not refill them with c ... More >>
Yesterday was April Fools' Day, that sacred holiday in which you can't trust anyone any more than you already don't. And even though it was a Sunday, a good number of food-related folks (including us) nonetheless jumped at the chance to prank a witting or unwitting audience with various fake tweets ... More >>
Updated at the bottom with Obama's response. First posted at 7:01 a.m. The people who want to decriminalize marijuana are bringing the issue to President Obama this morning. A retired LAPD deputy chief, Stephen Downing, submitted a video to the White House in which he asks what the president would ... More >>
Flickr/Lauren Manning In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When properly cooked, its texture becomes less like rice than a kind of fluffy, chewy couscous, brilliant at absorbing flavors from dribbles of fish sauce and random splashes of oil." Night of the ... More >>
Patrick McMullanQuestlove's Fried Chicken At the BA Kitchen Launch PartyBon Appétit magazine announced this week the opening of "BA Kitchen" in New York City. The space is "a modern cooking and entertaining space," according to a press release, located across from the Frank Gehry café in th ... More >>
Flickr/Lauren Manning In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "In true Bourdain fashion, he gave us an straight answer. 'You know, I don't really care.'" Anthony Bourdain on The Layover, L.A. and Jonathan Gold. "The first thing you need to know about Attari ... More >>
Flickr/Lauren Manning In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minima ... More >>
Sure we may have stacks of cookbooks on our shelves, and under our desks and on top of our refrigerators, but many if not most of us these days use Google to do a recipe search more often than we unstack our cookbooks. Today, that all gets a lot more fun, or at least (fun is a relative term) ... More >>
It's no Gehry, but Demand Media's oceanfront headquarters do just fineIn an unassuming mid-rise office building on the Santa Monica cliffs (1299 Ocean Avenue, to be exact), the nation's most profitable "journalistic" machine is hard at work -- churning out those short, un-researched half-answ ... More >>
wvs.topleftpixel.comWelcome to Venice, Google! Your 6,000 new employees will be pleased to hear that Lindsay Lohan's new four-bedroom is located a convenient four-minute drive south [Voila! Driving directions! Have we told you lately that we love you, Goo-Goo?] and the weird sushi/hamburger/b ... More >>
Kayla via PlixiBet you thought that piss bucket students used at El Camino High yesterday (pictured, click to enlarge) was totally DIY, right? Not even. Los Angeles Unified School District officials tell the LA Times this morning that classrooms on lockdown during both the La Gardena shootin ... More >>
Across the Universe: Lady Gaga's Lolla Nip Slip, Kanye West's 'Moving Painting,' Iron Maiden Tumbles
Northridge resident Lauren Rosenberg is suing Google over bad directions she received from the site, according to various reports. Rosenberg was struck by a driver and injured in Park City, Utah on Jan. 19, 2009 as she walked on a highway route obtained by searching Google Maps on her Blackb ... More >>
The West Coast Sound photo archives are legendary among music bloggers. where the majority of sites scour Google Image to find photos for use, we've got a secret weapon: a vast world of file cabinets housing thousands of old press photos. This is an amazing collection that we could use to blackmail ... More >>
The "I don't love the inside of my car
Have you ever found yourself wondering, "Why doesn't anybody go to my website?"Local SEO Ninjas Tony Adam, Jeff Henderson, and Sean Percival get their search optimization on. Perhaps it's because there is nothing on there worth seeing. After all, if there was something really cool on your site th ... More >>
Plus: In defense of Michael Jackson
This photo ran with a recent New York Times article on Palin and her "outsider charm." The image begs some questions about her interior decorating style. Are grizzly bears endangered? No. At least, not anymore. The National Wildlife Federation declared the grizzly population in the areas surround ... More >>
The rise of classically informed indie music, one awesome photograph of MC 62 Foot Jesus, and my thoughts on "conflict of interest" in music criticism today. ALSO, a member of Grizzly Bear getting crunk in a Cincinnati, OH parking lot. It's kind of like US Weekly for obscure people.
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