Gulf of Mexico

I Tried To Teach My Sons About Music While Fishing But Instead They Just Did Karate Moves On The Beach

[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] 7:18 a.m.: I'm taking the boys fishing this morning. There's a serviceable little fishing p ... More >>

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Los Angeles Winter Storms Intensified By ... Farm Irrigation?

The Central Valley is America's salad bowl. But providing the world with all that food -- $37.5 billion worth in 2010, making California the nation's top agricultural state -- takes a lot of water. And that has strange consequences, according to a new UC Irvine study. Turns out that some of that i ... More >>

2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition

Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>

The Big Fix review

William Barry Wise, Worker at Carson BP Refinery, Crushed to Death by Railcar

terrapsych.comBP's refinery in Carson, where Wise was killed.​A longtime employee of the BP refinery in Carson died early yesterday morning while on the job. The L.A. County Coroner identifies him today as 54-year-old white man William Barry Wise, an Irvine resident. BP spokesman Walter Neil ... More >>

Craig Thornton: Charlie Parker With Kaffir Lime

Kevin ScanlonCraig Thornton​Watermelon radishes, stinging nettles, kaffir lime leaves. Ask Craig Thornton what he plans to do with this stuff and he'll answer, "I don't know." How about the green garlic or Nantes carrots? "I don't know." Yet here he is, scouring the Santa Monica farmers market ... More >>

Craig Thornton: Charlie Parker With Kaffir Lime

Hydraulic 'Fracking' -- New Oil-Drilling Technique -- Could Create Jobs, Poison Tap Water in California

What's a little contamination in the name of the drill?​The nation was abuzz yesterday with highly unsustainable news of a fresh way to squeeze millions more barrels of oil from the deepest Earthstuffs of America the Beautiful: It's called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" among Big Oil exec ... More >>

BP Puts Monster SoCal Refinery -- 25 Percent of All L.A. Gas -- Up for Sale

terrapsych.comBP Carson Refinery: officially on the market​It's easy to hate BP. Those jerks made the glistening Gulf of Mexico into a goopy seafood dish that lined our nightmares in black slime and swallowed helpless baby animals whole. And that was just the view from unaffected California, ... More >>

L.A. Critical Mass Rider Sues City For LAPD 'Beating' Caught On Cell-Phone Video

YouTubeKicking the Critics into line​As we learned from unjustly imprisoned L.A. high-schooler Jeremy Marks in December, a cell phone can be our most effective weapon against out-of-line law enforcement. Like Marks, an L.A. cyclist named Manuel Gallegos was carrying his cell phone during a Cr ... More >>

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Also, Thom Bresh, Pictureplane, James Intveld and others

(VIDEO) Gas To Reach Five Dollars Per Gallon By 2012, Says Ex-Prez Of Shell Oil

Jon Hofmeister, earning his way back into heaven one BP lecture at a time​Former Shell Oil president Jon Hofmeister, who likes to dole out scandalous dirty-energy news items now that he's not not trying to run a scandalous dirty-energy corporation, had something very scary to tell North Caroli ... More >>

THEATER REVIEWS: THE AUTUMN GARDEN, VON BACH, DIVING NORMAL

ALSO, HEAD: THE MUSICAL, THE AUTUMN GARDEN

Stage Raw: Head, The Musical

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Cornerstone's Making ParadiseNEW REVIEW GO HEAD: THE MUSICAL ​Photo by Irene HoveyComposer-lyricist Kevin Fry's delightfully campy horror musical, based on Roger Corman's 1962 gore-fest The Brain That Wouldn't Die, is not only enjoyable on the level of Midnigh ... More >>

Greens Vs. Big Oil and Prop. 23

To save California's global-warming law, a 23-year-old finds his rage — and 60,000 friends

Petroleum Tar Balls Wash Ashore At Los Angeles Beaches

​Tar balls have been washing up along Santa Monica Bay beaches, according to reports, but there's no oil spill to blame, as is the case in the Gulf of Mexico region. The small black dollops of petroleum have been spotted in Venice, according to Fox 11 News, and Santa Monica, according to KNX ... More >>

Free the Robots, Dr. John. Alex Cuba and Merle Haggard

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THE MOUTH THAT ROARED

James Cameron to Plug Oil Spill By Losing His Temper At a Production Assistant

​Federal officials met today with filmmaker James Cameron as they look for ideas on how to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.No really. That happened.Cameron was among a group of experts on deepwater operations and drilling who sat down with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency. No w ... More >>

Why Californians Should Be Called In To Stop Gulf Oil Spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil platform went up in smoke last month, causing what could be the nation's largest oil spill.​It's sad watching British Petroleum struggle to stop the month-long Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the Obama administration stands by, arms akimbo. BP has ... More >>

Fishery Disaster Declared for 3 Gulf Coast States

Food Safety News​ On Monday, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke declared a fishery disaster for three states, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, along the Gulf of Mexico. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody, except maybe BP. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ... More >>

Why Did Obama's Oil-Drilling Plan Spare California?

​President Barack Obama's announcement this week that he will open new swaths of the Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling in order to reduce United States dependence on foreign oil pointedly left the West Coast out, leaving some to wonder whether he aimed his drill bits at ... More >>

Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

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Man-Made Reefs or Oily Eyesores?

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Apocalypse in Progress

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The Rogue Cetacean Death Squad

The Island of Jorge Hank Rhon

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Running Hot and Cold: A Dozen Weird Weather Moments

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