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8 L.A. Stores for Alternative Valentine's Day Gifts

"You always buy me the same shit." If you haven't heard that before, consider yourself amongst the lucky lovers whose significant others keep their thoughts to themselves. That one year your girlfriend ooh-ed and aww-ed over the flowers and cleverly-packaged chocolates you gave her? She might have ... More >>

Old Records Are Outselling New for the First Time

By Chris Kornelis In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence. But until last week, they'd never seen old records outsell new ones. The ... More >>

The Pikey: Hollywood's Riff on the London Blues

We've always had a soft spot for Welsh rarebit -- pronounced "rabbit" -- an English pub staple that essentially amounts to a layer of yeasty cheese sauce broiled onto toast. The name is sort of an Anglican inside joke, implying that a conniving Welshman might try to swindle by insisting your savory ... More >>

Frank McCourt Turned The Dodgers Into A Symbol Of Corporate Greed

​Frank McCourt has finally agreed to sell the Dodgers. The grassroots Save the Dodgers group is organizing a celebration outside Dodger Stadium for 6 p.m. on Wednesday.While champagne is certainly in order, the damage that McCourt has done to the franchise won't be repaired overnight.

Wolverine Brings the Swag to Petco Park at San Diego Comic-Con

Nicole CamposHe's Wol-ver-iiiiiine!​Part of the attraction of Comic-Con is never knowing when a celeb is going to turn up. Sure, you know they'll be in the big panels in Hall H or Ballroom 20, and occasionally you'll get lucky and bump into one on the exhibit hall floor. Sometimes, though, you ... More >>

Huntington Park High School Becomes Guinea Pig for Radical LAUSD Reform: 50 Percent of Teachers to Get the Boot

Huntington Park High School Alumni Association​Updated after the jump: Hundreds of Huntington High students walk the four miles to LAUSD headquarters to fight for their teachers. Here's where the reform debate gets sticky. Usually, teacher cuts can be blamed on the recession -- but these are ... More >>

Can John Deasy Fix Huntington Park High?

LAUSD superintendent faces his first test at a disastrous, fractured school

Yolie Flores, Departing L. A. Unified School Board Member, Got Pushback From Student Anti-Reform Pawns

Ted SoquiYolie Flores​Yolie Flores, lifelong voice for families and students, recently decided not to return to her chair on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board. Her disheartening enlightenment about the state of the district is chronicled in this week's L.A. Weekly print story 'The Educ ... More >>

School Reformer Yolie Flores Departs LAUSD to Fight From Outside

She forced through the most radical idea in recent lausd history. So why’s she leaving for a Bill Gates start-up?

Did Lady Gaga Sell Out in 2010?

Markus Klinko & Indrani for Hello Kitty!Did Gaga sell out her progressive causes?​ By Liz Brown Theatrical dance-pop performer Lady Gaga skyrocketed to international relevance upon release of 2008's "Just Dance"; the record from which it came, The Fame, broke a record for the number of conse ... More >>

Cooking in Highland Park: The Book

Felicia FriesemaCooking in Highland Park...in Highland Park​ Locally focused cookbooks aren't uncommon in Los Angeles. There's the Santa Monica Farmers Market cookbook, The California Heritage Cookbook, Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, and on and on. But you can p ... More >>

A Day In the Life of Hall H: Mostly Awesome, Briefly Chaotic

Nicole CamposThe Avengers, together at last! A genius ending to an insane day...​ The largest exhibition room at the San Diego Convention Center is Hall H, a huge 6,000-plus seater situated at the complex's south end that every year during Comic-Con International hosts the biggest, baddest, an ... More >>

Whatever Happened to N.W.A's Posse?

The Eazy-E True Hollywood (or True Compton) Stories behind the legendary L.A. hip-hop cover

"Seasonal Depression Was a Big Inspiration": An Interview with High Places

Katelyn Reeves​"If we lived in LA, people would be stoked," High Places Rob Barber said in an early interview. And despite lots of love for their debut album for Thrill Jockey from East Coast tastemakers like Pitchfork and the Village Voice, and from the blogosphere, soon enough, Barber and HP ... More >>

Chaating in the House of Samosa: New Samosa House Coming Soon

Samosa House, the popular Culver City Indian grocery and café, is opening a new restaurant on the corner of Overland Ave. and Washington Blvd., a stone's throw from Starbucks and Sony studios. In keeping with tradition, the new restaurant will be vegetarian, with soy versions of chicken and fish, s ... More >>

Author Harris Dies at Cedars-Sinai

E. Lynn Harris, a onetime corporate executive who turned to fiction to explain the lives of  closeted black professionals like himself, collapsed last night at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. He died shortly afterward, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Associated Press. Harris, ... More >>

New York Times Gentrifies Highland Park

There's nothing purer than the anger of someone whose neighborhood has been praised by the wrong people, for the wrong reason. A case in point is blogger Chimatli, who relates a story in L.A. Eastside in response to that Sunday New York Times piece on Highland Park ("few would ever confuse Highland ... More >>

Last Night: Girl on Girl Networking - Girls in Tech Mixer @ V Lounge

The phrase "Girls in Tech" conjures up images of the exceptions (Carly Fiorna of Hewlett Packard, Marissa Mayer of Google, etc.) or the vague peripherals (Julia Allison, namely). Rarely do you get to meet the not so famous ladies working behind the scenes, and by that I mean the programmers, game de ... More >>

Mathew Cullen and Javier Jimenez

Heart and soul

Major Comings and Goings in Hollywood's Big Leagues

For Whom the Ax Falls

California Fire Whisperers

Facing down region's wildfires by divining where the flames will spread

The Two Faces of Cannes: Gilles Jacob

Eye of the storm

Chest of Lies

Identity theft, self-promotion and the search for laminates at Sundance

Hip-Hop Is Dead

...and other reports that have been greatly exaggerated

I Drive, Therefore I Am

The City in Motion

L.A.’s hyperactive graphics scene

Tribal Warfare

It’s Indian vs. Indian with Arnold in the middle, as the fight over the flood of money from reservation casinos heats up

It Came From Hollywood

Beyond Impossible Price

Bushless in Boston

Progressives, pawns and prawns in our cowardly democracy

Abloom’s Day

The future of heaviness

Mice Behaving Badly

Front and center at the Disney-Eisner pissing contest

The Art of being Civilian

Saying farewell to suicide bombers and victims of war

Made In the USA, Part III: US Company Listings A-M

Made in the USA

A guide to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction

The Year In Music

The Defiant Ones

Mitnick Speaks

Computer-hacking guru Kevin Mitnick says he's no cyberbogeyman

Hacking the Future

Why code crackers will lead the digital age

Please Pass This Notice On

Netlore is fast replacing urban legends in limning 21st-century angst

Mexico and Y2K

The U.S. stands to lose if millennium bug strikes south of the border

Control Freak-Alt-Delete

Reading the Microsoft Findings of Fact as a riveting novel

Free Is a Four-Letter World

Suiting up the open system at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo (Second in a three-part series)