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Food News Roundup: Gross Stuff in Your Food The Patron Saint of Hangovers

Grist: It turns out that Subway is not necessarily any more healthful than McDonald's. Huffington Post Politics: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto in a soybean seed patent violation case that pitted Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman against the biotech giant. Mental Floss: From bacon t ... More >>

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Yet Another Alleged Killer Used Marijuana (Let The Debate Begin)

Sure to spark debate, a number of outlets in recent days are noting that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a marijuana user. Already, West Coast cannabis proponent Russ Belville of the "Russ Belville Show" podcast is defending weed and calling out others for calling out pot:

Julie Brown Doesn't Care About the Super Bowl, But Will Watch the Half-Time Show, "Because That's Always a Train Wreck."

Lance Armstrong Graffiti Pops Up On Melrose; Is It Banksy's Work?

Updated at the bottom: We figured out who the artist is. First posted at 6:09 a.m. Leave it to Los Angeles, the street-art capital of the nation if not the world, to come up with graffiti satire in the wake of cyclist Lance Armstrong's doping admission. This Banksy-esque take on the controversy, a ... More >>

Eva Longoria's Twat Tweet Spat Ends With Apology Accepted By Latino GOP Group

Here's one of the problems with naming celebrities as campaign co-chairs: They do embarrassing things. President Obama's folks are probably holding their collective breath this week as a group of Latino Republicans accepted the apology of Obama camp co-chair Eva Longoria for saying, essentially, th ... More >>

Read This Now: Michael Ruhlman on Food Writing

Does food writing matter? It's a question that food writers ask themselves in moments of self-doubt, and it's a question Monica Bhide asked on her blog back in August. When there's so much going on in the world, does what we eat and cook warrant our time and attention as writers? Since Bhide posed ... More >>

Food News Roundup: 11 Things You Didn't Know About Wheaties, Paul Ryan's Vegan Speechwriter Homemade French Fries

Smithsonian: The 11 Things You Didn't Know About Wheaties. LA Observed: Paul Ryan's new speechwriter is, among other things, a vegan. Bon Appetit: How to make the best homemade french fries ever. Grub Street LA: Jon Shook and Michael Voltaggio head to Baja. The Huffington Post: Nancy Pelosi's ob ... More >>

House Shoes Offers 
His Rules For DJs

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] See also: House Shoes: Seminal Producer Talks New Album, J Dilla Beef Hang the DJ. Or don't. When Morrissey wrote the hook to "Panic," the definition of a DJ w ... More >>

Dan Barber and Huffington Post Push Back Against Ethical Vegetarianism

As animal rights groups celebrate a victory this week with the beginning of California's foie gras ban, a couple of voices are questioning the tactics, arguments and ethical highground of vegetarianism. In The Wall Street Journal, New York chef Dan Barber presents an ethical argument for meat eatin ... More >>

L.A. Gay Pride: Author Robert V. Taylor Answers 'What Does It Mean To Be Gay?'

Los Angeles Gay Pride starts up on June 8, and we thought it's a good time to ask, 'What does it mean to be gay?' In a weeklong series, different gay folks will answer that question. To kick it off, we have Robert V. Taylor, the author of A New Way to Be Human. He is an openly gay Episcopal priest ... More >>

Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest

Betsy Butler and Torie Osborn woo the carbon-counting strata of Assembly District 50

Food News Roundup: Food Stamps at Farmers Markets, Disneyland's Club 33 Eater L.A.'s Pizza Week

The Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that a $4 million grant will help supply the technology for farmers markets to accept food stamps. (The Electronic Benefit Transfer card has largely replaced paper coupons.) Eater L.A.: Chinese pizzas, most expensive pizzas ... More >>

L.A.'s Craziest Hats, at an Awesome Retro Kentucky Derby Viewing Party

An American tradition since 1875, the annual Kentucky Derby is a high-profile horse-racing event in Louisville, Ky., and the first installment of the U.S. Triple Crown -- the equine equivalent of the Super Bowl, World Series and NBA Finals. But here in Los Angeles, more than 2,000 miles from the Chu ... More >>

Obama's Medical Marijuana Crackdown Could be Stopped by Executive Order

It wouldn't surprise us to see a sitting president tighten up on marijuana enforcement as he faces an upcoming election against an increasingly right-wing Republican party. However, we are a little surprised that Obama did so using some less-than-honest reasoning. He recently explained his federal ... More >>

Amtrak's Ancestors: The Huntington's Exhibit on the History of the Transcontinental Railroad

Long before studios, hippies, method actors and reality-show wannabes headed out west, the Pacific Coast was a destination for farmers, miners, prospectors and other wagon-wheeling homesteaders who were looking for a new way of life. Two years after California struck gold in 1848, it became a part o ... More >>

Top 10 Weirdest Stores in Los Angeles

Looking for a book about the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society? Perhaps you need a Jolly Roger doormat for the house. Maybe you just want to pick up some time-travel sickness pills, a spray-bottle of barbarian repellant or a few fresh dinosaur eggs before you blast to the past. Whatever yo ... More >>

10 Best Reasons to Visit Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley (Besides Coachella)

The Coachella Valley was once known as a fantastic spot for a getaway from L.A., especially during its high season in winter, when it features almost-certain sunshine and better temperatures. In recent years, Coachella has become synonymous with just one thing: Coachella. But this year, the music f ... More >>

Manhattan Beach Gay-Sex Ring: Should Police, Media Have Circulated Suspect Mugshots?

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center blasted an angry presser yesterday, calling out sister news stations CBS2 and KCAL9 for printing/airing the "mug shots, names and birthdates for the 18 men who were recently charged in an undercover sex sting operation at a Manhattan Beach public restroom." We were a l ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart Was Planning Huge New Web Project on Eve of Sudden Death

Updated after the jump with new details about the project -- "a total relaunch of all the websites" this coming Sunday. Originally posted March 1 at 2:30 p.m. Forty-three-year-old Andrew Breitbart's shocking death in Westwood last night came just days before he was set to unveil a mysterious new p ... More >>

Miramonte Kids to Blame For Horrendous Sex Abuse Scandal at Elementary School, Says Rosewood Principal Linda Crowder

You could point the finger at a hot mess of targets in the incredible sex-abuse scandal that has rocked Miramonte Elementary School: A school district that failed to let parents know an alleged molester on the loose for nearly a year. A teachers' union that puts its people over your kids (suspect M ... More >>

Areceli Luisjuan, Former Miramonte Aide: Did She Write 'Love Letters' to 11-Year-Old, or Has Media Witch Hunt Gone Too Far?

Every L.A. media outlet from KNX news radio to HuffPost has picked up the Los Angeles Times' latest Miramonte Elementary reveal this morning, in which one mother claims that a former teacher's aide at the beleaguered campus wrote numerous "love letters" to her 11-year-old son. There are certainly s ... More >>

Posh Equinox Health Club Gets Flack for Sexy Yoga Pose Video

Equinox health clubs use social media to send daily motivational, informative and promotional materials to its cadre of clientele. But a recent video reportedly made to enlighten the masses is receiving flack for exploiting the female form - and a million-and-a-half YouTube views later, the star of ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Adam Roberts of The Amateur Gourmet

Adam Roberts is one of those food blogger-turned-published authors whose success makes the rest of us drool. He created his blog, "The Amateur Gourmet," in 2004 while studying law at Emory University. "I'd come home from a long day of law school, my brain would be fried, and the only thing I could ... More >>

Mother/Daughter Lingerie Modeling. Sweet or Incestuous?

The Lake and the Stars is a U.S. lingerie company whose most recent ad campaign features an older mother (MILF material if you ask me) and her 19-year-old daughter posing together like pale-skinned dolls wearing little more than garters and sheer lace underthings. Co-owners Nikki Dekker and Maayan ... More >>

Why the La Brea Tar Pits are the Pits

Approximately 355,000 people visit the Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits each year, which has us wondering what percentage of attendees are grade schoolers forced there on a class trip because -- let's face it -- the Tar Pits kind of suck. Yeah, it's cool that tar has been seeping from the ground aro ... More >>

Trent Arsenault, Sperm Donor Extraordinaire, Also Happens to be One-Man Porn Star

XtubeTrent.​We tried to stay away from the story of Trent Arsenault. We really did. With both hands. It's an icky tale. He's the Bay Area guy who mass-donates sperm to women and couples who want to have children. He does so on his own, outside the white coats of sperm labs. And so he was rece ... More >>

VIDEO: TSA Agents at LAX Terminal Double as (Really Good) Christmas Carolers

YouTubeRedeemed.​LAX may be the least popular airport in the country -- with infuriatingly long security lines and, uh, NO FREE WI-FI -- but every year around Christmas, our local Transportation Security Administration agents give us a special gift to wipe our memories of pat-downs and porn sc ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Donut Robots, Gingerbread Typewriters What To Do With A Million Coffee Beans

Flickr/jazzylolobaking Christmas cookies​Consumer Reports: Ways to conserve energy in the kitchen during the holidays. BBC News: Does your kid like to watch Hayao Miyazaki movies more than eating actual food? Maybe if you spent 2 hours making your kid's lunch in the shape of Totoro (or Barac ... More >>

Prop 8 Overturned? Nope: Year-Old HuffPost Article on California Gay Marriage Goes Viral

PHOTO BY TED SOQUIFrom our own West Hollywood slideshow on victory day 2010.​Come on, guys -- this is how rumors get started! A Huffington Post article from August 2010 (and updated in May 2011) was littered all over Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and the rest of the Internet this morning. "Prop 8 ... More >>

Marijuana-Using Drivers Are Better Drivers, Research Suggests: Anti-Drug Activists Harsh That Mellow With Retort

​Seeing as L.A. is the marijuana dispensary capital of the world, it also must be the stoned-driving (DWS) epicenter of America as well. Right? Well, it's that kind of thinking that got a widely publicized paper on smoking weed and getting behind the wheel in trouble. The research sort of sug ... More >>

Food News Roundup: On the Phone with Diana Kennedy, Typewriters How Organic Can Feed the World

C. LeVassera stack of Diana Kennedy books​The Cookbook Blog: A very cool interview with Diana Kennedy. LA Observed: Ray Bradbury's typewriter, a 1947 Royal KMM #3756210. (Does this have anything to do with food? No. But it's Ray Bradbury's typewriter. Stop clouding pictures of foie with your ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Colbert's Ice Cream War, A McRib Confession Jacques Pépin's Fridge

A. Scattergoodpumpkins at the Santa Monica farmers market​Los Angeles Times: According to new USDA report, local food sales could $7 billion this year and farmers markets doubled from 1998 to 2009. PBS Food: How to make pumpkin bread pudding. Tomostyle: More fun with secret supper clubs at ... More >>

South Pasadena Police Department Buys Into 'Teens Getting Drunk on Vodka-Soaked Tampons' Story

Drunk people. Tampons. It happens.​At 5:05 p.m. this dark winter evening, the South Pasadena Police Department issued a community press release of the gravest importance. (Its first press release in two weeks, actually. Because South Pasadena Police Department press releases are reserved for t ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Crackdown in California by Feds Blasted by Golden State Lawmakers Leno, Ammiano

Tiffany RoseFeds want to tear up this prescription.​A pair of California lawmakers is pushing back against a federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in the Golden State. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano today lashed out against the pronouncement by Depa ... More >>

Tearist, MEN, The Younger Lovers - The Smell - October 8, 2011

See also: Our cover story on Tearist. Tearist, MEN, The Younger Lovers at The Smell October 8, 2011 Better than... being rich from a job you hate. MEN's JD Samson got a bunch of attention last week -- positive and negative -- for an article she wrote on Huffington Post called "I Love My Job, But ... More >>

BPA Found in Kid-Friendly Canned Foods

Campbell'sDisney princesses may contain toxic chemicals​ Disney princesses may be toxic, and not just for sociological reasons. New testing by the Breast Cancer Fund has found BPA (bisphenol-A) in six brands of canned foods marketed to children, with the highest level in Campbell's Disney Prin ... More >>

VIDEO: Canyon Fire Lights Up Wind Farm Over Tehachapi Pass

YouTubeEarth, wind & wildfire​The massive fire ignited by a double-fatality plane crash in Blackburn Canyon, Tehachapi, on Sunday has since raged through nearly 15,000 acres of Kern County. A dozen homes have been destroyed, and 650 more are under evacuation orders. Bakersfield Now has some in ... More >>

Real Housewives' Toxic Margarita Pulled from Whole Foods

Skinnygirl Margarita.​Bethenny Frankel, "diet guru" and former "star" of "reality" show The Real Housewives of New York City, doesn't care that her "all natural" Skinnygirl Margarita contains potentially carcinogenic ingredients, which caused Whole Foods to pull the "drink" from its stores. T ... More >>

James Franco to Direct a Documentary About L.A.'s Favorite Industry: Porn

Franco file.​After writing books, teaching at NYU, taking classes at Columbia, hosting Saturday Night Live and, oh yeah, acting in movies, James Franco might have found his true calling: Making a documentary about smut. Because those who can't do teach (or make documentaries), apparently. He ... More >>

Hard Summer Festival Near Downtown Sees 31 Medical Emergencies, 10 Arrests

Gary RichardsHard Summer, like it says.​Updated at the bottom with the arrest number revised upward. See our Hard Summer slideshow here. First posted at 8:03 a.m. on Monday. The Hard Summer Music Festival on Saturday saw sixteen hospitalizations and 31 medical emergencies, according to a stat ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Lots of Pie, 200 Year-old Desserts Teaching Kanye West to Cook

-- Gordon Ramsay teaches Kanye West how to cook. [The Mirror] -- How to make a 200 year-old dessert. [Zester Daily] -- How to open your own pop-up restaurant. [Forbes via food52] -- Pie-a-day #45, or white peach-brown sugar tart. [Good Food] -- Ricardo Zarate and Gary Menes cook a dinner ben ... More >>

Buddhist Geeks Conference: What is the Sound of One Nerd Tweeting?

Paul T. BradleyIs Super Mario a Buddhist? Er...probably not...​ While mooks gawked the nether parts of starlets all weekend long at Adultcon downtown, another, radically different group of conventioneers gathered at the University of the West in Rosemead to lube up their third eyes and wax phi ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Meat Desserts, The Hatfields Cook Breakfast Why You're Eating Pork Belly Right Now

-- Quinn and Karen Hatfield to open a breakfast spot on La Brea. [Daily Dish] -- Unsettling desserts made out of meat. Unsettling is an understatement. [Flavorpill] -- Saturated Fat Helps People Deal With Negative Emotions, Study Says. (Which is why we're all eating pork belly while we read this ... More >>

Food News Roundup: The Mayo Cam, The Downfall of Michelin L.A. Ramen

-- An interview with pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. [Food GPS] -- Favorite dishes of 2011 countdown. No. 64: Macaroon at Disneyland. [OC Weekly] -- Why the Michelin Guide is now passé. [Financial Times] -- LA's Top Ramen: 6 Bowls Of Soup You Must Eat. [Huffington Post] -- The Mayo Cam. Or, what ... More >>

Happy National Nude Day, Bastille Day, Mac 'N' Cheese Day, Spongebob's Birthday!

Best day ever!​As chance would have it, the day before Carmageddon has turned out to be a very big day. Not only is it Bastille Day, probably the most official of the bunch, it is also apparently a lot of other important days, including National Nude Day, Mac 'N' Cheese Day and Spongebob's Bir ... More >>

Amy Lee Firing by Huffington Post Exposes Hypocrisy When it Comes to Site's News-Stealing Business Model

Really Arianna?​It only took us a matter of seconds to find a story on the Huffington Post's Los Angeles page that is based on the work of another news organization and contains no link to said organization. In its piece on a proposal for a SoCal breakaway state the Huffington Post seems to r ... More >>

The Want Ads: McMurdo Station Executive Chef

USGSMcMurdo Station, Antarctica​ Thanks to the HuffPo for news of this want ad, which is looking pretty damn good right now. McMurdo Station, the research community in Antarctica, has just posted a job listing for an executive chef. The chef would be responsible for the operation of the McMurd ... More >>

Food News Roundup: The Spam Factory, Prehistoric BBQ Evicting Paula Deen's Chickens

-- The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret. [Mother Jones] -- More fun with Rioja: "Overcoming my squeamishness, I drew my finger across the grim black mold that clung to one of the bottles." [Zester Daily] -- Prehistoric BBQ Leftovers Found. 8,000 years ago. Aurochs. Proving that summer grilling season ... More >>

Huffington Post is Optimistically Off by Several Years in Naming its Baby Boomer Section 'Huff/Post 40'

Wilson!​While some news organizations are known for inventing a generation every time Apple introduces a new product (the iPad generation!), there are limits. Historians William Strauss and Neil Howe have come up with perhaps the most cited and widely trusted framework: A generation is a coho ... More >>

Does L.A.'s Porn Industry Inspire More Than Half The Divorces in America?

Homewreckers.​Porn is killing the American family! So says a recent piece in the otherwise liberal Huffington Post, which cites research from the conservative Center for Research on Marriage and Religion, which concludes that porn is a "family killer" and that smut was a factor in more than h ... More >>