Much as been made of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's rise from a poor girl from the Bonx to an Ivy League-educated assistant district attorney for New York and eventual judgeships before becoming the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in 2009. In her recently-released best-selling memoir ... More >>
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This piece is part of our series on the L.A. dominatrix industry. See also: *How a Dominatrix Does Her Taxes "Chains and whips excite me," Rihanna sings. "You're a dirty little whore, and I'm going to send you home to your parents covered in cum," Lena Dunham's love interest tells her on "Girls." ... More >>
As the UC and Cal State systems struggle with budget cuts and increasingly unhappy and unruly student bodies, one UCLA school is bucking the trend and actually inviting more cuts. In fact, UCLA's Anderson School of Management wants zero tax dollars: It's asking to be cut off from the system almost ... More >>
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Love at the Urth Caffe goes terribly awryMatch.com hasn't been getting much love and appreciation for its romantical services in the digital age. A pack of subscribers just sued in February because, they claimed, hundreds of thousands of the site's users were either inactive or downright fak ... More >>
Video by: moreinthemonitor On the first (official) day of SXSW, hipsters awoke to news that Jack White had sprung from a moving truck around noon and played a solo set to a shocked crowd of onlookers, which coincidentally also included celebrities like Aziz Ansari and Alison Mosshart from the Ki ... More >>
Facebook23-year-old Vanessa Fulladosa was killed on the 405 in the wee hours of February 18Updated after the jump: Friends and family remember Fulladosa as a "beautiful person," and more witnesses of the crash come forward. Update: The crash actually occurred at 11:43 p.m. on Thursday night. ... More >>
boncherry.comThat pipe is hot.This is something we could have told you -- for half the price of a big-time academic study. Oh well. Breaking news: Pot makes you slow, especially if you start smoking it before the age of 16. That revelation was, er, revealed in Southern California this week a ... More >>
GawkerDid Meg Whitman spawn demon children?In her $160 million or so of self-funded campaigning (yeah -- it's up to $160-mil-plus now), Meg Whitman boasts that she ran a major corporation, eBay, so she'll have no trouble making Sacramento more efficient and businesslike if she's elected Calif ... More >>
Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger-pointing, Charles Ferguson's latest will make you seethe
Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger-pointing, Charles Ferguson's latest will make you seethe
USC beat crosstown rival UCLA this week, and it wasn't, as usual, on the football field. No, surprisingly, the win is in the academic arena, as USC outranked UCLA in U.S. News & World Report's annual national college rankings. The Trojans ended up one step above the Bruins at 23 to 25 (there ... More >>
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It was but a few weeks ago that we music lovers were treated to a massive ad campaign for Vampire Weekend's Contra, featuring an allegedly mysterious picture of an uberpreppy girl in a yellow polo shirt (a Ralph Lauren Polo© shirt to be more precise) with an upturned collar. Now the indie tastemake ... More >>
The first day of the federal trial to overturn Proposition 8 started in San Francisco yesterday, with attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, who want to end the gay marriage ban in California, first pulling on the heartstrings and then following it up with expert testimony to appeal to the brain.Ameri ... More >>
The passing of the first decayed
Bitter romances by Adam Rapp and Paul Grellong
Bitter romances by Adam Rapp and Paul Grellong
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CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLAND OF THE TIGERS IS THIS WEEK'S PICKLand of the Tigers Photo by Jon Beauregard Noises OnCool Cats and Hot ActorsAct 1 of the Burglars of Hamm's hilarious and thought provoking comedy, Land of the Tigers, outlandishly crosses Cats with Planet of the Ape ... More >>
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BY MARC COOPER Governor Gidget appeared on screen melting my heart and conquering my soul. That was after The Mayor of America softened me up. Once I was blind. But now I can see. I agree with every one of their points. Black is white. Up is Down. Slavery is Freedom. Arbeit Macht Frei. We ar ... More >>
Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers
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When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't listen to it for a variety of reasons. Chief among them was the "Ivy League Rap" label critics ascribed to the duo of Nawledge and Double-O. Still scarred f ... More >>
What to do in Los Angeles this week
She's an auburn-haired Caucasian woman of Ukrainian descent. Is Case also the blackest woman in indie rock?
Who’ll suffer the children?
The host
Including this week's pick, Twelve Angry Men
How L.A.’s city attorney became so grossly misunderstood
The catman of Atwater
The politics in FX’s new series may be polite, but the war is still hell
The politics in FX’s new series may be polite, but the war is still hell
Eighty years in a musical life
Eighty years in a musical life
Eighty years in a musical life
Punitive dreaming, post-Enron
Punitive dreaming, post-Enron
Coming Soon
Natalie Portman is Where the Heart Is
A hairy Palm Pictures production
By Rachel Resnick | St. Martins 250 pages | $23 hardcover
The First in a Two-part series
The First in a Two-part series
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