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  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Safeway, Vons Will Stop Selling Ground Beef Containing 'Pink Slime'

    The days of "Let them eat pink slime" are over. Today Safeway Inc., the second-largest supermarket operator in the country, said it will stop buying the ammonia-treated beef filler "because of widespread customer concern," MSNBC reports. Since Safeway owns Vons, hamburger sold at Vons will also be p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Porn Crackdown by Would-Be Presidential Candidate Santorum Opposed by Americans

    We feel a little sorry for the L.A.-based porn industry these days. Free smut via file sharing and so-called "porn tube" sites are hitting its bottom line, and not in the good way. The city of L.A. has now made it a requirement that performers use condoms when they're on location. And presidential ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Chicken McNuggets 'Addict' Collapses

    Flickr/Calgary ReviewsA 10-piece serving of McNuggets packs 470 calories, 270 of those pure fat.​McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are causing all sorts of mayhem lately. First there was the woman who allegedly tried to trade sex for McNuggets (no word on what kind of dipping sauce she wanted). Now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Adderall Shortage of 2011: Los Angeles Feels the Pain at Year's End

    The media has dubbed this year's dry spell of ADD meds as the Great Adderall Shortage of 2011. And for Angelenos, at least, it looks like the drought may carry over into the new year. (Don't worry, the hopeful bit comes later.) Venice Beach advice columnist Amy Alkon, known for roasting L.A. city d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Listeria Hysteria: Romaine Lettuce Recalled Over Contamination Fears

    Flickr/MuffetCalifornia's True Leaf farms has recalled their romaine​ Stop! Put down that salad fork! No, not because you're using the wrong fork. California's True Leaf farms is recalling 2,498 cartons of chopped romaine lettuce because it may be contaminated with listeria bacteria, although ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Sex Trafficking System From Mexico Using Teen Girls, Residential Brothels, Sophisticated Payment Reported (But We're Doubtful)

    Underground brothels in L.A?​Lots of overblown hype about sex trafficking in America. Much of it is seriously debunkable. On Monday the Los Angeles-based Catholic Online website was touting a report of a new form of sex trafficking reaching the United States from Mexico. In this particular s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Japan Earthquake Donation Backlash: Should We Give to a Wealthy Nation?

    bobcareyfotoThis girl brought her piggybank to an L.A. Red Cross fund-raiser for Japan.​It's only four days after the fourth-worst earthquake in recorded human history, and already the backlash has begun. A few American pundits are saying that we shouldn't donate to the quake and tsunami relie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    UCLA Egypt Professor: Museum Looting, Mummy Beheading Amid Chaos Is 'Huge Loss' for World Heritage

    This King Tut statue was smashed by looters​At stake: Human rights. Freedom. Democracy. And a gilded wooden statue of King Tutankhamun. UCLA Professor Willeke Wendrich just got back from an Egyptian archeological dig in December. She says she could detect a "longstanding unhappiness" in lower ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Picky Eating a Psychiatric Disorder?

    mkosut/Flickr​ You know how you always thought there might be something wrong with that friend who eschews Brussels sprouts and onions in favor of white bread and peanut butter? Well, it looks the American Psychiatric Association agrees. "Selective Eating Disorder," the medical term for adult ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    TSA Scanner 'Opt Out' Day Has Trouble Getting Off The Ground At LAX

    Earth Hope NetworkInternet rebels get cold feet in the face of the big bad TSA​All major news sources this morning are clawing at whatever mangled corpse is left of the TSA hype. Today was supposed to be national opt-out day -- and still could be, of course, once the straight-laced early-morni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Lindsay Lohan Celebrates After Admitting She Failed Drug Test

    ​Updated with warrant for Lohan's arrest. First posted at 6 a.m. A judge issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Lindsay Lohan after the actress admitted over the weekend that she tested positive for cocaine. Lohan was ordered to be in court Friday. Her probation was revoked. In a strangely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Egg Watch Continues: More Recalls, New Safety Rules

    Flickr user Muy YumPoached egg from Bottega Louie​ Our egg problem is still going strong. MSNBC is reporting that over a half-billion eggs have been recalled, and even more could be on the horizon. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that new egg safety rules were only recently pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Nurse In Iconic Times Square Kiss Photograph Dies

    ​Edith Shain, who claimed to be the white-clad nurse in the famous V-J Day photo died Sunday at the age of 91 in her Los Angeles home, according reports. The iconic photograph, which shows a nurse being dipped and kissed by a soldier, was snapped by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstadt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Lindsay Lohan Banned From WeHo Club

    ​Actress Lindsay Lohan is 0 for 2 in her battles with West Hollywood club Trousdale, at least by our count. Last month she tweeted her displeasure with the venue and Los Angeles in general after club workers would not let her cut in front of a line to get in. Now Access Hollywood (via MSNBC) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Sol Food: Sun Eats Comet, Not KFC

    If you think the Double Down phenomenon is something, you should note that according to MSNBC, the Sun - you know, the blinding orb around which you are revolving this very second - ate an entire comet last weekend in full view of a space observatory and God and everybody, and didn't feel compelled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Walmart Fires Employee For Off-The-Job Medical Marijuana Use

    ​This could give those long-opposed to Walmart's planned expansion in the city of Los Angeles more ammunition: The retail giant is catching heat for its recent firing of an employee who used medical marijuana off-the-job to treat his cancer-related pain. Joseph Casias has a tumor pressing aga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    SXSW: From @ Platform to Ad Platform? Twitter Announces @anywhere

    ​Perplexing the business-model hungry pundits with a difference of just one letter, Twitter CEO Ev Williams surprised the crowd today at his SXSWi keynote by announcing not an Ad platform but an @ platform, a way to further integrate Twitter's data into third party platforms without implementing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Coffee may enhance inebriation. [Fox] -- For the fourth day of Christmas at Meadowood the Food Dudes gave us meat. [EaterSF] -- Tootsie Rolls, Frooties, and Dots go Kosher (Why this made the Crime ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Beloved Vinyl Vendor Music Man Murray To Close

    MSNBC is reporting that after 47 years of service, famed Mid-City used vinyl vendor Music Man Murray will be closing up shop in the next few months. It's a tragedy that will surely be greeted by a strange and fevered chaos, considering that the article also points out that "everything must go, from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Election '08: The Night Before Christmas

    I have a special guest blogger today. His name is Justin Warfield. You may know him as the frontman and songwriter for the great band She Wants Revenge. He's a very cool guy who has an interesting and emotional take on this election. His post is below. Also, here's a link to my piece on socialism, o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2008

    Election '08: Watch Christopher Hitchens Call McCain "Borderline Senile"

    BY MARC COOPER My old comrade Christopher Hitchens rips it up on MSNBC's Hardball calling out McCain as "weird" and "borderline senile." Hitch also issues some pungent words about Failin' Palin and notes how Obama has outflanked McCain on the right when it comes to Pakistan. You may not always agre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    Tonight: Eagles of Death Metal Shake Up the Mayan, Jesse Hughes Promises "The Greatest Night of Your Life, It Will End Rancor in Politics for All Time"

    Well, he may have been kidding about that last part but Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes was dead serious about ensuring tonight's gig at the Mayan will be straight-up, hip-shaking, good time rock and roll for all who attend. The Los Angeles-based band led by Hughes and Q ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    Election '08: Taking Down Amy Goodman and Donna Brazile

    The scene outside MSNBC's outdoor RNC studio at St. Paul's Rice Park, just outside Xcel Center. BY VANESSA SILVERTON-PEEL The 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle were like the Big Bang in the evolution of modern police tactics and policies toward protesters. When the political b ... More >>

  • News

    June 19, 2008

    A Sinner's View of Tim Russert's Passing

    Blasphemy against the pope of all media

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    HIllary Clinton, Working Class Heroine

    By Marc Cooper It was far too beautiful a day in Southern California to have spent much time following the West Virginia primary. Taking a late afternoon bike ride is when I finally tuned into the results -- just in time to hear Hillary's victory crow. What a humdinger! She more or less lifted Jes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2008

    You Should Listen to Mr. Fish

    And by "listen," I mean "look" or "read." LA Weekly's political cartoonist and equal opportunity offense machine Mr. Fish was listed by Best Life magazine as #1 in a list of "the 10 most important voices to listen to this election cycle." Here's some of the nice stuff they said:

  • News

    March 15, 2007

    Movin' On, Chasin' Tails, Ignoring Voters

    How the Dems got out-Foxed

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    The Piolin Factor

    How the Dems got out-Foxed

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    They Shoot News Anchors: Part II

    Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    They Shoot News Anchors, Don’t They?

    Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Consecration

    Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

  • Columns

    October 14, 2004

    Desperadoes

    Going mad inside the debate bubble

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    When Might Turns Right

    Golly GE, why Big Media is pro-Bush

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    Fox Convention II

    And the winners are . . .

  • Columns

    September 9, 2004

    The Day of the Jackals

    Mythmaking at the Republican Convention and getting punk’d on Kudlow and Cramer

  • News

    September 2, 2004

    World vs. GOP

    War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Newspaper Tigers

    N.Y. Times and L.A. Times continue to wage war while Big Media gets away with murder

  • Columns

    August 5, 2004

    Shovin’ It

    Democrats, Hardballers and Class Warriors

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Web Exclusive

    Arnold's Campaign Facing Libel Suit over Rhonda Miller Smear

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Arnold’s True Lie

    Arnold's Campaign Facing Libel Suit over Rhonda Miller Smear

  • News

    September 4, 2003

    Sex, Lies and a Complicit Media

    Why not demand total recall from Arnold?

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    The Television War

    Why not demand total recall from Arnold?

  • News

    January 9, 2003

    The Pope on Hope

    Why not demand total recall from Arnold?

  • Columns

    December 6, 2001

    Desert Foxes

    Why not demand total recall from Arnold?

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    Scene From the Underworld

    Why not demand total recall from Arnold?

  • Art+Books

    November 18, 1999

    Pete Rose Web-a-thon

    Why not demand total recall from Arnold?

  • Art+Books

    July 8, 1999

    Wait-and-Switch

    Why is Amazon.com debuting free digital downloads?

  • Art+Books

    June 17, 1999

    Don't Kill It After All

    TiVo lets you control television

  • News

    April 9, 1998

    Net Edibles

    Chew on these fast facts and estimates

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