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Wendy Greuel Attacks Eric Garcetti In New Radio Ad; TV Ads Picking Up In Campaign's Final Week

Update below: Check out Kevin James' latest video, and an Eric Garcetti radio ad.Controller Wendy Greuel launched a new radio ad today in the increasingly contentious race for L.A. mayor, attacking Councilman Eric Garcetti for taking "luxury trips around the world" on the taxpayer's dime.The spot (a ... More >>

Q & A With Faith H. Willinger: Chef, Author Patron Saint of the Tostapane

A few months ago, a friend returned home from Italy with a gift for us. When we first unwrapped it, we were totally befuddled. "What is this,?" we wondered. "Is it a paddle for badminton on Mars? A space shuttle heat shield with a handle? A fan for a robot Geisha?" As it turns out, it was for maki ... More >>

When a Video Artwork Showed the Presidential Debate, the Audience Tried to Change the Volume. But Is That Like Drawing on a Picasso?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app Last night's presidential debate didn't get nearly as heated as the firestorm that erupted during it at the Hammer Museum. Within the My Land/Your Land exhibit, a performance art piece by Jonathan Ho ... More >>

Q & A With MSNBC's Chris Hayes: Pastry-Gate, Eating Live on TV Who Eats Better, Dems or Republicans?

What is it that fascinates about Up w/ Chris Hayes, MSNBC's almost one-year-old alternative to weekend talking-points pitstops Face The Nation and Meet The Press? Is it that the bespectacled former go-to stand-in for Rachel Maddow with the enviably dewy complexion seems to genuinely care about drawi ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Competitive Eating, Olive Rosemary Pork Ribs Why Meat Eaters Are Less Likely To Date Vegetarians

Eatocracy: 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes, and a closer look at competitive eating. Zester Daily: A review of Marco Pasanella's book Uncorked: My Journey Through the Crazy World of Wine. Trippy Food: The Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (CHEFS) propose an alternative take on the foie ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Gay Rights Oreo Graphic, Tomato and Strawberry Gazpacho Foods That Improve Sexual Health

Bon Appetit: 10 foods that possess aphrodisiac qualities and can (theoretically) improve your sexual health. MSNBC Bites: Rainbow Oreo graphic celebrating LGBT pride month sparks advertising controversy. Eatocracy: Remembering Nora Ephron through her film Julie & Julia, as well as Ephron's other ... More >>

2012 Los Angeles Power of Choice Reception

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 >>

Uproar Over 'Pink Slime' in School Lunches

Remember pink goo? Let us refresh your memory. Pink goo, aka pink slime, is scraps of meat and connective tissue swept up from slaughterhouse floors that are doused with a pink chemical to kill dangerous pathogens -- since they've been, you know, on the floor -- then blended together into a substanc ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Countering the right wing's fury with humor

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 >>

Zev Yaroslavsky Will Replace Antonio Villaraigosa as Mayor, Experts Predict

If Zev runs, he’s the man to beat in 2013

Everyone Loves a Troll: How Christwire Fooled Rachel Maddow, Howard Stern, 3 Million Coachella Heads and Counting

ChristwireThe mega-trollers, in costume as Bryan Blake and Mike Watson​Christwire.org is a joke. IT'S NOT REAL. Not a genuine bone in its blogroll. (Except for when they also fool their Christian freelancers.) Every day, the two dudes who run Christwire read hundreds of your angry comments a ... More >>

L.A. City Workers Spell Mayor Villaraigosa's Name Wrong -- For All The World to See

Villaraigosa. We think.​Rough couple years for the mayor who was at one time Latino politics' Great Brown Hope. L.A. city bankruptcy was actually a common concern among local leaders last year, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa got caught taking valuable sports and entertainment tickets from people ... More >>

Jeremy Marks $50,000 Xmas Gift From Google Engineer Neil Fraser: He's Out Of Jail

Lydia GrantJeremy Marks, center,, with his brother and his mom Rochelle Pittman. His lawyer Mark Ravis is in ballcap.​Jeremy Marks, a Verdugo Hills High School student jailed for eight months for "attempted lynching" after he used his cell phone camera to videotape a campus police officer stri ... More >>

Spanish-Language Robo-Calls Urge Some In South L.A. To Head To The Polls Wednesday (When They'll Be Closed)

NBCRobo Phone habla Espanol?​We hope nobody fell for it, but Kathay Feng of California Common Cause reports that some Spanish speakers in the L.A. area received "robo calls" informing them that the election was Wednesday. An effort to dilute the Democratic vote or simply a dumb prank? Dunno. ... More >>

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 >>

'News Busters' Ribs L.A. Weekly Over Obama Joker Poster

One of the goofy ironies surrounding the brouhaha about the Obama Joker poster, which first appeared in L.A. featuring an image of Heath Ledger's movie character, the Joker, digitally morphed over Barack Obama's face, is that the original image was created by a Chicago admirer of lefty Congressman ... More >>

NBC Universal: Big Media's Big Stick

Hollywood Reporter and its journalist, Bond, frozen out over Obama coverage

Villaraigosa, Solar Measure B, Weiss all get voter rebuffs

While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won, as expected, his poor showing, and the humiliating possible defeat of solar Measure B, was a repudiation by Los Angeles voters and indicates tough sailing if he decides to run for governor. While surprisingly biased cheerleading for the mayor continued today fro ... More >>

Joe Torre Book Clips Yankees

Call it another front in the N.Y. versus L.A. war, but now Los Angeles Dodger manager Joe Torre has launched a salvo against his former team, the New York Yankees. In an Associated Press story picked up by NBC Sports/MSNBC and other sources, Torre's new book, The Yankee Years, spills the dirt on:&nb ... More >>

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 >>

The Obama Moment: Who Said the Revolution Wouldn't Be Televised?

While McCain tried on the cloak of change and the Clintons avoided admitting defeat, America made history

Karen Ocamb

Hard news as a civil right

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:

Worst Campaign Tricks of 2007

Go ugly early

Time to Draw Blood

Debates are late for getting real

The First Post-Bush Bash

One Fell Swoop imagines politics in 2009

Building a Better Possum

"Dan was mostly known for not saying much"

The Piolin Factor

Roger and Me

Scott Foundas responds to Ebert’s critic-bait

Surf Report

Weaker Than Ever

MoveOn’s state of denial is bad for Democrats

Right-Wing Political Correctness

Shut Your Mouth

Bush Wins the Air War

Big Media gets rewards for good behavior

The Perfect Storm

Remember me to Herald Square

Annul This

9/11 and Iraq War as Shtick

The misdeeds of Convoluted Rice and Uncurious George are no joke

Web Exclusive

Arnold's Campaign Facing Libel Suit over Rhonda Miller Smear

Arnold’s Sexual Recall

Time for the Terminator to step forward and answer detailed questions about his past conduct

Goat for It

Edited by Kateri Butler

Behind Enemy Lines

Joe Scarborough goes to the trenches of Hollywood

The Pope on Hope

Do Two Rights Make a Wrong?

Not this time: New mag publishers Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos take on the neoconservatives

Dodge City

Unanswered questions about the Oklahoma bombing

Visible Men

Behind Bush

Those “wag the dog” Democrats

Running on Empty

George W. Bush’s plea for votes — and brain cells

The Oy of Cybersex

The panic over Web-wanking addiction

Wait-and-Switch

Why is Amazon.com debuting free digital downloads?