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Porchetta Hits L.A.: The Mysteries of Pigsburgh

Porchetta is the thing to eat right now -- but deep roots belie its current trendiness

Nerdist Chris Hardwick Makes the Course of the Force to Comic Con 2012 in Less Than 12 Parsecs

"Wait, isn't a parsec a unit of distance and not time?" you ask. "Who gives a shit?" we say -- because it's all for charity. And also a reference to a fictional universe. But try telling that to all of the nerds, nerdists and nerdettes who showed up this week for the Course of the Force. Chris Ha ... More >>

Ethan Gold's Art and Tragedy

Silver Lake singer-songwriter faces down the darkness, with only his music to see him through

Jonathan Gold Reviews Sotto

Why Los Angeles Schoolkids Get Lousy Meals

Beyond Organic: Going "Fully Traceable" with Daily Dose's Christian Page

Guzzle & NoshDaily Dose: Interior (left) and mascot.​We've been hearing about Daily Dose for over a year now, and, yesterday, we finally got a look at the market-to-table cafe set to open "some time in April" on the same block as Church & State. Like any buzzwords, "organic" and "local" have ... More >>

Greens Vs. Big Oil and Prop. 23

To save California's global-warming law, a 23-year-old finds his rage — and 60,000 friends

Follow the Signs: Straus Soft Serve with Caramel at Pitfire Pizza

D. GonzalezSpoonful of Straus vanilla soft serve and house made caramel with Maldon salt​ There are things you learn as frequent diners. Ask for the specials or, even better, what's fresh or in season. Check the price of the bottles on the menu before ordering a just a few glasses. And the ... More >>

PETCO Settles $1.75 Million Lawsuit Alleging Animals Received Improper Care

​PETCO on Wednesday settled a $1.75 million lawsuit, which stemmed from allegations that the company overcharged consumers and improperly cared for animals, according to a statement by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. The investigation, filed by district attorneys in four Ca ... More >>

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

Anchors Away: Anchor Brewing Sold to Griffin Group

Anchor Brewing​San Francisco company Anchor Brewing, which has been making craft beers like Anchor Steam since 1896, is changing hands. Press releases were sent out today, and reports have been trickling out via Brookston Beer Bulletin and Beer Advocate that they have been purchased by The Gri ... More >>

L.A.'s Homeleand Security Spending Spree

In 2004 the L.A. Weekly examined the free-spending ways of the Department of Homeland Security, calling DHS largesse to academia and local law enforcement agencies "a 21st-century New Deal for the military-industrial complex." Now, on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a report is ... More >>

Animal Rights Activists & Lab Researchers to Hold Rallies at UCLA

Activists holding diametrically opposed viewpoints on the use of animal testing in research laboratories will come close to crossing each other's paths this morning. At 10:30 a.m., the Marin County-based In Defense of Animals will hold a press conference and rally outside UCLA on Westwood Boulevard ... More >>

Sweet Smell of Secession: Another Move to Split California

To hear Bill Maze tell it, L.A. County takes all the money generated by the rest of hard-working California and squanders it on stuff like "public services and education." Not only that, says the termed-out Assemblyman, but you've got places up north like San Francisco and Marin County that always v ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Kung Fu Panda, Mongol, Mother of Tears

Also, The Go-Getter, Trying to Get Good and more

David Fincher discusses Zodiac’s rising star

Sign of the times

Sean Penn, With His Own Two Eyes

Sean Penn on anger, humility and the power of seeing things for yourself

Countdown to Extinction

The 11th Hour says we’re all gonna die — but maybe not

Theater of Pain

What made Lana run?

Dewey and the Pelican

A waking dream

Talk Talk

New fiction by T.C. Boyle

Classical Gas

Why Chekhov is fading and Shakespeare isn’t

Saving Arnold

The inside story of the governor’s anointing of a lesbian Democrat

Identity Crises

Mirror, mirror on the wall . . .

The Mouth

What makes Howard Dean say those things?

Celebrity Justice for All

Robert Blake’s trial goes to the jury

The Great Wet Hope

Will Measure O remake Los Angeles? Only if voters know it exists

The Fahntahstic Transition

Arnold’s embrace of the right and the left is not that strange

Timothy Leary’s Endless Party

Artifacts of a public nuisance in Lightspace Gallery’s '23 Drawings'

Killing the Angel in the House

With a major-label contract and a spot on the Lollapalooza tour, the Distillers are set to become big rock stars. How will Brody Armstrong tolerate the fame?

A New Deck

Recall talk forces Gray to make nice with Indian casinos

Gutter-dämmerung

Of pods and Insectatrons

Death Mansion

What’s really behind Gray Davis’ push for a 1,000-bed death row?

Sweet Smell of Secession

Rank and Yank at Enron

Or, the fine art of bankruptcy

Less Than or Equal To Another Vacation

Field of Wet Dreams

Build it and they will cum

Almost Infamous

There and back with Punkin Pie

A Little Bit of Chaos

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith and the musical moment

The Code of Cordoba

Someone wants to pull the plug on a well-connected firm

The Unmaking of a Counterculture

A funny thing happened on the way to the Fillmore

Task Force M

State officials set to green-light medical marijuana

The Last Liberal

Barbara Boxer's toughest campaign

Our selections in next week's primary

Killing Joke

For jurors, Kelly trial lasted way too long

Sanity Check

Court weighs Kelly's mental state; Lungren presses execution date

A Matter of Life or Death

Condemned prisoner’s sanity trial begins

Death Defying

Saving a killer deemed too crazy to die

Soap Box Derby

Must we cry in all the right places?

Saddam and Gomorrah

Wag the Dog's Barry Levinson on movies, the media and Monica