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How Two Guys Known as 'The Minimalists' Are Helping Us End Our Obsession With Stuff

There's a famous George Carlin routine where the late comic mocks our obsession with stuff -- clothing and cars and accessories that we buy in an effort to fit in, to make ourselves feel better, to feed the American nature of consumerism until these items rule our lives. Now, four years after Carli ... More >>

Packaged Spinach Recalled Due to Salmonella

Can we all finally agree that bagged spinach (and lettuce) is a bad idea? Salinas-based Fresh Express is conducting a voluntary recall of 9-ounce packages of its spinach due to possible contamination with Salmonella, according to a company press release. The affected batch has a use-by date of Nov. ... More >>

Richmond Refinery Fire Could Push L.A. Gas Prices Back Over $4

Goddammit. Just when we were beginning to get used to this summertime dip in gas prices -- they've fallen from over $4.30 in March to about $3.90 today -- the largest refinery in NorCal has to go and screw everything up. According to reports, a series of explosions at the Chevron oil refinery in Ri ... More >>

Mr. Burns Strikes Again

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Cyclists Plan to 'Crash' the L.A. Marathon

Bikes versus cars is a classic transportation battle in traffic-clogged Los Angeles. But bikes versus runners? Now there's a showdown we could get behind. Wolfpack Hustle, the uber-enthused cycling group most famous for racing an airplane across L.A. County during Carmageddon, has another sort-of s ... More >>

Marijuana Can Help Prevent Suicide, Study Suggests

Marijuana does many magical things, not the least of which is make dubstep listenable. In Los Angeles, we use it pretty much legally for back pain, nausea and hot tubbing. But a new study from Germany says that, in U.S. states like California where marijuana has become medically legit, rates of sui ... More >>

California is America's Most-Hated State, According to Public Policy Polling

Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Or do. It turns out the left-most state is also America's most-hated, according to a recent survey by Public Policy Polling. And California's left-leaning politics seem to have a lot to do with it. The Golden State is the most-disliked in the union, and Hawai ... More >>

Mohawk Bend: New Chef Allagash Beer Dinner

[Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that St. Clair and Pele had been replaced at Golden Road Brewpub by chef Adam Levoe.] When beer-centric, vegan-friendly Echo Park mega-bar Mohawk Bend opened in July 2011, it was with chefs Sera Pelle and Randal St. Clair. The new executiv ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensaries in L.A. Targeted For Closure: Here's The List

This is how Amsterdam does it.​L.A. still has a near-record high number of marijuana dispensaries despite efforts by the City Council to control them. (And we do mean high). But one-by-one the office of City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is knockin' 'em out. (Unfortunately, one of his assistant c ... More >>

Ready Pac Recalls Bagged Romaine Salads

FDAToss your salad.​ Irwindale-based Ready Pac Foods Inc. is recalling 5,379 cases of bagged salad products containing romaine lettuce because they may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, Reuters reports. The voluntary recall includes a dozen different salad products including Caesar salad ... More >>

The World's Largest Commercially Available Burger (If Verified) Weighs as Much as a Dinosaur

Because we all apparently get a kick from playing Lilliputian for a day: last weekend at the Alameda County Fair, Nick Nicora of Ovation Food Services and Brett Enright of Juicy's, LLC attempted to set the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Commercially Available Burger with a behemoth b ... More >>

Hey Everybody, Let's Go to a Fancy Beverly Hills Hotel and Get Stinkin' Drunk!

Post-Rapture Pet Care

Who'll feed Rover after the rapture?

Save The Dates: The Riverside County Fair and Date Festival

Dancing With Ghosts/FlickrDate Festival​ In some dim corner of the country, every food has a festival. For three days each April, the World Grits Festival engulfs St. George, South Carolina. Waikiki holds the Spam Jam. In Clinton, Montana, there is the Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival, or "Te ... More >>

The Man Who Assembles T. rexes for Museums

Respite From Continuous Stream Of Bad News: 40 States Fatter Than California

Mississippi on the left; we're on the right.​ A new report from from the Trust for America's Health confirms it: We're not as unhealthy as the rest of really unhealthy America. Sure, we're pretty unhealthy, but for now let's take in the good news and celebrate with a Double Down. California ... More >>

Great Harvest Bread Company Opens in South Pasadena

With the nearest Great Harvest Bread Company more than 40 miles away in Thousand Oaks, the western San Gabriel Valley's ripe for a bakery that mills its own wheat. Co-owner Patricia Diaz spent ten years researching franchises that would give her creative control without compromising corporate suppo ... More >>

A Lie of the Mind

Graffiti Artist Arrested At His Own Art Exhibit

revok1.com​Graffiti artist Jason Williams, also known as Revok, was arrested at an exhibition of his work at a Mid-City gallery and graffiti-art store Sunday, authorities announced. The 32-year-old, described as a prolific tagger whose moniker has been spotted throughout the region, was nabbe ... More >>

The Need to Know

Left to Themselves: Foster Youths in L.A., a Before-and-After Story

Nobody can undo the damage to kids like John, raised from infancy by the foster-care industry

FYF Fest 2009: An Interview with Kurt Vile

In an effort to better familiarize our readership on the upcoming FYF Fest, which occurs this Saturday at the LA State Historic Park downtown, West Coast Sound sent a brief questionnaire to a few bands scheduled to appear. Today's installment features an interview with Kurt Vile. West Coast Sound ... More >>

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Biscuits and Gravy, Steak and Testicles

Los Angeles is not Livingston, Montana. They get purple mountain's majesty, rushing rivers, fresh local ingredients, true saloons and 100-hour cattle ranching work weeks. We get, from what I can gather, just about everything else. There were a slew of Rocky Mountain foods eaten on this week's No Res ... More >>

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Bad Penny

Dogged Pursuit

Free franks at the White Horse

Go Straight to Gallery

Jail, mixing bail bonds and contemporary art, may be a first

Black Book, Grindhouse and the Relativist Hole

Let It Burn

The battle between firefighting and fire guiding

Haiti's Hope

A tortured country searches for a future

Sharing Tookie’s Day: A Coroner’s Cross Section of December 13

Premature Exhibitionism

Pictures from a Gone World

What Did the Last Easter Islander Say as He Chopped Down the Last Tree?

The best-selling author of Guns, Germs and Steel asks whimsical questions with grave answers. In his latest book, he turns his attention to the collapse of civilization.

Heavy Surveillance

The paranoid universe of Fear X

The Taming of the Burn

Letters

The Final Frontier

Depending on whom you ask, stem-cell research is either a medical godsend or further proof that God is dead.

Star Wars Wars

The Best of Sitegeist

The 21st Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Scenes From My Life in Porn

White Space

The possibilities and pleasures of pasta

Athens of the Antelope Valley

Star Wars Wars

Los Zapatos de Yucatán