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  • Film+TV

    May 3, 2012

    The Avengers Review

    Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star movie

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Three New Planets Discovered by Caltech, NASA Scientists

    CaltechThree planets were found around 'red dwarf' KOI-961.​Three new planets have been discovered, and they're tinier than than a Smart Car. Well, not that small, but Caltech states the trio comprises the "smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system." The three, discov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Back to the Future's $500,000 DeLorean and Darth Vader Costume Sell at Hollywood Auction. Ruby Slippers Still Available

    A fully functioning hoverboard...y'know...for the kids​Local memorabilia-selling powerhouse, Profiles in History did another one of their epic auctions this weekend at the Paley Media Center in Beverly Hills -- and the nerds cleaned house. Again. Compared to Debbie Reynolds' series of show-st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    'Blue Sky Metropolis' at the Huntington Library Shows How Aerospace Shaped L.A., From Surfing to Marilyn Monroe

    Nasa photoNASA pilot Bill Dana watches a Boeing NB-52B carrier aircraft fly overhead after a successful test flight of the Northrop HL-10 lifting body at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1969. Fellow pilot John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lifting body.​ At a new exhibition at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Armageddon 2: Carmageddon, the Unproduced Screenplay About the 405 Closure

    ​ The 1998 movie Armageddon starred Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck as deep-sea oil drillers deployed by NASA and the military to embed a nuclear device 800 feet inside an asteroid heading straight for Earth. The device would split the asteroid into two parts, with both halves just narrowly missi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Cheerio, Magna Carta: Nine Important Historical Documents in L.A Right Now

    Magna Carta​ A document can make a big difference, as the Birthers are currently proving in all the wrong ways. The Magna Carta -- a document whose Madonna-level status requires you to drop the "the" and refer to it simply as "Magna Carta" -- reframed the relationship between royalty and us re ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 7, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Mo-Chica

    Magna Carta​ A document can make a big difference, as the Birthers are currently proving in all the wrong ways. The Magna Carta -- a document whose Madonna-level status requires you to drop the "the" and refer to it simply as "Magna Carta" -- reframed the relationship between royalty and us re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Ask Mr. Gold: What's The Big Deal With Quinoa?

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: What's the big deal with quinoa? I couldn't even pronounce it right when I first saw it on the menu at Hugo's in Studio City. Then I saw it at Trader Joe's and then I saw it everywhere. It has probably been around forever, but has on ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 3, 2011

    Amateur Astronomers Invite the Public to Informal Viewings

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: What's the big deal with quinoa? I couldn't even pronounce it right when I first saw it on the menu at Hugo's in Studio City. Then I saw it at Trader Joe's and then I saw it everywhere. It has probably been around forever, but has on ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 28, 2010

    MONSTERS

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: What's the big deal with quinoa? I couldn't even pronounce it right when I first saw it on the menu at Hugo's in Studio City. Then I saw it at Trader Joe's and then I saw it everywhere. It has probably been around forever, but has on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    National Weather Service: 'Dangerous Heat Expected' For Much Of L.A.

    NASA​Hot enough for you yet? Still complaining about that cool summer? Didn't think so. And it looks like Madre Nature is about to turn it up a notch. The National Weather Service has issued a notice that states, in part, "dangerous heat expected" for Wednesday. The usual suspects should be o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    The 70% Solution: Tasting Notes on Tcho "Fruity" Dark Chocolate

    Ben CalderwoodTcho tasting bar with proprietary flavor wheel visible on the package​ The 70% Solution intentionally fudges the numbers by a few percentage points (the pun, Mom's honor, is accidental) to introduce Squid Ink tasters to Tcho, the world's first internet chocolate. Producer: Tcho ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    Dr. Andrew E. Johnson: The Visionary

    Ben CalderwoodTcho tasting bar with proprietary flavor wheel visible on the package​ The 70% Solution intentionally fudges the numbers by a few percentage points (the pun, Mom's honor, is accidental) to introduce Squid Ink tasters to Tcho, the world's first internet chocolate. Producer: Tcho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    L.A. Tops List Of 'Most Polluted Cities'

    NASA​Old timers will tell you it's not like it used to be, when Los Angeles would be socked in for weeks at a time by dense smog that ringed the foothills and capped the basin. It has been a long time. Still, comparatively speaking, L.A. is still tops when it comes to air pollution. The Ameri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing: Neptune Eats Planet

    We've all felt hungry in the middle of the night - hungry enough, perhaps, to power through an entire pint of Häagen-Dazs, or finish off the half-pizza left in the fridge. But it's safe to assume that few of us have ever been as voracious as the planet Neptune, which may have, according to a paper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Asteroid Headed For Earth; Extraterrestrial Warned Us

    NBCCarnac the Magnificent, as played by Johnny Carson.​If you're a perennial, SoCal, top-down kind of driver, you might want to plan to go hard-top for this one: NASA confirmed last fall that a good-sized asteroid, called Apophis, is on a collision course with our kind planet, with an impact d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Beer From Outer Space: Sapporo's Barley "Space Beer" -- In Space, No One Can Hear You Barf

    ​Yes. It's beer. From outer space. Just when you think they can't possibly top themselves with out-of-this-world product tomfoolery, the Japanese have done it again. Sapporo sent up some barley to the International Space Station a few years ago. They grew it for five months. Then they made i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight AND Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

    Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight! Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Production Of Cool, All-Electric Car Coming To L.A. Area; Ed Begley Jr. Proud

    It looks like production of the 2011 Tesla Model S is coming to Los Angeles County. The District Weekly in Long Beach and the Downey Patriot report that Tesla is setting up shop for the new, moderately priced sedan at a former NASA facility in Downey. "We're very close to being able to make an offi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    County Names Buzz Aldrin Consul General To The Moon; Chong Headed To Mars

    As the county deals with an outbreak of swine flu, a lack of emergency rooms and a battered property tax base, the Board of Supervisors has been busy naming astronaut Buzz Aldrin Los Angeles' "consul general to the Moon."​Good work. If ever Roman Polanski escapes to the lunar republic we have some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Spike Jonze and Co. to Debut a Where the Wild Things Are Pop-Up Shop and Art Opening at Space 15 Twenty

    Here's some hot news: the highly anticipated Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers/Maurice Sendak adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are will begin its marketing blitz on Saturday, September 19 at Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood with a pop-up shop and art opening. The DJ will be Squeak E. Clean, also known as Sam S ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2009

    Unlike a Box of Chocolates

    Here's some hot news: the highly anticipated Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers/Maurice Sendak adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are will begin its marketing blitz on Saturday, September 19 at Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood with a pop-up shop and art opening. The DJ will be Squeak E. Clean, also known as Sam S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Gun Suit Shot Down A Ninth Circuit Appeals panel has rejected a lawsuit, filed against gun manufacturer Glock, related to the 1999 Granada Hills shooting at a Jewish community center and the subsequent murder of a letter carrier. Two judges ruled that Glock cannot be held responsible for the illegal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    National Record Store Day in LA and at Coachella: Celebrating Brick, Mortar, Mom, Pop

    Patrick O'DellFatbeats' DJ Rhettmatic Celebrating record stores as part of the second annual National Record Store Day, which is tomorrow, should be a no-brainer for Southern Californians. After all, the region is the undisputed center of the vinyl industry, with RTI, Rainbo and Erika all pressing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Coachella Friday Set Times Leaked? Are These Real?

    Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk. The Coachella message board lit up this morning when someone posted a pretty convincing list of Friday set times, one of the last big secrets the festival reveals. For those of us going, the set times are obviously important because they dictate what we'll be missing, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Coachella Rumor Mill Works Overtime, but the Confirmations Continue to Trickle In

    (Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    Stage Raw: Apollo Rising

    APOLLO RISING      It's a vision thing. From a workshop production of Nancy Keystone's Apollo. Photo by Efram Delgadillo, Jr. L.A.'s loss is Portland's gain. Those with any memory of local theater will remember A.S.K. Theater Projects and its thrilling work with new play develop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Day of Infamy -- And Prosperity

    Last Sunday, stuck in traffic by Echo Park Lake, I listened to the radio as voices marked the 67th anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The very words "Pearl Harbor" have come to symbolize many negative things -- unpreparedness, wartime disaster, surprise attack, sneak attack, etc. But I t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    The Smell's Fantastic New Website

    Downtown all-ages club The Smell has long been hub of an insanely vibrant punk, noise and experimental scene. The much-discussed grassroots community has seeded many a memorable night, but until now it had never been successfully captured online. This week, however, the club debuted its new website ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Those Olympic Swimsuits, a.k.a. Drugs on a Hanger?

    Now that Michael Phelps finally crushed the 400-meter this past weekend, how about those Olympic swimsuits? You know, those controversial Speedo LZR Racer bodysuits that look like a pair of Spanx pantyhose mated with a scuba suit. The ones that caused tons of world records to be broken? People ... More >>

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Best Place to Get Your Rocks Off

    Now that Michael Phelps finally crushed the 400-meter this past weekend, how about those Olympic swimsuits? You know, those controversial Speedo LZR Racer bodysuits that look like a pair of Spanx pantyhose mated with a scuba suit. The ones that caused tons of world records to be broken? People ... More >>

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    Everything Counts in Large Amounts

    11 secrets of swarm success

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    Bad Religion

    11 secrets of swarm success

  • News

    February 3, 2005

    Gen-X On Ice

    11 secrets of swarm success

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    Letters

    11 secrets of swarm success

  • Columns

    June 24, 2004

    Space Commodity

    11 secrets of swarm success

  • Film+TV

    June 26, 2003

    Art vs. Science

    Matthew Barney’s a bore; the Hubble Space Telescope’s a blast

  • LA Life

    April 24, 2003

    The Light Stuff

    Matthew Barney’s a bore; the Hubble Space Telescope’s a blast

  • Columns

    February 13, 2003

    Coming Back to Earth

    The shuttle disaster and the Quiet American within

  • Columns

    February 13, 2003

    Next Big Thing: Looking for That Song

    The shuttle disaster and the Quiet American within

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Los Angeles: June, 2002

    A semi-comic fantasy about an aspect of the future that may prove pertinent to L.A.

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Misguided Billions

    A better way to spend the missile-defense budget

  • News

    July 5, 2001

    Leisure Copworld

    LAPD officers dream of a three-day week

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Beginning To See the Light

    The power crisis and its global warning

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    The Fleiss Family Bed

    The power crisis and its global warning

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

    Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

  • Film+TV

    August 10, 2000

    Glamour Guys of Geezer Gulch

    The beautiful butt-ugly truth about Space Cowboys

  • Stage

    October 21, 1999

    Star Struck

    Getting hit on the head in Tina Landau's Space

  • Art+Books

    September 23, 1999

    Flower Power Games

    The delirious rise and acrimonious dissolution of the Eastside Ladies Garden Auxiliary

  • Columns

    March 11, 1999

    Red Eyes + White Noise = Blue Balls

    The delirious rise and acrimonious dissolution of the Eastside Ladies Garden Auxiliary

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