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Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Why do so many rich men want to buy it? And how did it get to this point anyway?

Where to Eat in L.A. According to L.A. Residents vs. The Wall Street Journal Other Publications

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story about our city's culinary scene titled "Finding a Food Mecca in the West," pointing its readers to Sprinkles Ice Cream, Fonuts, Umamicatessen, 800 Degrees and ink.sack. And though we have little quibble with the amazing efficiency of 800 Degrees or a cup ... More >>

Silence of the Lambs Becomes a Musical, With the Most Gynecologically Explicit Love Ballad Ever

Whatever else it might be -- "exuberantly gross" (New York Times), "not exactly the height of satirical sophistication" (Hollywood Reporter), "a lot funnier than it has a right to be" (New York Post) -- Off Broadway's hit serial-killer musical satire, Silence! The Musical, is the kind of show critic ... More >>

VIDEO: Stephanie Pratt's BF Julien Chabbott Runs Over Cop's Foot

New Yorkers say L.A. is the home of the shallow, vacant, star-struck millionaire. Well, Manhattan is starting to look a lot like Beverly Hills. Over the weekend the boyfriend of The Hills star Stephanie Pratt was videotaped making a douche fool of himself as he ran over the foot of a New York City ... More >>

James Holmes Smoked Marijuana, Took Vicodin -- Reports

Suspected Aurora massacre shooter James Holmes took Vicodin before the attack and was also a marijuana smoker, according to reports posted over the weekend. The 24-year-old from San Diego who was in L.A. as a summer camp counselor in 2008 took 100 mg of Vicodin about 2-and-a-half hours before Frida ... More >>

Dr. Ruth Westheimer Gets into the Wine Business: Vin d'Amour Wines

Dr. Ruth Westheimer is getting into the wine business, reports the New York Post. The octogenarian Sorbonne-trained psychologist, author and sex therapist is coming out with a line of low-alcohol wines. The California wines, which will have an alcohol content of only 6 percent, will be showing up in ... More >>

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

Federal Judge Says Chicks Can Slam Cheating Exes on Web; Gloria Allred Declares 'Victory for Women's Rights'

Bay City BombersMeet Stacey Blitsch, the new face of women's rights.​Gloria Allred, L.A.'s biggest name in celebrity litigation, has long fallen on the sexier side of women's rights. She's gone after pervy politicians like Herman Cain and Arnold Schwarzenegger for their rampant womanizing, and ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Reportedly Paid $600K to Party in Vegas on NYE

You know you've done something right, in life, when you find yourself sorting through half-million dollar offers just to show up and do a little V.I.P. shimmy at some cush Vegas hotspot on New Year's Eve, while the rest of the world panics over which miserable laser pit is worth a week's wages. The ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Leaked Playboy Cover: As Nude and 'Classy' as Promised

TheInsider.comLarger-than-life version, below.​Sorry for caring, when there's real Los Angeles news on the line -- but the second we saw, via New York Post Tweet, that Lindsay Lohan's much-hyped Playboy cover had leaked, we couldn't help fawning over it a little. "It's a classic tribute, insp ... More >>

The New Sex Flick

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

Real Housewives' Toxic Margarita Pulled from Whole Foods

Skinnygirl Margarita.​Bethenny Frankel, "diet guru" and former "star" of "reality" show The Real Housewives of New York City, doesn't care that her "all natural" Skinnygirl Margarita contains potentially carcinogenic ingredients, which caused Whole Foods to pull the "drink" from its stores. T ... More >>

John Edwards Mug Shot: So Stoked I Just Cheated on My Cancer Wife, Allegedly Used Campaign Funds to Cover Up L.A. Love Tryst!

Best day ever!​Can we please get a moment of silence for John Edwards' ridiculously happy mug shot, snapped just after he was arrested for one of the most evil affairs in the history of the U.S. government? Anthony Weiner may be a metro sexter with unjustified levels of boner pride, and JFK ... More >>

William and Kate, Royal Couple, Plan Visit to Hollywood This Summer

New York PostWills and Kate to do L.A.?​It's official! Updated after the jump with the royal couple's dates of stay. Paparazzi alert! Y'all can take a break from heckling Paris Hilton and her belligerent stalkers for a couple days this summer, because brand-spankin'-new royal couple Prince Wi ... More >>

Murder Tattoo: Anthony Garcia Convicted of L.A. Gang Killing After Sheriff Notices Gory Details Inked on His Chest

The face of a dumb-ass, after the jump.​When it comes to the law, pride is a bitch. And detailing the impressive details of your crime on Facebook is one thing -- the Internet is forever -- but getting them permanently tattooed into your flesh, with the distinct possibility that you could one ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Street Food, Is Donald Trump Drinking Too Much Willy Wonka, Molecular Gastronomist

-- Time to Boycott French Toast, French Fries Again. (See: burqa laws.) [The Awl] -- Gordon Ramsay moves to Bel Air ("12 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a summerhouse"). [Digital Spy, via Eater] -- New Farmworker Report Paints a Big, Grim Picture. [Civil Eats via @SlowFoodUSA] -- The wonderful world o ... More >>

Bad Brooklyn Tortoise Knocks Over Heat Lamp, Starts Fire, Kills Turtle

Nothin' to see here​Them city tortoises. Just can't be satisfied with a normal tortoise life of walking in circles and staring at inanimate objects. That's for hicks! The New York Post reports that Giovani the Bad Brooklyn Tortoise, looking for a big adventure on a Sunday afternoon, used his ... More >>

Morning News Roundup: Hunger Challenge, Movie Food, Mr. Robata

Happy humpday. Enjoy your morning dose of daffy food news. --Hunting LA's best roast chicken, from Costco to Melisse. [Exile Kiss] --U.S. bans some food from Japan over radiation fears: dairy, fruit, veg. [WSJ]‎ --Break out the skinny jeans. Yelp adds "hipster" as an ambiance descriptor. [NY Pos ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's L.A. Porn Party Bumps Egypt 'Chaos' to Bottom of New York Post

New York PostThe important things in life​We're all about keeping tabs on the Lohans and Octomoms of the world, but Saturday's issue of the New York Post made us... well. Let's just say there may have been some guilt-laced acid reflux involved. We've been doing a lot of thinking since then. Y ... More >>

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 >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79. [Stick A Fork In It] -- Pet Pantry: a food bank for the four-footed. [Los Angeles Times] -- The new front in the culture wars: food. [The Washington Post] -- A French farmer is fined for feeding his ducks pot. No, he wasn't force-feeding them ... More >>

Life Of Crime: Robbing For Records and Five Rock 'n' Roll Criminals

Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers​ Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>

Bedbugs Finally Outnumber Hipsters In New York City, Shoot For Total (High-Brow) Infestation At Carnegie Hall

You can run, but you can't hide​In the month since we last reported on New York City's booming bedbug epidemic, the situation's gotten worse than we ever could have hoped. It was embarrassing enough when the nasty little vamps invaded fashion palaces like Niketown and Elle Magazine. (Turns ou ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's F World: The Stack of Unpaid Bills Grows

Flickr/The Consumerist​ Paying your bills is not always a pleasant task, granted. But you kind of have to. Gordon Ramsay, it seems, has not been paying his. According to The New York Post, two wine suppliers have filed suit against the Kitchen Nightmares star for unpaid bills. Today comes a re ... More >>

New York Magazine Picks Up Blog Editor From L.A.'s TheWrap.com

​New York Magazine's well-read blog Vulture announced Wednesday that it has hired Joe Adalian as its West Coast editor in Los Angeles. He'll be responsible for much entertainment coverage and analysis of television, according to the mag. "Joe is a big hire for us in terms of rounding out our ... More >>

Chef Nate Appleman Arrested for Weapons Possession (A Knife)

Food NetworkChef Nate Appleman, with dangerous weapon​Nate Appleman, 2009 James Beard Foundation Award Rising Star Chef winner, former The Next Iron Chef contestant, author of the marvelous A16: Food Wine cookbook, and chef at Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria in the Bowery, was arrested last Wednes ... More >>

L.A. To JFK Nightmare Flight On Virgin America Was A 16-Hour Tour

​A Virgin America flight from LAX to New York's JFK over the weekend turned out to be a 16-hour "fight from hell," some passengers told the New York Post (spotted at LABizObserved). The drama on Saturday happened when the weather at JFK was too poor for the plane to land. It circled above New ... More >>

Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: - Would you pay $299 for a "low fat" deep fryer? The price of an oxymoron. [Bon Appetit] - Eating raccoon on a Southern road trip. [The Atlantic] - New York City's tiniest restaurants. [New York Post] ... More >>

Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Would you pay $250 million for Hooters? Don't answer that. [New York Post] -- Seven examples of very strange international food. [Independent Traveler] -- 5 favorite cookbooks from Alton Brown. [Wall ... More >>

Playboy Magazine Could Move To L.A.

​We know -- you're thinking, Playboy already is in Los Angeles. Nope. That's just Hef, who's been known to approve proofs of the adult glossy from the comfort of his robe at home in Holmby Hills. The bread-and-butter work on America's nude-girl-next-door mag has been done out of editorial hea ... More >>

Google, Bloggers Involved In Theft Says Rupert Murdoch

RupertFox​Rupert Murdoch has been on a tear against Google, vowing to close off content he controls to the search giant and saying the web king, news aggregators and bloggers are all involved in "theft" of content created by journalism organizations like the ones he owns. His comments were ma ... More >>

True Lies II

The Yes Men fix the world

Artist Dash Snow, Remembered

The Sculptor, Graffiti Writer and Photographer's Work Was More Than Just Art

Remembering Dash Snow, 1981-2009

By Daniel Hernandez Peres Projects, Berlin Los AngelesDetail from untitled collage, 2006The artist Dash Snow promised me an interview, over and over. Every time I ran into him during his 2007 stay in L.A., he'd say, "We still gotta talk, man." The last time he said so was at the after-party to ... More >>

For Mets Fans, Hate Is a Manny-Splendored Thing

N.Y. PostNew York Mets fans (or at least the local sports writers) used the Los Angeles Dodgers' three-game visit to mix tradition with self-pity. On the one hand, there was the opportunity to indulge in the area's second-favorite pastime, L.A.-bashing; on the other, the return of Manny Ramirez (and ... More >>

Watermelongate and Its Discontents

The past week saw the meteoric flaring and passing of one of those stories about race and the Obama presidency that have occurred regularly since the start of the 2008 election season and which will be with us until at least 2012. This one took place nearby, in Los Alamitos, and involved the mayor's ... More >>

I Wanna Be Elated: Meghan McCain's Ramones Connection

Meghan McCain, the daughter of Senator John McCain, has been emoting about her post-election blues lately on her blog and at the Daily Beast, from which CNN.com has been quoting at length this week. One of Meghan's pet peeves, we learn is other people -- not just those who "openly voted for Barack O ... More >>

Stern Defiantly Promises Appeal in Burkle Lawsuit

Only hours after a New York State judge tossed his defamation lawsuit against Beverly Hills Billionaire Ron Burkle and Bill and Hillary Clinton, former New York Post reporter Jared Paul Stern wrote to LA Weekly in an email, "We will file an immediate appeal. The judge's opinion was biased and disgra ... More >>

Ron Burkle: Poor Little Rich Grocer

L.A.'s billionaire confronts life without the Clintons or instant White House access

Ron Burkle and the Stern Sting

Letters

New York Times Searches…Ovitz Screeches

Fuck Yourself, Dick Cheney

Urban Warfare: Grappling With Asan Akbar's Descent

Little Caesars

The Man Show

Watching the Detectives

How a couple of middle-aged P.I.'s and world-class raconteurs survived the DEA, the mob and the tabloid wars to take on their most elusive target yet -- Hollywood

The Man Who Got Away

Robinson Devor gets his 15 minutes

The Golden Age of Cinema?