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  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    African American Men Have 7 Fewer Years to Live Than Whites

    Sure, history has turned a corner for African Americans. There's that one president. (And he might just get reelected if gas stays below $8 a gallon). There's multimillionaire Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry. And basketball sensation Jeremy Lin. Wait. He's what now? Oh, you get the picture. But UCLA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    August 4, 2011

    The Whistleblower Review

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Squid Ink Food Writers' Most Reviled Childhood Dinners

    southerbornandbredgirl/flickrFried chicken livers​ With food, one person's penance is another's pleasure. Many parents view dinner-time as an opportunity, not just to share food and company with their beloved offspring, but also to exert control. Sometimes kids are picky and sometimes parent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Live Review: Lord Huron at Troubadour

    Danielle BacherLord Huron​WHO: Lord Huron featuring Calder Quartet, The Union Line and Milo Greene WHERE: Troubadour WHEN: 5/14/11 Never have a headliner and their venue been a better fit in name. Ben Schneider, the Michigan-born singer-songwriter who began to record as musical alter ego Lord ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Silver Foxes and Silver Vixens: Top Ten Musicians "Of a Certain Age" That You'd Still Do

    Pray you are this cool at 58​Sheila E.'s being just as hot as she was in Krush Groove at her recent appearances during Prince's 21 Nite Stand at the Forum sent us spinning fantasies involving other musicians who are just as hot (or hotter) with a little age on 'em. This is our list, though- wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Martha vs. Letterman, Deep-fried Worms Homemade Nutella

    screenshot of YouTube CBS videoDavid Letterman​ -- Martha Stewart hits David Letterman in the face with a cheese ball. ("You're a strong wonderful woman, and I'm an asshole.") [Eater] -- Croatia's own Chocolat. [Reuters] -- Shrimp Without Guilt: BC Spot Prawn Fishery Provides Sustainable Ind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Proposition 8: Thirteen Out-of-State Attorney Generals Don't Want California Gays to Get Married, Join George Wallace in History Books

    Prop. 8 supporter and Alabama Attorney General Troy King​With the appeal hearing for the Proposition 8 lawsuit set for Monday, December 6, we thought it would be a good time to look into the out-of-state attorney generals who stuck their noses into California's business and filed a friendly b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Check Your Eggs: Millions Recalled Due to Salmonella

    Flickr/stevendepolo​An outbreak of salmonella in eggs has prompted a nationwide recall and lead to hospitalizations in counties across the U.S., including in California, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Since May, at least 266 people across the state have become ill after eating contaminated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

    L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    U.S. Dumps Organic Food Inspector In China

    ​When's the last time we heard some good news about the products we're importing from China? We don't remember either, but it's going to be another day at least. The New York Times reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is getting rid of one of their organic food inspection organizati ... More >>

  • Music

    April 1, 2010

    From the Roots: Jakob Dylan's Little Big Album

    ​When's the last time we heard some good news about the products we're importing from China? We don't remember either, but it's going to be another day at least. The New York Times reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is getting rid of one of their organic food inspection organizati ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 28, 2010

    Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

    Also, Extraordinary Measures, Saint John of Las Vegas

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    People's Historian Howard Zinn Dies In Santa Monica

    ​History professor and author Howard Zinn, well known for his populist A People's History of the United States, died in Santa Monica Wednesday at the age of 87, Daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said he suffered a heart attack. His most-famous tome dissected American heroes, accused Christopher Columb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    L.A. Country Club Pays Ultra Low Property Tax Rate; Faces Possible Review

    ​The Los Angeles Country Club, protected under Prop. 13 limits and loopholes, pays an ultra-low rate of about $200,000 a year in property taxes based on 313 acres of prime Westside property that could be worth nearly $20 billion or even more if it were developed, according to the Garment & Cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Time Magazine: The Food Crisis in America

    Time magazine's new issue covers the food crisis in America: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food. "Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food," writes Bryan Walsh, "they face a future of eroded farmland, hollowed-out countryside, scarier germs, higher health co ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 30, 2009

    THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

    Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    The Debate Over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska

    Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Stage Raw: The Debate over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO THE DEBATE OVER COURTNEY O'CONNELL OF COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA ​Photo courtesy of Chalk Repertory TheatreIf we're to believe playwright Mat Smart, which is probably not a good idea, the bloody rampag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin's Big Scoop

    THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedHELL'S KITCHEN ABLAZE by Tommy Carter is being reviewed this weekend Check back here Monday afternoon for the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS seen over the weekend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Os Mutantes to Launch U.S. Tour in Los Angeles

    Legendary Brazilian tropicalia group Os Mutantes, whose work in the late 1960s fused Brazilian samba rhythms with Beatle-esque baroque pop, will perform at the Echoplex on August 28. The band, who recently signed to the LA-based Anti- imprint, are getting ready to release their first studio album in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Stage Raw: Molotov Cocktail Flung in the Cold

    THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

  • News

    June 25, 2009

    In Favor: Billy Jack and the L.A. Marathon

    THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Top 10 Americana Albums of 2008

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    Travel Logs

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Music

    December 13, 2007

    How We Roll

    Derby Dolls: a bout last Saturday; babes in clubland; a dragalicious XXXmas

  • Stage

    July 26, 2007

    Once More Into the Bowl

    Leonard Slatkin and Christopher O’Riley at the Hollywood Bowl

  • Music

    January 4, 2007

    Rock Picks

    For the week of Jan 4 - 11

  • Eat+Drink

    December 21, 2006

    Straight to the Duck Heart

    Jonathan Gold’s Top 10 dishes of 2006

  • Music

    September 7, 2006

    Everybody Do the Pigeon!

    Underground L.A. rapper Pigeon John can’t help it — he’s weird

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Quaking Politicians

    They ignore and delay the inevitable on immigrants’ rights at their own peril

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2006

    Josh Rouse

    And other picks for Tuesday, Jan. 24

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    9 Reasons UCLA Will Beat USC in 2006

    And other picks for Tuesday, Jan. 24

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    Hipsters Must Die

    10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

  • Eat+Drink

    August 18, 2005

    Cow Patties

    10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    What’s Not the Matter With Colorado?

    Tracking a blue uprising in a red state

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    Funny Numbers

    An analysis of some downright bizarre election results

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    The Story in the Soil

    The Omaha rock scene, the world of the flyover people, the future of the music business, and one vicious head wound

  • Music

    October 30, 2003

    Elliott Smith, 1969–2003

    The Omaha rock scene, the world of the flyover people, the future of the music business, and one vicious head wound

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Behind Bush

    Those “wag the dog” Democrats

  • Columns

    September 20, 2001

    Brazil 911

    Those “wag the dog” Democrats

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    Start of History

    The hour of the furnaces

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    The New Face of AIDS

    Residents of Carl Bean House, Los Angeles, Winter 2001

  • Calendar

    September 7, 2000

    'N' Is for Nowhere

    A Short Story by Aimee Bender, Wanda Coleman, Janet Fitch, Peter Gadol, Hillary Johnson, Jim Krusoe, Rubén Mendoza, Nicole Panter, John Rechy, Nancy Rommelmann, Greg Sarris, Jerry Stahl, Diana Wagman and Benjamin Weissman

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    The Devil and Aphrodite Jones

    What’s she doing in a world of murderers, rapists, torturers, sadists, blood drinkers, decapitators and pimps? Making a killing.

  • Art+Books

    December 2, 1999

    Closures, Openings

    Dan Bernier, Kori Newkirk, Alice Könitz, Colin Cook, Alexis Smith, more

  • Film+TV

    April 29, 1999

    High School High

    Alexander Payne's winning Election

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    The Man With Two Brown Shoes Goes Shopping

    dedicated to you, but you weren’t listening

  • Film+TV

    September 24, 1998

    Real Country

    The farmer's life on Frontline; plus Olivier, retrospectively, at MTR

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