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California Ranks Low on 2013 Locavore Index

California chefs -- think Alice Waters and Suzanne Goin -- have led the way in using seasonal, locally-sourced ingredients, practically inventing the concept of "California cuisine" in the process. And so it's surprising to learn that our state placed a miserable 42nd of 51 in a national index ran ... More >>

Steven Brooks, Ex-Legislator, In SoCal Pursuit That Ends In Attack On Cop Dog (VIDEO)

The first assemblyman ever expelled from Nevada's legislature was arrested in Southern California yesterday following a bizarre CHP pursuit and subsequent attack on a police dog. Some of the action was captured on video (after the jump). Authorities say Steven Brooks, 41, started the pursuit about ... More >>

The Christopher Dorner Glossary: A Key To Military And Police Jargon In Killer's Manifesto

Christopher Dorner's online manifesto goes into great detail about the perceived injustices that prompted him to go on a killing rampage.Experts consulted by the L.A. Daily News said the writing is indicative of an intelligent and opinionated man "whose mind has unraveled, likely due to mental illne ... 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 >>

Akingide Cole: $1.6 Million Venetian Casino Theft Suspect Found At ... Mama's House!?

The guy who allegedly took $1.6 million in chips from the Venetian Hotel's casino did so without using a gun, beating anybody up or even, apparently, having to deal with any employees face-to-face. No he slipped into a "closed area" of the casino and slipped out like a Bond villain, authorities sai ... More >>

Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names

See also: Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man Burning Man 2012 kicks off on Monday, and unlike our intrepid colleague Nicholas, we are headed to the Playa and looking forward to it. In fact Jack Rabbit, the festival's official newsletter, has been hitting our inbox since February, informing the nearly ... More >>

Heather Woodbury's Upcoming As the Globe Warms and LACE's American Realism

Heat Wave Comes to Southern California: 126 Degrees Expected in Death Valley

Updated at the bottom with Southern California Edison urging us to conserve energy. First posted at 7 a.m. The June gloom sticking to our coastline well into August had you down, and you were waiting for summer to finally arrive? Better late than never: The National Weather Service this week issu ... More >>

3 Tons of Trader Joe's BBQ Chicken Salad Recalled

Nearly three tons of prepared barbecue chicken salads sold at Trader Joe's have been recalled, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. The recall comes after the announcement of possible Listeria contamination at Oxnard-based Gills Onions, Trader Joe's o ... More >>

Best Typo Ever Runs A-1 in the Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times has an excellent story in A-1 today about a legendary Las Vegas sheriff. 85-year-old Ralph Lamb, "The Cowboy Sheriff," John M. Glionna writes, was once the most powerful man in Nevada--feared by gangsters, beloved by locals, respected by fellow lawmen. It's a great read--made ... More >>

Interstate 15 to Vegas All But Shut Down

Update: Woo-hoo! All lanes have been reopened. The bad news? You'll still want to avoid the area (more at the bottom). First posted at 12:57 p.m. Bad news, party people. If you're driving to Las Vegas for the weekend to take advantage of off-season hotel rates and ever dipping gas prices (it's all ... More >>

What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists' Proposals

In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. They went in New Jersey, where Smithson was from, and spent an hour chopping away at a lump of lava ... More >>

Outernational - The Echo - 5/1/12

Outernational The Echo 5/1/12 Better than ... Eddy Grant. If you thought all screaming, sweaty, hip-swiveling rock and roll frontmen were motivated purely by narcissism, Outernational's Miles Solay might make you think again. Solay and his NYC-based Spanglish rockers played a super high-energy s ... More >>

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 >>

What's a DUID (Driving While High) in California?

Weed lawyers Allison Margolin and Daniel Perlman explain the rules for drivers

The Glitch Mob Inspires a Man's Rehabilitation

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Two years ago, Grant Korgan woke up in an intensive care unit in the Sierra Nevada with a broken back and no feeling below his stomach. A snowmobile jump ... More >>

The Barista Who Compared a Coffee to Her Ex-Boyfriends Other Winners at the South West Regional Barista Competition

While some of us were reaching for copious amounts of coffee yesterday to cope with the loss of the hour, the city of Santa Cruz had its fill of caffeine. Over the weekend, more than 40 baristas from California, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado converged onto the beachside tow ... More >>

Panda Express Founders Open Dry Cleaning Chain: Order Your Food Get It Off Your Shirt

If you have issues with your Kung Pao chicken ending up on your shirt as often as it does in your stomach -- eating while driving being as problematic as texting while driving -- then this news should make you pretty happy. The folks who brought you Panda Express, the Rosemead-based Chinese fast foo ... 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 >>

Porn Defends the Money Shot

Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS

Raving For The Rich: Burning Man Can be Done in Relative Comfort if You're Elon Musk

avramcYou can almost smell this photo.​We've never been tempted to feel the burn, frankly, because Burning Man is such a hippy affair, what with the pungent, sobriety challenged people and unpaved conditions. Not our idea of fun. However, it turns out that the annual Black Rock psychedelic sh ... More >>

Allergies Increase in California, Possibly Thanks to Global Warming

George Hamilton, like allergens, thrives in warm weather.​Allergies especially bad this spring? (Us too). Along with rising oceans, hotter-than-normal temps, and Al Gore's ego, you might be able to blame this boon to the makers of Kleenex on global warming. New research suggests that allergen ... More >>

How Wall Street Kicks L.A. Pets Out of Their Homes

Rango

Food Stamp Use Bigger Than Bacon Chocolate

NCReedplayerFood stamps​ Piggy chocolate. House-made pickles. New Nordic Cuisine. Food stamps. No, it's not as sexy as reindeer tartare with a lichen gastrique or a bar of fair-trade dark studded with smoked bacon bits, but the humble food stamp is really catching on. According to a Sept. ... More >>

In Shadow Of Obama Directive To Stand Down On Pot Shops, Feds Don't Publicize Medical Marijuana Raids Like They Used To

President Obama just said no to federal pot-shop raids, but they still happen, somewhat silently.​Federal raids of medical marijuana dispensaries in Southern California, Nevada and elsewhere haven't ceased just because the administration of President Obama ordered federal authorities to stand ... More >>

Los Angeles: Why So Stressful? 10 Reasons

​Twice in the past month, different snooty national magazines have judged us the second most stressful city in the nation. Forbes judged our stress level on high unemployment, long commute times, long working hours, and bad health, while Portfolio also looked at heart disease, bad air, crim ... More >>

CityCenter: Vegas 4.0

How Frank Gehry, Nancy Rubins, Cesar Pelli, Maya Lin and others are reinventing California’s favorIte playground

IS THIS A BINGO THAT I SEE BEFORE ME?

California Nurses' Strike Threat: Is It Really About Swine Flu?

California nurses have threatened a major walk-out on Oct. 30. Judging by the headlines in the press -- "Nurses Plan Strike Over Swine Flu Conditions at Hospitals," says the L.A. Times -- you'd almost believe that 16,000 nurses' biggest concern is that they might be infected with H1N1.Score one for ... More >>

Sticker Shock Treatment: Fake Governor to Pay Real Sales Tax

At the stroke of midnight Angelenos will get hit by a double dose of sales-tax increases that will bring our county's up to 9.75 percent -- tying us with Alameda County for having the state's highest countywide tax. (Some individual cities, such as Pico Rivera and South Gate, will be even higher -- ... More >>

Yes We Did: What we know and what we don't about our new American era

Our moment of national redemption

Election '08: Blogging Live in Las Vegas at John McCain's Last-Gasp Rally

BY MARC COOPER Yo via Blackberry! I'm at McCain rally right now Monday nite in Henderson, Nevada on outskirts of Las Vegas. A poor turnout my friends. I got here 3 hrs ago to beat the crowds. But my daughter just arrived as program is beginning and she got in. This venue holds about 5k and is n ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Hillary Agonistes, Of Mice and Men, Flora the Red Menace

Also Indecent Acts, I'd Rather Be Right and more

Latino Leaders' Clinton and Obama Endorsements: California's Wannabe Kingmakers

Deciphering the payback, ambition and backbiting behind it all

Breaking the Trance

The unexpected Burning Man soundtrack

Best Way to Spy on the Old Neighborhood (As Long as You’ve Got a Wad of Cash)

Theater Reviews

Of Rocks, Creeks and Broom-Tailed Horses

Will California’s own wild mustangs ever return to Coyote Canyon? Should they?

Atomic Billboards

Blackjack’s Death Count

Is the total casino management of MindPlay killing 21?

Funeral for a Friend

How the Arcade Fire died and went to heaven

Live in LA

Tribal Warfare

It’s Indian vs. Indian with Arnold in the middle, as the fight over the flood of money from reservation casinos heats up

X-Raying Workers’ Comp

Employers gain, insurers really gain, as for workers...

Mercy on Death Row

'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

The Lady Is a Tramp

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

Hey, Fatso