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Smoked Salmon Recalled for Listeria

Put down that lox. It might be loaded -- with bacteria. A Seattle-based company is recalling 371 cases of ready-to-eat smoked salmon because the fish may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, Food Safety News reports. Ocean Beauty Seafoods LLC issued a voluntary recall of its Nathan's Brand ... More >>

How Kevin Eastman Invented the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The owner of Heavy Metal magazine is returning to the comic that made his name.

Porn's Asa Akira Invites Presidential Loser To Co-Host AVN Awards In Vegas

Whomever loses the presidential election tomorrow has an additional indignity to look forward to: He's been officially invited to co-host the porn industry's annual awards ceremony in Las Vegas. Way to bounce back like Charlie Sheen after losing a job at CBS. Yeah, adult superstar Asa Akira extend ... More >>

Gay Republican Fred Karger Wants Your Vote, Calls Mitt Romney 'Mechanical'

Gay Republican Fred Karger, who's based in Southern California, has been stirring things up on the campaign trail this year, seeking the Republican nomination for president. The uber-underdog Karger is not going to get it -- candidate Mitt Romney will get the nod. But he's still on the ballot for Ca ... More >>

Arsenic Hysteria: Now It's Been Found in Rice

Flickr/DanoIt looks so harmless.​ First it was apple juice. Now researchers say there is inorganic arsenic in rice, and that it could particularly affect pregnant women, CBS News reports. Arsenic is able to cross the placenta and may harm a developing baby. For the study, researchers measure ... More >>

Post-Rapture Pet Care

Who'll feed Rover after the rapture?

Q & A With Jackrabbit Cheesemaker D.J. Mitchell: From L.A. To Utah And Back Again

J. GarbeeMitchell Getting Down To Important Pre-SuperBowl Business​Living in a mega-tropolis means those moments of food disassociation are daily occurrences (do you know the name of your coffee bean farmer?), other than perhaps Farmers Market days when you can actually get to know the man beh ... More >>

Weird Soda Review: Mistletoe Mist

It won't poison you or compel anyone to kiss you. It won't send mommy rushing into Santa's arms. In fact, it probably won't remind you of Christmas at all. We've spent January trying to bring Christmas back into our hearts, but Squamscot's Mistletoe Mist, despite its festive name and the mistletoe ... More >>

Would Porn Industry Leave California, Go Underground If It Was Forced To Use Condoms? Health-Care Lawyer Brian Chase Calls B.S. On That Notion

Ed Schipul via FlickrWould the triple-X industry move out of CA if it had to deal with Jim-E?​Updated after the jump with reaction from the porn industry health-care group's attorney. First posted at 3:04 p.m. The big, Mandingo-sized elephant in the room when it comes to the latest HIV crisis ... More >>

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 >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

Rodney Alcala: The Fine Art of Killing

One man’s murderous romp through polite society

Of Ukeleles, Tolkien, Garfunkel and Bond: A Chat With Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords

Brian TamborelloMcKenzie (front, with Clement) rides the folk train​ October is Folktober for fans of New Zealand's fourth most popular digi-folk parodists, the mighty Flight of the Conchords; following the second season of their acclaimed eponymous HBO show, which bagged several Emmy nominati ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

L.A.'s Episcopal Diocese Stokes Gay Controversy

The L.A. Times reports today on the Los Angeles Episcopal Church Diocese's nomination of two gay ministers for suffragan bishop's seats. Only last month leaders of the national episcopate, meeting in Anaheim, ​voted to permit the consecration of homosexual clergy. The L.A. diocese put forward six ... More >>

Feds Bust Venice, MDR Pot Pharms

The Drug Enforcement Agency raided two Venice medical marijuana dispensaries today, and a third dispensary in Marina Del Rey. Local DEA spokeswoman Special Agent Sarah Pullen declined to give specifics about the raids or information about possible arrests, citing the agency's ongoing investigation i ... More >>

Queer Town: Obama Picks Gene Robinson to Deliver Prayer

In what may be an olive-branch move towards the gay community, President-elect Barack Obama has chosen New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to deliver a prayer at the opening event of inauguration week, which starts this Sunday in Washington, D.C. Obama's decision may be some kind of counter ... More >>

Stupid McCampaign Tricks

With Obamapalooza in full swing, John McCain shouts into the media void

The Fire Department, the Mayor and Fallout over the "No Show" Tattoo Policy

The Mayor's office is denying to the Weekly reports on other local websites that he has a long-concealed tattoo reading “Born To Raise Hell.” Antonio got slammed on Tuesday by the Mayor Sam blog over a controversy boiling up in the Los Angeles Fire Department, first reported right here, in which ... More >>

Hillary's Fight for Survival

Game Six: It Ain't Pretty

The Unlikely Comeback of John McCain, Maverick Warmonger

How Johnny got his groove back

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Primary colors

The Clinton Machine Will Not Go Easily Into the Night

The battle begins

Marc Cooper: Clinton Campaign Stung By Third-Place Finish

Des Moines - After a stunning defeat and finishing third in Thursday night's Democratic caucuses, Senator Hillary Clinton congratulated Barack Obama and John Edwards, and vowed to jumpstart her national campaign and win her party's nomination for president. "I am ready as I can be," Clinton told a ... More >>

Running Hot and Cold: A Dozen Weird Weather Moments

An Ambivalent Hero

Gene McCarthy and standing down a president and his war

You Are Where You Eat

Craving L.A. grub

Funny Numbers

An analysis of some downright bizarre election results

Where�s Their Sense of Decency?

Republicans sell out Christopher Reeve�s paralysis bill

Primary Notes

The Man Who Could Beat Bush

In John Kerry, the Democrats may have themselves a winner

Left Out

Missed opportunities in taking back the White House

Battling the Orcs

Dean prepares for war

A Populist Make-over

Meet John Edwards, the corporate man

Under the Iowa Radar

Hanging with the general�s supporters, and the post-caucus party scene

The Revenge of the Pols

John Kerry and John Edwards are more conventional candidates than Howard Dean and Wesley Clark � and they may be stronger, too

Little Note nor Long Remember

Barraged by dweebish questions, Democratic candidates say little, alter nothing

Lieberman Unbound

Willing to try anything to save his candidacy, Joe decides to detonate his own Democratic Party

Down and Dirty Democrats

Nine desperate men and women bloody each other

Unsteady War-Footing

Reexamining the U.S. failure to prepare for the battle against terror

On the Brink

W. on the verge of power, America at the edge of the abyss

The Ovations, 2000: In Mixed Companies

Primary Considerations

On John McCain, Bill Bradley and Wally Knox

Stand Up, Al

Labor dreams of Gore busting free of Clinton

Establishment Boys

Bush, Gore and the limits of orthodoxy

New Hampshire Scramble

The McCain firestorm, the Bush bust and the new Democratic divide

Bill and Al's Excellent Adventure

How Bill Bradley Learned to be a Principled Liberal, but not how to Campaign, and how Al Gore Learned to be a Terrific Campaigner, while Trashing his Party's Historic Principles.

DOG GONE IT ALL

Wilde and Wilder

How our theater gave up the Big Time

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic