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Best L.A. Novel Ever: Ask the Dust vs. Less Than Zero, Round 2

Why Los Angeles Deserves Major Credit for the National Gay Marriage Movement

When it comes to life-impacting stuff -- civil rights, political movements, or education reform, for example -- Los Angeles too often gets overlooked by snobby journalists and intellectual types in New York City and Washington D.C. Let's just admit it: They don't take L.A. seriously and they hate ... More >>

Admission Review: Tina Fey's Great, But the Film Doesn't Have the Marks

James Beard Awards 2012: Semifinalists Announced

Los Angeles chefs made a strong showing among the semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Local nominees for the Best Chef, Pacific award include Josef Centeno (Lazy Ox Canteen), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), David Feau (The Royce at the Langham), Matt Molina (M ... More >>

Kevin Eastman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Co-Creator, Takes Over Meltdown Comics for 35 Days

Liz OhanesianKevin Eastman inside his Meltdown Comics studio, which features lots of goodies from Eastman's studio that will be sold by auction. ​There has been a lot of activity in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle world lately. Last summer at San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon announced that a n ... More >>

Porn Defends the Money Shot

Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS

Interview: will.i.am Discusses Science, Snoop's Quasi-Diss of Him, and the SNL Sketch Making Fun of Taboo and apl.de.ap.

​As we noted earlier in the day, Forbes does not consider the Black Eyed Peas a rap group. But that's okay, because will.i.am is a scientist! No, not a "hip hop scientist" who makes beats in the "lab." And, technically, not the real kind of scientist either. But, he thinks science is very im ... More >>

Music Picks: The Hangmen, Brother Ali, Tommy Rock-A-Shacka, Weezer

Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others

City Declares May 30 'Ronnie James Dio Day'

Dio and the devil horns.​The Los Angeles City Council has officially declared May 30 Ronnie James Dio Day. The announcement was made at Sunday's public memorial service for the recently deceased, eternally awesome metal singer. Event MC Eddie Trunk, the host of VH1 Classic's That Metal Show, ... More >>

Hallelujah Junction: A Minimalist Life

A memoir from composer John Adams

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Obama's Call to Action

Looking beyond hope in Election 2008

John Edwards: I Am Third

Why I still love him

Big Bill's Dicey Moves

Clinton is back at the table, playing us for chumps

Theater of the Absurd in New Orleans and on the Campaign Trail

Waiting for Godot

General Hillary

Clinton skips over the primaries and toward the next war

There’s Shrinkage

Majority Democrats can’t find the balls to face down Republican brinkmanship

Supreme Panic

Bush ponders the first of what will be many high-court nominees

It’s No Shame About Ray

Ray LaMontagne’s hard past fuels startling songs and an anxious cult following

Blessed by the Devil

Orange’s dirty deal threatens to brush away the priest scandal

Letters

Long Night’s Journey Into HELL

Base — how low can you go?

Angel on the Bus

Drew Barrymore on popping her political cherry

War Party

John Kerry gets his marching orders in New York

“Bow-Wow,” Said the Bunny

Self-service without a smile

Agent Provocateur

Aborting Abortion Rights — Then and Now

New details from Blackmun’s papers show how 1992 begets 2004

The Aesthetic of Excess

William T. Vollmann on his 3,000-page tome and the vocabulary of violence

Springtime for Democrats

And a revolution in South-Central

George Bush and the Treacherous Country

Can Dean Win?

It’s not enough to be right

Capitol Gains

10 points to usher in the Arnold regime

Queers in the Military

Ten years later, the casualties of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” may be nearing an end

Predators

Arnold survives his coming out

White Elephant Sale

The 56th Cannes Film Festival goes hunting for America

Feed the Goats

Nine Democrats in search of a message

After Gore, the Deluge

The morning-after line on the candidates

Powerlines

Without vision, the party — well, a Senate majority — perishes

Pulp Friction

Roger Avary hooks up with Bret Easton Ellis

The Era of Bad Feelings

Jim Hahn sets a city against itself, and comes out on top

To Protect and to Serve Political Art

Terrible Waste

W. can run, run, run, talk, talk, talk — with no mind

Right and White

Why last week’s electorate does not portend the future of California politics

Death on the Menu

My Favorite New Year’s

A personal history of the ’60s

Flashback

Soderbergh at play, Pollack at rest

Memo to Warren

For Mr. Beatty on the eve of his announcing — well, something

On the Road Again

Fred Rochlin has some stories to tell

Guns and Roses

The Women of Noir

Zealots Target Sierra Club

Immigration activists working to usurp Club elections

Is This Any Way To Run a Country?

Loony prosecutors! Rabid media! Oval Office obsessions!