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PETA

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Stuff I Eat: Going Vegan in Inglewood

    If vegan and animal rights activists really want to change the way the majority of people eat, they might want to forget those PETA protests where half-naked women dress like tigers and sit in cages all day or those really depressing humane society commercials where slow motion footage of abused dog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    HBO Cancels 'Luck' for Being Too Realistic

    Turns out David Milch and Michael Mann's hardcore new horse-racing show for HBO, the extremely well-received Luck, was a little too realistic for comfort. PETA started the flamewar last month, enraged at the news that two horses had to be put down in a single season. And when word came today of a t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Marriage Across Racial, Ethnic Lines Way High: Asians Do It the Most

    David Blumenkrantz​No big surprise for the people of Los Angeles or Kobe Bryant. The Pew Research Center this week confirmed what we Angelenos know and live: Marriages between folks of different racial and ethnic groups have more than doubled in the last 30 years in America. Yes we've been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Get a LudoBites Reservation for Valentine's Day: Make Your Pitch in the Comments Section -- You Have 48 Hours Starting Now

    Since we just named LudoBites as the most Romantic Restaurant in L.A., and thus perhaps the place to take your date for Valentine's Day -- assuming you have a date, assuming your date is not a PETA spokesperson -- it seemed kind of cruel and heartless not to enable this in some way. Thankfully Kriss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Elephant's Foot, Sea Turtle Boots, Leopard Pelt Found For Sale Online: Feds Make Busts

    This is news that will surely send PETA members into kiniptions that will require the aid of first responders. The U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. today announced they've filed charges against a dozen people for selling endangered animals and related clothing, including boots made out of sea turtle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Morrissey & Kristeen Young - The Shrine Auditorium - 11-26-11

    Timothy Norris​See also: Our Morrissey slideshow Morrissey & Kristeen Young The Shrine Auditorium 11-26-11 Better than ... walking down Hoover in a blue-&-gold Bruins shirt after the big game. For a person who once famously declared that he was celibate, Steven Patrick Morrissey is clearly ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    July 14, 2011

    Project Nim Review

    Timothy Norris​See also: Our Morrissey slideshow Morrissey & Kristeen Young The Shrine Auditorium 11-26-11 Better than ... walking down Hoover in a blue-&-gold Bruins shirt after the big game. For a person who once famously declared that he was celibate, Steven Patrick Morrissey is clearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Chicken a la Petri, Bleaker Bacon, and Other In Vitro Meat Possibilities

    Flickr/The Delicious LifeCan lab-grown steaks taste just as good as the real thing?​It's not quite Star Trek's replicator, but it's getting close: In this week's issue of The New Yorker, writer Michael Specter takes a look at the research and development of "in vitro meat," fake meat cultured ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2011

    Pileup on the 101 Freeway!

    Flickr/The Delicious LifeCan lab-grown steaks taste just as good as the real thing?​It's not quite Star Trek's replicator, but it's getting close: In this week's issue of The New Yorker, writer Michael Specter takes a look at the research and development of "in vitro meat," fake meat cultured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Everyone Loves a Troll: How Christwire Fooled Rachel Maddow, Howard Stern, 3 Million Coachella Heads and Counting

    ChristwireThe mega-trollers, in costume as Bryan Blake and Mike Watson​Christwire.org is a joke. IT'S NOT REAL. Not a genuine bone in its blogroll. (Except for when they also fool their Christian freelancers.) Every day, the two dudes who run Christwire read hundreds of your angry comments a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Alicia Silverstone Signs Her Cookbook Tonight at Vroman's

    ​If you're one of those people who has secretly watched not just Clueless but Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed way more times than you'll admit, you have somewhere to be tonight. Namely, Vroman's in Pasadena, where Alicia Silverstone will be signing her New York Times bestselling cookbook, The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Los Angeles Chihuahuas Being Abandoned Like Ed Hardy; Rest Of Country Adopting Trend

    No longer the "it" pup in L.A.​Does anyone else find it ironic that in this self-absorbed bastion of PETA-loving celebutards yesterday's top dog for Hollywood types -- the Chihuahua -- has been kicked to the curb like trash? Really, L.A? We reported this week how the Society for the Preventi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Sven Koppler Faces Judge For Allegedly Importing Spiders To L.A: Should We Be Protecting These Bugs?

    Bug or animal worthy of protection?​Spiders are creepy, that much we can agree on, yeah? But when 37-year-old Sven Koppler of Wachtberg, Germany, allegedly imported hundreds of tarantulas to L.A., the feds got PETA on his ass and dragged him to court. Turns out bringing the pets/pests in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    UCLA The Most Vegan-Friendly College in America

    Yet another reason to attend UCLA. There's the education, the Bruins, and now an imprimatur from peta2, which just crowned the school the Most Vegan-Friendly College in America. UCLA defeated 31 other schools from across the country in the large-school category in what peta2, the youth version of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    'Octomom' Nadya Suleman Offered Cash For Sex -- For Second Time

    ​The folks at L.A.- and New York-based Vivid Entertainment, arguably the world's largest porn-video producer, have been on Nadya "Octomom" Suleman like a pimp after a hot chick who just started smoking crack. Vivid unashamedly smells blood in the water following reports, including one in our s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Lady Gaga's Raw Meat Dress: Your VMA Meat ID Test

    MTV/Christie BishopLady Gaga's VMA Meat Dress​If you tuned in to Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards and thought that Lady Gaga looked like a piece of meat, you'd be right. The singer, praised as much for her extreme fashion sense as she is for her consistent presence on Billboard's Top 10 l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    The End of History: World's Highest ABV Beer Your Own Personal Tartan Stoat

    BrewDogThe End of History​ Booze and taxidermy have a long, intertwined history, the un-ironic moose, deer or elk head--always complete with an impressive rack of antlers--a staple of small-town dive bar décor. Referenced with varying degrees of tongue-in-cheekiness by local establishments s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Who's Topping the Cookbook Charts? Alicia Silverstone

    AmazonThe Kind Diet, by Alicia Silverstone ​Move over Mario, Giada, Rachael, et. al. Guess whose book is on the top of Amazon's cookbook best seller list? Alicia Silverstone's. Perhaps she's not as clueless in the kitchen as she was in that movie. Silverstone's cookbook, The Kind Life: A Simpl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/8 - 2/12

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Until we can persuade significant chunks of Extramadura or the Costa Brava to emigrate, we can at least console ourselves with the Valencian paellas and fideos at LA Paella near the Beverly Center." Ask Mr. Gold: Spain ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves: Duncan Birmingham Discusses the Suicidality of Cats and Dogs

    "When I die of embarrassment, please don't bury me in this."​Duncan Birmingham is the author of the blog turned book Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves. He lives in Los Angeles, where it's happy and sunshiny every single day and yet cats and dogs and guinea pigs live in silent agony. What is th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: --Honey, I'm home (indefinitely). Let's eat in. [LAT] -- Flu shot line at Walgreens too long? Head to the bar! [NYT] -- Annual turkey-shaped Jell-O mold contest at David Byrne's studio. [New Yorker] ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    The Great McNugget Protest 2009: PETA Takes on Jay Leno

    Shannon Cottrell​Today, at the entrance of NBC Studios, PETA protestors answered the age-old question, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" They were protesting The Jay Leno Show after a recent McDonald's promotional campaign ruffled the fowls' feathers. The fast food institution has become the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Fashion District's Outlaw Pet Markets

    Ed Fuentes has a well-documented story on BlogDowntown about the appalling conditions surrounding the small animals sold in L.A.'s fashion district. "At the corner of 12th and Maple," Fuentes writes, "two stacks of cages sit in the mid-afternoon August sun. Inside are baby rabbits with underdevelope ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    IF YOU KNEW ANNA . . .

    Ed Fuentes has a well-documented story on BlogDowntown about the appalling conditions surrounding the small animals sold in L.A.'s fashion district. "At the corner of 12th and Maple," Fuentes writes, "two stacks of cages sit in the mid-afternoon August sun. Inside are baby rabbits with underdevelope ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 5, 2009

    In the Wurst Way: Downtown's Wurstkuche Serves Up Bohemia on a Toasted Roll

    Sausage that demands beer

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    WORN OUT- Britney's Comeback Looks

    What's there to say about America's favorite trainwreck, except, well, the meds seem to be working. On The Record, the MTV doc that aired this past Sunday, and every night since, sought to be a sympathetic, somewhat real attempt at changing Britney Spears image and launching her new record, Circus, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2008

    Vintage, American Style

    Remember when shopping at Goodwill and Salvation Army was something to be ashamed of? If you’re over 30, ya probably do. Somewhere around the mid-‘80’s or so, second hand sneak became vintage chic, and one of the stores responsible was the Melrose Avenue emporium known as Aardvarks. The new ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 24, 2008

    No Dark Knight: Salute to Sir George Martin, and His Ears

    Legendary producer receives Grammy Foundation Leadership Award

  • Film+TV

    April 17, 2008

    Movie Reviews: Zombie Strippers, Floating Life, Lost in Beijing

    Also, Flight of the Red Balloon, Dark Matter and more

  • Music

    February 7, 2008

    The Pretty Little Blues: Nellie McKay

    "I'm sick of the insanity, watchin' horny manatee, feelin' like a libertine, dealin' with the death machine."

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    No-Escape Best Looting On the Eve of Destruction

    Crossbows, medical pot and American Apparel

  • News

    September 20, 2007

    That's Wack

    California’s legislature approves 1,000 new laws annually. Insert laugh track here

  • News

    July 5, 2007

    Dog Busters

    If puppies are outlawed by Lloyd “Lightbulb” Levine, will only outlaws have puppies?

  • Film+TV

    April 12, 2007

    Year of the Dog: Petaphilia

    Molly Shannon shows some puppy love in Mike White’s Year of the Dog

  • News

    November 16, 2006

    Seeing Red

    Molly Shannon shows some puppy love in Mike White’s Year of the Dog

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    Scandalous! A Year of Republican Treachery

    Molly Shannon shows some puppy love in Mike White’s Year of the Dog

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2006

    Rock Picks

    For February 3 - 10

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    Scandalous! A Year of Republican Treachery

    For February 3 - 10

  • Art+Books

    November 11, 2004

    The Bear Essentials

    Carlee Fernandez’s Visual Anthropomorphism

  • Music

    September 30, 2004

    Life Metal

    Cattle Decapitation want to kill you and save the planet

  • News

    September 2, 2004

    World vs. GOP

    War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

  • Eat+Drink

    September 25, 2003

    Ask Mr. Gold

    War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

  • Eat+Drink

    May 22, 2003

    Fish and Fox Tales

    War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Letters

    War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    But Is He Good for Bingo?

    War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

  • News

    August 10, 2000

    Make Nice

    The GOP goes gooey

  • Music

    May 11, 2000

    Mope Springs Eternal

    The GOP goes gooey

  • Music

    April 27, 2000

    Where's Ani?

    The GOP goes gooey

  • Stage

    March 23, 2000

    Wild Kingdom

    The GOP goes gooey

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Tupperware Lady

    The GOP goes gooey

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