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Q & A With Lisa McManus, America's Test Kitchen's Gadget Guru: OXO Tongs (Yes), the Garlic Rocker (No) Why 9-Year-Old Girls Should Have Strawberry Hullers

Some know Lisa McManus as the senior editor in charge of equipment testing at Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines. While others have seen her as the Gadget Guru on America's Test Kitchen TV. But we were first introduced to McManus from her information-packed "Hot and Not" segments on t ... More >>

The 10 Worst Songs About California That Aren't "California" By Datarock

Their latest single is terrible.​We used to like Datarock a lot. Our working theory is that in 2007, while we slept, we were taken over by a hipster succubus that abused cocaine and drank too much Pedialyte--plausible explanation for how our critical functions were deactivated. Fortunately, D ... More >>

L.A. Clippers Owner Donald T. Sterling Inducted into Landlord Hall of Shame

Mr. FishDonald T. Sterling​L.A. Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling will probably never become a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, but yesterday he did receive a different kind of honor: A statewide renters' rights organization inducted Sterling into its Landl ... More >>

Meg Whitman's Ex-Nanny: Meg Was Cheap, And I Believe Nicky

Ted SoquiWould all of Meg Whitman's household employees form a single-file line? Reporters will be with you shortly.​You've met Meg Whitman's housekeeper. Now, get to know her nanny.Jill Armstrong, 59, of Mountain View, worked for Whitman for two months back in 1998, for which she was paid the pri ... More >>

The Social Network: Who Needs Friends?

David Fincher commented on Mark Zuckerberg's status. His latest, on Facebook's birth and the minds behind it, invites you to join him

Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

Rock Picks: Autolux, Rickie Lee Jones, Black Mountain, the Gourds, and more

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Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

All In With the Bad Boy of Poker

He’s the tantrum-throwing card shark who’s taking the Texas Hold ’Em craze from Vegas to your cell phone. A no-limits weekend with Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Enron Forgotten

Congress may stick us with a natural-gas rip-off

The New Energy Governor

Arnold needs to get cracking on the state’s looming crisis

Made In the USA, Part III: US Company Listings A-M

Looking for Mr. Wright

L.A. lawmaker could make or break bill on renewable energy

Boxing Simon

Little wiggle room for the Republican candidate for governor

Power Politics

Simon shorts out; Davis plugs in

Rank and Yank at Enron

Or, the fine art of bankruptcy

Light Troubles

Ins and outs of Gray Davis’ plan to help his pals at SCE

Less Than Zero

The new age of intolerance

Unfair Game

Scientologists get their man

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

Spinning Beds, Giant Table, Brancusi's beard

Robert Therrien's big art

Remembering Rose

Rose Bird, 1936–1999

Man Against the FUD

How Eric Raymond became the ambassador for the open-source movement -- and why he hasn't quit

High Plains Joker

Alexander Payne's Wild, Wild Midwest