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The Amalur Project: Sergio Perera and Company Pop-Up at Cortez (Vinegar Dust! Foragers!)

If you haven't been checking your Facebook page, Twitter feed, Instagram account, etc. lately, you may be sadly unaware of the latest temporary food-as-art installation, The Amalur Project, which last night debuted at Echo Park's Cortez. I'm sorry. But the happy news is that, as is often the case, t ... More >>

Pooch Has Own Seeing Eye Dog; Pair Rescued And Looking For Home (PHOTOS)

You've heard of people who need seeing eye dogs. But how about dogs that need other dogs to help them around? Rescuers in L.A. say that's the case with a pair they're calling Isaac and Isabella. The duo, a blind Husky and a small terrier who was guiding him around, were found ...

How a Dominatrix Does Her Taxes

Of all the painful activities a dominatrix can take part in, there is none quite so torturous as taxes. It is the first day of DomCon, the annual gathering of sadists and the masochists who worship them, and a handful of novice dominatrixes sit in one of the depressing, fluorescent-lit rooms in ... More >>

L.A. Startup Club, Offering Cousel and Commiseration For the Silicon Beach Set

Would you contribute ten bucks to get an adult webcomix series featuring voiceovers from real porn stars off the ground? How about five for a stainless steel butt plug project? Ben Tao and Eric Lai, founders of Offbeatr, an adult version of crowd-funding sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, seem to ... More >>

Ecstasy, Marijuana, LSD Sold at Online 'Farmers Market:' Feds in L.A. Move In For The Bust

What if we were to tell you there was a place online where you could buy ecstasy, marijuana and LSD, no questions asked? You'd say, Right on! (We know our readers). Federal authorities, unfortunately, weren't as gung-ho about this particular operation, and today they announced that the so-called F ... More >>

Tweet-A-Beer: Buying Your Idiot Friends Drinks Has Never Been Easier

At South By Southwest last week, Fiona Apple took the stage outside of L.A. for the first time in five years. Bruce Springsteen referenced "blue balls" in his keynote speech. In other news, the Tweet-A-Beer Twitter app also made its official debut, which is fitting considering many SXSW attendees ... More >>

Powerviolence Community Bands Together for Ailing Infant

​The subgenre of hardcore called powerviolence is known for heavy riffs, blast beats and a wacky, off-beat sense of kitschy humor. It's also a very tight-knit community. While not immune from the drama and politics that plague every scene, powerviolence denizens tend of have each others' backs ... More >>

Angelo Bowers, L.A. Comedian, Killed by Drunk 21-Year-Old in Attempted Hit-and-Run

The lone fatality of an early-morning DUI pileup on January 3 has been identified as 26-year-old Angelo Bowers. According to comedy site LaughSpin, Bowers -- who didn't have a Twitter or Facebook account -- was somewhat of a comic's comic, well-known and -loved by the insider L.A. comedy community. ... More >>

Elon Musk's L.A.-Based SpaceX to Send Private Spacecraft to International Space Station

SpaceXDragon.​The Space Shuttle might be a relic of the past, but that doesn't mean America isn't still going to space. More and more, it's becoming a private affair. Elon Musk's Hawthorne-based SpaceX was given a preliminary green light by NASA today for its second space mission. This one wi ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Michael Ruhlman, ColLAboration, Irregular Wine Tasting, Tonga Hut Reopening, Pig & Pints

Guzzle & NoshA pint of beer and a pig's head.​[UPDATE, 12.02.11, 4:56 p.m.: This weekend's ColLaboration Winterfest Beer Garden has been postponed due to the Windpocalypse.] In addition to the Master Food Preserver fundraiser happening on Sunday afternoon at Homegirl Cafe, there are plenty of ... More >>

Poo No More: LA Weekly Interviews William Schindler, Silver Lake Retiree Turned Professional Pooper Scooper

poonomore.comGenius.​William Schindler, a retired schoolteacher who walks his little terrier mix down Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake every morning, says he recently started to become "disturbed, seeing all the uncollected dog poop day after day." So he did what any self-respecting Good ... More >>

Anonymous Hacker Investigation Nets Two Arrests in Southern California, FBI Says

​Updated at the bottom with details linking the arrests to WikiLeaks. First posted at 2:56 p.m. Two people were arrested in Southern California today as part of FBI raids against the loose-knit hacker crew Anonymous that were conducted in SoCal, New York and other regions, FBI spokeswoman Lau ... More >>

Post-Rapture Pet Care

Who'll feed Rover after the rapture?

Where NOT to Go To Dinner Tonight: President Obama Has Booked Tavern

Tavern's websitethe dining room at Tavern​ As you probably know already -- hopefully, if you're going to be in a car anywhere on the Westside later today -- President Obama is in town. Why? Why do you think: the man is fundraising in a place that has historically been very kind to him. So, the ... More >>

Bryan Stow, Dodgers Assault Victim, Still in Critical Condition: Here's How to Help

Stow with his kids​Today, the L.A. Dodgers play the San Francisco Giants again in NorCal. But what should have been an exciting rematch will be clouded by the critical condition of Bryan Stow. Stow, a Santa Cruz paramedic and San Francisco Giants fan, was attacked on Opening Day by two Dodger ... More >>

eBay Haters Not Impressed With Meg Whitman's Corporate Experience

whiteafrican via FlickrMeg Whitman runs on her eBay record: A good thing?​Some employees who worked for Meg Whitman during her tenure as the chief of eBay don't remember her so fondly. One, an eBay publicist, once claimed that Whitman shoved her in a fit of anger. More recently, other eBay w ... More >>

Barry Minkow 2.0

L.A.'s fraud king is back — and taking the media for another ride

Meg Whitman Won't Weigh In On Los Angeles Police And Fire Pensions

Ted SoquiMeg Whitman​Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor, declined to take a position Sunday on a proposed ballot measure that would cut pensions for L.A. police officers and firefighters.Whitman intends to tackle the state's pension woes by switching new employees to 401(k) plans. ... More >>

L.A. Beer Float Showdown Redux: Hops Ice Cream

Anne Fishbeinbeer float at Golden State​Okay, we realize that you can watch countless numbers of people chugging beer at any USC tailgating party, and probably countless numbers of other people downing ice cream or gelato in alarming quantities if you just hang out at Scoops or Bulgarini Gelat ... More >>

Rodger Jacobs, Writer, Stuck In Vegas And Near Homeless, Gets Some Help -- From L.A.

Sam Morris, Las Vegas SunRodger Jacobs​This is a story about two cities and, perhaps, how different they are. Sunday the Las Vegas Sun published a first-person essay by Rodger Jacobs, a longtime L.A.-based journalist, playwright and documentary film producer, who moved to Las Vegas to care fo ... More >>

Cry for Yelp

The popular Web site stands accused of acting like a "modern-day Mafia"

Today In WTF: Man Tried To Hire Hit Man To Kill Hit Man

​This guy has dug a deeper hole for himself than Tiger Woods: Federal authorities say Pavel Valkovich, 28, got into hot water after an informant helped them arrest him for a PayPal account-transfer scheme. So Valkovich, from Sherman Oaks, did the natural thing and tried to hire a hit man for $ ... More >>

Friends of UCLA Student Lost in Malawi Plea for Funds to Continue Searching

By Joe EskenaziGabriel Buchmann, missing in Malawi​Family and friends of a Brazilian Fulbright scholar last seen on July 17 on Mount Mulanje in Malawi have hastily started an e-campaign to raise funds necessary to continue sending large search and rescue operations into the African mountains and f ... More >>

In Surprise Move, Moca Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

Space Race Two: SoCal Loses Fight for Private Space Terminal to New Mexico

State turns instead to manufacturing ships, suits, even diapers

Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

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

Last Week Sucked

Our loss is punk rock heaven’s gain

Grief’s Gravity

When Jesica Santillan died of a botched heart-lung transplant, Nancy Rommelmann was nearly swallowed by the story.

Independent Music’s Right to Fight

The record industry sued Napster and has just inhaled MP3.com. Is there a future for music on the Internet? Analog Pussy thought so... Then they got a scary e-mail...