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December 20, 2012We're sure you've heard, on December 21, 2012 -- mere days from now -- we're all fucked.
According to the latest scientifically astroreligious analysis, the gates of Xibalba, the Mayan Underworld, will open to unleash upon the earth beasts and plagues of unfathomable cruelty and unimaginable horro ... More >>
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October 12, 2012We recently told you -- and you were surprised -- that some of the best universities in the world are right here in Los Angeles, including number-one Caltech and number-13 UCLA, according a British ranking.
But, given that this is L.A., land of the Hollywood mogul and real estate billionaire, we al ... More >>
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September 14, 2012The weed-decriminalization group Marijuana Policy Project says Victoria Stanzione, a Pepperdine University sophomore, has been denied the ability to intern at its Washington headquarters for school credit.
The group suggested that Pepperdine, a Christian school, is not being very Christian-like in ... More >>
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September 7, 2012The troubled son of esteemed Pepperdine University President Andrew K. Benton will serve two years in prison, says the L.A. County District Attorney's Office, for threatening his father at the family's on-campus home and "possession of a firearm by a narcotic addict."
Chris Benton, 27, allegedly br ... More >>
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August 23, 2012A young man wanted for questioning by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department after he apparently left the scene of Katie Wilkins' fatal drug overdose in Malibu last spring was arrested on the Pepperdine University campus today, where his father, Andrew Benton, reigns as university president.
Sheriff' ... More >>
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July 19, 2012The family of Katie Wilkins, a 25-year-old aspiring graphic designer found dead in her parents' Malibu garage on Saturday, April 28, may never know exactly why or how she died.
Based on syringe marks in Wilkins' arm and her drug history, L.A. County Sheriff's investigators are quite positive she ov ... More >>
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June 11, 2012Update, 8:45 a.m.: The fire has been extinguished, but firefighters remain on scene to douse "hot spots." And to help ease the traffic nightmare, one eastbound and one westbound lane have been opened along the shut-down portion of PCH.
A fire reported at the two-story BeauRivage Restaurant along Pa ... More >>
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January 25, 2012Updated below: Pepperdine tries to further justify its position, saying an LGBT club would "not affirm the University's traditional sexual ethic."
Originally posted January 23 at 3 p.m.
Thriving LGBT clubs are almost a given at California's public universities. (And even private, stick-up-its-arse ... More >>
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July 20, 2011KLMThe bros of Pepperdine.L.A. has made GQ's latest "10 Douchiest Colleges in America" list, and for some reason the honor doesn't involve USC.
Maybe it's our Bruin bias, but you can't get much douchier than a college where redneck parents send their kids to be walled off from the West Coast ... More >>
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October 18, 2010Steve GullickFoalsFoals' arty fusion of indie-rock and dance music took two albums to coalesce, but it did on Total Life Forever, which came out in May on Sub Pop.
The album earned the Oxford, U.K., quintet a nomination for Britain's Mercury Prize. What it's earning them on their current 22- ... More >>
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June 1, 2010Los Angeles is the land of UCLA, USC and those brainiacs at Caltech, not to mention President Obama's alma mater Occidental College, the Claremont Colleges, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Cal States ad infinitum, etc. So one might might think that the nation's second-largest metropolitan area ... More >>
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February 15, 2010Kenneth Starr.Pepperdine University Monday announced a nationwide search for a law school dean after Kenneth Starr revealed he's leaving the post to become president of Baylor University in his native Texas.
As the U.S. independent counsel during the administration of Bill Clinton his invest ... More >>
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February 5, 2010Music
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September 16, 2009On the day anti-gay marriage forces aired their first TV ad in Maine, Los Angeles gays and lesbians gathered for a fund-raiser at West Hollywood's East/West Lounge, hauling in between $5,000 and $6,000 for Protect Maine Equality, the campaign that's fighting to keep same-sex marriage legal in that s ... More >>
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October 2, 2008Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project
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March 6, 2008What to do in L.A., March 7-13
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January 31, 2008Seven days of solid jazz, plus the sounds of Brazil
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November 29, 2007All not OK at Corral Canyon
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November 1, 2007Is “Run!” the new strategy against firestorms on California's urban fringe?
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October 11, 2007Jazz Tap Ensemble: The Hollywood Journey
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September 27, 2007Richard Alston Dance Company
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September 20, 2007Coleman, Brubeck and more usher in a swinging autumn
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February 15, 2007The end of Diedrich’s coffee shop in Malibu and the beginning of yet another Starbuck’s
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January 18, 2007A dictator in training buys his way in, as politically active superstars stay mum
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November 9, 2006Ed Meese on the Gipper and Gitmo
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October 27, 2005Selected highlights of the fall and winter season
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